Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-22
FRIGHTENING CURE
IS COOLIDGE THEME
Production, He Says al
Charlotte, Will Ward Off
Shortage of Food.

ON BOARD GOV. CooLIDGEs sPE-
| CIALr TRAIN, October % (by the Asso-
ciated Press) Virginia was penetrated
| today by Gov Coolidge in his campaign
OF southern states as the republican
candidate for Vice President Starting
from Charlotte, N. c., where he ad-
dressed a large audience last night, his
| train was scheduled to make stops for
reaf-end speeches at Danville. south
Boston, Keysyille and Burkeviile during
the day and for a night meeting at
Richmond.
| Tho governor will continue his cam
paign In Virginia tomorrow, not leaving
the state until afternoon.
Charlotte Speech.
America Is synonymous with serv-
ice," declared Gov. Coolidge In an ad-
dress at Charlotte last night. br1mful Of
illusions to the honor and dignity OF
work. He said he spoke Of service in
the spiritual as well as the material
sense, and continued:
THAT people will fail which de-
votes itself exclusively to the accumu-
|lation of wealth and which makes
property the chief end of man. That
people will become strong and vigor-
ideals of right and justice and
liberty"
The republican party, he said,
| "cherishes no delusions that any
scheme of government or any change
in the organization of society could
relieve the people from the necessity
of work. The rules of nature cannot
be set aside. Observed. they point the
way to success and character" Sue
cessful democracy. he said, can be
slant effort" 1t 10 law to disregard
destruction and anarchy" and to OBJ
serve which is to develop power and
government"
Americans Exalt Labor.
The American people. the gov
labor, whether Of the head or hand.
The old Europe. he said. sharply diff
!ferentiated between its peoples and
established their rank and social posi-
ton by the kind Of work performed.
I'VE shall have no such artificial
standard here" he said. ITO US the
tiller. of the soil and the skilled me-
chanic are measured by the same re-
gard as are the doctor or lawyer or
banker. We demand that each Of us
shall do his work and do it with all
his skill and might and energy. And
we can demand promptly in return
that the conditions under which the
work is done shall be fair and decent.
with adequate reward for accomplish
ment."
Touching. on the alleged need of
greater production, which, he de-
scFibed as "the sure cure Of profit
eering," he said: -
1.-The world is never very far ahead
Of starvation: bitter experience mas
shown US the mere shade that exists
between fuel and freezing. We, who
have the fields and the mines and who
are blest with order under law. have
a supreme duty to ourselves and to
humanity az . whole. That duty is to
secure maximum output in agricul-
ture and industry and in, return to
is justly entitled. Production is a
moral obligation ass1iwell as a ma
terial necessity. It is the sure cure
Of profiteering. To evade 1T 49, to IN
lure ourselves, as well as our fellow
man. -
Tremendous Wage Rise.
1--WE have been living under q ire
mendously rising tide of wages. Our
progress in this respect in the last
four years has almost exceeded the
progress made In all previous time
1t has put existence on new stand
ard. Never before was there anything
to compare With it. This has raised
q grave question as to whether pro-
duction has been equal to distribu-
ton, whether wages are being earned
by the combined enterprise of labor.
management and capital, or whether
they are being paid IN part out OIL
capital. Wages can increase as long
as they are earned. When not earned.
but paid from capital. disaster is at
hand, a disaster sure to bear with the
greatest severity on the wage Garner
and his dependents.
There are two things that are i'm
portant to wage earners. The first is
to put sufficient effort into their en-
ploymept SO that the present scale
Of wages will not be reduced. Society
has determined rightly that before
there is any general reduction in our
wage scale every effort shalAbe made
to maintain it by sufficient intensity
of work. To this end capital, man
agement and the wage-earner must
cooperate"