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Show n0,0OOHEAR ADDRESS AT ; BONNEVILLE By LYIJ5 V. WILSON ; In it t-tl I'n"ss Staff Correspondent BONNEVILLE DAM SITE, 3 Ore Sept. 28 (U.R) President Roosevelt stood today in a !', natural amphitheater formed by jagged fir-softened hills and linked with the power policies of the New Deal a program of wider diffusion of J" population to discourage the overgrowth over-growth of vast industrial com--f munities. ' He pledged the "policy of widest wid-est use" of the surging power irtich soon will flow from this lovely spot in all directions.. He foreclosed the possibility of new piltsburghs in these mountain-shaded mountain-shaded valleys. He promised these northwestern descendants of : pioneers that there would be more dams on the Columbia river to amplify the energy al- ready planned from the turbines a of Bonneville and the vastly great-itv great-itv er Grand Coulee dam. Address Is Cheered Upwards of 10,000 persons were assembled here by the time Mr. Roosevelt spoke. They cheered and applauded approval of fur- ther power developments in the t Columbia basin. 1 Instead of vast new concentrations concentra-tions of industrial populations, Mr. Roosevelt pledged his admin-i admin-i istration to diffuse power over the countryside as widely as possible pos-sible to the smaller communities and to the farmsteads, as well as to great cities already established. To that end he recommitted ! himself and his administration to i "national planning for the future in seven or eight natural geogra- phical regions." His language seemed to endorse the Norris bill now pending in congress to create what have become known as little lit-tle "TV A" organizations throughout, through-out, the country to duplicate the development undertaken by the Tennessee Valley administration. Discourage Oversize The president said that the larger parts of the states of Oregon, Ore-gon, Washington and Idaho and parts of Montana snould be regarded re-garded as a unit in this federal plan, because they comprise the watershed of the Columbia river which is barriered now by Bonneville Bonne-ville dam here and the greater Grand Coulee. Thinking of the nation 50 or 100 years from now, the president intimated in-timated that emphasis will fall away from great industrial con- centrations of population to further fur-ther the growth of smaller communities. com-munities. 1 "An over-large city." he said, "inevitably meets problems caused by oversize." But Mr. Roosevelt did not propose pro-pose that the great cities reduce their size or cease growing; merely mere-ly that the smaller should thrive too. Challenging those who accuse him of interfering with "the liberty liber-ty of the individual," tlie president presi-dent asserted that the rights of neighbors and. of future generations gener-ations might transcend those of the property holder to do with his property as he wished. "My conception of liberty," he said, "does not permit an individual individ-ual citizen or group of citizens to commit . acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors, and especially espec-ially to harm the future generations gener-ations of Americans." He estimated that $2,000,000,-000 $2,000,000,-000 could have been saved the taxpayers if government many years ago had had the knowledge and willingness to undertake ' policies fostered by the New Deal. |