Evening star., 1925-12-08
Tax Reduction, World Court,
Coal Strike Authority and
Universal Draft Act Are
Among His Proposals.
URGES AIR SECRETARIES
IN THREE DEPARTMENTS
President Sends to Congress Not
able State Paper, Intensely Prac-
teal, But With Deep Puritan
Spirituality in Expounding
Philosophy of Government.
HY q. GOULD LINCOLN.

bN u. tfOl I4t.NNol.N.
r. a message designed to nam
tam the advance OF the Nation on
ar even keel and proposing no radi-
C.l changes III policy, President Cool
ydgc ,oday laid before Congress his
estimate oi conditions in the United
States and his recommendation for
lcgi~lation None OF these recon-
:ucndatious l. startingly new. Many
81 them have been made before,
either iii their present or other form.
OTHERS have been indicated in recent
statements from the White House.
But Tor all OF them the Pres ident
sc'~ forth Succinctly and ably the
reasons WHICH appeal TO him. The
message Is eminently Coolidge esque.
The President abandoned the Gus
TOM OF President Wilson and Presi-
dent Harding and which he himself
message TO Congress after he had
entered the White House. He did
not 90 III person to deliver his mes
sage at joint session of the Senate
and House. but transmitted it in
writing and it was read to both
houses.
Progress and prosperity 10 a
degree almost never before paralleled
Is the picture of conditions in the
United States given the Congress by
the President. He insists that the
country requires no radical de-
partures from the policies already
adopted. What it needs, he says, is
iurther extension of those policies
and improvement Of details. The
President, however, makes many
concrete recommendation for legis-
jation. Among the most important
are:
Legislation Recommended.
/, Reduction of taxation.
.. Adhesion by the United States
10 the Permanent Court of Interna-
fional Justice-the World Court
upon which the Senate alone is called
upon to act.
3. Authority of the President and
the Departments of Commerce and
Labor to deal with an emergency in
the production of coal.
!. Creation of a strong division in
the Department of Agriculture to aid
the cooperative marketing move
1nent.
). a selective service act giving
broad authority for the mobilization
in time of peril of all the resources of
the country, both men and materials
6. Additional assistant secretaries
pf the Departments of War Navy and
Commerce to aid in the development
OF aviation and the air services.
!. Ratification of the war debt set
Elements negotiated with Belgium
Italy and other debtor nations.
y. The Capitalization of the execu-
tlvr control of the Government mer-
chant fleet under Il single head
). Authorization of the consolida-
fiou of the railroads under the super
vision Of the Interstate Commerce
Commission
10. A mothers aid law for the Dis
fri"t OF Columbia which shall be IL
model for all parts OF the Union.
H. Amendment of the Civil
Service act. placing all postrna sters.
collectors of customs. collectors of
internal revenue and prohibition
agents in the classified Civil
Service.
-. Reorganization Of the various
e\""utiN" departments of the Gov
erument.
-. The sale direct by Congress to
IN" highest bidder of the Muscle
Shoals power plant
Opposes Capitalization.
TO the Congress and more broadly
to the American people the President
nlakeS many other suggestions and
recommendations for which no legis-
lHilon is demanded or, indeed, could
be properly required
lie recommends the firm adherence
nf the American people to the prin-
clple or local self government. and
urges that halt be called on the
ff
Washington.
He commendS 10 the Congress
economy in government and the pay
ment of the public debt as rapidly as
II may be accomplished. He upholds
The budget system and urges that it
be not weakened or broken down. He
promises the support and sympathy
nj the Government in any movement
for international limitation of arma-
n"nts. He requests of all the people
observance OF the prohibition laws.
H" asks sympathy and even handed
justice for the negro population of
the United States.
The Presidents message is the first
transmitted to the Sixty ninth Con
ErcsS, elected in November, 1924.
when he himself was chosen Chief
Executive. In it the President not
only proposes the translation into leg
tslation OF many of the pledges given
by the Republican party during the
last campaign. but he avails himself
pf the constitutional direction that
che shall from time to time give to
the Congress information of the state
pf the Union"
Full of Philosophy.
The message Is, indeed, a state pa
per. filled with the philosophy of the
Greeks. which preached moderation
and nothing in excess and with the
spirituality of the Pilgrim Fathers.
1t has. too. its eminently practical
side. The Presidents position on mat.
Ters of great interest to the people Is
made known frankly and unequtvo-
ely His message is made emphatic
with many short, epiSrammatic SEN
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