Evening star., 1932-10-25
ROOSEVELT H0ARSE,.
SPARES HIS VOICE.
Large Crowds Turn Out to
Greet Nominee in North
Carolina.
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Roosevelt SAID, Il am glaQ 10 see my
old chief, Secretary Daniels, and I am
convinced that history will say the
United States never had better Navy
In officers or morale. than 1t did under
my old chief, Secretary Daniels.
Pollard Speaks Briefly.
Cov. John Garland Pollard of Vir-
ginia joined the special train at Raleigh.
Speaking briefly. he said "a royal well
come" is being arranged in Virginia for
"the next President Of the United
States"
The Virginia Governor addressed the
crowd as fellow North Carolinians" ;"
He explained his two sons had just mar
ried North Carolina girls. Gov. Roose-
welt introduced his daughter Anna Mrs.
DahD and his son James to the crowd.
James told of the receptions at all
hours of the night and early morning,
which had been accorded the Governor
throughout the United States. As the
Governor spoke. the crowd stood in
clammy mist that seemed as If it might
change into steady rain at any mo-
ment and thus break the weather rec
ord that Mr.. Roosevelt has set so far
Since he left Albany more than
month ago on his first Western trip
no meeting has been broken by rain
and there have been few times when he
has not had sunny skies
Gov. Roosevelt left Atlanta last night
after two-day visit eliminating in
mass meeting which packed the city's
big auditorium to the rafters while hun
dreds Of others clamored in vain for
admittance
In this first address delivered in the
heart of the South by Democratic
presidential nominee in many years
Cow Rnncoyp1t fnd r. y11o for
aid for the farmer through easing the
farm mortgage situation and raising
agriculture prices by tariff benefit.
Secretary Hyde as well as President
Hoover served as the target Of pointed
paragraphs. Il believe that we owe it
to the farmers of America to have as
Secretary OF Agriculture an agricultural
leader instead Of a political leader" he
said
In this connection an open boom for
Cotton Ed" Smith, veteran Senator
from South Carolina, for the post of
Secretary of Agriculture in the event
of Democratic success was launched by
a delegation from his State at the con-
ferences Today
Charges Doctrine Of Despair"
Presidsut Hoover was accused by Mr..
Roosevelt of advocating doctrine of
can be no help for the farmer or the
laboring man until prosperity returns
through some kind Of slow process of
world reconstruction.
And I am, moreover, enough of an
America" he said Ito believe that such
restoration of prosperity In this coun-
try by revival of mass purchasing
power will do more to effectuate world
recovery than all of the promotional
schemes of lending money to backward
and crippled countries could do in gen.
erations. In this respect I am for
America first"
Mr.. Roosevelt reviewed three OF the
points in the agricultural program he
laid down In his Topeka and later
speeches and added to them the item of
reforestation.
1T is time for every one Of the older
States to survey their entire acreage
for the purpose Of determining the best
future use of the land" he said.
Defines Reforestation.
an most of the States east of the
Mississippi it will undoubtedly be de-
termined that somewhere between 10
and 20 per cent of existing farm acreage
now used for agricultural crops should
be abandoned as such and converted
into use for tree crops"
The use of the labor of man enters
into the picture when 1t becomes neces-
sary to eliminate the less valuable types
of trees among the young growth, to
Gull out the crooked trees, the decayed
trees or the undergrowing trees and to
prevent ravages of fire in the growing
forests" he said few moments later
in explaining that reforestation did not
consist of planting seeding trees.
These are things which any begin
ner in agriculture or forestry should
know, and I may add, are things
which my Secretary OF Agriculture will
know"
sands OF acres of lands in the national
forests of the Appalachian Mountains
on which trees were growing indiscrimi-
nately.
rs there any good reason. financial
or common sense or otherwise why the
Federal Government should not under
take the proper care of its own prop
erty?' he asked.
Here again is another field for the
employment of great numbers OF our
citizens"
Outlines Farm Policy.
During these weeks have made it
abundantly clear that I propose ma
tional agricultural policy which will
olIc cCG llSCli llOJ Oilly W tllc UCIUCI use
of our hundreds of millions of acres of
every type of land in the United States,
but also the rehabilitation of that half
of our population which is living on or
directly concerned with the products
of the SOIL" he continued.
Mr.. Roosevelt said the President in
his acceptance speech had preached a
doctrine of despair to the suffering
farmers of the country"
He said in substance that the farm
er must wait the long weary process of
industrial reconstruction before aid can
come to him." the Governor added
The candidate said Mr.. Hoover after
concealing from the people of the coun-
try the constantly sinking condition of
industry and growing unemployment"
had opposed Democratic measures to
meet destitution and promote employ
ment
The three-point program which he
repeated called for easing the tax load
OF the farmer. wrestling with the farm
mortgage problem, and restoring the
purchasing power Of the farmer, with
the tariff as an aid.
Urges More Thinking.
II believe that we ought to have in
Washington little less research and
little more thinking" he said; fewer
figures and more ideas fewer COM
missions and more leadership.
I'VE ought to have less vacillation
and more action.
The time has come to eliminate
political Secretaries of agriculture and
o substitute for them secretary whom
the farmers and the forresters will
recognize as one Of their own.
We are certainly paying enough for
the Department of Agriculture to get
now getting.
Il have already proposed its reor-
ganization.
Il am going to insist that we get
more service for the farmers for less
money"
Discussing farm mortgages, he said
the measure authorizing funds to buy
additinnal stock in the Federal LanC