The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-11-19
EARLY. ACTION
BY j. 5. NOT
ANTIC[P
Declares Government Can
Show Industry Lessons
in Operation
PRESIDENT AT WARM
SPRINGS TO DEC. 5

-(UP).-PreSlden Roosevelt
settled back today in his little
White House awaiting reaction to
his new creed Of community OPP
Grafton of power utilities.
Close administration officials re-
Miss, speech as carrying chal-
garded the Presidents Tupleo,
lenge to private industry rather
than early direct action.
The speech was interpreted as
meaning private companies must
either "play BALI in providing
cheap power, or else.
President Roosevelt arrived last
night to stay until December b.
WARM SPRINGS, Ga, Nov.
10. (UP)-President Roosevelt
arrived here late last night from
Mississippi and Alabama. After
welcome at the station by a
group of admirers, he motored to
the little white house atop Pine
Mountain.
He will remain here until De-
cember 5.
ABOARD ROOSEVELT SPE-
CIAL. En- Route to Warm Spr-
ings, Ca, Nov. 10. (UP)-Prcs-
ident Roosevelt thrust back at OPP
position to federal power projects
in the Tennessee Valley Sunday
in two speeches in which ne
forecast public ownership Of
power utilities on a national
scope,
told residents of Tupeio, Miss,
is going to be copied in every
state in the union before we are
through"
Speaking from the rear plat
form of his train at Birmingham,
Ala, he said.
81 am aware that few Of
your citizenry are leaving no
stone unturned to block and
harass and delay this great ma
tional program. I am confident.
however. that these obstruction
lists, few in number, in corrpari-
son with the whole population,
do not reflect the views Of the
overwhelming majority"
81 know, too, that the over
whelming majority of your bust
nessmen big and little, are i'll
hearty accord with the great
undertaking of regional planning
now being carried forward"
Mr.. Roosevelt made his first
speech after driving first to a
homesteading project on the out
skirts of Tupelo. There he saw
rs houses erected with fedora!
funds and trim in comparison to
the usual southern rural dwelling.
Mrs. Roosevelt left the auto
mobile at the project and in
spected one of the homes, that
occupied by James Barron and
family
After a two-hour visit ut Tupe-
10 in which he conversed with
Senator Pat Harrison, chairman
of the senate finance committee,
the president headed for Warm
Springs, Ca, where he will re-
main until December 4.
He was greeted along the route
by thousands of persons who
flocked in the railroad stations
of every city and town passed.
through. At Birmingham he a?-
peared on the rear platform Of
his car to deliver the second
speech Of the day.
81 know something Of the
many difficulties under which
you have been laboring in re,
cent years" he said. 81 well
! understand the problems of the
heavy industries, such as iron,
steel and coal-industries upon
which you so largely depend.
They are matters of the keenest
concern to the whole administra-
ton.
"The great program Of public
works now in full swing calls for
vast quantities of the iron and
steel and other capital goods
which this area produces.
Definite Improvement has al
ready made it's appearance Sasl il
has in the coal industry. The
success of the NRA Coal Code
appears not only in the more or
derby mining of coal but also in
the more steady employment and
the bigger pay envelopes of the
thousands of miners who were IN
sor straits before the government
acted" .
Rugged individualism" re-
ceived the praise Of President
Roosevelt. But it was left
handed compliment, designed as
thrust at opposition to govern
ment power projects in the Tenn
essee Valley.
"This is not RECOMMENDATION"
he said, at is community rugged
individualism.
at is not the kind of rugged
individualism that allows an IN
dividual to do this, that or any
other thing that will hurt his
neighbor. He is forbidden to do
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