The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 18, 1923, Page 8

p E didn’t think that Secretary Mellon’s plan to re- } duce federal income taxes would help any but the dollar-a-minute lads, who could pay anyhow, but we got ut our old income blank and figured it out Mellon’s way: Tf an unmarried man or woman gets $30 a week, the q ao Pernice Daily by The Star Publishing Co, 1207 Seventh Ave Phone Newspaper Enterprise Association and United Proms Bervion, My ‘Mall, put of elty, 600 per month, I monthe $160, 6 montha $4.00, year $2.60, By carcier, oity, blo @ month. Gilman, Nicoll & Ruthman, Spectal Representatives, San Franciseo office, Monadnock Mag; Chicago offic, ‘Tribune Hidg.; New York office, Canadian Pacific Bide; Boston office, Tremont Hide, The Low-Down on Mellon’s Plan tax would be $12.60, instead of $22.40, If he or she gets $40 a week the tax would Be $24.30, ead of $43.20. ~The married man, with his larger exemptions, has less to. Py, but the new plan cuts what he now pays al- most in half. That little old cut of nearly $10 or $20 looks awfully good to us who have no tax experts helping us to “be to ourselves as well as the government.” President Saner, of the American Bar association, says there are no Gum and Advertising WT’S disclosed in Chicago court that the Wrigley people have spent $7,000,000 advertising Doublemint, which ‘is only one of their several chewing gums. - Business men who are timid about advertising should look at that figure twice, then ponder the sale of Wrigley - President Cal, with the confidence of the fellow who Is In, says he isn’t ifr of the rickety old White House, thus showing that only an eviction il move him. If Gov. Pinchot keeps on calling these coal conferences some of the gov- are going to get all het up. What Really Counts NATE'RE increasingly impressed by the number of people & who die suddenly just when they are expecting to do things for which they had planned a long time. Patrick Bronner of Boston toiled getting his business in shape so could spend the winter in Florida. His trunks were ed. He died a few hours before train time. Life is 90 per cent anticipation. The other 10 per cent is divided between realization and unexpected collapse of Goals are rarely reached. But the journeys toward ie goals are what really count, after all. Contemplation of the water wagon in New Year’s resolutions for 1924 May appeal to the survivors of 1923, at least, Forward and Back JHE greatest radio fans are people between 20 and 30. q This is shown by a census taken by a leading radio publication. The 20-30 age might naturally be expected. After 30, youth is largely gone and people begin looking a ; ‘stomach knows no law.” Apparently, neither does thirst. It Is not improbable ‘that Senator Borah will decide to occupy France a greatest medicine in the world is sleep. The ard over their shoulders as they move ahead and are Tess interested in new things. © Dance music led the popularity list among radio fans. ee sil is in the toy stage. Later it will be more utility, yy. If the Smiths stand together, Gov, Al, of New York, can view the presi- @ential situation with equanimity. Knows No Law CCORDING to Mr. Roy Haynes, and he should know, 18 prohibition officers were killed and 58 injured, While performing their duties, during the past 15 months. This is but one angle of the lawlessness that has grown big ‘and ruthless in antagonism of Mr. Volstead’s laws, An old-time philosopher was wont to say that “A hungry Until she pays her debt to us. Try a Bottle next best curative and restorative—general 2onic, in fact—is to lie flat on your back and fey Some of our great men like to boast that they sleep only a few hours at night. That's because they don’t need more sleep; their endocrine glands function unusu- ally well; their general bodily recuperative powers are rapid; in a few hours they, in effect, recharge their bat- teries as much as the average person does in eight hours. Most people need eight hours’ sleep. Many of us need More. And a lot of maladies, especially common colds and nervous ailments, are largely due to getting less sleep than is needed. When you feel drowsy, nature is trying to fell you that fur nerve cells have burned up their available fuel and ‘ome clogged with “ashes”—waste products and _poi- sons that can be eliminated only when the body relaxes in slumber. Probably you've seen people “sleeping off a jag’’—alcoholic poisoning. Sleep does the same to poisons that accumulate naturally during active hours, Every mechanic knows that machinery has to