The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-08
President Backs Nelu Dealer m First Talk
Speaks at Marietta, OhiO-AmOng Other Matters He Referred to Senator Robert J. Buckley's Candidacy

Bulkley, toiling over the drafting of such statutes and over the efficiency of government machinery to admin ister them so that such protection and help of government can be ex- tended to the full"
 This was the presidents only ref erence to Bulkley, who faces a dif- ficult primary race on Aug. against former Gov. George White. But it was expected that this statement would be interpreted as full admin lstration endorsement of Ohio's senior senator as one of the liberal candidates on whose side the presi- dent has announced he would align himself as head of the Democratic party.
 Later today the president is ex- pected to reveal exactly how far, politically, he intends to go in ad- dresses on this trip when he speaks in Covington, Ky, the home state of his Senate Majority Leader AL ben w. Barkley, who is opposed in the Kentucky Democratic primary by Gov A. B. CHappy) Chandler.
 Appeals To People
 In his address here the president appealed to the people to remember that the ultimate rulers of our democracy are not president and senators and congressman and gov ernment officials but the voters of this country"
 Let us not be afraid to help each other-let us never forget that gov ernment is ourselves and not an alien power over us," he said.
 T believe that the American peo- pie, not afraid of their own capacity to choose forward looking represen- tatives to run their government. want the same cooperative security and have the same courage to achieve it, in 1888 as 1788. I am sure they know that we will always have a frontier-of social problems and that we must always move in to bring law and order to it. |"
 He praised the men and women who established Marietta 15O years ago, and recalled that right behind them moved that instrument of law and order and ooperation-govern- ment." Describing some of the aims of that early settlement here he said that they paralleled those of to- day.
 Same Old Problems
 Every generation meets sub stantially the same problems under its own different set of circum- he said. Anyone speculat- ing on our great migration west ward is struck with the human parallel between the driving force behind that migration and the driv- ing force behind the great social ex- ploration we are carrying on today.
 "The standard of life is log cabin, was not high, but it was certain. A family or at most town ship, could be whole self -suff1cing economic system.
 Under such conditions there was so much to get done which men could not get done alone, that the frontiersmen naturally reached out to government-as their greatest single instrument of cooperative self-help with the aid of which they could get things done.
 "They looked on government not as thing apart-as a power over our people. They regarded it as power of the people, as a demo- cratic expression of organized self help like frontier husking bee"
 Mental Migration
 Today, he continued, the whole nation "is in a mental migration, with old conditions, seek ing like the little band that came to Marietta to create new conditions of security"
 And again." he said, "the peo- pie see an ally in their own govern ment."
 But today many d man does not own his cabin" he said, and scarce Iy any man can call his neighbors to raise his roof any more."
 Tn these perplexities the individ- Ial turns, as he has always turned, 10 the collective security of the will ngness of his fellows to cooperate through the use of government to help him and each other" MT. Roosevelt said. The spirit of the frontier husking bee is found today n carefully-drafted statutes-stat- ltes msuring bank deposits; stat ties providing mortage money for homes through FILA: statutes pro- 'iding help through HOLC for those n danger of foreclosure.
 "On a thousand fronts govern nent--state and municipal as well IS federal-is playing the same role | )f the insurer. of security for the lverage man, woman and child that | he army attachments played in the ,arly days of the old northwest ter 'itory.
 Insurance Companies
 When you think it through, at the bottom most of the great protective statutes of today are in essence mu- ,ual insurance companies. and Jor 'ecent legislation is not a departure rom but return to the healthy practices of mutual self help of the early settlers of the northwest"
 From Marietta, the president con- .inues to Covington, Ky, where, this afternoon, he will make another ma or speech His appearance there is expected to develop another open of Barkley.
 The Roosevelt schedule calls for rear platform appearances during -he day at Louisville at D. m. and 1t BroWling Green at $50 and 1t vas assumed that Barkley's can 1idacy would benefit from both.