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On this one hundred thirty eight stay over new world we bring you our mayor the honorable F. H. Lagarde speaking to you from his desk and said evolve and another talk to the people ladies and gentlemen is on of them a fact you know we act fall most of us are a Joe you think of. That the conference of the three big pollens five has ended in Moscow went for a green. All there may be Sam who will criticize but we must learn that in order to live in this where we must live with other nations just as to live in the city who he must live with. Our people up. A conference of Moscow was all the up most importance. And it is good and it took place. Because you'd be tasted and I think odd officially being created and which makes attached so much more difficult. For the main on the wrist on whose shoulders the responsibility for permanent peace rests. I want to ask you all to tune in at ten o'clock and most stations in New York City will have Secretary of State James Burns and what he will have to say will be of great interest because what happened in Moscow. And what will happen in future conferences and the success of the United Nation Ogden is a. Means a great deal to all of us. But it means a great deal more to our children. Will the children of today be called in another law as the children following the First World War. So tune in at ten o'clock with an open mind listen attentively to our secretary of state and then think about it afterwards. Well this is my last broadcast from the desk at city hall. And a great many things I wanted to say today well I'm not going to say it. Now all it's the holidays that I think. It's Christmas week and. We want to start all new Yeah happy and cheerful. I'm going to have another talk. With my successor and. Tuesday. I'm going to appeal to him again about the great loss. And the great damage to our city. And scuttling the airport going to talk to him again about it Monday. There I'd rather not tell the whole story it's not a nice story but if I have to I will tell you about it Sunday at twelve o'clock I sincerely hope it will be necessary. Not talking about broadcasting indeed is good news I've just received the airing a report of them U N Y U C from Mr Morris Novak to its director. It's very interesting I hope but I think I'll order it printed Yes I can do that tomorrow Monday I want to print it and it's very valuable but this is the good part of it we've just been informed by the Federal Communication Commission that dead W A N Y U C has been granted a permanent their license for F. and frequency and we will be on the Eric ninety four point five and on your dial in on the F.M. dial that is in addition to our regular wavelength and famous something that's coming along and I'm trying to close up everything and give us much that has been I'm finished up to date and this is good and I just received the manuscript from the planet city planning commission a report and study which they made on the library program for the city of New York. In one thousand nine hundred forty two the Board of Estimate appropriated funds their fourth day survey and that eight it is now complete and will go to press and it tomorrow and copies will be available a while we've made great progress in our public libraries it all started around one thousand nine hundred with the Carnegie. Endowment. As you all know we had pen and libraries in New York City in one thousand nine hundred in one thousand and fifteen and ninety six I'm talking about libraries Raghu and services and today we have a hundred and forty three branches and services as sub writers but that of course is not enough air for a city at the size of New York. The report recommends the erection of new branch library buildings in twelve areas now and I'm certain replacements eight obsolete buildings with new branch buildings and new branch structures to replace twenty eight branches and subbranches now located in record quantity organization of subbranches in rented quarters in twenty three areas now uncertain and relocation of four poorly located subbranches and record quantities and there said stress is more than I can tell you he didn't need that some of our new public improvements at the South liquidating and south supported because of the US and its cost. And here is another report from the city planning commission. The city planning commission has prepared a map in title city of New York arterial system based on the master plan of our two little highways and major streets this Bapi is being reproduced in popular form for the general IT distribution it will be available I have the original here in my office it's on the presses now in color and it ought to be available within a very few days if you write to the city planning commission of the cost would be twenty five cents it's very much on the same style map that you were accustomed to a road map should know and it will fold into an easy as size the way most. Road maps do and it gives all not only the impression of a third affairs arterial highways those now in time struction and there are. Those already authorized the city post was public works program includes most of the proposed facilities with the exception of the two Manhattan Polish town expressways which are still in the Spanish thing as some of the main features of new improvements are the Cross Bronx Expressway their van one white expressway in Queens furnishing direct access to the new out in a while after all I want to scuttle the completion of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway and beat this thing go wireless PAF way through the downtown section of Brooklyn and connecting with the question bridge between roughened and queens and continuing to the Grand Central Parkway then the beacon Expressway the Bronx and the New England through way of the Bronx as well as the whole Richmond Park Way system. And here is