Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1923, Page 4

‘4 9 RADID 1S MARVEL OF HARDING TRP Backplatforming Revolution- ized by Wafting of Voice on Two Instruments. 1 Dispatch to The Star. ROUTE WITH PRESIDENT HARDING, June 30.—Backplatform- ing has been revolutionized by the radio. No longer need a presidential candidate worry about the reach of hix voice with the crowds. The loud speaker and the radio have been of incalculable value to President Harding on this trip and probably will become an indispensa- ble part of the equipment of future candidates as well. In two distinct ways mechanical devices have helped Mr. Harding on his western journey. First, there is the successful experiment conducted by the American Telephone and Tele- graph Company whereby the presi- dentinl voice is gathered in by an apparatus on the speaking platform and carried over long-distance tels phone wires to New York, where it is fed into a radio broadcasting ma- chine and spread about just as ef- fectively as if the speaker were in New York city itself, Sccond, there is the back-platform apparatus, inconspicuous In appear- ance. whereby the presidential \o..« is carried to the uttermost edge of the crowds. The writer got off the train at Cheyenne, for instance, and walked around the ed of the crowd and was able to hear the Preident’s speech at every angle for & radius of nearly 100 yards, in which circle it would be possible for 15,000 people to gather. And there will be crowds as big hat when the pub- lic really finds out the presidential candidates can be heard so plainly from the back platform of railroad cars Greater Possibilities. Oné can stand alongside the presi- dential at the opposite end from the observation platform at which Mr. Harding speaks and hear plainly. act the telephone engineers say ould equip the roofs of each one of the ten ¢is in the train with loud- speaking horrs and broadcast the ker's voice for any city blocl e is indeed no limit to the possi- bilities of the amplifying apparatus. The effect on the crowd was notice- able. The writer has seen people gather at the rear of trains and strain to catch the speaker's volce, failing which, they become restless and move away. On Mr. Harding's trip the crowds at the rear of the train have been very quiet and attentive. One could tell by outbursts of ap- plause that the persons at the outer 1imits of the crowd caught the speak- voice plainly. s a t stunt,” remarked the President the other night after he had addressed several thousand peo- ple in Wyoming from the rear of his train It really means a great deal to him, for it permits -the people to get a better idea of his personality than has been possible with the voice unaided before. At one time Mr. Harding’s_voice became husky and not a half dozen people would have beén able to hear him ordinarily, but the loud spea amplified so well that the crowd didn’t know the Prest- dent was speaking much above a Wwhisper. *onsibilities Hardly Scratched. radio broadcasting possibilities o hardly been scratehed. It's true that in small tow there are not halls big enough to take care of the crowds, and a good back-platform speech in_ the open-air of the railroad yards will be of anuch more benefit politically than the meetings in small halls and auditoriums. _But there are thousands who caniof leave their Liumes amd go to the station. These can be reached by radio simpl by running a telephone wire from the train to the nearest local broadcasting station President Harding has recelved many telegrams from people in New York and vicinity who have.heard his w ern speeches. In Kapsas City a recefving station picked up_the President’s address from a New York ity broadcast & station, simulta- neous with the making. of the spee self in the auditorium in Kansas City itself. It would have been pe sible for a headclasp instrument to ave been fastened on the head of amny one in the Kansas City audience and to have heard a real echo of the Presi- dent’s remarks. The American Telcphone and Tele- sraph Company engineers are so care- ful of their arrangements for broad- casting the President's speeches that they always have alternate telephone routes ready to offset possible line trouble. The other night at Kansas City a telephone line which was car- rying the presidential voice to New York city for broadcasting broke, and the voice was instantaneously switch- ed to another transcontinental wire with hardly the loss of a syllable. The 1924 campaign probably will see radio in use by the leading candidates | of all parties, for it means that mil-} lions now can be literally spoken to where only a few thousands were reachable ~before—a revolution in campaign methods. (Copyright, 1923.) PRESIDENT’S TREND TQWARD LIBERALS SEEN BY OBSERVERS (Continued from First Page.) own leaders and gpokesmen, is no whit less absolute than is the right of man- agement and of capital to form and work through those great concentra- tions of interests which we call cor- porations. There something evangelical about. President Harding’s western travels. His ardor for social justice and the rights of labor is mingled with expressions of deep religious fervor and moral appeal. Two of his redecessors were successful by simi- ar petition in enhancing their pres- tige. Whatever effect it may have— vhether it disappoints the so-called ‘hard-boiled” element in the repub- lican party which has been generous with campaign contributions because of a