The St. Joseph observer., 1920-12-11

safeguarding civilization. The nations
gratitude must be effectively revealed
to them by tho most ample provision
for their medical care and treatment
as well as for their vocational training
and placement. The time has come
when more complete program can
be formulated and more satisfactorily
administered for their treatment and
training. and earnestly urge that
the congress give the matter its early
consideration.
The secretary of the treasury and
the board for vocational education
will outline in their annual reports
proposals covering medical care and
rehabilitation which l am sure will
engage your earnest study and COM
mand your most generous support.
Urges Aid for Disabled Veterans
Permit me to emphasize once more
the need for action upon certain mat
ters upon which l dwelt at some
length in my message to the second
session of the sixty sixth congress:
The necessity, for example, OF encour-
aging the manufacture of dyestuffs
and related chemicals; the impor-
tance of doing everything possible to
promote agriculture production along
economic lines, to improve agriculture
al marketing and make rural life
more attractive and healthful; the
need for law regulating cold storage
in such way as to limit the tins
during which goods may be kept in
storage, prescribing the method Of
disposing of them il kept beyond the
permitted period and requiring goods
released from storage mall cases to
bear the date of their receipt. II
would also be most serviceable II II
were provided that all goods released
from cold storage for interstate ship
ment should have plainly marked
upon each package the selling or mar
ket price 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. Indeed, II
would be very serviceable to the pub
lie IL all goods destined for interstate
commerce were made to carry upon
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it possible plain statement of the
price at which they left the hands OF
the producer. 1 respectfully call your
attention also to the message referred
to with regard to a federal license for
all corporations engaged in interstate
commerce.
Suggests Loan to Armenia
In brief. the imm ediate legislation
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
strengthening of all instrumentalities
by which difficulties are to be met
and removed and justice dealt out
whether by law or by some form OF
mediation and Cancellation. do not
feel it to be my privilege at present
methods by which these objects may
be attained. but have faith that the
inquiries of your several committees
will discover the way and the method.
In response to what 1 believe to be
the impulse Of sympathy and opinion
throughout tho United States. 1 eayn-
estly suggest that the congress au-
thorize the treasury of the United
States to make to the struggling gov
ernment Of Armenia such a loan as
was made to several of the allied gov-
ernments during the war; and would
also suggest that it would be desirable
to provide in the legisla ton itse1 that
the expenditure of the money thus
loaned should be under the supervis-
ion of commission or at least a COM
missioner. from the United States, in
order that revolutionary tendencies
within Armenia itself might not ha
afforded by the loan a further tempt
ing opportunity. Allow me to call
your attention to the fact that the
people of the Philippine Islands have
succeeded in maintaining a stable gov
ernment since the last action OF the
congress in their behalf. and have
thus fulfilled the condition set by the
congress as precedent to a consldera-
tion OF granting Independence to the
islands. respectfully submit that
this condition precedent having been
fulfilled. it is now our liberty and our
duty to keep our promise to the peo-
pie of those islands by granting them
the independence which they SO hon
orably cOvet
L have not so much laid before you
a series of recommendations. gentle
men. as sought to utter confession
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