The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-01-08
COOLIDGE ASKS
LAW OBEDIENCE
And Tells of Need of HUI
manizing Government
and Industry
URGED MORE EFFORT
IN PRODUCTION
Coolidge Was Inaugurated
To-day as Governor of
Massachusetts Again

Boston, Jan. S.--The need OF human
izing government and industry and OF
maintaining obedience to the law, was
stressed by Governor Coolidge in his
address to the legislature to-day, in
augurating his second term. He urged
more effort, not less in production,
and economy on the part of both state
and individual.
Declaring that the state was 'less in
need of new laws than ever before" the
governor added;
''The greatest benefit you can confer
il the speedy making OF necessary ap-
preparations, adjustments OF some de-
tails, and adjournment.
He said that taxes must and do fall
on the people, in whatever form or
name they are laid" and that high
taxes make high prices"
''The duty that government now
owes the people," he continued, SIS to
reduce their burdens by paying off the
obligations that came from the war,
rather than imposing additional bur
dens for the support of new projects.
Governor Coolidge recommended fur
Their state aid to needy mothers and ex-
pectant mothers, increased compensa-
tion for teachers and for the police,
more attention ito physical education,
appropriations for the relief of incapa-
citated war veterans and theiE depend
ents, and a continuing appropriation
for the carrying on of established Ia
cilities for the promotion of agricul-
ture.
Referring to the polieemen's strike in
Boston last September, the governor
said:
"The police of Massachusetts, have
never failed, except for the Boston in
cident which is too well known to need
rehearsal or comment. That incident
appears to be closed. A new force is in
Office"
He recommended that medals or Ger
tificates be given the volunteer police
and members of the state guard who
assisted in maintaining order during
the strike.
Speaking Of general conditions, Gov
ernor Coolidge said:
"Healthful housing, wholesome food,
sanitary working conditions, reason
able hours, fair wage for fair days
work, opportunity full and free, JUS
tiee speedy and impartial and at cost
within the reach of all, are among the
objects not only tofbe sought but made
absolutely certain and secure. Gov
eminent is not, must not be, a cold,
impersonal machine, but human and
more human agency, appealing to the
reason, satisfying the heart, full of
mercy, assisting the good, resisting the
wrong, delivering the weak from any
impositions Of the strong.
"Some say our economic and wage
systems are all wrong. They would
apply some other principle. They are
not wrong. They May have been used
wrongfully. 1t is the conception of
them and their purpose that is wrong.
"We are suffering from a shortage of
all kinds of materials The only rem
edy is to put more effort, not less, into
production. Shortage is met only by
saving and production,
I'VE need to change our standards,
not of property but of thought. If we
put III inc tHlpudHAH On Jul udtti lat
that prosperity will perish,
and with il will perish our civilization.
Employer and employed must find their
satisfaction not in money return,
but in a service rendered. Industry
must be mlmanized, not destroyed.
''There are strident voices urging re
sistance to law in the name of free
dom. They are not seeking freedom
even for themselves they have it, they
are seeking to enslave Others. Their
works are evil. They know it. They
must be resisted. The evil they repre-
sent must be overcome by the good
Others represent These ideas which
are wrong, for the most part imported.
must be supplanted by ideas Which are
right. This can be done The meaning
of America is a power which cannot be
overcome. Prosecution OF the criminal
and education Of the ignorant are the
at is fundamental that freedom IS
not to be secured by disobedience to
law. Government must govern. To
obey is life. TO disobey is death. Or
gained government is the expression
Of the life Of the commonwealth Into
your hands is entrusted the grave re-
sponsibility Of its protection and per