Justice in War Finance: A Call for Fair Excess Profit Tax
C W Barron argues the United States must fund three years of total war while planning for postwar restoration. He urges taxing excess profits, not broad capital, and cites England's war profit taxes as a model, proposing a 25 percent levy on excess profits from 1917 onward to sustain industry and war effort.
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United States
England
Europe
Washington House of Representatives
House
Senate
McAdoo
Omaha
Boston
Doctor Addresses Health of Babies Second Summer
A college of medicine pediatric head at the State University warns that the second summer is the most dangerous period for infants. He cites heat, milk, and summer foods as key factors and urges cautious feeding and clothing to prevent acute intestinal illnesses.
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Department For Pediatrics
College of ‘Medicine
State University
Milk and fruit dangers for infants in summer health notes
The article warns against feeding raw fruit and summer vegetables to babies, noting their underdeveloped digestion. It stresses pasteurized milk, cautions about milk from a cow with sore throat or udder disease, and explains that summer foods pose greater digestive risks, sometimes severe enough to cause death.
Fair Business Profit Across Public Utilities
Dean W. G. Raymond argues in a forthcoming book that fair profit depends on risk and scale. He says monopolies like water supply should earn less than competitive railroads, with water around twice loan rates and railroads up to four times, while new capital may earn one to two times.
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W. G. Raymond
State University Engineering College
Dean Raymond
University of Iowa Leases Building for Nurses Training
The University of Iowa moves to meet wartime needs by leasing an extra building to house thirty women for nurses training. University officials say the initiative follows demands from European countries and reflects a broader effort to expand trained horse care and nursing capacity during the war.
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University of Iowa
Nurses’ Training School
University
Fully trained nurses urged to staff Iowa fall program
Dr W T Graham University hospital superintendent says only graduate nurses should be utilized. Untrained nurses seen as a menace to wounded soldiers and as an economic drain for wartime Europe. He urges girls to begin training now as patriotic service and notes a rising demand for nurses at home due to the draft.
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Iowa
Army
Inurope
W. T. Graham
University Hospital
Europe
Iowa professor introduces new dental operative unit
Dr. R. H. Volland head of operative technique at Iowa's University College of Dentistry unveils an individual operative technic unit. The device reproduces real patient conditions for practice, allowing 110 devices to be installed in the new dental building. G. J. Keller aided design with Iowa Illinois foundries producing parts.
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Iowa
State University
R. H. Volland
University
College of Dentistry
Germany
United States
Town
Illinois
G. J. Keller
Mechanical Engineering Department
Volland
Babson claims fourteen of fifteen safe in war findings
Statistician Roger Babson reports based on three years of French army mortality that fourteen of fifteen soldiers survive war exposure. He argues under current conditions civilian manpower preservation limits fatalities to about one in thirty and limb loss to one in five hundred.
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Roger Babson
Wellesly
Wounds and casualties in WWI trenches implied by statements
Mr Babson notes that most trench wounds are clean scalp injuries and that 300,000 French soldiers were discharged for wounds during the war. He argues that fatalities are high but many injuries are minor and not as deadly as people fear, reassuring families about the true danger.
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Babson
Wallingford News Camp Meetings and Local Notes
Wallingford residents attended camp meetings at West Okoboji and Estherville events. Families visited lakes, church choirs practiced for a Cylinder convention, and a baby girl was born to Lars Walde. Khaki references mix with local notes on travels, illnesses, and threshing season.
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Chas. Levell
Fred Levell
Estherville
Frank Irwin
Irwin
the Lakes
J. H. Morrice
Strid
Jas. Anderson
Misener
Durkee
West Okoboji
Tom Moore
MacLean
Shaffer
L. E
Iowa
O. K
Lars Walde
John Peterson
Marvin Miller
A. H. Davidson
Harry Brown
L. E. Crim
Hulda Nelson
Alta
J. D. Kasa
Yen
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C. W. Barron
Staxwell
Maxwell
Detroit
Geil Motor Co
Graettinger
Wallingford News
Livermore Gazette
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