Evening star., 1932-10-23
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, KY, October 22.-Fol-
lowing Is the text Of Gov Roosevelt's s
address here today:
Gov. LafYoon, my friends of Old Ken
lucky. I am glad to came here after an
absence of IL long years, and I we'll
remember that campaign OF 1920 when
I came to Louisville and spoke in one
of the most interesting buildings that I
have ever made speech in, Billy Sun
DAYS tabernacle. The Governor Is
right, the 4th of March, IN the course
of time, will follow Democratic victory
on November 8.
And yesterday at noon in Springfield,
where we had a great meeting. the
good people of Springfield seem to have
sensed the victory because when it came
to the introduction to the audience of
q large number Of State and local can
didates for office on the Democratic
ticket, the one man who got the most
applause was the candidate for coroner.
It was thoroughly understood, my
friends, that they had to elect an ex-
tremely efficient man as coroner at
Springfield. Ill. The Republican obse-
quies after November are going to take
an ef11cient burier.
Keeping Sense Of Humor.
Now, my friends, every campaign
reaches stage where one may look
for the casting overheard Of honest de-
bate or intelligent discussion, and we
seem to have reached that point now.
Extreme partisans In the excitement OF
the moment substitute noise for argu-
ment; resort to personalities, and as an
incident, completely lose whatever they
may have had in the way Of sense OF
humor.
That is especially true Of the political
side which Is losing the race. Sense OF
proportion Is thrown to the winds, and
as 1t has been we'll said, the rule be-
comes "redouble your efforts when you
lose your aim"
We who are candidates on the Demo-
cratic ticket, because Of the impending
victory of that ticket. have every rea-
son to keep our sense OF humor, end
our sense of proportion, and to con-
tinue our course of argument instead OF
indulging IN invectives.
And 50 7 want to go back very quiet
ly and very simply, and with great
humor to what has become one Of the
principal issues before the American
people this year, the issue Of the great
est economic depression that this coun-
try has ever faced, and especially
want to 60 back to the explanation by
the present administration as to the
causes of that depression.
Cites Conditions in 1921.
Now, in the first instance, think I
have got to take you back for minute
or two 10 years, IL years, in fact. You
know this is not the first Republican
depression that we have had in this
country. There was mild one in 1921
and President Harding in that emer-
gency turned to the economic expert
Of his administration, the then Secre-
tary Of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, and
asked him to get together the facts
concerning the causes OF depression IN
order that they could work out some
kind Of plan to prevent depression
from coming again.
Under the auspices of that Secretary
OF Commerce there was assembled a
commission and since then you have
heard a lot about commissions, and the
commission went to work like the ap-
pointment of any commission of that
kind. There Is always the hope IN the
appointing officer, the rosy hope, that
before the commission completes its re-
searches and its findings, the subject
OF discussion will have been settled in
some other way.
It happened in that case, because by
the time that famous commission on
depression reported the depression was
all over through natural causes. But
the commission did make finding,
very important finding in regard to
the ups and downs of prosperity; In
other words, the boom times and the