CALL BY ROOSEVELT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19042, 16 June 1936, Page 5

CALL BY ROOSEVELT

SUPPORT OF THE PEOPLE

REVISION OF NEW DEAL

ANSWER TO REPUBLICANS

(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) WASHINGTON, June 14.

A message from Yincennes, Indiana, states that a plea for public support of the Administration's economic and social programme was made there to-day by President Roosevelt at a gathering of 30,000 persons at the unveiling of a memorial to George Rogers Clerk, the revolutionary leader. The President's speech, the third major one of his tour extending from Texas to Washington and ending tomorrow, resembled more of a sermon on morality than a political exposition.

"Our modem civilisation must constantly protect itself against moral defectives, he said, "whose objectives are the same, but whose methods are more subtle than their prototypes of 150 years ago. We do not change from a free Government when we aim new weapons against new devices for crime and cupidity.'* Authoritative sources revealed in Washington to-day that the Democrat Party is drafting a second New Deal, designed'to go one better than the platform announced at the Republican Party convention.

The Democrats will pledge themselves to it Federal plan for public works, whereas the Republicans favour executing such undertaking on individual merits. The plan would permit the immediate beginning of large-scale construction in the event of another depression.

Another emergency plank of the Democrat platform is to call for a long-range slum clearance plan, and endorse the Administration's farm and social security, stock market regulation, and other operating! programmes. Slum financing was not discussed, but a new bond issue is being considered.