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The Washington times., 1921-10-31
failing A Pay Padder
4 FEDERAL COURT has just performed extraordi
"a nary act 1t has actually sent to Jail the genera

4 FEDERAL COURT has just performed an extraordi
~ nary act 1t has actually sent to Jail the genera
manager of a railroad after Federal jury had
found him guilty of having padded the expenses Of h
railroad when it under Government control for the
purpose OF robbng the Government and making it
if Government management had been extravagant Thu
Court also fined the railroad for having continued this
in office
1t only few months ago that the employees of tl
big Eastern railroads called the attention of the Inter
state Commerce Commission contracts which the rail-
roads had made with private locomotive works for repairs
of the locomotives which could have been made in the rail
road shops for about onefourh the price agreed upon
these contracts
The Interstate Commerce Commission summoned thu
presidents before the Commission for explanation but
made any satisfactory explanation. The contracts
were cancelled.
This is the kind of thing, through course of year.
which, though they make monaires destroy the credit q
the railroads and public confidence in the integrity o
private railroad management.
There to be to correct the bad system OK
to restore the public faith So vital public function
transportation cannot be controlled and administered for
private profit 1t is public function and it must be per
formed SUCH "a
Our railroads must be operated operate maik
and water supply, and sewage and publR
schools and parks and all other public functions.
Let all remember that the first suggestion that
have PUBLIC schools attacked just bitterly pub
lie ownership of transportation now is.
The first suggestion that operate the highways
the bridges which owned by private companies
attacked just bitterly.
Every step in human progress is opposed by those VIII
profit by present conditions and want change. Th
progress opposed the ground that il would take
away private profits but always the false ground tha
it is contrary to the public interests.
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THEY'RE HUMAN
AthertOn Du Puy-

Senior don Federico Alfonso Pezet, ambassador
extraordinary and plenipotentiary from Peru to
the United States is man OF much experience,
having occupied every position In the diplomatic
service of his country from clerk to ambassador.
He is also fast his intellectual feet, as was
demonstrated upon occasion some time ago
when he was billed far in advance to address
the chamber of commerce of the city of Boston
upon the trade situation in Latin America
On the afternoon preceding the evening on
which he was to speak the Boston Red Sox after
a phenomenal series, had captured the baseball
pennant and the Hub City was transformed by
an hystera of rejoicing. The chamber of com
merce, however, whipped it's members into line.
explaining the importance Of the address of the
evening, and filled the hail. 1t was obvious, how
ever, that the mind of this audience was upon
the national game and not on foreign trade. a
fact which the veteran diplomat Immediately
sensed. He realized the futity of holding to his
prepared speech
Now this man Pezet. this Peruvian. yields to
no nephew of Uncle Sam fan. There is
never a game played within his reach that he
does not see, and he reads the sporting news
ahead of the front-page stories.
So Pezet talked on baseball. He reached into
the file of his sportsmans mind and dug up all
the Waterloos and Gettysburgs and Marnes Of
the diamond there filed away and lived them
over with his audience. For two hours he talk
ed baseball to them and never mentioned Latin
American trade.
have been his ever since when he returned to
Boston with commercial message TO deliver.
Mr. Marshall Morgan, Assistant Solicitor Of the
State Department, went down the Eastern
Sho Of Maryland fishing. and down there he met
Ira X Caulk, one of the "fust families" just
then engaged in running for sheriff and aftor.
ward elected.
Mr. Caulk had announced that, he were
elected, he would suppress all traffic in bad
LIQUOR" The Anti-Saloon League got after him
and tried to get him to delete the adjective, but
retired without accomplishing results.
These tidewater folks have sterling qualities,
Mr.. Morgan says. At Sheriff Caulk's house, for
instance, there always much company. OF
summer nights they would sit out on the gal
lery" and sometimes forget the passing of time.
This genial host, however, would not allow any
interference with his schedule for hitting the hay.
When the evening was properly advanced he
would opine to his wife:
sally" he would say, Tets go to bed. Some
Of these folks may be wanting to go home"
Senator Frank r. Willis Of Ohio went home
during the recent recess of Congress and painted
his house with his own hands--and a paint brush.
Copyright, 1920
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Then 1t occurred to me that he had
made the same exclamation once or
twice before during the same converse
ton. In a few minutes he made 1t
again and began to take notice and
call for particulars.
"Oh, he said, life IL becoming so
intricate, so involved, so mixed up that
il is difficult to tell what will happen
as the result of any act. Government,
finance and industry are daily becom-
ing more mixed in a maze that human
Ingenuity seems incapable OF untangl-
ing. Those fellows down at Washing
ton pass laws without any more
knowledge Of what effects they will
produce than they might have IL they
were children.
Laws Have Reverse English"
They pass a law to do one thing and
Il does the reverse. They press but
ton here and a totally unexpected ex-
plosion happens there. This Is so be-
cause the whole fabric Of our civfliza-
ton is becoming SO intricate that no.
body can follow it's designs.
ct began to notice this many years
ago when a legislature out west passed
a law giving a bounty for the killinB
wears later that in the absence Of
coyotes, ack.rabbite were multiplying
40 rapidly that the law had to be re-
pealed and a bounty offered for the
killing of rabbits.
And forty years ago, Herbert
Spencer wrote some wonderfully
Illuminating chapters on the COM
nlexity OF civilization In his day.
Spencer took up thirty-four laws en-
acted by the British Parliament Tor
the relief of the poor and demonstrated
! thai thirty-two of those laws actually
harmed the poor. Oh, but Spencer
was great man. He had the nnest
Train that England ever produced.
Spencer Had 1t Easy Then.
"But the complexity of civiliza-
ton in Spencer's day was as moth.
ing in comparison with what 1t IL
now. The curve Of complexity is
rising rapidly, whereas OUT ability
TO cope with the problem Of COM
plexity is increasing only very
slowly"
| that shows the fear that shadows
his mind.
"I don't know what will happrn
TO us in fifty years" said he. 'if this
thing keeps on"
Edison apparently believes we
would pull our way out II we would,
but he seems not optimistio over the
prospect that we will. A card on a
wall in his laboratory tells the story
of his doubts. 1t Is a sentence from
the writings of Sir Joshua Reynolds,
THERE Is No EXPEDIFNT TO
WHICH A MAN WILL NOT RE
SORT TO AVOID THE REAL LA.
BOR OF THINKING"
Reynolds was right" said Edison.
thinking is the hardest thing In the
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VISITS AND NEIGHBORS.
Ry i. j. MIINDY.

