Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 September 1937 — Page 4
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— Text of Roosevelt Address at Bonneville—
BONNEVILLE DAM, Ore., : Sept. 28 (U. P.).—The text of President Roosevelt's speech
at Bonneville Dam follows:
Today I have a feeling of real satisfaction in witnessing the completion of another great national project, and of pleasure in the fact that in its inception, four years ago, I had some part. My interest in the Whole of ‘the valley of the great Columbia River goes back to 1920 when I first studied its mighty possibilities. Again, in 1932, I visited Oregon and Washington and Idaho and took occasion in Portland to express views which have since, through the action of the Congress, become a recorded part of American national policy. Almost exactly three years ago, I inspected the early construction stages of this dam at Booneville, The more we study the water resources of the nation, the more we accept the fact that their use is a matter of national concern, and that in our plans for their use our line of thinking must include “great regions as well as narrower localities. If, for example, we had known as much and acted as effectively 20 and 30 and 40 years ago as we do today in the development of the use of land in that great semi-arid strip in the center of the country which runs from the Canadian border to Texas, we could have prevented in great part the abandonment of thousands of farms in portions of 10 states and thus prevented the migration of thousands of destitute families from those areas into the states of Washington and Oregon and California. We would have done this by avoiding the plowing up of vast areas which should have been kept in grazing range and by stricter regulations to prevent overgrazing. At the same time we would have checked soil erosion, stopped the denudation to our forests and controlled disastrous fires,
“I THINK OF FUTURE”
Some of my friends who talk glibly ‘of the right of any individual to do anything he wants with any of his property take the point of view that it is not the concern of Federal or state or local government to interfere with what they miscall “the liberty of the individual.” With them I do not agree and never have agreed because, unlike them, I am thinking of the future of the U. S. My conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or group of citizens to commit acts of de-
predation against nature in such a |
way as to harm their neighbors, and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. - If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government to act on it, we would have saved a sum which, in the last few years, has cost the taxpayers of the nation at least two billion dollars, Coming back to the water shed of the Columbia River, which covers the greater part of the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and a part of Montana, ‘it is increasingly important that we think of that region as a unit—and especially in terms of the whole population of that are as it is today and as we expect it™Will be 50 and even a hundred years from now. . I appreciate and I understand fully the desire of some who live close to some of the great sources of power in this water shed to seek + the advantages which come from geographical proximity, : More than eight years ago, when I became Governor of the State of New York, we developed plans for the harnessing of the St. Lawrence River and the production of a vast amount of cheap power. The good people who lived within a few miles of the proposed dam were enthused by the prospect of building up a huge manufacturing center close to the source of the power—another Pittsburgh—a vast city of whirling machinery. It was a natural dream, but wiser counsels prevailed and the Government of the State laid down a policy based on the distribution of the proposed power to as wide an area as the science of the transmission would permit.
URGES WIDE USE POLICY
We felt that the Governor and Legislature of the State owed it to the people in the smaller communities for hundreds of miles around to give them the benefit of cheap
electricity in their homes and their farms and their shops. And while the St. Lawrence project is still on paper, I:have no doubt of its ultimate development, and of the application of the policy of the widest possible use: when the electric current starts to flow. That is why in developing electricity from this Bonneville Dain, from the Grand Coulee Dam and from other dams to be built on the Columbia, and its tributaries, the policy of the widest use ought to prevail. The transmission of electricity is making such scientific strides today that we can well visualize a date, not far distant, when every oommunity in this great area will be wholly electrified. It is because I am thinking of the nation and the region 50 years from now that I venture the further prophesy that as time passes we will do everything in our power to encourage the building up of the
smaller communities of the United
States. Today many people are beginning to realize that there is inherent weakness in cities which become too large and inherent strength in a wider geographical distribution of population: : An over-large city inevitably meets problems caused by oversize. Real estate values and rents become: too high; the time consumed in going from one’s home to one’s work and back again becomes excessive; congestion of streets and other transportation problems arise; truck gardens disappear because the back yard is too small; the cost of living of the average family rises far too high, There is doubtless a reasonable balance in all of this and. it is a balance which ought to be given more and more study. No one would suggest, for example, that the great cities of Portland and Tacoma and Seattle and Spokane should stop their growth, but it is a fact that they could grow unhealthily at the expense of all the smaller communities of which they form logical centers. Their healthiest “growth actually depends on a simultaneous healthy growth of every smaller community within a radius of hundreds of miles, Your situation in the Northwest Is in this respect no different from the situation in the other great regions of the nation. That is why it has been proposed in the Cohgress that regional planning boards be set up for the purpose of coordinating the planning for the future in seven or eight natural geographical regions.
