The Nome daily nugget., 1936-05-28
(CITY OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
A GREAT POLITICAL SPEECH

When President Roosevelt recently spoke in Bal tmore before gathering of young people and sounded the clarion of youth and portrayed his ndomit- able faith in the nation and it's people grudging crit c, apparently unable to find special fault resorted to the old sally and called it great political speech
 And indeed it Was but the New York World Tele- gram asks what made it so? That newspaper then giv es it's interpretation, able one, in this manner:
 "The President offered no panaceas He made no big claims of accomplishments. He drew no general indictment of his enemies. He didn't mention the name of political party utter partisan whoop He did of those things usually associated with pol itca oratory.
 But what it takes for political speechmaking in common times does not ring the bell in these uncom- times. And the President rang the bell last night He did 1t by reraning from shallow partisan places and by turning his thoughts and the thoughts of his audience to those deeper, human concerns-to those problems which touch the welfare and happiness of all of us problems which give rise to our human fears and doubts, problems upon whose solution de- pend our human hopes and aspirations.
 ''There he stood the head of government of hu- man beings. Before a gathering sponsored by an or ganzaton of young people and, through them to the whole population he talked of the simple aspirations of youth:-
 '* * An opportunity to make an honest living; a reasonable chance to improve your condition in life you grow oder practical assurance against want and suffering in your old age, and with it all the right to participate in the finer things of lfe-good health clean and part in the satisfaction of the arts the sciences and religion.
 And of what youth working for those objectives has right to expect
 "* That those in authority will do everything in their power to he restore conditions that will make employment and opportunity possible than that. you will be protected, in far as is humanly possible from the physical and mental and spiritual ravages of economic and social maadjustment.'
 'These are not the words of weary of stew ardshp, disappointed, diSillusioned desparful These the words of who, despite three years of dis appointment illustration, does not wrap himself in hair shirt
 When there is no vision the people perish and without leadership that sounds the note of hope the spirit droops
 In days that still dark, at time when such problems as unconquered unemployment continue to beset us, such words these spell leadership hope and vision-all three:-
 T for one, do not believe that the era of the pon- eer is at an end only believe that the for pioneer ing has changed The period of geographical pioneer ing is largely finished. But my friends the period of social pioneering is only at it's beginning And make no mistake about 1.-the qualities of heroism and fath and vision that required to bring the forces of nature into subjection will be required-in even greater measure-to bring under proper control the forces of modern society. There is task which-for importance and for magnude-calls for the best that you and have to offer.
 "You ought to thank God tonight if regardless