FDR

Ten years ago public erection of fifty-one big, carefully planned community projects, replacing festering slum areas, would have seemed incredible.

Reorganization is not a mechanical task, but a human task, because Government is not a machine, but a living organism.

A government without good management is a house builded on sand.

It is further ordered that the said tract of land be, and it is hereby, reserved for townsite purposes

Government cannot be any better or more efficient than the men and women who work in it.

It is ordered that the following-described tract of land in Arizona be, and it is hereby, excluded from the Sitgreaves National Forest

The forward march of American democracy at this point of our history depends more upon effective management than upon any other single factor.

What I am placing before you is the request not for more power, but for the tools of management and the authority to distribute the work.

The ultimate cost of the Federal works program will thus be determined by private enterprise.

We have promised that the men, women and children of America who are destitute through no fault of their own shall not be neglected.

It is not unfair to say that these employers who are working their employees unreasonably long hours are failing to cooperate with the Government and their fellow citizens in putting people back to work.

Great assistance can be given to the Government if all private employers in every part of the country will seek, in so far as they reasonably can, to obtain additional workers from the relief rolls.

Only if industry fails to reduce substantially the number of those now out of work will another appropriation and further plans and policies be necessary.

I urge early enactment of the necessary legislative measures to assure a continuing equitable determination of fiscal relations between the two governments.

This refuge shall be known as the Shinnecock Migratory Bird Refuge.

One of the most encouraging developments of the past few years is the general agreement that has been reached that child labor should be permanently abolished.

I am convinced that nationwide minimum standards are necessary and that a way should be found promptly to crystallize in legal safeguards public opinion in behalf of the elimination of child labor.

The vital need is not an alteration of our fundamental law, but an increasingly enlightened view with reference to it.

Our task is to prove that democracy could be made to function in the world of today as effectively as in the simpler world of a hundred years ago.

In a world unhappily thinking in terms of war, the representatives of twenty-one Nations sat around a table, in an atmosphere of complete confidence and understanding, sincerely discussing measures for maintaining peace.

It is not enough that the wheels turn. They must carry us in the direction of a greater satisfaction in life for the average man.

In many Nations where such laws are in effect, success in meeting the expectations of the community has come through frequent amendment of the original statute.

With a better understanding of our purposes, and a more intelligent recognition of our needs as a Nation, it is not to be assumed that there will be prolonged failure to bring legislative and judicial action into closer harmony.

The aforesaid Mondeaux Division is hereby transferred to the Chequamegon National Forest.

All lands of the United States within the area shown as an addition on the diagram attached hereto and made a part hereof are hereby included in and reserved as a part of the Nicolet National Forest.