Evening star., 1921-09-26
President and Mr..
Hoover Speak Be-
fore Delegates
SPEED WILL MARK
SOLVING OF ISSUE
Plans to Frame Prac-
tical Federal Pro-
gram of Relief.

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The government grappled with the
| day and sought for a strangle hold in
| the early seconds of the encounter
| which brought together President Hard
| ing. two members of his cabinet and in
dustrial and labor leaders in a common
purpose to relieve labor stagnation.
! Addressing the half hundred persons
comprising the unemployment confer
| ence, which was convened in the audi
/ 1orium of the Interior Department
! building shortly after 10 O'Clock. the
President appealed for relief program
which would not make demands upon
, the federal treasury.
| Anxious for Speed.
| In this appeal the President was
| joined few minutes later by Secretary
of Commerce Hoover, who presided at
| the meeting. The cabinet official. as
did the President. expressed the con-
yictiOn that the enterprise and initia-
/ tive Of American business will find
way to put the idle back to work.
/ Evidence of the administration
earnestness to apply practical meas
| ures to the situation with the least
/! delay possible was furnished when
conference dispense with general dis
cussion and proceed with organization.
| The suggestion met with unanimous
| favor and Mr.. Hoover was instructed
! to name an organization and program
committee. which will report back 10
| the conference al 8 o'clock this after
/ noon.
! 1t was indicated that by tomorrow
the conference Will be at work on Il
! definite plan and subcommittee VIII
| be functioning.
| President Given Ovation.
| The President was given an ovation
| when he entered the hail. He was
| followed by Secretary Hoover. Secre-
tary of Labor Davis occupied a seat
| on the stage with them and conferred
with the Commerce Department head
! in the naming of the organization
| and program committee.
| Mrs. Harding, accompanied by S-t-
/ retary Christian, was an interested
| observer of the brief ceremonies
marki ing the opening of the confer
| ence. She intently watched the Presi-
| dent as he characterized the unem-
] ployment situation as the most seri-
Gus problem facing the government,
but expressed confidence that it can
and will be solved.
Fundamentally sound. industrially
| unimpaired. commercially consistent
and politically unafraid. this coun-
try the President confidently as
/ serted, will weather the storm.
America has never lost fight in
| which there has been common pur-
pose to win.
| .ReEarded Difficult Problem"
But while he looked optimistically
J upon the ability of American leaders
| in industry to meet the present crisis.
| the President confessed the admins
tration is frankly anxious under the
i involved conditions lest it grow worse
! with the hardships of the winter sea-
son soon to be met The President
added that the problem of unemploy-
ment lis the most difficult with which
we are confronted" In urging that
| the remedial measures to be adopted
| should not take paternalistic turn.
the President said:
! Il would have little enthusiasm for
any proposed relief which seeks
either palliation or tonic from the
public Treasury. The excess of stimu-
| lation from that source is to be reck-
oned cause of trouble rather than :.
+! source of cure. We should achieve
but little in a remedial way if we con-
tinued to excite contributing cause"
Secretary Hoover, in an address i'm
! mediately following the Presidents.
, emphasized the administrations op-
position to relief measures through
] legislation or appropriation when he
declared that remedies for the un-
| employment situation must not In
clude any legislative program"
) The Commerce Secretary said this
;; country undoubtedly is on the eco
nomic upgrade. He pictured as the
which exists in a country whose
storehouses are bursting with food
and clothes and whose housing situa-
ton is good.
To Determine Extent.
In outlining some of the practical
| features of the work before the con-
, ference, the Secretary said there must
| be determination of the volume, dis
| tribution and character of unemploy-
! ment. The immediate problem, he
said, is to provide emergency relief
but he expressed the conviction the
delegates also will be able to evolve
! a program that permanently will dis
courage idleneSS and combat future
Unemployment.
He declared it is within the intelli-
gence and initiative OF the people to
find a solution of the problem that
will come within the range of charity
Mr. Hoover's Address.
Secretary Hoover's speech follows:
I'm calling this conference the
President has hoped to mobilize the
sense Of service in our people to the
solution of problem that not only
commands our sympathies, but is of
I primary necessity to public welfare.
obviously our unemployment arises
from the aftermath of the great
world war. We have been plunged
, into a period of violent readjustment
agd one of the bitter fruits of this
readjustment is large unemployment
This period of depression and its ac-
companying unemployment has been
continuous since the fall of last year.
but our working population was able
to carry over during the past winter
! upon its savings. There can be no
question that we are on-the upgrade.
but economic progress cannot unde.
| any expectation come with sufficien.
rapidity to prevent much unemploy-
ment over the forthcoming winter.
Great numbers will have exhausted
i their savings and must be subjects of
great concern to the entire public
There is no economic failure so terrible
| in its import as that of a country pos
| sessing surplus of every necessity
| of life in which numbers, willing and
anxious to work, are deprived of these
necessities. 1t simply cannot be If
our moral and economic system is to
survive. 1t is the duty of this con-
| ference to find definite and organized
| remedy for this emergency. and / hope
also that you may be able to outline
! for public consideration such plans as
will. IN the long view, tend to mitigate
| its recurrence.
vital Questions mt Issue.
1.-The questions before the conference
i appear to me to lie in several broad
phases. First. no problem can be ade-
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