Evening star., 1932-10-25


here last night by Gov. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Democratic candidate for
President:
The great warmth Of your welcome
reinforces the obvious fact that so far
as carrying on campaign to get votes
nv visit to this State has not been
necessary However, the purpose OF
coming down here is not to get votes.
My visit to the South is to carry out
the purposes of my trips to the West,
to the Coast. and. indeed, throughout
the country, which is not SO much to
be heard as to hear. and not so much
to talk to you as to let you talk to me
1t was only natural that In coming to
the South I should have as an addi-
tional objective visit to Warm Springs
where 1 have spent SO many hours and
where I have had the good fortune to
make so many friendships that shall
always cherish through life.
I want to know about the problems
of all of this country-East and West
and North and Southland for that
reason, familiar though am with
conditions in this State, l have come
to my second home-my home in the
Southland.
Because of the growing Importance
of the attitude Of members of the
United States Congress, 1t is particu-
larly pleasing that tonight we have had
at this gathering dozen Democratic
members of the United States Senate,
coming from various sections of the
country. and so many Of the most eff
cient members of the House of Repre-
sentatives.
I want to thank them for the gen.
erous interest that has prompted their
presence, because I believe that the
executive can never accomplish a pro-
gram in behalf Of the American people
without the cooperation, the whole
hearted and sympathetic cooperation,
of the members of the Senate and the
House. and 1t shall ever be my purpose
to confer with them and secure their
cooperation. Let me suggest to you
that after the 4th of March next there
will be a new deal in the relationships
between the White House and Capitol
Hill.
Served in Legislature.
I have had the privilege many years
ago of serving in legislative body In
addition. for four years in the State of
New York, faced by a Legislature con-
trolled by another party, have had to
meet this problem of the relationship
between the executive and the Legisla-
ture. I am confident after the 4th of
March next that the American people
will find a greater cooperation between
these two great branches of govern
ment--a better relationship. in which
n nrlv Re IrIf lioo
we'll will take part.
to express my sense of happiness that
the State of Georgia, despite the de-
preston, has been making distinct prog
ress. This campaign is long on Jere-
mians, so much SO, in fact. that we are
likely to overlook the fact that prog
reSs Is being made here and there in
spite of tremendous obstacles
This is brought to my mind very
sharply by considering what you have
done in the State of Georgia in the
direction OF progress in sound. COM
nonsense management of public af-
fairs under your fine and progressive
Governor, Richard B. Russell
I should like to take this opportunity
to say. loud enough to be heard in
Washington, that even in hard times it
Is possible to have a balanced budget,
and Gov. Russell has done it. And I
want to say, further, that Gov. Russell
has done this by cutting expenditures
rather than by loading the people with
more taxation. And I want to say that
loud enough to be heard in Washing
ton, too.
And 1 want to say also, loud enough
to be heard in that section of Wash
ington in which the White House and
the Treasury are located, that Gov.
Russell did not wait for a political
campaign to start considering how to
get within his income.
In spite of the rigid economy prac-
ticed by Gov. Russell. he has made
excellent progress in his State highway
system. He has moved with a sure
intelligence in the direction toward the
consolidation of the Department of
State government. And he has also
found it possible to promote a growing
sense of responsibility of the people of
the State toward social welfare and
health work of all kinds.
Higher Efficiency Found.
I learn-and this I get not from Gov.
Russell but from welfare workers of
the State-that he has been able by
persuasive and cooperative action to
get the local governments of this State
to progress in the direction of more
efficiency, economical and humane ad-
m1nistration. This is a point where I
want to make special reference to my
own statements, made many times in
this campaign, that it is the duty of an
executive to exercise his influence, even
where he has no legal authority. to
hrinO ohnJIt in 1npol n
ment-economy that sacrifices no es-
sential service to the people.
It is the duty of a chief executive,
whether of State or National Govern
ment. to utilize information in his pos
session and his many inStrumentalities
for the PRONUNCIATION of this informa-
ton.
If the Governor of Georgia and the
Governor of New York can do this, the
President of the United States can do
it. And I have made that as the first
and basic principle of lifting from the
back of the farmer some of his load of
taxation.
l wish that the Government at
Washington had followed this policy,
because, while it has spent millions to
gather information, it has been so con-
fused by the mass of this information
that it has had no opportunity to know
what it all means l believe that we
ought to have in Washington a little
less research and a little more think
ing; fewer figures and more ideas
fewer commissions and more leadership
We ought to have less vacillation and
more action.
Consistent with this idea of compre-
hensive planning and action, rather
than everlasting digging into statistical
details, I wish to outline tonight the
cardinal points in my agricultural pro-
gram. Every country, or most coun-
tries, do have a national agricultural
program. 1t is to this end that have
suggested that our Department of Agri-
culture, while it has done many ad-
mirable things. has not been directed
during this administration by any gen.
eral comprehension of what nation.
ally planned agricultural program
really is
Farm Representation Need.
The time has come to eliminate polit.
ical Secretaries of Agriculture and tt
substitute for them Secretary whom