THE GATE CITT JOURNAL. NYSSA, OREGON.
damentai industry through the high which are the heritance o f capitalistic facilities ami designed to further the nation of social vice, and many other the advancement o f human activities,
subjects, the government has already niiiong tlie coinpeuaations o f peaceful
cost o f truusportatlou from farm to exploitation must he removed and exchange of messages,
undertaken a considerable range of ac achievement.
To Carry New*.
murket and through the influx o f for labor must join munageilJT-nt in un
eign farm products, because we offer, derstanding that the public which pays
To Keep Pledge.
Private monopolies tending to pre tivities. I assume the maternity tyll,
essentially unprotected, the best mar is the public to he served and simple vent tiie development of needed fa already strongly approved, will be en
In the national referendum to which
acted
promptly,
thus
adding
tv
our
justice Is the right a:.d will continue cilities should he prohibited. Govern
ket in tlie world.
I have adverted we pledged our ef
It would he better to err in protect to be the right of all the people.
ment owued facilities wherever possi manifestation of human Interest. But forts toward such association, und
these
undertakings
huv»
been
scat
ing our basic food industry than para
ble without unduly interfering with
the pledge will he faithfully kept, lu
Highway Building.
lyze our farm activities in the world
enterprise or government tered through many departments amt tlie plight of policy and performance,
Transportation over tlie highways is private
struggle for restored exchanges. The little less important, hut tiie problems needs, should be made available for bureaus without coordination and with we told tlie American (leople we meant
maturer revision o f our tariff laws relate to construction and development generul uses. Particularly desirable much overlapping o f functions which to seek an early establishment of
Declares America W ill Have should be bused ou the policy o f pro and deserve your most earnest inten is the provision o f uiuple cable and fritters energies and magnifies the peace. The United S tilm ulone umong
tection, resisting thnt
selfishness tion because we are laying a founda radio services at reasonable rates for cost.
the allied and associated powers con
No Part in the Existing
Wights of States.
which turns to greed, but ever con tion for u long time to come and the the transmission o f press matter, so
tinues In m technical state of wur
In creating such a department it ugalnst the central powers o f Europe.
cerned with that productivity at home creation is very difficult to visualize tliut theAmerican reader may receive
League of Nations.
a wide range of news and the for should lie made pluiu that there Is no This anomalous condition ought not
which is the source of ail abhUug good lu its great responsibilities.
purpose
to invade fields which tiie to be permitted to coutlnue.
fortune.
eign
reuder
receive
full
accounts
of
Tlie highways are not only feeders
states huve occupied, lu resiiect to
T o establish the state o f technical
To Sell and Buy.
to the railroads und afford relief from American activities.
The daily press o f all countries may education for example, control and ad peace without further delay, I should
It is agreed that we cannot sell un their local burdens: they are actually
less we buy, but ability to sell is based lines of motor traff’.i ir. interstate well be put in position to contribute ministration have rested with the approve u declaratory resolution by
commerce. They are the smaller ar to international understanding^ iiy tlie .'.tates, yet the federal government has congress to that effect, with the quali
Call* Upon Congres* to Adopt rtesolu- on home development und the fostering teries o f the larger portion of our publication
of
interesting foreign always aided them. 'National appro fications essential to protect all our
of liome markets. There is little sen
tion Ending War With Germany and timent in the trade o f the world. Trade commerce and the motor car has be news. Practical experience demon- priutions in uid o f educational pur rights. Such action would be the sim
Suggest* Measure* to Lower
strutes
tlie
need
for
effective recog poses the last fiscal year were no less plest keeping of faith with ourselves,
can and ought to be honorable, but it come an Indispensable instrument In
nnd could in no sense be construed aa
Taxe* and Reduce Prices of
knows no syinpuihy. W bile the dele our political, social and industrial life. nition of both domestic und interna than $65,000,000.
a desertion of those with whom we
Halt Lynching*.
tional radio operation If this newe
Federal Assistance.
gates of tlie nations at war were de
Good* to Consumers.
Somewhat reluted to the foregoing shared our sacrifices in war, for these
bating peace terms at Paris, and
There is iiegun a new era in high means o f intercommunication is to b *
while we later debated our part in way construction, the outlay for which fully utilized. Especially needful 1 human problems is the race question. powers arc already at peace.
