Milford chronicle., 1921-04-22
UNCLE TED'S
BEDTIME STORIES
PRESIDENT HARDING TELLS OF A
BRIGHT FUTURE-HIS MES.
SAGE FULL OF HOPE.

Ted was in the front room readins
the evening paper. Jack and RutI
wer trying to study their school les.
sons but were havingea mighty hare
time to keep their minds on study
The reason was simple. Uncle Tee
had been away again. This time he
had made a trip to Washington to try
to arrange matters for one of his for
mer buddies in the army who was
badly wounded in France. It so hap
pened that he was in the National
Capital few days before April 12, so
he stayed in order to hear President
Harding deliver his first message to
the joint session of Congress: Presi-
dent Harding being the hero of both
Ruth and Jack it was all they could
do to keep from begging a story of
the event. Jack was the first to break
the long silence.
"Oh-Gee! 1 can't study any more,
Uncle Ted-any way 1 know all my
lessons for tomorrow and have been
wondering all about the day in Wash
ington when President Harding talk
ed to Congress"
81 knew it." exclaimed Uncle Ted.
at was too good to last. Always teas
ing me aren't you? Well, don't mind
saying that 1 sure did enjoy hearing
him give that message" said Uncle
Ted, as he put down his paper. "It
was a great event. 1t was the next to
the last act of the drama that will en-
tirely for good and all, bury the world
club plan. Some people have been
afraid that President Harding would
either hang on the fcace in that mat
al fOv 4
club. l was never worried. He made
up his mind that the good old theor-
les of George Washington, Abraham
Lincoln and the fathers of this coun-
try were good enough for him and
that he would follow the oath he took
on March 4 to uphold the Constitution
of the United States. All through his
long message that he worked on far
into the night before, it was plan that
President Harding's one thought was
and is and always will be for America
first, last and all the time. He knows
there has been too much International
ism-too much worrying what Europe
thinks and does and too little done to
take care of our troubles at home.
zone of the very first things he said
before one of the largest crowds ever
assembled in the House of Representa-
tives was that our home problems
must come first.
First in mind he said, must be
the solution of our problems at home,
even though some phases of them are
inseparably linked with our foreign
relations. The surest procedure in
every government is to put its own
house in order
"And Mr.. Harding didn't stop by
simply saying that we must do so and
so. He showed Congress the way and
pointed out each detail. He showed |
that the practice of the past eight |
years must stop-that of spending !
more money than we have so as to
make the heavy taxes upon the peO-
pie easier to carry. President Hard
ing knows that if such spending as
we have had of government money
should continue it would mean the
end of our country. Just think kid
dies, it is costing the government for
what is known as current expenses
about five billion dOlulars each year.
AS he said: The burden is unbear-
able He gave two ways to correct it
by keeping the appropriations down
to the lowest amounts possible and by
the greatest of economy in running
the government departments. He told
hi scabinet officers this first and then
the Congress, and I know it will be
DONE"
"You have told us about tariff be-
FORE" said Jack. did he say anything
about that?'
''You bet he did, Jack. President
Harding carried forth the one great
thought that American industry must
be protected and that our first inter-
est is to see that America prospers
first. The foreigner finds it entirely
too easy to sell his goods in this cOun-
II ytOday. Not only does it help destroy {
our 'self-reliance,' as he said but Mr.. |
also pointed out that those I
who import goods into the United '
States should be made to pay a fair 1
share of our cost of government q
zone of the fine things President ]
has said before and which he
in his message to Congress Z
is that we must have less govern O
ment in business and more business II
IN government It it not fair that bus v
ness should have to compete with the b
government where all the risks for s
he government are met by the public i
.reasury. Better business methods in n
our government are needed and with S
he cabinet now in fine working Or S
Ter, this will be accomplished. v
''I don't believe any man in the
world would like to see some ar +,
made to do away with war Fl
my more than would Warren G. Har- o
ling. But he is big enough to see that @
10 such arrangement can be made un- a,
il real peace is again in the world. o,
He also knows that we cannot cease r.
o protect ourselves, to build navies ~
md keep our armies, until there is no
onger any need to do so. Certainly n
he present is no time to leave our ~
elves without protection. ~
"And something else, kiddies. It Ii,
osts something terrible to travel -
hese days. A man almost has to be
Millionaire to travel. President Hard
ng urged in his message that rail-
DAD fares be cut down, cutting the
ost of running at the same time. I,
Remember this further thought ~.
rom his message, and then you must ~
un along to bed-'There is knowledge
the high cost of government today te
nd high cost of living is inseparably ID
mixed with the high cost of govern
lent. There can be no complete cor be
ection of the high living cost until tn
ne governments cost is notably re-
uced.' If the men who ran our gov til
rnment during the past eight years th
ad thought that way, living costs 10
-Ould now be back to normal but