If the biU passes, the appropriation which it carries with it will be
sufficient to stimulate State general assembhes to make supplemental
appropriations just as the other three acts to which I have referred
have been sufiicient to bring about cooperation on the part of the
States. Then with the State and Federal fimds available to the
counties, parishes, and townships, the financial inducement wiU be
sufficient to cause the counties, parishes, or local governments to
again participate by putting up supplemental amounts in order to
get the amovmts apportioned under this act from the Federal Gov-
ernment and apportioned under special State legislation by the State
governments.
In the counties, as you gentlemen perhaps know, the rural popular
tion of this country is scattered and, with a much lower per capita
wealth than the urban population is not able, or at least it thinks it
is not able (and that amoimts to the same thing) to appropriate suffi-
cient funds now to materially reduce the death rates of the rural
people. But with the funds provided in this act and the funds pro-
vided further through supplemental State appropriations, the counties
could be persuaded to put up enough money to effect health condi-
tions materially among the rural people.
