The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-06-29
DEPRESSION
C0NQUEREDBY
COOPERATION
President Harding Praises
Business, Labor and Gov
crnmcnt Forces
NATION PROSPEROUS
Now There Are Half Million
To Million Jobs Unified,
He Declares


ing here in Butte today report on
the postwar revival Of business
President Harding declared that ma
tional mobilization by business, labor
and government forces to overcome
depression was "no less an accom-
plishment than the greater cooper
alton to win the war;"
Outlining the steps taken under
government direction to wipe out un-
employment and to restore confidence
in business the President asserted
"if our procedures have been rather
plain and old-fashioned they have
yet produced results that justify
pride and require no apology"
"If we are accused Of getting no
where in particular" he added. 1--WE
may very we'll reply that at any rate
we have been able to stay right here,
that we regard it as a good place to
stay and that day by day we have
beeh getting better and better.
am disposed freely to admit that
some other folks have had more ex-
citement than we have had but a
good many people in this world
would be glad to exchange their stock
of excitement for modest share in
our American accumulation of sim
pie contentment and dinner-table
neccssaries."
Not Claiming Credit.
The President said he did not pre-.
sent the report on revived business
conditions "as the accomplishment OF
particular administration or the
justification Of any party's claim up
on the public confidence"
Rather it is placed before you a:
testimony to the supreme sense ant
sound genius of nation which coult
make it's opinion extend to a con
tinent an it's altruisms embrace {
hundred million Of humanity, he add
ed. "That is what the American peo
pie have done in the last two years
No other people has had the fortune
to >parallel the achievement. None
other looks out today upon SO clea1
| horizon; and l venture, that W.
stand only in the doorway of the new
era. Thus convinced I know you will
permit me to add just one word fol
the price, the satisfaction and thu
gratitude which the national admin
istration feels in having been able tc
contribute something of suggestion
of leadership, suggestion to this &C
complishment. We will not claim
much; for the great eAd could have
been attained only through the com
plete unity in spirit, purpose ant
patriotism of the whole American
people.
| Need More Men.
1.-TWO years ago we made careful
census of unemployment in the Unit
ed States and found 4,50O,OO0 or -,
100000 workers without jobs. Tha
was bad, but since then matters have
| been reversed and if nowadays W.
are disposed to worry about the prob
lem of unemployment we have tt
consider ways and means to fill
half million or million jobs which
want workers and can't find them
That is the simplest picture of the
industrial evolution of the last two
| years. That is the bedrock founda
tion upon which American bushes:
| and American administration have
erected this confidence that thi:
people will not be led into the paths
of devious experimentation, tht
mazes Of untried economic theories
the labrinth of doctrinary altru
, ISM"
Among the efforts taken to achieve
this end the President mentioned re
duction in the federal reserve dis
count rate moderation Of budget sys
tenn, tightening and more equitable
distribution of the tax burden, the
arms conference, revival of the Fed
eral Farm Loan Board, and the fl
nance corporation and the nationa
conferences on unemployment ant
hou sing.
The address here was the first O
of two scheduled today in the stat
of Montana. The other will be givel
tonight at Helena.