Evening star., 1923-06-26

~ |FeeE citizens. Nothing esrapas
''i@ IehE except the personal r,,.o-;.r,
" '' the king of the Hellenic s.are,
IN i"FtlEn powers, such as Ir..;-
Ib rs. etc. the porpt.ty of
ne church, and that be!afl.yi,rE 20
I'..t.aHtAroplc, scientific. and f,i,Ycafion,I
bodies. ''--'' :" "1ettlohdt
q. ~" "a" ieFE does not affect the FIST
TI'o"o worth OF mans proncrtv-
t'uL on the second SG00 un,-1b 49,
tax is per cent .E;raro tsts ~, -
me TAX rises. On proparty rtni. 4
@.--1-!iS = value of $4,000 the ,-4ta
81 tae levy IS g per ceug. on $40 G6G
',s 3:""uNt IS per cent. and so on
y. res u'aT advances until on the
1ldr ~ property OF $500. the
icy! anornts 70 20 per cent.
~ - only just and fair to the
GTeel-5 u add that. alive to the
- =, -e"t necessities Of their country.
."ty are making relatively littIa ~.
fort TO evade lie payrn-n4 ~ *.
L-NE. Ent everybody in C;reeca VIZ
Pos,'eSSeS property IS living au-ai.a
LiSAt5 trying to figure out how
,''uTH ,'ttiI ne owns and how much he
III maze left when he has fulTillcd
Inc requirements OF the CaD;tai Il,s,
= VIII doubtless affect tbf. w.
I@tst and prosperous HalIeDfo ,,C,,,
,.,-.l.i''i., "i4-ioh IN america. since the levy
-.IoS owned by Greek citizene
creeks OF every c.qSs in ST1@,.i.,n
H'1Ee evidence o. such adrl,i~abfn ~
ohSe.hsh patriotism at the time of ~
'siiktth c;tlnp@iEns, which pr,!-
.tp%d me sFeat world war nv aba,k
con ng their homes in America Ta,,,.
~ ~ G"SdAuS sacrificing the, buStraSs
LErGFt@Ein2S that they had bufIt nm
~" py years Of thrift and labor IN
,"I 80. :? ntStSH back TO the land Of
'"'iF blfth IL response to its call
10 arms. they VIII asSuredly make
the same patriotic response a $ when
th@E Hooked back to Grece to fight
TOT het There viii be but little
lodging and evasion or the levy. ff
onc may judge from the experience
Of the past.
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Just as at present, when the cof-
Umns Of the American press are 50
full of reports of dishonest members
Of the banking and brokerage fra
ternities who are being hunted down
and brought to justice for their dis
honesties. it may be timely to point
out that whereas the Bank of Eng
land makes il q point to never. ur.-
der any circumstances. relinquish n q
prosecution or TO refrain from the
punishment of those who have de-
frauded in the slightest degree, be-
ing willing. if need be- to spend
thousands of pounds sterling in order
TO pursue to the end of the earth
and prosecute people who have
robbed II even Of 4 few shillngs. the
great banking concern of Rothschild
has made it Il rule throughout the
hundred years or more Of it's existA
ence never TO appeal to the courtS
or 10 the police in such matters. Of
course they are. like other bankers,
occasionally the victims Of dishon-
esty. But neither the police nor the
public eve: hears about the matter.
Secrecy is observed. This has always
been The principle Of the heads Of
the house who take the groun'l
that il is better TO bear the loss IN
silence. no matter how GrEIt, than to
disturb popular confidence in the
safety of the firm by allowing it 10
hc seen that its treasures, especially
those intrusted' to it's care, are II v
adequately s2feguarded.
This popularity was brought 10
light a number Of years ago, after
the demise of Baron Nathaniel Roths-
child Of Vienna. when one of the
most trusted employees of the firm, a
certain julius Shuster. was found to
have embezzled some two million
crowns of the dead mans estate. The
public would not have known about
it had not the man had the incredi-
bic impudence to sue the firm for his'
dismissal, confident that the desire
Of the Rothschilds to avoid notoriety
at all cost would lead them to fur
ther pecGniary sacrifices TO secure
his silence. But in this he was mis-
taken. His case against the firm was
thrown out Of court when his dis
honesty was shown. But even then
the RothSchilds declined to prose
cute the man or to make any move
toward sending him to jail.