Evening star., 1934-06-29

over the radio.
manufacturers or workers who deny |
the substantial gains of the past year
The most vociferous of the doubling |
Thomases may be divided roughly |
into two groups:
First, those who seek special po-
litical privilege and, second. those |
who seek special financial privilege.
About a year ago 1 used as an IL
lustration the 80 per cent of the cotton
manufactm ers of the United States
who wanted to do the right thing
by their employees and by the public
but were prevented from doing SO by
the 10 per cent who undercut them
by unfair practices and un-Ameri-
can standards.
1t Is well for us to remember that
humanity is long way from being
perfect and that selfish minority in
every walk of life-farming, business,
finance and even Government service
itself-will always continue to think
of themselves first and their fellow
being second.
Will Continue ITO Step on Toes"
In the working out of great ma
tional program which seeks the pri-
mary good of the greater number. it
is true that the toes of some people
are being stepped on and are going
to be stepped on. But these toes
belong to the comparatively few who
seek to retain or to gain position or
riches or both by some short cut
which is harmful to the greater good.
In the execution of the powers
conferred on 1t by Congress, the ad-
ministration needs and will tirelessly
seek the best ability that the country
affords. Public service offers better
rewards in the opportunity for Serv-
ice than ever before in our history
not great salaries, but enough to live
on.
In the building of this service there
are coming to us men and women
with ability and courage from every
part of the Union. The days Of the
seeking of mere party advantage
through the misuse of public power
are drawing to close. We are in
creasingly demanding and getting
devotion to the public service on the
part of every member of the admin
istration, high and low.
The program of the past year is
definitely in operation and that opera
ton month by month is being made
to fit into the web of old and new
conditions. This process of evolution
is we'll illustrated by the constant
oh or mi
method going on in the National Re-
covery Administration. With every
passing month we are making strides
in the orderly handling of the rela-
tionship between employees and en-
ployerS.
Replacing Temporary System.
Conditions differ, of course, in al
most every part of the country and
in almost every industry. Temporary
methods of adjustment are being re-
placed by more permanent machinery
and, I am glad to say, by a growing
recognition on the part of employers
and employees of the desirability of
maintaining fair relationship all
around.
So also, while almost everybody
has recognized the tremendous strides
in the elimination of child labor. in
the payment of n OF less than fair
minimum wages and in the shorten
ing of hours, we are still feeling our
way in solving problems which relate
to government in industry, es-
pecially where such government
tends to eliminate the fair operation
of competition.
In this same process Of evolution we
are keeping before us the objectives
of protecting on the one hand in
dustry against chiselers within its own
ranks, and on the other hand, the
consumer through the maintenance
of reasonable competition for the
prevention of the unfair sky-rocketing
of retail prices.
Looking to Future.
But in addition to this, our mmedi-
ate task, we must still look to the
larger future. I have pointed out to
the Congress that we are seeking to
find the way once more to well-known,
long established, but to some degree
forgotten ideals, and values. We seek
the security of the men, women and
children of the Nation.
That security involves added means
Of providing better homes for the
people of the Nation. That is the
first principle of our future program.
The second is to plan the use OF
land and water resources of this
country to the end that the means of
livelihood of our citizens may be more
adequate to meet their daily needs.
And, finally, the third principle is
to use the agencies of Government
to assist in the establishment of
means to provide sound and adequate
protection against the vicisSitudes of
modern life-in other words, social
insurance.
Later in the year I hope to talk
with you more fully about these plans.
Hits Names Given New Deal.
A few timid people, who fear
progress, will try to give you new and
strange names for what we are doing.
Sometimes they will call it "fascism,"
sometimes communism. sometimes
RECOMMENDATION" sometimes social
ISM" But. in so doing, they are try
ing to make a very complex and
theoretical something that is really
very simple and very practical.
! believe in practical explanations
and in practical policies. / believe
that what we are doing today is a
necessary fulfillment of what Ameri-
cans have always been doing-a full
fillment of old and tested American
ideals.
Let me give you a simple illustra-
tion:
While I am away from Washington
this Summer. n long needed reuuYa-