Evening star., 1933-12-01
ROOSEVELT J|bES
MONETARY CRITICS
Warm Springs Dinner Ad.
dress Has Magician for
~ Treasury Head.
BY the Associated Press
WARM SPRINGS, Ca, December l.

things we are never able to solve" and
suggested perhaps he viii put on some
thing about the gold stan ard
Later, in opening his rcmarI.- as pre-.
siding officer of the Thanksgiving affair
Mr.. Roosevelt noted the acts of the ma
gician, Julian Boehn of Atlanta, and Of
the assistance in one act by Gus Gen.
nerich. the presidential bcdyguard, who
was called on by Boehn in card stunt
Il suppose" said the President. u
hive to have my chance at the press
and SO / will tell you now that there
are certain papers in the United State;
that you need not read tomorrow be.
cause am going to tell you now what
the headlines are going to be tomorrow
morning. The. are going to say that
Dr. Julian Boehn is going to be ap-
pointed Secretary OF the Treasury and
that Gus Gennericn is going to head
the Federal Reserve System"
Answer to Critics. ..l
This was regarded as the Presidential
reply to the public and press CRITICS OF
his managed currency" program which
he has indicated quite clearly he Will
pursue.
1t was his first direct reference to the
monetary dispute since his arrival mere
10 days ago and to all appearances Will
be his only statement on the money
problem before leaving this weekend
Tor Washington.
As for his next moves in the effort for
gold control and devaluation of the dol
lar. the President is keeping these very
carefully guarded.
The thanksgiving day message given
TO the folks of the Warm springs Foun-
dation at the annual dinner last nlgnt
was a thanks and a hope for plans 1or
this institution here for treatment OF
victims of infantile paralysis-where ne
himself worked his way back from al
attack II years ago.
Il count on being with you mere AGAIN
next Thanksgiving, said Mr. RooSeVelt,
land if Congress is KIND ugn hope
to come again in the Spring"
He introduced the trustees OF the
foundation and announced that James
Moffett of New York, the deputy oil ao-
ministrator, would be selected as one
of the trustees.
Mrs, Roosevelt who came mere 1or tne
THANKSGIVING day dinner at the little
White House on Pine Mountain, was a
speaker today at meeting OF the Wom-
en- of this section.
Other Parties Recalled.
The, text of his address follows;
Members of the family Of Warm
Springs:
Il suppose I have to have my chance
at the press and so I will tell you now
that there are certain papers IN the
United States that you need not reao
tomorrow. because I am going to tell
YOU now what the headlines are going
to be tomorrow morning. They are
going to say that DR.. Julian Boehn Is
going to be appointed Secretary OF the
Treasury and that Gus Gennerich is
going to head the Federal Reserve Sys-
tenn.
Il don't know what the number OF
this party is, the eighth or ninth; or
something like that, but 1 go back to
the days when there was Fred Bolts ana
two or three other people here Tor
Thanksgiving, when we had our
Thanksgiving party down in what we
cell Wreck l don't know that it is
even called Wreck nowadays, but then
/ go back to the time in 1927 when a
lot of you people here in the front part
of the room were not even born-cen-
turies ago-generations ago, in the days
of your fathers and mothers.
In 1927 we had 80 people at the
Thanksgiving party and when, in 1928.
we got up to 102 people, we all cheered;
1890, think it was, in that first year
of the great depression, we passed the
200 mark, and in 1881 we got up to
27O people. In 1882 we passed the 300
mark and we had $40 people who sat
down in the old dining room for
Thanksgiving evening. In 1932-3l0
people, and it was so many people that
the old dining room sank three inches;
And largely because of that physical
fact Arthur Carpenter got cold. feet:
Arthur Carpenter said: we Will neVe.
have another Thanksgiving in the OLD
dining room He was right. He was
a prophet and we will never have an
other there, thank God, and that Is why
we are here tonight
I'VE are here because we made up
our minds a year ago that we would
never have another Thanksgiving party
in that dangerous old dining room.
people here tonight and I find that
there E only one thing | never did pro-
vide for: I never happened to mem
ton to Henry Toonbs that he might
this this one. N ~ We mag may have to in time
nobody can tell when-and if things
go as fast in the next 10 years as they
going to be busy day and night build
ing new buildings for us.
Introduces "Granddaddy."
ct am not going to make any set
speech and, because the hour is getting
a little bit late and we have a lot
of people we want TO look at, I am
going to start introducing them now.
First of all I am going to introduce to
you the granddaddy of Warm Springs,
a very wonderful person, who goes back
to the Georgia of the days before the
war, the war between the States-a
very wonderful man who went north
after that and who, all his life, has
been doing good to his fellow-men. He
is the man who. good many years
ago, found that the old Waym Springs
was about to pass out OF the ownership
this had held it for many years and
who came to its rescu, and, after he
had come to its rescue, he wrote to me
about it, That is how I happened to
come down here. As a result of that
visit and as result of the splendid
corporation that I had from the
granddaddy of Warm Springs, we are
all here tonight. And SO I know that
you Will be glad to see my old friend,
that splendid American citizen, George
Foster Peabody.
And then in those old days-before
you people were born Indicating young
folks in front of him) you all know
the story various people came down
here and there wasn't any doctor.
There wasn't any swimming pool and
there wasn't any anything, except
few old cottages. and as you know. you
had to go to bed in the dark because
ANYBODY on the outside could see you
through the boards if you stayed in the
light. In those days we. started what
was called the medical experiment, to
see whether Warm Springs was going
to be worthwhile. I couldn't swing It
alone and I found very wonderful
man from out in Chicago who dreamed
the same dream that did, and he came
along. Through his generosity-more
than generosity-through his faith and
his belief in what we might accomplish,
we held in the Spring Of 1925 what was
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