Show BELIEF RELIEF MUST COME BACK TO COUNTIES A hilt and half arrangement with ith the county putting up half the cost and half the responsibility spoils system must be abolished A very able article in the saturday evening post of the issue of march 28 by kobert robert L johnson entitled A business man looks at relief brings up convincingly that the lem of relief must be taken out of its present status all on the federal government and thrown back to the local county standing one halt half of it out of local county money and only a half on the government with the county officials responsible in its dis trib ution equally with the govern ment in this way there will be leas less a buse better needs will be chosen of greater permanent value not leaf raking taking and when the county has to spend it own money less money will be squandered and says that writer the spoils system so thoroughly entrenched in our political lives should be demot removed from relief this writer says and it Is no j doubt tact fact that a great number of people have been hurt by lessening of initiative of being made wards ot of a paternal government and that individual initiative has been de strayed in a great extent Relle fees will sop up relief become dependent and lose the ability to work and in the meantime learn slovenly make shift methods that would get them fired pronto in working for a private contractor the writer of that article says the people are getting sick of it and it will be reflected in politics the article Is well worth ponder ing over and matched with one 8 ova own observation of other relief jobs seen |