4 The President's Congressional Message [Continued from First Page.] based on a real community of Inter est and participation in control. "There la now in fact a real com munity of interest between capital and labor, but it has never been made evident in action. It can be made operative and manifest only in a new organization of industry. The genius of our businessmen and the sound practical sense of our work ers can certainly work such a part nership out when once they realize exactly what it is that they seek and sincerely adopt a common purpose with regard to it. Legislation An Aid "Labor legislation lies, of course, chiefly with the states: but the new spirit and method of organization which must be effected are not to be brought about by legislation so much as by the common counsel and vol untary co-operation of capitalists, manager and workman. Legislation can go only a very little way in com manding what shall be done. The organization of industry Is a mat ter of co-operate and industrial ini tiative and of practical business ar rangement. Those who really de sire a new relationship between capi tal and labor can readily find a way to bring it about: and perhaps Fed eral legislation can help more than state legislation could. "The object of all reform In this FAKE ASPIRIN WAS TALCUM I want "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" with the "Bayer Cross" —Genuine! —Safe! "You can't hand me any substitute for the true, genuine 'Bayer Tablets of Aspirin' —proved safe by millions"! "Man alive! Haven't you heard? A Brooklyn fraud is in jail for flooding the country with millions of counterfeit tablets. He labeled them 'Aspirin,' but they were 'talcum powder."' Be sure your druggist gives you "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" in a Bayer package —not in a pill box. Take them as directed, without fear, for headache, rheumatism, lumbago, neuralgia, ear ache, toothache, neuritis, colds, grippe, influenzal colds, or almost any pair or ache in, face, neck, limbs or body. Proper and safe dosage in each f \ genuine "Bayer package." Look for the safety "Bayer Cross" V Sa A both on package and on tablets. Vv |cD // Boxes of 12 tablets—bottles of 24 tod bottles of 100 Also capsules. Aspirin u (be trade mark of Bayer Uanafaetare of Moaoaceticacideater of Sahcylicaeid Small Apartments r Easily Rented HUNDREDS of houses in this city have rooms on the third floor which easily can be turned into money-makers. An extra room or two may be easily rented—there is a big demand for small apartments. You will be surprised at the small expense necessary to turn an unused attic into at tractive space. We will furnish any amount of lumber re quired. Small orders given just as careful attention as an order for a car of material. UNITED ICE & COAL CO. Lumber Department. Forster & Cowden Sts. TUESDAY EVENING, HARRIBBimG (fijf&t TELEOKAPH' MAY 20, 1919. essential matter must be the genu ine democratization of industry, based upon a full recognition of the right of those who work, in what ever rank, to participate in soma organic \vay in every directly af fect their welfare or the part they are to play in industry. Some posi tive legislation is practical. The Congress has already shown the way to one reform which should be world wide, by establishing the eight-hour day as the standard day in every field of labor over which you can ( exercise control. It has sought to' find the way to prevent child labor, and will, I hope and believe, present ly find it. It has served the whole country by leading the way in de veloping the means of preserving and safeguarding life and health in dangerous industries. It can now help in the difficult task of giving a new form and spirit to Industrial organization by coordinating the sev eral agencies of conciliation and ad justment which have been brought into existence by the difficulties and mistaken policies of the present management of industry and by set ting up and developing new Federal agencies of advice and information which may serve as a clearing house for the best experiments and the best thought on this great matter, upon which every thinking man must be aware that the future development of society directly depends. Agen cies of international counsel and sug gestion are presently to be created in connection with the League of Nations in this very field: but it is national action and the enlightened policy of individuals, corporations and societies within each nation that must bring about the actual re forms. The members of the com mittees on labor in the two houses will hardly need suggestions from me as to what means they shall seek to make the Federal government the agent of the whole nation iii point ing out and, if need be, guiding the process of reorganization and re form. Jobs For Soldiers "I am sure that it is not neces sary for me to remind you that there is one immediate and very practical question of labor that we should meet in the most liberal spirit. We must see to it that our returning soldiers are assisted in every prac ticable way to find the places for which they are fitted in the daily work of the country. This can be done by developing and maintaining upon an adequate scale the admirable organization created by the Depart ment of Labor for placing men seek ing work; and it can also be done, in at least one very great field by creating new opportunities for in dividual enterprise. The secretary of the interior has pointed out the way by which returning soldiers may be helped to find and take up land in the hitherto undeveloped regions of the country which the Federal government has already prepared or can readily prepare for cultivation and also on many of the cut-over or neglected areas which lie within the limits of the older states: and I once more take the liberty of recom- I mending very urgently that his plans shall receive the immediate and sub stantial support of the Congress. Business After War "Peculiar and very stimulating conditions await our commerce and industrial enterprise in the imme diate future. Unusual opportunities will presently present themselves to our merchants and producers in for eign markets and large fields for profitable investment will be opened to our free capital. But it is not only of that that I am thinking: it is not chiefly of that that I am think ing. Many great industries pros trated by the war wait to be rehabili tated, in many parts of the world where what will be lacking is not brains or willing hands or organizing capacity or experienced skill, but machinery and raw materials and capital. I believe that our business men, our merchants, our manufac turers and