Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-07
FORUM TALKS GIVE
us. BRIGHT FUTURE
Hyde, Walsh and Beck Speak
In First Anniversary
Broadcast.

America was pictured as q fertile
field for the optimism Of the mightiest
Nation on earth, a field in which the
heritage of its citizens, equality and
opportunity can be brought to the
highest possible standard and where
q continuing and growing justice may
prosper, by three nationally prominent
speakers in the first anniversary program
of the National Radio Forum arranged
by The Evening Star and sponsored by
the Columbia Broadcasting System.
The speakers were Secretary of Agri-
culture Arthur NJ. Hyde, Senator David
]. Walsh of Massachusetts, and Repre-
sentative James NJ. Beck of Pennsyl-
vanta. The program was presented from
The Stars studio through Station
WMAL and over the Columbia Systems
Nationwide hook-up. Representative
Beck spoke from New York and the
Columbia Symphonic Ensemble con-
STtbuted the musical number Of the
evening.
"The Future of America" was the
Keynote of the program, each speaker
pfcturing in his own words the paths
she citizenry of the Nation should fol-
low to enhance the prosperity of the
Nation and thereby build up the hap
piress of the people.
With the rising tide Of wen-being in
this country must come, Secretary
Hyde told his radio listeners, equal OPP
portunity for the farmer That equal
ity OF opportunity is not the farmers
lot IN this country now, the Secretary
Of Agriculture declared
Those engaged in agriculture" he
said, constitute about % per cent of
our population. They receive only
about IA per cent of our annual ma
tional income.
1--WE speak of the farm problem. In
. broad national sense there is no ma
national problem which involves the
farm. If equality of opportunity is to
be preserved that problem must be
solved.
Great moral, social and economic
values are involved. Twenty-eight mil
lion American citizens are denied their
birthright Of equal opportunity unless
their industry is restored to an equality
with other American industries. The
answer to that problem requires the
coordination of all the moral, social
and economic forces of the Nation"
Secretary Hyde declared the country
wants no hereditary lower class and
will not tolerate a hereditary upper
class.
Walsh Defines Problem.
The problem of Americas future,
Senator Walsh said, is mot merely to
preserve material greatness and pros
perity; rather the problem is to pre-
serve the soul and spirit of America"
THE ideals and principles of the
founders constitute the soul of Amer
ica," he said. eff we lose the spirit of
the fathers, we lose all-both material
greatness and that which makes 1t
worth having.
"Our very accomplishments, even our
unmeasured material achievements and
power over things material, constitute
our greatest dangers. Without con-
tiiiuing and growing justice there will
come into existence q vast mechanism
OF oppression--a great subversion OF our
nberties--and the priceless heritage of
our people viii be gone.'
Democracy Given Credit.
The virility of democracy in govern
ment Is the hope of this nation in
the future, Representative Beck de-
clared. AS to the ultimate fate of
parliamentary government" he said.
democracy, as social ideal. is as
dominating and benef1cent today as it
has ever been. To it we owe the great
ness of the republic. The ideal that
every man has right, free from un-
reasonable governmental interference,
to make of his dead self the stepping
stone to higher destiny gives to the
masses that hope which has made us
the most viri1e nation the world has
ever known. To this we owe our H.
limitable energy and our inexhaustible
strength"
The National Radio Forum. through
one OF the most powerful media for
transmitting the spoken Thought. is
one of the greatest institutions in the
land, Representative Beck declared. 1t
brings home to a vast number of the
people of the country the complex
problems of this country's huge gov
ermental mechanism, he added.