TWENTIETH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART II 165 



LEGISLATION. 



1. When state or federal government grants corporate rights to any 

 organization it is incumbent on that government to protect the public 

 through such regulative legislation as will best prevent favoritism, stimu- 

 late initiative and guarantee adequate public service. 



2. We are opposed to government ownership of public utilities. We 

 demand the early return of the railroads to private control, under such 

 conditions and regulations as will render adequate service at just and 

 equitable rates. We particularly demand immediate attention to restor- 

 ing the efficiency of live-stock and other perishable transportation, both 

 in car equipment and train schedules. 



3. We recommend such regulation of all purveyors of foodstuffs, in- 

 cluding packers, wholesale grocers, commission men and all similar in- 

 dustries, in such manner as will be just and fair to producers and con- 

 sumers as well as to the industries. 



4. We demand strict economy of public expenditures in all depart- 

 ments of government, the cutting out of such customs in transaction of 

 public affairs as add expense and delay in rendering efficient service, and 

 the discontinuance of all departments or employes which are not ren- 

 dering efficient service. 



5. We urge that as rapidly as possible all corporations doing inter- 

 state business to be under federal charter, and all other corporations to 

 be incorporated under the laws of the state in which their principal busi- 

 ness is located. 



6. We approve the federal land banks and request that the maximum 

 individual loan be changed from $10,000 to $25,000. 



7. We believe Armistice Day should be made a national and interna- 

 tional holiday, and to that end we request the proper authorities, both 

 rational and international, to so act; and we suggest, since Thanksgiving 

 Day is not an anniversary of the event commemorated, and the date gen- 

 erally observed is so near Armistice Day, that it would be well for na- 

 tional and state governments to make the two days legally coincident. 



EDUCATIONAL. 



1. Where service is needed and actually rendered we favor appro- 

 priations adequate to meet that service. We commend the extension 

 work of the department of agriculture, through the land grant colleges 

 of the several states. 



COMMENDATORY. 



1. Recognizing our great obligation to the returned soldiers and sail- 

 ors, we recommend the appointment of a committee of three of our board 

 of directors to act with the American Legion in devising means of get- 

 ting soldiers reinstated into civil life. 



We extend to our soldiers of lands, seas and air, and to the men and 

 women fresh from the battlefields and hospitals of Europe, our admira- 

 tion and our love. They are worthy of boundless gratitude and praise, 

 and no gift of the people is too good for them. 