belief that Harding would bring back the “good old days” of low wages, or whether it tends to bring the west hack to a regular republican President who proclaims himself a progressive—there can hardly be any doubt that Warren Harding is sin- cerely convinced of the merit of his own doctrine. He is inspired by an idealism that seems constantly to be oattling to get away from the mate- .salistic tendency of the age. This is Sowhere better illustrated than in the following lines of his peroration at Helen: “Mankind never has stood more in need than it does now of the consola- tlons and reassurances which derive from a firm religious faith. There must be no mistake whereby we shall confuse the things which are of eter- nity with those which are of time. We must not let our engrossment with the: things of matter and of mind dis. traét us from a proper concern for those which are of the spirit and the woul.” (Copyright, 1923.) : VISIT YELLOWSTONE. Presidential Party to See Wonders of National Playground. By the Assoclated Press. . * GARDINER GATEWAY, Mont., June 30—+Arriving in Gardiner about 7 o'clock this: morning,” President and Mrs{ Harding and their party imme- diately went into Yellowstone Na- tional Park fora two-day visit. The THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Text" of Speech Delivered | By Executive in Montana t Administration Failed to Lead Aid Ex- pected by Those Who Planned to Break Up_ Unions, Harding Declares. The text of President Harding's address last night at Helena, Mont, follows: My countrymen: One of the great- est lessons which the world war taught to soclety was a realization of its stupendous producing capacity under modern organization. When the war started many of us, probably most of us. belleved it could not last very long because we could not con- ceive that it could be economically and industrially supported for a long time. We had been taught to believe that as a whole the community an- nually consumed pretty nearly all that it produced, and that in order to maintain this ratio it was neces- sary to keep all the producers steadily at work. We were convinced that when the most efficient producers were taken by millions away from the flelds, the shops, the mines and the offices, and set at the business of armed destruction, they would very presently pull down upon themselves the whole fabric of our complex industrial system, and that the war would be smothered in the ruins. This view was the basis of what be- came almost an obsession with many people, indeed with most of the best informed people, durlng the early stages of the war. It was commonly and freely sald that economic ex- haustion would compel an end to the struggle before a year, and a much more popular limitation was six months. Theoste Proved Falsc. The teoawe showed how very little we understood either the ‘tremendous producing capacity of the community as a whole or “the strength and solldity of our industrial structure. When ‘the first year of the war had passed the world was just beginning to realize that in all probability the struggle was only In its larger begin- ning. Millions of men had beea call- ed from the fields and yet still other men were belng trained for it. At the end of two years the war wae greater than ever, ‘and after three years it had still ‘further expandel until it aciually involved, whether as com- batints or as the sources of supply for the combatants, the whols world. The industrial, the agricuitural, the financial, the soclal and spiritual forces of the world were mobilized at last for the great final test of strength. In the end that test was {both military and economic. Victory {rested upon the banners which were |Lorne by tibe side that represented the greatest number of soldiers, of ships, of Funs; which represented the Ereatest capacity to bring together, cantrol and fabricate the necessaries of war and to malntain grea: civil populations behind the lines. It became very early a war of con~ seription. Governments conscripted their men for service in the fleld. patriotism and public_opinion conscripted every- body ‘else for work at home. A new system of division and dilution of labor was introduced through which men and Wwomen, boys and girls, old men and old women~—millions "of people who under the old order of peace days had been re- Jected from the realm of skilled produc- tion, were quickly trained to the most Intricate and technical tasks. So, in the jmidst of the most destructive storm that mankind had ever invoked upon itself, {there was presented the marvelous phe- nomena of a world producing at a great- er rate than it had ever done before. How was this gigantic industrial phe- —— | party went into the park at-the north- ern entrance and had breakfast inside ithe playground. { The program of the day called for an inspection of the buffalo and elk herds and visits to the mammoth hot springs and the upper geyser basin. When the President descended the steps of his car here he received a pleasant surprise in a copy of this morning's edition of the Livingston, Mont., Enterprise, containing on the first page a duplicate of the first page of yesterday's Marion (Ohio) Star, Secretary Work of the Interior De- partment, " who has charge of the national ‘parks, has been trying to persuade ‘the rPesident to do Some trout fishing while in the park. but Mr. Harding isn't generally regarded as much of a fisherman, and It Is doubtful whether he will try his luck {with the fly. Preparations Made. Extensive preparatiors are reported to have been made by the national park service for the visit of the President and Mrs. Harding. Agents of the service, who have spent years in Yellowstone, have sent to Director Mather of the park service reports as to the exact time the more Inter- mittent geysers play and the schedule of the party has been so mapped out as to bring it to these guysers just as they get into action. Mr. Mather, who joined the party at Salt Lake City, will direct the trip. The special train carrying the Pres- ident and his party left Helena for Gardiner shortly before midnight last night. after an address by the chief executive in the Montana cap- ital. He spoke upon the social order, women and labor, declaring in favor of universal draft of lives and prop- erty in event of another war; in op- position ‘to the present-day tendency to shift from the mother to the schools the care and guidance of the children; for the education of all children, regardless of wealth of parents, In the common schools, and against the extremists who - either would destroy organized _labor or would wipe out private capital and substitute nationalization. Concluding his prepared address, the President appealed to the people of Montana to support the adminis- tration proposal for American adher- ence to the world court. This tri- bunal, he told his audience, is a long step ‘toward avoidance of world con- cts."” —_— STRIKERS’ RIOTS ENDED _ ONLY BY FEAR OF TROOPS By the Associated Press. SYDNEY, N. S, June 20.—Rioting among striking employes of the Brit- ish Empire Steel Corporation, who last night Invaded the property of the company and fought a two hours' battle with city police, ended early today shortly before the ex- pected arrival of troops from Halifax. The strikers were dissuaded at the last moment by their leaders from their intention of massing at the railway station and attacking the soldlers. The mob broke up after five rioters had been arrested. Property damage was slight, the strikers asserting they were not bent sabotage, but wanted merely to lean out the strikebearers. The strikers seek an eight-hour day, a 20 per cent increase in wages and the check-off system of handling union du An attempt to wreck the railway train, - Which early today brought troops from Halifax to prevent a re- ‘currence of " last night's rioting %mnn striking .. employes of . the ritish Empire ~Steel Corporation, was discovered a half hour before the ‘train arrived with 250 egldiers. nomenon wriught? By putting every- body at work. By inducing everybody to work to the limit of strength and capacity. By paying the workers at rates which enlisted their utmost eager- ness to produce the limit. Yes, if you please, by letting labor and capital and management all engage more or less in profiteering at_the expense of soclety as a whole. Unheard-of wages were paid to people who in other times would have been considered quite incapable of earning them, but who, under the stim- ulus of the emergency, became effective and absolutely necessary factors in the industrial _organization. Particularly was this true of the women, young and old, who took up tasks in the shop, the fleld, the transportation systems, and behind the lines of combatants, such as had never before been assigned to them. And the women made good so emphat- ically, so impressively, that as toda c look over the whole fleld of the mobilization and the world conflict we realize that something very much lrke | a revolution was effected in the varied relationships of the industrial com- munity. Viewed In the retrospect, we see more clearly than ever the sordid side of war. 1 have said before, and I choose to repeat it very deliberately now, that if war must come again— God grant that it shall not!—then we must draft all of the nation in carry- ing it on. It le not enough to draft the young manhood. It is not enough to accept the voluntary servico of both women and men whose patriotic devotion impels their enlistment. It will be righteous and just, it wiil be more effective In war and marked by less regret in the aftermath, If we draft all of capital, all of industry, all of agriculture, all of commerce, all of talent and capacity and energy of every description to make the su- preme and united and unselfish fight for the national triumph. When we do that there will be less of war. When we do that the contest will be aglow with unsullied patriotism, un- tcuched by profiteering in any service. Hopes to Prevent W Of course, we are striving to make conditions of foreign relations and so fashion our policies that we may never be involved in war again. If we are committed to universal serv- ice—that is, the universal commit- ment of every American resource and activity—wlithout compensation except the consciousness of service and the exaltations in victory, we will be slower to make war and more swift in bringing it to a triumphant close. Let us never again make draft on our manhood without as exacting a draft on all we possess in the mak- ing of the industrial, financial, com- mercial and spiritual life of the re- public. Evidence of Change. If we had been in a state of mind to philosophize about it all, I think ve might have recognized that women have been for a long time preparing themselves for this tre- mendous incursion into the fleld of industrial production. For a long time before the war began there had been evidence of a