Evening star., 1934-06-08

into certain larger plans of Govern
ment policy for the future of the Ma
ton.
You and I, as the responsible direc-
tors Of these policies and actions, may
with good reason, look to the future
with confidence. just as we may look
to the past Is months with reasonable
satisfaction.
Material Aid Given.
On the side of relief. we have ex-
tended material aid to millions OF our
fellow citizens.
On the side of recovery, we have
helped to lift agriculture and industry
from a condition of utter prostration.
But. in addition to these immediate
tasks of relief and recovery we have
properly, necessarily and with over
whelming approval determined to safe
guard these tasks by rebuilding many
of the structures of our economic life
and of reorganizing it in order to pre-
vent a recurrence of collapse.
1t is childish to speak OF recovery
first and reconstruction afterward. In
the very nature of the processes of re-
covery, we must avoid the destructive
influences of the past. We have shown
the world that democracy has within
it the elements necessary to its own
salvation.
To Eliminate Abuses.
Less hopeful countries where the
ways of democracy are very new may
revert to the autocracy OF Yesterday
The American people c:n be trusted
to decide wisely upon the measures to
be taken by the Government to elimi-
nate the abuses of the past and to
proceed in the direction of the greater
good for the greater number.
Our tasks of reconstruction does
not require the creation of new and
strange values. 1t is rather the find
ing of the way once more to known,
but to some degree forgotten, ideals
and values. If the means and details
are in some instances new, the objec-
tives are as permanent as human
nature
Among our objectives I place the
security of the men, women and chill
dren of the Nation first.
This security for the individual and
for the family concerns itself primar-
lily with three factors. People want
decent homes to live in: they want to
locate them where they can engage In
productive work: and they want some
safeguard against misfortunes which
cannot be wholly eliminated IN this
man-made world of ours.
Frontier Disappears.
In a simple and primitive civiliza-
ton homes we're to be had for the
building. The bounties Of nature IN
a new land provided crude but ade-
uuate food and shelter. When land
failed, our ancestors moved on to bet
ter land. 1t was always possible to
push back the frontier, but the from
tier has now disappeared. Our task
involves the making of better liv-
ing out of the lands that we have.
So also, security was attained in
the earlier days through the interde-
pendence of members of families upon
each other and of the families within
a small community upon each other.
The complexities of great comniuni-
ties and of organized industry make
less real these simple means Of secur-
ity. Therefore, we are compelled to
employ the active interest of the Ma
ton as whole through government
in order to encourage a greater secur-
ity for each individual who COM
poses it.
With the full cooperation Of the
Congress we have already made Sc
rious attack upon the problem Of
housing in our great cities. Millions
of dollars have been appropriated for
housing projects by Federal and To-
cal authorities, often with the gener-
GUS assistance of private owners. The
task thus begun must be pursued for
many years to come. There is ample