Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-26
OUGHT TO Be WORK
FOR ALL, HARDING
TELLS CONFERENCE
Country is Sound, Strong, Un-
impaired and Unafraid, He
Emphasizes to Delegates.
HOOVER OUTLINES PLAN
~ Anaoclntad prean !

BY Associated Presa to Every EvenIna
Washington. Sept. 2s.--The national
unemployment conference which the
administration hopes will evolve
means Of putting the nations iuvoIun-
tary idle back To work. was fornallx
opened here today by President Hard.
ing
Addressing the half hundred indus.
triai, economic and labor leaders
comprising the conference. the prosi.
dent described the present industrial
depression as war inheritance
throughout the world" for which a,
applied 70 the United States. he added
ne would have little entht1siasno ia,
any proposed relief which seeks eitbe,
paliiation or tonic from the public
/ treasury"
beileI was expressed by the presi.
oent that the results of tho confer.
ence would extend beyond the borders
or the United States and that the aele.
gates IN their delegations would bs
performing "a service to tbe ,yo,.ld +,
fundamentally sound. financially
strong, industriaIly unimpaired. com.
inereially consistent and politicaIIv
unafraid," the President assorted
there ought to be work for every.
body in the United States who chooses
10 work, and our condition Al bonoo
ana our place In the world denands
on everybody going to work and mr.
suing it with that patriotism and da-
Votion which make for a. fortune -
and happy people"
The President declared that @tho
open. sure and onward way IN r9d
the nation of the wars aftermafh ~
depression involved liquidation re-
organization. readjustment. re-es-
adjustment, taking account Of things
oone' and sober contemplation of
things to be done" Any other WA,
ne added, was only huggine a deIusioy,
The delegates were told bv Mr.
Harding that they had not been ~
vited into the conference ".to sol,,o
the long controversed problems Of o,,r
social system" and that Secretary
Hoover. whom he had designated ss
chairman Of the conference. ,vouId
lay before them the program Of dis
cussions.
In telling the conferences nenbars
that they were destined to perform a
world service, the President quoted !
distinguished foreigner" as having
recently declared:
Mr.. resident, our people are deem
" interested in the American con-
ference on unemployment. because o,,.
problem is akin to your own. ana von-
relief IN the United States viii be an
added signal Of hope from America to
US and, other peoples who are much
depressed"
That remark Of a distinguished
foreigner emphasized our RESPONSE
biiity,' the President added. aIf II
De true that no citizen is without ex-
ample to some one among his fellows.
whIch 1 believe to be everlastinglv
true, then nations, great and small
are influencing others in ali they do
The industrial depression which we
are feeling is war inheritance
throughout the world We saw hu-
manity stressed in that production
winch IS impelled by nations desperate
IN self-preservation. From such a
test there is inevitable reaction. with
the world involved there is no escape
for any Of the world from the valleys
OF depression. Though we suffer less
than many Of those with whom we
were associated, and less than any of
OF those against whom we contepded
II was inevitable that we experience
the fever's aftermath and come to
Know depression before we could be-
come normal again.
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