The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-08

n.ents have already seriously limited the governments progress in retiring the floating debt.
 Closely connected with this, it seems to me, is the necessity for an immediate consideration of the revision of our taN laws. Simplification of the income anu profits taxes has become an immediate necessity. These taxes performed an in- dispensable service during the war. The need for their simplification, however is very great, in order to save the tax payer inconvenience and expense and in order to make his liability more certain and definite. Other and more detailed recommendations with regard to taxes will no doubt be laid before you by the Secretary of the Treasury and the com missioner of internal revenue.
 It is my privilege to draw to the at- tention of Congress for very sympa- thetic iteration the problem of providing adequate facilities for the care and treatment of former mem bers of the military and naval forces who are sick and disabled as the re- suit of their participation in the war. These heroic men can never be paid in money for the service they patriotical- ly rendered the nation. Their reward will lie rather in realization of the fact that they have vindicated the rights of their country and aided in | safeguarding civilization.
 AMPLE PROVISION URGED | The nations gratitude must be ef- | fectively revealed to them by the most ample provision for their medical care and treatment as we'll as for their vocational training and placement. The | time has come when more complete programme can be formulated and more | satisfactorily administered for their 1 treatment and training, and earnestly urge that the Congress give the mat ter it's early consideration. The Secre- | tary of the Treasury and the board of vocational education will outline in | their annual reports proposals cover | ing medical care and rehabilitation, | which I am sure will engage your ear nest study and command your most generous support.
 Permit me to emphasize once more the need for action upon certain mat l ters upon which I dwelt at some length I in my message to the second Sessio lon | of the Sixty sixth Congress, the neces- | sity, for example, of encouraging the manufacture of dyestuffs and related chemicals; the importance of doing ev- erything possible to promote agricul- l tural production along economic lines, | to improve agricultural marketing and | to make rural life more attractive and healthful; the need for a law regulating ! cold storage in such way as to limit | the time during which goods may be kept in storage, prescribing the meth ods of disposing of them if kept be- yond the permitted time and the re- quiring of goods released from storage
 in all cases to bear the date of their | receipt.
 It would also be most serviceable if it were provided that all goods re- l leased from cold storage for interstate shipment should have plainly marked upon each package the selling or mar
 llet 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.
 PRICE MARKING ASKED Indeed, it would be very sefvice-
 able to the public if all goods des-
 tined for interstate commerce were
 whose form made it possible plain
 statement of the price at which they left the hands of the producer. I respectfully call your attention also
 to the recommendations of the message
 referred to with regard to a federal
 license for all corporations engaged in
 interstate commerce.
 In brief. the immediate legislative neec
 of the time is the removal of all ob
 stacles to the realization of the best am
 bitions of our people in their severa
 classes of employment and the strength
 ening of all instrumentalities by which
 difficulties are to be met and removed
 and justice dealt out, whether by law o
 by some form of mediation and con
 ciliation.
 I do not feel it to be my privilege a
 present to suggest the detailed and par
 tcular methods by which these obiec
 tives may be attained. but have faitl
 that the inquiries of your several com mittees will discover the way and tn method.
 In response to what believe to be thu impulse of sympathy and opinion } throughout the United States, I earnestl, suggest that the Congress authorize thu treasury of the United States to make to