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Newspaper Page TextLkfl. 1938 THE REGISTER-GUARD. EUGENE, OREGON Text of Historic White House Interviews Released By Roosevelt for Public to See w IXVB C. WILSON TV, staff Correspondent 2stTriV March 21. OliO Indent Roosevelt snapped an wt "that is silly" to a question , printing P: ' i suggested that another ques- W"5 ,j ..1, ,hthr ha Cramped UckUng his grand- afidrati'al 'cold was attrib ute talking too much. . . . iii,i with worry, Mr. Iiwsevelt sat tense in his office Lt the charge that it had taken iom" hi-lt to a "horse od buggy" interpretation of the Ijoanition. "(pin gravely serious the pres atsaid the government no rfl. ,ih afford to aid tot- bl banks and that they would ijn to go through the wringer gf insolvency. ... The sdministration is like a football team, he explained. . . . Hose are random excerpts i (ho text of hitherto un- I Quoted press conference material I glased by tne wniie nouse vo in hnw newspaper readers I nf the most important I -ews of government is made. Papers Released tahoA hv the Vhite house. ... a oM words of textual ma larial comprises excerpts from I conferences selected from imore than 300 held during the first four years of the Roosevelt ad- Iinistration. The material was distributed V MwsDaoer publication in con- liormity with a promise made !cag ago by the president to ihite bouse reporters that If his press conference transcripts ever wre made public they would I hive first rights to them. Half if the press conference notes was -ImvH to morninff naners and I lie remainder to evening papers It! today. Outstanding in the selected con tonHMt is the famous "horse- iid-buggy" utterance of May 31, IMS when Mr. Roosevelt replied to the supreme court decision in validating the national Industrial recovery act. It is typical, too, if (he informality of the Roose velt press conference technique. "What thr nnui!" Mr. I Boosevelt smilingly inquired on I tut occasion wnen upwards ox MO reporters crowded into his c3ict That's what we want." one of his audience replied. mere was brief give-and-take until Francis M. Stephenson, one of the reporters regularly assign ed to the White House, said: "Do you care to comment any on the NRA?" "Well, Steve," replied Mr. Roosevelt, "if you insist. That's an awful thing to put up to a fellow at this hour of the morn ing, just out of bed " And with that introduction, Mr. Roosevelt ripped into the su preme court's decision, asserting uiai ii naa sinppea the federal government of national authority in both economic and social fields, that it had deprived a closelv integrated, industrial nation of tne advantage of federal control over such activities as agriculture, mining, manufacturing and con struction. He spoke for an hour and a half, warning the nation through its newspapers that the issue raised was one that had to be settled and that five or ten years might be required to ad just it. "Then, the second thing, is 'off the record' information which means, of course, confidential in formation which is given only to those who attend the conference. I want to ask you not to repeat this 'off the record' confidential information either to your own editors or to your associates who are not here; because there is al ways danger x x x the other party may use it In a story. In other words, it is only for those present." The president: "I will tell you off the record about the problem. It is an old story. So much of the legislation we have had this spring is of a deflationary character, in the sense that it locks up money, prevents the flow of money, that we are faced with the problem of off-setting that in some way. I would not say 'inflation of the currency,' because that is not the necessary meaning. You see, upon the closing of the banks we put away somewhere around four bil lion dollars. It was probably lock ed up before, but people did not know it. Now it is locked up, and people know it. That is deflation ary. The effect of cutting very nearly a billion dollars off the government payroll including the veterans' cuts, cutting down of de partments and cutting off IS per cent of employees' pay it would probably run to perhaps not quite a billion dollars but very near that means that much loss in the flow of money. That is deflationary. Now on the other side of the pic ture we have CCC giving employ ment to about 250,000 people in the forests on works of various kinds. That Is only S250.000.000 as an FLAPPER FANNY By Sylvia ' COP. 19M BY MCA MftVICC. WC T. M. ICO. U. . MT. erf. i ' don't care if it IS contempt o1 court! I'm not gonna ttm days and wash the disiiea. too. SIDE GLANCES TimI i , . ... i t M,trr hour offset. Then there is $500,000,000 as an offset on direct relief to the states. That means we have not yet caught up with the deflation we already have caused. There fore, of course, we are going to talk about methods to give people work or to raise commodity prices which would " Question Not Solved "It is not right or left it is a question for national decision on a ve.