Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1936, Page 4

Text of Roosevelt Address at Omaha President Offers 4-Point Farm Plan and Asks Nebraska to Give Senator Norris Back to Nation. By the Assocfated Press. OMAHA, Nebr., October 10.—Fol- lowing is the complete text of Presis dent Roosevelt's address. here tonight: First a ‘word to you as Nebras- kans: - I hope it will be heard by the citizens of the other 47 States, because I know that what I am go- ing- to say represents the convic- tion of the great majority of those whe- are_devoted to good govern- ment, -clean government, repre- sentative government. On this platform sits a man whose reputation for many years has been known in every com- munity—a man old in years but young «4n heart—a man who through’all these years has had no boss but his own conscience—the geniop @enator from the State of Nebrasfa. given to the Nation by thg people of Nebraska—George W., Norris. _ Outside of my own State of New York-I have consistently refrained from taking part in elections in eny. other State. But Senator Norris' name has been entered as a candidate for Sengtor from Nebraska. And to my rule of non-participation in Sfate elections I have made—and so-leng as he lives I always will make—one -magnificently justified exception. George Norris' candidacy tran- scends State and party lines. In out national history we have had few elder statesmen who, like him, have preserved the aspirations of youth as they accumulated the wisdom of years. He is one of the major prophets of America. Help this great American to con- tinue an historic career of service. Nebraska will be doing a great service, not only to itself but to every other State in the Union and to the Nation as a whole if it Pplaces this great American above rtisanship and keeps George orris in the Senate of the United States. In 1932 I pledged my adminis- trasion to a farm policy that would help the farmer. Tonight every man and woman on an. American farm who has read today's market reports knows that we have done what we said we would do. What needed to be done? You know that in March, 1933, after 12 lean years, farm income was disappearing and farm prices had sunk to a bankruptcy level Serious Condition Of Farms Overcome. In 1932 America's farm popula- fion was the greatest in our his- tory, but the farmer’s income was the lowest for the quarter century for which we have records. Farm- ers represented 25 per cent of the Nation's population—but they got only 71z per cent of the national income. The specter of foreclosure stalked the farmer's plow. American agriculture was on the road to pauperism, Wher the World War ended the nations of Europe whom we had been feeding went back to farming for themselves. Our farm=- ers were left holding the bag—a bag that bulged with vast quanti= ties of wheat, corn and cotton, for which the market had disappeared. That was the farmers’ plight. ‘What did Republican leadership do about it? The best that it could offer was the Farm Board. The Farm Board set an all-high for extravagant futility. It met the problem of un- salable and unexportable sur- pluses by piling up bigger surpluses. To finish the job, the Repub- lican Smoot-Hawley tariff robbed the farmer of his last chance for a foreign market. ‘We found that this conspicuous failure of government to help the farmer had created—by March, 1933—a state of mind in the Na- tion which, itself, seemed to bar any way out of the farmers’ diffi- culties. There was a defeatist ate titude —a conviction that the farmer could not be helped—that all efforts were foredoomed to fail- ure—that any party which dared to substitute action for talk would get its political fingers burned. Along with this defeatism there was the belief that money spent on the farm problem was money wast- ed—that the only excuse for spend- ing it was to keep the farmer in line—to buy political peace. That was what had happened to American agriculture when this administration came into office. That was the debris of 12 years of failure which we had to clear ‘away before we could begin to lay the basis for a permanent agricul- tural prosperity. Tonight you know that the ground has been cleared of that debris. After 12 years in which he has been harrassed and weighted down by the burdens of each suc- ceeding day, the farmer at last has begun to get into the clear, so that he can begin again to take thought for tomorrow. Back of what we did was the con- viction that the agricultura] prob- lem is not a problem for the farmer alone—that it is a problem for the Nation as a whole. That is the way we attacked it. Farms and Industry. Linked Together. And the Nation is now going along with the farmer, Now for the first time in this industrial Pperiod of our history the American people understand that there is & definite bond between agriculture and industry—that the money we have used for the restoration of American agriculture has been an investment in the restoration of American industry, an underwrit- ing for the wages of American labor, a stimulus for profits in American business. The defeatist attitude has at last been defeated. Back of what we did was a sec- ond conviction—that a sound farm policy must be a policy run by farmers. Ours is that kind of a policy. The farmers of America moved into the Department of Ag- riculture on the day that Henry ‘Wallace set up shop there. For the first time, a national farm pro- gram was made in conference and with the agreement of farm leaders of all our farm organizations—a program which came out of the free and open councils of farmers rather than out of the vote-catche ing schemes of politicians. With these convictions, this ad- ministration put its hand to the plow. It has not turned, it fwill not turn back. I am going to tell you in just seven sentences what we did. Every man and woman on an American farm can expand those seven sen- tences in terms of the recovery that has come to each of them in the last three and a half years. 