The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-03
EXECUTIVE ASSERTS
COUNTRY IS MAKING
!. RECOVERY PROGRESS
Would Continue Efforts Toward
Reform to Prevent Return
Of Abuses
TAX DODGERS ARE FLAYED

TAX DODGERS ARE FLAYEO
Tells Congress Good Seed Has
Been Sown But Il Needs
Careful Tending
Washington, Jan. 3.-tP,-The text
OF President Roosevelt's address to
the joint session Of congress Wednes-
day follows:
I come before you at the opening
Of the regular session of the 73rd
congress, not to make requests for
special or detailed items OF legislation.
I come. rather, to counsel with you.
who, like myself. have been selected
to carry out a mandate Of the whole
people, in order that without PARTISAN
ship you and may cooperate to con-
tinue the restoration OF our national
well-being end, equally important, to
build On the ruins Of the past q new
structure designed better to meet the
present problems Of modern civiliza-
ton.
Such . structure includes not only
the relations Of industry and agricul-
ture and finance to each other. but
also the effect which all OF these
three have on our individual citizens
and on the whole people as a nation.
Now that We are definitely in the
process Of recovery, lines have been
rightly drawn between those to whom
this recovery means q return to old
nlethods-and the number OF these
people Is small-and those for whom
recovery means q reform Of many old
methods, . permanent readjustment
Of many Of our ways Of thinking and
therefore Of many Of our social and
economic arrangements.
Cannot Go Backward
Civilization can not 60 back: civil
f1ation must not stand still. We have
undertaken new methods. It is our
task to perfect, to improve, to alter
when necessary, but In all cases to 90
forward. To consolidate what we
are doing, 10 make our economic 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.
Without regard to party, the over
whelming ma jority Of our people seek
= ,greater opportunity for humanity
to Hrosper and find happiness. They
recognize that human welfare has
not increased and does not increase
through mere materialism and lux
ury, but that 1t does progress through
integrity. unselfishness. responsibility
and Justice.
In the past few months, as q result
Of our action, we have demanded
Of many citizens that they surrender
certain licenses to do as they pleased
in their business relationships; but we
have aked this in exchange for the
protection which the state can give
against exploitation by their fellow
men or by combinations Of their fel-
low men.
congratulate this congress upon
the courage. the earnestness and the
efficiency with which you met the
crisis ct the special session. It was
your fine understanding OF the ma
tional problem that furnished the ex-
ample which the country has so splen-
didly followed. I venture to say that
the task confronting the first congress
OF 17oo was no greater than your own
Crisis Has Been Passed
shau not attempt to set forth
either the many phases Of the crisis
which We experienced last March, nor
the many measures which you and
undertook during the special session
that We might initiate recovery and
reform.
L i sufficient that I should speak
in broad terms Of the results OF our
common counsel.
The credit OF the government has
been fortified by drastic reduction in
the cost Of its permanent agencies
through the economy act.
With the two-fold purpose of
STRENGTHENING the whole financial
structure and Of arriving eventually at
= medium Of exchange which will
have. over the years, less variable
purchasing and debt-paying power for
our people than that Of the past,
have used the authority granted me to
purchase al American produced gold
and silver and to buy additional gold
IN the world markets.
Careful investigation and constant
study prove that in the matter Of for
eign exchange rates, certain Of our sis
ter nations find themselves so hand
icapped BY internal and other condi-
tons that they feel unable at this
time 70 enter into sterilization dis
cussions based on permanent and
world wide detectives.
The overwhelming majority Of the
banks, both national and state which
reopened last spring, are In sound con-
dition and have been brought within
the protection Of federal insurance.
IN the case Of those banks which were
not permitted to reopen, nearly 600
million dollars Of frozen deposits are
boin9 restored to the depositors
through the assistance Of the national
government.
Have Made Great Strides
We have made great strides towards
the ob5ectives Of the national indus
trial recovery act. for not only have
several millions Of our unemployed
been restored to work. but industry is
organising Itself with greater UNDER
standing that reasonable profits can
T. earned while 1T the same time pro.
toction can BE- assured to guarantee to
Labor adequate pay and proper condi-
tto0D ok work.
-0hiA labor u abolished. Uniform
standards Of hours and wages apply
today % q Per cent Of industrial en-