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Highlights Of Address
By President Roosevelt
In Atlanta on Nov. 29th.
Highlights from the address of
President Roosevelt at Grant Field
Friday, November 29th:
o o o o
“The word ‘progress’ is a better
word than ‘recovery.’ ”
o • o •
“We have passed the peak of ap
propriations; revenue, without the
imposition of new taxes, are increas
ing, and we csn look forward with
assurance to a decreasing deficit.”
o o o o
“Since March 4, 1933, the nation
al debt has risen from $21,000,000,-
000 to $29,600,000,000, but it must
be remembered that today, included
in this figure, is nearly $1,500,000,-
000 of working balance in the treas
ury and nearly $4,600,000,000 of
recoverable assets . . . which will be
used for the retirement of debt.”
o o o o
“Your government says to you:
‘You cannot borrow your way out of
debt; but you can invest your way
into a sounder future.’ ”
o o o o
“American life has improved in
these two years and a half, and, if
I have anything to do with it, it is
going to improve more in the days
to come.”
o o o o
“I sense a swelling prosperity of
the spirit that spells a greater help
and a deeper happiness for our fel
lowmen.”
o o o o
"You and I—yes, every individual
and every family in the land—are
being brought close to that supreme
achievement of the present congress,
the social security law.”
o o o o
“National surveys prove that the
average of our citizenship lives to
day on what would be called by the
medical fraternity a third-class diet
. . . for the very simple reason that
the masses of the American people
have not got the purchasing power
to eat more and better food.
“Most Americans want to give
something for what they get.”
o o o o
“Direct relief . . . was necessary
to ward off actual starvation, but as
quickly as possible we turned to the
job of providing actual work for
those in need.”
o o o o
“Wednesday, two days ago, there
were 3,125,000 persons at work on
various useful (federal) projects
throughout the nation.”
“I mentioned a few weeks ago
that farm income in the United
States has risen since 1932 a total
of nearly three billions. That is be
cause wheat is selling at better than
90 cents instead of 32 cents; corn
at 60 cents instead of 12 cents; cot
ton at 12 cents instead of at 4%
cents, and other crops in proportion.
I wonder what cotton would be sell
ing at today if during these past
three years we had continued to pro
duce fifteen or sixteen or seventeen
million bales each year, adding to our
own surplus, adding to the world sur
plus and driving the cotton farmers
of the south into bankruptcy and
starvation. The additional three bil
lions of farm income has meant the
rebirth of city business, the reopen
ing of closed factories, the doubling
of automobile production, the im
provement of transportation, and the
giving of new employment to mil
lions of people.”
“I take it that it has been equal
ly worthwhile to the nation to give
jobs to the unemployed fn the con
struction of a vast network of high
ways, including thousands of miles
of farm-to-market roads, in repair
ing great numbers of 'schools and
building hundreds of new ones in
city and country, in helping cities to
put in sewers and sewage disposal
plants and water works; in construct
ing cold storage warehouses and
county recreational buildings; in cre
ating aviation fields; in giving a
million boys a chance to go to CCC
Camps and to work on.forestry and
soil erosion prevention; in controll
ing malaria; in pushing health proj
ects; in putting white collar workers
into jobs of permanent usefulness
to their communities, and in giving
youth an opportunity for better
education.”
o o o o
““You and I can well remember
the overwhelming demand that the
national government come to the
rescue of the home owners and the
farm owners of the nation who were
losing the roofs over their heads
through inflated valuations and ex
horbitant rates of interest.”
o o o o
“You and 1 still recollect the need
for and the successful attainment of
a banking policy which not only op
ened the closed banks, but guaran
teed the deposits of the depositors
of the nation.”
o o o o
“Last April I stated what I have
held to consistently ever since—
that it was the hope of the admin
istration that by some time in No
vember of his year we would sub
stantially end the dole and offer in
place of it employment to by far
the greater part of the three and a
half million employable persons we
estimated to be on the relief rolls in
the United States. Week after week
since then some individuals and some
groups, careless of the truth and re
gardless of scruple, have sought to
make the American people believe
that this program was a hopeless
failure and that it could not possibly
succeed.”
o o o o
“The credit of the government is
higher today than that of any other
great nation, in spite of attacks
made on that credit by those few in
dividuals and organizations which
seek to dictate to this administra
tion and to Congress how to run the
national treasury and how to let the
needy starve.”
THE WORLD WAR TAUGHT US
A LESSON
(By Bruce Catton)
The way of the transgressor may
be hard, but it isn’t nearly as tough
as the way of the confiding gentle
man who has loaned vast sums of
money to a bunch of dead-beats who
have no intention of paying.
If you need any further enlight
ment on the subject apply at the
Treasury Department in Washing
ton. Officials there have just sent
out bills for slightly more than $155,-
000,000 to 12 foreign nations, and
they have not the slightest expecta
tion of getting more than an unim-
portant fraction of the money.
The bills, as you probably don’t
need to be told, are the sums due on
the war debts, and the unimportant
fraction that will be paid will come
from Finland, where they seem t *
have absurd old-fashioned notions
about the duties of a debtor.