-y important problem of gov ernment We are the only nation in the world that has not solved that problem. We thought we were solving it, and now It has been thrown right back in our faces. We have been relegated to the horse-and-buggy definition of the inter state commerce." But press conferences usually are in an easier, less strained vein. Here is the first few minutes of the conference on April 7, 1933: The president: (as reporters en tered his office) I understand that in some mysterious and subter ranean way you got the suggestion that Frank Murphy is going as governor to the Philippines. I guess you are right. Question: Frank Murphy of De troit? The president: "Yes, mayor of Detroit." Q. "When will he go?" The president: "I don't think I have sent the nomination yet It will go up Monday." Q. "Have you been able to cash that first pay check?" The president: "Yes. I cashed it and I am sending back my 15 per cent." Q. "What was that?" The president: "Dollars $843. 75. And I also am sending my dues to the national press chib." Q. "That is your first month's pay, is it?" The president: "Up to the first of April." Q. "Would you like to make some comment on the effect on employment by reason of the pro duction of beer?" The president: "Nothing. Maybe later on this evening, I may." Q. "How many cases have you gotten thus far?" The president: "I can't say any thing on the record, except entire ly off the record. But all reports we are getting in is that the actual employment that has resulted from the manufacture of beer is bigger than the estimate " Q. "I want to thank you for sending the beer to the press club." The president: "It got here all right? Fine." From there the conference went to currency matters. Q. "Might we have an expres' sion from you that thera is no diS' position on the part of the admin' istration to inflate the currency it self. I mean to print currency in a manner other than has been done?" The president: "What do you mean, start the printing presses?" Q. "Yes." The president: "Off the record we sre not going to start the print- in nresses. that Is silly. Mr. Roosevelt inaugurated his press conference on March 8, 1933 with announcement that he had abolished the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover administrations rules that written questions must be submitted tn advance. "I am told that what I am going to do will become impossible," Mr. Roosevelt said, "but I'm going to try it." And he still is going strong en that particular policy, meeting newspaper reporters in his office twice weekly with a standing invi tation that they may fire questions at will. But Mr. Roosevelt imposed some rules. He said on March 8 that he would not answer -it questions. Newspaoer reporters who at tend conferences are familiar now with his instant reply, "that Is iffy," to a question which Is predi cated on some future development. He explained in that first press conference that there would be many questions he could not an swer for lack of knowledge. AU quoted material would be fur nished by the White House in written form. The inrormauon, unless restricted could be attrib uted to the president although he was not to be direetly quoted. "Then there are two other mat ters we will talk about" he con tinued. "The first is 'background information,' which means mater ial whirh ran be used by all of vou on your own authority and re- J l .Hnhllf sponsiDiuty. noi - . (, white House, because I don't want to revive the Ananias club." , Q. "The farm oiu woura uo ... m.. i,iMn,t' "Tha farm bill would do it, of course, because it will raise commodity prices. The farm mortgage bill and the home credit bill will help because they will cut down the debt obligations of the small, individual family man the home man." Q. "Lower rentals - The President: "But the ques tion is whether all those things are really inflationary. They are But'lKr. Roosevelt could Joke about inflation, too. as he proved in a later press conference that ir- v.. The jresiaem: - news?" . . .. a -TV,.r. has been seme tau again about Inflation. I don't know , The President: "How da you de fine inflation?" Q. "I don't know what it Is." The President: "Neither do I. I have gotten to the point where even a cigarette tastes bad." a "That ii a ii an of a cold." The President. "Yes, It cextainljr LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE Fighting Word By HAROLD GRAY1. Whi ANSWER TO THE CROWD.? bEMAKD TO KNCW THE IDENTITY OF THE RESCUER OF LUCY BELLE. CUDGE SNEER1HGLY ANNOUNCEO HE WAS JUST A TRAMP Hj LET ME GO! TCH TCH.1 T BESIDES, SHERIFF- OH. MY 1 JJiTBeV-ORH THAT BUS V ft LET ME AT HIM 1 REMEMBER- I I YOU WOULDNT WANT I DARLING I CAME ALONG YOU STOPPED ffcS;?r$ Li AGAIN- I'LL KILL fl PLEASANT fl I LUCY BELLE TO HAVE I BABY GIRL- fit I ME-REMEMBER? SAID YOU rHk. W HIM- I'LL FINISH ) WORK LIKE I A KILLER FOR A i TO THINK I pii I WANTED TO TALK TO ME -' I, Bbl BE SHARED, a I HER TO GROW UP TO tl LOST YOU" L t I WHATS ON VPS-BirrU Vtir .o evci 'aflra V, Sr.- MVFR.END-J 6E PROUD OF YOU-I MIND. SHERIFF? srtf THAT III A TRAMP. HE SAYS ! 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