Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-12-07
PRESIDENT WILSON GIVES CONGRESS
HIS VIEWS ON MANY VITAL SUBJECTS

to omit that act of justice. Besides the i'm
mense practical services they have rendered,
the women of the country have been the
moving spirits in the systematic economies
by which people have voluntarily as
sisted to supply the suffering peoples OF the
world and the armies upon every front with
food and everything else that we mad thet
might serve the common cause. Inc details
of such story can never be iuly written
but we carry them ut ou- hearts and thank
God that we can say that the kins-
men of such.
Great Triumph Comes.
And now we are sure of the great triumph
for which every sacrifice was made IL mas
come-come in its completeness. and with the
pride and inspiration of these days OF
achievement quick within us we turn to the
tasks of peace again peace sure against
the violence of irresponsible monarchs ana
ambitious military coteries-and make ready
| for a new order, for foundations of jus
| tce and fair dealing.
We are about to give order and organiza-
ton to this peace, not only for ourselves, but
for the other peoples of the world as well
so far as they will suffer US to serve them.
1t is international justice that we seek, NOT
domestic safety merely. Our thoughts have
dwelt of late upon Europe, upon Asia, upon
the near and the far East, very little upon
the acts of peace and accommodation that
wait to be performed at our own doors.
Relations With Neighbors.
While we are adjusting relations with
the rest OF the world, Is II not VI Cdpitdi
Importance that we should clear away all
grounds of misunderstanding with our i'm
mediate neghbors and give proof OF the
friendship we really feel? l hope that the
members of the senate will permit me to
speak once more of the unratified treaty OF
friendship and adjustment with the republic
of Colombia. l very earnestly urge upon
them an early and favorable action upon
that vital matter. l believe that they will
feel with that the stage of affairs is now
set for such action will be not only just.
but generous, and in the spirit OF the new
age upon which we have so happily entered
REIMBURSEMENT Problem.
So far as our domestic affairs are con-
cerned the problem of return to peace
is problem of economic and industrial re-
adjustment. That problem is less serious for
us than it may turn out to be for the ma
tons which have suffered the disarrange-
ments and the losses of longer than we.
Our people, moreover, do not wait to be
coached and led They know their own BUSH
ness are quick and resourceful at every re-
adjustment. definite in purpose and self re-
liant in action. Any leading strings We
might seek to put them in would speedily
become hopelessly tangled because they would
pay attention to them and go their way.
All that we do their legislative and
executive servants is to mediate the process
of change here. there and elsewhere as we
may. l have heard much counsel as to the
plans that should be formed and personally
conducted to a happy contamination, but from
no quarter have l seen any general scheme
of reconstruction emerge which l thought
it likely we could force our spirited business
men and self reliant laborers to accept with
due pliancy and obedience.
Take Harness Off.
While the war lasted we set up many
agencies by which to direct the industries of
the country in the services it necessary
| for them to render, by which to make
sure of abundant supply of the materials
needed by which to check undertakings that
could for the time be dispensed with and
stimulate those that were most serviceable in
war, by which to gain for the purchasing
departments of the governments certain
| control the prices of essential articles
| and materials, by which to restrain trade
with alien enemies, make the most of the
4 available shipping. and systenNtize financial
| transactions. both public and private, so
| that there would be no unnecessary conflict
or eonfusion-by which, in short, to put
every material energy Of the country in har-
ness to draw the common load and make of
US one team in the accomplishment of a
| great task. But the moment we knew the
armistice to have been signed We took the
| harness off. Raw materials upon which the
government had kept its hand for fear there
should not be enough for the industries that
supplied the armies have been released and
put into the general market again. Great
| industrial plants whose whole output and ma
chinery had been taken over for the uses Of
the government have been set free to return
to the uses to which they were put before
the 1t has not been possible TO remove
SO readily or quickly the control of food
| stuffs and of shipping. because the world has
still to be fed from granaries and the
ships are still needed to send supplies TO
men oversee and to bring the back as
fast as the disturbed conditions the other
| side of the water permit; but even there
restraints being relaxed much pos
sible and more and more as the weeks go by.
Marvellous Record Made.
! Never before have there been agencies in
existence in this country which knew much
of the field of supply of labor and of indus
! try the industries board, the war
trade board. the labor department, the food
| administration and the fuel administration
| have known since their labors become thor
| oughly systematzed: and they have not been
| isolated agencies they have been directed by
men who represent Sc permanent depart
| ments of the governmnt and so have been
| the centers of unified and cooperative &C
| ton. 1t has been the policy of the executive.
therefore, since the armistice was assured
(which is in effect complete submission of
| the enemy, 10 put the knowledge of these
bodies at the disposal of the business znen
of the country and to offer Their intelligent
mediation at every point and in every matter
| where it desired 1t is surprising how
fast the process of return to peace footing
has moved in the three weeks since the fight
ing stopped. 1t promises to outrun any in
quiry that may be instituted and any aid
that may be offered 1t will not be easy to
direct it any better than it will direct itself
The American business man is of quick ini-
tiative.
| Employment Considered.
The ordinary and normal processes of pri-
vate initiative will not. however. provide inn
mediate employment for all of our re-
turning armies. Those who are of trained
| capacity. those who skilled workmen.
those who have acquired familiarity with es-
tablished businesses, those who are ready and
| willing to go to the farms. all those whose
aptitudes known will be sought out by
employers, will find difficulty, it is safe
| to say in finding place and employment
But there will be others who will be at a
loss where to gain a livelihood unless pains
are taken to guide them and put them in the
! way of work. There will be large floating
| residium of labor which should not be left
wholly to shift for itself 1t seems to me
important, therefore, that the development OF
public works of every sort should be prompt
/ ly resumed in order that opportunities
should be created for unsked labor in par
tcular. and that plans should be made for
such development of unused lands and
our natural resources we have hitherto
lacked stimulation to undertake.
/ Farms for Soldiers.
| l particularly direct your attention to the
very practicable plans which the secretary OF
the interior has developed in his annual re.
port and before your committees for the