THE PRESIDENCY: Southward Bound

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Spring being a good time for Franklin Roosevelt to leave and rest at Warm Springs, Ga., the President last week left Washington on his first trip since he maneuvered with the Navy last month.

In Alabama the Presidential special pulled up while Franklin Roosevelt devoted his attention to Southern Negroes, who usually can't vote but have enfranchised Northern brothers who could play hob next year by swinging back to the Republican Party. At famed Tuskegee Institute (for Negroes) he locked arms with its distinguished, white-wooled Agricultural Chemist George Washington Carver (see cut), called the students "my boy and girl friends."

Outside of Tuskegee Mr. Roosevelt changed from train to automobile, thereafter interspersed his jaunt with talks on a favorite theme: let the South make itself self-sufficient. At Auburn, he recalled how when he first lived in Warm Springs, he found that all the milk, apples, meat, shoes for sale there came from the North. To make the South selfsupporting, he said, "means a lot of work. It means, incidentally, getting the South out of hock to the North. I don't believe that the South is so broke that it cannot put its own capital into the establishment of its own enterprises."

> In Warm Springs Roosevelt had less relaxation than usual. He made no public comment on the speeches of Adolf Hitler at Wilhelmshaven, of Neville Chamberlain in Parliament (see p. 19), but he talked long on the telephone with his foreign relations experts both at Washington and abroad. While he vacationed his special train stood ready on a siding 70 miles from Warm Springs for a quick return to the Capital. "A source close to the President" gave out that Adolf Hitler must be plotting to extend his conquests beyond Europe into Asia, into the Americas.

> The President signed the $358,000,000 Air Defense Bill and the reorganized Reorganization Bill.

> Franklin Roosevelt took delight in "scooping" the correspondents assigned to cover him on news of the arrival in Seattle of his No. 5 grandson, a 9-lb. 1-oz. Boettiger (see p. 72).

> To appeasement of Negro voters, Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt also contributed last week. Having resigned from the D. A. R. after they barred colored Contralto Marian Anderson from Constitution Hall in Washington (TIME, March 6), she promised to appear this summer on a program with Miss Anderson in Richmond, Va.