Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-09-30
UNEMPLOYMENT
FARLEY OPENS
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 PaIiiation or Tonic
From Public Treasury. ~

WashingtOn-All America y must
commit itself to the solving Of the I'M
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 a common cause" he
said.
After Mr. Hardings address and a
speech by Secretary of Commerce Her
bert Hoover, the first session of the
conference adjourned.
Both Mr.. Harding and Mr.. Hoover
emphasized that the situation must
eminent aims from the public treas.
ury.
The president made it 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
lic
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-
o1v RI nd
pursuing it with that patriotism and
devotion which make for 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
liation or tonic from the public treas
ury"
Belief was expressed by the pres1-
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 "a service to the world"
Hoover Outlines Program.
Cooperative service to the unem-
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
er countries is the most vicious sys-
tenn ever introduced into government,
Mr.. Hoover said 1t must not be en-
loyed here, he warned, if the United
Stats is to be saved from destructive
paternalism.
Mr.. Hoover said there is no ques-
ton that we are on the economic up
grade Every sign indicates that we
have passed the low economic point"
The present degree of unemploy-
ment cannot, however, continue, he
said, if our moral and economic sys-
tenn is to survive"
First Task to Get Jobess Facts.
Outlining the general program OF
the conference, Mr.. Hoover said it's
first task is to get the facts about un-
employment, as to it's volume, distri-
button and character because the
proposals you make depend on the
weight Of the problem
Next, he said, the immediate need
for the coming winter must be COPIED
with. Then restoration Of commerce
and unemployment generally to nor
NAL must be assisted. Preventive
measures against recurrence Of "acute
reactions which result in unemploy-
ment" is also a vital part of the work,
Mr. Hoover said.
Mr.. Hoover said the quickest way to
get results would be to organize at
once into communities and take up
the various phases of the problem in
them, rather than in a general dis
cussiOn.