New Britain herald., 1918-01-12
HUGHES FORESEES
 A NEW AMERICA
Defends Honest Business, and Says Regulate, Not Destroy

New York, Jan. 12.-In the pres 8ence of a gathering of lawyers of al- zmost unexampled distinction, the &forty-first annual meeting of the New NYork State Bar association opened #yesterday at AZ West Forty-fourth #street. The morning session was de- #voted to reports of committees; Tn the #afternoon Charles E. Hughes, the [ &president delivered his opening ad- $dress, and at night Sir Frederlck E. &Smith, attorney general ot Great Brlt- &ain, addressed the association. This #afternoon there was a, meeting in memory of Joseph H. Choate, and %the dinner tonight to be held at the #Astor will number among it's speakers &fhe secretary of state, the governor #general of Canada, and a numper or @foreign am mbassadors.
 # MT Hughes, in his presidential ad- &dress yesterday afternoon, predicted &shat the result of the great changes 8brought about by the war would be #the extension of government control Rover the life of the individual.
 "Individual conditions" he said. .when challenged will have to show nause before a public to which old #hrasditions are no longer controlling a public trained in sacrifice which will %khaye and enforce it's own estimate Of Mthe extent of the common right. d ''The problems of the democracy of #hhe future,'' he asserted, twill not be problems of power, but problems of Administration" pointing to the pres #ent situation of the country Whlch &hnds a government equipped with un- " limited powers finding it difficult to
 ransmute this authority into accom- J,@ al saner attitude toward business, as .erting that it is an absurdity to find
 hat the very cooperation which the
 ation finds necessary for its own economic salvation under the strain If war is denounced as an absurdity "a 8n time of peace"
 8 After recounting recent decisions of
 he Supreme Court which have mate Eially extended the powers of the na-
 ionaI government, MT. Hughes con- kinued
 ga ..When we turn from the normal Processes of peace to the extraordin- 1rv conditions incident to state of war we are struck CD with the com- &o1ete adequacy of constitutional au-
 hority to meet all the exigenc1es ot mar; CD with the willingness of our people that these vast reservoirs Of bower should be freely drawn upon; land (3) with the enormous difficulty Eff transmitting constitutional energy Into actual achievement. Our diffl- hulties are those of a peace-loving g Y 5euacracy unprepared for war-the IiAiculties of an indulgent people who have never addressed themselves Syith sufficient seriousness and defin-
 enss of purpose to the problems of
 Administrative efficiency in the con-
 uct of the public business.
 "We bind our agents with red tape.
 i've multiply offices, bureaus, and Eouncils without assuring necessary ko- Tdination. We make government
 great circumlocution office, a prac- lice bad enough in time of peace, but atal If not remedied in war. It is
 relatively easy to devise grants of bower, to discuss, to formulate poli-
 ries, to frame measures. The diff
 rult thing is to get things done, and
 hat is the first essential in war. The
 problems of the democracy of the fu-
 ure will not be problems of power, but problems of administration. And
 his war is vast school. We are Erateful that, despite difficulties, so
 much is being accomplished, and that
 we are learning the better and the
 lecessary way.
 "1 can speak but briefly of some of
 he adjustments incident to war. And,
 rst, of conscription, in raising our
 rn1y The immediate result will be
 Q give us the fighting men to win
 he war. We shall never win with klf them But the by-products of
 his process may be of the greatest