The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-01
The Presidents Appeal
Chicago Tribune)

Ill OIle VI CIlOSe 1NSTaClaClQS ana
impressive addresses to the nation
which he has the happy gift of MAX
ing, the president has set forth the
general ideas and intentions under
lying his program Of recovery and
to business men through
out the country and to labor to CO.
operate with government for their
realization. The president reviewed
with justifiable qualification the
steps taken to deal with the banking
crisis and to strengthen the national
credit through retrenchment in the
regular expenditures Of the federal
government, and, reiterating his
views of the necessity for restoring
the purchasing power of the farming
population through the reduction of
agricultural production, entered up
on his main theme, the working out
of the plans for industrial recovery.
For this solution the president puts
his reliance upon democratic self
discipline in industry which will, in
his opinion, make possible general
increases in wages and shortening of
hours. Pointing out that without
united action a few selfish men will
defeat the purpose of the movement
to increase employment and the pur-
chasing power Of labor, and asserting
that such united action is better for
the employer as we'll as the employe
than unemployment and low wages
because 1t makes more buyers for his
product, the president announces his
nationwide effort, confident that II
will succeed If our people understand
1t. "The essence Of the plan is q
universal limitation of hours of work
per week for the individual by COM
mon consent and a universal pay
ment Of wages above a minimum, also
by common consent" For this &C.
complShment the president appeals
to the employers Of the nation and
to the workers to go along with him
IN a spirit Of understanding and help
fitness.
There Is no question that the presi-
dents appeal will have a sincere anc
whole-hearted response from the
main body of American business mer
and Of the nation. There Is through.
out the country, we think, irrespec.
tive Of party, section or condition, the
will to cooperate with him as far q.
Is humanity possible and the hope
that his generous expectations viii
be fulfilled. Doubts there are anc
must be Of measures and method.
proposed, but In spite Of the fact tha
many Of these are radical departure!
from American theory and practic,
and most serious in their implica
lions, no government in our history
even In war time, has been more as
sured of the public's will to give CO.
operation, to make sacrifices whe,
needed, to cope to the best of it.
ability with the difficulties inheren
in the practical application of highl,
generali0ed plans to the complexitie
Of our economic fabric.
The president has, therefore, TIL
good fortune to be assured Of tn
spirit essential to any substantial de
gree Of accomplishment in his pro
gram, the spirit which through h,
appeal he would invoke. What wi
defeat the national effort will no
be lack Of that spirit but DISPOSE
ton on the part of the agencies G
government to force upon the com
pick relations and diverse condition
with which private enterprise mus
deal. even to survive, rules vail
enough in general theory, but Grip
ping or destructive if frozen int
bureaucratic formulas. The presl
dent Is impressed with the simplicit
Of the principle of cooperation, b,
the problem of adjusting to gener:
rules and formulas the competitiy
enterprise OF nation is not simpI
and calls for fully as much sell
discipline, good will and regard Il
the rights and interests of the, ind
lvidual or individual enterprise in tt
agencies of administration and cor
troll as in the managers of business