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The New York herald., 1921-12-04
OUR WEALTH UNDERGOING A WIDE REDISTRIBUTION
Very Rich Fewer Middle Glass Better Off, Income Tax

ment as to average earnings throughout
the United States it is fairly clear that the
Internal Revenue Bureau is unusually eff
cient in forcing payment from unwilling
taxpayers.
There are 105, 100000 residents of the
United States, according to the official
census reports. And the average number
Of persons to family is more than four
and less than five To that individual in
clined to ask how it is possible to consider
a fraction of an individual, it must be re-
called that this is an average.
About 5000, 900 Families
With Taxpayer in Each
Taking these reports, it would appear
that for taxpaying purposes there are
roughly 23,O00.00O family groups in the
United States. Theoretically, at least, ono
person in each group is direct payer Of
Federal taxes. And there now are on the
tax rolls only one-quarter of this number.
But in a very large number of family
groups the net income Of no member ex
ceeds $1,000 a year. the point at which
income becomes taxable.
Approximately 100000 persons are
regularly at work in industrial pursuits,
Labor Davis. Reports to the Labor De-
partment indicate that the average
amount earned by the industrial worker
at present is slightly below $1,000 year.
The industrial family groups, therefore,
must be deducted from the theoretical
number of Federal taxpayers, leaving a
total of 100000 families which should
come within the operations of the Inter
nal Revenue Bureau.
Further deduction must be made for
large number of farm laborers and farm
managers and proprietors whose incomes
are a matter of doubt, because few farm
ers keep careful books on their receipts
and disbursements. There are 100000
farm managers and owners in the United
States.
On this basis, therefore, It would appear
that the total number of persons eligible
to pay Federal income taxes now does not
exceed 100000.
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

Total ax-collected s1.1sz721.sa5 10000
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
{ IIGHLY significant to students

IGHLY significant to students
of economics are the income
tax figures presented in the
accompanying article. The vast in
crease in the persons paying on
moderate incomes, the greater num-
Der earning up to $4,000 yearly and
the startling decline in the number
paying on incomes of $I,ooo,ooo or
over mark redistribution of
wealth that seems sure index of
general prosperity.
Study of the comprehensive table
is certain to interest every taxpayer
and is bound to crafty all with the
welfare of the nation at heart
Easily deduced from it is a picture
of more general comfort for the
many, more farreaching content
ment and a richer, happier nation.
Even more Illuminating is the ar
ticle itself analyzing these figures.
BY RALPH F. COUCH.
Special Correspondence to THE NEW YORK
HERALD.
Copyright, 1921, By THE New York HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington. D. c., Dec. 3.
n TEARLY 100000 men and women
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-10-30
HARDING USES GOAT TACTICS

President Harding, in his Bir-
mingham speech, made an appeal to
the white people of the South to give
the black man what he already has,
namely, a chance in the agricultural,
commercial, industrial and education
al activities of our section.
An Industrious negro is able, any
where in the South, to own few
acres of land. BY good management
he may add to it from year to year
until he owns a good-sized farm. The
bale of cotton the negro raises brings
the same money in the market as the
bale of cotton produced by the rich
est white planter.
If he manages well, the negro may
send his children to school and make
of them teachers, preachers, lawyers
doctors, dentists, etc, and as such
they are in a position to uplift their
race. We have here in Columbus
negro teachers, a negro doctor, a
negro printer, a negro undertaken, etc.
SO long as they keep their places they
are helped and encouraged by the
white people.
Social and political equality are two
things that are never to be considered
by any self-respecting Southern white
man. And when the over-ambitious
negro reaches out after these things
he finds himself in water so deep that
he is drowned.
In this connection we are reminded
of a conversation that took place be-
tween two Mississippi negro soldiers
who were returning to the United
States from service abroad during the
World War. The two cotton makers
were discussing what they would do
when they got back TO Columbus.
"Whut you goin' to do, MOse?"
asked one.
"Wcll, Alexander replied the
other. as he looked dreamily across
the steamers rail at the horizon be-
yond, "When I gifts back TO Columbus,
Ise gwinc to put on white shoes,
white pants. a white coat and a white
tie, and Ise gwine to strut down
Market Street wild de white folks.
Whut yos gvine to do? /
"Huh, y came back the reply; Else
gTine % put on black shoes, black
pants, a black coat and black tie, and .
Ise gu-ine to walk down the Columbus .
streets, too-behiu' 20 hearse.'
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-10-30
WHY GO TO CHURCH TODAY?

