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...long statement to the Press, President Hoover defended his advocacy of Red Cross Drought Relief over the Senate plan for direct feeding of the needy by the Government. Excerpt: "This is not an issue as to whether people shall go hungry and cold. It is a question as to whether the American people will maintain the spirit of charity and mutual self help." But the President showed this much willingness to compromise: "If the time should ever come that the voluntary agencies of the country are unable to find resources with which to prevent hunger and suffering, I will...
...estimated that 30% of veterans needed financial help?10% jobless, 10% drought victims, 10% with diminished incomes. Said he: "The Government might advance to those in need a substantial percentage of the face value of their certificates. . . . The relief thus afforded should be real and not fanciful. . . . The amount of such payments would probably be not less than $300,000,000 and not more than $500,000,000. ... A diversion of funds in that amount would be wholly justified to meet this appealing need. ... In any event, I would make an effort to see that, so far as is humanly...
Help. Heretofore when the Red Cross asked for disaster money, contributions swiftly reached $1,000,000 daily. Last week, after nearly three weeks' appeal for the $10,000,000, receipts totaled $4,883,159. Over the radio Chairman Payne pleaded: "Drought presses slowly. There is nothing in it to quicken the emotions- unless one sees with his own eyes the gaunt hunger and hopelessness of those affected...
...States: Alabama, Arkansas. Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia. Only in Arkansas did every county need help. The inhabitants of the Drought-stricken parts of these States are chronically poor, their margin of prosperity never high...
...Austin, Tex. Funnyman Will Rogers performed for the benefit of the Red Cross Drought relief fund (see p. 22). One of his stories: "[At a dinner party] everybody watched Mr. [Charles Evans] Hughes to see what he would do with his glass. He didn't keep us waiting long? just parted his whiskers, said 'Let her go!' and drained it to the bottom. Now there's a man after my own heart! ... If he would only consent to run [again] for President, come down here and travel with me from town to town and let me shave...