The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-03-14
WILSON SAYS j. 5.
WILL AID STATES
OPENING OF THE WHITE HOUSE
CONFERENCE OF GOVERNORS
AND MAYORS.
REIMBURSEMENT PROBLEMS
President Hopes Conference Discus
sion Will Assume a Wide Range,
Including Means of Restoring
Conditions To Normal.

Washington. - Opening the white
house conference of governors and
mayors on peace-time business and la
Dor problems, President Wilson prom
ised that the federal governments
would consider itself the servant OF
the states, municipalities and counties
in solving readjustment problems, and
would perform its duty guided by sug-
gestions Of the conference.
The president said he hoped the con
ference discussion would assume a
wide range, including means OF restor-
ing labor conditions t a normal basis
as soon as possible, and to effecting
such fresh ALLEGATION OF labor and in
dustry as the circumstances may make
necessary"
President Wilson said:
/ wish that I could promise myself the
pleasure and the profit Of taking part in
your deliberations. / find that nothing
oeilberate Is permitted me since my re-
turn ] have been trying. under the guild
ance OF my secretary. Mr.. Tumulty. to do
a months work in q week, and / am
hoping that not all Of il has been done
BADLY. but inasmuch as there is "a neces-
sary pressure upon my time. / know that
you VIII excuse me from taking a part in
your conference. much as GmnrrId ha
proftted by doing so.
Ny pleasant duty is to bid YOU a
hearty welcome and TO express my gratifi-
cation that so many executives Of cities
ana or states have found the time and
the inclination to come together on the
very important matter we have to discuss.
me primary duty of caring for our peO-
PIE IN the intimate matters that we want
10 discuss here, of course. falls upon the
states and upOn the municipalities and the
function Of the federal government is to
90 what % is irving To do in "a HnnFaranra
II this sOrt-draw the executive minds
or the country together so that they may
rrofit by each others suggestions and
plans, and SO that we may offer our serv-
Ices To coordinate their efforts in any
way that they may deem it wise to co
.Fulhdte- IN pther words II Is the priVi-
lege of the federal government In matters
or TINS sort TO be the servants of the ex-
eculiNeS OF tne states and municipalities
and counties, and we shall perform that
duty with the greatest pleasure if YOU Will
guide us with your suggestions.
1 hope that the discussions Of this con-
ference VIII take as wide "a scope as YOU
may think necessary. We are not met
70 discuss any single or narrow subject.
we are not met TO discuss the proper
method Of restoring all the labor condi-
ttons n the country to a normal basis as
soon as possible. and to effect such fresh
ALLEGATIONS Of labor and industry as the
circumstance may make necessary. ]
thlnk l can TESTIFY from what | have seen
on the other side of the water. that We
are more fortunate than other nations in
respect 70 these great problems. Our in
dustries have been disturbed and disor-
ganiZed-disCrganized as compared with
a peace basis. very seriously. indeed. by
dustries OF other countries: and il seems
to me, therefore, that we should approach
these problems that We are about to dis
cusS with a great deal Of confidence
with a good deal OF confidence that if W.
have q common purpose we can realize
that common purpose without seriOus OF
insIrmountable difficulties.
The thing that has impressed me most.
gentlemen, not only in the recent weeks
when i have been in conference on the
other side of the water, but for many
months before / went across the water.
was this: We are at last learning that the
business OF government is to take cOun-
sci for the average man. We are at last
learning that the whole matter Of pros
pertty OF peoples runs down into the great
body OF the men and women who do the
work Of the world, and that the process
Of guidance is not completed by the mere
success Of great enterprises-it ~ com
pleted only by the STANDARD of the benefit
that II confers upon those who in the
obscure ranks OF life contribute ID the
success OF those enterprises
The hearts Of men and women and chill
dren of the world are stirred now in a |
way that has never been known before
They are not only stirred by their individ-
ual circumstances. but they are beginning !
to get a vision of what the general circum- |
stances OF the world are. and there is for |
the first time in history an internationa
sympathy Which IS quick and Nital-a |
sympathy which does not display itself |
merely In the contract Of governments |
but displays itself III the silent intercourse |
OF sympathy between great bodies thai |
constitute great nations. and the siEn.fi- 4
cause OF a conference like this * that we
are expressing In it. and will, ] believe. |
express In the results OF this conference, /
our consciousness that we are servants |
o. TINS great silent mass OF people who
constitute the United States, and that aS
their servants il is our business, as IL Is
our privilege, TO find out how we can bes1
assist in making their lives what they |
wish them to be. giving them the opportu-
mites that they ought to have. assisting |
by public counsel in the private affairs
Nrppr vxhA~h tho h pniNa=G ~ mon IanardE
And so / am the more distressed that !
can not take part in these counsels be-
cause my present business is to under
stand what plain men ev~erywhere want
Ii is perfectly understood in Paris that
we are not meeting there as the masters
of anybOdy-that we are meeting there as
the ervants Of. | believe il is, about 700,-
600, 900 people. and that unless we show
that we understand the business of serv-
ants. we will not satisfy them and we
viii not accomplish the peace Of the world.
and that If we show that we want to serve
any interests but theirs we viii have he
come candidates for the most lasting dis
credit that viii ever attach to men in
history.
of the significance OF the things YOU are
that l bid YOU welcome. be-
cause l believe YOU have come together in
the spirit which l have tried to Indicate,
and that we will together concert meth
DDS OF cooperation and individual notion
which will really accomplish what we
wish to see accomplished in steadying and
easing and facilitating the whole labor
processes Of the United States.
Famous Sport Story Writer Succumbs
Philadelphia-CharleJ Z. Van Loan.
humorist, and famous as a writer OF
stories on sporting topics, died of
chronic nephritis at a hospital in Alb
i ngton, Pa, near here.
r.. r. Mallory Dies.
New York.-Henry r. Mallory, pres