If you were suddenly called upon to answer
that question, what would your answer be?
Because it is the proper thing to do" some
might say.
The wisdom of all Of the ages combined could
not give an answer that would do justice to the
Subject The wisdom of all of the ages to come
will not answer the question as it should be
answered
The life we enjoy, the intelligence we possess.
the food we eat, the clothing we wear, all that
I'VE have on this earth and all that we ever hope
Ito have is dependent upon the will of the Creator
Every step we take, every word we utter, every
thought that finds Judgment in our brain--these
and all other things are known to Him who made
JUS and who will Judge us when the breath of life
leaves our earthly clay.
God endowed us with intelligence that we
might work out our own destinies
He calls His servants to the ministry that they
may point out to us the glories Of paradise and
the agonies of eternal perdtion.
The voice Of God pleads with us through them,
that life everlasting may be ours, but the divine
hand will not stay our steps if we choose to re-
pudate the debt that we owe to our Maker
The church is not essential to the worship Of
God. The true christian needs no ediice in order
to commune with divinity God follows us on our
journeys. He is with us in our homes, in our Of
fees, in the factory, and the field-wherever we
are. He also is there, silently reaching out His
arms and pleading with US to embrace the holy
cause that removes all of the fear and sting of
death.
The church is His schoolhouse and the Bible
is His textbook The minister is His teacher and
we are His pupils.
The public school buildings are used for the
secular education of our children, that they may
have success happiness and contentment in this
life
The church is for the spiritual education of our
children and of ourselves, that we may enjoy the
transcendent blessings of that higher life yet to
come.
In the theater or upon the athletic field we find
relaxation from our daily toll.
In the church we acquire the sublime know
ledge and faith that enables us to properly enjoy
the relaxations our earthly bodies crave.
Every normal mind seeks worldly knowledge.
That is not difficult to acquire.
Every normal mind should also imbibe spiritual
knowledge That is less difficult to acquire 1t is
even free-s urged upon us without price or con-
dition of acceptance. n
Worldly knowledge aids in removing the
obstacles which beset our pathway in this life
which is short. ian
Spiritual knowledge prepares our hearts for
the greater life-which never ends.
All of these things we learn in the church, the
schoolhouse Of God through the minister and his
aids, who are but the humble servants and mouth
pieces of God-that God without whose sanction
we would not live another day, or hour, or
minute.
Inadequate as our answer may be, is it not sut-
fcient for you?
Go to church today
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-10-30
E DIT 0 RIAL
TRANSPORTATION AT ALL HAZARDS

Whether the railroad difficulty is to be settled
or not it is to be hoped that both sides will have
been chastened by the enormity of the calamity,
threatened or actual.
Railroad transportation is the most important
necessity there is in wide land that holds one
hundred and five millions of human beings. 1t
is more important than food and the means Of
buying food because both depend on transporta-
ton so far as the mass of that one hundred and
five million human beings is concerned.
This nation cannot endure a prolonged eessa-
ton of railroad operations, anyway not until air
and motor transportation become more important
and dependable. AS matter of fact it should
not have to endure a shutdown of traffic for even
week or day.
/ Here is a problem for thinkers and statesmen
to solve: How to insure orderly and adequate
transportation facilities no matter what happens
in the way of human disagreement.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-10-30
Admission, 1Oc and zoe.

