The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-29

WINCH femlndS us or man who all |
ways wanted to tour the world. He left
New York and was gone six months.
This was in the pre-Volstead days.
When he returned he was asked his
Impressions With painful effort, he
I remember falling off an
elephant in India. !"
Concentration is the tendency of the
age. Seven automobile and truck man
concerns have merged with
a capital of $80,000.000, known as the
Associated Motor Industries with head
quarters at Dayton, Ohio.
Standardizing production, elimina-
ton Of duplication of effort, same pay
for men and women for the same work,
keeping up wages to the saving" stage
these are some of the things pro-
posed.
This may be the beginning Of the
Standardization of autos and trucks.
There are so many makes of cars at
the present time that the ordinary man
is confused as to what car to invest
in. A better and less costly car should
be thing of speedy development.
Gasoline has gone up in price. 1t is
solemnly asserted that the price is fix
ed by the consumer and expressed by
the demand" IF this is true lot Of
people will have to revamp their econ
omic ideas. Imagine customer de-
liberately running up the price on him
self.
The question of taxation of the peo-
pie has been an evil since governments
began. Practically every state in Am
erica has something different but all
aiming at the ultimate consumers in
come. In 1917 there were 1864 pee
pie paying taxes on incomes of 500
900. In 1920 these had shrunk TO 3
$40. Where did the almost 50 pr
cent of 100000 incomes go? Tn
thousands Of millions of taxless securi
ties is a partial answer. The simple
and straight ONE tax on incomes might
be tried. Administered equitably, each
inhabitant would pay proportionate
share.
Were some method of taxation adop-
ted that would reach every dollar
equally the mightiest of all engineering
problems, that on the St. Lawrence,
would be a contaminated dream; the
war veterans would receive just COM
pensation; the superannuated taken
care of and houses for all would be
a possibility. People object to unequal
burdens. It's the striving to get from
under that makes for inequality.
Some genius is coming along one Of
these days with sound plan on this
taxation matter and it will be adopt
ed. When indirect taxes are taken off
necessities and luxuries. and the penal
ties for painting ones house and beau
tifying the lawn, the human family may
be said to be moderately free.
Lest the people forget the inventor
of the automobile, and its revamping
transportation,
A monument has been erected for
Haynes at Kokomo, Ind, the
inventor Of the first successful auto
mobile, ceremonies taking place JULY
4th. The car that made the memora-
BE first trip in 1894 has been loaned to
the Smithsonian Institution. The au-
tomobile ranks in importance with the
first street cars electrically run as ne
cessity to civilization. The end is not
yet in the matter of development. More
than 100000 are used; yet that's
a fraction Of what really ought to be
in use. Standardization and cheap
ness will do lot.
Rathenau, the thinker, is dead; laid
low by the assassin. His vision Of a
new world will probably become known
to more millions than had he lived
twenty years longer and worked among
the forces now controlling Germany
His was a scheme for revamping the
world. AS a lone man amid conflicting
forces and opinions, he stood small
chance of having his ideas adopted.
Like Confusius. Buddha and the Christ
whose spirit really flourished after their
deaths, 50 will the ideas Of Rathenau
continue to bear fruit.
'sWhat | propose" said Rathenau,
strikes dogmatic socialism to the