Evening star., 1934-11-19
ROOSEVELT WINS
APPROVAL ON TALK
Warm Springs Office Is
Swamped With Wires
Cheering Power Stand.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG,


WARM SPRINGS, Ga, November
19.-Back in his "other home" in the
Southland, President Roosevelt today
is being virtually swamped with mes
sages of congratulation upon his
speech yesterday at Tupelo, Miss. the
first municipality to operate its own
electric plant with power from the
Tennessee Valley Authority, in which
he struck heavy blow at the so-called
power trust and proclaimed his aim
to have publicly owned and operated
power plants in every State.
Mr.. Roosevelt took occasion in the
speech to reveal that his hope is not
merely for the benefit Of the people
in the States in the neighborhood of
the development, but to carry the same
benefits to "the whole one hundred
and thirty millions of Americans in
every part of the land"
More than 10000 persons were as
sembled in the public park Of Tupelo
to hear the Executive. Frequently dur
ing the course of his significant utter
ances he was loudly cheered. He had
just completed a two-day inspection
tour Of the projects and he was in
spired by all he saw of this major
experiment of the New Deal to speak
so frankly and bluntly of his aims
for a Nation wide public operation OF
power plants. He did not disguise
that he wanted his words to be bad
news to the power trust.
President Made Happy.
To be back once more in the quiet
beauty of his little white frame cot
tage at Warm Springs was in itself
sufficient to make the President
happy today, but the encouraging and
complimentary and inspiring nature
Of the great number of the messages
commencing his speech of yesterday
added greatly to his good cheer.
Some of the congratulatory mes
sages were received aboard the Presi-
dents special train en- route from
~upelo to Warm Springs, but the
great bulk of them greeted Mr.. Roose-
welt when he went to his desk in the
living room of his cottage this morn
ing.
He did not arise today as early as
when he is in Washington. How
ever, he showed no i'll effects after
his long train ride of four days. He
said he had slept like top" and
that he never felt better, and that
he was looking forward to a happy
stay here, resting and working.
Besides the stacks of kilograms. the
President was greeted upon arriving
at his desk with great piles of papers,
and an accumulation of mail He in
dicated that his plans for today are
to clear his desk of these routine mat
ters and then turn his attention to
resumption Of the study of the
various governmental problems which
are now confronting him. Outstand-
ing in these is the completion of the
budget estimates for the next fiscal
year. revised plans for relief, and the
drafting of tentative legislative pro-
gram and the beginning of the draft
ing Of his annual message to Con-
greSs.
Later in the day he expects to
enjoy swim in the, pool at the
Warm Springs Foundation, which
will afford him an opportunity to
see and talk with his old friends,
who are receiving treatment at the
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
Most of several hundred patients are
children and young men and women.
They were in high spirits today as
result of the coming Of the PreSi-
dent. Their joy in having him with
them Is not because of his being
Chief Executive, but because he is
their good friend and because he
always brings so much good cheer
and fun with him.
Mr.. Roosevelt intimated this morn
ing that some time during the after
noon, when he thinks he has labored
enough for the first day here, he
will get into his little hand-controlled
automobile and drive himself out
into the country and pay a brief
visit to his 1,700-acre farm a few
miles from this place.
While discussing today his sig
nificant speech at Tupelo yesterday,
the President gave the impression
that his virtual declaration of war
on privately owned and operated
electric power plans throughout the
country, was not delivered on the
spur Of the moment, so to speak, but
that he had had something of the
kind in mind for some time and
took the occasion of his completion
of his inspection of the Tennessee
Valley development as lust the right
time and place for this signal gun
of battle of such magnitude"
1t is true that Mr.. Roosevelt spoke
extemporaneously. He did not even
have any notes to direct the course
Of his remarks. He knew the mes
sage he wanted to carry to the people
throughout the land.
Was Deliberate.
Because this speech had not been
prepared in advance and because he
scribbled no notes before he spoke,
gave many the impression at first
that this thrust was not premediated,
that it was the promptings of an in
spiration, but the President himself
is authority for altering this i'm
preston.
Not only will the Presidents thrust
at the private electric power interests
be received with the keenest interest,
but the speech will stand out also be-
cause he took the first opportunity to
say definitely and without qualification
that all is well with the country and
that I'VE are coming back"
Also for the first time in any public
| utterance he pictured the really pitt
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