Evening star., 1943-12-29
| system and let any bank lose de.
positors' money without redress.

| system and let any bank lose de-
positors' money without redress.
Other Remedies Cited.
Other remedies, the President said
were for saving homes from fore
closure through the Home Owners
Loan Corp. and saving farms by the
Farm Credit Administration. To the
list he then added agricultural aid
and the Securities Exchange Act for
the protection Of investors.
Interpolating, the President re-
called that he had said recently an
undercover drive is afoot to kill the
Securities Act, SO people would be
allowed to sell any kind of securities
to widows and orphans and any one
else. A lot of people would like to
take oil all the protection and let old
Mr.. Skin" skin the public again, he
declared.
Slum clearance - though there
hasn't been enough done yet in this
direction, in Mr.. Roosevelts opinion
reduction of farm tenancy, old-aid
insurance, unemployment insurance.
aid for crippled and blind and ma
ternity care were added to his list
with the observation that some peo-
pie want to abolish all that.
The public works program, which
provided permanent improvements
and helped the unemployed; mini
mum wages and maximum hours,
the Civilian Conservation Corps and
reforestation, the NYA for under
privileged youth and abolition OF
child labor also were cited by Mr.
Roosevelt as he scanned a typewrit-
ten memorandum.
Reciprocal Trade.
He also guessed the reciprocal
trade agreements came under the
head Of remedies because of their
tremendous effect on internal dis
ease. Stimulation OF private home
building through the FHA and pro-
lection Of consumers from extor-
tionate rates by breaking up utility
monopolies were enumerated by the
President.
Resettlement for farmers, the
iva development, rural electrifica-
ton. flood control. drought relief,
crop insurance, ever-normal granary
rounded out the picture the Presi-
dent sketched. Mr.. Roosevelt laid
| the paper aside. His list totaled up
to about 30, and he probably left
out half of the New Deal remedies,
he said.
At the present time, however, Mr..
Roosevelt said, overwhelming en-
phasis must be put on winning the
war. In other words, he explained,
We are suffering from that bad acci-
dent, and not from internal illness.
When victory comes, he said, the
program of the past must be carried
on IN the light of what goes on in
other countries, for it will not pay to
go into an economic isolationism
any more than it would pay to 90
into a military isolationism.
Postwar Program Not Settled.
OF course, he continued, the post
war program hasn't been settled on
at all, except in generalities. AS he
said about the meetings with other
Allied leaders in Cairo and Teheran.
Mr.. Roosevelt reiterated, We are still
in the generality stage, and not in
the detail stage, because the talk is
still about principles. Later on will
come the details and anything can
be taken up. 1t would confuse OBJ
Jectives to deal with details at
present, in his opinion.
But, the President concluded. il
seems pretty clear that we must
now plan for and help to bring
about an expanded economy that
will result in more security, in more
employment, in more recreation, in
more health, in better housing for
ri citizens SO the conditions of 1882
and early 1888 won't return.
Leaning back from his desk. he
inquired if his words had been suffi-
GENTLY simple and understood for his
auditors to write a story.
Then came the Jackpot" question.
1t was the first time that the
fourth-term issue had been put up
TO the President publicly.