Washington, April 12.— The text of completing the peace, commercial runs fur into hundreds of millions of the provisiou of ample radio facilities Congress ought to wipe the stain of
To Declare Peace.
President llurding's message to con agents of other nations were opening dollars. Bond issues by mild districts, for those services where radio only barbaric lynching from the buimers of
Such a resolution should undertake
can
be
used,
such
as
communication
gress follows :
a free and orderly, representative to do no more than thus to declare the
their lines and establishing their out- counties und stutes amount to enur-
posts with u forward look to the mor tnous figures, and the country is fac with ships ut son. with aircraft und democracy. W e face the fact tliut state of |>euce, which ull America
Members of the Congress:
with
out
of
the
way
places.
many millions o f people o f African de craves. It must add no difficulty in
You have been called into extraor row's trade. It w as wholly proper and ing such an oullay that it is vital lliat
International communication by ca scent are numbered among our popu effecting, with Just reparations, ths
dinary session to give your considera lms been advantageous to them. Tardy every effort shall lie directed against
tion to nutioual problems fur too press us we are, it will be safer to hold our wasted effort and unjustlflnble ex ble and radio requires co-operation lation. and that in a number of states restoration for which all Europe
between tlie powers concerned. What they constitute a very large proportion yearns, und upon which the world s
own markets secure und build thereon penditure.
ing to be long neglected.
Tlie federal government can plHce ever tlie degree o f control deemed ud- of tlie total population. It is unneces recovery must be founded. Neither
We face our tusk o f legislation and for our trade with the world.
A very important matter is the es no inhibition on tlie expenditure in vlsnble within tiie United States, gov sary to recount the difficulties incident former enemy nor ally can mistake
administration amid conditions as dif
ficult as our government ever contem tablishment of tlie government's busi several states; hut since congress lias ernment licensing of cuble landings to tills condition, nor to emphasize the America’s position, becuuse our a-tl-
ness ou a business basis. There was embarked upon a policy o f assisting ami of radio stations transmitting fact that it Is a condition which can tude as to the responsibility for the
plated.
wur and the necessity fur Just repara
Under our political system the peo toleration uml tlie easy going, unsys the states in highway improvement, and receiving international traffic, not be removed.
tions ulreudy lias hud formal and very
Appropriation Bills.
ple of the United Slates have charged tematic method o f handling our fiscal wisely, I believe. It cun assert a wholly seems necessary fo r tiie protection of
It Is needless to call your attention earnest expression.
the new congress und the new admin affairs when indirect tuxution held the becoming influence in shaping policy. American interests nnd for the secur
ing o f satisfactory reciprocal privi to the unfinished business inherited
It would be unwise ta uudertuke to
istration with the solution—the read public unmindful of tlie federal burden.
General Supervision.
leges.
from the preceding congress. The up make a statement of policy with re
justment. reconstruction and restora But there Is k n o w l e d g e o f tile high
With the principle of federal partici
Another Program.
propriation bills for army and navy spect to European affairs In such a
tion which must follow in the wake of cost of government today, and tlie high pation acceptably established, prob-
declaration of u state of peace. In cor
cost of ii\!ng- is Inseparably llnkec ahly never to be abandoned, it is im
Aviation is inseparable from either will have your early consideration
war.
with high cost of government. Ther« portant to exert federal Influence in the army or tlie navy and the gov
Neither brunch of the government recting the failure of the executive in
Invite All to Join.
negotiating the most important treaty
It may he regretted that we were can lie no complete correction of tin developing comprehensive plans look ernment must, in the interests of na can be unmindful o f the call for re in the history o f the nation to recog-
so illy prepared for war’s aftermath, high living cost until government’s cost ing to the promotion o f commerce nnd tional defense, encourage its develop duced expenditure for these depart
apply our expenditures in the surest ment for military and civil purposes. ments of our national defense. The uize the constitutional powers of the
so little made ready to return to the is nolubly reduced.
senate, we would go to the other ex
Budget System.
way to guarantee a public return for Tlie encouragement o f the civil devel government Is in accord with the wish
ways of peace, but we are not to be
opment of aeronautics is especially to eliminate the burdens of heavy treme, equally objectionable, If con
Let me most heartily commend the money expended.
