The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-09-28
ruE UNEMPLOYMENT CoNrEuENcE.

President Harding has never risen to greater
heights OF true slatcsmanship than In his nd-
dress opening tho conference on unemployment
Monday. The president said
Though unemployment a the most
serious problem that Confrouta the United
states iuduy, 1t must not be romcdicd by
any method which cocks other paIIatiun
or tonic from the public treasury"
Thua the danger Of the Unemployment con.
ference was avoided And also thus was a new
and sancr note sounded In administrative state
craft. "our condition at home and our place
in the world depends on everybody going to
work" the president said.
Right again. Impractical, thcorctic charity
has done vastly moro harm than good in recent
years 1t Is not improper for the individual
citizen to give In ccrtain cnses without recciy-
ing value In return. In every noIphhorhood
there instances where decent individual
charity calls for the bcstowal Of bcncfactlons
But even In such cases It is easily possible to
accomplish more harm than good However.
1t Is positively immoral for any individual or
Get of individuals to assert a right to receive
without giving valuc In return
Europe is tagging in the race today largely
because Of The n-,!ncd gifts from this side the
water, So long as America gives, Europe win
willingly receive and will not work. Precisely
tine same thing is true OF our own domestic re-
tlaions. The man Ledoux demanding that the
president make public a list OF those prottlng
out of the war springs from a warped and dIs-
torted mentality prepared to urge the next step
that those who failed to make "A profit and
find themselves in want receive a portion
OF those profits
An lndcfonsbo position! An attempt to make
right out Of two wrongs The unemployment
problem Is not half 80 great as It In made to
appear. The difficulty Is that many men are
striking az 1t were against the necessary re-
duotion in wages or the sheer necessity OF
changing their vocation. Tulsa Is credited with
a large number or unemployed pen Yet when
various employers have called for men for GER
tain work they are not to be had. why? Be-
cause there Is s,iiI extant the came old undis-
ciplncd ana defiant attltude--the mon want
10 dictate the terms Of their employment
We assert again, no man has the slightest right
to ask something for nothing such a right has
never existed in morals or law and 1t never will
exist. when the printing craft prccipitated lie
strike for the 44-hour week it was doomed to
failure, hoyauso thut WAS contest to secure
something for nothing 4i-houy wcok with
as hours pay constituted an ludctcuslbIc de-
mand. Just as asking "a cJothier 10 throw In a
shirt with Jyrry suit sod would hc immoral
Had the printers demand been Tor a shorter
week with proportouotc pay there would have
been no contest
Government, the president well alid can
not be put in the position ot parent or guardian
to it's citizens. This government In opposed q
patcrnalsm. on th0t rock II must continue ia
stand or, moving thaTcfrom. prepare to fan
Men like LedouN--thc namc itself argues some
thing entirely foreign to the genius OF Amcri-
can lnsttuuons-are enemies OF the people they
pretend to serve. They should not command
an instant's sympathy from any source, They
play with fire and they eventually ignite the
combustahle material they find awaiting their
Vaccinations.
Oncc again let MS remind you that life Is an
Individual problem from the cradle to the
grovc and into the great hereafter, Nothing
can De accomplished safely and securely in
mass actions II the individual In the mobs OF
uuvurInycd will cut loose from the hysteria Of
n. moment ana turn his attention TO his own
personal Problems he will be able to discover
an opportunity In this land OF uncxampIcd op-
porluuiucs oven now, let him seize H. though
the form may not be to his precise liking and
use 1t not as an end In itscr as some would
have him. but means TO "a bc,tor and a higher
end
Thus and thus only are the rewards of ure
70 be claimed.