our capitalists, will have the vision to see that prosperity in one part of the world ministers to prosperity everywhere: that there is in a very true sense a solidarity of interest throughout the world of en terprise and that our dealings with the countries that have need of our products and our money will teach them to deem us more than ever friends whose necessities we seek in ( the right way to serve. "Our new merchant ships, which have in some quarters been feared as destructive rivals, may prove helpful rivals, rather, and common servants, very much needed and very welcome. Our great shipyards, new and old, will be so opened to the use of the world that they will prove immensely serviceable to every mari time people In restoring, much more rapidly than would otherwise have been possible the tonnage wantonly destroyed in the war. I have only to suggest that there are any points at which we can facilitate American enterprise in foreign trade by op portune legislation and make it easy for American merchants to go where they will be welcomed as friends rather than as dreaded antagonists. America has a great and honorable service to perform in bringing the commercial and industrial undertak ings of the world back to their old scope and swing again, and putting a solid structure of credit under them. All our legislation should be friendly to such plans and purposes. Revised Taxes "And credit and enterprise alike will be quickened by timely and help ful legislation with regard to taxa tion. I hope that the Congress will find it possible to undertake an early reconsideration of Federal taxes, in order to make our system of taxa tion more simple and easy of admin istration and the taxes themselves as little burdensome as they can be made and yet suffice to support the government and meet all its obliga tions. The figures to which those obligations have arisen are very great indeed, but they are not so great as to make it difficult for the nation to meet them, and meet them, perhaps, in a single generation, by taxes which will neither crush nor dis courage. These are not so great as they seem, not so great as the im mense sums we have had to borrow added to the immense sums we have had to raise by taxation, would seem to indicate; for a very large propor tion of those sums were raised in order that they might be loaned the governments with which we were associated in the war, and those loans will, of course, constitute assets, not liabilities, and will not have to be taken care of by our taxpayers. "The main thing we shall have to care for is that our taxation shall rest as lightly as possible on the productive resources of the country, that its rate shall be stable and that it shall be constant in its revenue yielding power. We have found the main sources from which it must be drawn. I take it for granted that its mainstays will henceforth be the in come tax, the excess profits tax and the estate tax. All these can so be adjusted to yield constant and ade quate returns and yet not constitute a too grfßvous burden on the tax payers. A revision of the income tax has already been provided for by the act of 1918, but I think you will find that further changes can be made to advantage both in the recommenda tions of tax and in the method of its collection. Excess profits tax need not long be maintained at the rates which were necessary while the enor mous expenses of the war had to be borne; but it should be made the basis of a permanent system which will reach undue profits without dis couraging the enterprise and activity of our business men. The tax on in heritances ought, no doubt, to be reconsidered in its relation to the fiscal systems of the several states, but it certainly ought to remain a permanent part of the fiscal system of the Federal government also. Tax "Burdens "Many of the minor taxes provid ed for In the revenue legislation of 1917 and 1918, though no doubt made necessary by the pressing ne cessities of the war time, can hardly find sufficient Justification under the easier circumstances of peace and can now happily tie got rid of. Among these, I hope you will agree, are the excises upon various manufacturers and the taxes upon retail sales. They are unequal in the incidence on dif ferent industries and on different in dividuals. Their collection is dlf-i |ficult and expensive. Those which are levied upon articles sold at re tall are largely evaded by the read justment of retail prices. On the other hand I should assume that it is expedient to maintain a consider able range of indirect taxes and the fact that alcoholic liquors will pres ently no longer afford a source of revenue by taxation, makes it the more necessary that the field should be carefully restudied in order that equivalent sources of revenue may be found which it will be legitimate, and not burdensome, to draw upon. But you have at hand in tho Treas ury Department many experts who can advise you upon the matters much better than I can. I can only suggest the lines of a permanent and workable system, and the placing of the taxes where they will least hamper the life of the people. Sees Foreign Market "There is, fortunately, no occasion for undertaking in the immediate future any general revision of our system of import duties. No serious danger of foreign competition now threatens American industries. Our country has emerged from the war less disturbed and less weakened than any of the European countries which are competitors in manufac ture. Their industrial establish ments have been subjected to great er strain than ours, their labor force to a more serious disorganization and this is clearly not the time to seek an organized advantage. The work of reconstruction I am afraid, will tax the capacity and resources of their people for years to come. So far as their being any danger or need of accentuated foreign compe tition, it is likely that the conditions of the next few years will greatly facilitate the marketing of American manufactures abroad. 