Evening star., 1932-10-08
Text of Hoover Address
appeals to Women Of Nation, Citing Party Record.
Declares Democratic Legislative Program Would
Have Cost Voters 81, 500, O,OOO,O 900.

| (From the $50 Edition Of Yesterdays Starr
The text of the Presidents radio ad-
dress from the White House yesterday
afternoon:
II am glad to have this opportunity
| to talk directly to the women who are
organizing the support Of the admin
istration In this election. We have
passed through three years of strain,
of depression unprecedented in its
sweep and suffering. Our people have
suffered great losses. The gravity of
the issues Of the campaign affect
women and men equally. When the
women of America attained the vote
they naturally forced certain questions
into wider attention of the Nation
These were questions of education,
home protection and child welfare. You
are interested in even wider fields. !
do not minimize the importance of
women in the home. That is the very
| heart Of life. But on November 8 you
will be confronted with issues that will
determine the future hopes of America
for many years to come. The attain
ment of the vote also contributed an
increased quality Of idealism and Spir
itual purpose to all national issues.
can add that have observed in public
discussions in this campaign that wom-
en- take longer view OF national life
than great many men.
ITO build the home, to give chance
for better education Tor children and
to gain fuller life-that is. I con-
mother. Courage and high hope and
faith builded the greatness of America
yesterday. Courage, high hope and
faith. with wise action, on November 8,
will build still greater America tomor-
row. To achieve this purpose I am
asking you to consider with me some
of the problems confronting our Nation.
Points to Three Tasks.
Three great tasks lie before the Ma
ton. The first of these is the battle
for recovery from this depression, which
is now in the stage of winning counter
attack on long-extended front. Sec
ond, we must correct economic weak
nesses and wrongs which have been
brought vividly to the surface in the
depression. We must set up protection
against recurrence of these terrible
calamities for the future. Third, we
must advance political and social or
ganization for the accomplishment OF
the real purposes of life, which are Sc
curity and independence of the family
and the home, wider opportunity and
equal opportunity for the individual, the
development of moral and spiritual
equality in the Nation, the strengthen
ing of national ideals and national
character. We must upbuild the moral
! leadership of America in the world.
The election on November 8 is OF
deep seriousness in its consequences to
this future. 1t will not only determine
| whether proven measures now winning
| this battle against depression shall be
| exchanged for unknown experiments
but it will determine the course to be
pursued by the Nation for many years
i to come in the solution ard advance
ment of these great questions. The
women will be voting not alone on one
issue but on ell these issues. Twenty
years from now, thirty years from now
and a century from now there will be ar
| America. What sort of an America
concerns you at this critical moment?
Homes Feel Impact.
In immediate matters of the depres-
sion men and women are equally af-
| fected But on you, the women, fails
! the full anxiety of the direct effect OF
the impact of burdens upon the home
| Moreover, some 10 millions of you are
engaged in gainful employment, so that
employment not only presses indirectly
but it also presses directly upon you
| through loss of your jobs. In thousands
of homes you have had to undertake
the whole responsibility as the only
breadwinner. You are gallantly carry
| ing that burden. 1t is certain that II
| it were not for your earnings the de-
preston would have brought greater
| suffering to multitude Of families
! Whatever the different burdens of men
and women may be, recovery from the
depression is the same for both.
THE forces moving against our peo-
| pie from outside our borders proved to
| be beyond the control of a single indi-
vidual or a single institution. In such
emergencies the Government, which
must represent the whole people, has
| been faced with one or two alternatives.
The first, to do nothing, which would
| have meant degeneration over score
of years, with dangers to every one OF
you and to our very national lie. Tnat
I ], fused to accept. The second was for
the Government to adopt an unprece-
dented emergency program fitted to the
battle as the forces developed against
us, but holding absolutely to proven
principles, preserving the safety o!
American ideals and the future OF
American life. This course we nave
taken. The emergency measures now
in action represent an unparalleled use
of national power to relieve distress, to
hold Jobs and make more jobs, to serve
agriculture. to preserve the stability OF
our institutions and maintain the In
tooritv of O11r Government,
Used Every Influence.
And they include not only the official
powers of the Government. have used
every influence of the presidential office
to mobilize and organize the whole COM
munity in cooperative action in attack
to overcome the depression in a score
of directions which can be attained
through the combined initiative OF in
dividuals and communities.
"Our policies in protective tariff have
saved our people during this depression
from enormous increased unemployment
of labor: they have saved our farmers
from even lower prices due to competl-
tive products from abroad because OF
the breakdown in living standards and
currencies in foreign countries. Our
opponents would loosen these destruc-
tive forces upon us. Our policy OF
practical stoppage of immigration has
saved the loss of hundreds of thousands
| of jobs during this period of stress.
Our opponents have given no indication
of their intentions upon this question.
I'm our emergency governmental
measures we have adhered to the prin-
ciple of bringing Government aid to our
| people through already existing institu-
tions. We have confined it to those
| institutions definitely affected with
public interest, not to save their owners
although they. too, represent millions
| of our people and should have our con-
cern-but for the final purpose of pro-
| tecting the whole people in holding
| their homes, their farms from loss
| through debt, to protect their savings