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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union. EJNCLE SAM PLAYS SANTA CLAUS UNCLE SAM Is playing international interna-tional Santa Claus in a big way, I many times greater than in World j War I. Aside from the billions Sen- i ator Butler says we have donated to our South American cousins, we are ; slated to give an oil development to ' Canada that has cost American tax payers close to $150,000,000. In Iceland Ice-land we are to pull out the day the war ends and leave airfields and ather developments that have cost as many millions. That same thing Is true in French and Egyptian Africa. Af-rica. In the Near East we have (milt airfields, roads and railroads, all to be donated to foreign governments govern-ments when the war is over. The Santa Claus acts of World War I were but piker stuff as compared with what merry old Uncle Sam is doing this time. WAR EFFORT 4ND WORK STOPPAGES THE MINER WHO DIGS the fuel Dr the mineral from the earth, the railroad employee who transports war material, the workman in the j steel mills and the factories who i transforms materials into planes, -.ariks, gins, ships and all the equipment equip-ment needed for war, and the pro-iucer pro-iucer of food that makes the war effort possible, are all soldiers in the common cause of preserving ! merican freedom. Our armed ; forces have done, and are doing, iheir job. Those who produce food lave done their full part. The same :annot be said for all of the others who are essential to winning a war, the purpose of which is the preservation preser-vation of their liberties. It is hard i for those who are doing their part i to 'See why those who, for personal j gain, would block or retard the war i effort, should be coddled and pam pered as striking labor has been. WOMEN GET A NEW ; VICHE IN INDUSTRY ; WE MAY NOT REAP perceptible j aew ideals from war, but each one 1 m which we engage changes, to a j perceptible extent, our social ideas, f ! The result of the present war will Jive to women a radically enlarged place in industry. The nation's de- S tnand for women workers In war in- S lustries will mean woman's de- j i inands for industrial jobs when war i j production is over. A survey made y the Family Economic bureau of I ihe Northwestern Life Insurance ! :ompany, shows two out of each ihree women who now have jobs in war industries insist on continuing on an industrial payroll when peace :omes. Sixty-nine per cent of the married women now holding war : jobs, say they want postwar jobs. It all adds up to a need for more i factory jobs than we havet ever Blown before, and more competition I lor men workers. SMASHING STRIKES &GAINST GOVERNMENT ' CALVIN COOLIDGE, as governor I jf Massachusetts, squashed a police itrike in Boston as a strike against ihe government. That action made Calvin Coolidge President of the United States. In war time what is strike of coal miners, railroad employees, workers in an airplane lactory, shipyard or other plant or mdustry engaged in production for war purposes? They are strikes Igainst the government at a crucial lime. They might be the cause of lefeat for our armed forces and be ihe cause of a heavy loss of soldiers ; ind sailors lives. The man who, by Irastic measures if necessary, will Hut a stop to such strikes in war lime will enshrine himself in the learts of all loyal American citizens 1: ' TAXES CAN REACH i MAXIMUM THAT THERE IS A POINT at vhich high income and inheritance taxes can produce a diminishing tax return for the government was dem-jnstrated dem-jnstrated in the early twenties. In 1922, President Coolidge recommended recommend-ed to congress that the then maximum maxi-mum rate of 46 per cent be reduced to a maximum of 25 per cent. Con-jress Con-jress acted on that recommenda-f recommenda-f 'ion. Within three years the total :ollected had materially increased, rhe difference between 25 and 46 per cent had gone back into industry ;o create more jobs, produce more lommodities and increase the national na-tional income. Fifteen states are asking for a constitutional amendment amend-ment that would limit the national .ncome tax rate to a maximum of !5 per cent. A LARGER PERCENTAGE of I the boys and girls of rural commu- nities make good in the home town than in the large cities. It is place of opportunity. PRODUCE THE TOOLS the farmer farm-er must have to plant and harvest lis crops. Provide the fertilizer he must have to make them grow. Cut jut the bureaucratic red tape handicaps handi-caps so he can get these onto his (arm, and he will produce the crops chat will mean no one will be hungry, hun-gry, and that will put a quietus on :he black markets. Food is a firs? essential of war. WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO ioes not get you anywhere. It is what you do that counts. |