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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1924. 1973 of the press are asked to exercise the means within their power to increase enthusiasm for educational advancement and to stimulate zeal for en1§Etened citizenship. INWIT SS WHEREO, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aihxed. Done in the City of Washington on this 14th da of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and [anu.] Twenty-fo1u· and of the Independence of the United States, the One Hundred and Forty-ninth. Canvm Coonmon By the President: Cnannms E. Huenns Secretary of State. Br rmt Pansmmrr or run Uurrnn Sums or Anmmoa, N¤v¤m¤¤r¤4.m4. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas in and by section 315 (a) of Title III of the act of Congress b,;‘,},'f,”,{’§,§?*:§Qf"b"‘ approved September 21, 1922, entitled "An act to provide revenue, gfugybk- th, to regulate commerce with foreiign conmtries, to encourage the mm. my °° °m°` industries of the United States, an for other purposes, " it is, among V°'· "· *’· °“· other things Erovided that whenever the President, upon investigation of the  erences in costs of Eroduction of articles wholly or in part the iowth or product of the nited States and of like or similar articles w olli or in part the growth or product of competing foreign countries, sh find it thereby shown that the duties fixed in this act do not equalize the said differences in costs of lproduction in the United States and the princigal competing country e shall, by such investigation, ascertam said differences and determine and proclaim the changes in' classifications or increases or decreases in rates of dut provided in said act shown by said ascertained differences in such costs of production necessary to equalize the same;. Whereas in and by section 315 (c) of said act it is further provided Ve1.42»p.942. that in ascertaining the differences in costs of production, under the provisions of subdivisions (a) and (b) of said section, the President, m so far as he finds it practicable, shall take into consideration (1) the differences in conditions in production, including wages, costs of material, and other items in costs of production 0 suc or similar articles m the United States and in competing foreivn countries· (2) the differences in the wholesale selling prices of domestic and foreign articles in the principal markets of the United States; (3) advantages granted to a foreign producer by a foreign government, or by a person, partnership, corporation, or association m a foreign country; and (4) any other advantages or disadvantages in competition; ' Whereas, under and by virtue of said section of said act, the United States Tariff Commission has made an investigation to assist the President in ascertaining the differences in costs of production of and of all other facts and conditions enumerated in said section with res t to the articles described in paragraphs 1 and 5 of '1‘it1e I of v¤i.42.¤v-858.saa act of 1922, namely, diet ylbarbiturio acid and salts and oomplounds thereof,  wholly or in part the irowth or product of the nited States, and o and with respect to li e or ` ar articles wholly or in part the growth or product of competing foreign colmtries· Wliereas in the course of said investigation a hearing was held, of which reasonable public notice was given and at which parties