Evening star., 1940-02-11
President Bitterly
Denounces Regime
OF Communists
Brunds as 'TwuddIe'
Claim Aid to Firms
Is Step to War
Reprinted from yesterday's late editions

Is Step to War
tReprinted from yesterday's late editions.)
The tert OF the Presidents od-
dress to the National Citizenship
Institute OF the American Youth
Congress tollo1Us::
You who are attending this insti-
tute, whose primary aim is to obtain
further knowledge of the democratic
processes of American Government,
are very welcome at the White House
today. The same welcome is open
to all citizens, or prospective citi-
zens, or Junior citizens. who believe
In the form Of government under
which the United States has been
living with reasonable success for
more than century and a half.
In saying this I am not denying
to you in anyway the rights of free
assemblage of free petition and of
free speech-nor am I precluding the
right of any Americans, old people
or young people, to advocate i'm
provements and changes in the oper-
ations of the Government of the
United States on one very simple
condition: That all of you conform
to the constitutional processes of
change and improvement provided
in the Constitution itself.
It is good thing that you young
people are interested enough in Gov
ernment to come to Washington fc-
q Youth Citizenship Institute-be-
cause one of the hardest problems
today is the indifference of so many
people to the details and the facts
of the functioning of their own Gov
ernment.
Many Millions Awakened
To Understanding.
I have said on many occasions
that the greatest achievement of
the past seven years in the United
States has been not the saving of
the Nation from economic chaos,
not the great series of laws to avert
destitution and improve our social
standards, but that it has been the
awakening of many millions of
American men and women to an
understanding of the processes OF
their own governments, local, State
and Federal. It is a fact that IL,
every community, large and small,
people are taking a greater interest
In decent government, IN forward
looking government than ever before
and that the words of Lincoln in
regard to fooling people are in
t1nitely more true today than they
were in the Cos.
The past 10 years have proved
certain obvious facts-some mega
tive, some positive.
We know that the prosperity Of
the 20s can properly be compared
to the prosperity of the Mississippi
bubble days before the bubble burst
when everybody was money-mad
when the money changers owned
the temple. when the Nation as q
whole forgot the restraint Of decent
ethics and simple morals, and when
the Government in Washington
gave completely free reign to what
they called individual liberty and
the virtual ownership of govern
ment itself by the so-called best
minds which wholly controlled our
finances and our economics. Dur
ing those 10 years you cannot find
single statute enacted for the re-
straint of excesses nor for the bet
terment of the permanent security
of the individual. That Is straight
from the shoulder fact which the
American public fortunately has
not forgotten.
Charges His Facts
Were Misstated.
1t is also a simple straight fact that
1880, 1881 and 1882 saw the collapse
and disintegration of the philosophy
Of the 20s, followed in February
and the first three days of March
1898, by an acknowledgement on the
part of those who had been the
leaders that they could no longer
carry on.
Last Monday at a press confer
ence I repeated certain comparisons
between 1882 and 1899. These facts
were misstated and twisted by many
newspapers and by some politicians
seeking Office. Because of this and
because I am on national hookup
I repeat the figures.
The national income has increased
from forty billion dollars in 1885,
to sixty eight and one-half billion
dollars in 1939-plus II per cent.
Wages and salaries have increased
from two billion four hundred mil.
lion dollars in December, 1882, tt
three billion eight hundred anc
eighty-eight million dollars in De-
cember, 1939-plus 81 per cent.
Weekly pay rolls increased from
eighty million dollars in December
1882, to one hundred and ninety
seven million dollars in 1939-plus
las per cent.
Cash farm income increased from
four billion seven hundred million
dollars in the year 1882 to seven
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in the year 1899. And with the ad-
dition Of farm benefit payments o1
over eight hundred million dollars
to a total of eight and half billion
dollars-plus 81 per cent.
Gain Of % Per Cent
In Nom Farm Jobs.
Dividends of corporations that
were received by individuals in
creased from two billion seven hun
dred and fifty million dollars to foul
billion two hundred and fifty million
dollars-plus SIS per cent.
It is true that our population has
gone up 6 or per cent since 1882
but where twenty -seven million
people were employed in non-agri.
cultural pursuits in December, 1882
thirty-f1ve million people were SINH
larly employed In 1939-a gain o,
2S per cent. r
You have heard Of certain loca
or special opposition to our foreigr
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