Evening star., 1923-06-08
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

The Gen. Jackson "hobby-horse." in
Lafayette Park, has been beaten,
forty ways for Sunday
Let it be removed, suggested the
| cowboys, and in it's place erect a
heroic reproduction of Russell's s
broncho buster and his horse, for
Jackson's horse is only partly sup
ported by it's tail, they say, while
the wild and waving steed from the
west is wholly pivoted on the tip of
its caudal appendage.
Art critics say that, as a work of
sculpturcsque art. it is not classic in
its lines. The horse waves it's fore
legs aloft, like spider reaching for
a fly. They are afraid that when the
tail 1imbers, the steed and rider-the
latter suspended in mid-air like a
pendant-are going to do the humpty
dumpty rodeo, when all| the kings
horses and all the temples men, cam
not pull them up again. In the mean
while. the spirit of the artist is equal
to the effort.
One artist says: Charles NJ. Rus
praise for the genuine spirit OF his
sketch. showing, as he does, bold.
ness of conception and knowledge of
the horse in action. such as no studio
training could give a tenderfoot.
1.-The title of the group is, When
should never adopt that for his. own
studies. but under worthy. tutellage
give serious study to the art for
which he is manifestly endowed"
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When automobiles first came into
use, it was required that their warn
ing horns should be footed at every
crossing The nervous drivers, not
content with that. footed whenever they
approached another machine. Besides
the autos themselves kept up an un-
ceasing. toot-toot-toot, with their
open throttles Today, the toot is
suppressed. except in dire emergency.
The result is that noise has ceased to
be the guiding power Of auto traffic, ana
sight alone is trustworthy.
The District Commissioners have
decided to let deaf drivers use the
streets of Washington, provided theE
are otherwise competent. IL is argued
that a deaf person. especially one
who has been deaf long time ana
has received education in the arts 10
relieve the handieap OF nHanns deafness: nd ID
Is even a safer driver.
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A national flag conference is TO be
held In Washington June l4-lo under
the management Of the Americaniza-
tion committee of the American
Ierion. Legionaires say that many
Of the flags displayed fori Shrine week
should be taken down and ironed out.
for II is that kind of desecration or
the flag that the conference Is eai1ed
to protest.
The rich are growing poorer.
whether the poor are growing richer
or not. In 1916 there were zoe citi-
zens who confessed that their yearly
income exceeded s1,0oo,oo0. In 1919.
in spite of war profits. the number
who confessed to the income tax col
lector that they should pay on a basis
of s1.OOO,000 or more had dwindled to
only sixty-five; in 1920 it was thirty
and in 1921 it was only twenty
How great was the income Of any
of the twenty-one is not stated. but.
presumably. ii must have included
Henry Ford, whose net profits are
now reputed TO be S10,000.000 a month,
aside from his income from his in
vestments.
Half Of the income tax collections
came from the. class reporting. in
comes between $4,000 and 100000.
although they constituted only per
cent of the number filed The low
incomes-below s3,o00-which have
been credited with paying a dispro-
portionate share of the taxes. are
paying only one-fourteenth of the to-
tai.
The District of Columbia is holding
up better than any other part of the
country in the matter of income taxes.
Comparing the years 1920 and 1921