The sun., 1918-12-03
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BY THE PRESIDENT
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eNSTy reauJuStfnent, deUnlte III pur-
pose and self-reliant in action. Any
leading strings we might seek to
put them in would speedily become
hopelessly tangled because they
would pay no attention to them and
40 their own way. All that We can
do as their legislative and executive
servants Is to mediate the process
of change here. there and elsewhere
as we may. have heard much
counsel as to the plans that should
be formed and personally conducted
to a happy contamination, but from
no quarter have I seen any general
scheme of reconstruction" emerge
which I thought II likely we could
force our spirited business men and
self-reliant laborers to accept with
due pllancy and obedience.
Need of American Ala.
While the war lasted we set up
many agencies by which to direct
the industries of the country in the
services II was necessary for them
to render, by which to make sure Of
an abundant supply Of the materials
needed. by which TO check undertake
ings that could for the time be dis
pensed with and stimulate those that
were most serviceable IN war, by
which to gain for the purchasing
departments of the Government a
certain control over the prices Of
essential articles and materials. by
which to restrain trade with alien
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able shipping and systematic finan-
cial transactions. both public and
private, so that there would be no
unnecessary conflictsear confusion
by which, in short, to put every ma
terial energy oe the country in har-
ness to draw the common load and
make OF us one team in the accom-
plishment of a great task. But tine
moment we knew the armistiCe to
have been signed we took the har-
ness 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 machinery had been taken over
for the uses OF the Government have
been set free to return to the uses
to which thHS were put before the
war. II has not been possible to re-
move so readily or SO quickly the
control Of foodstuffs and OF shipping
because Che world has still to be fed
from our granaries and the ships
lad g. uttn IN
our men overseas and to bring the
men back as fast as the disturbed
conditions on the other side OF the
water permit: but even there re-
straints are being relaxed as much
as possible and more and more as
the weeks go by.
Efficiency at Home.
Never before have there been
agencies n existence in this country
which knew so much OF the field Of
supply, OF labor ana of industry. as
the war Industries Board. the War
Trade Board. the Labor Department,
the Food Administration and the
Fuel Administration have known
since the labors became thoroughly
systematizcdi and they have not
been isolated agencies; they have
been directed by men who repre-
scented the permanent departments OF
tine Government and so have been
the centres Of unified and coopera-
tive action. 1t has been the policy
OF the Executive therefore. since the
armistice was assured (Which Is in
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anc,,vl 10 mt the knowledge Of
these bodies a. the disposal of the
hue,ness men ~ the country and to
oYor thair Intelligent mediation Mt
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