The Mena weekly star., 1920-11-25
IF PEOPLE ONLY
KEPT THEIR HEADS
President Elect Harding Urges odd
Time Virtues Of Thrift, Honesty
and Common Sense" as Nations
Reliance in Trying Days.

New Orleans, Nov. lS.-Plaln llv-
ing and square dealing were invoked
by President-elect Harding in
speech here today as the nations
strongest reliances during the coming
period of after-war readjustment.
SANITY, clear thinking, common
sense, honesty and cooperation,
were among the qualities he named
as prime necessities in meeting the
demands of the new world order and
he declared material interests and ma
tional happiness both would benefit
If the United States becomes a sim
pie living people once again"
Whatever discouragements and re-
verses there have been, he declared,
would be only temporary in charac-
ter. He predicted tat a confident
America would solve its new prob
lens on the simple basis of the old
time virtues and would come thru the
reconstruction period stronger and
more dependable than ever before
No Place for Pessimism.
The address was part of a five
hour visit to New Orleans by the
president elect, who came from his
vacation in Texas to take ship for a
voyage to the Panama Canal Zone.
Il believe the American people
have come to realize that we must
face momentous problems and must
face them with resolute courage and
practical wisdom and patriotic deter
mination," said Mr. Harding "There
must be no reason for pause nor ex-
ruse for despair nor place for pessi-
anism. If we are effective in solving
our problems at home, we shall be
the better able to help solve those Of
the world as BELTS our part in mod
ern civilizatin.
eve may slow UP bit now and
then, we may have to bend our backs
TO new burdens. Surely we are going
to be called upon, nationally, collect.
lively and individually to renounce ex.
travagance and learn the old anC
new lessons of thrift and of provi
dence. Ii will add to our stability il
we become simple living nation one,
more. 1t will add to the sum total OF
our happiness.
All Must Produce.
"The big thing for all America t,
realize now and always is the dignit,
of productive labor No matter how
of the essentials of civilization ant
we must, each and all of us, accep
and discharge our duty of producing
for the world or OF ministering tx
the needs of comfort or progress t,
mankind
"There are certain fundamental
which are everlasting Neither oul
own nor the worlds salvation is t,
be worked out thru any patent nos
trum, thru any miracle of statesman
ship, thru any government panacea
Government is but the agency to ad
minister the collective, organized pub
lie service. Sanity, clear thinking
common sense, honesty, cooperation
an official circles, executive and legis
lative departments will help nightly
and bring us closer together and will
promote our understanding. But gov
eminent alone will not affect tn,
whole solution. The greater task i,
that of the American people them
selves. 1t is for them under govern.
mental leadership to meet the great
est
Supply and Demand
There has been a wild contempla.
tion of earnings, whether in wages OIL
dividends, in terms of dollars rather
than in terms of purchasing power
We must be more concerned with the
substance Of reward for activity than
its coin measurement. And our con-
Germ. must be in a dependable pros
perity which is .righteously shared
The tide of good fortune will ever
flow and ebb, which is Gods way of
teaching us the changing tides. And
greed must not expect to ride excul-
sive at the flood and expect content
ment to recede alone.
mo law can alter or change her
varying moods. We haven't yet learn
ed to combat destructive weather and
the law of supply and demand is
rternal. But we may soften their
rigors and minimize their penalties.
We want fortune a common possess
sion in America.
Confident America.
I'VE want the cotton grower of the
South to have his becoming reward
with the wool grower and the wheat
farmer Of the North. We want south
ern factories to be turned to the mu-
sic Of the mills of the north. We want
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