South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-20
Presidents Message Recommends Peace Legislation
On Taxation, Labor, Suffrage and Industries

thought on the great matter. upon
which every thinking man must be
aware that the future development
OF society directly depends.
Agencies Of international coun-
sci and suggestion are presently TO
be- created in connection with the
league OF nations in this very field:
but il is national action and the en-
lightened policy Of individuals. cor
pOrations and society within each
nation that must bring about the
actual reforms. The members of the
houses will hardly need suggestions
from me as to what means they
shall seek TO make the federal gov
eminent the agent Of the whole ma
tion in pointing out and, if need be.
guiding the process Of reorganization
and reform
MUST FIND PLACES
FOR DISCHARGED MEN.
Il am sure that it is not necessary
for me TO remind you that there is
one immediate and very practical
question OF labor that we should
meet in the most liberal spirit We
must see 10 it that our returning
soldiers are assisted i'm every prac-
teal way TO find the places for which
they are fitted in the daily work Of
the country This can be done by
developing and maintaining upon an
adequate scale the admirable or
ganization created by the depart
ment Of labor for placing men seek
ing work; and it can also be done,
i'm at least one very great field, by
creating new opportunities for indi-
vidual enterprise. The secretary of
the interior has pointed out the way
by which returning soldiers may be
helped TO find and take up land in
the hitherto undevelOped regions OF
the country which the federal gov
eminent has already prepared or can
readily prepare for cultivation and
also on many of the cut over or ne
elected areas which lie within the
limits of the older states; and L once
more take the liberty of recommend
ing very urgently that hin plans
shall receive the immediate and
substantial support Of the congress
Peculiar and very stimulating
conditions await our commerce and
industrial enterprises in the immedi-
ate future. Unusual opportunities
will presently present themselves TO
our merchants and producers in for
eign markets and large fields for
profitable investment will be opened
TO our free capital But it is not
only of that that 1 am thinking; il
is not chiefly that that l am think
ing. Many great industries FRUSTRATED
by the war wait to be rehabilitated
i'm many parts of the world where
what will be lacking is not brains
nor willing hands or organizing ca
pacity or experienced skill. but ma
chinery and raw material and CAPT
tai. 1 believe that our business men,
our merchants. our manufacturers
and our capitalists. will have the Wis
ion TO see that prosperity in one part
of the world ministers TO prosperity
everywhere; that there is in a very
true sense a solidarity of interest
throughout the world OF enterprise
and that our dealings with the coun-
tries that have need of our products
and our money will teach them to
deem US more than ever friends
whose necessities we seek in the
right way TO serve.
WOULD STIMULATE
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE.
Our new merchant ships, which
have in some quarters been feared
as destructive rivals. may prove
helpful rivals, rather. and common
/ servants very much needed and very
| welcome. Our great ship yards new