That man who livs next door may like to take
his pipe and go over and smoke and talk to his
neghbor but how about taking up much of
the mans time that his wife never has minute
to talk with him alone?
When a husband returns at night n wife should
expect at least a little time to visit with her life
companion.
EaB talk and children's topics are interesting
to her, perhaps but she longs TO match her mind
with a grown.up once in a while who has interest
in common.
or course, you should not he unneighborly
as to stay at home go outside somewhere all
the time, but It IL understanding and balance
you need, even where such things neighbor-
liness is concerned.
Your wife's wishes and the wife Of the other
fellow should be thought of
1t is easy to wear out your welcome"
II YOU realize that your visits not returned
that is pretty good hint but It is not infallible
of course, because SOME persons Just stay at home
from force Jr habit, and vet they like company.
But don't force your visits, for the presence
OF the chronic neighborhood visitor Is the worst
kind of a bore.
Copyright. 1871.
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We TOWNE GOSSIP
Registered U. 8. Patent Office.
BY X. C. b.

Monday. In Bed.
Dear X. C. B.-I am just little girl and
have been in bed in hospital for several
years. have no mother and my father is
far away, and my brothers haven't sent me
card for year. And dear X. C. B., maybe
you have been sick in bed. If you have, you
know how cheerful it feels to know that folks
remember you. So, Mr.. Beaton, won't you
please ask the friends and relatives of sick
people if they won't just drop them line or
a card or something. If they only knew what
it means I'm sure they would. Thank you
very much for your time, Mr.. Beaton.
Yours respectfully,
Your little friend,
ROSIE.
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world for those to do who have nj
formed the habit. After one he
formed the habit, 1t is not 80 harl
But everywhere in the world we q
men trying to escape the full use |,
their minds.
"In business affairs, the tendency
to escape thinking. In the board
directors of a great corporation, II
man with the glibbest tongue is like
to swing the rest simply because the
do not want to take the trouble
think out problems for themselves"
1t is strange thing that real
great men never seem to think tn
the things they do are great. Edis<
says 1t is not 30 hard to think VIII,
one has formed the habit. Hem
Ford honestly believes that evcrythii
he has done is simplicity itself al
feels that he is just at the beginnif
of his career, during which he ms
yet do something worth while. E
son told me today of profile
brought to him by a concern of inte
national reputation. He saw II
cause of the difficulty that trouble
them.
They Couldn't See Il.
II saw IT as plain as day" he al
'and tried my best to make them .,
1t. but I don't believe they saw It."
/ called Edison's attention to Ford
railway achievements; how he hs
taken a broken-down road that wa
losing money and made II pay; ho'
other American railway men had trie
to belittle his performance by deciai
ing that he had Mace his road pa
only by diverting to II his own grea
automobile traffic: now the fact wa
and Is, as the reports on file with tn
Interstate Commerce Commission d
washington show, that the preseu
traffic on Ford's road, with his auto
mobile traffic added, is less now tha
was the traffic two years ago, whe
the road was losing money; and I e,
planned that this deer ease In presen
traffic was due to the fact that wha
Ford had added was not as much a
the road had lost by reason of tn
general business depression.
Edison's eyes twinkled.
Says Autocrat lis Best.
Ford can do lot of things this
other men cannot do" he replies
Ford is an autocrat. He does nc
have to ask anybody's consent to d
anything. And he knows what I
do. He is genius. An autocrs
Is the best kind of a man to ri
an industry or Rovernment--pr.
vided he Is a good autocrat. n,
there is Just about as much ohanc
to find good autocrat, when yo
are looking for one, as there
chance that lightning will strike 70
when YOU are out in the rain. Thu
ls why our form OF government. slo'
as It is. is the best. A good sut'
/ crat would give us better aoverI
ment, but II would probably be
long while between good autocratyl
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TranspIanting Eyes.

