Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-16

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EFT plainly foLIows that the plan sOiH
propose rounding up all persons SUitH
an income of $4,000 year or more.
giving them IethaI gas and rediStribMt.
'ng the sPoiLs."
worthwhile Program. He has written many
letters
II there is not enough demand for homes
to sustain the present real estate market that
should be no reason for slowing up home con-
struction for q single moment. Go right ahead
building homes says an Albanian, who proposes
q Federal fund Of SO, 000, 900 or $4,000, 900 to
finance the difference between cost and selling
price. At least he is frank enough to adj
NIT that there might be such deficit to re-
quire financing.
Somewhat similarly, business conditions would
be given real shot in the arm by q San Fran
cisco planner who suggests billion-dollar pro-
gram Of railroad grade crossing elimination. II
would be simple. The States would contribute
one-fourth, the railroads one-fourth, and the
Federal Government the remainder. II either
coming across, the Federal Government would
advance their share, charging them per cent
interest.
The only factors that this proposal negIects
are that the railroads now are asking fog IS
per cent higher rates to make ends meet, and
that the Federal Government has. deficit OF
billion dollars for the fiscal year 1891. But
those are inconseQuential tribes.
A GOOD many proposals suggest that FAC
tories simply start producing at full capacs
ity. whether there is market for their product
or not
These ideas are genuinely intriguing. If
every factory did resume normal operation and
normal wage payments, perhaps the demand
now lacking for its products would be created.
But it is big "if' quite apart from the even
larger question of just how to go about getting
every factory to do its part.
An economic seer from Lynn, Mass, says to
simply raise prices by 10 to Is per cert in
order to set things in motion. OF course, there
Is ground for it, because raw commodity
prices are low. But I'll bet a half dozen OF
the right men could make this work How
about the Federal Trade Commission SPONSOR
ing it?"
Well how about it?
A New Jersey mother would set aside q slight
ly different law Of supply and demand. ct
costs $1,000 to raise a child from the cradle to
age IA. Even when they are that old they can
earn only $40 week in MILL and that isn't
hardly interest on the investment. A Federal
birth control decree would nx this situation"
Another school of medicine men pooh-pooh
the idea that the depression is anything ether
than psychological. Its all in peoples minds"
they say time and again. Therefore We need
slogans. Try these on your depressed state Of
mind:
Encouraging Employment Enables Ever
lasting Enjoyment"
Musicians Make Many Merry" =
Brisk Buying Boosts Business"
Prudent Purchasing Promotes Prosperity"
Hogs Have Hams; HustIers Have Homes"
INSISTING that music has a stimulating eff
! feet upon Northern mill workers and South
ern plantation Negroes, Cincinnatian urges
that movie theater musicians, thrown out OF
work by the talkies, be organized into orches-
tras to play lively tunes In industrial eseab-
hShments and in the cotton fields.
ut would give the musicians Jobs" ne said
"and make the workers feel enough better that
they would stop thinking about times being
hard"
One plan after another has employed the al
Turing endless chain idea. Spend IS your
self that you otherwise would not spend, and
get 10 friends to do likewise and agree them
selves to get 10 friends to do the same Tt
would soon run up into real purchasing DOW
err" Yes, to be exact, the eighth link in that
chain would be 100000 900 people spending
$500, 100000. small matter involving little
or no effort.
Detroit man insists that the exhaust fumes
from gasoline motors contain malaria germs as