Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-10-10
ROOSEVELT FISHING
FOUR SPEECHES REVIEWED
NEW DEAL ExPOUNDED
REPUBLICANS ACTIVE
WANTS PERMANENT CCC

Showing of from San Diego on the
crusier Houstan last week for three
weeks cruising and fishing, President
Roosevelt will rest, read and relax
while his lieutepants report upon the
results Of his speeches and parleys
as he made his journey across the
nation. Completely covering the op-
position for a full week, the Presi-
dents publicity blanketed their cri-
ticim but now that he fishes of Co
cos Island the air is resounding with
the attacks Of his ,oes.
Undoubtly the New Deal needed
the publicity given its aims by the
Chief Executive, past master OF ap-
proach toward the millions whom he
addresses as my friends" For many
months the attackers have had the
better publicity and their guns have
gradually been shifted directly up
on the President himself rather than
upon secondary targets. From the
day he left the White House, how
ever. until his cruiser steamed into
the Pacific, Mr.. Roosevelt had the
spotlight. How effectively he used 1t
will more subsequently appear.
In his first speech at Fremont, Ne
braska, the President drove home to
farmers the advances recorded by
agriculture, recalling the thirty-cent
wheat and tw~enty-cent corn OF three
years ago and contrasting conditions
then and now. Pointing out that "for
the farmers OF the nation the long,
downhill road to depression began
not in 1929 but in 1920" he insisted
that the plan put into practice has
borne good fruit" that the gap be-
tween prices for farm product and
farm purchases has been decreased
and that the record shows an in
creased income OF 81 $500, 000, 900 vel
what the farmers income would
have been IL the 1892 level had been
continued.
Two days later at Boulder Dam, Ne
vada, Mr. Roosevelt, speaking at the
dedication Of that 726 foot wall of
concrete. relegated power develop
ment to a secondary position and ag-
gressively defended the government
tai spending program, which SIS al
ready beginning to show definite
signs Of its effect on consumer spend
ing" He insisted that the govern
'ment has employed workers and ma
terials when private employment has
failed, but added that "in two years
and a half we have come to the point
where private industry must bear
principal responsibility of keeping the
/ processes Of greater employment
moving with accelerated speed"
On the next day the President
stopped TO make a short address in
Los Angeles. Here he assured his
listeners I'VE have come through
stormy seas into fair weather" and
appealed to liberals to unite for the
same end by making some conces-
sion as to form and method in order
that all may obtain the substance OF
what all desire" In this city, despite
reports OF a falling of in his popu-
larity, the Chief Executive received
| W hoNCkaROA NOAi
termed the largest reception OF his
career"
The last of the four scheduled ad-
dresses was delivered at San Diego.
In this the President reviewed ma
tional affairs along the line of his
Fremont agricultural arguments and
discussed foreign affairs. He found
signs OF restoration of confidence In
government and business, largely as
a result of action takenAby the admin
~istration to adjust our currency,
strenthen our banks, restore values
and relieve burdens OF debt. He de-
clared that IAN American govern
|ment cannot permit Americans to
starve" and for that reason 1t has
lbeen necessary to give federal relief.
He recited impressive gains: de
posts in commercial banks up to
] 0.O00, 600, 900 or 80 percent; total
deposits in banks $50 1000, 600, 900
lcompared with $4,000, 900, 900 in June,
1929; deposit insurance covering SO
percent of the $4,000, 900 depositors;
lowered interest rates for govern
mental and private borrowings; from
March, 1893, through June, 1885, he
said industrial production increased
IS percent; factory employment. IS
percent; rural general stores sales
1877 percent; life insurance written
Al percent and electrical power pro
duction 18 percent
Calling attention to the cloud OF
foreign war" he reiterated the A.
merican intention to remain "unen.
tangled and Free" declaring that this
country seeks no conquests and is
establishing a more perfect assur.
ance of peace with Nj neighbors."
He declared that this country In
tends and expects to remain "at
peace with all the world and hoped
that every country would eventually
adopt the american ideal of the
good neighbor."
Two additional utterances should
be mentioned. AT Salt Lake City Mr.,
Roosevelt called attention to the
granting OF independence to the Phil
ipines as an object lesson to the
world and aboard his special train
following news dispatches that Great
Britain might embark ON a larger
naval building campaign, gave out a
pledge to maintain the proportionate
naval cfropOfh If tho Irnifod Ototoe