together two or three times a week
and hold prayer services. No one can
estimate the amount of good that
would have resulted"
The service was enjoyed by all pres
ent, and closed with an exhortation
from the pastor to do more for the
spiritual uplift Of the negro. ITO
your servants, your laborers, your
gardeners and your stable-boys, to all
the negroes who work for you and
with whom you come in contact, speak
word Of encouragement with refer
ence to leading better lives, and put
ting their trust in Him from whom
cometh all good" said he.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-10-30
DAD

He may wear a last years straw hat, his finger
nails may need manicuring; his vest may hang
little loose, and his pants may bag at the knees
his face may show signs of second days growth,
and the tin dinner bucket he carries may be full
Of dents and doughnuts; but don't you call him
''the old man." He's your father.
For years and years he has been rustling
around to get things together. Never once has
he failed to do the right thing by you. He thinks
you are the greatest boy on earth bar none, even
though you plaster your hair back, wear smart
clothes, smoke cigarettes and fail to bring home
cent. He is the man who won the love and life
partnership of the greatest woman on earth, your
mother.
: He is "some" man and not "the old man." If
you win as good wife as he did, you will have to
go some.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-10-30
Interesting Services
At M. E. Church
Continued from Page One. J


the floor of what is now the basement
Of the Jewish Synagogue, and else
where. They were following in the
light as it appeared to them, The ante
bellum negro enjoyed the privileges
of religious training to a large de-
gree White ministers preached to
them frequently, and white laymen
taught them. The Rev. George Shat
fer, for whom Shaffer's Chapel was
named, used to preach to negro con-
gregations every Sunday afternoon.
The Southern white people have done
much in the interest of the spiritual
advancement of the negro, and there
yet remains much to be DONE"
Mr.. Charles f. Sherrod was the
next speaker. Mr.. Sherrod said: "God
has been especially good and kind to
Columbus. This has been shown in
our freedom from storm and pestil-
ence through the century just past.
The first six years of my life were
spent on a plantation, where l was
thrown more or less with members of
the negro race. The black. people of
the ante-bellum days were we'll treat
ed. Especially was this true when the
slave-owner was a religious man. !
have seen white ministers preach TO
negro congregations, and ] have seen
the negroes reach out eargerly after
religious instruction"
The next speaker was Mr.. L. B.
Hopkins, a vestryman in Saint Paul's
Episcopal Church. Mr.. Hopkins said,
in part: "In the days before the war,
the Episcopal Church took a great in
terest in the religious training of the
black man. He was taught the
Apostles Greed the Lords Prayer and
the Ten Commandments, a good foun-
dation upon which to build a religious
life. Bishop Green, grandfather of
our present Bishop Green, manifested
much interest in the spiritual advance
ment of the negro. 1t was Bishop
Green who wrote the first prayer Of
the Confederacy, and for that act the
yankees burned his house to the
ground"
Mr.. A. H. Pegues, Sr., was the next
speaker. He stated that his early life
was spent on a plantation, where
there were many negroes. Said he:
"The religious training of the old
time negro was carefully looked after. !
Not only that, but their physical COM
fort was also a matter of concern
with the white people. / remember
when my mother tenderly cared for
negro children, who, like her own
were suffering from measles. /
We should do more for the negro in a
religious way. There is a fine field
right here at home for home mission
airy work among the black people. ]
visited the negro Methodist Sunday
School not long ago and was most
cordially received and given respectful
attention"
The next speaker was Mr.. J. ".
Iemison, an old-time railroad man.
lie said: an the olden days the negro
ooked up to the white man and had
aith in him. Il was easy then to
instruct them in the way Of life. It
S more difficult now. used to run
construction train. I had seventy
i've negro men working under my
Erection. ! kept them from drinking
nd from using prOfsne language, but
regret now that I did not cal them
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-10-30
STATS DIARY