another report that comes out. And I'm very happy about this it's the last edition Vance thing my administration and it's very interesting. It's a report of four hundred pages covering every department of the city it was compiled by Miss Rebecca Ranken of the municipal reference library and again I want to express to miss Ranken the facts of the matter and of the Board of Estimate of the people of the city of New York for her splendid services as the live very end of our municipal reference I can see them minutes Rebecca Ranken one of the most useful public servants Indian city government. Copies of New York advancing will be available to all yes political class to write in and get a copy I'm sure you will all find it interesting Oh I said this was Christmas week and here I have a very interesting letter. Air pound for you written by a small boy. It says Dear man. I took a light out of one of your city parks. Enclosed this cost eighteen cents instead signed city rough you know Santa you are not around here and. You're not a rocket at all and you shouldn't have taken the life in the first place but kind of hard didn't it when you got thinking about it. As a little That's why you sent the he said and you did the right thing in sending the chance but don't do it again and tell other boys not only not to take anything that isn't there but also to be very careful in their protecting property and pot you know the parks belong to you children in the city but their main things them for you and you should help me pay them not the straw and don't you call yourself a little rough you like you say you're a good boy. Oh God made choir the other day. We don't take that building at seventy second Street and East and Avenue and converted into apartments that's a good idea less than a well as usual in a way our head of yeah that's exactly what we've done finally we were able to sell that property for two hundred ninety thousand dollars. It was less than that of a new seventy second Street in West Bend that you know that's another thing that I inherited one of the dead cats that I had to take over. It took us a long time to sell ad for various legal reasons and also because of the high cost of land in that vicinity and you know everybody who had an idea for something they'd say give us the building at seventy second Street in West and have it. While a got sold there that I would just write anybody who'd write to me I say yes you can have the building but I had to take it for the case and to take one look at it it would want it it's going to cost a great deal of money to put that building in that condition as far as I could from say but it will soon there and work with stock of students materials and labor are available and what's more it's not been paying taxes for all my time and so there's something else that I found Day which will turn over its life a classified alive and the fact. That you're remembered. Few weeks ago I told you about Dave broken Loan Corporation and the family who want to be dispossessed. And I'm not going to be nice today not going to say any harsh things about this to Brooklyn Loan Corporation I have one hundred fifty five dollars stay at which people have sent me and if you'd care to settle a note for one hundred fifty five dollars and send a note around to me tomorrow him the office tomorrow Monday I'll give it one hundred fifty five and let's call it quits. I don't know I hope that the Senate of Christmas well even penetrate a small loan cooperation from that hope so. I do remember me telling about the letter I had that the house sold finance company sent to the so we get in Germany. Well he sent the balance thirty forty dollars and thirty five cents the balance. For which he was being done by this company and I sent back yesterday to the household financing cognate and please the soldier is no. For several months the the parking of Investigation has been examining air in the text black market. The matter has also been taken up by the federal authorities and is now being presented to the grand jury. One to congratulate to Commissioner you haven't done a very thorough job and I'm sending the report to the district United States of Tony A for the Southern District of New York and placing the entire testimony at their this post of I'm sure we have some admissions that are very damaging. Now here is something that I'm going to try and be real kind about help me won't do as I go along because it's just a very nice. You know boys coming out of the army ranks just to get started and then not to look up all sorts of bad things and here it is and there and that's appeared in only one New York city dailies it's a narrative from the west south extension University. They have an office there too ninety two Madison Avenue If that to call go are going as they should and there advertisement is misleading in bad it would appear have the fact by taking a course and correspondence course and that the student will would be eligible to take the bar examinations for admission to the PA the state of New York that is not through commission a yarn or has investigated this. We've conferred with the Better Business Bureau of New York City and they too have had complaints and find that the ad is misleading the list South extension University is a business corporation organize for profit under the laws of the state of Illinois. It has a principal place of business in Chicago it has banned investigated by the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Trade. The commission found that its advertisements want to misleading and issued a desist order the order is not being complied with in the advertisement appearing in the daily Nov. In the daily new moves. It seems that they will take any kind of a negative advertisement here I go again I'll stop myself now Captain Patterson a this ad doesn't bring in very much money and it's so misleading. If the John Curtin caught