. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. jHEEE is no doubt in my mind that the coming season will be a most satisfactory one. Your share of what- ever prosperity is in store for us will be in proportion to the eflfort that you have put forth to produce it. The law of compensation is not likely to permit you to share to a larger, extent. Some people look to the government to cure all social unrest and business disturbances. The experiment in most cases has been a sad failure. We wel- come any legislation of a constructive nature, but we should resent government interference with business.
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. jHEEE is no doubt in my mind that the coming season will be a most satisfactory one. Your share of what- ever prosperity is in store for us will be in proportion to the eflfort that you have put forth to produce it. The law of compensation is not likely to permit you to share to a larger, extent. Some people look to the government to cure all social unrest and business disturbances. The experiment in most cases has been a sad failure. We wel- come any legislation of a constructive nature, but we should resent government interference with business. Unfortu- nately, the people are still sending poli- ticians to Washington to manage our national affairs, instead of business men, who are better qualified to understand the needs of the country. Who Will Stop First? We hear much about the profiteer and everybody denounces this selfish mon- ster; yet, while everybody condemns the profiteer, nearly everybody continues profiteering. Everybody is doing his share—the manufacturer, the jobber, the retailer and labor—each is not missing an opportunity to grasp a share of the spoils. From every side we hear that profiteering must stop, but where shall we begin and who will make a begin- ningf No one is willing to sacrifice even a trifle, lest his neighbor should profit ever so little by the good one might do for the benefit of any general cause, '^i. Thrift 4id increased production are to overcome"fhe high cost of living. That is what %e are told, not only by the statisticians, college professors and the self-styled public advisers, but by the government itself. And while Uncle Sam is preaching thrift to his people, they are working overtime at Washing- ton to find ways and means to collect more taxes and spending the money in an almost reckless fashion. Every tax- payer is trying his utmost to make the other fellow help pay his taxes. The high rate of taxes has increased the high cost of living as much as anything else. Who
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