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action" on both educational and eco
nomic fronts.
This. he said, "is better than follow
ing either those who want to slow up
or those who promise they will hand
you the moon on a silver platter .
week after they are elected"
He said there was a definite connec-
ton between tax-financed education
and economic conditions in various
sections.
In the long run" he said. "the best
way for your National Government to
assist State and local educational OBJ
jectives Is to tackle the national as
poets of economic problems"
Help of States Asked.
Government, he asserted should
seek to prevent the waste Of natural
resources. encourage each section to
become financially. independent and
take the lead in establishing social
security"
Obviously" he said. "the Federal
Government can not carry the load
alone.
I'm education, for example, Wash
ington has greatly assisted by using
the labor of people who really need
help to build school houses, to give
student aid and to pay many teachers
And Washington will help by giving
some grants in aid to those COM
munities which need them most But
Washington should not and can not
rightly subsidize public education
throughout the United States. Edu-
cation should be run by the States
and their subdivisions"
Saying that group in the South
has questioned why pay in this Sec
tion was low, why roads were poor and
why medical and school facilities were
Improperly maintained, the Chief
Executive continued:
Il do not mince words, because. first
of all, I have a right-a Ntion- wide
right. a State right and withal SYM
pathetic and understanding right to
speak them, and, secondly, because
you as we'll as I know them to be
true.
1T may not be polite, but it is good
American idealism to recognize, to
state boldly, that in 1882. the condi-
tions of human life in Georgia and
in other States Of the lower South
were as a whole at the bottom of the
national scale.
AT the same time, let us rejoice
and take pride in the undoubted fact
that in these past six years the South
has made greater economic and 90
cial progress up the scale than at any
other period in her long history.
TT is my objective and yours to
maintain that march and to accelerate
Its pace"
The President, speaking informally
at the Warm Springs Foundation yes
terday, said he hoped that Mr.. Camp,
United States district attorney at At
lanta. will be the next Senator from
this State"
Senator George has been one of the
administrations legislative opponents,
fighting, among other measures, the
Presidents court and Government re-
organization bills.
Talk Unexpected.
Mr.. Roosevelt's address yesterday
Vas completely unexpected. 1t was
made before patients Of the Warm
Springs Foundation. Mr.. Camp sat
On one side of the President and Gov.
e. d. Rivers on the other.
The Chief Executive. Mr.. Camp and
Gov. Rivers presumably went over the
Georgia political situation before the
talk.
Advised in Atlanta Of the presiden-
tial utterance for Camp, Mr.. George
said: Il will not comment at this
time, but I will be at Gainesville"
The Presidents speech yesterday
made at the first opportunity he had
in Georgia-carried one step further
his policy of intervening in State pri-
maries.
Mr.. Roosevelt asserted his right Of
Intervention in State primaries in a
radio chat from the White House
before he set out on his combined
politics-and-pleas trip, July 7.
On his journey westward to San
Diego, Calf. during July he spoke
In behalf Of Senators Alben W. Bark
ley Of Kentucky. Elmer Thomas Of
Oklahoma and William g. McAdoo Of
California.