Evening star., 1936-10-28

had noted over the country would be
continued in the next four years"
Speaking from an open car as the
crowd waved flags and guns doomed
a presidential salute. the Chief Execu-
tive added that I'VE have at least in
part" attained greater security and
prosperity"
Factories Running Again."
He said he was glad to see New Jer-
sey factories running again"
Part of the trip to Brooklyn was
made by ferry, from st. George. Staten
Island, where Gov. Herbert H. Leh-
man joined the party.
Thousands of school children stood
with other thousands cheering the
President on his way. Halloween horns
were brought into play along Bay
Ridge and Eighteenth avenues in
Brooklyn.
The President kept his tan felt cam
paign hat almost constantly aloft in
greeting the street crowds.
After his college speech he started
by motor through lower Manhattan
for the ferry to Governors Island,
where he was to have luncheon before
his third speech of the day, at the
Statue of Liberty.
Mrs. Roosevelt met the President
at the Bayonne, N. j., depot. where q
large welcoming crowd waving Amer
ican flags had gathered. She rode
with him as he started for the first OF
his series of speeches.
Roosevelt's program was to culmi-
nate in a sojourn at his Sixty-f1fth
street town house at about the time
his Republican rival, Gov. ALI M. Lam
don, reaches New York to prepare for
his speech tomorrow night.
In a press conference late yeSter-
day before leaving washington Mr..
Roosevelt smilingly declined to make
any further pronouncements as to his
intentions concerning N. r. A. prin-
ciples.
Sons Statement Recalled.
Reporters recalled that James
| Roosevelt, the Presidents eldest son,
had been quoted recently as saying
his father would seek q constitutional
amendment to make N. r. A. prin-
ciples the law of the land. They
also recalled that James Roosevelt
contended that he had said only that
he, as an individual, saw no alterna-
tive but an amendment if purposes OF
N. r. A, could not be accomplished
otherwise.
When a reporter asked the President
II he would favor reviving N. n. A.,
he referred the news man to his past
and present speeches. At another
point in the conference, when he was
asked whether he would support new
coal legislation, he said something
would have to be done about that IN
dustry.
A check of his addresses to date showed
he had referred to the NRA in terms
Of praise. but had not tnd1catec
whether he would recommend any
new moves to re-establish It In prin'
ciple.
Prosperity Restored.
In his Green Pastures" speech II
Charlotte, N. c., September 10 I'M
President said most thinking people
believed the recovery act nao oor'
more to restore prosperity" than an!
other Federal statute in years tnrougl
elimination of child labor, shortening
hours and establishing minimum
] wages.
At Detroit October IS, he declares
the automobile and other inoustne1
needed to plan SO as to increase yeafH
earnings Of workers and spread en-
ployment.
Asked directly about Jamee Roose'
velt's speech, the President called ~
tention to the sons subsequent state
ment and declared that - James
father he preferred to believe ms &c
count Of what was said.
+ The President, in response 70 ONE
questions, said he was feeling pnyn'
cally and mentally at despite TN
rigors Of the campaign. He saao ~
had made three guesses already on
the outcome Of Tuesdays elecuon ans
probably would hazard . fourth eiec
ton eve. He declined to reveal In