Milford chronicle., 1922-03-17

same day our President went to work
at his desk. His policy has been one
of open heartedness and open-minded-
ness. He has desired to meet and
greet all those making their way to
the White House, whether simply to
meet the Chief Executive or to come
as. statesmen to confer He has lis
tened to advice, he has studied our
domestic problems from every angle,
and so far as has been humanity
possible within one years time he has
kept the pledges made by the Republi-
can party to the people in the fall of
1920.
His first important act was to call
Congress into special session, about
one month after he entered the White
House. When addressing that session
he outlined a program that was most
comprehensive in an effort to solve
the questions that naturally followed
after the war. He pleaded that ex-
penses be reduced as quickly and ef-
fectively as possible and asked for a
budget system to put the government
on a real business basis. This has
been accomplished, as I have told you
before. A new revenue act was pass
ed taking about $800,O00,0O0 from the
taxpayers burden, and other taxes
known as the nuisance taxes were
repealed. When the year started var
iOus departments had asked for S4,-
50,000,000 with which to run the
for the year ending next
June 8. Through the budget and the
untiring efforts Of the President, that
amount was cut to $3,968, ,OO0, 900.
Great saving was also made by co-or-
dinating the work of purchasing ma
terials for the departments.
1--WE all remember that one of Mr..
promises as a Republican
was that he would bring
about an effective peace just so soon
as Congress could pass a declaration
for him to sign. On July he signed
such a declaration, bringing the war
to an end after a delay of many
But he did not stop there. He
knew that the time had come for the
great nations of the world to get to-
gether and think seriously of a prac-
tical way to make war more difficult.
This thought eventually found express
sion in the Conference on the Limita-
tion of Armament, that has been her
aided throughout the world as the
achievement ever accomplish
ed by the head of any nation.
"There are so many things I want to
tell you, but I will have to hurry and
hit the high spots because mother
will be after us, if I don't. Here are a
few of the other laws passed by Con-
gress. The most important of the eff
'orts to aid the soldiers was the law
putting into being the Veterans Bu-
reau and placing all soldiers agen-
lies under one head. Then there was |
he law allowing credit and money to |
lelp move farm products and market |
hem, meeting a most serious situa- |
ion. The naval appropriations bill |
passed with a saving of $86,000,000 as |
compared with the bill Of the year be-
ore and the army bill cut the army |
o 100000 men thereby saving $15,- |
100000 The great Alaskan railroad /
will be completed under a law author
zing $4,000,000 for that purpose. The
Farm Loan Board was given addition
j funds. An act was passed to re-
lassify the postal employees and fix
heir salaries on a fairer basis. A
lew immigration law keeps out the
ood of foreigners. Many other acts
ave been passed, all contributing to
he general welfare.
"An example of what the whole ad-
has worked for is shown
4 the case of the War Department.