Princeton and the New York State Board of law because now there's reports that in his opinion it's misleading as it foments him eternal fact the advertisement should say that does not qualify for the New York bar examination. The commission of investigation inquired of the advertising department of most of our papers in New York City and each to play ad that they would not take that advertised. Now in all times when this captain Patterson I ask you at pleased to discontinue the advertisement or corrective sold that young men will not be deceived and shift. Wow I guess I must in keeping with my last broadcast from city hall and tell you that during the year in New York State. Four hundred and fifty million six hundred and sixty three dollars worth bet on horses at the racetrack. Now I'm not going to farm anybody's name. But I don't think. That they have they can be happy. We even want our enemies to be happy Christmastime I don't see how they can with that kind of money in this money market four hundred fifty million six hundred sixty three was better after practice. New York State got thirty million three hundred thirty three of this lead money. I would say that fifty percent of their fifth least that's very conservative. Was lost by families who could not afford. It now I would say that at least four hundred million. Pat and was vet on horses unlawfully outside of the track of the four hundred million that's a conservative estimate according to the police. Based on the amount bet of the tracks of the four hundred million ninety percent of that came from the mouths of children. Who money that should have gone in food and shoes and clothes four hundred million and then they say OWN have one to rant about. The vets and racetracks and. Yes I do because I know what that means to so many to now come on you of course better let me give you a kick. Let me give you a hard life today and I could guarantee your with. Put two dollars on the wife and two dollars on the oldest boy and two dollars on the little girl at six dollars maybe you can't afford that maybe you are a fifty cent better all right but fifty on the wide and fifty on each of the children at Val and they had to go out and buy something for a dollar and a half for the children see you wind that they have you make them so happy that's the way to start to wean yourself of this terrible terrible habit. I want to make an appeal to everyone. To aid us in stopping false alarms of five. In one thousand and forty five we had level thousand two hundred forty five false alarm. I'm not going to tell you how much each alarm costs there's something more important than that. It means of this placement of equipment and very often as apparatus is signing and responding to an alarm which is false other apparatus must all come or have a card and then a real fire may start and it is just that many more minutes before the equipment reaches the real five and only a few days ago one of our brain fog lost his life in responding to a false alarm now how can we help well the minute an alarm was sent in from a box you'll hear a God The thing to do is when you hear the God to stand right there and keep your eye on the person sending him the alarm if you see that there's smoke or fire somewhere then you know it's one of five if you don't stand right there and when the apparatus reaches say this is the man because the one who sends in the alarm invariably stays right there so help us if you care I want to announce a very interesting concert today and I'm afraid I'll have to worry click me off or so far I'd go it's at three P.M. and the American Museum of Natural History it's one judge may have told Prince's amateur symphony come. To strip concerts and this week give this concert is devoted mostly to very young audience a little climb but eight years of age is going to play the most not kind of contract Oh and general you know broom and Violet is eighteen years of age is playing this kind of soppy Gibson Gypsy. A child Prince is doing wonderful work but this amateur hour Symphony Orchestra and it's worthwhile going so well. Follow the announcements in the press and you will always enjoy and for wants me to say that there is this afternoon and this evening great party and LARRY ADLER at the city center and that they're all next week including January fifth and we'll have a show a performance of the Little Women and there it is in the interest. I have been asked about. How I'm going to keep busy. After January when all that's been worrying me quite of there. I think will be and now to think about how I'm going to spend my time and thanking writing and talking now I'm not going to change my fist of. My method or my haste vow I just couldn't I want to be myself. A great deal of interest as to this daily air at this weekly article I'm going to write to Pierre. And I think that will give me if I can just to get over some idea of that particular leg and when some papers have misleading headlines all of the editorials that that are not quite in keeping with Wright thank you. But you know I'm so off to talk about the contrast between the press. And the radio. Naturally I like the radio. But I'm not going to cut myself off entirely you see. I'm not going to put all of my volume one hundred in one microphone for a sauna beyond the end of twelve o'clock the B J C And at nine thirty on the same station every Sunday then I have a little worried about whether I can get my stuff across to pay. For those who depend upon information at through the press and this is what I've noticed I wonder if you've noticed now if you hear something on the radio and you don't like it well you can go to that radio station and say look here I want to buy fifteen minutes time I want to talk on it and under the Federal Communication Commission rulings and under the law back radio station is compelled to give you the time now that doesn't happen in the press does it. Yes