Show wo we tire lit in favor of selling prance and I 1 nil lit the airplanes they nui call pay cash for on oil the subject of investigations there 19 another phase biase that rates more than just a sidelight side light liblit it concerns a brand new plan being perfected by the liberal element of the administration designed to fill in tile the breach between where the constitution ution leaves oft off and the desires of the liberals begin for some years now the liberal wing has been blocked in some of its ambitious efforts by tile the simple tact filet that there la Is a constitution mid coulta to interpret it what bothered tills flits group was that the interpretation could coll id not be made mad a flexible enough to in effect put a bunn ind in ill jail just because lie he was opposed d to this plan or that to ro this bothersome situation the flit liberal planners tire are going to bring tile the expedient of in into play if evidence ell cannot nOt be found to prosecute a troublesome taxpayer on oil a legal charge ili aiRe a special branch of one of tin the government go eminent departments will simply keep keel ill the taxpayer under investigation washington Is worrying nowadays about about bad words not the profanity sometimes g occasioned by n rapidly climbing thermometer but bad words from an economic point of view lw it all started when one of tile the new deal advisers with time on oil his hands prepared a confidential memorandum for the use of witnesses ses appearing before congressional committe the 1110 list of good and bad words Is to aid witnesses in presenting their testimony so that cl current government activities now in ill the doghouse ot of public opinion will appear in a better light thus witnesses are cautioned never never to speak of government gon spending pending call it government illing expenses or government plat pint the word wizard advises and dont use the ugly word debt cn call it investment I 1 tuli this fascinating word game has spread as far us as the state department now which wants to do away with ft ath all references to unfavorable trade balances in favor of the term export balance pulling ing words instead of wool over ner the publics eyes offers many interesting possibilities but the individual el citizen at any rate would enjoy only a brief spell of trying to maintain an export balance for a bank account or try ins to sell the milkman on tile the idea that lit his bill was merely a an n investment before lie was rudely awakened to tile the fact that words are really leally supposed to mean what they ny ay after all J those who argue that the profit motive should be taken out of business and industry should remember that that is what la Is the matter in a depression no one la Is making any profit it has been truly said that there never was a piece of printing done that sonie some one would not do cheaper and poorer with only 6 per cent of the worlds population the united santes has more than telephones or about one half the telephones benjamin franklin was the first person to use a lightning rod lit he installed one on oil his house lit hi 1752 |