The Washington times., 1921-06-03

Good Work-Good Pay.
We Die Too Soon. (
Going DOWN.. S. Bonds.
No Brag, No Power.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. I92iJ

Inc locomotive enRlHecis HdNo
raised the salary of Mr.. Stone,
grand chief of the brotherhood,
from $14,5O0 to $4,000. A wise
action. Railroads think nothing of
paying a corporation lawyer $780,
900 for a years work. Workers
should pay their leaders full value
for good service. If the leader
isn't worth good salary, change
him and get man that is worth
it. Workers are going to need good
leaders in the next few years.
"William Rockefeller celebrates
eightieth birthday spending ten
hours at his desk. 26 Broadway"
That tells how some Americans
work, will not, cannot stop work
ing.
It also reminds men in old age
that work really doesn't hurt them
IL they like it. What we like is
digested easily.
What is unusual in William
Rockefeller, long days work at
eighty, should be nothing unusual
In any healthy man. Eighty
should be an age of full vitality.
Death would not come before one
hundred and forty-four, if men
knew how to live.
Liberty bonds suddenly drop
because the Federal Reserve Bank.
controlling credits, puts Govern
ment bonds in second place as col
lateral for loans.
First place is given to income
tax-free securities issued by States
and cities. ...
Do YOU know why those securi-
ties are preferred? 1t is because
big men that control money invest
in tax-exempt securities to dodge
income tax. Then they arrange
TO borrow heavily on those securi-
ties, putting their tax-dodginp
bonds ahead of the peoples bonds.
Interest on their loans they de-
duct from income tax, and inter-
est they get from those tax-exempt
securities pays no income tax at
all. That shows how foolish it is
to be a little man in a republic
that is managed so intelligently
for big men.
Mademoiselle Lenglen, wonder
full French woman who can jump
into the air as high as a game
cock, says she will beat the Scan
dinavian lady and American cham
nion. Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt NAL
lorv. Go, Go when they meet.
That's the right spirit. The rooster
that won't crow won't fight and the
human being that has no brag IN
him has little else in him.
The French have always an
nounced quite calmly that they
were the greatest people in the
world. and very often they have
gone out and proved 1t.
Jobn Wanamaker, who has left
three-score and ten far out Oh
SIGHT and is working harder than
ever. made a good speech about
athe right use of money"
The best use of money Is 10
Ieen it usefully working, pro
ducing what other people need,
employing men and women use
fully at good wages. Charity Is
admirable, but the best thing for
money and men is hard, produc-
tive work, and Mr.. Wanamaker
knows it.
"Henry Ford has finished build
ing his first 100000 motor
cars"
Who would have predicted such
an achievement few years ago :!
Almost any industrial miracle is
possible. i.
A man trying to give highest
value for lowest price, instead
of trying to get highest price
for lowest value, has turned out
more than two thousand million
dollars worth of merchandise.
II means, what is infinitely more
important, that millions of Amer
'icans, especially farmers and
small business men, have saved
thousands of millions of hours of
valuable time. 1t means, most
important, that millions of fami-
lies have known, united, the
pleasure of travel, fresh air,
stimulating, beneficial excitement,
II is not possible to overestimate
the value of such service as
Henry Ford has rendered, indus
trially and spiritually, to the
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