Evening star., 1932-10-03
Gov Roosevelt in Address Detroit Pledges Jobs for All
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BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT. october 3.-The text ol
Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt's address
here yesterday follows:
want to talk to you about govern
ment. I am not going to refer to
parties at all. I am going to refer tc
| some of the fundamentals that ante
date parties, and antedate republics
and empires, fundamentals that are as
| old as mankind itself. They are funda-
mentals that have been expressed In
! PHILOSOPHERS for I don't know how
many thousands of years in every part
of the world. And today in our boasted
modern civilization We are facing just
exactly the same problem, just exactly
the same conflict between two schools
| of philosophy that they faced in the
earliest days of America, and indeed OF
| the world. One of them-one of these
| old philosophieS-the philosophy OF
| those who would "let things alone.
! And the other, the philosophy that
strives for something new-somethine
| that the human race has never attained
| yet: but something which I believe the
| human race can attain and will attain
social justice, through social action
! The philosophy of letting things
alone" has resulted in the days OF the
cave man. and in the days OF the auto
mobile-has resulted in the jungle law
of the survival of the so-called fittest
But this philosophy of social action
results in the protection Of humanity
and the fitting of as many human
/ beings as possible into the scheme OF
/ surviving. And in that first philosophy
of letting things alone" am sorry to
say that there are lot of people in
my community back hoi-e-Which is a
| little village-and in the farming dis
| tricts of the Nation and in the great
cities of the country, such as yours
We can fit in a great many splendid
people-splendid people who keep say
ing not only to themselves and their
friends, but to the community as a
! whole why shouldn't we let things
alone? In the first place they are not
as bad as they are painted, and in the
second place, they will cure themselves
! Time is a great healer" An easy philos-
ophyl The kind of philosophy, my
friends, that was expressed the other
day by a cabinet officer of the United
States of America, when he is reported
/ to have said, Our children are apt to
profit rather than suffer from what is
going on"
While he was saying that another
branch of your Government and mine,
the United States Public Health Serv-
ice which believes in my kind OF philos-
cphy, 1 think-telling the truth-said
this; over 100000 of our public
school children haven't. enough to eat
Many of them are fainting at their
| desks They are prey to disease
Their future health is menaced."
What school do you believe in?
And in the same way. there are two
theories of prosperity and of well being
First. the theory that if we make the
rich richer somehow they will let a
part Of their prosperity trickle through
to the rest of us.
And the second theory-and l sup
pose this goes back to the days of Noah
4 won't say Adam and Eve. because
/ they had a less complicated situation
but at least to the days of the flood
there was that second theory that II
| we make the average of mankind COM
| Portable and secure their prosperity will
rise upward just as yeast rises uI
through the ranks.
Now. my friends, the philosophy OF
social justice that am going to talk
about this Sabbath day, the philosophy
of social justice through social action
calls definitely, plainly for the reduc-
when we talk about the reduction OF
poverty? We mean the reduction Of
| the causes Of poverty. And when we
| have an epidemic of disease in this
| land, in these modern days what dc
we do? We turn to find out in the
| first instance the sources from which
| the disease has come, and when We
| have found those sources, those causes
we turn the energy of our attack upon
| them.
| We have got beyond the point ir
| modern civilization OF merely trying tt
| fight an epidemic of disease by taking
care of the victims after they are
stricken We do that. but We do more
We seek to prevent it, and the attack
on poverty is not very unlike the attack
on disease We are seeking the causes
and when we have found them We turn
our attack upon them. What are the
causes? What are the causes that de-
stroy human beings driving millions Of
them to destruction? Well there are
a good many of them. and there ere
/ good many of US who are alive today
! who have seen tremendous steps taken
| toward the eradication Of these causes
Instruction in Health
For instance. i'll health: You and
know what has been accomplished by
community effort, state effort, the e1.
fort and the association of individual
men and women toward the betterine
of the health of humanity.
We have spent vast sums upon re-
search. We have established wholly
new science, the science OF public
health apd u-e arc carving what we
call today instruction in health into
the most remote corners of our cities
and our country districts. Well. the
result is what? 1t is two-fold: First
an economic saving 1t has been money
which has been returned to the COM
munity a thousand times over because
YOU and l know that a sick person
a man, woman or child, who has to
be taken care of-not only takes the
individual who is sick out of active par
ticipation and useful citizenship, but