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Show Government -Charity Hit By Hoover?. WASHINGTON, Apijil 13 (U.R) Government cha r i t y was denounced and neighborly neighbor-ly personal aid defended by President Hoover today in a-speech a-speech to the Red Cross here. The pathway of government govern-ment doles is filled with barbs and thistles which would do great injury to the American ideals, he told the opening session of the Red Cross annual convention. A policy of voluntary service must be maintained, main-tained, he said. Opposes Doles The executive did not make a personal reference to his fight over drought relief with the last congress, hut as president of the Red Cross he congratulated the organization for the stand it took against federal charity in that emergency. "A voluntary deed by a man impresses im-presses with the sense of responsibility respon-sibility and brotherhood of man is. indefinitely more previous to our naiional ideals and national spirit 1 than a thousandfold poured from the treasury of the government under the compulsion of law," he said. |