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...time he reached Des Moines for his meeting with Alf Landon (see col. 3), President Roosevelt had seen the worst of the Drought. Rolling East next day into the mild Drought belt, he stopped at Hannibal, Mo. to help dedicate a Mark Twain Memorial bridge across the Mississippi. At Springfield, Ill. for Drought talks with Illinois officials, a telephone talk with Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau gave him occasion to declare: "The obligations of the Government-of the United States-are on a sounder basis of credit than ever before in history...
Proceeding to Indianapolis, the President spent two hours motoring over the city to look at WPA projects and visit the State Fair, three hours at the Indianapolis Athletic Club for luncheon and a Drought conference with the Governors and Senators of Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan. The fact that he did not get the GOPresidential nomination enabled Michigan's Senator Vandenberg to be less circumspect than Alf Landon had been at Des Moines. Before entering the conference, Senator Vandenberg remarked: "It's been dry in Michigan, but we only knew casually it was a Drought until this trip...
From Indianapolis, the President sped back to Washington, there sped to a White House microphone to report to the nation on his tour. Studiously pedestrian in its "nonpolitical" approach to Drought, Franklin Roosevelt's first fireside talk of 1936 took on some of the verve of his previous radio heart-to-hearts when he turned to re-employment and his favorite theme of economic freedom. Said he: "My friends!* I have been on a journey of husbandry. . . . I saw drought devastation in nine states. I talked with families who had lost their wheat crop, lost their corn crop, lost...
...would not have you think for a single minute that there is permanent disaster in these Drought regions, or that the picture I saw meant depopulating these areas. No cracked earth, no blistering sun, no burning wind, no grasshoppers are a permanent match for the indomitable American farmers and stockmen and their wives and children...
Retorted the doughty little Fargo Forum: "Especially revealing! . . . Last May we did not have a drought either in Pennington County, in South Dakota or elsewhere in this area...