Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-04-15 | Page 6 | The Baltimore Speech

i The Baltimore Speech fervor ervo and eloquence President WITH v Roosevelt in addressing Baltimore's young Democrats Monday night set the problem of youth very clearly before the gathering He gave a concise summary of depression causes of ot unemployment causes and an arresting thought regarding the casualties of the tha period He chose an illuminating example of the many panaceas which are gratuitously offered from day to day to cure the nation of its economic ills Midway in his hs speech he fashioned a n neat at paragraph asserting just what youth has a right t to expect from life from coming of age to the evening of life How to attain it No uNo answer he said new or old is fit for your thought Unless unless unless un un- less it is framed in terms of what you face and what you desire unless desire unless it carries some definite definite deli deli- nite prospect of a practical to earth so solution solution so- so lution of your problems Upon this last point the president was grievously disappointing He did not once offer an an outline e of ot a to earth solution He has Often told told business business it must hire more men re reduce reduce re- re duce hours of toil and maintain pay rates His I. I remarks about retirement of the elderly toI tomake to tomake I make way for the young was only a rephrasing of arguments he advanced in behalf of social security legislation He made the point that he believes in further experimenting and vaguely indicated a desire to retrieve recovery instrument instrumentalities ment mentalities the supreme court has snatched from new dealers' dealers hands Press reports said high enthusiasm enthusiasm- was worked up in the audience Doubtless many ra radio radio radio ra- ra dio listen listeners rs felt warmed by the presidents president's words But somehow when he ended his peroration peroration tion with tion-with with Hold fast to your dream America needs it the effect was much the same as that felt when one has followed a woven thriller with a racing pulse to come suddenly upon the provoking line To be continued Perhaps there are political figures in Washington Wash Wash- ington who will be able to get much more out of of the address than this to extract the concrete concrete concrete con con- crete from the abstract to separate the general and the he particular But if Maryland's Jeffersonian Jeffer- Jeffer Jeffersonian youth the leaving Baltimore armory was asking Where do we go from here they were were left no more in doubt and con confusion than a host 7 of their countrymen scattered over the country