Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-26
BUSINESS COOPERATION
is URGED BY HARDING

NEW YORK, May 24.-The coop
alton of every factor of American
business and industry to put the ma
tons house in order after the dislo-
cations of war was bespoken by
President Harding tonight at din
ner here celebrating the 125th ami
versary of the New York Com
mercial.
Agriculture, labor and business
management, the president declared,
all must stand together in the con-
fident purpose of sound RECONSTRUCT
ton. He asserted that although the
United States did not want to live in
isolation or selfishness, it's duties to
the rest of the world could best be
performed by giving it's attention
first to the rehabilitation of it's own
resources.
On the part of the administration,
Mr.. Harding promised that govern
ment interference with business
would be reduced to minimum while
government cooperation with all
properly conducted businesses would
be expanded and broadened. He de-
clared his purpose to reverse the ten
dency in some quarters to regard
business as dishonest until it should
prove itself honest, and to regard
bigness in business as crime
Emphasizing the fundamental i'm
DOIId1lCG Ol dBIlCulLulS, Tic plSSluSllC
asserted that the farmer was entitled
to "alI the help the government can
give him without injustice to others"
For the Wage-earner he asked suf-
ficient compensation for comfort, edu-
cation and margin of savings, while
for every other element in industry
he urged fair opportunity to do It's
part in the reconstruction task.
Mr.. Harding also suggested that
the nations loans to the allies be put
into a more tangible form, that IA
cilities of exchange be bettered, ana
that all the financial policies OF
the reconstruction period be so form
ulated as to protect the gold standard.
Assuming that these things may
be laid down as fundamentals" he
said, cit is for us all to get to work
We must have confidence that things
will come right. We have dealt with
the greatest problem that humanity
ever confronted in carrying on the
war. We will have no problem here
after greater or more difficult than
that was. Therefore we are entitled
to every confidence that We will cope
successfully with the problems that
yet lie ahead of US"
Text of Address
The text of the presidents address
follows in part:
1.-The New York Commercial was
founded in the time when the young
republic was distracted by division
of opinion concerning our relations
with Europe. The noble Washington
was being lampooned and traduced
because his administration was COM
mitted to the Jay treaty with Great
Britain, first of the nations CONNER
cial covenants. 1t represented an eff
fort to escape embodiment with the
old world system; and in the period
when We were too weak to sustain
foreign conflict, it served to post
pone that disaster But only to post
pone it; for with every wish to pre-
serve the peace, it was Impossible;
We fought wars with France and
England, as incidents to the French
revolutionary and Napoleonic up
heaVal.
1T has been assumed too often
that our recent involvement in the
troubles of Europe marked new de-
velopment in our affairs, in fact, 1T
was an old story. We never were
and never will be able to maintain
isolation. But our part and our
place in international affairs are
strikingl ychanged. Our rise in power
and influence has imposed new re-
sponsibilties. To-day our strength in
the industrial. financial and CONNER
cial world. our capacity to produce,
our ability to extend credits which
others cannot give, and which brave
but unfortunate peoples sorely need
all these make it necessary that we
shall adopt new commercial methods,
whereby to insure the fullest posi-
BILE service to civilization. ] bespeak
the help of every organ of intelli-
gent, understanding business, to en-
able the nation to meet these de-
mands.
at has been said many times, but
it cannot be too often repeated and
emphasized, that. in doing this we
will be alike discharging duty to
others and Selling an opportunity
for our own advancement. There
have seldom been more convincing
proofs than we see all around us
now. of the essential interdependence
of all parts of the world. He who
displays the broadcast spirit of broth
erhood, helpfulness and true charity,
will most surely be casting his bread
upon the waters.
Duty Is Pressing
"Our duty to the world a large is
pressing, but we will equip ourselves
best to perform helpfully If we are
unwaveringly loyal to ourselves. The
most important thing to Americans
is America, and the most important
thing to America is our constitution
al system Inseparable from the for
nation of a more perfect union, the
constitution sought to establish JUS
tice. True, we have not attained the
perfection of our ideals in this re-
gard, nor has any other human So
ciety done so. Justice, like charity,
must begin at home. We must be
Just to ourselves and to our own
first of all. This is not selfish, for
selfishness seeks more than a fair
share; we seek only that which is
rightfully our own, and then to pre-
serve that to ourselves and our pos
terity.
1--WE will do well to keep in mind
at this time the fundamental lmpOr-
possible way insure justice to it. The
farmer is entitled to all the help the
government can give him without
injustice to others, because it is OF
the utmost Importance that the agri-
cultural community be contented and
prosperous This must be accom-
plished not al the expense of any
other section of the community. but
by processes which will insure real
justice among all elements i'll the
community.
Turning to industry, our policy
must be to give 1t every facility
possible, but to keep government out
side of participation in business on
it's own account 1t is not necessary
for the government to intrude itself
in the business activities which are
better conducted through private in
strumentalities. merely in order to
demonstrate that the government is
more powerful than anything else in
this country. The government part
in business should be no more than
to insure adherence to the principles
of common honesty, and to establish
regulations that will enable it to sail
a safe course. There has been some