Show CALLING ON CONGRESS TO ACT With the flood waters ot of the Mississippi l spreading over new areas making a stream from fram the Arkansas border to te the gulf guU CO GO COmiles miles new demands are being made on en the federal government to ta show shew some seme sign of accepting the calamity as a task which only the government of ef the tho United Slates Sl tes is financially strong enough to ta undertake und The of af afRed Red fled Cross Cress money maney is only enl a tem temporary temy relief fund which cannot cannat do da anything In to the way of af reclaiming re reo reclaiming claiming the homes hemes ot of the hun bun hundreds dress of af thousands of refugees driven from the cotton lands of af the great river dyer Senator Senater James A. A Reed need of Mis Missouri who is visiting in Portland Oregon Is quoted quetel as declaring that congress should be called immediately into extra session to ta vote vole relief for fer Iho tho devastated re re- gions ions Ito Ho said it should remain in session long enough to ta initiate some come plan for fOl a permanent relief When Senator Senater Reed Reed was as informed of ef tho the finance plan I lan submitted t to ta President dent Coolidge by officers o othe of af the United States chamber o of af commerce commerce he said eaid that while It appeared too complicated to dl dill die cuss at a moments moment's notice it ft was wa too toa general in nature and did no not nat meet Immediate needs This seems to ta be a plan I to ta raise money by subscription to ta b be handled handled on an a commercial basis and an it appears to ta me mo that it il would woul require months to ta work werk out aut an anin and andin in the tho end It il may prove abortive he said sald It does docs not net meet th the present emergency Until It could coul coulbo bo put into Inta operation the people of ot tho the flooded country would have hav to subsist upon upen charity or of starve The time has bas arrived when dis- dis disasters asters of af large largo proportion should call for er government action There should be bo no na appeal to ta charity charlt and the tho work werk of af rehabilitation should be accepted as a govern government ment function The collecting of ef funds by b tax tax- taxation allon Is ls equitable and eliminates the uncertainty of af depending on popular subscriptions |