! Friday-The What Air Behalf Club
met at are house tonite & pa & me
sit in and got are the ear & are eyes
full. Wimen is really amuseing when
they aren't emmy strings tide on to
them. sum of These was marryed e.
sum wisht they was & vicy versy. !
lady which's 40st birthday was in the
pass tents sed Well deers tell you
thing. The Man witch marrys me
mussent fear any thing Pa nugged
me in the rib & nearly made me grunt
out loud & he sed That amt no durn
lie heather.
Saturday-Tonite being pay day ma
was wandering how we shud ought to-
spend the ewing & money & she sed
Less spend the ewing at sum unusual
place & pa snapped her UP & says
All rite deer less stay at home once.
So we compromised & went to a pit
cher show.
Sunday-Several kids put in birth
day offerings witch is l ct for each.
years age they are of. The Teacher
asst 1 kid what date did his birthday
cum upon & he replyed & sed he
wassent sure because it was clean at
the other end of his life.
Monday-At the pitcher show tonite
pa give up his seat to Miss Bell e.
she smiled & thanks him & he says
o that's nothing | been giveing up
to others ever since / cud Toddle. She
snickkered & sed o can you Toddle.
/ just love it don't you. Ma glansed
up then & pa glued his eye to the
Screen & his Mouth shut.
Tuesday-Mr. Gillem says bisness
at the store is getting rotten & he
has CRATE deal Of difficulties in
meating expenses. Pa sed he diddent
have no trouble meating expenses &
that he meets sum evry time he turns
a round.
Wednesday, see lot Of fun he'd
for this winter. We have dissided to
bid house in the Spring. pa wants
Square story house & ma prefers
dutch clonial. so l CESS / viii be
satisfide because | all ways did like
the Clonials.
Thursday-pa is going to go to wirk
at the noosepaper tomorro. my xper-
fence will be of Value to him. He
is letting his hare grow long & smoke
ing a pipe all the time now. / think |
will stick a round & see him when
they go to Press. m assays he ought
to make a good noosepaper man as he
never was emmy good for emmy thing
else.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-10-30
WHEN GRAIN TUMBLES

Wheat is selling for less than 81 bushel in
the Northwest and sheed corn has been sold by
Iowa and Nebraska farmers as low as % cents a
bushe The price in the Chicago market is con-
siderably higher, but the western farmer cannot
get the larger fgure-in fact, nobody seems to
want his corn at any price and some of the grow
ers may be forced to burn it for fuel. Take it
all around and the farmer cannot be said to be
having very merry time of it just now. He has
to pay rather high price for labor and for ev-
erything else he buys, while his own production
goes a-begging. He had his fling two years ago
and made the usual mistake of thinking it would
last forever. The man who has farm he can
handle with his own hands and who raises varied
crops is absolutely independent but the agricul-
turist who stakes his all on corn or cotton is
frequently at the mercy of an adverse market.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-10-30
HONEY Philosophy

How often do we say to another, "Well, you are
welcome to your opinionw And how often do we
mean it? Not oncel Under the skin we are
peeved at the other fellows opinion. Yet what a
humdrum world this would be if it were not that
humans have different notions about things
incidentally, next time you say to a man. you
are welcome to your opinion" try to say it whole
heartedly and with an expression in your face
that shows plainly that you really mean it. Then
note how that fellow warns up to you. You'll
convert many man to your own opinion by doing
that very thing
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-10-30

Even soft coal is hard to buy.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-10-30
FRIED IN HIS OWN FAT

In Chicago a home-brewer was overcome BY
the fragrance of a huge cask of wine he was
making He fell head foremost into the butt
and was found drowned, with head immersed and
body protruding from the cask by neghbors who
explored the cellar the next day. This should
serve as a terrible warning to domestic tipplers.
Look not upon the brew when it is red and moveth
itself Alright. Also when on an inspection tour
be careful to take husky friend with YOU. To
be drowned like the princes of the tower in a
butt Of Malmsey wine is a wet and unhappy end
ing.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-10-30

