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...abolish the grain exchanges for the period of the war, we cannot stop with that. No mere legislative prohibition will solve the problem. Something of constructive character, which will do what the exchanges have been doing, is called for. That is a man-sized job! The first step should be to call leading experts in the grain trade together. For patriotic reasons, as well as to protect the trade from disaster, they would respond. If a committee of grain experts, under Government auspices, should use their wonderful machinery for collecting information, they could probably in a short time find...
...Republic can be worked in the United States. My country is in a thousand ways exactly similar to this, and I see no reason why the same general laws that are of use there should not be workable here. Argentina, like the United States today, was faced with the problem of getting volunteers to enlist in the army. She had the regular army and militia system now prevailing in the United States...
...many men in the University find themselves, it has seemed to me a useful as it is a patriotic duty to lay before such of them as are interested certain information, which I believe is not generally known at Harvard, which may enable them more intelligently to solve the problem of becoming immediately useful to the nation in its deliberately-formed determination to dispute and defeat, by force of arms, the pretensions of autocratic and irresponsible power...
...There never was a time when the merchant marine problem more insistently called for solution. To take the place of the tonnage destroyed in the war our government is seeking to build wooden ships by the thousand. But an even greater question is involved; for the stability of our industries, the very prosperity of the country, depends in large part on our overseas shipping facilities. On account of the lack of ships our exporters have suffered severely from excessive freight rates, unfair discrimination in favor of foreign competitors and, in many cases, actual loss of business. The great factor...
...This can never be done, however, so long as the American public remains apathetic to the shipping problem. Obsolete restrictive legislation must be repealed and friendly laws substituted; the accomplishment of this will come only from an enlightened public opinion. It is in the formation of this opinion that College men can perform a valuable and truly patriotic service because our centres of learning must be well-springs of correct opinion...