Among them were agriculture and soil conservation, veterans pensions, flood control, highways' waterways, social and health services, the Civi—lian Conservation Corps, relief and national defence.
Mr. Robert L. Dotighton, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, echoed the hope of most of his colleagues when he said that it might not be necessary to bring up a tax bill next session. He is counting on higher Treasury collections as a result of improved business cohn ditions to make possible retention of present levies—United Press. as much as Britain and France and will not quit until victory is assured.
"We are not benevolent neutrals," he declared. "We are belligerent people and we ere in this war ts win. We did not enter it lightly and we will not depart from it except as victors.
"Germany need encourage herself with no false hopes. She will discover that "winning the war is just as much the business of Australians as it is of Englishmen or New Zealanders or Canadians."—United Press.
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