All the wild ideas of unbalanced agtators the
world over, in their ignorant and pitiable quest
for happiness through revolution, confscation of
property, and crime cannot overthrow the eternal
truth that the one route to happiness through
property or government is over the broad and
open highway of service. And service always
means industry, thrifty, respect for authority,
and recognition of the rights of others.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-10-30

When President Harding visited Birmingham
on October p to participate in the celebration Of
the Doth anniversary he was the first Republican
Cmef Executive since the days of William Nc
hlnley to invade Alabama. Birmingham was
comparatively a small town then. Senator Under
wood was the host of President and Mrs. Harding
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-10-30

Willard and Dempsey have signed for another
prize fight" and the dear American people will
fall for the bunk as usual The sport promoters
give the folks just what they insist upon paying
their money TO see.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-10-30

The Middle State Governors are in session at
Des Moines, Iowa, but on account Of prohibition
the historic remark of the Governor of North
Carolina to the Governor of South Carolina is not
in evidence.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-10-30

A memorial tablet has been erected for the
mules that persisted in the war. This viii be ap-
preciated by the overseas vets who are without
the price of a meal.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-10-30

Cold weather is coming, a shortage Of coal is
said to exist, and in some Of the mines the men
are reported TO be working about half time.
What's the graft?
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-10-30

The government expenses decreased S25.OOO,-
600 during the month Of September Go to It,
Charlie Dawes.
The Lamar register., 1921-10-26
Trailing.

On a recent Sunday a big metro
politan newspaper gave page spread
to wise man of the East New York;
who not only predicted another great
war, but gave the exact year and al
most the hour. How many newspa-
pers sensed within a year. or 4 month,
or even fortnight the great calami
ty that came to mankind in 1914
Not one. How many were accurate
as to its duration even to a year? Not
one.
Facts as to cotton crop conditions
were in the hands of the press and
public for weeks and months. How
many of our wise financial writers
sensed the trerhendous change the pub
lication of the report would make not
only to the whole South, but in fact
to the entire financial world? Not
one. We have heard such wise men
predict the turn in the tide of bust
ness. Can you name one who has been
correct? No.
We eagerly scan the news to learn
what some great captain of finance
thinks and we quiver and shake if his
views are adverse. Have you discov-
cred him to be correct in his surmises
and predictions? Not at ALL Why be
a trailer after a lifetime Of such ex-
periences? Why not think for your
self, summon your courage and bend
your energy to business? Sometimes,
indeed most frequently. we do not
realize what We have within our grasp.
Do you know that one of the original
largest owners of the Ford Company's
shares sold them just before the COM
psny achieved its oigness. to invest in
4 gold mine7
We do not think. We guess and We
trail. Why not lead, each one of us?
This is the hour FOR self-confidence
ard work.-Har-iman Natl. Bank IN.
Y. City, Ad.
The Lamar register., 1921-10-26

misses of a new era" and new Or
der of mankind" Mr.. Harding has
seen the consequences of dangling pro-
misses impossible of fulfillment before
the credulous. He beheld with pain
the backwash of disillusion that swept
over the world when the peoples dis
covered that their idol had feet of
clay.
The President has no dislike of senti-
ment and fine phrases, but he is prac-
tical and knows that glib words and
formulas cannot transform mankind
over night. He shows n wholesome
appreciation of the difficulties which
confront the conference; and this
knowledge bids him not to raise false
hopes.
To accuse the President of lack Of
high purpose because he refuses to
predict miracles shows blindness to
the truth that great things are usual
ly achieved without preliminary boast
of high intent. 1t is to the credit of
the President that he is no millennial-
list. The present generation has had
enough of such. The program maker
who stubbornly upholds the sacredness
of his plan is pest. His ecstasies
may be sincere, but this does not take
away their harmfulness.-Sew York
Tribune.