DR.. Koppanyi, OF Vienna,
tells of wonderful expert.
ments he has made in the
transportation Of eyes. He
has transferred new eyes to
fishes and rats by Joining
up the optic nerves, and
the subjects have regained
their sight.
The Washington times., 1921-10-31

ORANGE, N j., Oct. 31--In form another, th
thought coming to all the world that this civiiza
ton may be about to collapse heard the thought rumbn
Thomas A. Edsons mind when talked to him in his lab
oratory and at first did not know what We had beef
talking about number of things Pretty his broy
wrnked his face assumed aspect almost of pain and
exclaimed
Everything is becoming conpex-so complex"
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Total tax. .ZoUO
Or 3.3 per cent of the retail price.
Would the pair of shoes still con-
tinue to sell for $500, or for, say,
1921 That would depend upon
competition. The effect of the Sales
Tax in any case is seen to be negli-
gible. On other articles the percent
age is similarly low. On clothes it
is 2.61 per cent; on beef, 2.25 per
cent; on pork, 1.S7 per cent; on
bread, 2 per cent (or less than one
sixth of a cent per Loaf, etc., etc.
The higher-income people would
pay more under the Sales Tax than
those of moderate means, because
they spend more, but they would
rarely, of course, pay as much in
proportion. The income tax, how
ever, would equalize that, and pro-
vide for tax payment in proportion
to wealth.
We are facing an emergency. The
vast amount needed to run the Gov
ernment-heritage Of the war-can
not be raised under the present sys-
tenn. The endeavor to make profit
able business stand the excessive
burden has resulted in commercial
stagnation, has swept capital out of
business, strangled enterprise, and
fostered unemployment. 1t has been
a distressing failure, and the whole
burden of taxation has fallen on the
consumer.
A fair and wide distribution of
the burden in such a way that it
will not be felt must be substituted.
The Sales Tax is the only kind of
tax which fills the requirements in
every particular.
The objection that the burden is
borne by the low-income man is alb
solutely indefensible. The chief
meri. of the Sales Tax is the chief
argument of its opponents. The
Sales Tax, as ] have said, is a con-
sumption tax, pure and simple. But
as | have said, for $50 years, from
q Federal standpoint, this country
The Washington times., 1921-10-31

