Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXXI, Number 23, 7 October 1936 — Roosevelt Says Nobody To Starve [ARTICLE]

Roosevelt Says Nobody To Starve

I Presidcnt Koo,sevo]t, speakiiig to Tr»,OOL> persons in Forbeis Eielel Pitteburgh, ainl t<> eount]ess thuasands l),v. radio. Thursilay night, renewe(J his p]eds>;<> to pi'fV<Tit Anierieaii& i'rom starving > aL".I hekl out that serviee as a major defenīfe for t.lie Xew Dea]*s fiscal po]icies afid soeial [)ro-

grain. "Bala.nci.ng the budget in J934 and would ]>.ave been a crinie against t)ie Amorican people," the Pre-«ident said. He>spiced his speech with numeroūs,l>asel>all. mctaj»hor*. "I am convin<-ed that when governm3ut ilnanee or any $theu finance is honest - wiien all ihe cards arc on the table — there is no higher mathematics about k. It is just i)lain īaeoi-ehoanl. aritliniefie,"' President Eoosevelt. said. ] He recalled that when he took office in March, 193-}, he found the national ineomo was down r>o per cent.

"Thc onl,v wa.v to koop tho government out of the ral is to keep the people out. of the red," he sald. u We lui'l to ba]ii!ice the peopīe's budget before. we e.oukl brtlf;iK'e the bud<ret of the mUiooal govenunerit."

He saiil he rejeeted the advice of some in that erisis three years. k t.o kt. nature take its course" beetiuse [Ij he realized it would. have residted in individual famiilies, aiul small businecses I their resourees to financiers, und [2] he was determined to prevent ,stravtion.

Then be sa-id he acceptod the rcsi)onsil)ility "to speinl i»onoy when nobod,v eltjo hael nn ( v mono.v left to spend, '" in ordor to break the vievons circle of a doclining national ineonie. 'Hie President i?aid tho Hoover administratiori increased the federal debt b,v three hillion dollars and had nothīng to show for it. The Hoosevelt adiniriLstration increasod the debt eig:ht hillion dollars of whieh■ nio.ro than half had said the bonus. "Ameiiea got soniothiiig for what. is Si>ent," ! the President said conservation <»f huuian resources throu«rh the (X'C aud relief, eonseruurion ol' naturarrosources and l»iliions for securit.v and a better lifo. "While nian ( v erities have been sellinjj Ameriea short, wo are iuTestin£ in the future of Ameliea "