The Washington times., 1921-01-27
Today
: Power In Opinion.
Health In Suspenders.
Island Of Hogs, 6ood-by.
Moving Pictures Teach.
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WIN VPAsAtOh sPF~
has some power.
The Governor of New York an-
nounced his intention to give the
street car trust of the greatest
American city what II wanted
the right to break contract.
Immediately the battered, dis
NAL street car stocks went up.
public opinion expressed itself.
Those stocks became more dismal
than ever and fell down again. IL
is possible to interest Americans
in public affairs by putting your
hand directly into their pockets.
Corporations s~i officials forget
that.
Some person is advertising this:
~Be Comfortable, Wear Suspen-
ders."
You may smile, but that Is Inn
portant advice. A man, especial
iy If fat, who, with tight belt.
fastens the weight Of his trousers
to his highly sensitive insides' m
stead of putting the weight on his
(. bony shoulders, makes serious
mistake.
The tight belt is one dangerous
kind Of foolishness. The high or
tight collar pressing on the pneu-
mogastric nerve and the great
blood vessels of the neck Is equally
foolish.
BE comfortable, wear suspen-
ders, wear loose collar, and give
your interior machinery a chance"
is excellent advice. If it helps
suspender manufacturers, SO much
the better.
Hog Island will now finally
close. The spot where hundreds
Of millions were spent, wasted,
and stolen, "may become barren
waste" Thus ends one chapter
of shameful profiteering and
sauandering. 1t ought to have
put many men in Jail. Instead.
II made them rich with the peo-
pies money, and in some cases,
enabled them to add medals, deco
rations, and patriotic reputation"
to profiteering.
A barren waste where hundreds
of millions were thrown away, and
small amount bid bv a "junking
concern"for the stuff that is left.
Very appropriate.
1t reminds you Of the end OF the
huge, useless Colossus of Rhodes,
broken up for the metal and car
ried away on camel-back by a
junk dealer.
VIII moving pictures >injure the
minds OF young people, and cut
down the reading Of good books?
They will not, although John Cot
ton Dana, head of Newark's pub
lie library, one of the ablest, most
useful librarians, thinks they will.
When our kind of writing re-
placed hieroglyphies those that
wrote in pictures thought that
literature was doomed. Writing
was made too easy. "a
When printed books replaced
hand-written, illuminated manu-
script, literature was dead. 1t was
too cheap.
When Daguerre proved that he
could use sunlight to make pic
lures, art was on it's last legs.
But Ruskin knew that photog-
raphy would make great works
of art familiar to everybody, also
great buildings and all the won
derful things on the planet, and
thus increase Intellectual interest
and intellectual effort. -.
What still photography has done
in a small way, moving pictures,
planting ideas instantaneously,
will do in a great way for mil
lions of human beings.
"Give light and the people will
find their own way"
Give knowledge, in any form,
and the people will use it, and find
their way.
Income tax authorities tell you
that only. one man in the United
States reports, for taxation, an in
come of five million dollars. Any
one of six big lawyers in the
United States can name a differ
ent list of six men, every one OF
the thirty-six with five million
dollars income at least. Some
men have ten, fifteen, and twenty
million dollar incomes. What the
biggest income is nobody knows;
but it is certainly more than fifty
millions, "and you may lay to
that"
This does not mean necessarily
that the rich are, dodging the in
come tax. Some take stock divi-
dends instead of cash dividends;
the Government gets nothing
and the Supreme Court has al
lowed It.
Others have their money in
vested in securities that cannot
be taxed. A doctor or little bust
ness man, with ten thousand
year, must pay taxes. The man
whose millions are invested in
State or municipal bonds pays
nothing on the income. In the
United States are FORTY THOU
SAND MILLION DOLLARS OF
SUCH SECURITIES, all free from