Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-03-03

81 wish that could promise my
self the pleasure and profit of taking
part in your deliberations. | find tha
nothing deliberate is permitted sine
my return. l have been trying undei
the guidance of my secretary Mr.. Tu
multy, to do month 5 work in week
and | am hoping that not all of it has
been done badly, but inasmueh as there
is necessary pressure upon my time
| know that you will excuse me from
taking part in your conference, muel
as I should be profited by so doing.
My pleasant duty is to bid you q
very hearty welcome and to express
my qualification that so many execu
tives of cities and of states have found
the time and the inclination to come
together on the very important matter
We have to discuss. The primary duty
of caring for our people in the init.
mate matters that we want to discuss
here, of course, falls upon the states
and upon the municipalities and the
function of the federal government is
to do what it is trying to do in con-
ference of this sort-draw the execu-
tive minds of the country together so
that they may profit by each other s
suggestions and plans, and so that we
may offer our services to coordinate
their efforts in any way that they may
dee NIT wise to coordinate.
To Perform Duty
In other words. it is the privilege of
the federal government in matters of
this sort to be the servants of the ex-
eeutives of the states and municipali-
ties and counties, and we shall perform
that duty with the greatest pleasure it
you win guide us with your sugges-
tions.
81 hope that the discussion of this
conference will take as wide scope
as, you think necessary. We are not to
discuss any single or narrow subject.
We are met to discuss the proper meth
ods of restoring all the labor condi-
tions of the country TO a normal basis
as soon as possible and to effeeting
such fresh allocations of labor and in
dustry as the circumstances may make
necessary.
''I think I can testify from what |
have seen on the other side of the wa
ter that we are more fortunate than
other nations in respect to these great
problems. Our industries have been dis
turbed and disorganized-diso
as compared with peace basis, very
seriously, indeed, by the war, but not
so seriously as the industries of other
and, it seems to me, there
fore, that we should approach these
problems that we are about to discuss
with a good deal of eonfidence-with
a good deal of confidence that if we
have a common purpose, we can real
ize that common purpose without seri-
Gus or insurmountable difficulties.
On Average Man Depends ALI
"The thing that has impressed me
most, gentlemen, not only is the re-
cent weeks, when l have been in con-
ference on the other side of the water,
but for many months before l went
across the water, was this: We are at
least learning that the business OF
government is to take counsel for the
average man. We are at last learning
that the whole matter of the prosper
lty of peoples runs down into the great
body Of the men and women who do
the work Of the world and that the pro-
cess of guidance is not completed by
The mere success of great enterprises
lit Is completed only by the standard
1f the benefit that it confers upon
those who in the obscure ranks Of life
contribute to the success OF those en-
terpires. The hearts of the men, women
and children of the world are stirred
low in way that has never been
known before. They are not only stir
ed by their individual circumstances
out they are beginning to get vision
If what the general circumstances OF
he world are and there is, for the first
ime in history, an international sym
oathy which is quick and vital--a SYM
1athy which does not display itself
merely in the contact Of governments,
)ut displays itself in the silent inter
sourse of sympathy between great bod
es that constitute great nations and
he significance of a conference like
viii I believe express in fhe results
e ,b;s eonferance nur consciousness
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