Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1940 — Page 11
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
~ Partial Text of Roosevelt's Address in Boston
BOSTON, Oct. 31 (U. P.). —The partial text of President Roosevelt's speech last night follows:
I've had a glorious day .here in New England. I've looked forward
to coming here to Boston. But there's one thing about this trip that I regret. I have to return to Washington tonight, without getting a chance to go ihto my two favorite States--Maine and Vermont. In New York city, I showed by the cold print of the Congressional Record how Republican leaders, with their votes and in their speeches, have been playing, and still are playing politics with national defense. . . . ‘These side line critics are now saying that we are not doing enough for our national defense. I say we are going full speed ahead! ~ Our Navy is our outer line of deense, !
NAVAL BASES IMPROVED
Almost the very minute that this Administratipn came into office we began to build the Navy up—to build a bigger Navy. . In seven years, we have raised the total of 193 ships fin commission to 337 in commission, today. We have 119 more - ships under ‘construction, today. In seven years we raised the personnel of the Navy from 106,000 to 210,000, today. . « . There are now six times as / many men employed in all our Navy yards as there were in 1933. The _ private ship-building yards are also "humming with activity — building ships for our Navy and for our expanding merchant marine. We have not only added ships and men to the Navy. We have enormously increased the effectiveness of naval bases in our outlying territories. For our objective is to keep any potential attacker as far from our Continental shores as we can. And you here in New England know well and visualize it that within the last two ‘months your Government has acquired new naval and air bases in’ British territory in the Atlantic Ocean, extending all the way from Newfoundland on the north to that part of South America where the Atlantic Ocean begins to narrow with Africa not far away.
attacker as far from our Continental shores as we can. That is the record of the growth of our Navy. In 1933 a weak Navy; in 1940 a strong Navy. Side-line critics may carp in a campaign. But Americans are mighty proud of that record. ‘Americans will put their Siunizy J first and partisanship second. }
Sur OF ARMY DOUBLED
the day when Poland was invaded, we have more than doubled the size of our regular Army. Adding
to this the Federalized National Guardsmen, our armed land forces now equal more than 436,000 enlisted men. The officers and men of our Army and National Guard are the .finest in the world. The most inexcusable unpatriotic statement of fact about our Army is the brazen charge that the men called to training will not be properly housed. The plain fact, the provable tact, is that construction on Army housing is far ahead of schedule to meet
And so to you, I repeat our obJective is to keep any potential ee
all present needs, and that by Jan. 5, next, there will be complete
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tv President Roosevelt speaks from _the back platform of his special train during a Slop in New Haven on a political tour which took him into Boston last night.
and adequate housing for 930,000 soldiers. And so I feel, very simply and very honestly, I can give assurance to the mothers and fathers of America that each and every one of their boys in training will be well housed. Thyoughout that one year of their training, there will be constant promotion of health-and well being.
+“ PARENTS REASSURED
And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this betore, but I shall say it again and again and again. Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. They are going into training to form a force so strong that, by its very existence, 1t will keep the threat of war far away from our shores. We are determined to attain a production capacity of 50,000 planes a year in the United States. Day and night we are working and mak-
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means an agriculture ils is strong and vigorous. And we all know how much this is due to the patient efforts and practical vision of Henry Wallace. Last summer, only a few weeks after the Republican national platform had been adopted indorsing commodity loans for the farmers, the Republican members of the House marched right back into the halls of Congress and voted against the commodity loans for the farmers. They voted against them by a vote of 106 to 37. Among the Republican leaders who voted against that bill and against practically every other farm bil. was the present chairman of the Republican National Committee, that “peerless leader,” the “Farmers’ Friend”—Congressman Joe Martin of Massachusetts.