you could write a letter to the editor and one out of one hundred maybe publish did. And you may or may not get it so I've hit upon the idea. Of buying space in newspapers to get a and idea across. You see if you write for one paper and you always get the same set of readers what one wants to get for instance Saks taken an editorial in The Daily nudes and many of those editorials must be unset apos none of the papers would do that it's a pretty close fraternity you know they're very nice to each their I go on again homely back home even better. So I looked around and I found a sponsor. Who will face once a week in faithfulness have fought a weekly article on a timely subject. And the sponsor this sax quality starts and cough for a bit and they have a very excellent flogs week Kaos flaws in dog City and I found them always very public spirited and in any. Case that required immediate Hell I have of always found very generous in giving aid and without seeking any of this the about it at all and they've always been very interested in matters which concerned the welfare and the good and happiness of the people of our city so Sachs quality stars and will sponsor my. Weekly articles in paint space and so fucked with going to do would try to answer when the paper is wrong with trying to correct them in their own papers and that's a good cast of freedom of the price isn't it and I wonder how that going to think it is I'm watching that and I look forward to rendering a very useful service along those lines. You know I do want to keep busy. I love my city. I've been public service for forty years. If I have any knowledge of government or other conditions I have learned enough. And I hope. That I will be able. To help people. That I will be able. To help others who want to do the right thing in government. And that we may. Fall very long. Be assured of continued prosperity in our country and peace in the world. But that requires a great deal of clear thinking. And don't require a great deal of sacrifice on the part of the American people. We have more. Than any other people in the world. And we have to give more. We have great fun fun at the. I don't know of any better way. Of living you. Missed my last thought cast this man is. Going to give you my craft. As written I feel it all papa. But give me the law and. I used to behold it through. A Seeing sense that you know the turn all right. A heart with pity feel and yet made from. A manly faith that makes Dr Nass flight. Give me the power to labor for mankind. Make me the mouth of such ass cannot speak. I let me be to groping May and then blinding the conscience to the base. And to the weak let me be hanged. And before. Mine. And lead still further on such as by kingdoms. And give. Patients and for. Writers and the Money Lead mayor of the city of New York has just brought you the last of his weekly talk to the people but there is something else happening here in City Hall and Romano Kelly they come on doddle the third naval district in New York is presenting mail a guardian with a certificate of achievement at the request of the secretary of the Navy James Forrest all here he has laid his I'm just with Admiral Kelly. Here on out letters and on one of. I may have a day on a very pleasant lecture on. My brain with May It's a typical of a tree but for a Donald a mile from the Neighborhood Ball. Before I brewed up this certificate of achievement of the commandant of the third member defect I perfectly want to express what Donna. My thanks and appreciation for the call drought day and cooperation of years already shown me. That maybe a with a neighbor to fix. And the city about the many common problem. Every time I came to see the Maya. It would most cordial and most cooperative. His cooperation is assisted the Navy and maintained in such a high standard that threw it up on the Confederate but surely to the war and now I would like to read this I take. United States very difficult of a knowledge award for Philo earth of Wadia and recognition of exceptional accomplishment and behalf of the United States Navy and of my favorite contribution to the National War up to sign game five thoughts like that of the Navy at the mouth if anonyma privilege for me to prevent you to get it and with your mind that bridges them how to congratulate. Thank you very much Admiral Allen. Any praise coming from the Navy is indeed high praise army any agency of hog government. Maintained such high standards of official saying as the United States Navy if and place and the wife if you add more Kelly and went with you up the defenses. And went through some very deaf a cold periods are all over now and the fact very pleasant memories so far politically accomplish. Miracles were accomplished at the United States Navy Yard and. I don't think anywhere in the whole world. That such a transformation take place from about eight or ten thousand employees to sixty sixty five thousand and then all you care about that. Airplane area for him to work it was really a week the miraculous Will you kindly. Step my thanks and that. Of the heads of my apartment and all of the men who worked so closely with the United States Navy I sent this as a token of appreciation. Not only to me but to the men of my the park friends who really carried on the way and may I feel you say with the second secretary part felt by his generosity I thought. I. Would at the last of the week you talked to the people. From the mayor's desk in city hall and they are like Guard you as you know ending his last term with the last day of this present season than Romano Kelly on behalf of the secretary of the navy Mr James Post Office has just presented my Like no idea what they are certificates of achievement the being was out of the media they probably composed of the mayors last talked to the people and so from city hall we take leave of you. Tell you that this is the municipal Broadcasting System.