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WASHINGTON-President Roosevelt today rebuked Congress for slashing $150,000,000 from his emergency relief budget and asked, in the name of "human decency," that the legislators restore the cut to stave off hardship and privation among 6,000,000 to 8,000,000 people...
...Government grants to States an 1 the U. S. Public Health Service amounting to $50,000,000 for 1939. The recommendations include extension of public health services, expansion of hospital facilities, medical care for reliefers and the "medically needy" (those whose low incomes make payment of doctor bills a hardship), workers' compensation for loss of wages through illness...
...Roam, and fine pictorial moments. But the play itself is dull, and its message is hopelessly sentimental and confused. It is one thing to satirize the evils of predatory industrialism and hymn the praises of clean and sturdy toil. But it is nonsense to give the impression that hardship is better than ease, that back-breaking hours over a plow are beautiful, that the hand is quicker than the machine, or that the profit motive was first discovered shortly before the Civil...
Little did it matter to these refugees that it had taken two months of hardship to reach where they were last week, somewhere between Ichang and Chungking, that it probably would take them another month to scramble through the Yangtze gorges to their goal. They were on their way to China's "promised land" in the interior provinces, far from their enemies...
...message: "Have a religious experience for your country's sake." Dr. Alexander has lectured before the Pennsylvania Electric Association, the Indiana State Bar Association, the D. A. R. Her contented-looking Town Hall audience last week nodded and applauded vigorous agreement with such of her points as: "Hardship is the only builder of character known to mankind...