The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-17
EARNING OF A MILLION.
Some Calculations That May Be In
teresting.
philadelphia Medical World.

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philadelphia Medical WORLDLY
Our era begins with the birth OF
the Carpenter of GaliIee. Let US sup
pose that he was able to begin work
on the day of his birth and that each
working day he was able to save 81
above his living expenses. Let us
suppose that he never loses day by
sickness or bad weather. and that his
life and health and strength are mir
aculously prolonged until he shall
earn S1,000,000 by saving 81 for every
working day. Then we viii be able
to realize what an honest million is.
We will trace our workman who be-
At the historic time of his death, at
the age of 80. what would he be
worth? The calculation is easy; sos
days minus 81 Sundays equals S13
working days in each year. Multiply
that by 33 years and We have 1929
days; but we must add eight days for
eight leap years. This would make
10.S37-and 81 per day saved would
equal as many dollars-S10, 331. Far
birth and never a holiday nor a day
lost by sickness Let us suppose that
he had lived the allotted seventy years:
then how would the account stand
Only So. 1921, Our workman has a long
and weary task before him to earn SO
large an amount as a million dollars
Our hero must trudge along through
summers heat and winters storms
Years and decades come and go until
they grow into centuries. and still he
works on for his task is only begun.
He sees kingdoms and empires rise
and fall, and still he Iabors on, for the
greater part of his task is still before
him.
Christians are prosecuted in various
countries, the Roman empire disap-
pears, the dark ages come, and still he
labors on, his task not yet completed.
The crusades are fought America is
discovered. modern science awakens
the world from its shroud of darkness
and still he labors on. The stirring
events of modern history transpire
and bring US down to the present mo-
ment, and would you believe it?-our
Carpenter is still laboring on, not yet
having saved a million dollars. yet
not having missed a single working
day from sickness or any other cause in
all these centuries Let US see how
his task would stand at this time. We
are not counting interest. but purely
the earnings of labor. We have seen
that his savings would be 1913 per
year: this would be s31. 800 per century,
but adding twenty-five days for TWEEN
ty-five leap years per century, it would
be S31, 325 per century. To determine
how his account would stand at the
beginning of the present century null
tiply SCI ,325 by eighteen. and the result
is $561,S5e, and add S30.04S for the nine
ty-nine years of the present century.
and the amount is s592.S37 So the
task at the present time would be little
more thar half done. Let us in mag
ination bring him before us. Here he
comes, time scared, storm SCARED,
labor SCARED. We ask him questions.
He tells US interesting stories of how
he has builded homes for princes and
peasants of many countries, of how he
worked on the colosseum, the Alham-
bra and st. Peters. He mentions ia
miliarly such masters as Michael An
gelo. He praises his good fortune in
having steady employment during all
these centuries, and that his wages
were always promptly paid and that
he was allowed to make up the time
lost by going from one job to another
by night workout suddenly he says:
II must not tarry. | am the drudge
of the ages, with the task of earning
million dollars. l must get IL hon
estly, therefore l must earn il. My
task will require many, many years,
even centuries yet, so adieu' With
this he leaves u.s. But what about
those who obtain not only one million.
but many millions in the few years of
the adult period of a single life? 1t is
plain that no man can earn a million
dollars in a. brief human life, howeyer
hard he may work This shows that
men have been enabled to do this only
blythe many advantages of the insti-
tutions of society and aided by the
protection of the law. Is it not just
and fair that a percentage should go
to the government?