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Show BOT& BEVERLY HILLS. Well all I know ii Just .what" I read la the press. Course those five hundred r that come in out of . the - woods down in Arkan- aw and demanded de-manded food for their famalles, that was a real sensation. It caused more than . any one item that had appeared in a long time. Now those folks I down there sho was hungry or they wouldent have come In and asked for food for it there ever was proud people Its them. They dont believe in accepting accept-ing Charity. Well the Government woke up II and voted 115,000,000 for food right away. At first the Government said they would try and provide money to get the Farmers some seed for their next crops, but that they wouldent give them money for food as that would be too much like the "'Dole," thats the thing they do in England when you cant get work they give you a certain weekly allowance, al-lowance, and its called the "Dole." Course everybody over there says it hasent worked out, and that it was a mistake to start It But I guess the ones that have been receiving it and buying their bread, dont think that it Is such a terrible blunder, blun-der, so thats the way it Is, it sorter depends on which side of the fence you are on. If you live under a Government and it dont provide some means of you getting work when you really want it and will do it, why thjn there Is something wrong. You cant just let the people starve, so If you I dont give em work, and you t'ont give em food, or money to buy It. why what are they to do? What is the matter with our Country anyhow? any-how? With all. our brains in high positions, and all our boasted organizations, or-ganizations, thousands of our folks are starving, or on the verge of it. Millions of bushels of wheat are in Granaries at the lowest price in twenty-years. Why cant there be some means of at least giving everybody every-body all the bread they wanted anyhow? Here they are starving in Arkan-saw Arkan-saw and in our adjoining State of Oklahoma they are feeding their wheat to the stock to try and get rid of it Oil, there was never such an overproduction over-production of oil in the World, and yet Gasoline was never much higher. high-er. But there you have a business thats in the hands of a few men, and they see that the price Is kept up. Ua not regulated by supply and de-Wtind de-Wtind its regulated by manipulation. But the main thing is we Just aint doing something right, we are on the 'wrong track somewhere, we shouldent be giving people money, and them not do anything for it, no matter what you had to hand out for necessities, the receiver should give some kind of work in return. Cause be has to eat Just the same when he is laying off as when he U working. So every City or every State should give work of some kind, at a livable wage so that no one would be in actual want. Of course jt would cost the Taxpayers more money, but if you are making it, and all your fellow men are not why you shouldent mind paying a good slice of it for the less fortunate, fortu-nate, -f' If yonr Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against It in the world. This is becoming the richest,, and the poorest Country in the world. Why? Why, on account ' of an unequal distribution of the money. '. ' ; How can you equalize it, by put ting a higher surtax on large Incomes, In-comes, and that money goes to provide pro-vide some public work, at a livable wage. I dont mean a wage that Is maintained in other lines. I mean a wage' is provided for the unemployed. unem-ployed. That is if you could In no way find a Job, you could go to soma State or National, or City or Country Coun-try Public work, that would give you say four hours a day work, instead in-stead of the usual eight. You wouldent be accepting Charity. But you wonld be doing honest work for It, until you could get employment in some line that was not public work, and at a regular wage. It wouldent cheapen labor. It would only cheapen Public -feS&rks, the thing ' ihat belongs to all the people, and the thing Uiey would like to have cheap- eped. But it would be an Insurance against not having anything to do. Now that we got that sottled all we have to do is get by Congress, and see if the Republicans will vote a higher Income tax on the rich mbies. It might not be a great plan, but it will dam sure beat the one 've got now. (B 1931, Mi'N'eusht SyodiceV. foe.) i " |