1. By our agricultural adjust- ment act, our monetary policy, our soil conservation program, and our assistance to farm co-operatives, we raised the farmers’ net annual income by $3,500,000,000 to a sum three times what it was in 1932. 2. Through the Farm Credit Ad- ministration we saved thousands of homes and farms from foreclosure and reduced the staggering burden of the farmers’ debts. 3. Through reciprocal trade trea- ties and international currency stabilization, we have begun to re- cover the farmers’ foreign markets in the only way in which they can be recovered and held—by a policy of mutual international advantage which today is bearing fruit in the reopening of markets for American farm products in all of the 14 coun- tries making these agreements— by a policy which, for example, within the last 10 days has brought about lower tariffs in Pranoce, Italy and Switzerland to the bemefit of our farmers. A growing trade is making for international peace. 4. By our program to revive business—to increase employment —to raise business and professional incomes and the wages of labor— and by increasing the purchasing power and consumption of the average American family—we have restored national income, and pre- pared the way for the steady and long-time expansion of the farm- ers’ home market. Permanent Plenty Baris Established. 5. By our program of land use and conservation we have ended the policy of immediate glut and eventual waste, and have laid the basis for permanent plenty. 6. By our program of rural elec- trification—by our farm-to-maket roads—by our aid to rural schools, we have begun to get for the farmer his fair share in the comforts, the advantages, the wider interests and the deeper satisfactions which go to make the good life for himself and for his children. 7. When disastrous ~ drought struck the land in parts of our country, we rushed immediate and direct relief to the farmers and stockmen to save them from want —a policy that some people call waste—but you and I call wise. There is the record. In those seven sentences the farmer and | NORGE » KELVINATOR » GROSLEY . S E. 5. HARRIS CO. 2900 14* OPEN NITES COL. 0100 . which is theirs in 1836. the farmer's family can measure, for themselves, the vast difference between the desperation which was theirs in 1933 and the recovery From what the record has done and is doing for you—judge for yourseives our determination and our capacity to carry this program through. After having neglected & 12-year opportunity for help to the Amer- ican farmer as his condition got worse and worse, what does Repub- lican leadership now offer? Pirst of all it would scrap the present program, which it has con- demned as a “subterfuge” and s “stop gap.” It would junk the farmers’ organization to carry it out. - It would end the farmers’ program of co-operation and send them back to the “free competi- tion"—or “rugged _individualism" if you will—that wrecked them in 1932, Next it would substitute a sys tem of tariff equivalent payments, not for any permanent contribu« tion to farm wealth or national in- come, but merely as a cash hand- out—or a dole. These payments would be made only to the pro- ducers of exportable farm crops— specifically on hogs, wheat, cotton and tobaceo. Dairymen, cattle men, sugar growers and producers of other crops of which there normally is no exportable surplus would be left out. What about the effect of such & scheme? Would it serve to pro- tect farmers from price collapse under a burden of surpluses? Would it guard them in the future against a disaster like 1932? No pian could lead the Nation back faster to such a crisis. Straight Subsidy For Unlimited Production. The proposed plan of the Repube lican leaders is a straight subsidy of unlimited farm production. In & year or two of normal weather it would pile surplus on top of sur- plus, driving prices down and down. It is the Federal Farm Board all over again. Finally, to make the parallel with 1932 letter perfect, the Republican leaders now propose to repeal the reciprocal tariff act and go back to the Smoot-Hawley tariff policy. Once again, as in 1932, the farm- ers would have price-crushing sur- pluses at home, and no place abroad to sell them. What about the cost? It would run to one and a half and even possibly two billion dollars every year. This vast sum would be spent not to save agriculture, but to wreck it. Either this plan which they ad- vocate in the West, or the curta ment of expenditures they tal about in the East, would have to be discarded. Both promises can- not possibly be carried out. For the first time in many cruel years, we are getting the problem of the business of farming well in hand. Do you now want to turn over that