The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-06
Suggests Quasi-JudiciaI Tri-
bunal to Decide Problems.
NEEDS COOPERATION OF ALL
Cannot Return to NOrmaley
Without United Effort.
Would Send Assistance to
Starving in Russia.
Presidents Speech in Full on
Page z.

Washington. Dec. 6.-Stressing the
great and far reaching contribution
which the American people must be
prepared to make toward the eco
nonlic and financial rehabilitation of
a world still staggering under the dis
ordered conditions bequeathed by
war, President Harding voiced a sol
emn warning today in the message
he delivered i. person to congress
that mo permanent readjustments
can be effected without consideration
of our inescapable relationship to
world affairs in finance and trade"
1--WE should be unworthy of our best
traditions if we were unmindful OF
social, moral and political conditions
which are not of direct concern to us.
but which do appeal to the human
sympathies and the very becoming in
terest of a people blest with our ma
tional sympGthies," the president
said.
Cooperation Is Urged.
The presid It emphasized that "in
the main the contribution of this re-
public to restored normalcy in the
world must come thru the initiative of
the executive branch of the govern
ment, but the best intentions and
most careful considered purposes
would fail utterly if the sanction and
the cooperation of congress were not
cheerfully accorded"
For the first time in years. since
the grim shadows of the world war
first began to gather over the Ameri-
can people, congress listened to n
presidential message that was almost
entirely devoted to the grave domestic
issues confronting the American ma
ton and which skipped over except
international questions facing the
American people.
The presidents statements concern
ing capital and labor caused a mild
sensation and his suggestion there
might be a quasi-judiciaI tribunal to
settle disputes, was interpreted BY
many members of congress as an en-
dorsement of the Kansas Industrial
plan, altho the presidents statements
along this line were rather Indefinite
The high spots of the presidents
message were:
Need Elastic Tariff.
!. The imperative need of "elastc
and flexible" tariff legislation which
would enable the president. thru the
federal tariff commission, to meet eff
fectively the changing trade and in
dustrial conditions, not only in this
country, but abroad.
2 The urgent necessity of a general
policy OF transportation of distributed
industry, and of highway construction
to encourage the spread of our popu-
lation and to restore the proper bal
ance between city and country
j. The strong desire of the admin
istration for further revenue revision
and renewed consideration OF our tax
program" despite the inevitable di-
Vergence of opinion in seeking the re-
duction, amelioration and readtust-
ment of the burdens of TAXATION"
Must Preserve Treaties
4. The expressed opposition of the
administration to the abrogation to
certain commercial treaties proposed
by the Jones merchant marine act on
the grounds that to denounce them
would involve us in a chaos of trade
relationships and enthusiastically to
the confusion of the already disorder
ed commercial world.
3. The expansion of the American
merchant marine under adninistra-
tion plan to be later submitted to con-
gress which. while contemplating mo
greater draft on the public treasury
than is provided by the Jones act will
appeal to the pride and encourage the
hope of all the American people" in
America shipping flying the American
flag
Must Haste Refundlng Bill.
6. Early enactment of the foreign