The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04


 wisdom of the conviction of our late President Harding in his belief that the hope of the world lies in this country. Everywhere else there is political and economic chaos, and 1t Is only in this cot ntry that employer ana workman are moving steadily forward under the banner of induS- trial peace and prosperity. Abroad unemployment Is the rule, while in America every workman who ts will ing and able to work has the oppor- tunity to fill a job. Abroad wages are low, and many workers are being paid mere subsistence wage. Here wages are generally as high as they ever have been. Both through the pay envelope and through various systems of profit sharing, many in oustries are reaching that condition of an equitable division of the pro ceeds of production between the men who manage labor and the men whose labor makes industry possible. On this basis alone can we insure per m6nent progress and growing pros perity.
 While abroad I talked with many foreign investors and almost all of them declared their intention of | transferring their funds to American investments, because the industrial and economic stability which the country has reached promised them greater security for their funds than they could find abroad.
 'The great leader under whose guidance we have reached this point of prosperity Is gone to his own re- ward. We have lost him, but another has come in his place, taking up the tasks that he laid down, assuming the | great burdens which the American people Impose upon It's chief execu- tive. Truly Divine Providence guides the destinies of our nation. For Pres ident Harding for the first time in our history, called the vice president into the councils of the executive branch of the government. and Calvin | Coolidge come to his task knowing In detail the problems which confront him. He has been from the first, part and parcel of the administrative ma- chinery of the government, and he has sat with the President and his cabinet constantly during his more than two years of service as vice president. There I have come to know his tnswerving devotion to the 1 public service. His great strength and simplicity of character have been demonstrated throughout his boyhood, | his college life. and his public life. In all his career he has shown that conscientiousness of public service which Is the greatest attribute of the man who servies the public. His de- yotion to duty and to principle nave marked his progress from the begin ming of his public life. And justly so. For he comes of a race that has long l known hard work and simple lives. In his family life this same simplicity reigns. With his wife and his two sons he makes up a typcal American 1 family, the kind of a family upon structure of liberty, and law which we call America
 Tribute To Coolidge.
 "In my association with him at the cabinet table I have found him ever warm hearted, with a generous and active sympathy for the problems of others. More than once he has given me that word of sympathetic help which Is the truest aid in times of weariness and stress and difficulty. America will find In him not alone a bran and conscience to lead, but a kindly heart to help. He will be a true friend of the American workman, for he has known hard work alll his | life. He will follow no wild phan- tasies in a search for the millennium, no will-of-the wisp of thoughtless experiment. He will move forward step by step, guided by the light of progress. by experience and by studi- ous reasoning. He breaches the gos- pei of the square deal. and In what ever lies before him he can be de- pended upon to be just, fair and kindly.
 We have come far in the cause of labor during the last year. We have marched steadily forward through kdifficulty and over obstalces to the heights, of prosperity. We have lost | the leader who brought Us out of chaos into order; we have gained & leader to whom we owe our whole al- | legiance. Let us gird up our loins and in the strength of our devotion to the cause of mankind, the better ment of our fellow men, and the im- provement of our own souls. let us continue our steady progress toward the goal of social. material and spir- itual well-being which is the ultimate end of man.