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The experiences of war have made it plain that In some cases too great reliance on foreign supply is dangerous, and that In de termining certain parts of our tariff policy domestic considerations must be borne in mind which are political as well as economic. Among the in dustries to which special considera tion should be given Is that of the manufacture of dye stuffs and re lated chemicals. Our complete de pendence upon German supplies be fore the war made the interruption of trade a cause of exceptional eco nomic disturhsice. The close rela tion between the manufacture of dyestuffs, on the one hand and of explosives and poisonous gases on the other, moreover has given the in dustry an exceptional significance and value. Although the United States will gladly and unhesitatingly join in the program of international disarmament, it will nevertheless, be a policy of obvious prudence to make certain of the successful mainte nance of many strong and well equip ped chemical plants. German chem ical industry with which we will be brought into competition was and may well be again a thoroughly knit monopl.v capable of exercising a competition of a peculiarly insidu ous and dangerous kind. Protection Needed "The United States should, more over, have the means of properly protecting itself whenever our trade is discriminated against by foreign nations, in order that we may be assured of that equality of treatment which we hope to accord and to pro mote the world over. Our tariff laws as they now stand provide no weapon of retaliation in case other jovernments should enact legislation unequal in its bearing on our pro ducts as compared with the products of other countries. Though we are as far as possible from desiring to enter upon any course of retaliation we must frankly face the fact that hostile legislation by other nations is not beyond the range of possi bility and that it may have to be met by counter legislation. This sub ject, has fortunately been exhaus tively investigated by the United States tariff commission. A recent report of that commission has shown very cfearly that we lack and that we ought to have the instruments necessary for the assurance of equal and equttable treatment. The at tention of Congress has been called to this matter on past occaolons and the past measures which are now recommended by the tariff commis sion are substantially the same that have been suggested by previous ad ministrations. I recommend that this phase of the tariff question re ceive the early attention of the Con gress. Supports Suffrage "Will you not permit me, turn ing from these matters, to speak once more and very earnestly of the proposed amendment to the Consti tution which would extend the suff rage to women and which passed the House of Representatives at the last session Of the Congress. It seems to me that every consideration of jus tice and of public advantage calls for the immediate adoption of that amendment and its submission forth with to the legislatures of the sever al States. Throughout all the world this long delayed extension of the suffrage is looked for in the United States longer, I believe, than any where else, the necessity for it and the immense advantage of it to the national life, has been urged and de bated, by women and men who saw the need for it and urged the policy of it when it required steadfast cour age to be so much beforehand with the common conviction; and I, for one. covet for our country the dis tinction of being among the first to act in the great reform. "The telegraph and telephone lines will of course be returned to their own ers so soon as the retransfer can be ef fected without administrative confusion, so soon, that Is. as the change can be made with least possible inconvenience to the public and to the ownerß them selves. The railroads will be handed over to their owners at the end of the calendar year; If I were In Immediate contact with the administrative ques tions which must govern the retransfer of the telegraph and telephone lines. I could name the exact date for their re turn also. Until I am In direct contact with the practical questions Involved I can only suggest that In the case of the telegraphs and telephones, as In the case of the railways, It is clearly desirable in the public Interest that some legisla tion should be considered which may tend to make of these Indispensable Instru mentalities of our modern life a uni form and co-ordinated system which will afford those who use them as com plete and certain means of communica tion with all parts of the country as has so long been afforded by the postal system of the government, and at rates sis uniform and intelligible. Expert ad vice Is. of course, available In this very practicable matter, the public interest is manifest Neither the telegraph nor the telephone service of the country can be said to be In any sense a national system. There are many confusions and inconsistencies of rates. The scien tific means by which communication by such instrumentalities could be rendered more thorough and satisfactory has not been made full use of. An exhaustive study of the whole question of electrical communication and of the means by which the central authority of the na tion can be used to unify and Improve It, if undertaken, by the appropriate committees of the Congress would cer tainly result indirectly, even if not di rectly, in a great public benefit. "The demobilization of the military forces of the country has progressed to ouch a point that it eeeme to me en tirely safe now to remove the ban upon the manufacture and sale of wines and beers, but I am advised that without further legislation I have not the legal authority to remove the present restric tions. I therefore recommend that the act approved November 21. 1918, en titled 'An act to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, the purpose of the act entitled "An act to provide further for the national secur ity and defense by stimulating agricul ture and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products" and for other ■purposes' be amended or repealed In far as it applies to wines and beers. "I sincerely trust that I shall soon be at my post In Washington again to report on the mattery which made my presence at the peace table appar ently imperative, and to put myself at the service of the Congress In every matter of administration or counsel that may seem to demand executive action or advice. (Signed) "WOODROW WILSON.* "20 May, 191/." * Absolutely Ends X v Worst Foot Misery g Because some patent remedies have failed, don't give up. Foot misery can absolutely be ended quickly. Here is what did it in soldiers' training camps and for mfflions of feet in the put ten years. Oct a twenty five cent package of Cal-o-cida from any druggist and follow the simple directions. Relief positively comes in a few momenta for tender burning, puffed, sweaty or "al io used feet. Gives exquisite comfort. Cat o-cide goes right into the pores and corrects the cause. A few treatments absolutely makes foot misery a thing of the past. Each package of Cal-o-eide contains special little plasters that will remove the wont corn in a hurry. Clip this out. adv. t
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