Evening star., 1927-10-13
Executive, in Speech at Pitts.
burgh, Pays Tribute to
PhiIanthropistS.
COMMENTS ON new ERA
IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Improvement Manifest in Spirit
ual and Economic Life,
He Declares.
BY j. RUSSELL. YOUNG,
staff Correspondent of The Star.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, October 13.--
The great mass of the wealth of this
country has been used to raise the life
of the people into a higher realm
rather than being used merely for self
| ish indulgence and ostentatious luxury.
President Coolidge declared in a speech
| he delivered here this afternoon Incl
dent to the annual celebration of
| Founders day at Carnegie Institute.
| In the opinion of the President the
question for the determination of the
American people is no longer whether
| they will be able to secure prosperity,
but rather for what purpose prosperity
is used. According to his philosophy,
it is only in the use to which wealth
and prosperity are put that their pos
session and existence are justified. and
he was happy to remind his audience
that the answer to this has been found
by the American people in religion, in
education and in the arts, and for that
reason there has been such marked
spiritual as well as material progress
in this country.
Sees Industrial Peace.
There is real contentment among
the people of~AmeriCa, the President
stated. brought about by the spiritual
as we'll as the material advancement
of the Nation, and because of this con-
dition he notes that there is a great
increase in effort and efficiency in pro-
duction since the people, through TINS
better understanding and imbued with
higher ideals, are cooperating to work
out a common destiny.
Because of this economic and social
Improvement the President recognizes
a remarkable Improvement in the re-
| lations between employer and en-
ploye. Much of the old friction be-
| tween these two, he added no longer
exists and under new realization OF
| their mutuaIity of interest an indus
| trial peace has come through this
| country which short time ago
would have been thought next to inn
/ possible TO attain.
1t was admitted, however, by the
| President that despite this advance
ment and this better understanding
and cooperation the ranks of un.
skilled labor have not yet come into
| their full enjoyment. He believes.
| though, that this class of workers
| is experiencing working conditions
greatly improved over what it ever
before received.
Improvement of Industrial condi.
| tions and promotion of the spiritual
| life in this country and at the same
| time to insure material advancement
! has been the aim of the leaders of
American economic life and 1t has
been this spirit which has dominated
the growth of the country, the Presi-
| dent pOinted out. In his opinion the
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/ contented citizen is around the fire.
side and the chief evidence of their
success, material and spiritual, is in
| happy and contented homes.
Gradually. through long years of
incessant toll under the guidance of
spiritual leaders," the President added
| in this connection, I'VE have been per.
| fecting our civilization and raising the
standard of the material, mental and
| moral life of the people,"
1t was stated by the President that
despite the high spirit which has domi.
mated the wonderful growth of the
United States and which has resulted
| in better understanding and content
ment and cooperation, he realizes that
there are some who cannot see or un-
derstand this condition. He declared
that to some of these outsiders Ameri-
CdH iIIXuStEldl illS Is LuS dpOII6OSlS OF
selfishness. He spoke with emphasis
when he added that these outsiders
cannot realize that the rattle of the
| reaper, the buzz of the saw, the clang
of the anvil, the roar of traffic are all
part of a mighty symphony, not only
OF material, but of spiritual progress.
Large Audience Attends.
| 1t is the Presidents contention that
out of this mighty symphony rhe
| Nation Is supporting it's religious in
stitutions, endowing colleges, provid-
| ing its charities, furnishing ornaments
| of architecture, rearing it's monu-
ments, organizing it's orchestras and
encouraging its painting. But, as he
declared in conclusion, the American
people see and understand and, un.
! perturbed, they move majestically for
ward in the consciousness that they
are making their contribution in com.
mon with the sister nations to the
progress of humanity.
These utterances of the President
/ were made before a large audience
seated amid the splendor and mag
nificence OF the marble hall of the
foyer of Carnegie Music Hall, where
the paintings by competing artists
from Is different countries are being
exhibited. In praising the purpose of
the international exhibition, Mr.. Cool
ldge stated that from much humber
beginnings great issues have been
evolved and that it may be that in
the spirit which animates the conduct
of art exhibitions like this one lies the
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