Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-25
'R|TCH|E FORESEES
PROSPEROUS DAYS
Declares Return to Early
Principles Will Remedy
Present Evils.

BY the ASSOC1dteu GtGobs
RICHMOND, Va, November u.s.
Gov. Albert C. Richie of Maryland de-
clared here last night that the funda-
mental impulses and virtues that made
the United States a great Nation would
lead it back into the path of prosperity
Speaking before the Allied CIVIC and
Luncheon Clubs of Richmond, the Mary
land executive painted rosy picture OF
the future in the South through re-
turn to these early principles.
"As we think about it all and try to
figure out how we can set the necessary
reconstruction forces to work, we see
lowered tariffs as a means Of stopping
the embargoes against American goods
and the flight of American industry
abroad and making possible the pay
ment of our foreign debts" he declared
I'VE see the permanent and Just set
Element Of the international debt ques-
ton as one of the bases for stable
world. We see general reduction in
ornaments as a medium to sen ts"7-
ton and threat Of wars. We see the
need of some provision in gJoG time:
for forced unemployment in hard times
All these have q place in any real pro-
gram of governmental progress.
But what Is needed more than any
thing else is to recur to the fundamental
principles and to the ancient and home
" virtues contained in the old Virginia
Bill of Rights.
IF you apply these to the modern
world, most Of the social and economic
Embellishments and political utilities
would start to clear up.
These bid us to quit looking to
Washington so much to police us and
cure everything by piling law on law,
thus converting the Government into an
overloaded machine and an overpowered
tyrant. We must get back to
these enduring things which have been
hammered out on the forge Of expert
ence and tested in the furnace Of time. "
The method of approach Is the great
problem facing the South to turn its
recent extraordinary growth and un-
developed natural resources into IAN
industrial future Of undreamed-of pro-
portions" the Governor said.
"The new South already is rising to
the opportunities, he declared. In
dustrialism entered the South looking
for cheap labor and big profits, but to-
day the attitude is changing. The in
duStrialiSts are becoming just as anxious
as their most enlightened critics to get
rid of those ills and irregularities that
developed with the sudden and un-
planned rise.
"They prefer honest and intelligent
to corrupt and ignorant politics. They
prefer satisfied to unsatisfied labor.
They are recognizing that exploited
child labor, underpaid labor or un-
employed labor endangers the entire
system. They are opposed to tlliteracy.
They have learned that sound welfare
work, good living conditions and fair
dealing all pay.
while I foreSee, as does every one.
this tremendous industrial growth in
the South, stu hope We will not see
the civilization Of the South become
predominantly Industrial. It seems to
me that the essential affections Of the
South are still largely for the soil and
that the spirit Of the old plantation is
still strong"
In Gov. Ritchie's party were Howard
H. Cone, director of the party; Waldo
Newcomer, William w. Cloud, Lawrence
gett, Roland Stolzenbach, Charles Z.
Bichy, Edward Cross, Building Engineer
Parr, Preston Lane, Dwight Burroughs
Judge John Meyers, Howard Mattingly
and party, Parker Cook, William Gideon,
A. @. Broueckmann, Henry Vogel, Harry
CLARITY, Col. e. Austin Baughman,
commissioner of motor vehicles: Harold
Cummings, Wills Jones, ID. l.. HON.
meiman, Al Hart and j. @. Young.
In the party which greeted the Wis
itors upon their arrival were Comdr. w.
II. Caldwell, member Of Gov. Poilards
staff, and designated by the Governor
as his official representative; Mayor j.
Fuller Bright Of Richmond, T.. Mccall
Frazier, director of motor vehicles; Jo-
seph II. Harrison, president Of the
Richmond Rotary Club; q. Jeeter Jones,
a past district governor Of Rotary In
ternational; DR.. Henry Stuart, John T.
O'Grady, Thomas A. Scott and Robert
Cabell, nephew Of Gov. Richie.