The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-18


 Has there been sudden mortality among owners of great incomes? Or has plague come out of Egypt and smitten the s1,oo0.0oo and up in- comes?
 Probably not. Some of the money pay no income tax. Tens of billions of such securities are available. And also some of the men with big in- comes have learned how not to pay the government what 1t thinks 1t ought to get.
 If the United States collected fully the Income tax due, as such tax Is collected in England. for instance. it wouldn't be necessary to cheat the soldiers out of their bonus, or neces- sary to harass little men with heavy taxes.
 One man with an income well over the million mark. said to this writer, advocating change in the taxation system:
 Tn the first place. you won't get that tax on big incomes. you might as well make up your mind to that" and that was solemn truth.
 It is announced that the combined incomes of all the 66 men of 1919. with q million per year or more. amounted to only s152.s5o, 245.
 All financiers in the United States know what a joke that is. Three men. Henry Ford is one of them have combined incomes greater than that amount, if you include what they Ia have put safely beyond reach in non- taxable securities.
 Owners of Pennsylvania coal mines are evictfns families of miners on strike from company owned houses and putting in non-union miners brought In truck loads from West Virginia.
 About 30 families day are put on the sidewalks and strikebreakers put in. This is ali strictly legal whether 1t is strictly wise future events will show.
 Wherever you see . big important change in history you find that 1t was built upon a number of little streets st the rate of 50 day may be one of those little things"
 In Paris yesterday at auction somebody paid s4.ooo francs for a rare Hawaiian 1-oent stamp. Let men waste time and money collect ing stamps if they will. Don't en- courage your children to do 1t. But one kind Of stamp collecting, the collection of United States govern msnt thrift stamps. Ia good for chill dren. Let thon start that ana get AtAs biz . eo1leetfpn as they can.
 sAn eaa Nngfish horvs trainer asked. -Ak what ags should I begin training my young theroughbred7" r" Was told that the young horse was tive weeks cid You have wasted the two most important weeks." said he. M is never too young to train children Sn ths valne of money and its us@ which should include, first ef sz1. the auty te help others inteI-' ngsnt1x
 Arthur dssfffth, who has fought hard for Ireland. is content with the new Irish constitution. says 1t is the constitution -of . free. democratic state" So 1t is.
 The fly in tho ointment Is the dragging of the King into the oath thst fishmsn must take: T will be faithful to His Majesty. King George. and his heirs and successors by law" This is mere formality, of course, for the King of England is only . sort of vermiform appendix kept for convenience as nominal head of what is really 2 democratic gov ernment
 It would have been as simple in making Ireland an independent mem- Der of the partnership of nations which the British empire purports to be. to have required only an oath of loyalty to that partnership.
 However, the Irish haye at last the right to govern themselves. which is the main thing. Kings will grad ually disappear from the earth. free dom wont, unless men show that they do not know how to govern themselves.
 Freedom is the first thing they lose
 Here's enc point on prohibition. the only point, perhaps, on which everybody will agree. If the Ameri- can government-owned ships are not to carry alcoholic drinks for, their passengers, and if, as Mir. Lasker says. ships without liquor would have no passengers. then no ship of any kind selling liquor on : the ocean should be allowed to en- ter au American port.
 For once In its life Congress has a chance to help American shipping in . way that wont cost the public dollar. It ought not to neglect that opportunity. If American ships cannot sell liquor. then non ship com inE to the. United States should be allowed to sell 1t. That's common sense. however, much 1t may hurt the feelings of our foreign friends NEGRO WANTED CHARGED
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