The Washington times., 1920-07-14
Today
How to Build Houses.
Men, Monkeys, and Baths.
Where Is Eugenie2
SwindIlng and Thinking.
~ ARTHITR RRIsBANE.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. 1890 }


built and the housing problem
grows worse, because:
Building is done by contractors
with money borrowed On mort
gage. Rich men won't take 6 per
cent mortgages and hand back
half Of the interest to the Govern
ment In income taxes, when they
can buy city bonds and other tax
free securities.
How would this do as a make
shift remedy while waiting for city
and State governments to build
houses and sell them to the peo-
pie at cost plus interest?
Let the cities issue bonds and
lend the proceeds to builders for
mortgages on first-class property
at q reasonable rate of interest.
The mortgage would pay his in
iterest to the city. and the city
would pay nothing for national in
come tax, since the United States
does not tax city bonds or city in
comes. Rich men that won't lend
on ordinary mortgages would
gladly buy the tax-free bonds.
Wouldn't that help the situa-
ton? Beating the devil around
the stump, it is true, but the peo-
pie need houses.
Men and monkeys instinctively
dislike bathing. As a general
thing it takes force to bathe a
monkey and civilization to bathe
white men.
One thousand five hundred and
forty-three passengers were held
up in White Star liner Cretic be-
cause the crew refused to take
baths that would eliminate danger
OF typhus and other diseases.
Leprosy, of which you read SO
much in the Bible, was disease
of filth; bathing has done away
with it.
To cure mans strange aversion
to cleanliness bathing was made
q solemn rite in many religions.
Bathing in the Jordan, bathing in
the Holy Go in other rivers
and lakes prdered on divine
under Q hot sun, compelled wash
ing several times a day. When
you look closely into religious rul-
ings you find that they have prac-
tical as we'll as spiritual value.
The King of Spain wires his
prime minister to put the Spanish
court in mourning twenty-one days
for Eugene, formerly French En-
press. This doesn't restore the
French empire, SO it does no harm.
Now, ladies and gentlemen with
ouija boards or psychic powers,
mediums, and all those that talk
with the dead" sho1ld try COM
munication with Eugene.
BY this time she has probably met
her husband, Napoleon III, who
used to sit in little French res
taurant near A. T. Stewart'ss old
New York drygoods store in Cham
bers street, fixing the salad skill
fully while telling Greeley and Ray
mond, who laughed at him, that he
would one day be Emperor of the
French.
One. that lunched with him
there, afterwards lunched with him
in Paris when he was Emperor.
All that is past history. The
world would like to know, how
things 90 at present. What hap
pens, across the abyss, to an en-
peror whose wife drives him into
a war that ruins a nation and kills
hundreds of thousands-what hap
pens 10 the wife? Is all forgotten
and forgiven by Divine Justice,
when an old woman of ninety-four
goes into the grave? Probably.
Mrs. Benedict LIE Croix, of Wor-
cester, has given birth to four chill
dren at once; three are alive. All
four were boys.
The father is proud. When a
man has one son he feels that he
has done something extraordinary.
The thing must go up in geomet-
rical ratio, so probably Mr.. LeCroix
is sixteen times as proud as any
other father. The LIE Croix couple
in six years have had thirteen chill
dren-three sets of twins, one of
triplets, and now four at a time.
Fortunately for the world, the
simultaneous birth of four chill
dren occurs only one time in 757,
600, according to statisticians.
Were four at a time the regular
birth-rate, the principel occupation
of human beings would be killing
each other off to keep down popu-
lation, as the farmers kill rabbits
in Australia.
Express companies ask permis-
sion to remain in one big express
trust because they want to borrow
thirty-one millions, and can do it
more conveniently as trust.
Naturally, they can do it more
conveniently, as the lenders will
know that they hold first mort
gage on the quick freight service
of the United States.
There ought to be one great
express company trust, and 1T