Evening star., 1935-11-29
Text of Presidents Speech in Atlanta
Declares Government Has Passed Peak Of Appopon and Announces
Substantial Achievement Of Administration Employment Cod
Repeats His Determination to Dole Immediately
By the Associated Press.

ATLANTA, Ca, November 29.-The
text OF the address delivered here today
by President Roosevelt at the Georgia
home coming celebration follows:
I am happy to be in Georgia. ! am
proud Of Georgia. Happy because OF
this moving reception which my
friends, the Senators and Representa-
tives In the Congress from this State
have rendered me. and which you, the
good people Of this State, have re-
sponded to with such warmth and
hospitality. Happy because I meet
again so many old friends and neigh
borS Proud because I see signs on
every hand that the overwhelming
majority of the people of this State
are keeping pace with the millions Of
others throughout the Nation who be-
lieve in progress, are willing to work
for progress and are going to get
progress. Proud because see clear
signs Of q revival of material pros
perity In country and city, and espe-
cially because 7 sense a swelling pros
perity of the spirit that spells
greater help and q deeper happiness
for our fellow men.
Would Not Go Back to 1894.
Eleven years ago I came to live at
Warm Springs for the first time. That
was a period of great so-called pros
perity. But I would not 60 back to
the conditions of 1924, and do not
believe that you people would want to
20 back either. OF that year and OF
the fve years that followed, I have q
clear recollection which you can verify
for yourselves. In that orgy OF pros
perity" a wild speculation was building
speculative profits for the SPECTATORS
and preparing the way for the public
to be left holding the bag" In that
orgy of prosperity" banks, individually
and by chains, were closing their doors
at the expense Of the depositors. In
that orgy Of prosperity" the farmers
of the South had become involuntary
spectators themselves, never certain
when they planted their cotton whether
it would bring IS cents or Is cents or
5 cents. In that orgy of prosperity
the poorest Wed with the richest IN
throwing their earnings and their saw
ings into q cauldron of land and stock
speculation. In that orgy of pros
perity" sluIn conditions went un-
needed, better education was forgotten.
usurious interest charges mounted,
child labor continued. starvation wages
were too often the rule instead OF the
exception. Mammon ruled America.
Years to Be Remembered.
Those are the years to remember
those fools paradise years before the
crash came. Too much do we harp
on the years that followed, when from
1929 to 1898 this Nation slipped
spirally downward-ever downward
TO the inevitable point when the me-
chanics Of civilization came to dead
stop on March 3, 1888.
You and ! need not rehearse the
four years Of disaster and gloom. We
know the simple fact that at the end
Of those years America acted before 1t
was too late, that we turned about and
by a supreme, well-nigh unanimous
national effort, started on the upward
path again.
have reason to remember the past
two and q half years that have gone
by so quickly, reason to remember the
fine spirit Of the average Of American
citizenship which made my task
lighter. Memory is short but yours Is
not too short to recollect those great
meetings Of the representatives Of the
farmers. regionally and in Washington,
in the Spring and Summer of 1888,
when they agreed overwhelmingly that
unfair low prices for farm crops could
never be raised to and maintained at
a reasonable level until and unless the
Government of the United States acted
to help them to reduce the tremendous
carry-overs and surpluses which
threatened us and the whole world.
Government Came to Rescue.
You and I can well remember the
overwhelming demand that the Ma.
tional Government come to the rescue
of the home owners and the farm own.
ers of the Nation who were losing the
roofs over their heads through inflated
valuation and exorbitant rates Of
interest.
You and I still recolect the need for
and the successful attainment Of q
banking policy which not only opened
the closed banks, but guaranteed the
deposits OF the depositors Of the
Nation.
You and I have not forgotten the
enthusiastic support that succeeded,
and still in part succeeds, in ending
the labor Of children In mills and fac