Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-06-30 | Page 4 | President Roosevelt Speaks

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SPEAKS PRESIDENT RESIDENT ROOSEVELT in his Ills latest message mes- mes P PRESIDE TT sage to the American people makes it clear that the administration course for recovery is is charted and that there is to be no from rom It H. lie expresses himself as H satisfied d with the a accomplishments co to date lIe he thinks the tile economic picture records material progress over the last year rear and ana he lie plainly js s impatient with critics who inquire Whither bound hound 2 The president denies that the government laid today is anything but hut the government down own by bv our forefathers and disavows leanings to o fas fascism i ism m communism socialism or any other ism His characteristic message redundant with cheer with optimism and with confidence vas essentially an appeal to the man on th the street a bid for continuing fai faith h and so not without v political significance President Roosevelt chooses a happy stage for or his point of comparison He says in effect ef effect ef cf- feet As As between this year and last year ear where here is the choice 2 More Hore specifically he asks the people to judge for themselves on this basis Are Arc you better off than you were we're last debts less burdensome 2 year car and Are Arc your There of course is but one answer but does docs the president cover the full range of the problem 7 Is our seeming progress accomplished accomplished pushed or is it merely the calm that attends the extension of the tIle mortgage 1 Fabulous sums have been spent in relief and effort designed designed designed de de- de- de signed to start the wheels of industry Improvement Improvement Im Lu- and last with provement as between bet this year these expenditures was as logical as it was vital The note however is still unpaid a mortgage against the the future An accurate appraisal appraisal appraisal ap ap- ap- ap on the basis of the questions put to the people demands some consideration for the obligations which have been incurred The president is hopeful for the future and his confidence is more or less contagious contagions Perhaps Per Per- Imps haps current departures which worry and disturb disturb disturb dis dis- dis- dis business arc are essential steps in the tion Perhaps recovery for the insolvent ent must be erected upon borrowed money to forestall forestall fore fore- stall the thc day of reckoning to a more comfortable comfort comfort- a able Jc period But whether the assumptions are arc or wrong the president akes n one thing c certain and that is that t there ere is is' t to be no turn turning ing mg back no faltering in the effort His appraisal of the past year for the moment mo mo- ment ent at 1 least ast is final and the president points to fo new new hopes such as the housing program and m monetary reform both of which have laye substantial substantial substantial sub sub- possibilities He Ho reiterates his faith in social i insuranceS insurance urance and the hope that one day individual economic security may be an accomplished pUshed d fact in these United States He quite appropriately defers further reference to this program to another nother time for although h its aims are inevitable they do not relate directly either to the emergency relief program or the ther r recovery ery effort The message subject to quizzical cal analysis and possibly some doubts nevertheless nevertheless never never- is a typical Roosevelt document expressing ex ex- pressing full satisfaction with the immediate past and promise for the future a confident fidelity to the task in hand Critics at least are put to disadvantage if they attempt J to refute these thes hopes and aspirations