Evening star., 1936-04-14
-HE text of the Presidents
speech at Baltimore last night
follows:

are the symbol of young men and
women living in every State OF the
Union, affiliated with every politlcai
party and belonging to every So
called stratum of society.
The world in which the millions
of you have come OF age IS not the
set old world of your fathers. Some
of Yesterdays certainties have van
. ished; many of yesterdays certain
ties are questioned. Why have
some vanished and many been
questioned? Because the facts and
needs of civilization have changed
more greatly in this generation
than in the century that pre-
ceded us.
I need not press that point with
you. You are measuring the pres
ent state of the world out of your
own experiences. You have felt
the rough hand of the depression.
You have walked the streets look
ing for jobs that never turned up.
Out of this has come physical
hardship and, more serious, the
scars of disillusionment.
Youths Tendency to Question
And Challenge Is Good Sign.
The temper of our youth has
become more restless, more critical.
more challenging. Flaming youth
has become a flaming question.
And youth. comes to us wanting to
know what we propose to do about
a society that hurts so many OF
them.
There is much to justify the in
quiring attitude Of youth. You
have a right to ask these ques-
tions-practical questions. No man
, who seeks to evade or to avoid de-
serves your confidence.
= = Many older people seem to take
unmerited pride in the mere fact
that they are adults. When youth
comes crashing in on them with
enthusiasm and ideals, they put on
their most patronizing smiles and
pat the young man or the young
woman on the shoulder and in a
worldly-wise sort of way send
them out with what they call their
blessing. But, as every young per-
son knows, that is not blessing:
1t is a cold shower. What they
have really said to you is: You're
young. Enjoy your enthusiasms
and your ideals while you can.
When you grow up and get out In
the world you will know better"
And the tragedy is that so many
young people do just that; they
do grow up and. growing up. they
grow away from their enthusiasms
and from their ideals. That is one
reason why the world into which
they go gets better so slowly.
Your objective in the widest
sense is, I take it, this: An oppor-
tunity to make an honest living;
reasonable chance to improve your
condition in, life as you grow older;
a practical assurance against want
. and suffering in your old age; and
/ with it all the right to participate
( in the finer things of life-good
{ health, clean amusement, and l.
part in the satisfactions of the
arts, the sciences and religion.
Answers to Problems
Must Satisfy Objectives.
e Faced with that objective. it Is
z clear that many of the old answers
are not the right answers. No
answer, new or old, is fit for your
. thought unless it is framed in terms
of what you face and what you de-
sire-unless it carries some definite
prospect of practical down-to-
earth solution of your problems.
For the next few months you are
going to be thoroughly bored by So
called answers. There are two or
three new panaceas in every days
paper. Here is one I picked out at
random from three on the same
page of one newspaper. The en-
inent author suggests four point
cure for all our ills. hope you will
be as thrilled and excited by them
as I was. Here they are:
/. Establish a monetary unit
with definite gold content, subject
TO change only by Congress.
2. Restore convertibility of
money into gold coin and private
ownership of gold.
3. Accept responsibility as the
worlds greatest creditor nation.
4. Put Federal finances in order.
L ask you what do panacea planks
like these offer to you as a way out
OF the problems that you had today
and will get up to face tomorrow?
Is there opportunity, is there work
today, Is there assurance for to-
morrow, is this the practical, def
mite answer you are looking for?
Most important of all, is there even
a recognition in that type of
panacea of the fact that the youth
OF America has any problems at all?
Right to Employment
and Opportunity Uppermost.
No, my friends, you have a right
to expect something better than
that. You have a right to expect
that those in authority will do
everything within their power to
help restore conditions that make
employment and opportunity pos
sible; more than that, that you will
be protected. in so far as is humanity
possible, from the physical and
mental and spiritual ravages of
economic and social lmaladjustment.
Some counselors say confidence
and normal prosperity will cure
everything-give everybody Jobs"
They generally mean by that the
confidence and prosperity of 1928.
But, my friends, 1928 was no mil
lenium. You and know the
simple fact that while production
was increasing and profits were in
creasing in 1928 and 1929, unem-
ployment was growing at an as
founding rate. Return to the 1928
kind OF prosperity is no sufficient
answer. The best that the cap
tains Of the country could do for
you before the depression was not
good enough then and it is not good
enough today.
And you and I know now that,
while the total production of
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