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The Washington times., 1939-01-04
Protection Assured

That Hemisphere, that peace,
and that ideal we propose to do
our share in protecting against
storms from any quarter. Our
people and our resources are
pledged to secure that protec-
ton. From that determination
no American flincheS.
This by no means implies that
the American Republics diSaS-
sociate themselves from the ma
tions of other continents--it
does not mean the Americas
against the rest of the world.
We as one of the Republics re-
iterate our willingness to help
the cause of world peace. We
stand on our historic offer to
take counsel with all other ma
tions of the world to the end
that aggression among them
be terminated, that the race of
armamentS cease and that COM
merce be renewed.
But the world has grown
30 small and weapons of attack
so swift that no nation can be
safe in its will to peace so long
The Washington times., 1939-01-04
NeW Standards

They include a perfecting of
our farm program to protect
farmers income and consumers
purchasing power from alter
nate risks of crop gluts and
crop shortages.
They include whole-hearted
acceptance of new standards of
honesty in our financial mar
kets.
They include reconcllement Of
enormous, antagonistic interests
some of them long in litiga-
tion-in the railroad and gen.
eral transportation field.
They include the working out
of new technfques-private,
State and Federal-to protect
the public interest in and to
develop wider markets for elec-
trio power.
They include a revamping of
the tax relationships between
Federal, State and local units
of government, and considera-
tion of relatively small tax in
creases to adjust inequalities
without interfering with the ag-
gregate income of the American
people.
They include the perfecting
of labor organization and a uni
versal ungrudging attitude by
employers toward the labor
movement, until there is a
minimum Of interruption Of
production and employment be-
cause of disputes, and accept
ance by labor of the truth that
the welfare of labor itself de-
pends on increased balanced
output of goods.
To be Immediately practical,
while proceeding with a steady
evolution in the solving of these
and like problems, we must
wisely use instrumentalities, like
Federal investment, which are
Immediately available to us.
Here, as elsewhere, time is
the deciding factor in our choice
of remedies.
Therefore, 1t does not seem
logical to me, at the moment
we seek to increase production
and consumption, for the Fed
eral Government to consider a
drastic curtailment of its own
investments,
The Washington times., 1939-01-04
Timing of Defense

We have learned that effec-
tive timing of defense, and the
distant points from which at
tackS may be launched are COM
pletely different from what they
were 20 years ago.
We have learned that sur
vival cannot be guaranteed by
arming after the attack begins
for there is new range and
speed to offenSe.
We have learned that long
before any overt military act,
aggression begins with prelimi-
naries of propaganda, subsidized
penetration, the looSening of
ties of good will, the stirring of
, prejudice and the incitement to
diSunion.
We have learned that God
fearing democracies of the
world which observe the sane
tity Of treaties and good faith
in their dealings with other ma
tions cannot safely be indiffer-
ent to international lawleSsness
anywhere. They cannot for
ever let pass, without effective
protest, acts of aggression
against sister nationS-acts
which automatically undermine
all of us.
Obviously they must proceed
along practical, peaceful lines.
But the mere fact that we
rightly decline to intervene with
arms to prevent acts of aggres-
sion does not mean that we must
act as if there were no aggres-
sion at all Words may be futile,
but war is not the only means
of commanding a decent respect
for the opinions of mankind.
There are many methods short
of war. but stronger and more
effective than mere words, of
bringing home to aggressor gov
ernments the aggregate Senti-
ments Of our own people.
The Washington times., 1939-01-04

are reasonably provided for, we
must be able confidently to in
woke the third element, the
underlying strength of citizen
ship-the self confidence, the
ability. the imagination and the
devotion that give the staying
power to see things through.
A strong and united nation
may be destroyed if it is unpre-
pared against sudden attack.
But even a nation well armed
and we'll organized from a
strictly military standpoint may,
after a period of time, meet de-
feat if it is unnerved by self
distrust, endangered by class
prejudice, by dissension between
capital and labor, by false
economy and by other unSolved
social problems at home.
In meeting the troubles of the
world we must meet them as one
people-with a unity born of the
fact that for generations those
who have come to our shores,
representing many kindreds and
tongues, have been welded by
common opportunity into q
united patriotism. If another
form Of government can present
a united front in it's attack on q
democracy. the attack must be
met by a united democracy.
Such a democracy can and must
exist in the United States.
The Washington times., 1939-01-04
Pressing Needs Met

