Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1935, Page 5

- LUOR EALERS MUST BUY HERE A. B. C. Board Rules Li- censed Houses Are En- titled to Business. District liquor retailers must buy their supplies from wholesalers licensed by the District unless they can show local wholesalers do not have a rea- sonable supply of the desired brands, according to a ruling adopted today by the Commissioners. The corporation counsel's office was directed to place the principles in the form of a regulation on which the Commissioners plan to act finally next Tuesday. The question resulted from an amendment to the District liquor act adopted at the past session of Con- gress whioh directed the Commission- ers to adopt regulations concerning wholesale purchases of liquor. Several weeks ago the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board held a public hearing, which was largely attended by both wholesalers and retailers. Re- tailers' spokesmen voiced fears that if they were forbidden to buy from any one but District wholesalers. prices might rise, and they might be barred from obtaining desired brands of liquor. On the other hand, wholesalers’ spokesmen claimed they could mnot much longer continue to meet “un- fair” competition from wholesalers not having to pay the District wholesale license of $1,500 a year. Roosevelt (Continued From First Page.) word recovery obsolete and to replace it by the word “progress.” He said “progress” is a better word than “recovery,” for it not only means a sound business and a sound agricul- ture from a material point of view, but it means, with equal importance a sound improvement in American life. Ignores Gov. Talmadge. Probably many of Mr. Roosevelt's listeners were disappointed in his mak- ing no mention of Gov. Talmadge of | Georgia, who has been one of the New Deal's most severe critics, and in his avoldance of mentioning any of | yere toq often the rule instead of the | his Republican critics, the most promi- | Tent one recently being former Presi- dent Herbert Hoover. While he appar- ently ignored the critical Georgia Gov- | ernor he did take occasion in the course of his remarks to discuss briefly the | farm policies of his administration, which have been a target of Gov. Tal- | madge. Governor Is Absent. Gov. Talmadge was absent during the celebration. The Governor had been sent tickets, but spent the day on his farm in Telfair County He telephoned the following mes- sage to one of his secretaries here: “I am spending the day on my Tel- | fair County farm hunting and farm- | ing—hunting something to plant that | there’s no processing tax on.” Some time ago the Governor said at the Capitol: “I will go to hear the President| of the United States speak if I am in town.” | The Governor was given no part in the official welcoming program, but was invited to sit with Governors of other Southern States at the celebra- tion. | Mr, Roosevelt's reference to the in- | solvent state of the Government when l he took over the reins of office from | President Hoover and the increase in | | lighter. THE EVENING STIR.'WISHTNGTON, D. T. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1935. Text of President’s Speech in Atlanta Declares Government Has Passed "'Peak of Ag;propriatians” and Announces Substantial Achievement of Administration Employment Goal— T Repeats His Determination to End Dole Immediately. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., November 29.—The text of the address delivered here today by President Roosevelt at the Georgia home-coming celebration follows: Iam happy to be in Georgia. Iam proud of Georgia. Happy because of | this moving reception which my| friends, the Senators and Representa- | tives in the Congress from this State | have tendered me, and which you, the | good people of this State, have re- sponded to with such warmth and hospitality. Happy because I meet again so many old friends and neigh- bors. Proud because I see signs on every hand that the overwhelming majority of the people of this State are keeping pace with the millions of others throughout the Nation who be- lieve in progress, are willing to work for progress and are going to get progress. Proud because I see clear signs of a revival of material pros- perity in country and city, and espe- cially because I sense a swelling pros- perity of the spirit that spells a greater help and a deeper happiness for our fellow men. Would Not Ge Back to 1924. Eleven years ago I came to live at ‘Warm Springs for the first time. That was a period of great so-called pros- perity. But I would not go back to the conditions of 1924, and I do not believe that you people would want to g0 back either. Of that year and of the five years that followed, I have a clear recollection which you can verify for yourselves. In that orgy of “pros- perity” a wild speculation was building | speculative profits for the speculators and preparing the way for the public to be left “holding the bag.” In that orgy of “prosperity” banks, individusily and by chains, were closing their doors at the expense of the depositors. In that orgy of “prosperity” the farmers of the South had become