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Show AMERICA FiDND MOST WASTEFUL NEW YORK. Dec. 8 "To the world at largo the United States has lon appeared the most wasteful Station on earth," asserted Lewis E. Plcrson, president of the Men bants' itssocla-tlon itssocla-tlon of New York, to the National convention of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents today. Supporting his statement with statistics sta-tistics gathered by the Hoover committee com-mittee on waste. Mr. Pierson said that an annual loss through waste in five leading Industries In this country reached a total of approximately $1.-105.000.000. $1.-105.000.000. Another $o00.000.000 was lost annually by American investors in bucket shops and fraudulent stocks. Comparing forms of government. Justice William li. Riddell, of the- supremo su-premo court of Ontario, asserted that Canada was more representative- than the United States, since in Canada the ministry is responsible to the p. ople and removable at the will of tho majority. ma-jority. "So Canadians are naturally born kickers " he said. "God help the nation na-tion WhOSe people see ;i V . l boten' Mf,'n and obey lt. Von know what happened happen-ed to the: nation w here the people did lt" |