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Show REMEDY IN YOUR HANDS I have been asked many tunes, and particularly since this series began : "What Is the remedy for the condition and situation of government business that you have described? What can we, the average man or woman without with-out Inlluence, and with no knowledge of polities, what can we do about It?'' Well, the answer Is that you can do everything about It The remedy lies wholly witblu your own bands, as I have ti'ied to point out in each one of the articles that have preceded this one. It Is a remedy easy to prescribe pre-scribe but, I confess, difficult to put Into effect. Difficult. I mean. In the sense thnt you will have to give up time from your own engrossing privute affairs to pay some attention to what you probably prob-ably think of as public affairs and. as such, not concerning you. The whole point I have to make Is tluit public affairs are your affairs. I I do not suggest that you go Into politics. I do not suggest that you 'attend political meetings. I do sug- 'gest that you take an Interest, a direct personal Interest, in the business of government as distinguished from the politics of government. ' A pnrt of the remedy you ask for the conduct of th- business of government govern-ment has been applied when the facts iind the conditions are spread broadcast broad-cast and made known to every tax-aver. tax-aver. Bad conditions are in a way " o be remedied when they become Known. Hut some hundreds of you have written me and asked: "How can we help? What can we do?" Let's take a concrete case. Oncress has committed Itself to the policy of building twenty first-clnss battleships In the next few years. Armed and equipped, thoe battleships will cost in the neighborhood of S-I.V WO.tXK) each. That will make a total cost of SiHKl.0iKi.lKJ0: that is. just short of a billion dollars. Po you approve that expenditure? Do you think it wise and necessary? Do you think we ought to spend our money that way? Do you think we ought to spend SO or Oil per cent of our total national Income for wars, past, present and prospective? That Is what we are doing. If you approve of It you have only to sit still and say nothing. If you disapprove of it. let yoir congressman know. You live In a congressional district and every two years you send a man here to Washington to attend to your public business. Do you know him? Do yon know what he Is doing here? Tour state has two senators, who also represent you here. If they do not represent you fairly, you can keep them at home. Whatever a mnjoritj of you want you can hae. To this moment a majority hnv approved, at least by silence, the great military expenditures that have beer made from the money you have paid in taxes. If now you have come tc the conclusion thnt It Is too much, yoi have only to say so. Do you realize that th.. conferencr on the limitation of nrmninent whiet President Harding called arose fnn damentully out of the circumstance, that ail of t lie so-called big nation! are paying more than they can afford to pay by way of preparation for warl The endeavor to find a formula tc limit nrmaments Is another way oi saying that the nations are trying te find a way to save money. Since tht war the great powers are all living beyond their means. All of them art In debt. All of them, except ourselves owe more than they can pay. In ali of them. Including the United States, government expenses are running beyond be-yond government Income. A nation can no more stand that sort of thing than a private person or a private business. If you will devote a half hour or an hour every evening to thinking about and talking about public business busi-ness you will be amazed at the prompt response you will get. If there Is any question you want to ask, write to your congressman or to either one of your senators. That will cost you two cents for a postage stamp, and It won't cost him anyth'ng to reply, for his letters go through the mails free. That Is one way of helping to remedy the present condition. An Arms Cache In Crater. A weapon storehouse In the Immense crater of extinct Ilaleakala. where the natives of Maui many years ago mnde their last stand aggafnst the all-con-qiierlng king of Hawaii, has been discovered, dis-covered, according to Kmi! A. Hermit. j According to lewa State College For steri Layer of Charcoal Is of Small Benefit. w st al Tests carried on by Iowa State col-ln col-ln lege foresters with fence posts thnt ta have been charred before placing their In the ground shows that these post' jjfdo not last a grer.t deal longer than ctlthose unchnrred. Although the charring char-ring places a surface ot charcoal c.n the post which Is not pleasant for In sects to penetrate, the p-,st Is dr-tnistroyed dr-tnistroyed and weakened so tint the out' er come ln the end 19 doubtful. sh |