problem to the care of those who did nothing about it in the past? Do you want to turn it over to those who now make in- consistent campaign-devised, half- baked promises which you and they know_they cannot keep? It has been said that the admin- istration's farm program changes each year like new models of auto- mobiles. T accept that simile. The automobile of today is the same kind of wvehicle, in principle, as it was 20 years ago. But because the automobile manufacturer did not hesitate to pioneer—because he was willing to make yearly changes in his model—the Nation now drives a car that is vastly improved. Farming. too, is the same in prin- ciple now as it has always been. But because the farmer has been willing %0 pioneer—because, with the aid of scientists, economists and engineers, he has been willing, year after year, to change—because of these things both the product of the farms and the business of farm- Entering Nebraska tyesterday on his Midwest tour, President Roosevelt made a pla form appearance at Plattsmouth with Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska and ugged the re-election of the veteran Senator, Norris is at left. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. ing have been vastly improved. It is the aim of our policy not only to prevent the return of yesterday's model, but to make tomorrow's model better than today’s. Good as it was for its day, we have passed beyond model T farming. Our long-time policy of prudence and farm progress includes a pro- gram of conservation against land ‘wastage and soil impoverishment. From the begining such a program has been basic in our plans. On October 25, 1935, months before the action of the Supreme Court on the triple A, I said publicly that it ‘was the intention of the framers of that act as it was my intention: “To pass from the purely emer- gency phase necessitated by a grave national crisis to a long-time, more permanent plan for American agri- culture.” We knew that our soil had been recklessly impoverished by crops which did not pay. Because we stand committed to a philosophy of continuous plenty we have set our- selves resolutely against waste— waste that comes from unneeded production, waste that imperils the Nation's future by draining away the abundance with which God has enriched our soil. Consumption Must [N Go With Production. Increasing production alone in an unlimited way appeals to no person who thinks the problem through. Increasing consumption must go hand in hand with it, Here is a simple figure to mull over. If every family in the United States had enough money to live on what the doctors and dietitians call & “class A diet,” we would need foodstuffs from 45 million acres more than we are using today. America’s diet is better than that of most other nations, but from the point of view of better national health, it is still inadequate. I seek to increase purchasing power so that people can pay for more food and better food, and in turn pro= vide a larger and larger domestic market for the farmer. It is a further part of our longe JOE HIGY ‘INCORPORATED- "OUR PLUMBER” ]nvi tation You ere cordiofly invited fo see the unusuol display of Hamilton Watches now in eur window ond ot our wotch eounter. A wide ossortment of the very newest freshe from-the-factory styles ore being shown: exquisitely dainty wrist watches for women, smortly modern strop watchés for men (many ©f them in the new “curved to fit the wrist” models), distinctive pocket wotches — ol splendid values et prices ronging from -$31.50 upword. HAMILTON is America’s Fine Weh. rich in the highest Dodiions of eccurcy. We ore proud 10 recommend i, time farm policy to attack the evil of farm tenancy. In this we have already made a good begin- ning with lower interest rates and better prices. We are preparing legislation, in co-operation with farm leaders, to submit to the Con- gress in January to help solve this problem. We cannot, as a Natlon, be content until we have reached the ultimate objective of every farm family owning its own land. Further—we propose to give to the farmer and to the consumer— a sound plan of crop insurance in kind against extreme fluctuations of supply and of price. No one wins from such fluctuations but the speculator. The farmer and the consumer lose together. ‘That is why crop insurance is a protection for both. At one and the same time it banishes the consumer’s fear of a food shortage and the farmer's fear of a food surplus. Until both are protected neither is safe. The ultimate in- terests of the farmer and the consumer are the me. That is why I am not making one kind of speech to the farmers out here and another kind of speech to consumers in the big cities. The same speech and the same policy must go for both. The city dweller has come to know that unless the farmer re- ceives fair prices for what he produces he cannot buy the things that are turned out in the shops and factories of the cities. And so we plan for the future of agriculture—security for those who have spent their lives in farming; opportunity - for - real careers for young men and women of the farm—a share for farmers in the good things of life abundant enough to justify and preserve our nstinctive faith in the land. In all our plans we are guided, and will continue to be guided, by the fundamental belief that the American farmer, living on his own land, remains our ideal of self- Teliance and of spiritual balance —the spurce from which the reser- voirs of the Nation's strength are constantly renewed. It is from the men and women of our farms —living close to the soil, that this Nation—like the Greek giant An‘aeus touches mother earth and rises with strength renewed & hundredfold. We want to perpetuate that idea under modern conditions so that man may be strong in the ancient virtues and yet lay hold of the advantages which science and new knowledge offer to a well- rounded life. SHIP DISTRESS HOAX LAID TO SMUGGLERS Honolulu Authorities Watch Nar- cotics Price Slump for Clue. