Los Angeles, Oct, 1.
Again emphasizing the "sedat ob-Jective" of the national Admiaistration, President Roosevelt addvesced a throng of 50,000 persons in the Los Angeles Coliseum here to-night with 'a challenge to the American public to continue the security programme launched by Federal agencies.
"We have come through stormy sas Into fair weather," declared the President in a tone of ringing optimism as he surveyed the economic improvement of the nation during the the present, year.
Citing the advanced social security legislation of the state of Californ for, women and a rigid system of factory-inspection and ¢hild-labour control, the President said, "While the Toast among us remain hungry fand unable to work, it must be the task of the local, Siate and Federal Governments to seek reasonable and Drogressive means to assist the unfortunate'
Tu his address the President declared that progressives and Mberals. were inclined to insist on taking. different paths to the same foal, thereby splitting the force of those seeking a better social order, while, fu the other hand, the conservatives opposing such progress were united in demanding inaction, and effective in, such undivided strength, result, the liberals of the nation must find a common ground for progress, and then proceed to act on that common bai Nearly one million Californians turned out to welcome the President to-day, Jamming the streets of downtown Los Angeles, crowding windows and house-tops and nearly fling the gigantic memorial Coliseum as they Foarded their acclaim to the nation's chief executive.
Cheers and applause greeted the Presidential party from the moment left the special train at the Los Angeles Union Station until President Roosevelt and his companions returned to the terminal after his address at the Coliseum.
The University of Southern California conferred an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on the President, adding to academic distinctions already received from Rutgers University, Washington College" of Washington, D.C. and Yale Umversity—United Press,
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