Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1921-09-29
Harding Points "0pen, Sure and
Onward Way" to Rid Nation
Of Depression.
OPPOSES GIVING AIMS
President Asserts He Does Not Favor
Any Proposed Relief Which Seeks
Either Pailiation or Tonic
From Public Treasury.

Washington America must
commit itself to the solving Of the un
employment problem, President Hard
ing declared.
Opening the unemployment confer
ence. the president confidently predict
ed the United States will not fall in
the task which he characterizes as an
advance drive Of peace
"All America has never failed when
committed to common cause" he
said
After Mr. Harding's address and a
speech by Secretary Of Commerce Her.
bert Hoover, the first session OF the
conference adjourned.
Both MIR. Harding and Mr.. Hoover
emphasized that the situation must
never be solved by the giving Of gov.
eminent aims from the public treas
ury.
The president made II clear that the
federal treasury must not be called
upon to relieve the situation. He In
sisted that the remedy lies In the co
operation OF capital, labor, and the pub
lie.
Fundamentally sound. financially
strong, industrially unimpaired, com
mercially consistent and politically un
afraid. there ought to be work for
everybody In he United States who
chooses to work. and our condition at
home and our place In the world de
ponds on everybody going to work and
pursuing IL with that patriotism and
devotion which make for a happy peo-
ple." Mr.. Harding said
Sees Service to World.
Addressing the half hundred indus.
trial. economic and labor leaders, COM
prising the conference, the president
described the present industrial de-
preston as "a war inheritance thru
out the world" for which as applied
to the United States, he added he
would have little enthusiasm for any
proposed relief which seeks either pal
llation or tonic from the public treas
ury."
Belief was expressed by the presi.
dent that the results Of the conference
would be felt beyond the borders OF the
United States and that the delegates
In their deliberations would be per
forming IA service to the world"
Hoover Outlines Program.
Cooperative service to the unen,-
ployed and not charity, must be the
aim OF the conference. Secretary Hoov.
er declared In his brief speech outlin.
Ing the program In a general way.
The dole" given unemployed In 9TH
ser countries Is the most vicious sys-
TEN ever introduced into government,
Mr.. Hoover said. II must not he EN-.
loyed here, he warned, II the United
Stats Is to be saved from destructive
paternalism.
MIR. Hoover said there Is no ques.
grade. Every sign indicates that we
have passed the low economic point
The present degree OF unemploy'
ment cannot. however. continue. he
said. 4" II our moral and economic sys
tenn Ia to survive"
First Task to Get Jobless Facts.
Outlining the general program OF
the conference. Mr., Hoover said IT.
first task Ia to get the facts about nn
employment, as W IT'S Vo'u"'V' "'s'
button and character because tht
proposals you make depend on thu
weight Of the problem"
Next, he said. the immediate neet
for the coming winter must he copet
with. Then restoration OF commerce
and unemployment generally to nor
NAL must be assisted. Preventive
measures against recurrence OF "acut
reactions which result In unemploy
ment" Is also vital part OF the wors
Mr.. Hoover said.
Mr.. Hoover said the quickest way I
get results would be to organize a
once into communities and take u
tho various phases OF the problem !
them. rather than in a general oil
.cNaSiOn