7 IFE Of a hero is about
as private as an enlisted
mans boudoir. Being a
buck" in the rear ranks
means you get one buck a
day. Slogan of doughboy is
Mother day. mother dol
lar"
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sumption taxes. We raised 81, ,OOO,-
100000 a year (and it is not hard
to remember the first billion dollar
Congress), entirely and exclusively
by consumption taxes.
They were the customs collected
at our ports; they were the excise
taxes added on the purchases of to-
bacco and liquor; they were every
kind of tax that was paid indirectly
by the ultimate consumer, and they
raised $1,000,000,000, and nobody
complained.
Nobody in street cars, or in rail
road smoking cars, ever had
neighbor speak to him about tax
alton and its drawbacks. No busi-
ness man ever complained that he
could not raise all the money he
needed in his business because tax
alton had driven money into hiding
where business could not get it.
1t is only when we raise our
money through consumption taxes
that money can not hide from tax
alton. The amount Of money that
this country needs, placed at $4,000
100000 in proportion to the s., ,OOO,-
100000 that was raised by the first
billion-dollar Congress, is almost
negligible. If we compare the pres
ent volume of business of this coun-
try, if we compare the wealth of
the country and the number of So
called millionaires, with the same
statistics of that day, present-day
figures are in almost every respect
fourfold.
Why, therefore, should $4,000
100000 today be such a terrific
burden, when $1,000,0OO,0O0 was not
at that timei It is because of the
method of raising it.
This Government collected $6,000,-
100000 of taxes in 1919, and I am
very sure that the people were
taxed $15,OOO,OOO,OOO in order that
the Government might get $6,000,-
100000. 1 can not prove this but
it has been reliably ascertained that
23.2 per cent was added to the cost
of things by the present method of
taxation, and that cost the con-
sumer paid in full.
Now the merit of Sales Tax is
that every cent that is charged to
the ultimate consumer for taxation
will go to the Government.
This problem of taking the bur
den away from business is purely
and simply up to the American
business man. If he will study the
question frst-and it is the easiest
question in the world to study:
What is a Sales Tax; what is the
best Sales Tax and does he want iti
And when he decides that he does
want it, and goes out to get it, then
the burden will be lifted. Or, if he
does not get it, he has the same op-
portunity eighteen months from
now that he had last November, Of
sending somebody to Washington
who will give it to him.
And that the business men of this
country are already well posted on
this question is shown by the result
of the United States Chamber of
Commerce recent referendum on the
Sales Tax. That result was a clear,
unequivocal expression in favor of
a Sales Tax, by an overwhelming ma
jority of the best business minds of
the country in every part of the
country.
The Sales Tax does not work any
injustice to the low-incomc man. 1t
takes the crushing pressure of taxes
off of business, and distributes the
The Washington times., 1921-10-31

FROM HER dad.
AND IN the letter.
A MESSAGE comes
TELL UNCLE
Ken.
ITO WRITE to me-"
AND so for you.
WHEREVER YOU
are.
I'LL TAKE the
message.
OF MY little friend.
AND SEND it on.
TELL SOME one
please.
ITO WRITE to me-"
AND so they will.
-
IF THEY can know.
HOW GOOD it is.
y
TO FEEL the thrill.
THE MESSAGE
brings.
TELL UNCLE Ken.
ITO WRITE to me-"
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Sales Tax ALL Goes TO
Government, Not PrOfteers

Those what the asute business thinks OF the Sales
Tax will be the following article written for The Nations
New York banker and student on axaon
The Washington times., 1921-10-31

MY DEAR Rosie.
AND ALL the little
girls.
IN ALL the
hospitals.
EVERYWHERE.
THIS is a letter.
JUST FOR you.
AND I'm writing it.
ON THE very day.
THAT A friend of
mine.
A LITTLE girl.
HAS BEEN put
away.
IN A plaster cast.
AND THE doctor
says.
WHEN THEY take
it Off.
SHE'LL WALK
again.
AND SHE hasn't
walked.
-
IN FIVE long years.
AND I have a letter.
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EIELD ARSE HAL of

EIELD M AR S HAL Of
France Is sleuthing
through America to see IL
prohibition is a fact or a
fancy. Discovered that you
can get more kick out of
solution of Twenty-Mule
Borax than any substitute
in America.
WAR CHIEF of Flanders
w would give gold braid to
escape from public scrutiny
for Just one day. Can't slip
across the street to get bet
down on spawned mule
without being photographed
in the act.
WRINKLED veteran Of
w Verdun Graves surcease
from pop-eyed public. This
goes for charity bazaars, cat
shows. 'possum hunts, and
Halloween inquests. But
he's got as much chance as
bon-bons In seminary.
COULDN'T disguise him
" self from sidewalk full
of spies IL he dashed out of
hotel dressed as bell hop.
Looks out of his automobile
to see ocean of gaping
mouths. dropping chins, and
wagging tongues.
CLIPS down side street
~ to get good look at
architecture and all he sees
is a posse OF red roses ex-
changing envious glances
with his tomato-colored
chapeau decorated with COM
plete set of scrambled eggs.
BY the time he's left town
he's witnessed all the civic
beauties lying between the
car tracks and the curb.
BEFORE leaving he makes
- an impromptu address
which he reads from care
fully prepared manuscript
while standing on the top
rung of postoffice steps.
nESPITE the fact that
~ city has run him ragged
over since he eased into its
acoustics, he assures hosts
he has enjoyed every minute
OF vacation and that he re-
turns to native cline in n
greatly refreshed and re-
juvenated state of fatigue.
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X. MILLER
His Idiotorial
Heroes

