Show HOOVER ASSAILS REGIMENTATION SAN FRANCISCO Ma May 6 IT iP- Creation of or economic and social security se se- se runty through regimentation today bore x re the arraignment of ot former President dent Herbert Hoover as 33 not producing Lag ing ng a a. true truc American citizen Mr tr Hoover Hoorer In an address before the California conference of social rocial work here last night assailed any attempt attempt attempt at at- tempt to make the government the major source of ot security efforts and made at least one apparent direct criticism of an administration policy the original plan for production cur cur- You may produce an efficient economic economic eco eco- or governmental unit by a manufactured regimented imposed environment Mr Hoover asserted last night but you will not produce a free individual in short you OU will not produce an American Wants ants No National Zoo Our jOur people are not ready to be turned into a national zoo our citizens citizens citi citi- zens classified labeled and directed by a form of or self-approved self keepers The former president said there was far fIlar more than economic security ity needed it if civilization is to march forward to social rodal security As AI a matter of ot economic security se alone he added we can find it in our jails The slaves had it it We could do that by the simple methods meth meth- ads of breadlines barracks and dungarees dun garces We must include in fri our vision also th the intellectual moral and spiritual spiritual spiritual spir spir- Those are the properties prop prop- erti s of the individual The ph physical mental and spiritual health of our people ople cannot be manufactured or regimented Pleads for Family Life Mr Hoover urged the people pc-ople to be encouraged d to cling to their family life lite to their homes to their individual ual self respect to their rights to their Individual liberties They The must be taught he said not to exchange their souls and spirit for the fallacious promises of or material comforts It is the un unfailing unfailing ail ing record of ot mankind that in such an exchange the individual finds himself him him- himsel self sel robbed of f all that he had both spiritually and materially materia Stating his opposition to the abolition abolition tion of private social service and I private charily charity Mr Hoover asserted the government has many responsibilities responsibilities in these directions but should it become the source of all our major effort at individual social service then one of ot the mot mOlt fundamental of oC inspirations to the spiritual growth of ot the family or individual will have b been n d destroyed troed That is the personal persona responsibility of the family to its neighbors One of the outstanding changes in inthe inthe inthe the past 50 years Mr Hoover declared to be Americas triumph in the age age- old struggle to produce a plenty I This triumph of ot productivity is peculiarly peculiarly pe pe- American he said The problem in it is to free it from abU abuse to give it stability This ampie ampie am am- pie production implies stimulating al althe all the forces of ot technology and not to abuse them with fantastic notions o ot of stifling production U. U The first and outstanding ng conclusion is that only taming this productive machine machin can we hope to find our social and economic economic eco eco- security s curit That production was born jorn of ot a system upon free freeS the he sp spirit rit V V I If we stifle stille the freedom r dom of ot spirit which our productivity we shall be distributing poverty instead of 01 distributing plenty Praising the work of ot American social social so so- cial work workers rs the former president added We need constant and persistent research and survey and I would indeed in in- indeed deed suggest that we also need an institution tion for guiding foolish persons per r- r sons who are loose on the landscape with only part of the facts and imbued im- im imbued imbued im im- with a great emotion |