discouraged. Indeed, we must be the
gress or the senate should assume ills
Large federal outlay demands a desirable us relieving the government armament. The United States ever
more firmly resolved to undertake our enactment of legislation providing for
function of the executive. Our high
work with high hope, and invite every the national budget system. Congress federal voice in the program of ex largely o f tile expense of development will be in harmony with such a move
est duty is the preservation of the
factor in our citizenship to join in tho lias already recorded its belief In the penditure. Congress cannot Justify a and of maintenance o f un industry, ment toward the higher attainments of
constituted
powers of euch, and the
now
almost
entirely
borne
by
the
gov
peace.
effort to find our normal ouwaYd way budget. It will be a very great satis mere gift from the federal purse to
promotion of the spirit of co-operation
Need of Defense.
faction to know of its early enactment, the several states, to be prorated ernment through appropriations for
again.
But we shall not entirely discard so essential to our common welfare.
The American people have ap so that It may be employed in estab among counties for road betterment. tlie military, naval and postal uir
Save Parts of Treaty.
praised the situation and with that tol lishing tlie economies und business Such a course will Invite abuses which service. Tlie air mail service is un our agencies for defense until there is
It would be idle to declare for sep
éram e and patience which go with methods so essential to the minimum it were better to guard against in the important initial step in the direction removed the ueed to defend. We are
of commercial uviution.
ready to oo-operate with other nations arate treutlcs o f peace with the cen
beginning.
understanding they will give to us the of expenditure.
It lias become u pressing duty of to approximate
disarmament, but tral powers on tlie assumption tliut
I have said to the people we meant
The laws governing federal aid
influence of deliberate public opinion
which ultimately becomes the edict of to lmve less of government in business should lie emended and strengthened. the federal government to provide for merest prudence forbids that we dis these ulone would be adequate, be
tlie
regulation
o
f
uir
navigation;
cause the situation Is so involved thut
arm alone.
i.ny popular government. They are us well us more business in govern Tlie federal agency o f administration
The naval program, which had its our peace engagements cannot ignore
measuring some o f the stern necessi ment. It is well to have it understood should be elevated to the importance otherwise independent and conflicting
legislation
will
be
enacted
by
the
va
beginning in what seemed the highest the old world relationship und the set
ties and will join in the give and take that business bus a right to pursue its and vested with authority comparable
rious states which will hamper the assurance o f peace, cun curry no threat tlements already effected, nor is it de
which Is so esseutiul to firm reestab normal, legitimate and righteous way to the work before it. And congress
unimpeded and it ought have no call to ought to prescribe conditions to fed development o f aviation. Tlie national after the latest proof o f our nntlonal sirable to do so in preserving our own
lishment.
meet government coutpetltlon where all eral appropriations which will neces advisory committee for aeronautics, in unselfishness. Tlie reasonable limita rights und contracting our future re
Home Problems.
sitate a consistent program of uni a special report on tills subject, lias tion of personnel may be combined lationships.
First In mind must be the solution risk is borne by the public treasury.
The wiser course would seem to be
formity which will Justify the federal recommended the establishment o f a with economies o f administration to
Reducing Costs.
o f our problems at home, even though
bureau of aeronautics in the depart lift the burdens of excessive outlay.
the ucceptunce of the confirmation of
There is no challenge to honest and outlay.
some phases o f them ure inseparably
ment o f commerce for tlie federal reg
our
rights und Interests ulreudy pro
Tlie war department is reducing the
Constant Repair.
linked with our foreign relations. The lawful busineaa success. But govern
ulation of air navigation, which recom
vided and to engage under the existing
I know o f nothing more shocking mendation ought to huve legislative personnel o f the army from the maxi treaty, assuming, of course, tliut this
surest procedure in every government ment approval of fortunate, unlrnm-
mum provided by law in June, 1920, to
ineled business does not mean tolera than tlie millions of public funds wast
Is to put Its own house In order.
approval.
the minimum directed by congress In a can he satisfactorily accomplished, by
1 know of no more pressing prob tion of restraint o f trade or of main ed in improved highways, wasted be
Favors Bureau.
