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Show a 4 O O j Harding Makes Plea For Plain Living 1 A A e sfV A A A A A A ' A I NEW ORLEANS HOST TD NEXT j 0. S. PRESIDENT Must Solve Problems at Home First, Hardinq Says in Ad dress to South ALLUDES TcTr'SE AND FALL OF PRODUCE PRICES 1 ide of Good Fortune Will Flood and Ebb," Speak er Asserts NliW mKLKANS. La., Nov. IS. I j Plain living and square dealinK were 'Invoked by President-elect Harding In I a speech here today, as the nation's strongest reliances during the period ! iof after-war readjustment ''Sanity, clear thinking rummoi: (sense, honesty and cooperation" were i among the (j polities he named as! i prime necessities in meeting the de- mands of the new world order and, ! he declared material Interests and national na-tional huppiness both would benefit lf the 1nltf.d States becomes 'a simple living people once again-" Whatever dlscourageni'-nts and re-1 'verses there have been, he declared, would be only temporary in charac-1 ter. Senator Harding's speech, delivered at a luncheon of the New rleans Association As-sociation of Commerce, also contained a message of assurance for the industrial indus-trial development of the south arid an expression of hope that the ties of. commercial cooperation with Latin-! America would be strengthened by every ev-ery possible means VIM rS M A OKI I W The address was a part of a five-hour five-hour visit to New trleans by the president-elect, who came from his vacation vaca-tion in Texas to take ship lor a v oyage to the Panama canal zone. He said in part' I believe the American people have I come to realize that We must face momentous mo-mentous problems and must race them with resolute courage and practical! wisdom and patriotic determination. If we are effective In solving ouri problems at home we shall be better able to help solye those of the world! ;ls befits our part in modern clvlll7Ji-tlon clvlll7Ji-tlon There are sure to be reverses.! Tin re will I" endless discouragements but a onfld -nt America will fac th. m with good courage And we will vvln. DIGNITY OF LABOB. "The big thing for all America to realize now and alwuys Is the dignity of productive labor. No matter how' bumble, the producers are the mak-' era of tile essentials of civilisation and : we must each and all of us, accept and discharge our duty of producing' for the world or of ministering to the tie. ds of comfort or progress of man- kind. "Ours are millions of broad acres' eager to respond to man's cultivating touch We hav e an empire and mil -1 lions more are awaiting reclamation-We reclamation-We have hot half rcvc;ded our mines1 nor measured our vvatcrpowor. We ' ar- unmatched In genius and unexcelled unex-celled In industry. We are progressive progres-sive In education. We are free in re- liglon and mean to stay free, and. mean ever lo be free in press espec-! ially We have more than the begin-, nlng of an adequate transport sv 3-teni. 3-teni. We are awakened to the possibilities possi-bilities of inland waterways and trad-i lly alert to the imperative need of ai merchant marine to widen commerce' world influence and national safety "We have been talking about the new south for a score of years and more. I would like to acclaim a Southland South-land with added good fortune and greater self-reliance through diversified diversi-fied agriculture in. I I would Ilk. in Hce a southland aflame with industry This land of raw materials ought to manufacture and locate its factories by mine and farm and orchard. There will be no Jealousy in the north because be-cause your greater glory win be glorious glo-rious victory. ''Uere we arc todayr at one of the great gateways of Latin-America Bom how I feel that the western hemisphere hemi-sphere Is our special field of influence, and trade. Commerce marks the highways high-ways of friendship as well as rivalry Our trade routes by sea to the south ought to be as dependabli OS our railway rail-way routes at home und there ought to be sufficient and reassuring Cora ity and concord among Americana south, central and north. Hind our 1 rl. ndshlp with the ties ..i 1 1- I . 1 , we shall make It indissoluble. REPUBLIC A.N NOT FAll "Our givat assurance at home lies In a virile, Intelligent, resolute people peo-ple in a land unravaged by war ,at enmity with no people n vying none, coveting nothing, seeking no territory, striving lor no glorb-a which do not I" oms righteous nation This republic re-public cannot, will not fall if each of us does his part. There has been a wild contemplation contempla-tion of earnings, whether in wages or In dividends In terms of dollar- 1. it her than In terms ot purchasing power W . must be more concerned with the substance of reward for activity than in this coin measurement And our concern must be in . dependable pros- (Contiuucd on Page Two.) I I . . l . TTC " New Orleans Host ! to Next President (Continued fsom Rage One.) perlty vthb-b is rlgbleously shared. The Udi k i Cortuni efll ever npod and ebb, w hich IK Qod'S Wai Oj teaching teach-ing us the cliMnglng titles .)()!) OH I I I I ( Hi M l.. ' No law aan sjter nalui-e or change ner varying giogdei W$ haven't ygl learned lo cointiut destruotiVa nihfr i and the law of supply and demand Isl etsrnul Hut wu may softun their rigors, and minimize tpgJ' papajiiee, wf aunt I'oriuiiR a conimon possession posses-sion In Aiuericj. We wain ths notion k : ev i-e ol the south to neve his becoming be-coming reward with the w,,ol grower and tin wlout i.iiiim-i o the north. v. wain southern factories to be tuned tun-ed to tin- nni.il' of th mills oi the north. Vff want oiu ports to semi their cargoes under ths am erica n flag to bear the mesaiigu of peat I- and good will to ill parts of (he earth. Thors Is no sectionalism in righteous American Am-erican ambitious. t is (bis wonderful wonder-ful and lfpompapgbls United Niates of America which bets our hearts aglow with becoming agpiretions and patriotic patri-otic love t"he America of the constitution, consti-tution, free and confident of the mor- low Op |