Evening star., 1932-03-07

a great lift to the whole OF our eco
nomic progress.
Seeks Support Of All.
"The Citizens Reconstruction Organ
ization, which has been formed at my
request. under the leadership OF Col.
Knox, is seeking the support OF every
voluntary organization any every lnul-
vidual in the country to bring out Oh
boarding these great sums OF money
which have been withdrawn from the
active channels of trade during thlS
past 10 months. They have SUNNI oneo
the leadership of thousands OF puoHc-
spirited men and women.
Already We have evidences OF the
progress of these efforts and that the
boarding of money has stopped. Inc
tide has turned and some OF these Idle
dollars are finding their way back INTO
the channels of trade. But we must
continue until We have won all along
the line. This movement attoroS an
opportunity for all cur people to par
ticipate, to do so within the tradltlonS
of our country, which are traditions OF
individual effort, of courage, OF energy,
idealism and public spirit.
Col. Knox is this evening sounding
a call to the mighty power OF the Amer
ican people, a call to service for the
common coed of our country, call TO
protect the individual home by means
of assuring the safety of the Nation as
a whole. l gladly add my voice to this
call to voluntary duty. 1 do it with
more confidence because l have wit
messed the most heartening exhibition
of its patriotic power here in the Ma
tional Capital.
Proud to Bear Witness.
II am proud to bear witness to the
capacity of the peoples representatives
in the presence of emergency, to their
cooperation, to their loyalty, to their
single minded and effective action in
this joint effort to restore economic
stability and prosperity.
ITO join in this effort and to respond
to this appeal becomes a measure OF
your faith in our country. 1t will be
the touchStone of your loyalty and of
your sense Of individual responsibility
for the welfare of the whole community.
1t is your opportunity to prove again
that the private citizen of the United
States in the exercise of his own inde-
pendent judgment and his own free will,
coerced by no authority save his con-
science and moved only by his own
patriotic pride, can be counted upon to
meet every emergency in the Nations
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Nations security.
The word depression is an accurate
but an obnoxious one. 1t is intensified
by fear and apprehension and by the
loss of faith and courage. The true
basis of wealth and the creator of pros
perity are the industry and resource
fulnesS of the people when inspired by
vision and sustained by faith.
Call to Peoples Faith.
1.-THE SUNNI ons tonight is a call to
the faith of people, not to faith in
some rosy panaCea or pretentious
theory. but to their intelligent faith in
themselves and in their individual re-
sourcefulneSs and enterprise and to
the sense of responsibility of every man
to his neighbor.
THE safest risk in the world is a
share in the future of the American
people. The American people have at
this moment one of the greatest oppor-
tunities in their history to show an
assured confidence and an active faith
in their own destiny which is the des-
tiny of the United States-and by that
faith we shall win this battle"