The Nome nugget., 1940-11-13
Roosevelt Calls Our Free Schools
 A Bar to Tyranny
Continued from Last Issue) Tells Duchess County Meeting They and Public Schools Are
 Vital Defense Factors
DEFENDS RELIEF PROJECTS
By Charles Hurd

"They will not get all ot the story part of the time, or only part of the story all of the time they will get all of the story all of the time."
 The school buildings also stood MT. Roosevelt went on, as "a sym bol of a second and newer re- sponsibility which our democ- racy has assumed as one of it's major functions" The schools had been paid for in part by Fed eral grants "in accordance with the purpose of the Federal Gov ernment to give work to many Americans who otherwise could find no york;" he added.
 He told this audience that eight years ago, lat time when our national economy had been prostrate for several years, when starvation and bankruptcy had al most become the order of the day." the government rejected "a philosophy of inaction and ir- responsibility to the destitution of it's citizens"
 "In its place. he, continued, twas substituted new doctrine - that the government owed a continuing responsibility to see to it that no one should starve who was willing to work but un- able to find work. That was the responsibility, the duty, which the collective strength and will of all the people imposed upon themselves, to alleviate the suf- fering of their fellow-beings and to stimulate recovery in their ma tional economy"
 As a result, MT. Roosevelt de- clared each of the 3,200 counties in the United States had some new construction built mediator ation between the Federal and local governments, "a hospital, a bridge, a town hall, a highway, an airport, dam, a sew3r-one of the hundreds of thousands of new necessary improvements which were built in the United States illustrations of the re- suits of giving employments on useful projects"
 "The public wealth of the Unit ed States-the property that all of us own jointly-has been in- creased by means such as these," the President said. "In hundred ways the idle funds of the nation hay bees put to work so that idle hands could be put to useful tasks.
 Into every project went mon ey for wages; ths wages were spent at local stores; the stores repienished their stocks, and the wheels of industry and business began to move faster. Into ev ny project went materials for con- struction - materials from all parts of the country.
 In terms of dollars and cents. no sounder investment could have been made for the Ameri- can people. But the material re- turn from that investment was not the most important gain. There came with it a develop ment of morale, a new hope and courage, a new self-respect ann ong the unemployed "a definite gain in the fibre and the strength of American life"
 The local school exercises re- ceivel distinctly national at mosphere not only from the pre- sence of MT. Roosevelt to deliver a speech, but from the presence as well of the Army band from West Point, which came accom- panied by one of the new-type Signal Corps field trucks to am plify the music and the speeches.
 MT. Roosevelt was introduced by Ralph R. Smith who also in- troducel other guests including the Presidents wife and mother and John w. Stakeholder, United States Commissioner of Educa- ton, who was MT. Roosevelt's guest aboard the private train. Also with the President, but in no official capacity, was Judge Samuel Rosenman, an adviser in