Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1921-09-30
.UNEmPL OYMEnT
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 Palliation or Tonic
From Public Treasury.

WaS0lngtO0-All America muSC
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"
Cali America has never failed when
committed to a common cause" he
said.
After Mr.. Harding's address and a
speech by Secretary of Commerce Her.
bert Hoover, the frst session of the
conference adjourned.
Both Mr.. Harding and Mr.. Hoover
emphasized that the situation must
never be solved by the giving of gov
eminent aims from the public treas
ury.
p 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
lie.
Fundamentally sound, financially
strong, industrially unimpaired, COM
mercially consistent and politically I'M
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 it with that 4atriotism 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 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 "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. It 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 JobIess 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 general dis
cussion.