The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-12
TAKE AUTOS FOR
.COEUR D'ALENE
Wilson Speaks in Home State
of Borah, Chief Treaty
Opponent.
Permanent Plan for Co. -Opers
alton Between Capital and
Employe Necessity.


Rathdrun, Ida, Sept. 12--U. N. S.y
President Wilson spent part of to-
day In the home state of Senator
William f. Borah, his chief opponent
on ratification of the treaty Of Ver-
sailles
His special train pulled In here this
morning and shortly afterward the
entire party was on route by automo-
bile to Occur d'Alene, where the
president was scheduled to make his
only address in Idaho. The automo-
bile trip was necessitated because the
weight Of the special train was con-
sidered too much for the branch line
leading to Occur d'Alene.
The diversion, however, was q
pleasant relief to the president and
Mrs. Wilson, who have been confined
to the train most of the time since
the trip was started a week ago last
Wednesday. The president especially
was in excellent spirits. His two
meetings yesterday in Montana had
put him in an excellent humor. The
crowds had been most friendly.
Whether they were entirely with him
on all of the arguments that he pre-
sented was a matter that was in dis
pute among the committeeman who
were in charge of the arrangements.
However there was no doubt of one
thing-it was Woodrow Wilson, pres
ident of the United States, they took
to their hearts. 1t was as president
that they welcomed him and 1t was
as president that they cheered him.
| Today the automobile ride was over
picturesque mountain roads that led
south to Rathdrum and the entire
| party was looking forward to a very
nj he frv
the train in the afternoon.
I Permanent Co Operation. e
| The conference called for next
| month in Washington by President
Wilson at which he will ask that d
permanent plan of cooperation be-
| tween capital and labor be worked
| out had overwhelmed the original OBJ
| ject Of his westward trip which was
| to secure ratification of the Versail-
| les treaty. While the president still
is cNpourdrng his reasons why the
, immediate ratification Of the docu-
ment is necessary he is devoting
more and more time to his discuss
sion Of tllustr'3'l unrest and the ur-
gent need OF labor and capital reach~
ing the common ground OF under~
standing.
dent is mort disquieting. Only a mis-
race, it now appears. can prevent a
strike IN tn steel industry. The
president il is no secret, believes
that in SOM, f. cEeCts a strike in ths
steel ndI.str. would be fully as dis
astrous as Ould a general railway
strike. And there hangs over the na-
tion the danger of railway tie-up
| inaSmuch as there are demands by
| various ORGANIZATIONS hanging fire.
that might ut any time come to q
head. J"
Disagrecanle Surprise.
Then the strike of the Boston pos
lice came as a very disagreeable sur.
prise to the president, especially as
it was accompanied by the very dis
order that had been predicted when
the idea Of policemen forming unions
was first broaChcd. o
The president naturally views with
concern all this unrest. He uses 1t an
an argument that the peace treaty
should be gotten out OF the way in
order that the business of the world
could know what it was to expect.
But it is now no secret to the men
in the confidence of the presidents
that he tclIeves 1t necessary to sup-
plement the influence Of the treaty
by reaching an agreement between
capital and labor whereby labor
would speed up and increase produce
ton while capital would give labor
more AMI more an actual partnership
in the product OF its hands. That iS
the big compelling reason for neXs
months conference. 1t also is what
lies Immediately behind the presi-
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