The Washington times., 1920-01-21
Today
How Money Grows.
3 Monkeys for a Text.
Shortage" Useful Word.
Tanks to Shovel Snow.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE.
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This Is Thrift Week. A savings
bank the other day paid sixteen
hundred and odd dollars for a
book. The owners father had de-
posted fifty dollars as young
man. Interest did the rest.
Each year trustees report on the
fortune of an unhappy woman
whose husband divorced her be-
cause she was insane, setting
aside two millions to take care OF
her. Her estate amounts now 10
nine millions. 1t increased one
million last year. The husband
put the original two millions into
Standard Oil stocks, 30 the poor
lady had the Rockefellers working
for her. This case is exceptional
in thrift and in pathos. The
woman with all the money lives
in an asylum, pays five thousand
dollars yearly to a doctor, thirty
six thousand dollars for board.
The rest piles up; she knows
nothing Of 1t.
Red Indians sold Manhattan,
heart of New York, for sixty
guilders, twenty-four dollars, paid
in rum, hatchets, knives and orna-
ments.
Wonderful is the earning power
of money. IL those Indians could
have taken the cash and invested
1t, allowing interest to pile up,
interest on interest, they would
have enough to buy New York
City with all its buildings and
wealth.
Poverty Is slavery. When old
you will want a chance to lock at
the stars. contemplating your end
without worrying about your land
lord. Save your money. 1t Is to
the aged what quinine is to the
African explorer.
The Rev. James Small, saving
souls in Kansas City, displays in
the pulpit three monkeys, to point
a moral and demonstrate Darwin's
folly. Henry Ward Beecher sold a
yellow girl at auction from his pull
pit to prove that slavery is wrong.
The Rev. Small says monkeys
are faithful to their mates, and be-
fore mating "the male whips the
female, and forever after the male
is master of his household" This
Is interesting, but the monkey beat
ing his wife does not weaken
Dsrwin's theory.
Influenza is killing thousands.
As you read about it, consider pri-
vate ownership of street car lines.
Coal was expensive, labor high.
Traction trusts wanted more;
i. couldn't get all they wanted One
thing they could and did do. They
cut of heat in the cars. A cold car
means a cold, and the beginning OF
a cold means influenza. y D..
Some mourners will think over
the beauties of private ownership:
If the street cars were owned
by cities, politicians, thinking
about the voters. would take care
not to run cold cars.
A little sign hangs IN many
grocery store windows:
why worry about sugar?
We can supply all you
want. Come in.'
The price being up to twenty
four cents a pound, you may have
all the sugar you want. Convent
ent shortage made the twenty-four
cent price.
Ditto coal. You can have all
you want at double the old price.
Mr.. Lewis, of the mine work
ers, wonders who gets the diff
ference between the retail price
and ninety EIGHT cents a ton paid
to mine workers. Innocent Mr..
Lewis! WI does he suppose gets
the differnce? Very convenient
thing, a Shortage" Coal miners
tried a labor shortage. But Gov
ernment stopped nat.
In man sites non are shovel
ing snow hy hand ~ One cater
pillar tractor "a. Government
has hundreds Of tnem, lying idle
could craw, over the snow,
loading it into trucks hauled be-
hind, ard DO tisg work Of thou
sand men. L,t those responsible
for snow .enoval investigate, and
construct CNperimentally a self
loading and haghng snow wagon,
using for power some tank" with
the heavy urmor stripped off.