Evening star., 1938-06-30
ROOSEVELT SEES
HISTORY BACKING
PROGRAMS GOAL
Talk to Teachers Mentions
Lands Where Libraries Are
Burned, Savants ExiIed.
EMPHASIZES FREEDOM
AND CIVIL LIBERTIES
Good Neighbor Policy Held Up
as Model for World in Speech
at Fair Ceremony.
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BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 30.-President
Roosevelt. gazing into the future to-
day, predicted that history would say
his long range budget" had been bal
anced.
This calculation. the President de-
clared, would be based on survival
values for our population and for our
democratic way of living, balanced
against what We have paid for them, "
in addition to the usual items of gov
ernment income and outgo.
Addressing the teachers who COM
prise the National Education Associa
ton, Mr.. Roosevelt also:
l. Spoke of countries where libraries
have been burned. learned people ex-
lied, universities dispersed, and news
art and literature censored as having
turned back "the clock Of civiliza-
ton" He did so without naming any
country.
2. Admonished this country to keep
Va lSllt OAlC ll Go Va llSCOOIH dIlu LlSIl
liberties, to redouble efforts to main
tain free press and to provide safe
place for eternal truths.
Declares for Local Control.
g. Declared for State and local con-
troll of schools and their curricula,
with the Federal Government supple
menting only the resources of the
poorer communities.
f. Predicted that "the ultimate
victory of tomorrow Is with democracy
and through democracy with educa-
ton. for no people can be kept eter-
nally ignorant or eternally enslaved. y
The Presidents speech to the teach
ers was his second at the New York
World Fair ground this afternoon.
In his first address, at the laying
of the corner stone of the Fairs Fed
eral Building, he held up the West
ern Hemisphere's good-neighbor policy
as model for the rest Of the world
After that he drove across the fail
grounds to the Education Building
where his wife, one-time teacher
introduced him.
Can't Skimp on Capital.
The budget-balancing remark was
prefaced with declaration that "the
only real capital of nation Is it,
natural resources and its human be.
ings"
If We skimp on that capital, if W.
exhaust our natural resources ane
! weaken the capacity of our human be.
ings, then we shall go the way of al
weak nations" said the President
adding that judged by history's tes
i venture to say that the long-rangt
budget of the present administration
OF our Government has been in thu
black and not in the red
Discussing Federal education ait
Mr.. Roosevelt asserted that no on,
wants the Federal Government t.
subsidize education any more than i
absolutely necessary"
But" he added, I'VE know that il
many places local government unfor
tunately cannot adequately financ,
either the freedom or the facilities t.
learn. And there the Federal Gov
eminent can properly supplement To-
cal resources"
Great Divergence Noted.
The President said there probabl,
was greater divergence today in tn,
standard of education between tn,
richest communities and the poores
communities than hundred year.
ago.
ut is, therefore," he asserted, "ou
immediate problem to close that gap
not in any way by decreasing the fa
cilities of the richer communities bu
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