The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-05
FROM DESTRUCTION
 TO PRODUCTION

TO PRODUCTION
 The forward course of the business cycle is unmistakab1e. Peoples are turning from destruction to production Industry has sensed the changed order and our own people are turning to re- sume their normal onward way. The call is for productive America to go on. l know that Congress and the administration will favor every wise government policy to aid the resump- tion and encourage continued prog ress.
 T speak for administrative effici- ency, for frightened tax burdens, for sound commercial practices, for ade- quate credit facilities for sympathetic concern for all agricultural problems for the omission of unnecessary in- terference of government with busi- ness for an end to governments ex- pertinent in business and for more ef- ficient business in government ad- ministration. With all of this must at tend mindfulness of the human side Of all activities so that social indus trial and economic justice will be squared with the purposes of a right eous people.
 With the nationwide induction of womanhood into our political life we may count upon her munitions her refinement, her intelligence and her Influence to exalt the social order We count upon her exercise of the full privileges and the performance of the duties of citizenship to speed the at tainment of the highest state.
 PRAYER FOR
 INDUSTRIAL PEACE
 T wish for an America no less alert in guarding against dangers from within than it is watchful against enemies from without. Our fundamental law recog- nn There must be none in legislation or ad- ministration The supreme inspiration is the common veal Humanity hungers for international peace and we crave IL with all mankind. My most reverent prayer for America is for industrial peace, with its rewards widely and gen orally distributed amid the inspirations of equal opportunity.
 No one justly may deny the equality of opportunity which made us what We age. We have mistaken unpreparedness to embrace it, to be challenge of the reality; and due concern for making all citizens fit for participation will give added strength of citizenship and mag nifty our achievement.
 If revolution insists upon overturniug established order, let other peoples make the tragic experiment.. There is no place for it in America. When the World war threatened civilization we pledged our resources and our lives to it's preserya- ton, and when revolution threatens. we unfurl the flag of law and order and re- new our conservation. Ours is a con titutional freedom where the popular will is the law supreme and minorities are sacredly protected. Our revisions refor- nations and evolutions reflect deliber- ate Judgment and an orderly progress, and we mean to cure our ills, but never destroy or permit destruction by force. T had rather submit our industrial controversies to the conference table in advance than to settlement table after conflict and suffering. The earth is thirsting for the cup of good will. Un- derstanding is it's fountain source would like to acclaim an era of good feeling amid dependable prosperity and all the blessings which attend.
 PROTECTION OF INDUSTRIES 'It has been proved again and again that we cannot, while throwing our mar kets open to the world, maintain AmerI- can standards of living and opportunity and hold our industrial eminence in such unequal competition. There is a turning fallacy in the theory of banishcd bar
 riers of trade, but preserved American standards require our higher production costs to be reflected in our tariffs on inn ports. Today, as never before, when peo- ples are seeking trade, restoration and expansion, we must adjust our tariffs to the new order. We seek participation in the worlds exchanges, because therein l lies our way to widened Influence and the triumphs of peace We know full well we cannot sell where we do not buy, and we cannot sell successfully where we do not carry.
 Opportunity is calling not alone for the restoration, but for new era in pro- duction, transportation and trade. We | shall answer it best by meeting the de- mand of a surpassing home market, by promoting self-reliance in production and l by bidding enterprise. genius and effi- ciency to carry our cargoes in Ameri- 1 can bottoms to the markets of the world. AN AMERICA OF HOMES i've would not have an America iiv- ing within and for herself alone, but we would have her self-reliant, inde- pendent and ever nobler, stronger and richer. Believing in our higher stand ards. reared through constitutional lib- erty and maintained opportunity, we in vite the world to the same heights. But pride in things wrought Is no reflex of accomplished task. Common welfare is the goal of our national endeavor Wealth is not inimical to welfare; it ought to be it's friendliest agency. ssrhere never can be equality of re- wards or possessions so long IS the human plan contains varied talents