The Washington times., 1920-06-30
The MA!!onAAaAMr The WASHINGTON TIMES SYME4
THINGS IN GENERAL
About Profits, Best Customer,
Killing Rats. Etc.

Killing Rats. Etc.
= Some day, perhaps, this nation now techni-
6ly and humorously "at war; with Germany viii be at
In the meanwhile learning what costs to be at
while war really going and later when the old cat
dying out.
When prices went up for coal gasoline anything ese
always told War and the increasing cost OF labor
/. .1use it."
l& You learn now that corporations have been making
oAt Of hundred cent There was ev1denty some
ing taken in above the cost OF labor
E The Standard Oil Company has just paid to its stock
holders than thirty million dollars pront FOh
I1HREE MONTHS. Evidently there was something In the
way of profit in recent prices of gasoline OIL etc.
With all 'good management to keep down excess pro-
tax it shown that than two thousand corporations
United States earned every for three years ono
i d r1red per cent on their total value.
I though the of apartment house costing
hundred thousand dollars should charge for rents hve
nred thousand the full value Of the property every year
after paying all taxes and expenses.
Doctors tell you that every one of the glands
your body-saivary glands glands that produce tears
capable Of just much activity and no more once
you exhaust them they remain exhausted.
The charity gland in the American nation shows signs
Of feebleness The Salvation Army drive one of many
proves failure And the great "Interchurch Movement
has officially abandoned its effort to raise thirteen hundred
million dollars.
hundred million dollar failure They wanted that money
for the service of the Lord And they retire after
the failure well knowing that the Lord, He chooses, by
the exercise of His will produce for His own pur
poses thirteen billion times the amount required.
Canada sells to the United States now more
than sells England This will have softening effect
On what appears be Canadas dislike what you call
"ofty contempt for the United States you have ever
studied English colonial shopkeepers, you know they
always have tender spot for the best customer and may be
nd rubbing their hands politely, at the door, when he
Meanwhile provided the relations between the two
countries remain friendly they should it is excellent
thing have Canada and the United States under different
pTernments It makes difference who OWNS the ter
ory The important question is what kind Of average
Mppiness is to be found in the territory.
Canada has done admirable things in government en-
ooagng farmers protecting national resources In many
directions she has been good pacemaker far more useful
this country than would be United States ownership Of
0anadian SOIL
tenon the Canadians this North American continent
would in good shape and could watch the rest of the
world with benevolent interest, but without anxiety.
In figures interest you bought from Canada in
the last fiscal year $472,449,294.
S The bubonic plague has come up from Vera
Ouz to North America. Two have been found in
Texas There is danger of serious epidemic but there
every reason why national State and municipal govern
should cooperate to wipe out rats that spread the
plague
Besides spreading plague, they carry filth and other
diseases with them, and they destroy millions in property
every year Texas wagng against them but in the
usual way the war will stop and the rats back
The scare dies out.
The against rats, against mosquitoes, and other
breeding nuisances including stray cats in cities
carriers of diphtheria should be unceasing.
Eventually the work will be complete and only mex
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