Evening star., 1932-08-12


to society far better fitted for citi-
zenship.
18. There are many other impor-
tant subjects fully set forth in the
platform and in my public state
ments in the past.
Administrations Foreign
Policies Are Reviewed.
10. The leadership of the Federal
Government is not to be confined to
economic and international ques-
tionS. There are problems of the
home, of education of children, of
citizenship, the most vital of all to
the future of the Nation. Except in
the case of aid to States which I
have recommended for stimulation
of the protection and health of chill
dren, they are not matters OF leg1s-
lation. We have given leadership to
the initiative of our people for social
advancement through organization
against illiteracy, through the White
House Conference on Protection and
Health of Children, through the Ma
tional Conference on Home owner
ship, through stimulation to social
and recreational agencies. These
are visible evdencesof spiritual leader
ship by government. They will be con-
tinued and constantly inv1gorated.
20. My foreign policies have been
devoted to strengthening the foun-
dations of world peace. We maugu-
rated the London naval treaty which
reduced arms and limited the ratios
between the fleets of the three pow
poSa1s at Geneva to reduce arma-
ments of the world by one-thlrd.
1t would save the taxpayers OF the
world billion a year; 1t would
save us over S200,000,000 a year.
1t would reduce fear and danger
of war We have expanded the
arbitration of disputes, 1 have
recommended joining the World
Court under proper reservations
preserving our freedom OF action.
We have given leadership in trans
forming the Kellogg BRAND pact
from an inspiring outlawry of war
to an organized instrument for
peaceful settlements backed by def
mite mobilization of world public
opinion against aggression. We shall,
under the spirit Of that pact, con-
suit with other nations in times Of
emergency to promote world peace.
We shall enter no agreements COM
mitting us to any future course OF
action or which call Tor use OF force
to preserve peace.
Above all. 1 have projected new
doctrine into international affairs,
the doctrine that we do not and
never will recognize title to posses
sion OF territory gained in violation
of the peace pactS. That doctrine
has been accepted by all the ma
tions of the world on a recent crit
ical occasion, and within the last
few DAYS has been accepted again
by all the nations of the Western
Hemisphere That is public opinion
made tangible and effective.
This world needs peace. 1t must
have peace with justice. shall
continue to strive increasingly, with
every power of mind and spirit. to
explore every possible path that leads
toward a world in which right tri-
umphs over force, in which reason
rules over passion, in which men and
women may rear their children not
to be devoured by war but to pursue
in safety the nobler arts of peace.
I shall continue to build on that
design.
Saloon and Speakeasy
Are Both IntOlerable.
Across the path of the Nations
consideration of these vast problems
of economic and social order there
has arisen a bitter controversy over
the control of the liquor traffic. 1
have always sympathiZed with the
high purpose of the eighteenth
amendment and / have used every
power at my command to make 1t
effective over the entire country. I
have hoped it was the final solution
of the evils of the liquor traffic
against which our people have
Striven for generations. 1t has sue
ceeded in great measure in those
many communities where the ma
jority sentiment is favorable to it.
But in other and increasing number
of communities there is majority
sentiment unfavorable to it. Laws
opposed by majority sentiment create
resentment which under1nines en-
forcement and in the end produces
degeneration and crime.
Our opponents pledge the members
of their party to destroy every YES
tige of constitutional and effective
r6QGTdl OI bIlC 1UdG
means over large areas the return
of the saloon system with its corrup-
tion, its moral and social abuse
which debauched the home, its de-
liberate interference with those
States endeavoring to md honest
solution, its permeation of political
parties, and its pervasion of legisla-
lures, which even touched at the
capital of the Nation. The eight
eenth amendment smashed that re-
gime as by a stroke of lightning. I
cannot consent to the return of that
system.
At the same time we must recog-
nize the difficulties which have de-
veloped in making the eighteenth
amendment effective and that grave
abuses have grown up. In order to
secure the enforcement of the
amendment under our dual form of
government, the constitutional pro-
vision called for concurrent action
on one hand by the State and local
authorities and on the other by the
Federal Government Its enforce
ment requires independent but COIN
cident action Of both agencies. An
increasing number of States and
municipalities are proving themselves
uulWululS W cu5dSC III SuC11 SIl4OECc-
ment. Due to these forces there is
in large sections an increasing illegal
traffic in liquor. But worse than this
there has been in those areas a
spread of diSrespect not only for this
law but for all laws, grave dangers
of practical notification of the Con-
stitution, degeneration in munich
pal government and an increase in
subsidized crime and violence.
cannot consent to the continuation
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