The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-01-04
President Roosevelt
Addresses Congress
DeplOres Organized Banditry, Kid
MAPPING and Lynching-Tax Eva
sion Within Law Denounced

covery President Roosevelt re-
ported to congress today in vital
on the state of the nation
which he himself read from the ros-
trum in the crowded chamber of
the house of representatives.
His message was general in
terms and was regarded by the
President himself as an appeal for
real social and economic reform
rather than for recovery in terms
ofolder values.
The President addressed a joint
assembly of house and senate
shortly after the two chambers
convened separately for the first
regular session of the seventy-third
congress.
Satisfaction with the immediate
past and confident hope for the
country's future marked Mr..
Roosevelt's message.
Only in the field of foreign af-
fairs did the Presidents optimism
falter. His judgment today is the
fear of aggression, expenditure OF
vast sums on ornaments and the
constant erection of trade barriers
prevent any great progress in peace
or trade agreements.
Permanent readjustment of many
of the nations social and economic
arrangements was the objective
placed before congress by the Pres
ident. The division is sharp and
clear, Mr.. Roosevelt said, between
those who would recover by a re-
turn to the old order and those
to whom recovery means reform
of old methods. OF that latter
group MIR. Roosevelt is the head.
Civilization cannot go back" he
said, civilization must not stand
still. It is our task to perfect, to
improve, to alter when necessary,
but in all cases to go forward"
Save the genuine important
things of our civilization and per-
init the vicious and wasteful part
of society to perish, the President
counselled congress.
He counselled that without par
tisanship but with cooperation, it
is hoped there is to be built ION
the ruins of the past, new struc-
ture designed better to meet the
present problems of modern civil
zation."
Round up in those problems are
the relations of industry, agricui-
ture and finance to each other, the
message continued, and the situa-
ton of the individual citizens and
the people as a whole.
Tax evaders within the letter OF
the law and high officials of banks
or corporations who have grown
rich at the expense of stockholders
or the public drew the PRESIDENT
fire.
1--WE have been shocked he
said, 'by many notorious examples
of injuries done our citizens by
persons or groups who have been
living off their neighbors by use
of methods either unethical or
criminal"
The President expressed his alb
horrence equally of those notorious
examples in high station and of the
clan Of the gun, organized bandit
ny, lynching and kidnapping.
There could be no misapprehen-
sion of whom Mr.. Roosevelt spoke
The message was more than an
address to congress or even to the
people. With an aroused section
Of big industry moving inevitably
to legal challenge Of much recov-
cry legislation, the President adj
dressed himself today also to the
third branch of government nor
mally left to go its way alone and
without advice.
ITO consolidate what we are do
ing" he said, ITO make our eco
nomic and social structure capable
of dealing with modern life, is the
joint task of the legislative, the
judicial and the executive branches
of the national government"
If that is a bid for gentle SUI
preme Court treatment Of the re-
covery cases which shortly will be
going to that august body, then
there it is and out in the open.
He did not unfold to the congress
his plans for currency or the
dollar but remarked briefly on his
partial utilization of initiation
powers and said again he was aim
ing at a medium of exchange less
variable in purchasing and debt
paving power.
Inquiry and examination have
convinced Mr.. Roosevelt that "cer-
tain of our sister nations" are con-
fronted by domestic problems al
this time that prevent them from
entering Unto sterilization discus
sions based on permanent world
wide detectives. but in those
words is the reiteration that such
sterilization is an ultimate objec.
tive of Roosevelt money plans.
Credit of the government act
Mr.. Roosevelt said, and the "over'
whelming majority. of banks, both
national and state which reopened
last spring are sound The govern
ment is assisting in return of near
ly $500. 100000 of frozen money te
depositors of banks which were moi
licensed to resume business.
The President reported great
strides toward the detectives Of
MIRA and estimated that uniform
hours and wage standards apply t.
IS per cent of the industrial EN-
ployment within the scope of thai
agency.
I'VE seek the definite end" hs