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Show To Stop War Profits Ever since the World War ' the idea has been advanced that one of the most effective means of preventing pre-venting war would be to make it impossible for anyone to make personal profits out of the exigencies exigen-cies of war. It is notorious that in every war of the past many persons have been profiteers, enriching themselves while brave soldiers ana sailors serving for a pittance, yielding up their lives or suffering from privations priva-tions and sustaining personal losses in defense of their country. Upon the iniative of the American Legion a joint reolution lias been passed by Congress and signed by the President which provides for a commission to study the problem of taking the profit out of war. The idea is that if able-bodied citizens must suffer loss and risk their lives in the national defence, capital and industry must also be pressed into service without hope of any profit whatsoever. A man rejected for military service for physical defects could not go into a municipal plant at $15 to $30 a day, working only eight hours, while his able-bodied brother served in trenches day and night for $30 a month, as happened in the late war. It is to be hoped that the new commission authorized by the recent re-cent act will be able to evolve a plan whereby these glaring injustices injus-tices of the past may be abolished for all time. |