involuntary speculators themselves, never certain when they planted their eotton whether | it would bring 25 cents or 15 cents or 5 cents. In that orgy of “prosperity” the poorest vied with the richest in throwing their earnings and their sav- ings into & cauldron of land and stock speculation. In that orgy of “pros- perity” slum conditions went un- heeded, better education was forgotten, usurious interest charges mounted, child labor continued, starvation wages exception. Mammon ruled America. Years to Be Remembered. Those are the years to remember— those fool's paradise years before the crash came, Too much do we harp |on the years that followed, when from | 1929 to 1933 this Nation slipped spirally downward—ever downward— to the inevitable point when the me- chanics of civilization came to a dead stop on March 3, 1933. Talmadge Hanged In Effigy as Cards Tell of Criticism By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, November 29.—The crude effigy of & man bearing several placards un which were scribbled broad criticisms of Gov. Eugene Talmadge, anti-adminis- tration Democrat, was hanged from a tree at the State Capitol early today. “Old Gene Talmadge ain't what he used to be.” said one card. Today is the 20th day of November. It gives me a certain satisfaction to be able to inform you, and through you the Nation, that on Wednesday, two days ago, there were 3,125,000 persons at work on various useful projects throughout the Nation. The small remaining number have re- ceived orders to report to work on projects already under way or ready to be started. This result, I believe you wil lagree with me, constitutes a substantial .and successful national achievement. Permanent Benefit. Aside from the tremendous increase in morale through substituting work for a dole, there is the practical side of permanent material benefit. Within Police Capt. S. J. Roberts, among the officers awaiting a noon visit of President Roosevelt, said he received reports of “a hanging on the capitol grounds” shortly before 4 a.m. Patrolmen of radio squad cars who rushed there found the swinging dummy—and no eivil- ians in sight. Roberts, ordering it cut down, said there was no clue to the “lynchers.” tories, in seeking a fairer wage level for those on starvation pay and in | giving to the workers hope for the right collectively to bargain with their employers. You and I will not forget the long struggle to put an end to the indis- sriminate distribution of “fiy-by-night” securities, and to provide fair regula- tion of the stock exchanges and of the great interstate public utility com- sight of us today stands a tribute to useful work under Government super- vision—the first slum clearance and low-rent housing project. Here, at the request of the citizens of Atlanta, we have cleaned out nine square blocks of antiquated, squalid dwellings, for years a detriment to this community. Today those hope- less old houses are gone and in their place we see the bright, cheerful | buildings of the Techwood housing project. Within a very short time people who never before could get a jdecent roof over their heads will live here in reasonable comfort amid healthful, worthwhile surroundings; others will find similar homes in Atlanta’s second slum clearance. the university project; and still others will find similar opportunity in nearly all of the older, overcrowded cities of the United States. I take it that it has been equally { worthwhile to the Nation to give jobs Ppanies of our country. You and I—yes, every individual and every family in the land—are being brought close to that supreme achievement of the present Congress —the social security law which, m days to come, will provide the aged against distressing want, will set up & national system of insurance for the unemployed and will extend well- merited care to sick and crippled children. Enlisted in Great Crusade. You and I are enlisted today in a | great crusade in every part of the land, to co-operate with nature and not to fight her, to stop desjryctive floods, to prevent dust storms and the washing away of our precious soils, to grow trees, to give thousands of farm families a chance to live, and to seek to provide more and better food for the city dwellers of the Nation. | In this connection it is, I think, of surveys prove that the average of our citizenship lives today on what would be called by the medical fraternity & third-class diet. If the country You and I need not rehearse the four years of disaster and gloom. We know the simple fact that at the end of those years America acted before it was too late, that we turned about and by a supreme, well-nigh unanimous national effort, started on the upward path again. I have reason to remember the past two and & half years that have gone by so quickly, reason to remember the fine spirit of the average of American ‘citizenship which made my task Memory is short but yours is not too short to recollect those great meetings of the representatives of the farmers, regionally and in Washington, in the Spring and Summer of 1933, when they agreed overwhelmingly that unfair low prices for farm crops could never be