reaction among the women against the old ideals of the Victorian period. For three oe four decades, the more venturesome women had been timidly breaking away from the old-fashioned home and its old-fashioned ideals. Even those who viewed the new-woman movement with greatest misgiving and least approval had already been compelled to recognize that a new and revolutionary idea. was taking possession of them. We might iterate and reiterate, and theorize and dog- matize, upon the old thesis that the place for woman was in the home, but we will have to admit that de- spite all our preachments, all our urgings, wasn't staying there. She was teach- ing in the schools, she was account- ing for perhaps a majority of the graduates from the high schools and a big and increasing minority of the student community in the colleges and universities. She was practicing law and medicine, preaching sermons, working in the shops, the offices, the factories: she was, in short, becoming a competitor with her brother in al- most all the departments of produc- tive effort and activity. Women First Reserves. Then came the war, and all at once even the most dublous among us re- alized that the women, everywhere, constituted the first line of industriai reserves upon which society must fall back 4n its great crisis. They volun teered for every service in which they could be useful and at once es- tablished their right to a new and more important industrial status. They bullt ships, they operated mu- nition factories, they learned to per- form the heaviest and most difficult | tasks; they tilled the fields. fllled the offices, largely conducted the hospi- tals and even served as most useful auxiliaries to forces on the battle field. Not 2s a boon, but as a duty full partnership in the conduct of political affairs was conferred upon | them. All this has inevitably worked a profound change in the relation of woman to the Social and political or- ganization. We may approve it or disapprove it, we may view it with satisfaction or with misgiving, but | the fact is before us that woman has taken a new place in the community. And just as her participation in the industrial sphere expands, so her rolations to the home and its inter- est 15 necessarily contracted. Whether we account it wise or otherwise, we must_recognize that the tendency is to take the modern mother more ‘and more away from the control, the training, the Iintellectual guidance and spiritual direction of her chil- dren. The day nursery, and after that the kindergarten, begins to care for her children in the earliest years; after that come the public school, the high school, the college and the unlversity, taking over from her more and ‘more of the responsibility ang influence over the children. We may _entertain the old-fashioned prejudices against this development, but we are compelled to recognize all our misgivings, woman | we | must be attended by a fitness to em- to give the children so far as possible the privileges of a home atmosphere which will supplement the advan- tages of mere education and train- fng. Tt must be made possible for the mothers to familiarize them- selves with the problems of the people, the school superintendents, the college authorities, the health and sanitation officials. 'In short, the mothers must be placed in such po- sition that despite their obligations outside the home they shall not have to surrender their domestic respon- sibility, Rather, means must be found” to enable 'them, through the varied instrumentalittes which soclety affords, to equip themselves for the better discharge of their responsi- bility toward the children of the land. ‘Wil Better Conditions. Through such effort as this thers will be opportunity for a great serv- ice. Those mothers Wwho have the advantage of the best material and intellectual opportunities will, if th. make the most of these advantage: help greatly to improve the condi- tions of children that come from familles and homes less fortunately situated. They will be able to help in lifting up the poorer, the less for- tunate children to a higher level The mother who tirelessly seeks rightly to train her own children, to instill Into them that indefinable es sence which we know as good breed- ing, will be performing this service not alone for her own children, but in only less measure for the children who come from homes less blessed with the finer things of life. Herein is the supreme advantage of the pub- lle school system. I have never been able to find much satisfaction in the good fortune of familles who, when they are able to do it, prefer to take their children out of the public schools and give them the doubtful advantage of more exclusive educa- tional methods. 