Show released by western newspaper union NO TIME FOR foil profiteering IN CRISIS BECAUSE OF the world war in 1917 the government needed quantities of paper trainloads train loads of it the president of one of the large paper m mills ills was called on the phone and vold told the dally daily quantity th that at would be needed that will take the complete ca opacity of this mill he said wo we are now operating at capacity on commercial orders we will stop all our commercial business and turn our entire production over to the government on the on one a condition that both the government a and d ourselves put cost experts on tho the job and the government accept as aa a price the figures of the experts which show tho the lowest cost we will supply the paper but will not do so at a penny of profit to our scia selves s the president of that paper com pany was a german born naturalized american citizen ills people then lived in germany ile he had been a college classmate of the kai kaiser but he was first of all an amer loan lean and his company on his condl condi tion made the paper the government used throughout the war during the war I 1 was talking with the head of another company which was turning out a product the gov emment needed it was billed to the government in units but tho the orders would come in many cases for quarter or hall half units when the fractions made a complete unit the price was that for one unit but if tor for only fractions the price was proportionately higher As he tallied talked about his order he said to me I 1 1 I am going to have all of these frac lional units billed as fro fractions tractions tr it will mean more money for my company and the government will never check it up does the price you get when bill ing as complete units cover your production costs I 1 asked ile he assured me it did you have a son in france and chave 1 have a son at sea with the navy I 1 said when the government called they offered all they had T they hey did not attempt to make a profit or bargain as to price I 1 saw the moisture come to his eyes eves as he said you are right and the government will pay only the price agreed upon it covers the cost no patriotic loyal american will attempt to make a profit out of sup plying the necessities of his government when it Is at war or preparing for war that of all times Is a time for sacrifice in so far as a sacrifice flee can be made and still be in n a position to serve A SYMBOL 0 OF D DEVOTION U WAS IVAS THE HOOD TO ME ENGLAND lost more than a battleship when the germans sank the hood off the coast of greenland the hood was a symbol of the toy loy alty ally and love of english women I 1 was on board the hood when she was being constructed on the ways beside the clyde near glasgow tn in the fall of 1918 on her as workmen were several hundred english women they came from good english homes they were not wor working king because of need of wages they were working because of lone ite of england they were working so that england might win the conflict in which she and the united states were then iben engaged that work was their sacrifice to a cause it was an evidence of their love of country the hood was but one of many war projects in which english women were doing the work of men not far away other hundreds were making shells tor for use tn in american guns in france and still other hundreds were at work making cordite and nitroglycerine any nation in which the women show such devotion to their country cannot be defeated by mere male brutality the battleship hood was a symbol of that devotion INCENTIVE PLAN republican MEMBERS of the house of representatives have named a committee to ascertain what the american farmers want as a farm program what that committee should do Is to propose a farm policy that would mean a permanent solution to show the farmers how it would work to their a advantage d and to the advantage of all america it ties lies in the direction direct lon of enczur aging the farmers to do rather than payments tor for not doing the incentive plan Is on the right road and that coupled with the andersen bill now before the house would do the trick and appeal to american farmers INCOME FACTS ACCORDING to the united states treasury olour of our more than people 1274 have incomes in excess of a year of that number 43 have more than one million a year of that one million dollars the government takes in dl taxes leaving each one of the 43 a year to spend or ir to invest those 43 people have at a total gross income of if we divide it between betwee ll the rest of us it would give each per son on about 12 cents a year |