subsequent enactment. When further such explicit reservations nnd modifi
lem at home than to restrict our na tained prices by umiuturul methods. It cause there Is no policy of mainte
I recommend tlie enuctment o f leg
cations as will secure our absolute
tional expenditures within the limits it well to have legitimate business un nance. Tlie neglect is not universal, islation establishing a bureau o f aero reduction is compatible with national freedom from inadvisable commit
o f our nnlionul Income, und ut the derstand tlmt n just government, mind but it Is very near It. There is noth nautics in the navy department to security, it may well have the sanc ments and safeguard all our asseutiul
same time measurably lift the burdens ful of tlie interests o f ail the people, ing congress can do more effectively to centralize the control o f naval activi tion o f congress, so that a system of interests.
of war taxation from the shoulders has a rigid to expect the co-operation end this shocking waste than condi ties in aeronautics and removing tlie voluntary military training may offer
For Accomplishment.
to our young manhood the advantages
of that legitimate business in stumping tion nil federal uid ou provisions for
of the American people.
restrictions on the personnel detailed of physical development, discipline and
Neither congress nor the people need
‘
One cannot be unmindful that econ out the practices which add to unrest maintenance.
to aviation in the navy.
commitment to service and constitute my assurance tliut a request to nego
Highways, no matter how generous
omy is a much employed cry, most fre and inspire restrictive legislation. Anx
Tlie army air service should be con
quently stressed in pre-election up- ious as we are to restore the onward the outlay for construction, cannot lie tinued ns a coordinate combatant of tlie army reserve In return for the tiate treaties of peace would be as
superfluous and unnecessary as it Is
penls, but it is ours to uiuke it uu flow of business. It is fair to combine maintained without patrol and con tlie army and Its existing organiza training.
technically ineffective, and I know in
End of the War.
outstanding and ever-impelling pur assurance und warning in one utter stant repair. Sueli conditions insisted tion utilized in co-operation with other
Nearly two and a half years ago niy own heart there is none who would
upon in tlie grant of federal uid will agencies o f the government In tlie
pose in both legislation ami adminis ance.
the World war came to an end, nnd yet wish to embarrass tlie executive In
One condition In the business world safeguard tlie public which pays and
tration. The unrestrained tendencies
establishment of national trunsconti-
<o heedless expenditure und the at may well receive your inquiry. Defla guard the federal government against neiitul uir ways, and in co-operation we find ourselves today in the tech tlie performance of Ills duty when we
tending growth of public Indebtedness tion has been ill progress, but bus political abuses, which tend to defeat with tlie states in the establishment of nical state of war, though actually at are all so eager to turn disappoint
pence, while Europe is nt technical ment nnd delay into gratifying accom
extending from federal authority to failed to reach the mark whore it can tlie very purposes for which we au local airdromes mid lutiding fields.
peace, although fur from tranquility plishment.
that of state and municipality and In be proclaimed to the great mass of thorize federal expenditure.
World War Veterans.
Keeping Vision Clear.
and little progressed toward the hoped
Merchant Marine.
cluding the smallest political subdivi consumers. Iteduced cost of basic pro
Tlie American people expect con for restoration.
W e must not allow onr vision to
sion, constitute the most dangerous duction lias been recorded, but high
Linked with rail and highway is the
It in becomes us to express Impa lie impaired by tlie conflict umong
cost o f living lias not yielded In like problem of water transportation—In gress unfailingly to voice the gratitude
pilase o f government today.
proportion. For example, the prices land, coastwise and transoceanic. It j of tlie republic III u generous and prac tience that I he European belligerents ourselves. The weariness ut home and
Nation as Exemplar.
tical way to its defenders in jlie World
The nutiou cannot restrain except on grain and livestock linve been de is nut possible on this occasion to sug war, who need the supporting urin of are not yet In full agreement, when we the disappointment to tlie world have
In its own activities, but It can be flated, but tlie cost o f butter ntid meats gest to congress tlie additional legis tlie government. Our very immediate ourselves have been unable to bring been compensated in the proof thut
constituted authority into accord in this republic will surrender none of
is not actually reflected therein. It is lation needful to meet the aspiration^
enieiiiplar in a wholesome reversal.
