The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-08-14

ought 10 flo n statement OF how
much no spent during tho year and
what ho rpout a. FOR, ana there
should ought 10 be- Excess Lusscs
Taxes AZ well as Excess Profits
Taxes rndcr the head Of Excess
LOSSES, Abe, ! would put the ditfor
ou'o ln tho nmouut Of money hr
sp,ut Tor supporting himself nud
family. and the amount he spent
foolshly ana II II appeared that "a
business man spcnt ten thousand
year 10 support his family aud
twelve thousand ON automobiles. auc-
tiou piuo,hlo, thOnytcr tickets and ~
forth down 10 three hundred dollars
70 case for whisky understand, !
would tax him a hundred per cont
of the two thousand dollars differ
cuco.'
Then its your idea that man
should ought to spend only as much
ON living ns he docs on amusement.
or vioo versa %" Abe asked
"For start" Morris said. "be-
cause its going 20 take some time
for people to realize that paying
thousand a year rent and two thou
sand 20 year % touring car aint what
you might cali exactly playing 'cm
clOs' 20 your chest. Abc--aud the
proper proportions being 900
year rout and f3l.2O year subway
tickets So therefore ! would have
tho government scale up this hero
CutEo Tax tll IT learned the people
economy
'W,U Ill tell you Mawruss," Aho
said, "as u teacher of economy yum
dcrstand, the government amt in
position to deliver no lectures on
How | Saved My First Thousand Dol
lars and What | Did with II. Take
| the L. :. battlcship Jersey city or
whatever It's name was. which these
/ here ayiators throw bombs at the
/ other day. and while | would be the
| last man I'm the world to knock tar
/ get practice, understand, on ac-
| count OF not knowing the first thing
| about II, understand me, still at tho
| same time II this amt an example
| Of "A government acting like n drunk
| on sailor. Mawruss, what is?"
But IA | understand II, Abe, this
/ here battlcship was n 1915 model
/ with nm Old fashioned dash and mud
/ guards and n dealer in used battle
/ ships probably wouldn't of given the
/ government moro than three or four
/ million for it" Morris said
Even so" Abe continued. some
| any tho United states government
/ viii need an extra hattlcship or so.
| and when the Secretary of the Navy
says TO Admiral Sims: How about
] the old L. s battlcship Jersey CITY
! that used to run between cuba and
/ West Palm Beach wouldn't that
/ do2" Admiral Sims would say:
/ why. don't you remember, we threw
| bombs at It I'm 1912 and then go
/ back to the hotel and give out an
/ interview to the reporters that the
/ Secretary of the Navy il such a dub.
/ he don't even remember the names
of tho battlCships the government
sunk In target practice"
but as | understand the idea,
Abe" Morris protested, the old.
fashioned way of throwing bombs
at wooden target painted to look
like battleship was very unsatis-
factory on account of not being able
TO tell how much damage was done
. ! NOu take the present scheme of
. bombing real battleship. and we
will say for example that one bomb
alone hits the rofrigcratlng plant
and destroys fifty tons OF porter
house steak, hundred crates OF
eggs, ninety barrels Of flour and
twelve dozen roasting chickens
y'understand. and it gives the gov
ornmont some notion OF how much
IL would set back the Japanese gov
Crnment, we would say, IN case the
bomb was being dropped on a Japa-
ncsc warship."
We'll, then why wouldn't 1t be
also a good idea to drop II bomb on
: We would say for example, tn,
knickcrboclcr avenue section OF
Brooklyu--and call 1t for bombinG
cs--Charlottcnburg or Untet
/ den Linden" Abe said, instead OF
/ dropping bombs on vacant lots as
, they do at present and only guessing
70 mt the number Of people that would
' have been killed or pounded and the
q number Of houses blown up, yum,
l dcrstaud, they would have definit,
t information to go ahead on. or, bot,
I ter still Mawruss, supposing they
I would have real bombs dropped by
aViators on that part Of the navy
, department building In Washington
( whore the desks of these men are
o who order real bombs to he dropped
, on second hand but still Valuabl,
O hattlcships, understand. They