1 think we should cling to the democracy of the public schools. The teacher, and the authorities back of her, must be equally ready to co-operate 'with the home and the mother. In the home must still be performed the duty of Instilling into the child those fundamental concepts of religlon and of faith which are es- sential to rightly shaping the char- acter of citizens, and therefore of the nation. It would be an irreparable mistake If, In surrendering to so- clety a larger responsibility for the child’s intellectual and physical well being, we should forget the necessity for proper religious training. That duty must be performed in the home; it will always be pecullarly the duty of a mother. Mankind never has stood more in need than it does now of the consola- tions and reassurances which_derive from a firm religious falth. We are living in a time of many uncertainties, of weakened faith in the efliciency of institutions, of Industrial systems, of economic hypotheses, of dictum and dogma in whatever sphere. Yet we all know that there are certaln fundamental truths of life and duty and destiny which will stand eternal, through the evolution and the revolution of eystems and socleties founded by mankind. There must be no mistake whereby we shall contuse the things which are of eternity with those which are of time. We must not let our engrossment with the things of matter and mind distract us from a proper concern for those which are of the spirit and the soul. It must be kept ever in mind that the higher and finer attributes of humanity will rarely be developed from a human seedling planted in a soil adapted chiefly to the production of that which is seifish and sordid, in which it will be forced by special circumstances to struggle unduly for the bare continuance of existence. We will not grow strong minds in unsound bodies nor may we hope that illuminated souls will often seek habitation in human frames weak- ened and tortured by disease and mal- nutrition. To an astounding and alarm- ing certainty it has been demonstrated that a large proportion of school chil- dren, and even of adults, suffer from undernourishment. I may congratulate you that there is little of it in the west. Perhaps it is true that as to most of the adults the fault is of the individual rather than society, Whether that be true or not, we can at least agree that the children are not to be blamed for their share in such misfortunes. If society has permitted the development of a éystem under which the citizens of tomorrow suffer these deprivations to- day, then the obligation is surely upon soclety to right the wrong and to insure Justice to the children who are not re- sponsible for being here. Do Not See Evils. But we cannot expect to bring full justice, full equality of circumstanc and opportunity to the children un- less we shall make it possible for the parents. We are all too much given, I suspect, to a rather unthink- ing_admiration for our highly mechanized social system under which have so abundantly produced wealth and the possibilities of com- fort and culture, We have not thought enough about the evils attendant upon the great Inequities which mark the distribution of our stupendous product. But we are coming into a time when more and more we are giving thought to these things. Our satisfaction in the material achieve- ments of our industrial age is be- ing qualified as it never was be- fore by our questioning along these lines. We are thinking of the weak er links in the social chain. We be- lieve the equality of opportunity brace it. ‘War Broadening. Here, again, the War Was respon- sible for a great broadening of our social vision. It made its demand upon the highest and the lowest, the proudest and the humblest. It de- manded a_sacrifice that was just as great in the case of the poor man as the rich man. What was more, it brought a realization of the fact that men and women were of real service to the community just in pr portion as they were capable of pro- ducing the things that were needed. So the workers, the builders, the producers attained a new sense of their dignity and importance. Contemplating its supreme crisis, the community was willing to render to those who were capable of serv ing it effectively in this juncture, al greater share of their product than they had formerly been accustomed to recelve. Wages, the world over, went to new high levels, salaries and fixed incomes shrank to lower levels of actual exchange value. There was a leveling up from the lower strata and downward from the higher. On the whole, despite many instances of injustice and of maladjustment in this process, its resylts marked a long advance on the road to equity and justice as among all elements of the community. A few years of clvi- lization's desperate grapplp with destiny brought to the working masses of the world an aggregate betterment of conditions, a general improvement of circumstances and opportunity, which otherwise would have been possible only through the slow processes of generations. that under modern conditions a large and Increasing proportion of women are bound to be at the same time mothers in the home and industrial producers or professional workers outside the home, or else they must be denleq the service and responsi- bility of motherhood. Relations Modifled. Frankly, I am one of those old- fashioned people who would be glad it the way could be found to main- tain the traditional relations of father, mother, children and home. But very plainly these relations are in process of a great modification. The most we can do, to the utmost possible extent, is to readapt our conditions of industry and of living %0 as to enable the mothers to make the utmost of their lessened opp: tunity for shaping the lives and minds of their children. We must hope, and we must make it possible, that mothers will not assume, when their bables of yesterday become the schoolboys and schoolgirls of to- day, that the responsibility of the mother is ended, and that the teacher, the school authorities, the college, the state, will henceforth assunie it. Rather, we must recognize that no other influence can possibly be sub- stituted for that of motherhood, and