Evening star., 1939-03-30
Roosevelt Stresses
Cooperation in Talk
At 1uskegee
Porty Is Greeted by
Several Hundred in
AIubumu Town
By The Associated Press.

By The Associated Press.
TUSKEGEE. Ala, March 3d.
President Roosevelt told the students
and faculty today of the famous
Negro school-Tuskegee Institute
he was proud of what its graduates
were doing for human service" and
stressed need for cooperation be-
tween States and peoples in this
wofk
Speaking from his car in front of
Carnegie Music Hall, the President
said that, because of changing con-
ditions, I'VE have got to work to-
gether."
Alabama or Georgia cannot 20
1t alone. More and more we have
got to plan for the future and plan
to work with the other fellow. That
Is one of the things you've got here
-co-operation"
The President began his motor
trip to Tuskegee, Auburn and Ope-
hk$ at 1920 am, Central Time.
from the little town of Chehaw. Ala,
where his special train arrived from
Washington at 10 o'clock after q
side through heavy rainstorm.
Stops at Hospital.
Several hundred toWnspeople saw
him detrain and get in a large open
can with Gov. Frank M. Dixon,
Senator Hill and Representative
Steagall. DR.. F. D. Patterson, presi-
dent of Tuskegee Institute, rode in
a separate car.
En route to the broad Tuskegee
campus, the President stopped at
the Negro veterans hospital on the
outskirts of Tuskegee and shook
hands with the staff and several
wheel chair patients.
He told the officials there Gen.
Frank T. Hines, veterans adminis-
traitor in Washington. had told him
that this was one of the hospitals
that was doing great job"
I'm glad things are going WE'LL"
he said. I've read all the reports
on this hospital and know the maps
we'll"
A bright sun greeted the presi-
dental party after downpours
throughout the night and early
morning.
The presidential special arrived
on time despite the terrific rain
storm that lasted most of the night
causing it to slow up several times
because of high water. Precipita-
tion totaled from l to inches over
Georgia and Alabama.
The peak of the storm came in
the vicinity of Atlanta, where the
train made Commute service stop
at am. The rain had stopped,
however, on reaching here.
Streams Overflow Roadway.
The special crossed the Alabama
line shortly after leaving West
Point, Ga, at Opelika, Ala.
Streams overfloWed the main
roadway from Chehaw to Tuskegee,
but the water was not of a depth
to delay passage over the route.
Tuskegee, home of the worlds
largest school of higher learning for
Negroes; Auburn, seat of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, and
Opelika, near the Alabama Georgia
tine, were bedecked to receive the
President.
Large crowds were on hand.
A detail of so Alabama highway
patrolmen, headed personally by
Chief Weller Smith, cleared the
path for the motoring President.
Banners Displayed.
Tuskegee displayed banners with
MIR. Roosevelt's picture, with the
words: Our President
DR.. F. D. Patterson, president of
Tuskegee, met the President here,
as did Gov. Dixon.
Gov. Dixon, Senator Hill and
Representative Steagall rode in the
Presidents automobile.
Bound for ten-day spring va
cation at his mountain cottage in
Warm Springs, Ga. he had accepted
long-standing invitations to inspect
Tuskegee Institute and Alabama
Polytechnic Institute at nearby
Auburn.
He planned to make brief in
FORMAL talks to the students and
faculties at both institutions, then
motor eastward to Warm Springs
Where he was due late in the day.
The President planned to spend
about an hour at Tuskegee and to
make short talk to the more than
1000 students from his car before
going northward to Auburn.
School Established in 1872.
There, his schedule listed half
hour visit, also featured by a brief
address on Billiard Field, scene of
many football battles by famous Au-
burn elevens. This school, a land
grant college, was established in
1872. 1t Is now headed by DR.. L. N.
Duncan.
He planned to leave Auburn about
1880 pm. and stop at Opelika to
greet assembled school children IS
minutes later. He planned picnic
lunch at some quiet spot on the way
to Warm Springs.