Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1916-01-28

declares for Hughes, and the ex-en-
gineer of the steam roller, Barnes,
pulls the wires for Elihu Root behind
Tie picture of the icy Justice. But in
all this fancy-dress party Ct imitation
| liugheses, there is one man WHO shows
his own face-Theodorc Burton, of
Ohio, who came here this wccl; and
made no concealment of tic fact that
he is straightforward candidate for
the job of leading the Republicans and
Pcogressives in lie fight against
Woodrow Wilson.
There really are other issues nearer
home than tie Presidency, but hardly
getting Il passing glance of recogni-
ton. For example, there's q ponder
Gus report on how to squeeze private
purses harder SO as to offset the
steadily increasing outgo. The plan
is to duplicate the federal income tax
by levying state tax on incomes.
But if this should prove unfcasiblc
the Commission proposes composite
abilities tax, to be levied on habita-
tons, occupations and salaries.
1t cannot be said that this report
brings much nearer solution tie vcx-
ed problem of relieving realty of it's
crushing burdens of taxation, and it
may be that tn logic of circumstances
will force city and state to curtail-
ment of outgo as the only way to off
set inability to increase the inflow of
revenue.
There's money lying around here
looking fof a hole to drop into, even
if most of us have to scrape to meet
the rent and coal bill. While n man
on the ferryboat this morning was
figuring out on the margin of his
newspaper how he could manage to
! make both ends meet until the next
pay day, he stopped suddenly, sat up
with a jerk, and exclaimed audibIy as
his eyes fell upon the story that the
New York Geological Society is go
ing to spend $225,O0O printing book
OIL pheasants.
But the learned society is Only Il
piker concern compared with the man
in court this week OH breach of
promise suit who spent 100000
collecting evanescent labial thrills and
who rashly promised one fair charm
er a "trillion kisses. A reporter of
mathematical bent figured that even
with the most rapid-fire action it
would take three billion minutes to
deliver the goods. AS that would be
over two million days, the young wo-
man preferred $4,000 cash.
Kisses delivered, not merely prom
Uses, figured in another suit. After
receiving a ten-minute supply, a
young woman went TO court and got q
judgment for $1,000 against the giver
But not all the women are thus oc-
/ cupied. One who figures in the days
news was forced five years ago to be.
come bread winner in place of her in
valid husband and now she is the only
woman among the 1872 insurance
agents in the United States who sold
| insurance in 1915 to the amount OF
/ 100000 or more.
And another case of pluck and prog.
ress is revealed in the career of Theo.
dore Hetzler, who entered the Fifth
Avenue Bank 25 years ago as mes
senger and this week, at 40 years Of
age, became the president of the in
stitution.
Out of debate at the Washing
ton Irving High School the other nigh
came suggestion that made half thu
hearers gasp and the other half ap
plaud. 1t was proposed that the con
flicts between capital and labor nigh
as reasonably be expected to be re
conciled by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
as by the present Secretary of labo
who is an avowed union man. But i
was the capitalistic mind that gasp
ed at this. On the part of many work
; ers there is conviction that such
man as the Oil King son might rem
der n public service Of great magni
tude if detached from &c Brodwa,
and catapulted into the job of bring
!. inor industrial Daona 70 tho Io,J