DENIES CHARGES
You will have read here as elsewhere many misleading and utterly untrue statements in some papers and by some politicians that this proposed legislation would set up allpowerful authorities which would
| destroy state lines, take away local
government and make what people call a totalitarian or authoritarian or some other kind of ga dangerous national centralized control. Most people realibe that the exact opposite is the truth; that regional commissions will be far more closely in touch with the needs of all the localities ‘and all the people in their respective regions than a sytsem of plans which originates in the capital of the nation. By decentralizing, as I have proposed, the Chief Executive, the various Gov-
FARM TENANCY CASH FOR STATE DELAYED
But Few Loans Possible in Coming Weeks.
Funds to place the BankheadJones Farm Tenancy Act in operation in Indiana probably will not be available for several weeks, John O, Calvin, Rural Rehabilitation Supervisor for Marion, Hendricks and Hancock Counties, announced today. Mr. Calvin said only a few loans can be made for several months because only 10 million dollars is available for the 48 states. Indiana’s share has not been announced. The act provides for an increase of 25 million dollars after June 30, 1938, and 50 million dollars for the succeeding year.
AIR MECHANICIANS’ COURSE TO BE GIVEN
A training course in airplane mechanics is to be offered at Technical High School Monday evenings beginning Oct. 11, Edward Green, assistant principal, announced. The U. S. War Department has co-operated with the school in equipping a shop with a complete airplane and several engines. A
wind-tunnel also has been con- 3
structed. Registration for the cours€ will be held Oc. 4, 6 and 8, Mr. Green said.
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We bought beBut now we find our-
ernment departments and the Congress itself will be able to get from each region a carefully worked out plan.each year—a plan based on future needs, a plan which will seek primarily to help all the people of the region without unduly favoring any one locality or discriminating against any other. In other words, the responsibility of the Federal Government for the welfare of ifs citizens will not come from the top in the form of unplanned, hit or miss appropriations of money, but will progress to the National Capital from the ground up—from the communities and counties and states’ which lie within each of the logical geographical areas.
Another great ‘advantage will be
served by this process of planning from the bottom up. Under our laws the President submits to the Congress an annual budget—a budget which, by the way, we expect to have definitely balanced by the next fiscal year. In this budget we know how much can properly be expended for the development of our natural resources, the protection of our soil, the construction of our highways and buildings, the maintenance of our harbors and channels and all the other elements which fall under the general heading of public works. By regional planning it will be vastly easier for the executive branch and the Congress to determine how the appropriations for the: following year shall be fitted most fairly and equitably into the total amount which our national pocketbook allows us to spend, To you who live thousands of miles away in other parts of the United States, I want to give two or three simple facts. This Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River, 42 miles east of Portland, with Oregon on the south side of the river and Washington on the north, is one of the major power and navigation projects undertaken since 1933. It is 170 feet high and 1250 feet long. It has been built by the corps of engineers of the War Department, and when fully completed, with part of its power installations, will cost $51,000,000. Its locks
will enable shipping to. use this great waterway much farther inland than at Present, and give an outlet to the enormously valuable agricultural and mineral products of Oregon and Washington and Idaho.
‘PEOPLE TO BENEFIT'
Its generators ultimately will produce 580,000 horse power of electricity. ; Truly in the construction of this dam we have had our eyes on the future of the nation. Its cost will be returned to the people of the United States. many times over in the imbrovement of navigation and transportation, the cheapening of electric bower, and the distribution of this power to hundreds of small communities within a great radius,
As I look upon Bonneville Dam today, I cannot help the thought that instead of spending, as some nations do, half their national income in piling up armaments and more armaments for purposes of war, we in America are wiser in using our wealth on projects like this which will give us more wealth, better living and greater happiness for our children.
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29 Girls’ 1.98
21 Girls’ skirts; navy, brown and wine, sizes 10
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23 Women’s 1.98 House Coats, sizes 14 to 20__$1.59 25 Shirley Temple Dresses, sizes | to 5, Discon- | tinued styles, slightly soiled. Were $1.98 ----99% Women’s 1.98 Wash Frocks, winter shades Zo» _99¢
Just 20 Women's Man-Tailored
SUITS
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Action or plain backs. Plain colors and mixtures. Sizes 14 to 20.