EERDINAND FOCH has
shaken hands with John
Pershing exactly eight mil.
lion times. A dozen or 80
In earnest, and the rest for
the moving pictures.
The Washington times., 1921-10-31

One of the first questions one
hears from anyone to whom the
Sales Tax is proposed (from one
who has not given the matter any
thought) is, "Does it not place the
! burden on the low-incorne mani"
First of all, it is not a burden.
The tax is so small that nobody
feels it. 1t is added to the price
of things, and not collected from
the purchaser as tax, so that 1t Is
not nuisance tax like the fifty
sales taxes in the present law
;of the soda-water, ice-cream, and
movie-ticket Variety.
It is not burden, because 1T re-
moves the many times greater price
burdens produced by taxes, and
which the consumer is now bearing.
1t is not burden, because the
amount which would be added to
the cost of things would be incon-
siderable-not on the average over
31a per cent. For instance, on a
pair of mems shoes retailing at $500
the 1 per cent tax added at each
stage from raw material to finished
product would increase the price
onlv "a cents: Tax
at 1%
l. Raw hide, raw ma
terials, etc. ...... $l.56 $O.Ol5b
2. Tanner sells leather
lOT ..... ......' -'oS 'NoS
8. Leather and find
ings as sold. ..... 3.l3 .O3l3
4. Manufacturer sells
pair of shoes to
jobber ......... 1888 .O3oo
5. Jobber sells to the
retailer ........ 4.e7 .o467
6. Retailer sells to
consumer ...... ZOO .o7oO
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Edison Fears Collapse
of Civilization; Asserts
CzarLsB Best in Bushes.
BY ALLEN L. BENSON,

International Ncws Service Special Corr espendent.
Copyright. 1871 BY the International Ne Services.
The Washington times., 1921-10-31

BEFORE leaving he makes
~ an impromptu address
which he reads from care
fully prepared manuscript
while standing on the top
rung of postoffice steps.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-21
RATE POWER ARGUED
Supreme Court Discusses Law max
Ing Budy's Jurisdiction in istab-
fishing ilaiirOnd IiHtrs.

WAsuINGTON oct 20. Tho first
tcat NJ power of couRtcsa to tz raj.
road rnDos within etqtps was argued
bcfoD tho United states supreme
court today A total Of O. ptntcH pr.
Joined 300 various Hults ln which lhiH
power iH challenged Tho specified
cuHe ntrurd today iA that Uf the Hint"
of Srw YORK denying the right NJ the
interstate commerce commission 60
raise tho passenger rate on tho Sow
York Central within New York tu 3 o
of the transportation act uf 1890 g."
attacked, land Will also bC attacked iu
similar suits p,udiuG
The - FtutDr attacking 'u, 1920
law hnvo aligned themselves into
two groups Tho flIat group which
Includes Sow York. prsbH and Huriu
Dakota. attacks th, rrGt Uf tuD frl
ctul government nv Or intrustnt"
rntrH ON roads whose ruf,H hnNr boon
previously fixed by franchise 'uu
.truot and stipulation Thr N,w York.
.Ccutrul got iH fruu.nIs" 20 bulid iH
road trpm Albany foo Eufitlu uu ruU.
ditiuu that Ut mo- time should lu9 pnH.
HanE,r rates between The two points
exceed 2 cents o mil,
Tho Hccord group be- headed by
WiHcuuHIu. backed bF % other states.
They attack th, 1890 low ON tho gen.
backgrounds that the Interstate com
NERVE ,omulHalOn has up right tu
regulate iuBtuatato rates under any
condition
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-21

64-inch round, mercer
lied table cloths with
scallOped edge and all
reldy for use; attractive
values and pretty pat
----.----
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TULSA
Park station. Iastun ami Guthrie.
Everett Hcpair Company, ~ North
Cheyenne
Oklahoma Garage. AIS North Main
Scarborough Motor Company, 62O
East Ihird
purdy Ortucr Auto Shop, Eighth aud
south Peoria.
Union Garage, 3i5 West second.
sinclair n Croscciosc, 1890 East
second
Tulsa Auto club Garage, 3i7 south
Denver
OH Guy Gnragc, eco North Main
u. q. Oilug Racks, Fourth ands
Boulder
Libcrty Garage. 81 ". second 81.
Whitaker Tire Co., 500 East SEQ
Ond 81
II. y. Hancock, i2O South Frankfort
Dealers Who Are Desirous G