concern is for the crippled soldiers
The staggering load o f war debt to be expected that nonperishable sta o f our people for a merchant marine. land those deeply needing tlie helping our own relations to the formally pro tlie lierltuge of nationality, hut our
rights 4u Internutional relationship
claimed peace.
must be cured for in orderly funding ples will be slow in yielding to low In tiie emergency of war we have con band of the government.
have to he asserted; they require es
Reject* the League.
and gradual liquidation. We shall ered prices, hut tlie maintained retail structed a tonnage equuilng our
■
tablishment
in compacts o f amity; our
costs
in
perishable
foods
cunnot
be
largest expectations. Its wur cost
i ,i
. ,i it,,
Little avails in reciting the causes
husten I he solution und uid effectively
,,f
In Kuropp on ollr own failure purt in readjustment nnd restoration
must be discounted to the actual val | congress mid the public « n r a
In lifting the tax burdens if we strike justified.
I ins it si
pp
,h(.r„
no ,OI1ger ex- cunnot be ignored, and must be de
ues o f peace and tlie lurge difference he crippled ami depend,-,
Cause of Trouble.
resolutely at expenditure.
the services of a volunteer commit-J
I have asked the federal trade com charged to the war emergency and the tee to inquire into the administration cuse for uncertainties respecting some fined.
It Is far more easily said than done.
With the supergoverning
league
In the ferver o f war our expenditures mission for a report on its observations pressing task is to turn our assets in of the bureau o f war risk insurance, phases o f our foreign relationship. In
the existing league o f nations, world definitely rejected and with the world
were so little questioned, the emer und it attributes In the main the fa il tonnage to an agency o f commerce.
the federal hoard for vocational train governing with Its super powers, this so informed, and with the status of
It is not necessary to say It to con
gency was so impelling, appropria ure to adjust consumers’ cost to basic
ing and other agencies of government
tion was so unimpeded that we little production costs to the exchange of gress, hut I have thought this to be a in caring for tiie ex-soldiers, sailors republic will have no part. There can peace proclaimed at home, we may
noted millions and counted the treas information by "open price associa befitting occasion to give notice that nnd marines o f the World war. This be no misinterpretation, and there will proceed to negotiate the covenanted
relationships so esseutiul to the recog
ury inexhaustible. It will strengthen tion*,” which operate, evidently within tlie Uuited States means to establish committee promptly reported the chief be no betrayal of the deliberate ex
our resolution if we ever keep in mind the law, to the very great advantage und maintain a great merchant ma difficulty to be the Imperfect organ pression of the American people In nition o f all the rights everywhere of
the recent elections and settled In our our own nation and play our full part
that a continuation of such u course of their members and equal disadvan rine.
ization of governmental effort, the decision for ourselves, It Is only fair in Joining the peoples o f the world in
tage to tlie consuming public.
means Inevitable disaster.
Marine Laws.
same lack of coordination which hin to say to the world In general, nnd to the pursuits o f peace once more. Uur
Without tlie spirit of hostility or
Our current expenditures are run
Manifestly if our Ians governing ders government efficiency in many
obligations In effecting European
ning at the rate o f approximately $5,- hnste In accusation o f profiteering, American activities on the seas are undertakings, less noticed because the our associates in war In particular,
thnt the league covenant can have no tranquility because of war’s Involve
some
suitable
Inquiry
by
congress
000,000,OUO a year and the burden is
sueli ns to give advantage to those need for prompt service is less aj>*
ments are not less impelling than our
sanction by us.
unbearable. There are two agencies to might speed the price readjustment to who compete with us for the carrying pealing.
The aim to associate nations to pre part in the war itself. Tlils restora
be employed in correction : One Is normal relationship, with helpfulness o f our own cargoes and those which
This committee has recommended,
tion may be wrought before the human
rigid resistance In appropriation and o f both producer and consumer. A ought nuturully to come in American and I convey tlie recommend* fc»ns to vent war, preserve pence nnd promote procession can go onward agnln. We
the other is the utmost economy in measuring rod of fair prices will satis bottoms througu trade exchanges, you with cordial approval, that all gov civilization our people most cordially can be helpful bemuse we are moved
administration. Let us have both. I fy the country and give us a business then tlie spirit o f American fair play ernment agencies looking to tiie wel applauded. We yearned for this new by no hatreds and harbor no fears.
have already charged department revival to end all depression and un will assert Itself to give American fare o f the ex-service men should be Instrument of Justice, but we can have Helpfulness does not mean entangle
j no part in a committal to nn agency of
heads with this necessity. I am sure employment
curriers their equality o f opportunity placed under one directing head, so
force in unknown contingencies; we ment, and participation in economic
congress will agree; and both congress
Rail Problem.