Just 7 Women's Better Quality
FUR COATS
Clearance
$21 00
Full length and swagger styles. Kidskins, poneys and broadtails (processed lamb).
12 Child's 3-Piece CHINCHILLA SETS
$399
Regulation coat, leggings and helmet. Sizes 4 and 6 only. $5.98 value,
27 Girls’ 84c OUTING PAJAMAS
66¢c
2-Piece styles, heavy weight. Sizes 8 to 14; slightly soiled. .
41 pieces Infants’ Outing Gowns and Sacques, slightly-s oiled.
6 Infants’ Carriage Robes, fringed edges. Blue and pink.
99 Infants’ 19¢ and 29¢ Cotton Shirts. Sizes | to 6
8 Misses’ Leather Jackets.
10 Girls’ All-Wool
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Black or brown. 30 Pairs Mrs. Day's Baby Shoes, soft sole, Twin Sweater Sets,
Sizes 12, 14,
Were 2.19
18 and 20. Were 10.98 black and ch amp only. Sizes 0 to 4 pastel shades, soiled.
regularly 1.00
Women's Rayon
UNDIES
19¢
Plain and fancy weaves. Assorted sizes.
Women’s 59¢ Fall Purses _______________ ---2T¢
Women's Hand-Made GOWNS
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Tearose and white, embroidered and appliqued. Sizes 16 and 17.
Women’s 59¢ and 1.00 Soiled Neckwear
‘Women’s’ Rubber Rain Capes
Boys’ and girls’ School Hose Armands Blended Creams
51 Women's $1.00 All-Wool
SWEATERS
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Also fancy cottons. Slipover styles, broken sizes, assorted colors.
71 Pairs Women's Full Fashioned
SILK HOSE
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Seconds and thirds of $1.00 grades. Broken sizes and colors,
1.00 guaranteed Electric Irons i mm 84c 3.39 32-pc. China Dinner Ware set
Women's 1.98 all-wool Coat Sweaters as Women’s rayon striped Union Suits
Women’s 1.00 Indera Knit Slips
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Girls' Suede or Calf OXFORDS
$18
Brown or black, perfect fitting oxfords. Sizes 3 to 9. ;
Boys' Sturdy School OXFORDS
$1 39
Good fitting, long wearing ‘oxfords. Sizes 1 to 6.
Children’s OXFORDS
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Browns and blacks, well made. Sizes 8% to 2.
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Boys’ 2.29 Blue Melton Jackets
Boys' 2-Pants SUITS
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$6.95 Value Fancy Oassimeres. One pr. long pants, 1 pr. knickers. Sizes 7-16.
$1.11
1.29 Juvenile Suits, pants and blouse, 4 to 8____79¢ Boys’ Corduroy Overall Pants, sizes 4 to 10____99¢
T9¢ Juvenile Sweaters, sizes 4 to 8
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Boys’ Black Leatherette Rain Coats, 3 to 16 ___$1.88
. Men’s C. B. Boys’ 59¢ Union Suits,
Men's 32-Oz. Blue MELTON JACKETS $7) 88 *
Cossack style, full zipper front. Sizes 36 to
Men's Blue Melton OVERCOATS _ $15.00 Value
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Belted back models, Sizes 36 to 46.
Men’s 1,00 Dress Shirts, sizes 14 to 17 ________ 796 Men’s 1.00 Fall Union Suits, sizes 36 to 46
Cones 79¢ Work Shirts_______ ----59¢
ages 6 to 16._________39¢
9 Boys’ 1.50 Lumber Jackets, sizes 10 to 18__79¢
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selves without enough warehouse space. So 5 ra UE we are offering to loan you some of our c warehouse pianos. You are under no ob- Wool >chool SKIRTS ligation to purchase the piano we loan you. : Plain colors and IT SM
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1 Burner, blue steel, screen shelves. $1.00 value, :
16x25 inch size—heavy weight, weather proof.
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39¢ Braided Oval Rag Rugs, 18x30 in. size___: i 59¢ felt base Floor Covering Remnants__25¢ sq. yd. 1:19 bordered hall and stair Carpets®’-in. widtbggg yg, 2.95 bordered 6x9 felt Base Rugs_.__________$1.95
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