With this exception of legisla-
ton to provide greater Govern
ment efficiency, and with the
exception of legislation to amel-
iorate our railroad and other
transportation problems, the
past three Congresses have met
in part or in whole the pressing
needs of the new order of things.
We have now passed the
period of internal conflict in the
launching of our program of
social reform. Our full energies
may now be released to in
vigorate the processes of re-
covery in order to preserve our
reforms, and to give every man
and woman who wants to work
a real job at q living wage.
But time is Of paramount
Importance. The deadline of
danger from within and from
without is not within our con-
troll. The hour-glass may be in
the hands of other nations. Our
own hour-glasS tells us that we
are off on a race to make de-
mocracy work, so that we may
be efficient in peace and there
fore secure in self defense.
This time element forces us
to still greater efforts to attain
the full employment of our
labor and our capital.
The first duty of our states
manShip today is to bring cap
ital and man-power together.
DictatorShips do this by main
force. BY using main force they
apparently succeed at it-for
the moment. However we abhor
their methods, we are compelled
to admit that they have OBJ
tanned substantial utilization Of
all their material and human
resources. Like it or not they
have solved, for a time at least,
the problem of idle men and
idle capital. Can we compete
with them by boldly seeking
methods Of putting idle men
and idle capital together and,
at the same time, remain within
our American way of life, within
the Bill of Rights, and within
the bounds Of what is, from
our point of view. civilization
itself?
The Washington times., 1939-01-04
Price of Living

Dictatorship, however, in
wolves costs which the Ameri-
can people will never pay: The
cost of our spiritual values. The
cost of the blessed right of be-
ing able to say what we please.
The cost of freedom of religion.
The cost of seeing our capital
confiscated. The cost Of being
cast into a concentration camp.
The cost of being afraid to walk
down the street with the wrong
neighbor. The cost of having
our children brought up not as
free and dignified human be-
ings, but as pawns nodded and
enslaved by a machine.
If the avoidance of these costs
means taxes on my income; if
avoiding these costs means
taxes on my estate at death, I
would bear those taxes willingly
as the price of my breathing
and my children breathing the
free air of a free country, as
the price of a living and not a
dead world.
Events abroad have made 1t
increasingly clear to the Amer
ican people that dangers within
are less to be feared than dan
gers from without. If therefore
a solution Of this problem OF
idle men and idle capital is the
price of preserving our liberty.
no formless selfish fears can
stand in our way.
Once I propheSied that this
generation of Americans had a
rendezvous with destiny. That
prophesy comes true. To us
much is given; more is expected.
This generation will "nobly
save or meanly lose the last best
hope of earth The way is
plain, peaceful, generous, just
a way which if followed the
world will forever applaud and
God must forever bless"
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
The White House,
January 4, 1889.
The Washington times., 1939-01-04
LOng-RGnge planning

If government activities are
fully maintained, there is a good
prospect of our becoming an 90
billion-dollar country in a very
short time. With such a ma
tiOnal income, present tax laws
will yield enough each year to
balance each years expenses.
It is my conviction that down
in their hearts the American
public-industry, agriculture, fl
nance-wants this Congress to
do whatever needs to be done
to raise our national income to
80 billion dollars a year.
. Investing soundly must pre-
clude spending Wastefully. To
guard against opportunist ap-
preparations, I have on several
occasions addressed the Con-
gresS on the Importance of
permanent long-range plan
ming. I hope, therefore, that
following my recommendation
Of last year, a permanent
agency will be set up and au-
thorized to report on the ur-
gency and desirability of the
various types Of government
investments.
Investment for prosperity can
be made in a democracy.
I hear some people say "This
is all so complicated. There
are certain advantages in
dictatorship. It gets rid of
labor trouble, of unemploy-
ment, of wasted motion and of
having to do your own think
ing"
My answer is, eyes, but it
also gets rid Of some other
things which we Americans in
tend very definitely to keep
and we still intend to do our
own thinking"
It will cost us taxes and the
voluntary risk Of capital to at
tain some of the practical ad-
vantageS which other forms OF
government have acquired.
The Washington times., 1939-01-04
Tools OutmOded

