The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-23
T 'oday Monarchies and Repub-
 lies.
 The Fastest Girl. Napoleon's Horse's Tail. Where the Money ls.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE


 One quotation ought to be fran in tho White House. Senate, Hous of Representatives and Supreme Court The signs should be about ten feet long. five feet high and the letters very big, reading as follows. from Prudhemms.
 @AEonarcAtes arc destrOyed by pov- erty and republics by wealth."
 Never was more important truth put into fewer words and never truth more important for this coun- try.
 When poverty and misfortune come in monarchies the people kick out their kings. Take Germany recently. and France 150 years ago, as exam ples.
 When republics become too rich, wealth becomes too powerful and in- dividuals possessing 1t too arrogant, republics do not endure.
 This country Is safe enough so far; no need to have any trouble unless powerful men lose their heads en- tirely.
 But we have reached 6 stage in which wealth selects sets of candi- dates. The people. with no other choice, elect one set. And that set takes its orders from those that or- iginally selected it. not from the people that did the voting. That Is nrasv F., f1 r-f,o 1 If you dislike the statement, ask yourself what your vote amounts to.
 Miss Nina D. Holmes, 20 years old. working in the Detroit post office is champion mail handler of the United States. In eight hours the young woman sorted out 20,610 letters. This means picking up the letter, looking at 1t, reading all the differ ent hand writings, instantly and au- tomatically knowing where the letter is going and putting it in it's right place.
 This performance is not merely ex. traordinary. It Is miraculous.
 Incidentally this young lady's mind. nerves and muscles ought not to be sorting letters. machine or a man should do that work. The young woman should be married and plan ming to have her son in the White House or in some other useful place.
 H1I where Napoleon lies buried under the gilt dome holds many mementoes of the great fighter, swords, uniforms, banners; also magnificently stuffed. an Arab horse, given Napoleon by the Sultan of Turkey
 But the animals tall Is gone. Souvenir hunters, many Americans. have carried away the tail. one hair at a time.
 You can imagine jealous Mo- hammedan giving his fortune for one hair from the beard of the prophet; or even imagine the fanatic Arab having his eyes put out after he had looked upon Mohammed's tomb ''be- cause nothing else would ever be worth looking at."
 But you can hardly imagine a man returning to his wife and family proudly bringing a tail hair pulled from Napoleons stuffed horse.
 The horse hair thieves might say for themselves that their vandalism and reckless plundering are no worse than the conduct of Napoleon him. self, trying to get what he did not need and losing his liberty and life in the process.
 One fourth of United States income Is located in three states (New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania &C., cording to the Research bureau. In this ealculatio New York is cred tied with s19.047 100000 annual in- comes. That's not enough. If gov ernment had the real figures, New York would easily supply one quarter of the total income of the nation.
 But as one of the very rich men of the state remarked truthfully to this writer: There is no use in your advocating a big income tax. such as now exists. You may as we'll know that men with the big incomes don't pay 1t and won't pay it."
 The reports of the tax depart ment prove that quite plainly, The biggest single income tax payment IS about five millions. It should he