South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-07
SAYS WAR NEEDS
HAVE SHOWN U.s..
NE W RESOURCES
SeC'y RedfieId Declares Ma
ton is on Threshold of
Great Prosperity.
BY JOHN CARSON.
By nited Press

NASf1lNGlON, May THE ma
ton is on the threshold of the most
wonderful period OF prosperity il
has ever known. We have financial
~ found ourselves. This is true from
the largest banker down to the most
humble laborer. We never realized
that we had the financial strength
that we now have found through
war emergencies. A foreign market
is before US and it will lax our Won
derful productivity TO meet its de-
mand. The farmers are prosperous
and destined TO be more so and this
prosperity cannot but reflect itself
in every other line of trade.
That is a short review of the con-
ditions as seen by William c. Red
field, secretary of commerce. Bust
ness he insists is not poor because
everyone expects bad conditions but
because it is expected that condi-
tons cannot help but improve. a
most remarkable condition. The mo-
ment confidence is restored. there
viii be a constant Improvement in
conditions and the buying power
held in reserve during the war will
be turned loose TO add TO the pros
perity.
Use Opportunities.
1t is with this wonderful oppor-
tunity confronting the nation that
Sec'y Redheld places before the next
congress and before the entire ma
ton an appeal that we take advan-
tage of our opportunities. He would
have congress act upon a policy of
conservation but he would not have
the nation and congress neglect a
policy Of utilization. He would not
offer a beguiling TRADE about the
advantages or disadvantages of a
protective tariff and expect thereby
to coin votes but he would offer a
constructive policy to improve the
conditions in this country and for
get the question of votes
And this is the policy of what has
become known in the last six years
as big politics" Doing things even
when they are distasteful and un-
popular but because they are right
cannot help but win victories in the
end. That is Wilsonian political phil
osophy, the philosophy which has
made Sen. Harry ). New admit that
Pres't Wilson is the greatest poll
tician in the world but which at the
same time has caused Sen New 70
confess he cannot understand Just
why he is a great politician. 1t is a
political philosophy which does not
produce immediate results but Il is
a philosophy which cannot help but
produce permanent results.
Asks Congress To Assist.
Secy Redfield, following the same
course, asks only that the next con-
gress assist in the practical work Of
the government.
The point I am urging and which
welcome this opportunity to urge
upon thoughtful men is to make po-
litical policies practical in another
ana more thoughtful sense than that
Of the sO-called practical politics Of
the past" ne said in discussing what
should be done TO benefit the entire
country, 10 assist business and TO as
sist the laboring men.
Develop the dye-stuff industry
along a policy which does not mis-
take cheapness for economy" he
says.
Appropriate money for such.
service as the Waste Reclamation
Service to save raw materials.
Appropriate money for such
work as the Industrial Cooperation
Service TO assist and encourage bust
ness men 20 abandon wasteful prac-
tees.
In the seas at our doors and all
along our coasts there are vast sup
plies Of unused foods and other ma
terials-for instance the dog-fish
and the shark skins make fine
leather.
Fibres are Availab bic.
I'VE draw largely upon foreign