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Show I SENATOR HARDING I PROPOSES WELFARE I , , POST IN CABINET I TeRs 12,000 Women He Favors , Department In Defense of I Mothers, Childhood and I Public Health. I ' TO ADVANCE SOCIAL JUSTICE. I Emphasizes Need of Safeguard- 1 kig Women on American Farms. i Stands for Enforcement of Law Marion, "a The creation of a Fed ml Department of Public Welfare to function In defenie of maternity, child hood and public health was proposed by Senator Harding In a tpeech on to dal Justice to 8,000 women who came Bt Ma front porch from all point of (ft compass. Such a department, said Senator Harding, must "ovoid tho fearful re alts of bureaucracy. There can be Bo more efficient way of advancing n kumanltorlan program," he said, "tlinn By adapting; the machinery of our Federal Fed-eral Government to the purposes we 'desire to attain. While others may liave their eyes fixed upon some particular par-ticular plcco of legislation or more par-ocular par-ocular policy of social Justice which calls for tbo sympathetic Interest of us 'all, I m, without hesitation, that ur primary consideration must be the machinery of administration, and that when tbe time comes for us to re- organize our administrative govern .Pint In Washington we must all stand Itolithtr hi the, creation of a Depart-UnT Depart-UnT of Public WeTftrT,l!y -- "I pledge myself today," he said, "to . .fvpport with all that la la me whatever f , practical policy of social welfare and 'odal Justice can be brought forward By the combined wisdom of all Amerl-J4s.nl Amerl-J4s.nl Nothing can concern America, ftnd nothing can concern me as an 'American, mora deeply than the kealth, tbt happiness and tbe enllgbt-tjaunent enllgbt-tjaunent of every fellow American, j Must Avoid Paternalism. "The sodal Justice that I cencelve la ot paternalism. It would be easy to make It so, and dangerous Indeed to the beat spirit that Americans can have the spirit of expressing by the Individual free will one's own merits, capacity and worth, We do not want 1 government to suppress that expression expres-sion of free will, even by benevolence, but we do mean tq preserve In America Ameri-ca an equal opportunity and a pre- paredneaa for relf-expresston therein, eeji though we use the government to do It. "I believe that thero Is tie step more practical, no step which will mean SBore to the growth of America's social so-cial welfare; no step which will guarantee guar-antee better Amerlca'a social Justice, than one which I propose to you. .. , Dinger to Be Avoided. . $5 "1 have no'doabV that there will be" "- tome wh6 will find In this proposal v cause for calling me an extremist, but when we hno a task to do, which lis Been dictated by our conscience and. pprovod by our wisdom, let us Straightway And the way to do It I v 'V net say this without a word of autlon. I recognize certain dangers Which are always presented when gov-, gov-, ajrntnent undertakes large and detailed tasks." Tasks f Social Justlos. i ' Senator Harding pointed out the Necessity of going forward upon a i. sure footing and declared: ' "When making the proposal" for a department of ' publfc ' welfare" to fi America, I am aware that I have made . a step tn advance of any platform. 7 "We all know that we fare tasks of I social Justice, which we mustjonder- i tnke with dispatch and efficiency. Who can suggest one of th'eso tasks which . cun supersede tn our hearts, er In the K rank which foresight and wisdom will I give ttat of the protection of our ma- ' ternlty? I " "The protection of the motherhood I of Amcrlcn can not Tie accomplished . antll the state and the nation have en acted and, by their example, have enforced en-forced customs, which protect .womanhood .wom-anhood Itself. I 'know full weir, that there are women who Insist that worn on shall be treuted upon the fume basis that men are treated." , Senator Harding discussed the need - of adequate protection for women In Industry and expaed his belief In the wisdom of an eight-hour day for Women workers. lie emphasized the Bted of safcguaidlng the women on American farme. Ue proposed putting the Children's Buretiu under the suggested sug-gested Department of Public Welfare, I and urged prevention of abuses of i child labor. I "I must not fall," Senator Hnrdlng went on, "to spealt to you today of one of the measures of social Justice and .social welfare not often cutulogued In tthls manner, but perhaps moro Important Impor-tant than uny we have considered. I ' refer to the enforcement of law. It tmJ will not he ray business when elected 'WJ to decide what laws slinll be. It will ft bu logltlmate for me to Invoke public J opinion for tholr enactment, but audi 3a call to public opinion must be based 'moro upon tho duty of the executive of the nation to give facts to the peo-iple peo-iple than upon his desire to glo opln-lon, opln-lon, theory and propaganda. The en Iforcement of the Inw Is nn Executive irtvsponslblllly and must he under Jtnken by the Executive without regard (for hi personal approval or tllsap proval of the Inw, which It has been the people's will to enact." " .. - iiiiiSQij-iJWWBg J . |