【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 values more noble thanmere monetary lies not in the mere possession of lies in the joy of achievement, in thethrill of creative joy, the moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten inthe mad chase of dark days, my friends, will be worth all they costus if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but tominister to ourselves, to our fellow of that falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in handwith the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to bevalued only by the standards of pride of place and personal there mustbe an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too oftenhas given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wonder that confidence languishes, for itthrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, andon unselfish it cannot calls, however, not for changes in ethics Nation is asking for action, and action greatest primary task is toput people to is nounsolvable problem if we face itwisely and can be acplished in part by direct recruiting by theGovernment itself, treating the task as we would treatthe emergency of a war, but at thesame time, through this employment, acplishing great greatlyneeded projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our greatnatural in hand with that we must frankly recognize the overbalance of populationin our industrial centers and, by engaging on a national scale in a redistribution, endeavor to providea better use of the land for those best fitted for the , the task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the values of agricultural products, andwith this the power to purchase the output of our can be helped by preventingrealistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our smallhomes and can be helped by insistence thatthe Federal, the State, and the local governmentsact forthwith on the demand thattheir cost be drastically can be helped by theunifying of relief activities which today are often scattered,uneconomical, can behelped by national planning for and supervisionof all forms of transportation and ofmunications and other utilities thathave a definitely public are manyways in which it can be helped, but it cannever be helped by merely talking must must act finally, in our progress towards a resumption of work, we require twosafeguards against a return of the evils of the old must be a strict supervision of all banking andcredits and must be anend to speculation with other people39。s must be provision for an adequate but sound , my friends, are the lines of shall presently urge upon a new Congress inspecial session detailed measures for their fulfillment, and I shallseek the immediate assistance of the 48 this program of action we address ourselves to putting our own national house inorder and making ine balance international trade relations, thoughvastly important, are in point of time, and necessity, secondary tothe establishment of a sound national , as a practical policy, the putting of firstthings shall spare no effort torestore world trade by international economic the emergency athome cannot wait on that basic thoughtthat guides these specific means of national recovery is notnationally narrowly is the insistence, as a firstconsideration, upon the interdependenceof the various elements in and parts of the United States of America arecognition of the old and permanently importantmanifestation of the American spirit of the is the wayto is the immediate the strongest assurance that recovery will the field of world policy, I would dedicate this Nationto the policy of the good neighbor: theneighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights neighbor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctity of his agreementsin and with a world of I read the temper of our people correctly, we now realize, as we have never realized before,our interdependence on each we can not merely take, but we must give as if we are to goforward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice forthe good of a mon discipline, because without such discipline no progress can be made,no leadership bees are, I know, ready and willing to submit our lives and our property to such discipline,because it makes possible a leadership which aims atthe larger , I propose to offer,pledging that the larger purposes will bind uponus, bind upon us all as a sacred obligationwith a unity of duty hithertoevoked only in times of armed this pledge taken, I assume unhesitatingly the leadership of this great army of ourpeople dedicated to a disciplined attack upon our mon in this image, action to this end is feasible under the form of government which wehave inherited from our Constitution is sosimple, so practicalthat it is possible always tomeet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss ofessential is why our constitutional system has proved itself the most superblyenduring political mechanism the modern worldhas ever has met every stress of vast expansion of territory, of foreign wars, of bitter internal strife,of world it is to be hoped that the normal balance of executive and legislativeauthority may be wholly equal, wholly adequate to meetthe unprecedented task before it may be that anunprecedented demand and need for undelayed actionmay call for temporary departure from that normal balance of public am prepared under my constitutional duty toremend the measures that a strickennation in the midst of a stricken world may measures, or such other measuresas the Congress may build out of its experience and wisdom, I shall seek, within myconstitutional authority, to bring to speedy , in the event that the Congress shall failto take one of these two courses, in the eventthat the national emergency is still critical, I shallnot evade the clear course of duty that will thenconfro