We see things now that we
could not see along the way.
The tools of government which
we had in 1888 are outmoded.
We have had to forge new tools
for a new role of government
in democracy-a role of new
responsibility for new needs
and increased responsibility for
old needs, long neglected
Some of these tools had to
be roughly shaped and still
need some machining down.
Many of those who fought bit
terly against the forging of
these new tools welcome their
use today. The American people,
as a whole, have accepted them.
The Nation looks to the Con-
gress to improve the new ma
chinery which we have perma-
nently installed, provided that
in the process the social use
fulness of the machinery is not
destroyed or impaired.
All of us agree that we should
simplify and improve laws if
experience and operation clearly
demonstrate the need. For in
stance, all of us want better
provision for our older people
under our social security legis-
lation. For the medically needy
we must provide better care.
Most of us agree that for the
sake of employer and employee
alike we must find ways to end
factional labor strife and en-
ployer-employee disputes.
Most of us recognize that
none of these tools can be put
to maximum effectiveness un-
less the executive processes of
Government are revamped-
reorganized, if you will-into
more effective combination.
And even after such reorganiza-
ton it will take time to develop
administrative personnel and
experience in order to use our
new tools with a minimum of
mistakes. The Congress, Of
course, needs no further infor.
nation on this.
The Washington times., 1939-01-04
Neutrality LGlUs

At the very least, we can and
should avoid any action, or any
lack of action, which will en-
courage, assist or build up an
aggresSor We have learned that
when we deliberately try to leg
iSlate neutrality, our neutrality
laws may operate unevenly and
unfairly-may actually give aid
to an aggressor and deny it to
the victim. The instinct of self
preservation should warn us that
we ought not to let that hap
pen any more.
And we have learned some
thing else-the old, old lesson
that probability of attack is
nightly decreased by the as
Surance of an ever ready de-
fenSe. Since 1881 world events
Of thunderous import have
moved with lightning speed.
During these eight years many
Of our people clung to the hope
that the innate decency of man.
kind would protect the unpre-
pared who showed their innate
trust in mankind. Today we
are all wiser-and sadder.
Under modern conditions
what we mean by adequate de-
fenSe"-a policy subscribed to
by all-must be divided into
three elements. First we must
have armed forces and defenseS
strong enough to ward off sud-
den attack against strategic po-
sitions and key facilities essen
tial to ensure sustained resist
ance and ultimate victory. Sec
ondly we must have the organ
ization and location of those key
facilities so that they may be
Immediately utilized and rapidly
expanded to meet all needs
without danger of serious in
terruption by enemy attack.
In the course of a few days I
shall send you a special mes
sage making recommendations
for those two essentials of de-
fenSe against danger which we
cannot safely assume will not
come.
If these first two essentials
The Washington times., 1939-01-04
Complete Text of Presidents Message to Congress
Of Message

Highishts of President RooseUelt's message to Con-
gress:
"The world has grown small and weapons Of attack
swift that nation be safe in its will to peace
long any other single powerful nation refuses to settle
its grievances at the council table,"
I'VE know what might happen to us if the new
PHILOSOPHERS of force to encompass the other CONT
nents and invade own. We, than other ma
tons afford to be surrounded by the enemies of
faith and our humanity"
"A strong and united nation may be destroyed it
unprpared against sudden attack But even nation well
armed may after period Of time meet defeat if it
is unnerved by self distrust -"
I'VE have learned that Godfearing democracies Of the
world which observe the sanctity of treaties cannot
safely be Indifferent international lawlessness any
where"
There comes time in the affairs of when they
must prepare to defend not their homes alone but the
enets Of faith and humanity which their churches their
governments and their very civilization are founded
"once prophesed that this generation of Americans
had rendezvous with destiny That prophesy true
To much is given more is expected"
The Washington times., 1939-01-04
Steps for Defense

