Show QUOTES COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS BY NATIONAL characters ACCEPTING IMPORTS by GEORGE N PEEK special adviser to the president M MUCH lias has been said as to the necessity of accepting imports as a matter of national policy I 1 agree completely with this point of law but I 1 believe that we should decide for ourselves what imports we will III take and in what quantities and from froin what countries in exchange for the goods we choose to send abroad la in my opinion this can best be determined by making individual arrangements with individual JD dIvIdu aI nations country by country rather than through attempting to apply some blanket formula such as a horizontal reduction of our tariffs whether that be accomplished through general tariff legislation or through generalizing tariff concessions granted under the trade agreements act we have been brought up on protection it if we are to abandon any measure of that pr protection 0 it should be only in exchange for tangible advantages to us to pursue this policy of selective exports and imports it will be necessary tor for us to abandon the unconditional most favored nation policy adopted under the hording harding administration and to return to the traditional amerlean american policy of extending conditional most favored nation treatment only which prevailed from to 1022 CHILD LABOR AMENDMENT by WILLIAM D guthrin member of the new york bar THE HE vital and far reaching question confronting the conscience of the american people and the grave responsibility facing if the I 1 e several state legislatures are to determine whether an amendment to the constitution of the united states should be ratified which would inevitably tend to undermine our federal system of sovereign and independent states and impair our heretofore cherished right to total local self government aud and which would transfer to congress and bureaucrats in washington the control of the future of all american children and of all youths under eighteen 3 oars cars of age in other words conscientious ious prudent and patriotic americans ought to ponder deeply before it Is too late whether Nh other they will abandon so important and intimate a field of home rule and have their children placed under the tutelage and control of bureaucrats in ID washington who as aa things are now drifting would probable be dominated or controlled by the american federation of labor and the labor unions BUSINESS IMPROVING by JAMES PARLEY FARLEY postmaster general central DESPITE E SPITE the gloomy views of people who f for 0 r one reason or another are uncomfortable under present condition sor who feel bound to find fault with whatever la Is done by the administration this country Is getting along pretty well business Is the railroads the department stores in fact every considerable industry reflect the adnice the job of course Is not half done but it will mil be done in a shorter time than most of you anticipate it if the country does not listen to the voices of the alarmists alarmiste alar mists who seem to think that they are performing a service to themselves and a nd to the nation generally generall Y by searing scaring people without regard 1 I to the plain and available facts of the situation threatened INFLATION by THU THE LI BErtTY LEAGUE ting THE E treasury has been borrowing huge sums so easily that there is an inclination illation to think nothing of two billions more or less in the last fiscal year the deficit was four billions in the he current year it will be close to five billions and in the next nest fiscal year almost as much to add more than two bil billions llor to the deficit of this jear bear or next increases the danger that the treasury finally will be compelled to turn to inflationary financing methods no nation dation can continue to roll up tip large deficits year after year without encountering trouble A FREE PRESS by LOUIS WILEY the new york times time T samerica TA HE fact that the press of 0 america merica is free and independent makes its service so important and valuable to the public an and 41 loie advertiser A free press Is the only press in which the people repose confidence and falth faith they believe all the news in a tree free press they are guided by its editorial expression they are in 1 fluen ced by its advertising NATIONAL RESOURCES by JOSEPH W BYRNES speaker of 0 the house THE HE great national resources of this country area are a heritage which we of this generation should hand down to our posterity with as little impairment as possible I 1 some I 1 ome of 0 these we may say it to our shame already have been squandered and ahli malt malts s it nil all the more imperative that we preserve or restore what hat Is left |