Evening star., 1933-08-30
JOHNSON PICTURES
n. R. A. SUCCESSAT
RECOVERY PARADE
100000 Jobs Filled and
$50, 600, 900 a Week Added
in Pay, He Says.
10000 IN LINE HAILED
BY THRONGED AVENUE
Brilliant Floats and Fireworks
Feature Demonstration-Little-
page Lauds D. C. Loyalty.

Asserting that the United States was
drifting nearer and nearer the precipice
until Franklin D. Roosevelt took Office
and pointed out the only way in which
the Nation could be saved. Gen. Hugh
S. Johnson, national recovery admin
istrator, last night told a small seq
ment o. the throng which turned out TO
witness the Recovery Gay parade that
already the Blue Eagle has plucked ap-
proXimately 100000 persons from the
ranks of the unemployed and has added
at least S30,000,000 to the country's
weekly pay roll
Gen. johnson spoke at the exercises
on the south edge of the Ellipse on Con-
stitution avenue while the parade, par
ticipated in by 10000 persons, was held
in check the full length Of Pennsylvania
avenue for 40 minutes.
In his address Gen. Johnson pointed
out that the assemblage Of people and
the parade and fireworks, which con-
cluded the celebration, told of the be-
ginning of the end Of perhaps the
greatest peril that has ever be3et this
Nation"
at Is Being Done"
What the National Recovery Admin
istration is doing" the general said,
is to check the tides Of disaster. dis
tresS and deprivation and launch our
country on new era of prosperity. 1t
can be done, and it is being done.
We Will succeed easily if everybody
does his part. We will do It desperately
if any considerable number hold back
and try to block us either through lack
of faith in the great program devised
by the President of the United States
or with the selfish hope that he can
- %1i- Or rt,1t hi I'm.
mate portion and so profit by the
patriotism Of others"
Gen. johnson said there is mo cor
poration rich enough and no group
strong enough" to block the Nations
efforts in the n. R. A. campaign.
everybody knows what We have gona
through" the administrator said later.
Everybody knows that We drifted
nearer and nearer to the precipice until
Franklin Roosevelt took hold Of the ship
and pointed out the only way in which
We could be saved
Assalling persons whose vision Is
short that they see only the imrled!a.
sacrifice. Gen. johnson said he has :
cause for worry in the fellow Y
thinks he can cut corners and by s.
terfuge ana evasion get his share OF /
coming prosperity by sacrificing Other
Can't Dodge Long.
THAT kind of person." the admir-.
| traitor declared, can 10 more stop t.
great plan than can the income t.
cheaters cripple the revenues that con-
to the Treasury. There will. of course
be provisions in the EXECUTION OF tn
| law that will take care OF the man who
chisels and sllufies and trys TO pass
| his burdens on to somebody else. he
| may get away with it for time, but not
+ for long"
Pointing out that reports Of business
and industrial improvement are coming
| in from all quarters of the country, in
| cluding the little milling towns, Gen.
Johnson said:
From these minor evidences we can
scarcely realize that perhaps 10000 Oo0
people have been removed from the
ranks of the unemployed and are again
| self-supporting Well 100000 people
represent. at the lowest estimate. s3O.-
+! 600 900 more in the pay rolls every
week. billion and half dollars more
in a year. and this money goes right
back into the hopper Of trade and is
spent over and over again. which means
more work. more comfort. more hap
piness. And yet this great effort has
} Just started AS the Autumn rolls on
| you will see that the old gospel OF
| despair, the theory of human helpless
| ness and of our inability to do any.
thing to prevent this ghastly economic
depression was a false gospel after all.
The doctrine of the New Deal is
doctrine of action. The plan is simple.
! It is based on the proposition that
American people can do anything If we
/ cnly provide them with the means to
| fight back Franklin Roosevelt has done
| simple but very great thing-he
has given back to the American people
the conduct of their own affairs and
! the right to help themselves
Parade Held Up.
As Gen. Johnson spoke he read from
manuscript lighted by two kerosene
barn-type hand lanterns. There were
| no loud-speakers to amplify his re-
! marks, so that only the handful of
persons sitting Immediately next to him
| heard him. The speech, as Gen. Amos
A. Fries chairman, indicated in his salu-
| tation, Friends of the radio audience"
| was primarily an air speech. heard over
| national hook-up of radio stations.
The speaking followed the planting
, of an oak tree from Mount Vernon in the
park below the Ellipse by Mrs. Eleanor
Washington Howard last member of
the Washington family to be born at
| the Mount Vernon estate. The tree
| was dedicated ID Assistant Secretary
of Inteior Walters to the patriotism OF
| the country's forebears and to the
patriotism of those who carry on now.
The tree-planting began at 7:30 pm.
At the same moment the parade was
getting under way at Sixth street and
Pennsylvania avenue. When the pa
rade reached Fifteenth street and Con-
stitution avenue it was halted and SO
the entire line of march remained sta
tionary for 40 minutes while Gen. john
son spoke, while Gen. Fries spoke, while
Thomas Littlepage, chairman Of the
Presidents Emergency Unemployment
Campaign Committee for the District
of Columbia, spoke, while the Army
Band played and while various per-
sons sang songs. When this program
was ended the procession moved forward
again. The end of the parade left the
starting line at 10 o'clock.
Promptly at 1890 o'clock display,
Of fireworks on the Monument Grounds
concluded the program.
In his address. Mr.. Littlepage paid
tribute to the manner in which Wash
ingtonianS have accepted the banner
of the Blue Eagle. President Roose-
welt and Gen. johnson, he said, are
working under one of the most power
full pieces of legislation ever enacted by
Congress in peace time. If the program
! wins, he said, it will be the whole
people which wins, and, If it fails, it
will be the whole people who suffer.
The parade itself, was virtually pro-
cession of Washington's military, frater-
nal, business, industrial and civic lead
ers. More than 800 floats, ranging
from flag-decked motor trucks to elab-
crate vehicles that paid tribute to the
thought and ingenuity of their entrants.
Among the latter was giant coffee pot