raised to and maintained at a reasonable level until and unless the Government of the United States acted the national debt during Mr. Hoover's adninistration is interpreted as a| straight-from-the-shoulder answer to | this critic. | Mr. Roosevelt in this speech made | it clear that he is determined to bring | an end as soon as possible to direct | relief, or the dole, as many refer to this form of relief expenditure. He said he realized that spending money for direct relief was not the perfect thing to do, but it was done because of the necessity to save human life and suffering. He pointed out, though, that as quickly as possible his ad- ministration turned to the job of pro- viding actual work for those in need. | Tells of Many Employed. | With a smile of satisfaction, the President then recalled that last April he announced that it was the aim of his administration that by some time in November of this year this country would substantially end the | dole and offer in place of it employ- ment of about three and a half million employable persons estimated to be on the relief rolls. He recalled that he has consistently since last April held to that goal and announced that two days ago there were 3,120,000 people at work on various useful projects throughout the Nation. He said he derived a certain satisfaction in being able to depart this informa- tion. He added that the small re- maining number on relief rolls have Teceived orders to report to work on projects all ready to be started, and declared that this result constitutes & substantial and successful national achievement. Bankers Asked Spending. In defense of the amount of money being spent by his administration in the interest of employment and relief the President told, for the first time, & story to the effect that in the Spring of 1933 a number of great bankers flocked to Washington seeking help from their Government to save their banks from insolvency, and that when he reminded them fhat to do this the Government would be compelled to go heavily into debt, the bankers told him it was well worth the price and that they heartily approved, and that when he asked them just how much debt the Government could stand without seriously impairing its credit, they said that it could stand a debt of between 55 and 70 billion dollars. ‘The President told them that a rise in the national debt to any such figure was wholly unnecessary and that he would not agree to such a step. Mr. Roosevelt then called upon his audi- ence to remember that at that time many bankers and big business men would have been willing to put the country far deeper into debt than he will ever let it go. % Mr. Roosevelt turned to his audience then and asked “If the bankers thought the country could stand a debt of $55,000,000,000 to $70,000,000,- 000 in 1933, with values as they were then, I wonder what they would stand today, in the light of an enor- mously increase of values of property ;’zx;]'l' kinds all along the line, since Refers to Debt Increase. At this point in his address Mr. Roosevelt took occasion to point out that the gross national debt under the last administration rose from a over $17,000,000,000 to $21,000,000, and that the day he came into office Be found that the National to hélp them to reduce the tremendous carry-overs and surpluses which threatened us and the whole world. Government Came to Rescue. You and I can well remember the overwhelming demand that the Nae tional Government come to the rescue of the home owners and the farm owne ers of the Nation who were losing the roofs over their heads through inflated valuation and exorbitant rates of interest. You and I still recolect the need for and the successful attainment of a banking policy which not only opened the closed banks, but guaranteed the deposits of the depositors of the Nation. You and I have not forgotten the enthusiastic support that succeeded, and still in part succeeds, in ending the labor of children in mills and fa contained only $158,000,000. By com- parison, he mentioned that since March 4, 1933, the day he took office, the national debt has risen from $2. 000,000,000 to $29,500,000,000. He ex- plained, however, that it must also be remembered that today included in the debt figures of his administration 1s $1,500,000,000 of working balance in the Treasury and nearly $4,500,000,000 of recoverable assets which the Gov- ernment will get back over a period of years, and whicth will be used for the retirement of the debt. ‘While Mr, Roosevelt gave no specific promise to end relief or to aviod new taxes, he spoke hopefully of the future by saying, he could see clear signs ahead of a revival of a material prosperity. Also that the peak of appropriations has been passed and that revenues without new taxes are increasing and that there is every assurance of a decreasing deficit in addition to the credit of the Govern- ment being higher today than that of l;ny other great nation in the ‘world. Following his address, the President, with Mrs. Roosevelt, motored back to his cottage at Warm Springs. 