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LA FOLLETTB’S RIGHT BOWER
Mr. Me Ad oo will come in for some close inspec
tion when the Democrats start cleaning their politi
cal house of the radical element. For years Mc
Adoo has been flirting with that wing of his party
and during the recent campaign came out boldly
with a gratuitous eulogy of Senator La Follette.
His government ownership schemes correspond close
ly with the radical platform. The stalwarts of the
Democratic party could heave a sigh of relief if the
McAdoo incubus were taken from them.
THE PRESIDENT AND THE WEST
The President s evident disposition to take the
needs of the west seriously is going to be very warm
ly appreciated. The agricultural conference is al
ready in session, and we now read that he is strong
ly in favor of the St. Lawrence seaway, which means
we are confident, that a satisfactory agreement will
be negotiated with Canada within a reasonable time.
The west gave Mr. Coolidge a magnificent vote
of approval and confidence, in spite of an aggres
sive organization for the political exploitation of the
western farmers’ misfortunes, and it will be encour
aging to the western people, who have been the solid
rock upon which the strength of the Republican par
ty is founded, to know that though Mr. Coolidge is
a New Englander of the New Englanders, he is an
American in the broadest sense, who can think in -
terms of our western needs and is ready to use his j
great powers to meet them. ,
The census has figured everything except what 1
percentage of our parents are men. t
An Oklahoma man has seen his wife for the first ‘
time in ten years. She must be a movie fan. i
The Pacific islanders will absorb the white man’s '
culture if the white man’s disease don’t kill him $
first.
Life is not all dark. Every once in a while the 1
wife serves something without mayonnaise dressing. -
The millennium has come. An Irishman has <
joined the Peace Conference. «
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If America does not watch out the Soviet gov- :
eminent will yet find something to declare war over, i
Governor Bone’s plan for a board to adminis- <
ter Alaskan appropriations has aroused much oppo- ]
•sition. It would be surprising if it did not. Cut
a man off from his grub bag and he will holler. Al- !
askan appropriations have been easy pickings fot* 1
the spenders for many years.
The election resulted in so few Republican lame 1
ducks that we hardly know how the appointive of- 1
fices of great trust and responsibility are going to ^
be filled.—Ohio State Journal.
Government ownership of railways is said to be :
costing the people of Canada $11 per capita annu
ally. No wonder many Canadians seek opportunity !
to remove to the United States. 1
By the time a man has been vindicated every
body has forgotten what the argument started about. 1
No doubt d’Annunzio, who retired to forget the i
world, would feel better about it if the world hadn’t 1
gave him 50-50 and forgot him too.—Macon, (Ga.) 1
Telegraph.
Consumers earnestly hope that commodity prices
will not follow the trend of the stock market.—Chi
cago News.
However hard the winter may be there’s a con
gressless summer coming.—Wall Street Journal.
UNIVERSAL DRAFT LAW
The last National Convention of The American
Legion at Saint Paul directed that the passage of
the Universal Service Act, more widely known as
the Universal Draft, be made a prime order of the
Legion business at the next session of Congress. This
session convened on December 1st. The convention
declared that the enactment into law of this measure
“will help insure our country against war and pro
vide that in any future emergency there shall be
no more slackers or profiteers and that we shall have
equal service for all and special profit for none.”
The Legion is not thus advancing to the field of
Congressional action the most far-reaching legisla
tive contest in its history without painstaking pre
liminary preparation. Such preparation is of great
importance. More frequently than otherwise it
spells the difference between victory and failure.
The Legion has been engaged for three yars prepar
ing for the time when it should launch its active
fight in the halls of Congress. It has canvassed
every aspect of the tremendously involved question
af a national military effort. It lias sought the
counsel and has collaborated with the most eminent
specialists in every branch of that subject. It has
taken advantage of independent studies made by the
War department, and these studies are still progres
sing. More than fifty specially qualified staff offi
cers have been continuously engaged in these re
searches since 1921.
The result is that the Legion sponsors a bill
which at the outset has the endorsement of the Sec
retary of War. This gives it valuable prestige for a
piece of legislation in the pin-feather stage, which
las the tedious route of progress through connnit
lees, sub-committees and conferences yet before it.
Fhe Legion bill is brief, simple, concise, explicit.
It authorizes the President in time of war or when
le deems war to be imminent:
1. To draft men for the armies, providing that
there shall be no exemptions between the ages of
of twenty-one and thirty, or such other limit as the
President may fix, on account of industrial occupa
tion.
2. To take control of “the material resources, in
dustrial organizations and services over which Gov
ernment control is necessary to the successful term
ination of the emergency.”
3. To “stabilize prices of services and all com
modities declared to be essential, whether such ser
vices and commodities are required by the Govern
ment of by the civilian population.”
Thus the so-called Universal Draft for war,
which places at the disposal of the nation manpower
or the armies, and labor and capital for the services
)t supply. Manpower for the armies is drafted as
before, except more sweepingly. The slacker loop
hole of industrial exemptions is nailed shut. “Ma
erial resources” and “industrial organizations” may
te taken over and controlled; that means capital.
‘Services” are taken over by the Government; that
neans labor. Prices of services are fixed. That
neans wages. Prices of commodities are iixea.
rhat means the price the war contractor gets for his
?oods; it means control of profits.
The bill goes even farther. It would do away
with the $15 and $20 a day munitions worker and
he $15,000 and $20,000 a day munitions contractor
—but it does not stop there. It would also clip
he wings of the soaring cost of living, which is so
‘specially hard on the great run of the public which
loes not participate in the war profits either at the
capital or labor side of the trough. Of course liv
ng costs are bound to go up in wartime and wages
ire, too. But they do not have to fly out of sight
is they did during the last war. An application
>f the economic astringents which the Legion bill
provides would take care of that. j
This is the bill upon which the Legion will be
?in its fight. It will be introduced in the Senate
)y Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas and in the
[louse by Representative Royal C. Johnson of South '
Dakota. The Legion, however, is for the realiza
ion of the principle of universal obligation and ser- ^
dee in wartime on a non-profit-taking basis, regard- {
ess of what particular bill embodies this principle. {
\side from the Johnson and Capper bills several (
)ther universal draft measures are being prepared (
or introduction, and if any of them is a better bill (
han the Capper or Johnson entries that fact will (
ioon become apparent. The Legion will support (
my measure and all measures which will bring {
my nearer the realization of its aims to take the pro- (
it out of war and put all war service on a plane (
)f equality with no price tag attached. i
The trend of informed opinion favors the Le
gion bill because it has been so thoroughly worked
)ut and because it is the result of the composit thot
md endeavor of so many persons. But, whatever
he bill, the drive for the principle has begun. It
rtdll be a great fight and possibly not a short one.
It is a fight which, before it is concluded, will call
for the support of every Legion post and of every
Legionnaire. It is a fight which offers to the Le
gion and to all who will participate exceptional op
portunities for distinguished service to the nation.—
The American Legion Weekly.
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