FDR

The limits of the customs port of entry of Brownsville, Texas, in Customs Collection District No. 23 (San Antonio), are hereby extended, effective immediately

New York was the first State in the Union definitely to accept the responsibility of seeing to it that so far as the State's resources could prevent it, none of its citizens who wished to work should starve.

This stadium, like many others in the country, represents a twofold effort.

It was a program designed first and foremost to give work to the unemployed.

Every dollar that was put in did its work many times over.

So long as I am President of the United States, we will continue to carry out that responsibility.

I take great pleasure in coming to this dedication of this stadium today.

We are also attempting to give a greater security to the Nation in the days to come.

You, I know, understand that unless farm prices are good, the great farming population of this country cannot buy the things that are made in the cities.

The recovery did not just happen of its own accord.

Our theory for the last three and a half years has been just the opposite.

That kind of security, as we see it, applies not only to people with respect to their own individual family lives, but ought to apply to their occupations and ought to apply to the businesses which employ them.

In other words, we are all in the same boat, no matter what our occupation, no matter whether we live on the farm or in the city, no matter whether we live in the North or the South.

I mean a living according to the American standard—a standard which provides a decent diet, a decent education and a reasonable amount of leisure and recreation.

During the past week the hundreds of thousands of men and women and children I have seen have cheerful faces and voices of courage and hope.

The best guarantee of corporate dividends is a rising standard of living.

Shall we continue in the future, as we have been doing, to try to attain greater human security?

There is not a merchant, or manufacturer, or professional man, or industrial worker, or wage earner in this whole city, I am sure, who does not say that things are better than they were.

I am not the least bit worried about the result.

We have acted on the conviction that the way to bring about recovery was to tackle the problems of those who were at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Indeed, it has been a very exciting and a very instructive trip all through the last ten days.

I believe that in the past few years the people of this country have begun to think in national terms.

It is the glory of America that the standard of living is higher here than in any country or at any other time in the history of the world.

The more that we can diversify our farming all through the country and not have to depend entirely on one crop, the better it will be for the Nation as a whole.

Remember that when men and women are idle, they are not in the market for the products of industry.