250,000 Visitors Claimed. The local newspapers claim there are more than 250,000 persons from out of town on hand to join with the Atlantans in the gala occasion. With Mrs. Roosevelt seated beside him in an open automobile, the Presi- dent left his little cottage home at Warm Springs, 70 miles southeast of Atlanta, shortly before 9 o'clock this morning. There were many persons alpng the highway on the drive to At- lants to wave and ~heer as his car drove past. The sirens was deafening as the President entered the Stadium. President Roosevelt left Warm Springs this morning with happy recollections of the annual Thanks- giving party at the Warm Springs Foundation the night before. The President personally presided at this festivity which was attended by the nearly 100 infantile paralysis patients and a large number of officials, nurses, relatives of the patients and invited guests. Seated at an elevated table decorated birds sent by admirers over the coun- lived on a second-class diet, we would }need to put many more acres than | we use today back into the produc- | tion of foodstuffs for domestic con- | sumption. If the Nation lived on a | first-class diet, we would have to put | more acres than we have ever culti- | vated into the production of an addi- tional supply of things for Amer- icans to eat. Why. speaking in broad terms in following up this particular illustra- tion, are we living on a third-class diet? For the very simple reason that the masses of the American peo- ple have not got the purchasing power to eat more and better food. Farm Incomes Increase. I mentioned a few weeks ago that farm income in the United States has risen since 1932 a total of nearly $3,000,000,000. That is because wheat | is selling at better than 90 cents, in- | stead of 32 cents; corn at 50 cents, instead of 12 cents; cotton at 12 cents, instead of at 4!, cents, and other crops in proportion. I wonder what cotton would be selling at today if during these past three years we had continued to produce 15,000,000 or 16,000,000 on 17,000,000 bales each year, adding to our own surplus. add- ing to the world surplus and driving the cotton farmers of the South into bankruptcy and starvation. The ad- | ditional $3,000,000,000 of farm incems has meant the rebirth of city busi- ness, the reopening of closed fac- tories, the doubling of automobile production, the improvement of trans- portation and the giving of new em- ployment to millions of people. Millions Need Relief. That brings us squarely face to face with the fact of the continued unem- ployment of many millions persons of | whom approximately three and a half million are employables in need of relief. When some of the people of a t and wealthy country are suffer- ing from starvation an honest gov- | ernment has no choice. At first, realizing that we were not doing a perfect thing but that we were doing & necessary saving and human thing, we appropriated money for direct re- | lief. That was necessary to ward off {actual starvation. But as quickly as | possible we turned to the job of pro- viding actual work for those in need. T can realize that gentlemen in well- warmed and well-stocked clubs will discourse on the expenses of Govern- ment and the suffering that they are going through because the Govern- ment is spending money for work re- lief. I wish I could take some of these men out on the battle line of human necessity and show them the facts that we in the Government are facing. |If these more fortunate Americans | will come with me, I will not only show them the necessity for the expendi- tures of this Government, but I will show them, as well, the definite and beneficial results we .have attained with the dollars we have spent. Some of these gentlemen tell me that a dole would be more economical than work relief. That is true. But the men who tell me that have, unfortunately, too little' contact with the true America to realize that in this business of re- lief we are dealing with properly self- respecting Americans to whom a mere dole outrages every instinct of indi- vidual independence. Ready to Give Honest Work. Most Americans want to give some- thing for what shey get. That some- thing, in this case honest work, is the roar of children, and blowing of [ morg] high Last April I stated what I have held to consistently ever since—that it was the hope of the administration that by sometime in November of this year we would substantially end the dole and offer in place of it employ- _ment to by far the greater part of 13,500,000 employable persorfs we esti- mated to be on the rellef rolls in the interest to point out that national | to the unemployed in the construction | of a vast network of highways, in- | cluding thousands of miles of farm- | to-market roads, in repairing great | numbers of schools and bullding hun- | dreds of new ones in city and country, in helping cities to put in sewers and | sewage disposal plants and water- works; in constructing cold storage | warehouses and county recreational | buildings; in creating aviation fields; | in giving a million boys a chance to | /g0 to C. C. C. camps and to work | |on forestry and on soil erosion pre- vention; in controlling malaria; in pushing health projects: in putting white