Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-08-17

eAIttltnCe itdiS lIltHl 10 more ueep
and penetrating realization of civic
problems.
Colonel Ralph D. Cole
A sharp, sudden storm threatened
at this point to end the meeting
without the throng hearing Colonel
Cole. After few minutes time, how
; ever. the program was continued in
the dance pavilion which the county
committee had engaged for the con-
veniencc of the crowd throughout
the day. Several hundred people
! formed a compact group about the
dance floor as Colonel Cole started
his address by asking if any daughter
Of Maine would care to trip the light
! fantastic with him.
Sovereignty Of America Restored
so long as Mr.. Harding is Prcsi-
dent every incident Of American
Sovereignty will be maintained. That
is the first and most important point
of my address," said Colonel Cole
The Republican party promised to
regain the sovereignty lost when the
previous administration attempted to
transfer part of tie power Of Amer
lea across the seas. Our oath is reg
iStcred to protect and defend the SOW
ereign rights of this nation; not to
send it to the other side of the ocean.
President Harding has obcyed the
mandate of the people.
'"rhc only responsible Democracy
insists in the League of Nations, Will
son is for it and Governor Cox, their
latest candidate, is in Europe making
speeches in London and Paris on this
subject. Perhaps it would help one
to lie elected King OF England, but
not to be President Of the United
States.
Veterans Bureau Handled Efficiently
In accordance with the words of
: Lincoln that the most solemn duty of
the government is to care for him
who shall have borne the heat Of
battle, his widow and children. and
the orphans this administration has
done and is doing all in its power to
aid the veterans. After President
Harding assumed Office commission
was created to coordinate the actlNl-
ties of the various war relief boards
into the Veterans Bureau. Today.
! there is not soldier needing hospital
! service without It. compensation
claims receive prompt attention. IN
/ the rehabilitation Of work everything
is being done that can possibly aid in
| the restoration of the mentally and
| physically injured. In more than
1000 educational institutions men
! enrolled in the vocational training
courses are receiving instruction. The
i men are being made ready 10 resume
their richtful place in the affairs of
/ the world,
No More Waste
"Extravagancc in the. Governmen mt
! is my next point" continued the for
Nor representative from Ohio. n ON
! a national debt of $50 millions in
! 1913, VIC had bonded ourselves in the
sum of 90 billions eight years later.
| The interest alone was reaching the
/ total of billion dollars each twelve
! months. President Harding faced a
moro monumental task than any 9TH
CT chief executive in the nations
! history.
Money did not count in the war
when men were at stake. Yet have
! seen Americans die in France for
| want of air support. In this country
! one billion dollars was spent on the
! air service, but there was not single
! American plane on an American
! front. One lillion dollars went for
cannon, yet the lack of American
cannon is we'll known. If only money
! had been lost VIC could understand
! 1t in the stress Of war, but men, the
! finest in the world. gave their lives,
. for want of what that money pur-
| ported to purchase.
I Last year 500 millions was paid on
our national debt. The expenses
! were reduced from five and one half
! billions in the last year of the Will
! son regime to three and one hale' in
/ 1921. We are now the only govern :
ment living within its income, and
! President Harding found US living
/ two billions over il when he was
! inaugurated. cat this point the
speaker read the letter from Presi-
! dent HardingD
Hardina's u Points
! I'm the last place We are getting
1 back to normally in all branches of
! our national life. Industry is rapidly
| returning to its usual position. The
| tariff has helped in great measure.
Did YOU realize that President
| Harding has his fourteen points as
; we'll as his immediate predecessor
| Liberty Bonds were at sc in 1921;
! today they are 100-fourteen points.
| THE administration has realized
! that only in permanent peace can we
| have true opportunity for the pro-
! per Development Of American life. SO
t long as there is the possibility OF
! war profits investment funds will not
! seek peace time propositions. Ths
! Washington conference was case
( of Europe coming TO America, not
| of America travelling over the seas
! to the older countries. Secretary
| Hughes startled the world with his
| concrete plan for the reduction OF
| ornaments.
, Letters were read from Senator
| Mccormick and Secretary Hughes
The greatest service of this ad-
ministration is the keeping of the