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Show "I am a Progressive, but I Favor Retaining the Things That Are Good" By ALVA B, ADAMS, New U. S. Senator From Colorado. ' I'T MAY be that government ownership and control is the solution of the transportation problem, but I believe a further test of private ownership of the railroads, with continued' government supervision, . . should be made. I favor the repeal of the Esch-Cummins law creating the railroad labor board. It has not worked well. It has served as a source of irritation irrita-tion among railroad men rather than as a means of soothing them. Its mission, is good, but the results are not good because neither side u committed to abide by the decisions of the board. , I am in favor of law enforcement, and that applies to the Eighteenth amendment I am in sympathy with most of the economic purposes of the farm bloc, but I do not think blocs should exert their influence to the detriment detri-ment of the whole, and I doubt their wisdom and propriety. I am in favor of an adequate and effective line of defense. We ought to be better prepared than we were in 1917. I am in sympathy with arms limitation in a general way, and in favor of anything that will make far more improbable, but I think the arms limitations treaty is less flective than the league of nations plan for preventing conflict. The international policies of Senator LaFollette and those who agree with him do not meet my approval. I am a progressive and I believe in eliminating the bad things in our government, but I em in favor of retaining the things that are good. . The government should stop child labor of the kind that stunts the child's growth. The government should prevent working conditions insanitary in-sanitary or destructive of the moral or physical welfare of the worker. Especially among women a far greater hazard of evil results from low j wage rather than from long hours. The preservation of peace is of far greater importance than the success of political parties, and if the President and his party can promote world peace I shall bo glad to support their efforts. I hope the senate will give its consent to membership in the International Court of Justice. |