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Dr. High Says Principle Is
Expression of American
Ideal.
By the Associated Press.
Dr. Stanley High, one of the organ
izers of the "Good Neighbor League,”
traveled with President Roosevelt last
night to New York to hear the Presi
dent’s speech.
High, recently engaged in organiza
tion work for the Democratic Na
tional Committee, explained the po
litical complexion of the league In
this way:
“Some of our Ideals are those of
Franklin D. Roosevelt, while some he
has not heard of.
"The Good Neighbor League is a
non-partisan association of those who
believe that the principle of the good
neighbor is an expression of the
American ideal and should be%made a
fundamental policy of the American
Government.
"The good neighbor recognizes that
human values come before property
values; that the long-time prosperity
of property requires the well-being of
people; that the American answer to
the revolutionist is the removal of
those injustices which make revolu
tion.”
Before catching the President’s
train High was asked what the rela
tionship would be between the “Good
Neighbors” and the American Liberty
League because of the latter’s persist
ent opposition to the Roosevelt ad
ministration.
"We intend to go ahead with our
own program,” High said, "and if in
advancing our ideals, which are oppo
site to those of the American Liberty
League, we should seem to combat the
Liberty League, we would, neverthe
less, go right ahead.”
High added that the Good Neigh
bors had "no desire to revive the
American Liberty League, which is
moribund, by combating it.”
After Its directors had been re
ceived at the White House Friday the
league announced the President in
dorsed its prmciples.
Roosevelt
(Continued From First Page.)
on the train ride from Washington by
Jesse Jones, chairman of the Recon
struction Finance Corporation and
Harry L. Hopkins of New York, the di
rector of the Works Progress Admin
istration.
After the singing of “The Star
Spangled Banner" Right Rev. Msgr.
Michael J. Lavalle said prayer.
Others at Head Table.
Others at the head table included
Secretary Morgenthau, W. Forbes Mor
gan, secretary of the National Com
mittee: Edward J. Flynn, Bronx lead
er: James W. Gerard, former Ambas
sador to Germany; James A. Foley,
Frank Kelly and Mrs. Caroline O’Day,
e Representative. Beside the President
was seated Thomas J. McMahon, pres
ident of the club. President Roosevelt
began speaking at 10:35 p.m.
Introduced by Cornelius Collins,
chairman of the Dinner Committee,
Mr. Roosevelt was given a standing
ovation by the audience.
Before the President spoke the New
York audience twice vigorously ap
plauded words of praise by Gov. Leh
man for the purposes of the now-dead
National Recovery Administration.
The President interpolated in his
prepared address a reference to the
New York Assembly of today.
After referring to old battles in the
State, he added:
“The present Assembly flaunts the
Constitution when it declines to meet
the debt requirements of the State.
It balks at meeting relief needs. But
we won then and Gov. Lehman will
win today.”
Speaking of improved conditions
Bhown in financial pages, Mr. Roosevelt
added: “I do not refer to stock prices,
although they, too, have passed beyond
panic prices.”
Again he interpolated: “I propose
that the man forgotten in those olden
days shall not be forgotten again.”
His reference to grass in the streets
drew laughter as did his words about
the “newly organized brain trust—
not mine.”
The President went to his New York
home immediately after his speech.
He will go to the family estate at
Hyde Park tomorrow.
45 YEARS FOR PATRICIDE
Bon Sentenced for Beating His
Father to Death.
PRINCETON, HI.. April 25 (*>>.—
For beating his father to death with
an automobile crank, Joe Trillett, 23,
of Spring Valley, 111., was sentenced
today by Circuit Judge J. A. Davis to
serve 45 years in the Joliet State
prison.
Trillett, who wept as the long term
was meted out, confessed he fatally
struck his father, Octave Trillett, after
the parent accused the son of forging
a check.
Speaks at Jefferson Dinner
Close-up of President Roosevelt speaking at the Jefferson
dinner of the National Democratic Clubs in New York last
night. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Roosevelt Speech Text
New York Democrats Told That Nation Must
Prevent Economic as Well as Natural
Disasters.
HE text of President Roosevelt’s
speech before the National
Democratic Club's Thomas
Jefferson dinner last night In
New York follows:
It is a pleasure to be welcomed
this way to my home State of New
York. It has loyally supported those
progressive policies of government
in the making of which so many
of us have had a part. New York
State has an unbroken record of
almost a generation of liberal gov
ernment, each succeeding adminis
tration of State affairs building for
the future upon the best which the
past has given us.
