Evening star., 1936-10-14
around $40 pm, Eastern time. His
address there was set for $50 pm.

around $40 pm, Eastern time. His
address there was set for $50 pm.
In his first night rear platform talk
of the trip, Mr.. Roosevelt, after urging
broader and f1rmer" opportunities
for youth in formal address in Kan
sas City's municipal auditorium last
evening. addressed crowd Of several
thousand at Carrollton, Mo.
He said Missouri, being centrally
located State, was good barometer
of political conditions, and at the pres
ent moment the barometer says fair
and warmer"
Some one far back in the Carroll
ton crowd picked up the fair and
warmer" remark and commented. The
President heard 1t and translated 1t
through the loud speaker somebody
said pretty hot"
Cheers rang out when he resumed
with a statement that he had had a
grand day coming through another
grand State, Kansas"
And that meeting in Kansas City
was the most amazing one have ever
attended in my whole career" He said
that new auditorium is something
all the people in the United States
should see. 1t was a wonderful re-
ception and I am very grateful"
The President also told the crowd
that registration figures all over the
country indicate a record vote cleo
ton day topping the 3e,8o5. ASS ballots
of 1882, and added he was not the
least bit worried if everybody gets out
and votes" Turning to business con-
ditions, he asserted:
I'VE have more security and a
greater degree of prosperity and. in
cidentally, sounder prosperity than
four years ago. If We can keep on
going, there are lots of things still
to be done and we don't want 10 turn
the country back to the days when
things came to stop
Mrs. Roosevelt Greeted.
Mrs. Roosevelt was handed bunch
of roses. When a spectator yelled
speech" she repeated what she had
said earlier in the tour that she leaves
the talking to the one doing the
campaigning
Gov. Guy B. Park introduced Mr..
Roosevelt at Carrollton.
'In three weeks" he said, 'the peo-
pie will decide whether We are going
back to the days of Herbert Hoover
or whether We are going forward with
our beloved President Roosevelt. Mis-
souri, is happy to have with lis the
great humanitarian and his gracious
wife"
Facing a capacity audience in
Kansas City's new auditorium. the
President spoke of the appalling
waste of the days Of the false pros
perity and recent disaster" and said
human erosion" had been The most
ominous in that period.
THE school is the last expenditure
upon which America should be willing
to economize," the President asserted
at another point amid applause.
Those of us who helped build up
the fantastic jazz era of the 1920s
which crashed down over our heads, u
he said, must feel peculiarly deep
sense of responsibility to our boys and
girls who were sunk with us in the
ruins"
The youth of America had appar-
emily come to the end of the road ~
he continued, adding your Federal
Government acted"
He then told of setting up Civilian
Conservation Corps camps and the
National Youth Administration and
contended the cost was "well-spent
dollars"
Contrasting things 'lost'' and
Saved" in the depression he said
many of the former needed" to 60
among them that false sense Of val
ues that puts financial success above
every other kind of achievement" A
little of "our cocksureness and a
little of the bumptiousness which the
Pharisee had when he thanked God
that he was not as other people" OF
the things won" he listed morale, "
belief in American institutions and a
meeting of problems with a democ-
racy."
Kansas City Reception.
The applauding crowd which heard
the President in the new $4,000. 900
Municipal Auditorium here, partly
financed by Federal funds, was esti-
mated by H. F. McElroy, city man
ager. at right at 81 ,000"
He appeared somewhat fatigued by
the busy journey which began in
Washington last Thursday. Large
blue and red banners dotted the cir.
cular tiers in back of Mr.. Roosevelt.
En- route from Kansas City, Kans.,
where he left his train to motor over
to the Missouri side, the President
was driven by waving throngs for
miles along the route to and from q
new county court house in the for
mer city.
The auditorium, audience sent up
a roar Of applause when the Presi-
dent declared the Government had
done much "in the way of a begin
ming to improve the things in Amer
lea which have made for waste in
human beings" And then added:
"a vast majority Of the American
people in 1886 are with us to see 1t
through"
When he asserted the Federal Gov
ernment had "lent helping hand" to
students in high schools and colleges
and added believe me, its worth
while" spectator shouted:
Pour it on 'em; you're right"
He said the Government for years
has spent millions and spent them
well to conserve crops, forests and
live stock. But now," he added, I'VE
have begun to spend money on much
more important conservation-to save
the energy, the ability and the spirit
of youth. No money was ever better
spent"
In the dark days out of which we
are now coming" the President
said American youth apparently had
reached 1.-THE end Of the road"
He said that before his administer.