Roosevelt Standard | 1919-07-23 | Page 1 | No Excuse Now

NO EXCUSE NOW INOW come back here were the shrill yr or ei e ahat that overtook a crippled argonne e hero as he hobbled I 1 from rom a chicago drugstore drug store where lie he had purchased his favorite bunto bunion n pads d S to ease his remaining foot wrecked when fighting huns in the trenches ile he had deposited the regular price stamped on the box 25 cents you come across with two cents more to meet the luxury war tax on corn pads for crippled soldiers he was told and as the hero down tor for the extra brownies he was heard to mutter something familiarly similar to what sherman denominated war american economical even the children are taxed on every stick of candy they buy and ice cream they eat during the rush ot of war and necessity for raising money rapidly the passage of this act can be excused but there is no excuse now for failure to change this nagging tax