we must make it possible for the mothers ‘to co-operate with these social institutions of the mew order, Will Keep Advantages. We know now that the advances which were thus effected in the di- rection of social justice and economic equality will not be relinquished ‘without determined opposition. There were those who, regarding the in- justices of the old order as inevita- ble, mistakenly assumed that by a simple process which they called the eflation of labor” the old relation- ships would presently be restored. They insisted that “wages mus come down”; some of them went 8o far as to sound the slogan that “organ- ized labor must be crushed.” These have forgotten the lesson in organi- zation, in co-operation, in community of sacrifice, by which civilization had been able to rescue itself. They had forgotten that the right.of organiza- tion, and of co-operative dealings, is not any longer the special preroga- tive of management and of capi! The right of men, and brains, and skill, and brawn, to organize, to bar- gain through organizations, to se: lect their own leaders and spSkes- men, is no whit less absolute than is the right of management and of capi- tal to form and Work through those great concentrations of interests which we call corporations. 3 Labor Backs Itself. Labor, indeed, is fast becomiag one EIA’I‘UfiDAY, of the great bullders of capital. ‘Whether it concentrates its savings by depositing-them in its own banks, of which the number is rapidly in- creasing, or pool m with the gen- eral savings of 'y by making it deposits in other banks, the result is the samu Laber is more and more coming to be the financier and backer of its own employment. We shall not 8o back to the time when consider- able elements in the community were wont to assume that a sharp line of demarcatian should be drawn between labor and cmpital. Labor is becoming more and more a capitalist on its own account, and capital is more and more discovering that it must work, must contribute, must give us, through some superiority of method and man- agement, a justification for its exist- ence a ‘soxt of meparate estate. Those to whom the management and investment of capital is Intrusted must recognize, as I know most of them already do, that the right of or- ganization, and the title to those spe- cial efficiencies which come to or- ganization, is not ‘the exclusive pre- rogsative of capital.. It is equally the prerogative of labor. 1 am quite aware that there wei some who imagined, before the pre ent administration was voted into re- sponsibility, that it was going at least to acquiesce if not definitely sympathize with projects for the de- flation of labor and the overthrow of labor organizations. Before this time these have come to realize their arror. Nothing has been farther from the purpose of the present administration than any thought of destroying the right of either labor or capital to or- ganize, and each to deal In its or- ganized capacity. Tells of Efforts. We have recognized that there are evils and abuses on both sides of the almost imaginary line which now is presumed to separate labor and capi- tal. We have wished and sought to minimize these abuses, through, better organizations and better understinding, without —destroying organizations or the right to form them. We have not wished to compel men to work when they did not want to work; we have not wished to compel employers to keep men at work under conditions which were impossible; but we have earnestly sought to lessen the occa- sions for conflict between the two parties. We have tried to brlng to both of them a realization that both owed in this connection an obligation to the great public interest which is always the great sufferer by reason of their conflict. In this connection let me say quite frankly that I know there were some elements which hoped for a great and decisive conflict between organized em- ployment and organized labor, and that JUNE 30, 1923. those elements were not all on either side of the imaginary dividing line. On the capital side of the line were those who hoped that the administration would lend itself to their program of breaking down organized labor and sending it back to the era of individual bargaining for the individual job. On the labor side of the line were those who hoped, by exorbitant demands and an’ attitude of yncompromising insis- tence, to force the nationalization of some of our most important industries and services. Between these two ex- treme groups, confident we had behind us the overwhelming public opinion of the nation, we have tried to hold the scales even; to prevent on the one side the destruction of organized labor, and on’the other side to frustrate those pro- grams which Jooked to the ultimate de- struction of “private capital and the nationalization of all the instrumentali- ties of production. Have Thwarted Extremists. How well have we succeeded? At least, we have saved the nation from thé extremdsts of both sides. Those who were sure that our salvation lay in the destruction of organized labor and the precipitated reduction of wages have found that the national administration was not disposed to acqulesce in their program. For many months past they have noted that the demand for labor was greater thun the supply; t! instead of milllons of men out of jobs, there ere tens of thousands of jobs with- out workers; that instead of a sharp and progressive reduction of labor's wage, there has been now for a long time a stead: increase in that wage. On the other side, those who would have been glad to drive the country Into an indu; trigl crists through tl'e stoppage - production, and tc force the na- tlonalization or communization of industry, have been equally disap- rointed in the outcome. ‘Was Sound Judgment. I belleve our pclicy, and its r sults, have reflected the sound judg- men® of the overwhelming majority ¢f the American people. 