A dictatorship may command
the full strength of a regi-
mented nation. But the united
strength of a democratic nation
can be mustered only when its
people, educated by modern
standards to know what is 60
ing on and where they are go
ing. have conviction that they
are receiving as large a share
of opportunity for development,
as large a share of material
success and of human dignity,
as they have a right to receive.
Our nations program of so
cial and economic reform is
therefore a part of defense as
basic as armaments themselves.
Against the background Of
events in Europe, in Africa and
in Asia during these recent
years, the pattern of what we
have accomplished since 1880
appears in even clearer focus.
For the first time we have
moved upon deep-seated prob
lens affecting our national
strength and have forged ma
tional instruments adequate to
meet them.
Consider what the seemingly
piecemeal struggles Of these six
years add up to in terms Of real
iStic national preparedness.
We are conserving and de-
veloping natural resources
land, water, power, forests.
We are trying to provide nee
essary food, shelter and med
ical care for the health Of our
population.
The Washington times., 1939-01-04
STORM ABROAD
IMPERILS u. S.
PEACE, HE SAYS
Threat of World War
Not Yet AVerted

Follo1Cing is the tert of
President RooseUelt's mes
sage delivered to the Ser-
enty-SjTth Congress in joint
session today:
TO the Congress OF the United
States.
Is In reporting on the state of
The nation, have felt it neceS-
sary on previous occasions to
advise the Congress of disturb
ances abroad and of the need
Of putting our own house in
order in the face Of storm sig
mails from across the seas. AS
this Seventy sixth Congress
opens there is need for further
warning.
A war which threatened to
envelop the world in flames has
been averted: but it has be-
come increasingly clear that
peace is not assured.
All about us rage undeclared
wars-military and economic.
All about us grow more deadly
armaments-military and eco
nomic. All about us are threats
Of new aggression-military and
economic.
Storms from abroad directly
challenge three institutions in
diSpensable to Americans, now
as always. The first is religion.
It is the source of the other two
democracy and international
good faith.
The Washington times., 1939-01-04

can be attained, working within
the framework of our traditional
profit system.
The factors in attaining and
maintaining that amount Of ma
tional income are many and
complicated.
They include more wide
spread understanding among
businessmen of many changes
which world conditions and tech
biological improvements have
brought to our economy over the
last 20 years-changes in the in
terrelationship of price and vol
ume and employment, for in
stance-changes Of the kind in
which businessmen are now
educating themselves through
opportunities like the so-called
monopoly Investigation"
The Washington times., 1939-01-04
Urges Unity
In Facing
Crisis

health security, Civilian Con-
servation Corps activities, relief
for the unemployed, or national
defense.
The Congress alone has the
power 10 do all this, as it is the
appropriating branch Of the
government.
The other approach to the
question of government spend
ing takes the position that this
nation ought not to be and need
not be only a sixty billion dollar
nation; that at this moment it
has the men and the resources
sufficient to make it at least an
eighty billion dollar nation.
This school of thought does not
believe that it can become an
eighty billion dollar nation in
the near future if government
cuts its operations by one-third.
1t is convinced that if we were
to try it. we would invite disaster
that we would not long re-
main even sixty billion dollar
nation. There are many compli-
Gated factors with which we
have to deal, but we have
learned that it is unsafe to make
abrupt reductions at any time
in our net expenditure program.
BY our common sense action
of resuming government activi-
ties last spring, we have reversed
a recession and started the new
rising tide of prosperity and ma
tional income which we are now
just beginning to enjoy.
The Washington times., 1939-01-04
TwO Methods Cited

