The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-12-16

tance OF making direct and specific ap-
preparations The relation between the
current receipts and current expenditures
Of the government during the present ifs
cal year. as well during the last half
Of the last fiscal year. has been disturbed
by the extraordinary burdens thrown
upon the treasury by the transportation
act, in connection with the return OF the
railroads to private control Over $780,
OOo,OOO has already been paid to the rail-
roads under this act-$350, 100000 during
the present fiscal year-and it is estimated
that further payments aggregating pos
sibly 65O.O00,0O0 must still be made to the
railroads during the current year 1t is
obvious that these large payments have
already seriously limited the governments
progress in retiring the floating debt
Closely connected with this, 1t seems to
me. Is the necessity for an immediate
consideration of the revision OF our tax
laws Simplihcation Of the income and
profits taxes has become an immediate
necessity. These taxes performed in
| dispensable service during the war. The
need for their simplihcation, however. is
very great in order to save the taxpayer
Inconvenience and expense and II order
to make his liability more certain and
definite Other and more detailed recon-
mendations with regard to taxes will no
doubt be laid before you by the secretary
Of the treasury and the commissioner Of
internal revenue.
Would Aid War Heroes.
It is my privilege to draw to the atten-
ton of congress for every sympathetic
consideration the problem Of providing
adequate facilities for the care and treat
ment Of former members Of the military
| and naval forces who are sick or disabled
as the result of their participation in the
war. These heroic men can never be paid
in money for the service they patriot
cally rendered the nation Their reward
will lie rather in realization of the fact
that they indicated the rights OF their
country and aided in safeguarding civili-
Zation. The nations gratitude must be
effectively revealed to them by the most
ample provision for their medical care
and treatment as we'll as for their voca-
tional training and placement
The time has come when more COM
pIete program can be formulated and
| more satisfactorily administered for
| their treatment and training, and earn
estly urge that the congress give the
| matter its early consideration. The sec
rotary of the treasury and the board for
| vocational education will outline in their
| annual reports proposals covering medi-
/ cal care and rehabilitation which I am
| sure will engage your earnest study and
command your most generous support
Permit me to emphasize once more
| the need for action upon certain matters
| upon which I dwelt at some length in
my message to the second session Of the
| 66th congress: The necessity. for exam
| pie, of encouraging the manufacture of
! dyestufs and related chemicals; the i'm
| portance of doing everything possible to
promote agricultural production along
| economic lines, to improve agricultural
marketing and to make rural life more
| attractive and healthful; the need for a
| Inv regulating cold storage in such way
| as to limit the time during which goods
| may be kept in storage, prescribing the
| method of disposing of them if kept be-
yond the permitted period, and requiring
| goods released from storage In all cases
to bear the date of their receipt
Would Mark Storage Goods.
It would also be most serviceable II
| 1t were provided that all goods released
| from cold storage for interstate shipment
| should have plainly marked upon each
! package the selling or market prices at
| which they went into storage, in order
/ that the purchaser might be able to
| learn what profits stood between him and
the producer or the wholesale dealer. In
| deed, IT would be very serViceable to the
| public If all goods destined for inter
| state commerce were made to carry upon
/ every package case whose form made
/ it possible a plain statement of the price
| at which they left the handls of the pro-
| Queer. I respectfully call your attention,
| also. to the recommendations OF the mes
sage referred to with regard to a federal
license for all corporations engaged in
| interstate commerce.
In brief the immediate legislative
| need of the time is the removal of all
| obstacles to the realization of the best
| ambitions Of our people in their sew
eral classes of employment and the
I strengthening of all fn5trumentalttieS
| by which difficulties are to be met and
/ removed and justice dealt out, wheth-
er by law or by some form OF media
| ton and Cancellation. I do not feel it
| to be my privilege at present to sug-
| gest the detailed and particular meth
/ DDS by which these objects may be
attained, but I have faith that the in
| quiries of your several committeesswin
/ discover the way and the method
Asks for Loan to Armenia.
In response to what I believe to be
| the impulse of sympathy and opinion
/ throughout the United States. I ear
! nestIy suggest that the congress au-
thorize the treasury of the United
| States to make to the struggling gov
eminent of Armenia such a loan as
was made to several Of the allied gov
| ernments during the war. and I would
also suggest that it would be desira-
| BILE to provide in the legislation itself
] that the expenditure Of the money thus
| loaned should be under the supervision
/ of commission, or at least a COM
| missioner. from the United States in
| order that revolutionary tendencies
| within Armenia itself might not be af-
forded by the loan a further tempting
| opportunity.
| Allow me to call your attention to the
fact that the people of the Philippine
/ islands have succeeded in maintaining
stable government since the last action
! of the congress in their behalf and have
/ thus fulfilled the condition set by the
/ gress as precedent to a consideration
| Of granting independence to the islands.
/ 1 respectfully submit that this condition
precedent having been fulfilled. it Is now
| our liberty and our duty to keep our
promise to the people of those islands by
| granting them the independence which
| they so honorably covet.
| 1 have not much laid before you a
series Of recommendations, gentlemen, as
| sought to utter a confession Of faith, of
| the faith in which I was bred and to
which it Is my solemn purpose to stand
! by until my last lighting day. 1 believe
| this to be the faith Of America, the faith
/ OF the nation, and Of all the victories
which await national action IN the days
to come. whether In America or elsewhere.