1 belleve this people is firmly and finally com- mitted to the ideal of preservirg the fullest rights of private initiative and private enterprise, together with the right of organization on both sides of the line between capital and labor, and always consistent with the right cf the public to be served efficlently and at a reasonable cost. We have come thus far, and thus fortunately, through the most difm | cult period of reconstruction that we have ever known. We have been | sheltered against the world storm of tendency to social revolution. The best test of policy is by results. By continuing, persistent | I | \Deflation of Labor Prevented by G. O. P., Says President fair and reasoned verdict on our pro- gram. We ask that its results be compared with the showing, in these after-war years, that can be pre- sented by any other country on the face of the earth. We ask that you examine the contrast, thoughtfully and seriously, between the general state of the public weal in this coun- try and In others. For our vindica- tion, we point to a great nation, its credit preserved, Its industries crowd- ed to the point of capacity preduc- tion, Its people employed, its wage scales high beyond all comparison with any other in the world, its banking system standing as the final bulwark of sound money and the gold standard and its average level of comfort und prosperity unexam- vled among the races of men. Cites Russian Example If T could make the fortunate pic- ture stand out by offering contrast, I would speak of Russia and the colos- sal failure of its mad experiment, “The dissatisfied working forces of America, where there are such, and the parlor theorists who have yet to create a single thing useful to aspir- ing human kind, will find there less of freedom, much less of reward, and little of hope in much proclaimed emancipation. Royal absolutism has been destroyed, only to be superseded by what appears to be despotism in the name of democracy. To a limited few of democracy’s advocates has come vast power. Perhaps wealth at- tends. Undoubtedly a new Russia is in the making, and there is no doubt the present sponsorship will survive. Apart from the tragedy of it all, I am glad Russla is making the experi. ment. If twenty centuries of the Christian era and its great story of human progress, and the countless centuries before the light of Christi- anity flamed have been lived and re- corded upon mistaken theorles of a righteous social order, then every thing is wrong, Christianity a failure, and all of civilization a faflure. I think Russia is going to rivet anew our bellef in established soclal order. Meanwhile we know ours is the best the world has revealed, and I preach the gospel of holding fast to that which has proven good, ever trying in good conscience to make it better, and consider and treat as an enemy every man who chooses our land as a haven in which to assail the very institutions which shelter him. There are two phases of the com- mitment of the great human family. It is of lMttle use to advance unless we hold to the advanced position. It is useless to construct unless we pre- serve. In the recognized test which our civilization i{s now undergoing America’s supreme task is one of preservation. 1 call upon America to that test we ask no more than a!protect and preserve. DRY AGENT DENES LQUOR PURCHASE Charges Evidence Against Couple Due to Police {/ Frame-Up. 1 The unexpected happened in Police Court yesterday during the jury trial of Charles Ehlers and his wife, Mrs. May Ehlers, charged jointly with sals and illegal possession of corn whisky, when Zach Hill, government agent, took the stand and declared that he had never before scen either Mr. op Mrs. Ehlers and that the whole prosccution was a frame-up by the police. This testimony of the gov- ernment's most important witness, who was supposed to relate how he had bought four times from the de- fendants, brought forth from the jury a verdict for acquittal. The case yesterday was made out upon information by Lieut. Wilson, Sergt. McCormick ~and Detective Brown, who raided the defendant's residence, 1224 Kennedy street, on the night of January 19, 1923, when it was alleged they seized twenty-threo half-gallon jars of corn whisky. Pre- vious to this raid a search warrant had been made out and amdavits signed on the grounds that four sales had ‘been made by Ehlers fo Zac) 111, | Hill declared on the witness stana that he had not signed his name t)) | the afidavit upon which the search | warrant had been issued and that the police making the rald had threat ened to do him bodily harm If he di not make good in purchasing whisk | from Ehlers. The police emphaticalls denied all the charges against them. Assistant District Attorney Thomas E. Lodge conducted the prosecutio for the government, and Attorne Robert L Miller represented the d-- fendants. Ehlers was a former men - ber of the metropolitan police force | | MACDONALD ELECTED. - | _ LONDON, June 30.—J. 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