oadcasting over a nation-wide radio hook-up that took his voice into millions of American homes, Pres Ident Roosevelt, spoke from here today' in Justification of his long-range Public works programme.
"Our deflate objective is the bulld-ing of human happiness," said the President in his rst major address since he embarked a month ago upon his vacation cruise to Hawaii.
believe, 100, that we are building a better comprehension of national needs." President Roosevelt said.
"The people now understands, as never before, the splendid public pur-ose underlying the development of Great power sites, the improving of Bavigation routes, the prevention of floods and erosion of agricultural fields, the prevention of forest fires, diversification of farming and dis {tribution of industry," he declared.
President Roosevelt indicated that it is the intention of the Administration to foster industrial development the west, which heretofore has been too dependent upon agriculture' and content. to buy its manufactured articles from plants in the east. where farming has been neglected.
"We know that the east has a stake the west and that the west has a stake in the asi," the President said, "The nation must and shall be con sidered as a whole and not as an aggregation of disjointed groups."
"The speech followed a six-hour tour of Glacier National Park—United Press.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.