For the rest, Uncle Sam now has
his one-time allies on the cuff for
approximately $12,000,000, and as
the years go by Uncle Sam comes
more and more to understand the
feelings of the country gentleman
who has invested his life’s savings in
some city slicker’s machine for mak
ing nice new dollar bills. He just
isn’t going to get his money back,
and in this day of unbalanced bud
gets he could use it very handily.
All this is a good thing for us to
remember, in these days when Eu
rope seems to be winding itself up
for anew war.
The late war cost us a great many
things including the lives of some
150,000 of our finest young men;
hut these war debts, although they
are as dead as a salted herring, are
a still living reminder of the fact
that going to war nowadays is a
mugg’s game in which every player
is bound to lose his shirt.
We could use those 12 billions,
but we wouldn’t feel so badly about
their loss if they had actually bought
anything useful. At the time we
laid them out, we supposed that was
going to be the case. The war was
being fought to preserve democracy,
to make peace safe, to rescue civil
ization itself; and 12 or any con
ceivable number of billions would
be a cheap price to pay for such
boons.
But the war did none of those
things. Indeed, it .sometimes seems
to have dealt a death blow to the
very things it was supposed to pre
serve; and the money is gone for
ever, along with the dreams we
dreamed when we laid it on the line.
The only thing we can do now is
charge it up to education.
But the education, at least, is
worth having. If and when this new
war starts in Europe we can remem
ber those 12 billions—and take a
firm resolve that nothing on earth
will persuade us to send any more
men, ships, or money overseas.
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THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
It Might Not Have Been
The following editorial, written
by Curtis D. MacDougall, editor of
the Evanston (111.) News-Index, was
awarded first prize in the Best Edi
torial contest of the Illinois Press
association at its recent meeting at
the University of Illinois:
The Lindbergh baby might still be
alive;
Its illustrous parents might have
been spared the harrowing exper
ience which will haunt them all their
lives;
A sum estimated at about $629,-
000 might have been saved individu
als and the state;
A young man, skilled in a trade,
with a wife and baby, might not
have been sentenced to die;
A number of other kidnapings,
some involving loss of life, might
not have been perpetrated in imita
tion of one which seemed to have
been highly successful;
An entire nation might not have
been demoralized and brutalized for
almost three years, and who knows
how much longer—
If—
Mankind were more intelligent;
If, instead of clinging ignorantly
to outworn theories and methods of
safeguarding itself against lawless
ness, it had utilized scientific knowl
edge and technique.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann is an
ex-convict. Were he able to return
to Germany he would be arrested as
a fugitive from justice. Twice he
attempted to enter this country il
legally and on his third attempt suc
ceeded. Able to tell the truth only
with difficulty he made a practice of
deceiving his wife, his friends and
police authorities with whom he
came into contact. His sullenness,
stolidity, taciturnity and stubborn-
ness suggest a warped mentality—
not, by any means, insanity in the
legal sense of the term —the insta
bility which, from the standpoint of
society, is potentially more danger
ous than outright craziness.
Hauptmann’s career of crime
should and could have been prevent
ed after his first conviction years
ago in Germany. Under the laws of
that country, which are similar in
this respect to those of our own,
Hauptmann could be imprisoned on
ly for a definite period prescribed as
suitable punishment for the offense
he committed. At the termination
of that sentence it was mandatory
upon his jailers to release him.
“How,” it may be asked, “were
the court and prison officials who
handled his case at that time to
know what the future would be?”
The answer is that, of course, the
average judge, juror, police or pri
son official is iccompetent to pass
judgment on the potentialities of a
human personality.
But—there are men of knowledge
who can pass such judgment. They
are the psychiatrists, the mental ex
perts, whose concern is not the cir
cumstance of a crime or its gravity
but the individual committing it.
Although today employed quite ex
tensively in police and juvenile
courts to work with first and minor
offenders, these specialists are pow
erless to enforce their prescriptions.
Potentially dangerous as the petty
thief may be, there is no legal pro
cedure by which he can be remov
ed from society. Instead, he must
be released after serving a sentence
and allowed to roam until he com
mits a crime sufficiently grave to
warrant his legal murder or life
time imprisonment.
Make mistakes? Of course the
psychiatrists make mistakes. But so
do judges and juries, pardoning
governors, parole and probation
boards. Their mistakes are those of
scientific diagnosis where as those
of laymen dealing with a scientific
problem arc ones of ignorance.
It cannot, of course be mantained
with certainty that a mental test
would have caused Hauptmann to be
adjudged a dangerous character de
serving of removal from society
years ago. What is certain, how
ever, is that were the findings of
mental experts enforceable there is
many and many a Hauptmann w r ho
would be taken out of circulation
before he had a chance to commit
murder or some other major crime.
The existence of capital punish
ment as a deterrent from crime is
proof of society’s failure to cope
with its criminal element rational
ly. The death penalty is a gesture
of impotence.
