Evening star., 1937-09-12
Government Joins
Peoples Effort,
He Says.
POPULAR FEARS
HELD JUSTIFIED
World Conditions
Seen Getting
No Better.
BY the Associated Press.

HYDE PARK, N. Y, September IL.
President Roosevelt made the solemn
pledge today that he was going to do
everything in his power Ito keep us
out of war"
Describing world conditions as
serious" after an earlier press con-
ference statement that people the
world over were justiiably nervous
over the Far Eastern and European
situations, the Chief Executive told
an outdoor meeting of the Roosevelt
Home Club:
We are going to do everything we
can in the United States, not only
the people but the Government of the
United States. to keep us out of war. -
The President said world conditions
did not appear to be getting any bet
ter
He addressed his remarks to a
crowd of several hundred persons
gathered on the lawn of Moses Smith,
3 Roosevelt tenant farmer and host
of the informal occasion. The crowd
loudly applauded his peace pledge.
Baruch Sees Europe Finder Box"
Shortly before, Bernard M. Baruch.
New York financier who had called
on the President to give his observa-
tions on a recent trip abroad, told
newspapermen that Europe lis a tin
der box"
Anything can happen" he said on
leaving the Summer White House.
The President addressed the home
club extemporaneously, after Rep
resentative Caroline O'Day, Democrat,
OF New York, an earlier speaker, said
Secretary Hull and the Chief Execu-
tive were doing everything to keep
war away from our shores"
The brief remarks about keeping
us out Of war" were predatory to his
main theme-adoption of national
planning and conservation methods
by Dutchess County to preserve its
natural resources.
People laugh about planning" he
asserted. "but keeping out of war re-
quires some planning"
Mrs O'Day injected politics into
her address before touching on world
conditions.
She said by 1910 the people who
put obstacles" in the way of the
Presidents program were going to be
very much ashamed of themselves"
Family Members Present.
On the flag -draped front porch of
the Smith home were Mrs. Franklin
d. Roosevelt, Mr.. and Mrs. James
Roosevelt, Judge Mack, Mayor George
Spratt of Poughkeepsie, Arthur Smith.
president of the club, and James
Townsend, Democratic chairman of
Duchess County.
The Army Band from West Point
played Home on the Range" and
other tunes.
Moses Smith brought laughter when
he asserted he did not want to DIS
cuss politics. but of all places lnoer
heaven Hyde Park certainly was one
where new post office was needed.
Entire World Concerned.
AT his press conference earlier in
the day the President said people all
over the world were concerned over
Far Eastern and European conditions.
and rightly SO.
without discussing American pol
Icy, he agreed with reporters OBJ
servation that the fighting in China
and the Mediterranean mystery
submarine activities had developed a
littery" feeling among the people in
this country.
Accepting this definition of Amer
lean reaction, the Chief Executive
said the people were right in feeling
this way. and he believed the people
all over the world felt the same.
He said the nervousness was evi-
oent not only in financial circles. but
In every home and every democratic
government.
While he did not know about the
other governments. he said he believed
he could speak for the democratic
governments.
The President talked to the news
paper men in his tiny Office in the left
wing Of his mothers big stone house.
His reference to the reaction of the
people generally toward war was his
first on the Sino-Japanese and Euro
pean situations since last Sunday,
when he described the Eastern
conflict as an awful mess and said
Americans still in China were staying
at their own risk.
He would not reply to a question
today whether he would favor with