I want to take this occasion to
compliment the State on its good
fortune in the loyal, competent and
unselfish service of its present
Governor, Herbert Lehman.
He has continued to extend and
strengthen the humane laws for
which this State has been noted.
History repeats itself. He has met
the same type of opposition today
which some of us as youngsters
met In the State Legislature 25
years ago. We won then and we
are winning today.
As a New Yorker I am confident
that a vast majority Of our citizens
this Autumn, as in the past, will in
vite Gov. Lehman to continue his
splendid work for at least two more
years.
Narrowed Horizons Formed.
America a century ago was re
garded as an economic unity. But
as time went on the country was
cut up bit by bit into segments. We
heard about the problems of par
ticular localities, the problems of
particular groups. More and more
people put on blinders: they could
see only their own individual inter
ests or the single community in
which their business was located.
It is only in these comparatively
recent days that we have been
turning back to the broader vision
of the founding fathers.
The cities of the Nation and the
countrysides near them have come
to realize each other's existence.
The same idea now is spreading on
a truly national scale.
That is why while I may be
breaking another precedent—and
they say in Washington that my
day is not complete without smash
ing at least one precedent—I can
come here to the city of New York
and talk with you about the cotton
problem of Georgia, the corn and
hog problem of Iowa and the wheat
problem of the Dakotas, the dust
storms of the West, the destructive
tornadoes of the South, the floods
of the Northeast. In the same way
I would not hesitate to discuss the
slum-clearance problems or any
other problems of the big cities of
the East with a farmer audience in
Georgia or Iowa or the Dakotas or
anywhere else.
Prevention and Relief.
The strong arm of the Nation Is
needed not in lmediate relief alone
—we grant that. It Is neded also
in taking measures of prevention
before natural disasters occur. It
is equally needed in taking meas
ures to prevent economic disasters
which are notnatural, but man
made.
During the put three years the
Hester street and Park avenue of
this city have both come to under
stand that they belong to the same
economic pattern and indeed to the
same Nation as the cotton, corn
and hog belts and the flood areas
and the dust bowls. Not so long
ago it was the farm against the
city and the city against the farm.
Prom now on, if both are to pros
per. it must be the farm with the
city and the city with the farm.
Economists are still trying to
find out what it was that hit us
back in 1929. I am not a profes
sional economist, but I think I
know. What hit us was a decade
of debauch, of group selfishness—
the sole objective expressed in the
thought—“every man for himself
and the devil take the hindmost.”
And the result was that about 98
per cent of the American popu
lation turned out to be "the hind
moat.”
Let me illustrate what happened
by taking the case of the garment
workers in New York City. They
make 40 per cent of all the clothes
of the Nation worn outside of New
York City. Their work and wages
in this city were dependent on the
sales they made all over the coun
try. The garment workers’ de
pression did not begin in 1929.
It began bark in 1921, when the
depression began on the farms of
the Nation. But back in the 20s,
people in power still thought of
prosperity chiefly in industrial
terms. They overlooked the farm
depression; and because it went
unrelieved the troubles that started
among the farmers in 1921 finally
and inevitably reached the gar
ment workers on Eighth avenue.
Economic Problems Belated.
Nebraska’s corn and Eighth av
enue's clothing are not different
problems; they are the same prob
lems. Before the war a Nebraska
farmer could take a 200-pound
hog to market and buy a suit of
clothe* made In New York. But in
1932, to get that same suit of
clothes he had to take two an<P a
half hogs to market. Back in the
20s, a cotton fanner had to raise
7 pounds of cotton to buy one
pair of overalls. By 1932, however,
he had to raise 14 pounds of cotton
• to get those New York overalls.
Obviously, the farmers stopped
buying as many clothes and when
the farm districts stopped buying
New York’s garment districts soon
started bread lines. That, however,
was only half of the vicious circle.
When the garment district’s bread
lines grew longer buying power in
the cities grew less. Other bread
lines formed. Every man on a
new breadline meant one person
who ate less and wore less. Be
cause the garment worker ate less,
the farmer sold less and his income
went down. The vicious strangling
circle was complete. Today we
have broken that throttlehold. The
American electorate proposes that
it shall not be renewed.
And while I am talking of food
consumption, here is a fact of equal
interest to the city dweller and the
farmer population. If all of the
7,000,000 people living in New York
City could afford to buy the bread
and meat and vagetables and milk
and cotton and wool that their
health and decent living call for
then we would need crop produc
tion from 3,000,000 more acres of
good crop land than we are using to
feed and clothe New York City to
day. I propose to continue the
fight for more food and better
homes.
