The Glenwood post., 1922-05-11
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Current Events For the ChildEen
and orown-uys, Too
THE AMERICAN PLAN
and 0rown-uyS, Too

"Only a few minutes more and
Uncle Ted will be here,'' exclaimed
Ruth, as she closed her geography and
settled back in the easy chair where
she had been studying her lessons.
Eyes, the train is already in and
Uncle Ted is on his way up from the
station" replied Jack.
And even as these remarks passed
between them they heard the steps Of
Uncle Ted at the front door and both
bounded out into the hall to meet him.
"And how is President Hardingi"
asked Jack, after the exchange Of
greetings.
"Al right, I guess,'' responded
Uncle Ted, "but I didn't see him
when I was in Washington. You
mustn't mt think that everybody who
goes to Washington sees the president,
although everybody has a chance to
See him if he wishes. Any lawabiding
citizen Of the United tSates who is
known to n senator or congressman, OF
can be properly vouched for, can get
an introduction to President Harding.
That kind of an introduction simply
means that man will have chance
to shake hands with the president and
exchange few words, but does not
moan a meeting to talk about any
the president to talk over any i'm
portant subject Of public affairs re-
quires special appointment with an
understanding as to the subject that
is to be discussed. That, Of course,
is necessary, for otherwise all the
time of the president would be taken
up by all sorts of cranks who have
the notion that they have schemes
which will cure all the ills of the
country.
cit is mighty nice of President
Harding to give up large part Of his
time TO shaking hands with visitors to
the national capital, and on one of my
visits last winter I had the pleasure
Of meeting him. On this trip, how
ever, didn't go near the White
House. 7 spent two or three days
around the capitol, however, and met
our United States senator's several
times'
"Tell us what they are doing"
urged Ruoth.
"Well, tust at present they are
giving most of their attention to the
consideration of the tariff bill. The
tariff bill, you know, is the proposed
law to place tax on importations Of
goods from foreign countries into the
United States. The house of repre-
sentatives passed the bill several
months ago and 1t has been under con-
sideration of the senate committee on
finance ever since. The senate COM
mittee suggested a very large number
of amendments to the bill and report
ed it to the senate and now it is up
for discussion and probably will be de-
bated for many weeks to come. The
indications are that there will be
hard fight on the bill as the Demo-
Gratis are opposed to the kind of a
tariff bill the Republicans favor.
"The principal difference of opin-
ion seems to be over the question Of
what is called american valuation.
Heretofore under tariff laws it has
been the custom to levy tax on goods
imported into this country with the tax
computed according to the value of
the commodity in the country from
which it is brought. Owing to the de-
probation Of currencies in some coun-
tries as a result of the war and the
cheap labor conditions that exist, the
values of many commodities are so
low that if the tax was computed on
the value of the goods in the country
where produced the tax would vary so
much on goods from different countries
and would be so small. in some in
stances, as not to be a large enough
tax as to give the producers of Amer
lean goods n reasonable amount of pro-
lection. Tn order to meet such con-
dition MS that the house of representa-
tives adopted what they called the
American valuation plan which pro-