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Show HOW BEST TO SERVE The American Legion has entered en-tered upon a campaign to assist in reestablishing pay rolls so that every man shall have the supreme privilege of earning a comfortable living for himself and family. In every community, all over this great country the Legion posts are engaged in this same great enterprise. Already, we are told, more than seventy-thousand names have been added to payrolls through this movement. Each individual must do some small share to help. The distress, dis-tress, much of it, comes through the effort of many to pinch down on expenditures to the extreme ex-treme limit. The little things we are denying ourselves every day, if added together, spell privation for many. A reversal in policy would afford some measure of hope and prosperity. There are hundreds of thousands thou-sands in America who have the same, or practically the same wages or income as before the depression. For them the depression does not exist, but they are in the position of having their own income, in-come, although the same in figure, fig-ure, almost doubled in value. Vet even some of those have allowed the depression fear to close their purses against the requirements of charily. Those who have must sha;e with those who have not. The supreme selfishness, if persisted in, cannot lead to any other end but disaster for our country. Because Be-cause we know that men cannot and should not sit supinely while they starve. Just how best to serve is the problem. We are sure it should not be by the pauperizing ot our people through the dole, although al-though we recognize the absolute abso-lute necessity of generous private pri-vate charities to bridge over the present unemployment. |