Evening star., 1952-10-22
BY n. As.osis..d Pres,

ICC yOtsOUtHS 80 tiGO tCAc W N'e
address by President Truman
last night at Pottsville:
IT hope that you will support
Adlai Stevenson and John
Sparkman on November 4. I.
hope you will elect Judge Bard
to the United States Senate.
And I hope you will elect Peter
Kremel-who is typical of our
fine new crop of young Demo-
crats-to the House Of Rep
resentatives.
I must confess I was little
disappointed four years ago
that Pennsylvania did not join
the majority Of the States of
the Union in indorSing the pol
icies Of the Democratic Party.
This year you have the oppor-
tunity Of rectifying that mis-
take.
AS a matter Of fact, I'm sure
the results in Pennsylvania in
1948 did not reflect the real feel
ings Of the citizens Of this State.
I think the basic facts show up
in an analysis Of the voting.
Then. as now, more Pennsylvan-
1anS believed in the great pro-
gresSive programs of the New
Deal and the Fair Deal than
opposed them. But the other
side got a higher proportion
OF its supporters to the polls.
So I say to you. Let's get the
message out among our friends
and neighbors that they've got
to turn out for Adali Stevenson
and the rest Of the Democratic
ticket on election day. Let's get
Pennsylvania back on the right
track.
And in return, ! know that
Adlai Stevenson will give you
some of the finest leadership
that has ever come from any
President Of the United States.
He has been a great Governor
Of a great State. He is a clear,
straight thinker. He is a man
of deep conviction, and loyalty
to principle. He will bring a
change in Government. but it
will be a change that will build
on all the constructive measures
we have taken in the last 20
years.
I have been concerned for
some time about unemployment
in the hard coal fields Of Penn
sylvania. This is one of the
few areas Of the country where
unemployment has been rela-
lively high even in the most
prosperous times. You have
special problem here in the
long-term decline of your basic
anthracite industry.
One Of the ways in which the
Federal Government is trying to
help this area is by conducting
research on the conservation of
our coal resources and the util-
ization of coal. This research
is going on at the anthracite
laboratory at Schuylkill Haven,
just down the road from here.
We had quite a fight getting
any money for this laboratory
from that do-nothing Repub-
lican 80th Congress. In fact,
the Republican House killed the
whole appropriation, but we
managed to get it restored in
the Senate, thanks to the good
work Of your Senator Frank
Myers.
The only long-run solution Of
your employment problem is. of
course. to get new industries to
develop here along with coal
mining I am glad to see that
Pottsville and the other COM
munities of Schuylkill County
have been making real progress
in that direction. I am told
that employment in all kinds Of
manufacturing in this county
has gone up IS per cent since
1910. That is good, and con-
gratulate you for it.
The one thing that will help
most to bring new industries in
Pottsville, and keep full employ
ment in the one you have, is
general prosperity in the coun-
try as a whole.
Now, the policies Of the Ma
tional Government have a great
deal to do with whether we have
full employment and an expand
ing economy, or whether we
have depression. We learned in
1929 that unwise policies can
plunge the country into depres-
sion. And we've learned over
and over again since 1882 that
wise policies can lead us out of
depression and into a continu-
ing prosperity.
What do the Republicans say
about the problem of full
employment? Their platform
doesn't even mention it. What
it says-and you wouldn't be-
liev0 it if you didn't read it
Is that initiative has been dead
ened, that free enterprise has
been wrecked.
Well. as I told one audience
last week, If this country is a
wreck. it is a mighty prosperous
wreck.
For a long time, I have been
wondering how any intelligent
people could talk such nonsense.
What could they possibly mean?
Now I think I've found the
answer. It's all in a study just
completed by a fellow Pennsyl-
vanian Of yours, Prof. Simon
Kuznets Of the University of
Pennsylvania. who has put to-
gether some of the most re-
vealing statistics I have ever
seen.
Professor Kuznets found that
in the 20 years between 1929 and
1948 the insomes of the bottom
90 per cent Of the population
have more than doubled.
Professor KuznetS found that