Comparison of Success.
But this tie-up between cities and
farms is one of the chief reasons
why in 1933 we sought a national
solution for a national problem.
We sought simultaneously to raise
the farmer’s cash income and to
add to the workingman's pay en
velope. What our success has been
you can prove by the simple process
of putting the financial pages of
any newspaper published in 1936
alongside the financial pages of
the same newspaper published in
1932. By the way, every time I
come to New York I look for that
grass which was to grow in the
city streets!
But some Individuals are never
aatisfled. People complain to me
about the current costs of rebuild
ing America, about the burden on
future generations. I tell them
that whereas the deficit of the Fed
eral Government this year is about
*3,000,000,000, the national income
of the people of the United States
has risen from *35,000.000,000 in
the year 1932 to *65.000,000,000 in
the year 1936. and I tell them fur
ther that the only burden we need
to fear is the burden our children
would have to bear if we failed to
take these measures today.
BuUding national income, dis
tributing it more widely means not
only the bettering of conditions of
life, but the end of, and insurance
against, individual and national
deficits.
Nation-wide thinking. Nation
wide planning and Nation-wide ac
tion are the three great essentials
to prevent Nation-wide crises for
future generations to struggle
through.
Hit* Cheaper Costs.
Other individuals are never sat
isfied—one of these, for example,
belongs to a newly organized brain
trust—not mine. He says that the
only way to get full recovery—I
wonder if he admits we have had
any recovery—is to lower prices by
cheapening the co6ts of production.
Let us reduce that to plain Eng
lish. You can cheapen the costs
of industrial production by two
methods. One is by the develop
ment of new machinery and new
technique and by increasing em
ploye efficiency. We do not dis
courage that. But do not dodge
the fact that this means fewer
men employed and more men un
employed. The other way to re
duce the costs of Industrial pro
duction is to establish longer hours
for the same pay or to reduce the
pay for the same number of hours.
If you lengthen hours you will need
fewer workers. More men out of
work. If you choose lower wages
for the same number of hours,
you cut the dollars in the pay en
velope and automatically cut down
the purchasing power of the worker
himself.
Reduction of costs of manufac
ture does not mean more purchas
ing power and more goods con
sumed. It means just the oppo
site.
The history of the 1939 to 1933
period shows that consumption of
goods actually declines with a de
clining price level. The reason is
that in such periods the buying
power goes down faster than the
prices.
If you increase buying power,
prices will go up but more goods
will be bought. Wages ought to
and must go up with prices. This
does not mean unsound inflation or
skyrocketing prices; this should be
avoided, just as we seek to avoid
deflation and bankruptcy sale val
ues. What we do seek are a
greater purchasing power and a
reasonable stable and constant
price level. It is my belief, as I
think it is yours, that the industry
and agriculture of America sub
scribe to that objective. Toward
that end, representative govern
ment is working. The objective
cannot be obtained in a month or
a year. But results—results proven
by facts and figures, show that we
are on our way—very definitely on
our way. Higher wages for work
ers, more income for farmers,
means more goods produced, more
and better food eaten, fewer unem
ployed and lower taxes.
That is my economic and social
philosophy, and, incidentally, my
political philosophy, as well. I be
believe from the bottom of my
heart that it is the philosophy of
the 1936 America.
FOURTH OF JULY
GROUP RENAMED
Plant for Seating 10 000 Persons
at Celebration Are Being
Made.
The entire Fourth of July Commit
tee, which handled the celebration last
year under Chairman C. Melvin
Sharpe, has been reappointed to ar
range the Wash
ington observance
this year by Com
missioner Hazen,
it was announced
yesterday.
Assisting Sharpe
will be James E.
Colliflower and
Claude W. Owen,
vice chairmen;
Harold O. Hay
don, Herman
Carl, Henry M.
Brundage, jr,
Thomas E. Lodge,
George W. Beas- _ „ , .
ley, Frank R. Jel- c M*,T|" sh‘rB*'
leff, E. M. Graham, Mrs. Elizabeth K,
Peeples, Robert J. Cottrell, S. Percy
Thompson, Mrs. L. W. Hardy, Edgar
Morris, Col. John W. Oehmann, Col.
Peyton G. Nevitt, Maj. Edwin S. Bet
telheim. Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown,
Oapt. P. J. Carroll, Albert Clyde-Bur
ton, Curtis A. Hodges, Miss Bess Davis
Schreiner, W. E. Johnson and Richard
S. Tennyson.
Plans for seating 10,000 persons at
the fireworks display at Washington
Monument, climax of the day’s cele
bration, are being made by Haydon.
chairman of the Seating Committee.
