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Service men who reinstated their insurance by payment of all back premiums prior to July 25, 1919, when the decision requiring payment of only two months' premiums went into effect, upon written application to the Bureau may have any premiums paid in excess of two applied toward the payment of future premiums. For example, if after a policy had lapsed for six months, a man reinstated and paid six months' premiums instead of two, he may secure credit for four months' premiums...
...fault for the high living cost? Wage earners are blaming the employers and capitalists, and the employers and capitalists are blaming the wage earners. Each accuses the other of profiteering. How can the profiteer be hunted out? He has thrived in spite of the excess profit tax. A maximum profit law would involve no end of red tape. Bringing to account those profiteers which are on the surface would be like applying a temporary remedy to vermin instead of getting at the cause of vermin. What encourages profiteering?--disorder, uncertainty, distrust...
...implication running through the whole of Mr. Windle's argument is that civilized man will become so immediately capable of temperance, that no restraint is needed to keep him from alcoholic excess. The attainment of this condition will at best require a long process of steady development. Throughout this process, the excesses, and resultant losses to national usefulness and well-being are bound to continue...
...From the land of France comes the glad tidings that President Wilson is in favor of repealing the "bone dry" war measure to permit the sale of beer and light wines. Perhaps the President has learned by experience in France that the practice of drinking, if not carried to excess, produces no harmful effect. Perhaps the "no beer, no work" slogan has reached the President and has indicated to him that the laboring class craves its slightly harmful satisfaction. Perhaps Mr. Wilson has an ear to the ground for the coming 1920 elections. Who knows...
...might well recognize the growing science of aviation, which is so vitally allied with artillery, by adding a course in aeronautics to its curriculum. The aviators and aspiring aviators would gladly welcome such a course, and the government would doubtless further the enterprise by aiding with some of the excess planes left on its hands...