Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1931, Page 10

| RED CROSS IS KEY IN RELIEF PLANG &= Administration’ Stanch in Stand Against Any Form of “Dole” System. Before the present Winter is over the efficacy of the Red Cross as an insti- tution to relieve individual distress will be the crux of the whole problem of relief legislation. The Hoover administration is stanchly fighting the “dole” idea of Government charity on the fundamental principle that it is not the business of the Gov- ernment to lend money to individuals or to grant financial assistance. ‘The issue has been disposed of once in the discussion over loans to farmers to purchase food, but it has come up again in the Senate with the proposal to add $15,000,000 for loans to farmers in the drought area. Senator Caraway, Democrat, of Arkansas, is the propo- nent of the idea, and he points to the conditions in his State, where a few days ago 500 farmers were reported to have stormed the business section of & small town and demarided food. Red Cross Position Stated. Congress has heretofore been urged to leave the relief of individual distress to the Red Cross, but the cries from Arkansas are that the Red Cross serv- ice there has not been adequate. This led John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross, who was for- merly Secretary of the Interior in the Cabinet of President Wilson, to send a agriculture and industry, Its purpose] is neces- "mfi“m suffering. The relief sary E which it administers must be regarded as a stepping stone to recovery. The needs of the families affected by the acC with the uiring hel) one p'el«l—w-do it is . Persons req\ county might be considered in another. For these reasons that the Red Cross adminis- uter relief on a case-by-case considera- ion.” President Hoover is honorary chair- man of the Red Cross. While the Red Cross does not receive any Government appropriation, it is close to the Gov- ernment in every semse. If any Gov- ernment funds were dispensed to re- lieve distress it probably would be through the Red Cross. But the latter organization has shown itself able to gather funds in any national emergency by canvassing the American people. If the Red Cross does its job well and is getting the funds it is seeking from the public, there will be little chance of legislation by Congress establishing a “dole” system, and the pending amend- ment probably will be changed in con- ference with that point of view lang\d. (Copyright, 1931.) Rancher Held in Slayings. CRAIG, Colo., January 8 (/).—E. J. Farmer, rancher, was held yesterday in connection with the slaying of two me he accused of attacking him in an gument over a hay contract. The Vi tims, Earl Hopkins and J. J. Jones, former sheriff of Moffat County, were shot to death yesterday at Farmer's place in Axil Basin. —_— reslan ~9~11~13 G St NW* THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, mvm em mt for persons , but tend to encourage ulal rivate industry.” SEES 1931 OVERCAST BY DEPRESSION CLOUD Geneva Labor Office Publication Says Practically Universal In- dustrial Inactivity Prevails. By the Assoclated Press. GENEVA, January 8—The year 1931 begins “under & menacing cloud of prac- tically universal industrial depression and unemployment,” the international labor office said in a publication issued yesterday, and France, for the first time, is showing signs of “appreciable slack- ening of industrial activity.” ‘There is hardly a country in the world whose unemployment situation has not become more serious during the past two months, the report says. Seasonal causes have something to do with this condition, it continues, “but the season- able movement is merely added to con- tinued growth of the general depres- sion.” ‘The labor office professes to see evi- dences of “very close connection be- tween the increase in unemployment and the fall of prices this Fall,” the re- port says. ‘The ~announcement _saccompanying publication of the report calls atten- tion to a study of unemployment upon which a report will be made January NEW GOVERNOR ASKS PRESS GAG REPEAL | e building Minnesota Chief Executive Fears Present Law Unwise Because of Chance for Abuse. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, Minn., January 8.—Repeal of Minnesota’s newspaper suppression law was recommended to the Legislature yesterday b{! Floyd B. Olson of Minne- apolis in his inaugural address as the State’s first Farmer-Labor party Gov- ernor. Gov. Olson urged repeal of the measure because “the possibilities for abuse make it an unwise law.” “The freedom of speech d the press,” he declared, “should remain in- violate and any law which constitutes an entering wedge into that inviolability is unsafe.” Under the law, which has been held constitutional by the Minnesota State Supreme Court, a newspaper publishing libelous and defamatory matter may be suppressed by court 3 Gov. Olson also recommended promflt approval by the Legislature of a public works program “which mnot only will C O A L —SPECIAL NIGHT PHONES For Delivery Tomorrow Phone Us Tonight Nat’l 3068—To 11 P.M.—Met. 4500 An Expression Often Heard | First THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1931 many years vice president of the fire- now ‘improvements for State in- o erection of a new State office and expansion of the State highway paving program. —_— POLICE CHIEF ELECTED HEAD OF CITY FIREMEN 8. B. Perry Chosen President of Fredericksburg Department. Other Officers Selected. 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