Lodge will be In charge of community
participation, Carl of amplification,
and Jelleff of Illumination and
decoration.
LEFTIST GAINS DUE
AS FRANCE VOTES
New Chamber of Deputies
Will Be Selected
Today.
BACKGROUND— ’
Eighteen parties and a group
classified only as "independents of
no group" are represented in the
French Chamber of Deputies. Five
parties call themselves rightists and
have a strength of 101, six are
center parties able to muster 129
votes and seven are leftists, riding
the waves with 314 members. This
leftist majority has been strength
ening its power during recent
years as fascism appears more and
more a menace in Europe. Now on
election eve further gains by
Sodalist-Communist-Worker coali
tion are predicted.
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, April 25— Political leader*
prophesied tonight that national bal
loting tomorrow would bring a slight
swing to the Left in the composition
of a new Chamber of Deputies.
Tomorrow's balloting will be the
first voting for new deputies to cope
with economic worries and the danger
of war.
Overshadowing the election is the
anxiety over Germany's rearmament
and reoccupation of the Rhineland,
Italy’s war on Ethiopia and the
League of Nations’ sanctions.
Unre6t and discontent over the con
tinued economic depression figure
largely, too, In the campaign, whose j
main issue has been "national safety
and bread,’’ which Is another way of
saying "peace and plenty.”
Record Number of Candidates.
For the 615 seats in the Chamber
to be filled for a four-year term, there
is a record number of 4,807 candi
dates. Not all the seats will be filled
tomorrow. A candidate In the first
vote must obtain more than half the
votes in his district to be elected. In
districts where the race is close to
morrow, run-off elections will decide
the winner next Sunday.
PoUtlcal forecasters, even in the
right wing, predict a further swing to
the left, where the people * front of
Communists, Socialists and many
Radical-Socialists has concentrated
those forces.
On the other hand, some see a pros
pect of the moderate center expand
ing at the expense of both the right
(conservative) and the left.
The prize that awaits the victorious
majority Is the control of France’s
government.
Not only does the Chamber majority
determine who shall govern France,
it holds sway over the cabinet’s pol
icies, with power to overthrow the
government if the Chamber is dis
pleased.
Lines of Main Battle.
The main battle therefore wiU be
fought between the parties of the
people's front and the rest, particu
larly the nationalistic conservatives of
the national front.
The rightists have campaigned for
authoritative government stability of
cabinets—there have been 11 in the
past four years—and limitation of
the powers of Parliament.
The leftist slogan Is “against fas
cism,” war and “depression.” Fascism
being the leftist term for its conserva
tive enemies. The leftists also have
attacked the “money powers.”
Of particular interest in tomorrow’s
election will be the effect of the newly
risen Croix de Feu forces of Lieut.
Col. Francois de la Rocque. National
istic in tone, although La Rocque de
nies they stand for fascism or Hitler
ism, the Croix de Feu number more
than 700,000. They have no candi
dates of their own, but they have
been instructed to support national
ists.
SPAIN TO NAME ELECTORS.
MADRID. April 25 OP).—Far the
second time in two months, Spain will
hold elections tomorrow.
Her citizens are being called on to
name presidential electors for the se
lection of a President to succeed Niceto
Alcala Zamora, resigned.
An almost solid bloc of Popular
Front (leftist) electors is expected to
be returned, since the Monarchists and
Conservatives are abstaining from
voting.
EfforW to draft Premier Manuel
Azana as the sole presidential candi
date, however, are meeting with ob
stacles interposed by many of his fol
lowers who feel he should remain in
the premiership.
BARKING DOGS ADDEQ .
IN NOISE-MAKING BAN.
Commissioner Hazen Says Citi
zens Have Asked Canines
Be Included.
Barking dogs have been added to
the suggested list of noise-makers
which should have the attention of
the Noise Abatement Committee. Com
missioner Melvin C. Hazen reported
yesterday.
Several residents called him to ask
that dog barking be included in the
program for a more silent National
Capital. Hazen explained there now
is provision against such nuisance in
existing regulations and agreed that
the committee was interested in re
ducing all forms of noise.
The committee likely will expand
its membership from 20 to nearly 100,
so additional subcommittees can be
named to be charged with specific
attacks on unnecessary noises by street
cars, rattling manhole covers, auto
mobile horn-blowing and other ele
ments of the problem, Traffic Director
William A. Van Duzer said.
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of Merrie England. And composed modern music.
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