The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-03-11

tfon Of understanding. 1t Is needed among
individuals, among peoples. among gov
ernments. and it will inaugurate an era
OF good feeling to mark a birth of new
order. Such understanding men VIII
strive confidently for the promotion of
their better relationships and nations will
promote the comfy so essential to peace.
Trade Ties Bind Closely
We must understand that ties of trade
bind nations in closest intimacy and none
may receive except as he gives. we nave
not strengthened ours in accordance with
our resources or our genius, notably on
our own continent where a galaxy Of
democracy, but in the new order OF
finance and trade we mean to promote
enlarged activities and seek expanded
confidence.
Perhaps we can make no more helpful
contribution by example than prove a re-
public's capacity to emerge from the
wreckaSe Of war. While the worlds en-
bittered travail did not leave us devastat-
ed lands nor desolate cities left no gaping
wounds, no breast with hate, 1T did in
volve us in the delirium of expenditure
in expanded currency and credits. IN un-
and disturbed relationships. While it un-
covered our portion of hateful self1shness
at home, it also revealed the heart OF
America as sound and fearless and peat.
ing in confidence unfailing. Amid 1t all
we have riveted the gaze of all civilfza ton
to the unselffshness and the Righteousness
of representative democracy where our
freedom has never made offensive war
fare, has never sought territorial ag-
grandizement through force, never has
turned to the arbitrament OF arms until
reason has been exhausted. When the
governments of the earth shall have es-
tablished a freedom like our own and
shall have sanctioned the pursuit OF peace
as we have practiced it, l believe the last
sorrow and the final sacrifice OF inter-
national warfare will have been written.
Our supreme task is the resumption of
our onward, normal way Reconstruction.
readjustment, restoration-all these must
follow. I would like to hasten them II it
will tighten the spirit and add to the reso-
luton with which we take up the task.
Let me repeat: For our nation we shall
give no people just cause to make war
upon US, we hold no national prejudices,
we entertain no spirit of revenge, we do
not hate, we do not covet, we dream of no
conquest nor boast of armed prowess. If,
despite this attitude, war is again forced
upon us I earnestly hope a way may be
found which will unity our individual and
collective strength and consecrate all
America materially and spiritually, body
and soul, to national defense. I can
vision the ideal republic where every man
and woman is called under the flag for
assignment to duty for whatever service,
military or civic, the individual is best
fitted; where We may call to universal
service every plant, agency or facility,
all in the sublime sacrifice for country,
and not one penny of war profit shall
inure to the benefit of private individual,
corporation or combination, but all above
the normal shall flow into the defense
chest Of the nation. There is something
inherently wrong, something out of ac-
cord with the ideals of representative
democracy when one portion of our
citizenship turns it's activities to private
gain amid defensive war while another Is
fighting, sacrificing or dying for national
preservation.
Unity of Spirit and Purpose
Out of such universal service will come
a new unity of spirit and purpose, a new
confidence and conservation, which would
make our defense impregnable, our tri-
umDhs assured. Then we should have
little or no diSorganization of our eco.
nomic, industrial and commercial systems
at nome; no staggering war debts, no
swollen fortunes to f1out the sacrifices of
our soldiers, no excuse for sedition, no
pitiabie slackerism, no outrage of treason,
for their menacing development, and
revolution would be without the passion
which engenders it; regret for the mis-
takes of yesterday must not, however,
blind US to the tasks Of today War never
left such an aftermath. and there has
been staggering loss of life and measure
less wastage of materials. Nations are
still grouping for return to stable ways.
D1scouragtng Indebtedness confronts US
like all War-torn nations, and these obli-
cations must be provided for. No civiliza-
ton can survive reputation.
We can reduce the abnormal expendi-
lures, and we will; we can strike at war
taxation, and we must. We must face
the grim necessity, with full knowledge
that the task is to be solved, and we must
proceed with q full realization that no
statute enacted can repeal the tnexorable
tendency is to expect too much OF gov
ernment, and at the same time do for
1t too little
We contemplate the immediate task of
need a rigid and yet sane economy COM
bined with final Justice. and it must be
attended by individual prudence and
ing hour and reassuring for the future.
Reflection of Wars Reaction
The business world reflects the dis
turbance of wars reaction. Herein flows
the life blood of material existence. The
parts interdependent and has suffered
the shocks and jars incident to abnormal
demands. credit inf1ations and price, up
heavals. The normal balances have been
impaired. The channels of distribution
have been cloggeu, the relations of labor
and management have been strained. We
must seek the readjustment with care
take Prices must reflect the receding
fever of war activities. Perhaps we never
shall know the old levels of wage again,
sations, and the necessaries of life will
show their inseparable relationship, but
we must strive for normalcy to reach
light nor evenly distributed. There is no
way of making them so. There is no in
stant steps from disorder to order We
charge off our losses and Start afresh
It is the oldest lesson of civilization.
would like government to do all it can
to mitigate. then, in understanding, in
mutually of interest, of concern for the
common good, our tasks will be solved.
No altered system will work a miracle;
any wild experiment will only add to the
confusion. Our best assurance lies in
efficient administration of our present
system.
From Destruction to Production
The forward course of the business
cycle Is unmistakable. Peoples are turn
dustry has sensed the changed order, and
our own people are turning to resume
their normal, onward way. The call Is
for productive America to go on. I know
that Congress and the administration will
favor every wise government policy to
aid the resumption and encourage con-
tinued progress.
lightened tax burdens, for sound COM
mercial practices, for adequate credit
facilities, for sympathetic concern for all
agricultural problems, for the omission of
unnecessary interference of government
with business and more efficient business
in government administration. With all
of this must attend a mindfulness of the
human side of all activities, SO that
social, industrial and economic justice
will be squared with the purposes of a
Induction of womanhood into our political
life we may count upon her intuitions, her
refinements. her intelligence and her In
fuence to exalt the social order. We
count upon her exercise of the full privi
leges and the performance of the duties
of citizenship to speed the attainment of
the highest state.
Prayer for Industrial Peace
| wish for an America no less alert
in guarding against dangers from within
than it is watchful against enemies from