Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...offer his own services to the government as soldier or sailor. But, where it is possible, let him make the effort to do what he can; however little, and thus show that he is alive to the situation. The Liberty Loan is the first big American war enterprise--he cannot afford to sit back placidly, and shift this financial burden onto the shoulders of his fellow-citizens...
...make pretence to any small degree of wisdom deny that the prohibition of intoxicants would save for our nation resources in men and material that we cannot in any circumstances afford to lose. The material wastage annually is tabulated in billions of pounds. The human wastage cannot be computed. Statistics have been carefully gathered to show the extent of this drain on our national wealth. Contrary to the ignorant wisdom of proverb-mouthing fellows, figures do not lie. As a nation we must face without blindness the inevasible truth that the pleasure of alcohol has weakened sadly our strength...
...cannot take space for details regarding the services of ordinary competitive speculation. The manuals on economics explain them. Usually listed are the following: (1) Speculators create time values, carrying wheat over from a period of abundance to a period of scarcity; (2) Speculators level prices through the year, giving higher prices to farmers at harvest time, and lower prices to consumers later. (That this second point is not a matter of closet theory is abundantly shown by J. E. Pope, in an article in the Harvard Quarterly Journal of Economics of August, 1916). The speculator has failed...
...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...
...buying of a bond is not a gift; it is not a charity nor an adventure in business. It is a sound way of acquiring good interest on good money under the safest security possible. The nation has been asked to oversubscribe the issue. It cannot fall to do so if it desires to further the cause for which our armies shall fight. The subscription must be undertaken by the whole people. The college man, whatever other service he has undertaken, owes this service no less, to back his nation to the utmost with his resources as he will back...