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TRUMARY NARA I want to review for your consideration some of the things which the National Administration has done. Bankers of late have been finding fault with the President, but I wonder where they'd be now if it hadn't been for the strong course pursued in their behalf by Mr. Roosevelt. Perhaps none of them would be in business today. That course not only saved the financial struc- ture of the nation, but the interests of the man who keeps his money in the bank have since been safeguarded. For the first time in history the bankers and their directors have become real trustees for the depositors. Under Coolidge there were 533 bank failuresover a four and a half year period; under Hoover during four years there were a thousand and thirty-five. Some two hundred and seven failed to reopen after the bank holiday. There have been eight failures in three years under Roosevelt, and every depositor with five thousand or less in these eight got his money. Not a single National Bank has failed during the year ending October 1, 1936- a 55 year record. Banks were never in better condition, yet they seem to want to go back to the days of Hoover. Some people can never be pleased. Some of them no doubt object to the honest Securities law. I suppose they dislike the guarantee law and the fact that the cut-throat mortgage business has been given a body blow. And that brings me to the home owners. Over one million homes were saved from foreclosure by the Home Owners 1 Loan Corp- oration, and the best thing about these loans is the fact that they are being paid off and the Government stands to lose not one