FIRST STRAWBERRIES
BRING $1 PER QUART
Miami, Fla.—The first of Dade
county’s 1935-36 strawberries came
to market Saturday. W. C. Slaugh
ter, who grew them, got $1 per
quart.
Watch next week’s issue of
The Herald for an
Important
Announcement!
Full details will be given about
the final campaign of the Good
Will Trade Campaign.
SIOO.OO In Cash
Will be GIVEN AWAY
Watch] ff or this announcement
Next Week
Jefferson Merchants
Association
CAN YOU BEAT IT?
Where can a man buy a cap for his
knee?
Or a key for a lock of his hair?
Can your eyes be called an academy,
because of the pupils there?
In the crown of your head what
jewels are found?
Who travels the bridge of your
nose?
What could you use in shingling the
roof of your mouth;
The nails on the end of your toes?
Could the crook in your elbow be
sent to jail? If so, what did he
do?
How can you sharpen your shoulder
blades? I don’t know, do you?
Could you sit in the shade of the
plam of your hand?
Or beat on the drum of your ear?
Does the calf on your leg eat the
corn on your toe?
Then why not grind the corn on the
ear?
THE DOCTORS
AREJGHT
Women should take only
liquid laxatives
Many believe any laxative they
might take only makes constipation
worse. And that isn’t true.
Do what doctors do to relieve
this condition. They use a liquid
THREE STEPS
1 TO REUEVIN6
A cleansing dost today; a smaller
quantity tomorrow; less each time,
until bowels need no help at all.
laxative, and keep reducing the
dose until the bowels need no help
at all.
Reduced dosage is the secret of
aiding Nature in restoring regularity.
You must use a little less laxative
each time, and that’s why your laxa
tive should be in liquid form. A liquid
dose can be regulated to the drop.
The liquid laxative generally used
Is Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. It
contains senna and cascara both
natural laxatives that form no habit
even with children. Syrup Pepsin is
the nicest tasting, nicest acting laxa
tive you ever tried.
• a
Stylish Drink
HOW it grows—the consumption
of grapefruit juice in this
country! Fresh factories are
springing up in Florida to seal
this delicious beverage in cans,
and fresh addicts are buying it
every day. Before the days when
prohibition was repealed, ill-ad
vised persons used to hurry off to
Havana in order to partake of
drinks that were not permitted
here. Now that prohibition is no
longer in force, well-advised per
sons stay here and drink such bev
erages as this titillating
Havana Special: Mix the con
tents of a 10-ounce can grapefruit
juice and one cup syrup from
canned pineapple. Boil together
one-fourth cup sugar and one cup
water, then cool and add. Chill,
add one bottle charged water and
serve ice cold in punch glasses.
Makes ten glasses.
Beverage for the Beau Monde
This beverage has style as well
as a taste that attracts so many
partakers. You can tell it by the
very names of the concoctions
that are made with it. Take, for
instance, this
Coffee Punch: Mix together one
cup strong coffee, one cup orange
juice, the juice only from two No.
2 cans grapefruit and one cup
maple syrup. Chill. Just before
serving, add one quart ginger ale
and two cups heavy cream. The
cream may be omitted, if desired.
Makes a little less than three
quarts.
Not only the name, which
smacks of former days of fashion,
but the ingredients make this a
drink which moderns would call
chic.
But perhaps a rickey would be
even more appropriate as a sum
mer beverage. Here’s one that
consists largely of grapefruit
juice:
Cherry Rickey: Boil one-fourth
cup sugar and one cup water, cool
and add the contents of a 10-ounce
can grapefruit juice, the juice only
from a No. 2 can sour pitted cher
ries and one-fourth cup mara
schino cherry juice. Chill. Add
one bottle charged water and
serve ice cold. Makes twelve punch
glasses.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER S, 1935.
Atmosphere of the Elite
Another grapefruit combination
that makes hot weather seem like
a mirage is the following
Fruit Punch: Dissolve one cup
honey in two and a half cups wa
ter brought to boiling, add two
and a half more cups of water,
and chill. Then add one quart
orange juice, one-half cup lemon
juice and the contents of a No. 2
can grapefruit juice and chill
thoroughly. This fills twenty-four
punch glasses and carries the at
mosphere associated with gor
geous frosted punch bowls with
floating ice and presided over by
a hostess who knows what’s what.
And the following delectable
drink also carries all the atmos
phere of the socially elect.
Strawberry Grapefruitade: Boil
four cups sugar and three cups
water for five minutes. Cool.
Hull two quarts strawberries,
wash, crush, add one cup
and let stand for an hour. Then
add to the cold syrup. Add the
juice of twelve oranges and six
lemons and the contents of two
No. 2 cans of grapefruit juice.
Just before serving add three
quarts ginger ale, and serve over
a large piece of ice in a punch
bowl. Serves fifty.
Don’t Be Misled
You might think that a bever
age which is as swanky as all
this would be expensive. Don't be
misled. There is a large supply
of grapefruit juice in cans, and
commercial canning has done for
it what it has done for many other
foods formerly available only to
the very rich. It has made it
available to the entire public at a
price that it can *