Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-12-09
TENT or ANNUAL. MESSAGE
OF PRESIDENT TO CONGRESS


OF PRESIDENT TO CONGRESS-
BY United Pressl
WASHINGTON, Dec. s-PresIdcn,
Harding. in his legislative message
to Congress today, said:
Members Of the Congress:
So many problems arc calling for
solution that recital of all of them
in the face OF the known limitations
OF short session OF Congress would
seem to lack sincerity Of purpose 1t
Is four years since the World War
ended, but the Inevitable rcadjust-
:nent or the social and cconomIa
order is not more than barely Begin
There Is no acceptance OF pre-war
| conditions anywhere in the world.
In very general way humanity
harbors individual wishes to go on
with wartime compensation for pro-
uuction, with prewar requirements
In expenditure. In short. every one.
| speaking broadly. Graves readjust-
| mcnt for everybody except himself.
| while there can be no Just and
| permanent rcadjustment except when
all participate.
Brought To RenI Test.
The civilization which measured
its strength of genius and the power
of science and the resources of in
dustries, in addition TO testing the
limits of man power and the cndur-
ancc and heroism Of men and wo-
! mcn-that same civilization is
| drought to Its scvcrest test in re.
storing tranquil order and commit
ting humanity TO the stable ways Of
peace.
If the sober and deliberate ap-
| praisal OF pre-war civilization makes
| II seem worthwhile inheritarc,,
then with patience and good cour-
age II Will he preserved. There never
again Will he precisely the old order:
indeed, | know OF no one who thinks
it To he desirable. For out of the
| old order came the war itself, and the
new order. established and made
secure. never will permit its rccur-
renee.
II is no figure OF speech to say we
have come To the test of our civiliZa-
ton. The world has been passing
is today passing-through a great
crisis. The conduct OF war itself is
not more difficult than the solu-
ton of the problems which necessari-
moment of the problem in it's wider
aspect OF world rehabilitation or OF
international relationships. The re-
terence is to our own social financial
and economic problem at home. These
things are not TO be considered solely
as problems apart from all intcrna-
tional relationship. but every ma
ton must be able to carry on for it.
SER. else its international relation.
snip VIII have scant Importance.
strikes Halted Progress.
Had we escaped the coal and
railway strikes, which had no excuse
for their being and less Justification
for their delayed settlement we
should have done infinitely better.
But labor was insistent on holding
to the war heights. and needless
forces of reaction sought the pre-.
war levels. and both were wrong.
The railway strike acccntuated the
difticuity of the American farmer.
The first distress of reimbursement
came 10 the farmer. ana IL will not
be REIMBURSEMENT fit to abide until
he is relieved. The distress brought
to the farmer does not affect him
alone. Agricultural III fortune Is n
national III fortune. That one fourth
of our population which produces tho
food OF the republic and adds so
largely to our export commerce must
participate in tho good fortunes Of
tho nation, else there is none worth
retaining.
Agriculture is n vital activity in
our national life. In II we had our
beginning and It's westward march
with the star OF the empire has re-
Elected the growth OF the republic
=. The Farm Labor Bureau
already has proven it's usefulness
through farm production credits as
well as enlarged land credits 1t is
entirely practical to create a divI-
sion In tho Federal land bank to
deal with production credits. with
the limitations OF time so adjusted
TO tho farm turnover as tho Federal
reserve system provides Tor tho
turnover in the manufacturing and
mercantile world. spaolai provi-
sion must he made fos livestock pro-
duotion credits and the limit OF land