Evening star., 1940-02-13
Jobs for 9 Million
Key 10 U. 5. Safety,
Hoover Asserts
Says Debts and Taxes
Take Ginger Out Of
New Enterprise
By the Associated Press.

OMAHA, NeDr., req. 1S.-derDeTC
Hoover posed before the Nation last
night the problem Of finding jobs
for 100000 unemployed "as the
only safety Of our republic"
The former President, In Lin
coins birthday address broadcast
over a Nationwide radio network,
declared that until the problem Is
solved the Government must con-
tinue to provide for relief.
Americans cannot allow their fell
low Americans to 60 hungry. -
Yet relief cannot 60 on forever. The
current cost of relief, In all its as
poets, Federal, State ard local, is
nearly $4,000, 900 900 yearly. We are
borrowing the money. Taxes which
would pay these deficits would as
phyxiate the whole productive sys-
tenn. We must restore these people
to self-support before relief fails.
"And to cure it Is the only safety
of our republic" Mr.. Hoover said In
his first political address Of 1910.
Three Wrong Notions.
He listed three wrong notions"
which he said have brought para
lying confusion" into the dynamic
forces Of progress and played large
parts in creating the problem.
"The first notion is that the whole
system is wrong and must be made
over. That is what they call revo-
luton in Europe.
THE second is that government
officials can plan, direct or operate
the economic life of the people. That
is what they call statism in Europe
"The third is that government
can spend and spend and borrow
and borrow without thought of to-
morrow. That is what we once be-
lieved was the rock upon which lib
eral governments were cracked. It
did help wreck IL democracies in
Europe"
mo one he continued, Twill deny
we have injected a huge dose of
statism into our national system
No one will deny that bureaucracy
greatly controls prices, wages, farm
production, industrial output and in
vestments.
And I do not need to expand
upon the effect of government ex-
penditures, deficits, debts and taxes.
They certainly take the ginger out
of new initiative and enterprise
Spending and taxes are the drinks
that make statism delirious."
To create the jobs Mr.. Hoover
called for combinat ton of the forces
of intellectual, spiritual and eco
nomic liberty, the moral strength of
a people, natural resources and con-
slant new scientific discoveries.
I'VE have all these. And when
these great forces are firing on all
four motors they can make en-
ployment for all our people.
Nov let me repeat something
that is perhaps elementary. The
gas which moves these motors Is
sustained initiative and enterprise
of men. It's flow is dominated by
most delicate valve. That valve is
the attitude of mems mind. Men
act when they have hope and con-
f1dence Of bettering the conditions
of themselves and their families. 80
They hesitate when they meet
discouragement or interference.
They slow down when they become
fearful of the future. They at
once postpone buying something or
starting something. Then men lose
jobs.
And right here we can find the
major cause of our unemployment"
In a call for a vigorous shift of
ideas" Mr.. Hoover listed 10 points:
I'VE must change from our ma
tional drift toward statism with its
shackling Of men to making civil
ization Of free men.
1--WE must change from pessimism
to faith in the future and greatness
of America. ."
1--WE must turn from envisaging
our problems as requiring transfor-
nation of a whole system, to an
attitude that our faults are marginal
around a heart and hearth which
are well founded.
"We must firmly adopt the con-
cept that it is only through steadily
increasing productivity Of the Ma
tion that we can make progress.
National Thrift Urged.
1--WE must resolutely turn from
Government spending to national
thrift.
I'VE must desist from restricting
invention and labor saving methods.
=" It is men we must conserve.
I'VE must realize that this system
is based upon morals not alone in
individuals but in Government.
I'VE must revive the belief that
the highest accomplishments of
democracy come from voluntary CO.
operation among men.
I'VE must turn our direction from
class conflict, pressure groups and
disunity and seek unity.
and we must keep out of war"