collar workers into jobs of permanent usefulness to their com- munities, and in giving youth an| opportunity for better education. Into the ears of many of you have | been dinned the cry that your Gov- | ernment is piling up an unconscionable and back-breaking debt. Let me tell | you a simple story: In the Spring of | 1933 many of the great bankers of the United States flocked to Washington. They were there to get help of their Government in the saving of their | banks from insolvency. To them I pointed out, in all fairness, the simple fact that the Government would be compelled to go heavily into debt for | a few years to come, in order to save banks and insurance companies and | mortgage companies and railroads, and | to take care of millions of people who ‘ were on the verge of starvation. Every | one of these gentlemen expressed to | me the firm conviction that it was all | Iweu worth the price and that they | | heartily approved. | In order to get their further judg- | | ment, however, I asked them what they | thought the maximum national debt of the United States Government could rise to without serious danger to the national credit. Their answers, re- membering this was in the Spring of 1933, were that the country could + safely stand a national debt of between $55,000,000.000 and $70,000,000,000. I told them that a rise in the national | debt to any such figure was, in my judgment, wholly unnecessary, and that even if they, the bankers, were willing I could not and would not go | along with them. I told them then that only a moderate increase in the debt for the next few years seemed likely and justified. That objective | holds good today: but remember that at that time many bankers and big | business men would have been willing to put the country far deeper into debt then I shall ever let it go. If the bankers thought the country could stand a debt of $55,000,000,000 to $70,000,000,000 in 1933, with values s they were then, I wonder what they would say the country could stand to- day, in the light of an enormous in- crease of values of property of all kinds all along the line since 1933. Invest Way 1nto Future. | Your Government says to you: “You | cannot borrow your way out of debt; | but you can invest your way into a | sounder future.” | Asa matter of actual fact, of course, | the gross national debt under the | last administration rose from a little over $17,000,000,000 to $21,000,000,000. The day I came into office I found { that the National Treasury contained | | only $158,000,000, or, at the rate of | | previously authorized expenditures, | enough to last the Treasury less than | & month. Since March 4, 1933, the national debt has risen from $31,- 000,000,000 to $29,500,000,000, but it must also be remembered that today, included in this figure is nearly $1,~ 500,000,000 of working balance in the Treasury and nearly $4,500,000,000 of recoverable assets whieh the Govern- ment will get back over a period of years, and which will be used for the retirement of debt. As things stand today, and in the light of a definite and continu- ing economic improvementt, we have passed the peak of appropriations; revenues without the imposition of new taxes are increasing, and we can look forward with assurance to a decreasing deficit. The credit of the Government is today higher than that DIP-A-DAY of any oher great nation in the world, in spite of attacks on that credit made by those few individuals and organi- sations which seek to dictate to the administration and to the Congress how to run the National Treasury and how to let the needy starve. Total of All Debts Lower. In the Spring of 1933, if you and I had made a national balance sheet, we would have found that if we had added up the values of all of the property of every kind in the United States owned by American citizens, the total of these values, which we would call assets, would have been exceeded by the figure representing the total of all the debts owed by the are ps pen point moist. No clog- Fing—no fiooding, EOi"'E at people of the United States, In other | words, at that time our national bal- ance sheet, the wealth versus the debts of the American public, showed that we were in the red. Today, less than three years later, it is a fact that the total of all the debts in the ted States is lower than it was en. Whereas, on the other side of the picture, you and I know that the values of property of all kinds—farns, houses, automobiles, securities and every other kind of property—have Increased s greatly since 1833 thas today we are once more in the black. We were insolvent: Today we are solvent. In this fact most of us find & deep satisfaction, something more than getting the country back into the black. You and I do not want t5 just go back to the past. We want to face the future in the belief that human beings can enjoy more of the good things of life, under better conditions, than human beings ever enjoyed in the past. American life has improved in these two years and a half, and if I have anything to do with it, it is going to improve more in the days to come. 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