The whole subject of govern
ment investing and government
income is one which may be ap-
preached in two different ways.
The first calls for the elimina-
ton of enough activities of gov
ernment to bring the expenses
of government Immediately into
balance with income of govern
ment. This school of thought
maintains that because our ma
tional income this year is only
sixty billion dollars, ours is only
a sixty-billion dollar country;
that government must treat it as
such; and that without the help
of government, it may some day,
somehow, happen to become an
eighty-billion-dolla country.
If the Congress decides to &C
cept this point Of view, it will
logically have to reduce the pres
ent functions or activities of gov
eminent by one-third. The Con-
gress will have to accept the re-
Sponsibility for such reductions:
and the Congress will have to de-
termine which activities are to
be reduced.
Certain expenditures We can
not possibly reduce, such as the
interest on the public debt. A
few million dollars saved here
or there in the normal or in cur
tailed work Of the old depart
ments and commissions will
make no great saving in the Fed.
eral budget. Therefore, the Con-
gress would have to reduce draS-
tically some of certain large
items, such as aids to agriculture
and soil conservation, veterans
pensions, flood control, high
ways, waterways and other pub.
lie works, grants for social and
The Washington times., 1939-01-04
Den1OCrQCu
Warned to
Unite

Democracy can and must
unite to meet the attack of
the dictdtorShipS, President
Roosevelt 1Udrned in his mes
sage to Congress. The PreSi-
dent said
I'm meeting the troubles Of
the world we must meet them
as one peOple-with a unity
born of the fact that for gen.
eratiOnS those who have
come to our shores, repre-
senting many kindredS and
tongues, have been welded by
common opportunity into a
united patriotism.
"If another form Of gov
ernment can present a unit
ed front in it's attack on a
democracy, the attack must
be met by a united demOc-
racy. Such a democracy can
and must exist in the United
States"
The Washington times., 1939-01-04

as any other single powerful ma
ton refuses to settle it's griev.
ances at the council table.
For if any government bris-
ting with implements of war in
sists on policies of force, wea-
pons of defense give the only
safety.
In our foreign relations we
have learned from the past what
not to do. From new wars we
have learned what we must do.
The Washington times., 1939-01-04
'ASSailS CurbS
On Religious
Freedom

without any dictator's power to
command, without conScrip-
ton of labor or confiscation Of
capital, without concentration
camps, and without a scratch
on freedom of speech, freedom
of the press or the rest of the
Bill of Rights.
Evening star., 1939-12-08
Art Quiz Program
Sponsored by Corcoran

The Corcoran Gallery Of Art is
about to enter the quiz field. Gal
lery officials and those of the Cor
coran School of Art are sponsoring
an information please" program
limited to art questions at pm.
Tuesday in the art school audi
torium.
The quiz is open to the general
public. Questions are to be for
warded in writing accompanied by
the answers and signature. A panel
Of five is to attempt answering them
as they are asked by a sixth person.
All questions are to concern some
phase of art, from Venus de Milo
20 surrealist nightmares and Freudi-
an woodcuts. They will be sorted
and those which are believed not to
be too unfair will be presented to
the panel.
If the panel is stumped, 81 bill
will be issued to the person sending
in the question.
Richard Lahey, principal Of the
Corcoran School of Art, announced
that if the program went over, an
other might be arranged for some
future date. He said be believed
such program ought to go far to-
ward increasing general interest in
the arts.
So far the following make up a
tentative list for the panel: r. p.
Tolman, acting director of the
Smithsonian Institution Collection
of Fine Arts; M. Donald White of
the White Gallery, Nicolai Cikovsky,
Washington painter; Robert Par
sons, assistant to c.. Powell Mimi
gerode, director of the gallery, and
Mr.. Lahey. The sixth person has
vet to be named.
Evening star., 1939-12-08
Teachers Of Speech
Meet Here Tomorrow:

Nearly 100 teachers Of speech, de-
batting and dramatics from the Dis
trict and nearby schools and colleges
are expected to attend an organiza-
tional meeting at the Mayfiower
Hotel tomorrow at z pm.
Chairman Jennings Randolph OF
the House District Committee, for
mer head of the public speaking
department of Davis and Elkins
College. will address the group. DIR.
Harold F. Harding of George Wash
ington University is temporary
chairman.
Other speakers will be Charles A.
Dawson of Roanoke College, Ethel
Sunny of Wilson Teachers College
Mrs. Sarita F. Bell, SUI u]ervisor of