Show W 1 7 iya IRCle released ased by western newspaper U union n I 1 0 n NO TUME TIBIE FOR profiteering IN CRISIS BECAUSE OF the world war in 1917 the government needed quantities of paper trainloads train loads of it the president of one of the large paper mills was called on the phone and told the daily quantity that would be needed that will take the complete capacity of this mill he said we are now operating at capacity on commercial orders we will stop an all our commercial business and turn our entire production over to the government on the one condition that both the government and ourselves put cost experts on the job and the government accept as a price the figures of the experts which show the lowest cost we will supply the paper but will not do so at a penny of profit to ourselves the president of that paper company was a german born naturalized american citizen his people then lived in germany he had been a college classmate of the kaiser but he was first of all an american and his company on his condition made the paper the government used throughout the war during the war I 1 was talking with the head of another company which was turning out a product the government needed it was billed to the government in units but the orders would come in many cases for quarter or half units when the fractions made a complete unit the price was that for one unit but if for only fractions the price was proportionately higher As he talked about his order he said to me 1 I am going to have all of these fractional units billed as fractions it will mean more money for my company and the government will never check it up does the price you get when billing as complete units cover your production costs I 1 asked he assured me it did you have a son in france and I 1 have a son at sea with the navy I 1 said when the government called they offered all they had they did not attempt to make a profit or bargain as to price I 1 saw the moisture come to his eyes as he said you are right and the government will pay only the price agreed upon it covers the cost no patriotic loyal american will attempt to make a profit profi kout out ot 1 supplying the necessities of his government when it is at war or preparing for war that of au all times is a time for sacrifice in so far as a sacrifice can be made and still be in a position to serve 0 0 a A SYMBOL OF DEVOTION WAS THE HOOD TO ME ENGLAND lost more than a 2 battleship when the germans sank the hood off the coast of greenland the hood was a symbol of the loyalty loyally and love of english women I 1 was on board the hood when she was being constructed on the ways beside the clyde near glas gow in the fall of 1918 on her as workmen were several hundred english women they came from good english homes they were not working because of need of wages they were working because of love of england they were working so that england might win the conal conflict ct in which she and the united states were then engaged that work wa was s their sacrifice to a cause it was an evidence of their love of country the hood was but one of many war projects in which english women were doing the work of men not tar far away other hundreds were making shells for use in american guns in france and still other hundreds were at work making cordite and nitroglycerine any nation in which the women show such devotion to their country cannot be defeated by mere male brutality the battleship hood was a symbol of that devotion INCENTIVE PLAN republican MEMBERS of the house of representatives have named a committee to ascertain what the american farmers want as a farm program what that committee should do is to propose a farm policy that would mean a permanent solution and show the farmers how it would work to their advantage and to the advantage of all america it lies in the direction of encouraging the farmers to do rather than payments for not doing the incentive plan is on the right road and that coupled with the andersen bill now before the house would do the trick and appeal to american farmers FACTS ACCORDING to the united states treasury of our more than people 1274 have incomes in excess of a year of that number cumber 43 have more than one million a year of that one million dollars the government takes in direct taxes leaving each one of the 43 a year to spend or to invest those 43 people have a total gross income of if we should divide it between the rest of us it would give each peron aon about 12 cents a year |