Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-25
SIX CRITICAL PROBLEMS
IN INDUSTRIAL FUTURE
Head Of National Association of Manu-
facturers Discusses Issues Now
Pressing for Solution.


those conditions. Physical. mental
and moral fitness for citizenship
| should therefore be the test Of ad-
mission to tho nation. Lenin and
Trotsky could easily have passed q
| literary test; the criminal and de-
generate are not distinguished by
the test of language. The deter
mining factor should be q mans ca
pacity and qualification for citizen
ship in a representative republic.
Those who aspire to that privilege we
desire: those who would destroy 1t
we should neither invite nor allow to
remain.
measures of relief from present heavy
and disproportionate federal taxation
on industrial enterprise and the peo-
pie as a whole by fostering the enact
ment Of national budget system
Such a system. we believe. would
stimulate the first great means Of
securing relief from taxation, Nance
ly-economy and more careful ex-
penditude of federal moneys by the
various branches Of our government.
We are also doing everything possible
to eliminate, or at least modify, GER
tain apparent inequities in the reve-
nue. laws which are bearing down
heavily on the readjustment efforts
of our Industries.
Vexation Of Tax Returns.
We all have experienced the burden
and vexations incident to making our
income tax returns under the present
complicated system of federal taxa
ton law. With the rapidly diminish
ing or vanishing income upon which
taxes may be levied in accordance
with the existing statute, it will un-
doubtedly be necessary to make rad
ical revisions therein in order to pro-
vide the necessary revenues for the
the simplest forms of taxation that
has ever been devised. requiring the
least accounting burdens on the payer
thereof and also operating to distrib-
ute the taxation in the easiest pos
sible method upon the ultimate con-
sumner. is that If direct sales tax. to
be collected and paid by the seller. /
believe the great majority of business
men would heartily support the i'm
position OF tax in this form.
AS means of steadying the careen-
ing ship Of American industry now.
riding in a wild storm of agitation
and unrest we urge upon every state
a 70 efr
lation and enactment by their respec-
tive legislatures of statutes specifical-
ly requiring voluntary associations to
establish legal responsibility and the
right to sue or to be sued. Such legis-
lation has been adpoted in New York.
Minnesota and Michigan.
and we believe should be enacted in
by labor leaders when it should do so
much toward inspiring greater con-
ddence in trade unions and take
away one OF the principal objections
to dealing between employers and
making of a contract be-
tween a responsible and an irrespon-
sible party? A contract that cannot
~ ShAoASco oh DolA PdItiCS 10 q AdtC0.
Repeal of Seamen's Law.
Another matter which concerns the
welfare of, the whole country is the
repeal or a material modification of
the La Toilette seaman's law. az
means of aiding in the development of
the American merchant marine. The
of this bill drove the few
ships under the American
flag from the seas preceding the
opening of the European war
Its provisions are impractical and
the successful operation of American
ships under its terms in competition
with the ships OF other nations Inn
possible. II this nation is to engage
in foreign trade and ship it's Ameri-
can-made goods to foreign countries
in American made ships, flying the
flag and manned by Ameri-
can seamen. let us have a shipping
bill that will make it commercially
possible to do SO.