New-York tribune., 1921-02-05
Harding Calls
For Production
AT a Maximum
Asks Workers to Put Their
Shoulders to the Wheel;
Urges Budget; Attacks
High Government Cost
Says Prosperity Is Sure
E. H. Gary, {. M. Schwab
and Other Leaders Ex-
press Optimistic View

plea for return to maximum pro-
duction and declaration that the need
of the nation is "rnaximums and not
minimums" are embodied in state
ment on the economic situation by
President-elect Warren G. Harding,
made in response to query by The
Exhibitors Trade Review, of this city.
The President-elect was asked his
views on the subject "Wnen Will Good
Times Gomez" and, in addition to his
call to the producers of the country to
put their shoulder to the Wheel" he
attacked the "high cost of government" ;"
advocating budget system.
Among the other leaders in state
craft, the finance and national admin
istratiye affairs who responded to the
question put by the Exhibitors Trade
Review we're E. H. Gary, Charles NJ.
Schwab and Governor Nathan L. Mil
Ter.
Harding's Reply
President-ele Harding made the
following reply to the query:
"The chief trouble to-day is that
the World War wrought the destruc
tion Of healthfur competition. left our
storehouses empty and there is a
minimum production when our need is
! aXimurn.
Normal men and back to norma1cy
Will steady a civilization which has
been fevered by the supreme upheaval
OF all the world. believe Federal de-
partments should be made more busi-
nesslihe ana send back to productive
effort thousands of Federal employees
who are either duplicating work or are
not essential at all.
Il believe the budget system will eff
feet necessary, helpful reformation
and reveal business methods to govern
ment business.
II believe in the protective tariff pol
Icy and Know we shall be calling for it's
Americanism again.
GlVen the assurance of that rugged
simplicity of American life which
lnarked the hrst century of amazing
development and this generation NAV
underwrite a second generation of sur
passing accomplishment.
I'VE will attempt intelligent and
courageous defation and strike at gov
eminent borrowing, which enlarges the
evil, and we will attack the high cost
of government.
Have confidence in the Republic!
America will go onl"
Gary's Views
Declaring facts and figures still in
favor of progress and prosperity, E. H
Gary said:
"The present tendency is toward i'm
proved business conditions.
"This does not necessarily mean that
there is decided increase in volume
but it does mean that the general as
pect, including the temper of business
men, is better. We are certain to have
decided Improvement within compara-
lively short time.
II do not believe in misrepresenta-
ton of facts, but would always rather
emphasize the many good features in
sight than dwell upon the unsatisfac-
tory features, if there are any. The
facts and figures are still in favor of
progress and prosperity"
Schwab an Optimist
A brief but pointed reply was made
by Charles NJ. Schwab, who said:
Il am an optimist on the situation
The great body of American business
will soon emerge with a vigor and an
energy the world has never known be-
fore"
W. P. G. Harding, governor of the
Federal Reserve Board, also was brief
in his reply. He said:
"Not only has all danger of great
financial crisis or money panic been
passed, but business generally is safely
over the most critical and trying stage
of the readiustment period"
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, places
the issue squarely up to Congress. His
reply to the query read as follows:
National confidence can be restored
when the people are assured that our
democratic institutions will be safe
guarded; that the rights of minorities
will be given full protection; that the
further development of the equality
Of opportunity will be preserved, and
that all proposals intended to coerce
and unjustly restrict those who work
from seeking by legitimate means to
obtain the chance to be better men
and women shall be defeated.
"The failure of Congress TO enact
constructive legislation and its evident
intention to pass repressive measures
have had tendency to destroy con-
fdence. This has created pessimistic
feeling in the minds of the people. Re-
move these obstacles and the pessi-
mists will disappear"
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