PRESIDENT HARDING.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1921, Page 5

PRESIDENT HARDING.

SIX MONTHS’ ADMIN, ISTRATION. LEGACY OF WASTE. FROM HIS PREDECESSOR. By Telegraph.— Press Assn.— Copyright. Received September 7, 8.35 p.m. Washington, Sept. 7. President Harding, replying to a letter from Senator McCormick congratulating him on his administration accomplishment of six months in office, reviews some of the measures passed by Congress, dealing with immigration, the Budget, reform, farmers’ credit, etc., and stresses the problems with which the Administration was faced as the result of Mr. Wilson’s handiwork—namely, hundreds of millions of dollars spent for the manufacture of aircraft, artillery, ammunition and merchant vessels; yet less than 200 American-made aeroplanes and 200 cannon ever went into action at the front, while less than one per cent, of the ammunition used by the American artillery was of American manufacture, and less than fifty soldiers were carried in vessels built by the Shipping Board. President Harding adds that his Administration has made peace, and confidently hopes that after the thirty-day recess Congress will adopt the tariff and taxation measures, including the permission for funding the Allied debt, with arrangements for the debtors to begin paying interest. The President concludes by surveying the national situations as a whole. “It is plain,” he said, “that we are working our way out of a welter of waste and prodigal spending at a most jmpressive rate. I have all the assurances that thoughtful men and women appreciate what has been accomplished, and will sincerely support my efforts in yet more achievement along the same lines.”—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.