Show REMEDY IN YOUR HANDS I I I have ha been neen asked many times anal aim particularly since this this series began What is the remedy for the con condition and situation lon of government business that you have described What can call we the a average man or woman with with- c cut ut ut Influence and with no knowledge of politics what can we do about It Well Nell the answer answer la Is that you can cnn do doer everything r e about It The rhe remedy lies wholly within your our own han hands s as I have tried t tu point out In each one of the articles that have preceded this one It Is a remedy easy to prescribe prescribe prescribe pre pre- scribe but I confess difficult to put into effect Difficult I mean menn In the sense that you will have ha to give up time from affairs to your our own engrossing private pay pay- some attention to what you OU probably probably probe ably think of as ns public affairs and a as Such Buch not concerning you ou The whole point I have to make Is that public affairs are your affairs J 1 I do not suggest that you go o Into Polities politics loll ties I do not suggest that you attend political meetings s. s I do suggest suggest sug sug- gest that you jou take an Interest a direct pl 1 Interest In the business of government as distinguished from the politics of government A part of the remedy you ask for forthe forthe forthe the conduct of the business of government govern govern- government overn- overn ment hns tins been applied when the facts und and the conditions are spread broadcast broadcast broad brond cast and made known to every tax tax- rayer Dad Bad conditions are in a u uway way to be remedied when the they become known But some hundreds of you have ha how Dow we written me and asked can help What can we do dor dof Lets Let's take a concrete case cape Congress has committed Itself to the tike policy of building twenty first class tin battleships In the next few years yet years Armed and equipped those battleships will cost In the neighborhood of ot 45 each That will make a total cost of that Is Just short of ot a billion dollars t expenditure Do you yell approve e think It wise Ise and necessary Do you vou Do you you we ought to spend pend our think we Do you money fluency that way 00 90 cent ought to spend 80 or per national Income for tor wars wan of our total past present and prospective That IK IR what we are doing If It you approve only to sit It still and have hove of at It you It of It Il say pay eRY nothing If It you disapprove I congressman know let your district con congressional You live In a send end a man and every ery two years you yon Washington to attend to your our here to business Do you yon know him public nubile here know what he Is doing Do you senators who also 10 Your Your Tour state has two If they do Do not represent you here bere 13 t i i r represent you OU HurlY fairly you can Keep them at home Whatever a majority of you ou want you ou can nave To this moment a majority have approved ed at least t by hy silence the great grent It at military exp expenditures that have he been en made from the tho money you have paid pahi In taxes tuxes If now flow you have come to the conclusion that lint It Is too much you yon have only to tn say so Do you Ou realize that this conference on the limitation of armament which President Harding called arose fun fundamentally out of ot the circumstance all of the so called bl big nations are fire pa paying more than the they can afford to pay h by wa way of preparation for fol war The endeavor or to find a n formula to limit armaments Is It another way wary ny of swing that the nations are tr trying to find a a way aJ to save e money Since the war aI the great reat powers are arc all nil beyond their means mean All An of them arcIn are arc In debt All of th them m except ourselves owe oe more than the they can par In all of them Including the United l States States' government go expenses ps are ore running be beyond beyond yond ond government income A nation can no more mort stand that sort of thing than a ft private person or a private business If It you will devote ote a half hour or 1111 hour every e evening to thinking shout about und and nd talking about public bu business business busi busi- l. l ne ness R you will be amazed at lit the prompt response you rIm will get If there I Is any question you OU want to a ask k write to your our COn congressman or to either one out of your our senators That will cost you O 1 two cents cent for a 8 postage stamp and It wont won't cost him him to reply for his ills letters go through h the mails free That Is one way aJ of helping to remedy condition the present |