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Show Everyone Must Help Not another winter like the last! That was the pledge of the new administration when it came into office. Every effort is being given to achieve it. It represents the most earnest hope of every citizen. But government alone can't do it all. We can spend money for relief and we are, but there is never enough. We can build public works but there comes an end to that, and the public treasury is not bottomless. A large share of any kind of relief must be borne by the individual citizen. And this doesn't always mean charity, vital as that is. - The best kind of relief is that which spends money and provides pro-vides jobs on projects which are permanently valuable, and gives those who pay the bill something really needed. That is true whether the work is done by the federal government or the state, or John Jones down the street. A dollar spent for a new house, or to repair an old one, does double duty. An extremely large share of it goes directly di-rectly to labor right here. The rest of it goes to various industries, through numerous pockets. It touches many states and communities. It is always growing and by the time it has run its course it has done the work of fifty or a hundred dollars. Remember that and remember, loo. that you have a selfish interest in building ami repairing while prices are still in the economic basement. |