Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1919-05-28

and developing new Federal agencies
Of advice and information which may
serve as a clearing house for the
hest experiments and the best
thought on this great matter. upon
which every thinking man must he
aware that the future development
OF society directly depends. Agencies
Of international council and sugges-
ton are presently to be created in
connection with the League of Ma
iions in this very field, but it is ma
tional action and the enlightened
policy Of individuals, corporations
and societies within each nation that
must bring about actual reforms.
The members Of the committees on
labor in the two Houses will hardly
need suggestions from me as to what
means they shall seek to make the
federal government the agent Of the
whole nation in pointing out, and, If
need be, guiding the process of re-
organization and reform.
Returning Soldiers.
| 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 that our returning soldiers
are assisted in every practical way
to find the places for which they are
fitted in the daily work of the coun-
try. This can be done by developing
and maintaining upon an adequate
scale the admirable organization Gre
ated by the Department of Labor for
placing men seeking work, and it
can also be done, in at least one very
great field, by creating new opportu-
mites for individual enterprise. The
Secretary Of the Interior has pointed
out the way by which returning SOL
diers may be helped to find and take
up land in the hitherto undeveloped
regions Of the country, which the
Federal government has already pre-
pared, or can readily prepare, for cul-
tivation, and also on many of the
cut-over or neglected areas which lie
within the limits Of the older States,
and once more take the liberty of
recommending very urgently that
his plans shall receive the immediate
and substantial support of the Con-
grcsS.
Stimulating Conditions.
Peculiar and very stimulating con-
ditions await our commerce and in
duStrial enterprise in the immediate
future. Unusual opportunities will
presently present themselves to our
merchants aud producers in foreign
markets, and large fields for pro-
fitahle Investment will be opened to
our free capital. But it is not My
OF shat that ] am thinkink--i' is
not chiefly OF that that am think
ing. Many great industries pros
trhicd by the war wait TO I've reha-
biIitatcd. in many parts OF the world
where what Will be lacking is not
brains or willing hands or organiz-
ing capacity or experienced skill. but
mnchncry and raw materials and
capital. believe that our business
men, our merchants, our manufactu-
rers and our capitalists will have the
vision to see that prosperity in one
part Of the world ministers to pros
perity everywhere. That there is in
a very true sense a solidarity Of in
terest throughout the world of en-
terprise, and that our dealings with
the countries 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.
Helpful Rivals.
Our new merchant ships, which
have in some quarters been feared
as destructive rivals, may prove help
full rivals rather, and common SER
wants, very much needed and very
welcome. Our great ship yards, new
and old, will be so opened to the use
Of the world that they will prove i'm
mensely serviceable to every mari
time people in restoring, much more
rapidly than would have otherwise
been possible, the tonnage wantonly
destroyed in the war. I have only
TO suggest that there are many points
at which we can facilitate American
enterprise in foreign trade by oppor-
tune legislation and make II easy for
American merchants to 90 where