Chicago, Oct. 9.
Faced with the alternatives of balanced budget or hungry millions, President Roosevelt unhesitatingly chose to feed the destitute, which accounts for his failure to fuigll his platform pledge to balance the budet, Mr, Donald UR. Richberg, new head of the National Recovery Administration, told the convention of Rotary Clubs here, to-day.
'Who dares {o' stand. before the American people and declare that we should not have saved millions, of persons from destitution, suffering fand actual starvation last year in order to restore the budget to balance?" Mr. Richberg demanded of his auditors, Mr. Richberg declared that the President fully appreciates the necessity for making the expenditures of the Government conform at the earliest possible moment to its. income, but that humanitarianism, impelled him to higher considerations, United Press,
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