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months, this nation has increased our erigine output for planes 240 per cent, and I'm proud of it! Remember, too, that we are scattering them all over the country. We are building brand new plants for airplanes, for airplane engines, in places beside the Pacific Coast and this coast. We're also building them in centers in the Middle West. Last spring and winter, even a year ago, this great production capacity program was stepped up by orders from overseas. In taking these orders for planes to go overseas, we are following hard-headed self-interest. Building on the foundation provided by these orders, the British are now receiving a steady stream of airplanes. After three months of blitzkrie® in the air, the strength of the Royal Air Force is d£ctually greater now than when the attack began. This increase in strength despite battle losses is due in part to the purchases made from American airplane industries. Tonight, I am privileged to make
I think you know that the office
§ | of President has not been an easy
one during the past years. The tragedies of this distracted world have weighed heavily upon all of us. But—there is revival for every one of us in the sight of our own national community. In our own American community we have sought to submerge all of the old hatreds, all the old fears, of the old world. We are Anglo-Saxon and Latin, we are Irish and Teuton and Jewish and Scandinavian and Slav—we are American. We belong to many races
American, And it seems to me that we are most completely, most loudly, most proudly American around election day. Because it is then that we can assert ourselves—voters and candidates alike. We can assert the most glorious, the most encouraging fact in the world today—the fact that democracy is alive—it is alive and going strong. We are telling the world that we are free—and we intend to remain free and at peace. We are free to live and love and laugh. We face the future with confidence and courage. We are Amer-
an announcement using Boston instead of the White House:
ican.
The British within the last’ few]:
days have now asked for permission to negotiate again with American manufacturers for 12,000 additional planes. I have asked that the request be given most sympathetic consideration by the priorities board consisting of William S. Knudsen, Edward R. Stettinius Jr. and Leon Henderson. When these additional orders are approved, and I hope they will be, they will bring Britain's present orders for military planes from the United States to more than 26,000. They will require still more new plant facilities so that the present program of building planes for military purposes both for the United States and Great Britain will not be interrupted. With that request has come orders—Ilarge additional orders, negotiated for artillery, machine guns, rifles and tanks with equipment and ammunition. The, plant capacity necessary to produce all of this miljitary equipment is and will be available to serve the needs of the United States in any emergency.
PRAISES KENNEDY
The productive capacity of the United States, which has made it the greatest industrial eountry in the world, will not fail now. It will make us the strongest air power in the world. And that is not just a campaign promise!
I have been glad to welcome back to our own shores that Boston boy, beloved by all of Boston, my Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Joe Kennedy. . . . We can build up our armed defepses to their highest peak of effi|ciency; but they will still be inadequate unless we support them with a strong national morale, a sound economy, a sense of solidarity and economic justice. I have discussed the falsifications which Republican campaign orators have been making about the economic condition of the country—the condition of labor and the condition of business.
CITES FARM PROGRAM
They are even more ridiculous when they shed those old crocodile tears over the plight of the farmer. Do I have to remind you of the plight of the farmer during the period between 1920 and 1933 — declining income, accumulating surpluses, rising farm debts—10 cent corn, 20 cent wheat, 5 cent cotton, 3 cent hogs. The farmers of America know from the record what the state of American agriculture is today. Here it is: Farm income this year is just about double what it was in 1932. Farm buying power this year is greater than it was even in 1929. Tens of thousands of farms have been saved from foreclosure. More than 800,000 low income farmers have obtained credit from the Government, which they- could get nowhere else. Over a million farms have been electrified since 1933. Over 6,000,000 farmers have received benefit payments of more Insp three and a half billion dolars ~ What does all this add up to? It
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HAROLD L. ICKES Secretary of the Interior.
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The Marion County No-Third-Term Committee, a branch of the National No-Third-Term Association, urges every voter to follow the advice of George Washington who set the precedent, the advice of Thomas Jefferson who established the precedent and the example of the subsequent patriotic Democratic Presidents who during the past 150 years, have recognized and followed it. Neither Mr. Roosevelt nor any future presidential candidate should be permitted to destroy this unwritten law.
Samuel H. Dowden, Chairman
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