The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-28
MOTOR T0UR
PRELUDE TO
ADDRESS
Feature Appearance
Of Heavy Schedule Is
At Liberty Statue
By GEORGE E. DURNO

NEW YORK, Oct. % QN.SO.
Cheering crowds greeted President
Roosevelt today on his motor tour
through New York City, prelude
to an address at Bedloe'S Island
this afternoon marking celebra-
ton of the fiftieth anniversary of
the Statue of .Liberty's dedication.
The President made fast tour
Of the city and vicinity, visiting
two public works projects on
Staten Island, dedicating new
Brooklyn college building and COW
ering miles of territory in be-
tween.
Late today, following the ad-
dress at Bedloe's Island, the Presi-
dent was to speak briefly at a
second Statue of Liberty celebra-
ton on the lower East Side.
Greeted BY 10000
A crowd of 10000, including TO-.
900 school children, greeted the
President when his special train
pulled into Bayonne, N. j., this
morning. Mrs. Roosevelt, Gov. Her
bert H. Lehman, of New York, and
other notables were waiting when
the train arrived.
Following brief remarks at
Bayonne, the Presidential motor
cade travelled into Staten Island
and thence by ferry to Brooklyn.
Silent on MIRA
Tomorrow, Mr.. Roosevelt will in
wade Pennsylvania and New Jersey
again and touch in Delaware
briefly but Friday will find him
back in New York city hammering
away in a last-minute drive to boost
his anticipated city majority up to-
ward the million mark. The Demo
Gratis concede that the Republicans
may bring a majority of around
100000 down to the city line from
upstate and the word has gone out
to turn out every Democratic vote
possible below that line.
The question of what President
Roosevelt may or may not intend
to do in an effort to perpetuate
the basic principles of NRA
should he be reelected remained
somewhat of an enigma today.
Asked specifically what his plans
were in that direction. the Presi-
dent smiled and said his speeches,
past and future, would answer
that question.
May Appeal to Industry
AS for his past speeches, the
President said last month at
Charlotte, N. c., that the NRA,
before being outlawed by the
Supreme Court, had done more
to promote and expand industry
along progressive lines than any
single piece of legislation in many
years. He is on record as favor
ing higher wages, shorter hours,
abolition Of child labor and the
right Of labor to organize without
employer interference.
Whether he would undertake to
accomplish this again through
governmental control and regula-
ton was something else again,
however. He has half a dozen
speeches before election day which
may reveal the answer. In the
meantime, it was suggested in
some quarters the President would
at least appeal to industry for CO.
operation along basic NRA lines
before attempting to do it again
by legislation-or even possibly q
constitutional amendment.
After the ceremonies on the
East Side the President will motor
through Lower Manhattan for a
speech at Roosevelt Park.
The President and Mrs. Roose-
welt planned to retire to their
Sixty-fifth Street home for dinner
and an evenings rest before the
campaign special gets under way
again for Wilkes-Barre, Harris
burg, Philadelphia, Camden and
Wilmington tomorrow.