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Show UNCLE SAM'S LIMIT AliOL'T REACHED. If the Federal government were to enter into the business of supplying relief to the destitute on a nationwide nation-wide scale the effect would be to slow down the various forms of local and individual help for the unfortunate, maintains Walter S. G if ford, director of President Hoover's organization for the aid of unemployment, and the net effect would be less help for the needy rather than more, he contends. There is a good deal of sense in that argument. There is a widespread belief that the Federal treasury is a cow with an inexhaustible supply of milk, and there is a growing tendency to place as many of our local burdens on the shoulders of Uncle Sam as that overladen gentleman can be induced, by hook or crook, to bear. "Let Uncle Sam do it," is the common com-mon cry of those who wish to escape individual and community responsibility. responsi-bility. Mr. Gifford believes it to be the duty of the states, cities, counties, townships and other units of government govern-ment to care for their own in tunes of distress rather than to call upon the national government to do it. Thr.t, cf course, does not mean that the federal government should not continue with all needed improvement works that give employment, but merely that it should not engage in the handing out of charity. There may be communities too poor to take care . f their citizens who are in need, but probably there is noi state that is un-! able to give emergency aid. in such lo- i calities. Let us not thrust our hands any farther into Uncle Sam's pockets, i Their bottom has about been reached. I I |
