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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. as we go along, and other fact that posterity cannot be consulted, and what will happen if it should refuse to accept the burden we are trying to impose on it, we come to a plain fact that the guardians of our uncle ignore entirely. Our beloved uncle has an income, a yearly one, of around six billion to eight billion dollars. But his stupid guardians are allowing this income to be collected and used by sundry private individuals and greedy cor porations, many of whom are for eigners and most of whom are as ig norant in the matter as Uncle Sam's guardians. j This income lies in the land values of the republic. All of the unim proved value of the land of what ever kind or nature, mineral land, agricultural land, land used for high ways by transportation companies, water power land, quarries, forests, swamps, terminal points, water fronts, etc., comes from the fact that our beloved uncle has given and con tinues to guarantee the title and pos session forever to the present posses sors, their heirs and assigns. This plunder is what we are going to fight about now. Germany wants to grab off a lot that is in possession of other nations. She threatens Uncle Sam. So we must fight. This tremendous wealth of six to eight billions a year increases with each increase of pop ulation, with every new discovery that adds to the power of man to produce wealth, and this value is not produced by the owners of the land. It is the result of the presence of Uncle Sam's nephews and nieces upon the land and their industry and labor in using such of the land a's the owners of natural opportunities will permit to be us'ed. Being thus pro duced, it belongs to our uncle. It is his natural revenue, and if his guard ians would take it and apply it for public purposes which will benefit all the people no bonds issue would.gver le necessary Yet' these guard ians propose to lax me labor and the producing forces of the republic and also posterity for all the years to come to pay the principal and inter est of this great loan. And such tax ation makes all of Uncle Sam's nephews and nieces who have to work poorer and poorer every sue ceeding year, while the grabbers of i Uncle Sam's rightful income grow richer. George V. Wells, 6050 South Park Av. EXTERMINATE WHITE PLAGUE. . This nation is entering the war. We know that our food supply is short and that it will soon be short er. I believe that I have a remedy. It will pass it on to Uncle Sam gratis. First, we must produce more edibles on our farms. Secondly, we must get men to till the soil, naturally a diffi cult task. I suggest a way to get men, which method at the same time will bene fit all mankind and make this the healthiest nation on earth. Sta tistics show that there are 25,000,000 people in the U. S. who are in the first stage of tuberculosis. My idea is to have Uncle Sam start a large farm ' in each state, on which all persons Having the first stages of tuberculosis are to live and work. Plenty of out door life will cure almost all of them. The women could go, too. There is a lot of work for women on farms. All the young men who are rejected at the recruiting stations, but who are not tubercular, could work in our munition plants. Doctors agree that medicine will not cure tuberculosis. Live in the open is their advice. Well, what's better than working on a. farm owned by Uncle Sam? A farm free from graft, as are half the municipal sanitariums. Our "uncle could make these farms permanent and in ten yea"rs we could almost clear the United States of the white plague. The farms could supply our army and navy with food. Moreover, the common people will not be held up by unpatriotic money hogs. I should