This republic can never realize Its tlint the welfare o f these disabled sur- |
adjustments does not uieiin sponsor
can recognize no super authority.
and tlie administration may safely
The great interest o f both the pro righteous aspirations in commerce, vivors of our civilization and freedom i Manifestly the highest purpose of ship for treaty committments which
count on the support o f ail right mind ducer and consumer— indeed, nil onr can never be worthy the traditions may have the most efficient direction. , t|)p |pn)nle of nnflons WBa (I,.f ,.*tP(1 In do not concern us and In which we
ed citizens, because the burden is industrial und commercial life from j of tiie early days o f the expanding re- \ B may be well to make such an Offl- |,nlt|n)f |t wlth MlP trpnfv o f ppa,.P aml will have no part.
theirs.
agency of the
agriculture to finance— In (lie problems public until the millions o f tons of - dal the director general o f seiAlce to mlk|M „ ....... .
Advice of Senate.
Thrift For All.
Intprn„,|r,nal as-
o f transportation will find its reflex shipping which we now possess ure j war veterans and place under his dl- j Tfptora of , hp war
In an all ImjMlIing wish to do the
The pressure for expenditure, swell In your concern to aid re-estuhllsh- coordinated with our Inland transpor rertion all hospitalization, vocational
for pPrmancnt peace must be most and best for our own republic
ing tlie flow in one locality while ment, to restore efficiency and bring - tation and our shipping lias govern training, war Insurance, rehabilitation ronPP|VP(I K„,p,y „ „ an instrumentality and maintain Its hlgti place among na
draining another, is sure to defeat the transportation cost into a helpful re ment encouragement, not government and all pensions.
! o f Justice, nmi-soclnted with the pns- tions nnd at the same time make the
Tlie immediate extension and utili sinns o f yesterday and not so eonstl-
imposition o f just burdens and the ef lationship rather than continue It as j operation, in carrying our cargoes
under our flag, over regularly operat zation o f the government’s hospital fa tuted ns to attempt the dual fnne- fullest offering of Justice to them, I
fect of our citizenship protesting out a hindrance to resumed activities.
shall invite In tlie most practical way
lay will he wholesome and helpfni. 1
It Is little to be wondered that ill- ed routes, to every market in the cilities in the urmy and navy will tions o f a political Instrument o f the »lie advice o f tlv* nenate, after ac
wish it might find its reflex in econo considered legislation, the war strain, | world, agreeablp to American ex bring relief to the acute conditions conquerors and o f an agency o f pence. quainting it with nil the conditions to
my and thrift among the people them government operation In heedlessness ! changes. It will strengthen Ameri- 1 most complained o f and the hospital There ran he no prosperity for the lie met nnd obligations to be dis
selves, because therein lies quicker re of cost and the conflicting programs, ! enu genius and management to have | building program may he worked out fundamental purpose sought to he charged, nlong with our own rights to
covery and added security for the fu or the lack o f them, for restoration 1 it understood that ours is an ahhl- i to meet the needs likely to lie urgent a(.f,|Pved by any such association
lie safeguarded. Prudence In making
ture.
have brought about a most difficult | ing determination, because carrying at the time o f possible completion
long ns it Is an organ of any partira the program and confident co-operation
The estimates of receipts and ex situation, made doubly difficult by the is second only to production In es j The whole program requires the lar treaty, or committed to the at In making It effective cannot lend us
penditures and the statements as to low tide o f business. Ail are so inti- j tniillshing and maintaining the flow 1 most thoughtful attention of congress, talnment o f the special alms o f any fnr astray. We can render no effect
the condition o f the treasury which mately related that no Improvement o f commerce to which we rightfully for we are embarking on the perform nation or group of nations.
ive service to humanity until w p prove
ance o f a sacred obligation which in
the secretary o f the treasury is pre will be permanent until the railwnys aspire.
