The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-14
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. help OF YOUTH
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$4,000 See President Open
Fight for Re- ELECTION in
Historic Armory.
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the meeting last night.
1t just would not go away despite
all the proprieties which were as
sembled for the occasional torch
light parade through the city before
the meeting, the singing Of the
Presidents favorite, Home on the
Range" the presence of all the big
wigs Of the New Deal. - Cabinet
members, Vice President Garner,
Speaker Joseph w. Byrns and Mrs.
Roosevelt.
Other mechanism to afford the
proper setting was the assembling
OF the states old-line leaders, head
ed by the newly married Senator
Millard Tydings, who, despite their
GOODNESS toward much of the New
Deal, have come over to the Presi-
dent for purposes of the campaign.
This armory is filled with historic
Democratic associations. 1t was
here that Woodrow Wilson was
nominated. 1t was here that
Franklin Roosevelt shook the raft
ers in the 1882 campaign.
Famous Slips Is Recalled
1t was in the 1882 speech that Mr..
Roosevelt made that slip" upon
which Republicans seized-his off,
side Interpolation that Republicans
owned the government lock, stock
and barrel, including the Supreme
Court.
The Supreme Court since has not
been kindly to his program, and he
has worked up some dissent from its
authority.
But lots of these people over here
revere the old ways, the old things.
They do not want a change.
Political chieftalns and politicians
appraising the opening speech" of
the 1896 campaign today found at
snort of the fiery document they
had anticipated. Almost devoid of
resounding phrases, entirely lacking
in direct attack on his enemies, the
chief executive did indicate that
the New Deal would campaign on a
pledge of continued social and eco
nomic readjustment.
He promised continued action to
lessen unemployment and bring
under proper control the forces of
modern society"
Observers saw much significance
in what seemed a flank criticism of
industry'S role in unemployment
Restricting the ghost of NRA, the
President said that while it was op-
erative "a certain manufacturing
industry" curtailed the average work
week to 1874 hours. Since NRA was
ended by the Supreme Court, the
average work week has become 80 g
hours.
1860 Deprived of Jobs
Assuming, he said, that the indus
try employed 166,500 persons, this
meant that 10 per cent, or 1860
persons, "have either lost their jobs
or, by working longer hours, are
preventing 1850 other people from
getting employment"
ut seems reasonable, therefore, I"
he continued, that industry can
contribute in great measure to the
increase of employment if industry
as whole will undertake reason
able reduction of hours Of work q
week, while, at the same time, they
keep the average individual pay en-
velope at least as large as it is to.
day" .
Mr.. Roosevelt spoke directly tt
youth-to the generation that came
of age since 1929 and found its op.
portunities stifled by the depression
He held forth to youth his program
of readjustment and the middle
road" between those who would "dC
nothing" and those who would "dC
everything" comparing his program
with conservatism.
Youths Objective Outlined
"Your objective" he said, lis,
take it, this: An opportunity tt
make an honest living; a reasonabl,
chance to improve your condition il
life as you grow older; a practica
assurance against want and suffer
ing in your old age; and with it al
the right to participate in the fine
things of life-good health, clear
amusement and a part in the salts
factions of the arts, the sciences
and religion.
Faced with that objective, 1t i
clear that many of the old answer
are not the right answers. No an
swer, new or old, is fit for you
thought unless it is framed in term
of what you face and what you de
sire-unless it carries some definite
prospect of a practical down-to
earth solution of your problems.
The world of today, the Presiden
said, is mot the set old world o
your fathers" The facts and need
of civilization, he said, ''hav
changed more greatly in this gen
Grafton than in any century tina
preceded u.s.
Old Answers Are Wrong
Flaming youth has become
flaming question. You have felt tn
rough hand of the depression. YoV
have walked the streets looking TO
jobs that never turned up. An,
youth comes to us wanting to know
what we propose to do about so
ciety that hurts so many of them"
No man, the President said, VIII,
seeks to evade or to avoid an an
swer to these questions deserves tn,
confidence of youth. He deploret
"older people who seem to tax
unmerited pride in the mere fac
they are adults" and answer tn
questions of youth merely "witl
their most patronizing smiles and {
pat on the shoulder"
Asserting that "age has been OF
the side of the tories" Mr.. Roose
welt declared 1T is clear that man,
of the old answers are not the RICH
answers"
He outlined the major objective
of his Administration, intended t,
lead to a realization of that objec
tive. as: Reduction in the worl
week TO spread employment; estab
lishment of minimum and maximum