The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-05-08

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tended and applied to Frenchmen, too. It would make
the heart of Thorsein Veben glad he alive to see
1t, because it taxes display of wealth.
All Liars
The assumption is that people lie about their incomes
(Other people, of course) NJ Lamoureux is hard man
In spite of his soft He says if afford
luxurious and snowy motor he must have income
OF some proportions If he keep apartment in
Paris and little country place at St. Cloud he can't have
as little income ne has pretended in his reports will
stop this lying, says M. Lamoureux; I will accept no
statement OF income which falls lower than minimum
which I will devise.
Four times your rental is the absolute base figure add
to that seven times the rental of your country place add
In many hundred dollars if you keep one servant fe-
mae3 and more if you keep butler (male) and
yet if you keep additional servants And SO much per
horsepower for small and if it is large car
Put these together and they do not spell Mother They
spell Murder.
Tax the Quiet Ones
It strikes that the plan is full of possibilities if
properly developed spurn universal instrument
the motor and think the tax per head of servants
does not go far enough Let the inspectors eat meal in
each house and determine by the cooking whether the
servants jewels plate smashers and tax accordingly
Let people be spotted they into night clubs and slap
a fat tax down on the man who gets good table, And
above ALL tax people who dress severely show pearls
and eat in SMALL hidden restaurants They are the ones
who really have the incomes.
About Artists
Through mix-up in dates failed to appear at din
ner the other night at which speakers were to discuss
"he place of the artist in the modern world or what
art good for in tme?" The particular occasion was
the Scheduled burning of books under the Hitler regime
Those who attended the dinner hardly know their luck
Because given half chance, should have felt com
PEELED to say that the place of the artist in the modern
world was exactly what he had made it, and not par
ticulary brilliant place at that Artists, including every
one from sopranos to painters from writers to tenor
have made mess of their profession by accepting
the romantic idea that they by nature superior to the
common herd and cannot be bothered making themselves
plain to others. (Tenors and sopranos are the mild
offenders all they expect is the alteration OF MODS
Poets painters composers and the like take the pose OF
the misunderstood man. which is little embarrassng)
What Mission?
All artists believe that art has mission and function
and noble duty to perform. About half dozen In a
generation are capable of living to this advertisement
or want to- They all convinced that their words
and coors and sounds console the world enrapture
the world and save the world. But history is against
them The whole lot haven't budged the world an inch
in fifty years.
Quite possibly this is the best thing that could happen
The next best thing would be for artists to get into the
habit of saying 81 like to do thiswhich is important to
me- try to tell what know to Others If can't make
myself understood I'll still go doing what have to do
But will not expect glory and wealth from people |
despise" In that spirit few artists might do great
deal more for themselves for us.