Association of Nationa.
anew our own capacity for co-opera
volves the expenditure of billions in
Radio and Cables.
pared to present to you will Indicate are operated efficiently at a cost with- j
tion
in the coordination o f powers con
The
American
aspiration,
Indeed,
what revenues must be provided in in that which the traffic can bear.
It Is proper to invite your atten- t the half-century before us. Congress the world aspiration, was an associa templated In the constitution and no
must
stamp
out
abuses
in
the
very
order to cariy on the government’s
tion to the Importance o f the qws- 1
Must Reduce Rate*.
covenants which Ignore onr associa
beginning.
We
must
strengthen tion o f nations, based upon the appli
business and meet Its current require
cation o f Justice and right, binding ns tions In the wsr can ho made for th*
I f we can have It understood that thm o f radio communication and ca
ment* and fixed debt cbnrgps. Unless congress has no sanction for govern- i bles. T o meet strategic commercial rattier than weaken the moral fiber In conference and ro-ofieratlon for tlie | future. More, no helpful society of
there are striking cuts In tlie import ment ownership, that congres* does and political needs, active encourage o f the beneficiaries and humanize all prevention o f war and pointing the] nations can he founded on Justice and
ent fields of expenditures, receipts not levy taxes upon the people to ment should be given to the extern efforts so that rehabilitation shall l>e way to a higher civilization and In committed to pence until the cove
attended by respiritualization.
from internal taxes cannot safely lie
ternational fraternity In which all the j nants reestablishing pence are sealed
cover deficits in a service which should sion o f American owned and operated
Public Welfare.
permitted to fall below $4.0HO,OnO.<*lU
cable
and
radio
service.
Between
the
!
by the nations which wpre at war.
world might share.
be self-sustaining, there will be an
During the recent political canvas*
In the fiscal year 1922 and 192-1.
In rejecting the league covenant and j T o such accomplishment* — to the
avowed foundation on which to re- j United States and Its possessions j
the
proposal
was
made
that
a
depart
Cost of Living.
there should he ample communication j
uttering that rejection to onr people, complete re-establishment o f peace nnd
build.
One who values American prosper
Freight carrying
charge*
have | facilities providing direct service* at ment o f public welfare should be cre and to the world, we make no sur- ' Its contracted relationships, to the
ated.
It
was
indorsed
and
commended
ity and maintains American standards mounted higher End higher until com- , reasonable rate*. Between the United |
render of onr hope and aim for nn realization of onr aspirations for na
o f wage» and living can have no sym merce i* halted and production dis- | States and other countries not only ; so strongly that I venture to call It to association to promote peace In which i tion* associated for world helpfulness
pathy with the proposal that easy en couraged. R ailway rates and coats of should there be adequate facilities, your attention and to suggest favor- we would most heartily Join. We wish without world government, for krorid
it to he conceived In peace and ded!-! stability on which humanity’s hopes
but these should be, so far as prac able legislative consideration.
try and flood of Imports will cheapen | operation must be reduced.
Maternity Bid.
cated to peace, nnd Will relinquish nn are founded, we shall address our
our <o»ta o f living. It Is more likely
Uongress may well Investigate and ticable, direct and free from foreign i
In the realms o f education, pnbllc effort to bring the nations o f the world • selves, fully mindful o f the high priv
to destroy our capacity to buy. Today let the public understand wherein our intermediation. Friendly co-operation
Amei i.-an agriculture I* menaced and system and the federal regulation* are should be extended to International ( health, sanitation, conditions o f work- Into such fellowship, not in tlie *ur- ilege and the paramount duty of the
It* pe.~!iirts are down to prewar nor lacking in helpfulness or hindering in efforts aimed at encouraging improve- I e ri In Industry, child welfare, proper render of national sovereignty, but re- i United Slates In tbia critical period o f
t and recreation, the ellaal-1 Jolting in a nobler exercise of it in , the world.
mals, yet we are endangering our fun- reatricUoas. The remaining obstacles ment of international communication j
OUTLINES POLICIES
SEPARATE PEACE IS DEMANDED
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