Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-04-15

should be amended and strengthened.
The federal agency of administration
should be elevated to the Importance
and vested with authority comparable
to the work before it.
Linked with rail and highway is
the problem Of water transportation
inland, coastwise and transoceanie.
Big Merchant Marine.
It is not necessary to say Ii to con-
gress, but I have thought this to be
a fitting occasion to give notice that
the United States means to establish
and maintain great merchant marine.
This republic can never realize Its
righteous aspirations in commerce. can
never be worthy the traditions of the
early days of the expanding republic
until the millions of tons of shipping
which we now possess are co-ordinated
with our inland transportation and our
shipping has government encourage
ment not government operation, in
carrying our cargoes under our flag,
over regularly operated routes, to ev-
cry market in the world agreeable to
American exchanges.
Urges u S. All; Laws.
It has become a pressing duty OF
the federal government to provide for
the regulation of air navigation; crher-
wise. independent and conflicting legis-
latiop will be enacted by the various
ment of aviation.
recommend the enactment OF legis-
lation establishing bureau of aero
nautics in the Navy department to CEN
tralize the control of naval activities
in aeronautics. and removing the re-
strictIon on the personnel detailed to avta-
ton in the navy.
Our very immediate concern is for
the crippled soldiers and those deeply
needing the helping hand of govern
ment. Conscious of the generous in
tent of congress. and the public con-
Germ for the crippled and dependant,
/ invited the services of volunteer
committee to inquire into the admin
istration OF the bureau of war risk
insurance. the federal board for voca-
tional training and other agencies of
government in caring for the ex-sol-
ders. sailors and marines of the World
war
1t is needless to call your attention to
the unfinished business inherited from the
bills for army and navy will have your
early consideration.
Neither branch of the government can
be unmindful of the cali Tor reduced ex-
penditure 70 rthese departments of our
national defense The government is in
accord with the wish to eliminate the bur-
dens of heavy armament The United
States ever will be ia harmony with such
a movement toward the higher attain
mehts of peace.
But we shall not entirely discard con-
tingencies for defense until there is re-
moved the need to defend We are ready
to cooperate with other nations to APP
proximate disarmament, but merest pru-
dence forbids that we disarm alone.
Spurns Superauthority.
The aim to associate nations to prevent
war, preserve peace and promote civiliza-
ton our people most cordially applauded.
We yearned for this new instrument of
justice. but we can have no part in
committal to any agency of force in un-
known contingencies; we can recognize no
superauthority.
League of Nations was defeated in link
ing il with the treaty of peace and making
IL the enforcing agency of the vctors of
the war. International association for
permanent peace must be conceived solely
as an fundamentally of Justice. unasso-
clated with the passions of yesterday, and
not so constituted as to attempt the dual
functions of political instrument of the
conquerors and of an agency of peace,
There can be no prosperity~dor the fun
damental purposes sought to be achieved
by any such association so long as II Is
an organ of any particular treaty or COM
mltted to the attainment of the special
1t would be unwise to undertake to
make statement of future policy with
respect TO European affairs In such
declaration of a state of peace. In cor
rectng the failure of the executive. in
negotiating the most important treaty
in the history of the nation. TO recog-
nize the constitutional powers of the
senate we would go to the other ex-
treme, equally objectionable, If congress
or the senate should assume the func-
ton OF the executive. Our highest duty
is the preservation of the constitutional
powers OF each, and the promotion of the
! spirit of cooperation so essential TO our
common welfare.
Situation Is Involved.
1t would be idle TO declare for sepa-
rate treaties of peace with the Ger tri4l
powers on the assumption that these
alone would be adequate, because the
situation is so involved that our peace
engagements cannot ignore the old
world relationship and the settlements
already effected, nor is it desirable to
do so in preserving our own rights and
contracting our future relationhips.
Neither congress nor the people needs
my assurance that request to nego.
tiate needed treaties of peace would be
as supertiuous and unnecessary as It ia
technically ineffective, and ! know in
my own heart there is none who would
wish TO embarass the executive in the
performance of his duty when we are
all so eager TO turn disappointment and
delay into gratifying accomplishment
Wants Senate Advice.
In an all-impellng wish to do the
most and best for our own public and
maintain its high place among natioas.
and at the same time make the fullest
Offering of justice to them, l shall in
vite in the most practical way the adj
vice OF the senate. after acquainting it
with all the conditions to be met ana
obligations to be discharged, along with
our own rights TO be safeguarded. Pru-
denoe in making the program ad corf-
! dent cooperation in making it effectN .
cannot lead us far astray.
We can render no effective services to
| humanity untl we prove anew our own
capacity for cooperation in the co-or-
| dination of powers contemplated In the
Constitution, and no covenants which ig-
more our associations in the war can
De made for the future.
No helpful society OF nations can be-
founded on Justice and committed to
peace until the covenants re-establish-