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If The World War [i] Demonstrated Anything It Was That Government Ownership Is Fraught With The Gravest Dangers And Usually Leads To Disaster. Take Britain. The Two Problems Which Have Caused The Greatest Trouble Since The War Ended Have Been Transportation And Coal. The Government Seized Both Industries When The War Broke Out. It Got Them Into Such A Hopeless Mess That It Does Not Know How To Turn [in] Coal; The Government Now Realizes, It Took Hold Of The Tail Of A Wild Animal And Is Afraid To Let Go.

Henry Ward Beecher, So The Story Goes, Was Once Asked By A Young Preacher How He Could Keep His Congregation Wide Awake And Attentive During His Sermons. Beecher Replied That He Always Had A Man Watch For Sleepers, With Instructions, As Soon As He Saw Anyone Start Nodding Or Dozing, To Hasten To The Pulpit And Wake Up The Preacher. Aren't You And I Usually Less Sensible? Would We Not Be Inclined To Have The Watcher Wake Up Not Ourselves But The Fellows Caught Sleeping? In Other Words, Aren't We Disposed Always To Blame Others?

The Majority Of America's Colossal Fortunes Have Been Made By Entering Industries In Their Early Stages And Developing Leadership In Them.... Think Of What Opportunities The Present And The Future Contain In Such Fields As Ship-building And Ship-owning, Aircraft, Electrical Development, The Oil Industry, Different Branches Of The Automotive Industry, Foreign Trade, International Banking, Invention, The Chemical Industry, Moving Pictures, Color Photography, And, One Night Add, Labor Leadership.

Summer, With Its Dog Days, Its Vacations, Its Distractions, Is Over. We Have Had Our Holidays, Our Rest, Our Recreation. The Fall Season, With Its New Opportunities For Effort, Enterprise And Achievement, Is Upon Us. Let Us Rip Off Our Coats And Get Down To Business. We May Have Allowed Pessimism To Grip Us During The Summer Months. We May Even Have Allowed Laziness To Enter Our Bones. Now It Is Up To Us To Throw Off Both Lassitude And Pessimism. The Time Has Come For Action, For Aggressiveness.

Uncertainty Hurts Business. It Annoys Individuals. Why Keep The Whole Country, Including Business And Individuals, In Uncertainty Over The Extent Of The Tax Burdens To Be Placed Upon Us? How Many Of Those Who Voted For Calvin Coolidge Imagined For A Moment That Would Do Nothing To Bring About Tax Relief Before 1926?.... But If The Administration Persists In Opposing A Special Session Then It Will Inevitably Be 1926 Before Action Is Taken.... Coolidge And Congress Should Ease Our Minds And Grease Our Activities By Reforming And Reducing Taxation As Soon As Feasible After March 4.