Evening star., 1934-06-17
FINDS
. FAITH ASCENDANT
Declares Fear of Disaster
lie Gone, in N. r. A. Day Mes
sage to West Virginia.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, June 16.-
President Roosevelt, in a message to
West Virginia and the Nation, today
declared that fear of disaster has
given way to faith in united action" in
the first full year since the national
recovery act was enacted.
Millions of discouraged and suffer-
ing unemployed found their names on
pay rolls again." said Mr.. Roosevelt's
message. THE evils of child labor and
of starvation wages have almost every
where been abolished. The Blue Eagle
found its way into more than two
million places Of business.
Now that the year has passed the
National Recovery Administration,
under the leadership of Gen. John
son and with the assistance of
thousands of unselfish men and
women. can rightfully and properly
celebrate its first anniversary.
I'VE have spread employment, we
have raised pay and We are not
through yet"
Double Celebration Held.
For West Virginia it was the day
of double celebration-the first an
niversary Of N. R. A. and the seventy
first of the formation Of the State of
West Virginia. The Presidents mes
sage was delivered through Gov. H. G.
Kump.
Coal miners from the hills gathered
for the celebration and took part in
a gigantic parade which wound
through the streets of the capital
while six Army airplanes were
escorting Hugh S. johnson, the
N. r. A. Administrator, and his aerial
party from Washington.
City and State officials at a dinner
in honor of Gen. johnson, we're
told by him this celebration is the
most inspiring sight I have ever
SEEN"
Richberg Addresses Lawyers.
Donald r. Richberg. general coun-
sci for the N. R. A, addressed a
gathering of lawyers in his honor.
Then, in Laidly Athletic Field, a
crowd estimated by State police at
5000 heard the message from Presi-
dent Roosevelt, read by Gov Kump,
who described it as "a message on
the emancipation of industry"
Beside the Governor as he spoke
from a fiag-decorated stand an eagle
peered through iron bars at the
crowd below. 1t was sent from Mount
Hope by a man who said it is the
original Blue Eagle"
Gen. johnson went back to bib
lical times to find his description of
those who oppose the N. r. A; he
declared the Clarence Darrow Review
Board is Communistic in purpose and
assailed partisan politicians" op-
posed to N. r. A.
When the tale Of this first year
Of N. r. A. has been written into
pages OF history, no man will Ques-
ton the high purpose and successful
effort Of the President to write into
the cruel ledgers Of pure CONNER
cialism at least a little of the doc
trine that came down to US from a
mount on the shores of Genessaret,"
Johnson said.
Quotes Pharisees.
TN that day the Scribes and
Pharisees had only one answer to any
advocate of human improvement,
and it was cruelty Him. They have
no other answer now" he said, in
departing from his prepared address.
"Caiaphas did not try the Sermon
on the Mount-he didn't dare. He
tried a man Of men The Pharisees
were, then and now, old dealers
men who made clean the outside of
the cup and platter while within was
all cleanliness-tithers of mint and
cummin and arms-white sepulchers
concealing corruption and dead mems
bones
The Scribes were then, as now.
mercenary polluters of the springs of
human knowledge, subsidized writer's
Of news and editorial comment.
They have never changed, but are
you, after 1000 years, the gaunt and
ignorant Arabs of the Palestine
plain? Do you not see, can you not
know, that from Golgotha to this
day no one has done more to temper
mans inhumanity to man than has
been done in this short year by
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of
tho ITnitaJ