Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-04-26 | Page 1 | President Cities Child Problems

PRESIDENT CITES CHILD PROBLEMS Roosevelt Speaks to Conference WASHINGTON, April 26 Wv-President Wv-President Roosevelt told ths White House children's conference todsy thst democracy's success rested not on "territory, financial power, machines ma-chines or armamenta," but on the "deep-lying satisfaction of its cili-senship. cili-senship. In an address broadcast ta the nation Mr. Roosevelt touched on international troubles by quoting from two recent addresses. He recalled re-called his Pan-American day assertion asser-tion that men sre "only prisoners within their own minds" and "have within themselves the power to become be-come free at any moment" and then quoted -from his peace appeal to Reichsfuehrer Hitler and Premier Mussolini that "leaders of great nations na-tions have it in their power to liberate lib-erate tiie disaster thst impends.' "In providing for the health and sducation of children, for the formation for-mation of their minds and characters charac-ters in ways which are in harmony with the institutions of s free society," so-ciety," Mr. Roosevelt continued, "democracy "de-mocracy ia training its future leaders. lead-ers. "The safety of democracy therefore there-fore depends upon the widespread diffusion of opportunities for developing de-veloping those qualities of mind and character - which are essential to leadership in our modern age." The president spoke in the East room of the White House to members mem-bers of the White House conference on children In a democracy. It was the fourth such conference and Mr. Roosevelt recalled that the first was held in 109 under the leadership of President Theodore Roosevelt