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, October 10.—Authori= ties seeking to clear up the mystery of an apparent distress call hoax be- gan watching the underworld tonight ior possible signs of a slump in the price of narcotics. Officials would not be quoted, but it was learned they were going on the assumption that a price decline would indicate a large shipment had been landed while the Coast Guard cutter Itasca was far away looking for a supposedly helpless yacht. Federal radio officials, after con- ferring with the Itasca’s officers, said they were convinced the calls were a hoax, but added they were not en- tirely dismissing the possibility that some vessel was in trouble. Federal radio officials indicated they were inclined to disbelieve the theory that the sender acted in order to lure the Itasca away for the benefit of narcotics smugglers. Nevertheless officials watched for the possible ef- fects of such a move. Coast Guardsmen said the fruitless | Itasca search cost the Government | $10,000. | BOLAND FILES SECOND HABEAS CORPUS PLEA Baltimore Supreme Bench Judge | Sets Tuesday for Hearing of Lyddane Figure. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, October 10.—Judge | Samuel K. Dennis of the supreme bench of Baltimore City will hold a hearing Tuesday on a petition of | John Martin Boland for writ of habeas corpus. Boland is now serving a prison term | for conspiracy to murder. He was con- victed in Montgomery County in the case in which Mrs. Anne Lyddane | also was indicted for conspiracy to | murder her husband. Mrs. Lyddane secured remcvel of the case to Washington County and | won acquittal. Boland appealed to Judge Eugene O'Dunne of the Baltimore City Court last week for a writ of habeas corpus. | U.S. REGISTRATION WILL SET RECORD Presidential Vote Expected to Top 1932 Mark by Several Million. By the Associated Pri.ss. An unprecedented public interest in the presidential campaign was indi- cated last week by reports of record registration across the country. While President Roosevelt and Gov. Landon concentrated their activities in the Midwest, tabulations of the eligible voters and comment by elec- tion officials in that section testified to an already existent depth of feeling. In the Far West, California regis- trants set a record total of 3,203,000. In the East, New York and Pennsyl- vania officials looked for a similar re- sult when the counting is over. ‘The trend accorded with predictions that the presidential vote of 39,816,522 in 1932 would be topped by several millions three weeks from next Tues- day. In Illinois alone, on the basis of a 2,142,000 registration record in Cook County, where Chicago is located, | the vote may exceed that of four years | ago by 500,000 and reach 4,000,000 in all. Michigan Figures. ‘While no registration figures are compiled in Michigan, it has been estimated there that up to 2,000,000 have signed and the actual vote may | exceed the 1932 total of 1,664.000. *Dhio officials expect about a 100,000 vote increase, to total 2,700,000. | Democratic registrants in California | numbered 1,849,984 to 1,231,765 for | the Republicans. It was a record for | the Democrats and the lowest showing for their opposition since 1924. Leaders of both major parties closely | watched the upsurge in New York | City. The total will not be known for some days, but so far there is an | increase of about 400,000 over the | similar registraiion period in 1932. | Through Friday, the voters certified in Pennsylvania constituted 457,057 | Republicans and 284,284 Democrats. This was & Republican lead of 172,- 773 in the 33 counties covered, as against a 304,912 lead in the same counties in 1932, Official Figures. Official figures for the big cities were: Philadelphia. 1932 85,240 553,43¢ Pittsburgh. Democrat ___ 20,107 Republican .. 144,350 141,681 'The Philadelphia count, another record, reduced the Republicin lead of 478,194 in 1932 to 116,014 this year, ‘The Democrats swept ahead in Pitts- burgh for the first time. The increased total was attributed by officials partly to the inauguration of permanent reég- istrations in 1934 and to a vigorous registration drive by the party ore ganizations. 1936 403,851 519,863 Democrat ... Republican 174,901 Motorist Heavily Fined. One month’s hard labor is the lot of a motorist at Birmingham, Enge land, charged with driving while drunk, who was found trying to light his electric headlights with a mateh, FREE LECTURE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE John Randall Dunn, C. S. B., of Boston, Mass. Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. In CONSTITUTION HALL, 18th, C and D St:. N.W. 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