Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-04
PRESIDENT SAYS LOCAL.
TIES MUST SOLVE PROB
LENS OF EMPLOYMENT
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within the next year without finding
it,"
Governor Cats OF Florida, said
Florida was much interested in Sec
rotary Lanes bill for retaining
swamp and waste lands, and declared
Florida could use two million labor
ers in orange, truck and fisheries in
dustries.
Governor Dorsey of Georgia report
ed general satisfaction with labor con-
ditions in his state with nothing
acute or alarming"
Freight Rates Too High.
Mayor Charles Jewett of Indianap-
oils, representing the governor of In
diana, said freight rates must be low
cred in order that material costs be
reduced. Generally the industrial sit
uation in Indiana is not alarming be-
cause of the public works contem-
plated.
Lieutenant Governor Huffman of
Kansas, predicting a two million
bushel wheat crop this year, said re-
turning soldiers could find work on
the farms.
Governor Stanley of Kentucky
urged stimulation of agricultural ac-
tivities as essential to the reduction
to labor cost and the high cost of ne
|
out, ne said should be sent to the
land without delay.
Governor Cornwell of West Viz
ginia said the labor situation in that
state was not good Less than half
J of the 100000 mine workers in the
state were at work, he said, due large
~ to the fact that large coal consum-
ers are Withholding orders for coal in
the hope that the price would drop.
Among the mayors attending is w.
f. r. Mills, Denver
| Text of Address.
! The president said
Il wish that I could promise my
self the pleasure and the profits of
taking part in your deliberations. l
find that nothing deliberate is per-
mttted me since my return | have
been trying under the guidance of my
secretary, Mr.. Tumulty, to do a.
months work in a week, and | am
hoping that not all of it has ueen done
badly, but inasmuch as there is a nee
essaiy pressure upon my time, ] know
that you will excuse me from taking a
part in your conference, much as /
should be profited by doing so.
MY pleasant duty is to bid you a
hearty welcome and to express my
qualification that so many executives
of cities and of states have found the
time and the inclination to come to-
| gether on the very important matter
| we have to discuss.
Duty OF Localities.
THE primary duty Of caring for our
people in the intimate 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 a conference of this
! sort-draw the executive minds of the
country together so that they may
profit by each others suggestions
and plans, and 50 that we may offer
our services to co-ord nate. In other
words, it Is the privilege of the fed,
! eral government in matters of this
| sort to be the servants of the execu
| tives of the states and municipalities
| and counties, and we shall perform
that duty with the greatest pleasure
if you will guide us with your sug-I
gestions.
Not Narrow in Scope.
II hope that the discussions of this
conference will take as wide a scope
/ as you think necessary. We are not
met to discuss any single or narrow
! subject. We are met to discuss thel
| proper method of restoring all the la
Dor conditions of the country to a nor
| NAL basis as soon as possible and toI
| effect such fresh ALLEGATIONS of labor!
and industry as the circumstances
may make necessary. | think | cam
testify from whatI have seen on the
other side of the water, that we are
more fortunate than other nations inI
respect to these great problems. Our
| industries have been disturbed and dis
organized as compared with a peace
basis, very seriously. indeed, by the
| war, and 1t seems to me, therefore,
that we should approach these prob
i lens that we are about to discuss
with good deal Of confidence-withl
a good deal of confidence that if we
have common purpose we can real
ize that common purpose without Sc
rious or insurmountable difficulties.
Peoples Government.
! 1.-THE thing that has impressed mel
most, gentlemen, not only in the re-
cent weeks when / have been in con-
| ference 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 gov
! eminent is to take counsel for theI
| average man. We are at last learning
| that the whole matter of the prosper
| ity of peoples runs down into thcl
! great body of 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 enter
| prises-it is completed only by thel
| standard of the benefit that it con-
| fers upon those who in the obscure
ranks of life contribute to the success
of those enterprises
.. People Deeply Stirred.
THE hearts Of the men and women
| and children of the world are stirred
now in way that has never been
known before. They are not onlyI
stirred by their individual circum-
stances, but they are beginning toI
get a vision of what The general cir
cumstances of the world are, and there
is for the first time in history an inter-
national sympathy which is quick and
vital-a sympathy which does not dis
play itself merely in the contact of
governments, but displays itself in the
silent Intercourse of sympathy be- |
tween great bodies that constitute
great nations, and the insignificance
of a conference like this is that we
are expressing in it, and Will believe, !
express in the results of this confer
ence, our consciousness that we are
servants of this great Silent mass of
people who constitute the United
States, and that as their servants it Is
orr buSipaSc il ic orr nriyiIpPp TO