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Show "QUOTES" COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS BY NATIONAL CHARACTERS ARMY CODE TRAINING By GEN. U R. HOLBROOK To C. M. T. C. at Camp Dlx. TAKE the "army code" book into civil life with you. If in business, seek to have all members of your company or corporation swear true faith ai.d allegiance to it that Is, be loyal to those for whom they work. Teach employers and leaders or foremen to exercise their authority with "firmness, kindness and justice" ; to settle difficulties among employees and to arrive at decisions "without fear of partiality, favor or affection affec-tion and without hope of reward." Train the employees to "obey strictly strict-ly and to execute promptly" the Instruction In-struction of those placed over them. You will be successful as you develop de-velop teamwork and apply the army code. You have come to this camp In a certain state of physical development, develop-ment, of mental keenness and of moral fitness. Your very appearance appear-ance convinces me that you leave more physically fit, more mentally alert and better prepared morally to face with confidence the problems prob-lems of the future, REVENUE TAX BILL By WARREN BARBOUR Senator From New JerBey. IN THIS country there art more than 10,000,000 stockholders stock-holders in corporations. Many of them have no other source of revenue. Many of these Investments represent the thrifty savings of a lifetime, and mostly they are In large corporations. In 103 industrial indus-trial companies alone there are nearly 4,000,000 shareholders. Are we. In a mad quest for reforming re-forming our social structure, to imperil im-peril these savings and penalize the person of small means who has invested in-vested In these corporations? There Is but one sound program for the government to folloy If we are not to further obstruct recovery and are to preserve the credit of the nation. This bill to feed $250,-000,000 $250,-000,000 into the pot of billion-dollar expenditures Is placing the cart be- fore the horse. ' The bill should be laid away until un-til the next session of congress, when the budget for the following fiscal year will be presented. NON-REVENUE TAXATION Sy PROF. CHARLES A. BEARD Prominent Historian. HUNDREDS of cases may be cited to prove that taxation tax-ation has been used since the beginning of the Republic for social so-cial and economic ends other than revenue. And except where-the end has been regulatory or prohibitory, such taxes have affected the distribution dis-tribution of wealth in American society. so-ciety. That is the cold and inescapable ines-capable fact In the case. Moreover, More-over, the Supreme court has upheld such taxation In many cases as strictly constitutional. Nor Is there anything new in President Roosevelt's suggestion that Income and inheritance taxes be employed to level down more or less great inequalities In fortune. This purpose was avowed by the sponsors of the Income Tax law of 1S04. It was understood by opponents oppo-nents of this act when it was declared de-clared unconstitutional by the Supreme Su-preme court. This purpose was avowed by President Theodore Roosevelt In 1907. COTTON POLICY By GEORGE M. MASSEY Of Manchester Ship Canal Company. WHILE the American cotton cot-ton farmer or planter has benefited by the generous loans made on cotton and the turning over of every fourth row, it Is obvious ob-vious that there Is 25 per cent less labor In the cotton fields, which means 25 per cent of cotton labor put on the unemployment allowances, allow-ances, 25 per cent less ginning operations op-erations and the same losses in cotton cot-ton to be carried by railroads and motor trucks, in cottonseed oil and oil cake, and, of extreme Importance, Impor-tance, a serious reduction In the amount of export cotton to be carried car-ried by American ships from the Gulf and south Atlantic ports to England, ships that depended to a lnrge extent upon cotton ag the most Important element of their cargo. CALL YOUR SHOTS By HERBERT HOOVER Former President. COMMON frankness requires re-quires that the administration administra-tion come forward to the people peo-ple and declare precisely wherein under our Constitution we cannot correct evils and run not prevent social so-cial maladjustments. The time has como when these full purposes should bo disclosed. The people should now be told openly open-ly the specific words of the exact amendment that these gentlemen want so that the people can consider con-sider and themselves determine It That is their right |