The daily independent., 1936-10-14
Roosevelt Boasts
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States must shape it's future" he
said.
TO a greater degree than any
other people we have sought to
give each rising generation a lit
tie better chance in life than the
one that preceded it. The little
Red Schoolhouse for the educa-
ton Of the young, and the church
for the training of his spiritual
qualities, have always been the
first structures to rise in every
new settlement.
Youth Coming Through
THE school," he said with en-
phasis, lis the last expenditure
upon which America should be
willing to economize."
He said, those of us who help
cd build up the fantastic jazz era
OF the 1920's, which crashed on
our heads, must feel a peculiarly
deep sense of responsibility to our
boys and girls who were sunk with
US in the ruins. Then he re-
counted the hopelessness of
youths who were caught in the
depression depths which he re-
ferred to as the era of wander
ers"-boys and girls who had
grown tired of living on the van
ishing savings Of their parents
and who had set out on the high
ways to look for work which
could not be found.
Those in school and those out
Of school could not look forward
to a place in the community" he
said. The door Of opportunity
had been slammed in their faces.
There was the real danger Amer
lea faced"
Mr.. Roosevelt said that when
the history of the depression is
written it will record that the
great marvel of the period was the
way that youth came through
with full faith in democracy and
high resolve to preserve it,"
The Success Of The CCC
Before laying its hands to any
of the other pressing problems
when the administration took
over in 1888 the first step was to
set up the CCC camp which, he
said, put an immediate end to
the boy wanderers. He expressed
confidence that since the majority
of parents were with him in 1888
to curb this condition. a vast
majority still is ready to see this
program carried on.
Popular support, he said, was
the reason the United States has
youth program of CCC camps
and the national youth admins
tration and that this was logical
because the nation had spent mil
lions for conserving natural re-
sources and rightfully should
spend money for conservation of
youth.
Nothing has made me happier
on this trip than seeing at first
hand that the youthful hitch
hikcr has disappeared from our
highways and from the box cars
and freight trains" he said. The
youth Of the land can once more
look forward with confidence and
courage just as we Of the older
generation did in our youth.
The President came into Miss
ouri after a whirlwind barn
storming tour of Kansas where
he ripped into the Republican
leadership in an effort to win
the nine electoral votes of Gov.
Landon'S home state.
The Chief Executive made his
principal stand at Wichita, a
Democratic stronghold. There he
refuted charges of his opposition
and claimed that Republicans
were spreading the gospel of fear
into farms and homes in an at
tempt to sabotage the new deal.
He applied the verbal lash with
less restraint than at any time
during his present extended trip.
Bed Time Stories"
IF ever write another book, "
Mr.. Roosevelt said, Il am going
to have a chapter in it about bed
time StorieS-political bed time
stories. 1t will be a very amusing
chapter. am going to fill it
with whispering ghosts and stalk
ing bogey men, and I am going
to end the chapter by telling how
the American men and women
on the third of November, 1886,
refused to be frightened by fairy
tales. You folks do not look a
bit scared to me.
The Republican leaders," he
said, have told you all kinds of
things about what this admins
tratich is trying to do. They
have tried to spread the gospel
Of fear not only in the factories,
which is an old shop worn trick
but this year they are even try
ing to bring fear into the homes
and fireSides of America"
Asserting that the people re-
member only too we'll the justi-
fled fear felt all over the nation
in 1932"-Mr. Roosevelt traced
the ACCOMPLISHMENTS of his three