The Cordova daily times., 1922-06-20
THE END OF HYSTERIA AND
 IMPERIALISM

E+ is worth much to the American people Ill general and to American business 1heh Ill 1,articular to have in charge of nallohal "h fairs a Congress and President not suoJ7o' to hvsteria. In several important 1nslanoes eI we have had a demonstration ot the Valoe oh ~, od,ninietration that acts deliberately and Ill accordance with sound economic reasoning.
 When this administration came into power ona of the first problems presented Tor US consideration was that of unemploy1leho' " heinz alleged that there were anywhere lloi,h four to six million men out of employment. Many suggestions were made as to means 0l ,o1;of amono them that the government should
 ,,,,ooriatn huge sums, raised either by tax ,I,+ +;on or q bond issue in order to provide Wofk for inc idle, That would have been the easiest and oniczest temporary remedy but the cure u-onld have been of questionable bene1lC, Cnco the government adopted the pollcy ol ,,ro1;dino work for all who wanted It, there won1d have been no limit to the application ol +bat nolicv. Once the citizen had been leo Vo believe that it is the duty of the goVeflllllell' to- furnish him an income suitable to ms WanIo +hore would have been steadily ana fa)l'ly increasing willingness to shlrk mdlVloual lo snonsibilitv and to rely upon the puoilc '1rea0- 7nv for livelihood. The Republican al'illih istration yielded to no such suggestion, put '' conference was called and each industry ana each municipality was urged to conduct I'0 business in such a way as to afford rellel 'o as large an extent as possible to those WHO were most in need of work. 1hs was done ana experience has shown that there was mlnl- mum of suffering. Today no unemployment problem troubles us
 When this administration came into power # also found confronting tt the problem or relief for an agricultural industry suffering the greatest depression in its history There were suggestions that the government appro- priate money to buy surplus crops, Whlch plan would have meant that the government would purchase practically all crops at flctl- tious prices. This policy once adopted would with difficulty be abandoned. Instead of resorting to that paternaliistic scheme the Re- publican Congress, with the approval of the President, provided for temporary loans for the aid of agriculture, with theresult that there was a steady and healthful revival Tn the market value of agricultural products. This movement is not yet completed but 1t has been started in such way as to assure satlsfac- tory results.
 The instances mentioned are illustrations of the Republican policy enunciated by President Harding of having "less government in busl-7 ness and more business in government. The country had another illustration of that same policy few days ago when lumber manufac- turers were called into conference for the pur- pose of planning system of standards and ln- spection in order to assure uniformity and a square deal for the consumer Instead of pro- posing that the government establish the standards and conduct the inspection, the man. ufacturers were induced to establish an inspec- ton system of their own under which fair ness will be assured to the consumer and the general public will not be saddled with the ex- pense and annoyance of one more government bureau.
 Through these policies the United States has been rapidly getting back to normal, whereas,