have regular periods of rest. Run it night and day and it ‘Wears out prematurely—the hours of its “life” or activity @re decreased. So with the body. Persians in ancient times were the first people to have comfortable and beautiful beds. They appreciated the Medicinal powers of sleep. And. the old-time Greeks 2,500 years ago helped their digestion by reclining on couches while eating slowly. The worst investment in the world is a cheap, uncom- fortable bed. In winter we need an hour’s more sleep than in sum- . Try the super-medicine, sleep or relaxing in bed Without losing consciousness, when you are out-of-sorts Mex is in the midst of a presidential “election.” Only she is mying it with bullets Instead of ballots, Why? With a population of 16,000,000, some 8,000,000 of these can neither read nor write and 4,000,000 know only Indian dialects: Tilite @ poor as Job's turkey, used to the ground to n and the sky for cover, anybody with the price can get a following among these people. Moxico’s plight ia largely the result of three classes of cit tons. At the top, a handful of politicians greedy for the spoils of office; under these, a larger contingent who flock with one faction or . and, lastly, the 50 pe 0 have no more {dea : who's wrong, or of representative Ko ment, than they have of tian dialects tn the days of King ‘Tut. With this as a background, President Obregon, in a few days, {s to be replaced. He is not a candidate to succeed himself. So, like a Juicy bone toayed among a pack of hungry wolves, the job {a being fought.over by the vart ‘ous candidates. Up to a couple of weeks ago there were five principal candl- dates: Former Minister of Fi- nance Adolfo do la Huerta; Gen. Plutarco Calles, ¢x-minister of the interfor; Gen, Angel Flores, former governor of Sinaloa. Gen. Raoul Madero, brother of the murdered Pre Francisco 1 Madero, and Licenctado Carlos B. Zetina, a Mexico City manufac. turer, But as the patter of bullets in: creases, the field ts narrowin, down, Calles, generally regarded as Obregon’s drawn, and M have decided to throw their sup port to Gen. Flores Mean de la Huerta's revo lution is in full st with Vera or of a rm Cruz, Mexico's pr his headquarter ideal for a rev quarters, sftuated as it in of the cay ame time m fast pas. r ready to pull Mexico has not really “pros- ince the fall of that old from 1876 to 1911, b short lapse of four year impro masses, Pay “THE I pe resonate eee ea than three presidents in one day Gen. Victoriano Huerta selring President Madero, naming a seo ond man as provisional president who then resigned in favor of the general. Madero was con- venlently assassinated a few days later It is feared Mexico Is tn for a continuation of such scenes, and while the United Staten formally recognized thé Mexican govern- ment, the senate has not yet ratified the new treaties and no ambassador has been named. 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Upon that question depends much of the future story of transportation and the poauibil- ity of reduced railroad raten, The Interstate commerce commission paid the value was $18,900,000,000 about three years Ago for a particular rate prob- lem, but members of the com: mission then paid: they support ed the decision only because congress demanded # “valua- tion." ‘They warned of tho danger of having this tempor. ary figure become a fixture in future valuation problema. Senator Cummins said the figure “startled” him, The interstate commerce com- mission ix working on a com- plete valudtion of the roads, When the work Is ended, the courty will try many a valu ation case, It will be years be- fore anything definite 1s fixed by this method. Progressives contend the com- mission is making no endeavor to ascertain the most important thing—the amount of money prudently and honestly Invested in the roads, The commission insisty that cannot be done Jn mont ¢ RAILROADS SQUARE MIL Progressives also contend the public is entitled to some con- rideratiod because of the grants THERE ts no question ABOUT people resembling ANIMALS, flewers and things, * have always looked a picked bird BUT THIS woman irritated mo WHEN SHE likened herself orchid WAS on her way to the : jd cream stag movies, toc © « flower," “ n't way It was AN orchid. THE FLOWER you suggest to mo is A HOLLY HAWK.” roads got more than 912,000 equare miles free of charge, dora] sand granta r the expreas stipulation that the roads were to well them to settlers at mod- erate cost. But the railrowds held on to some of the most valuable lands. ‘The Northern Pacific, for example, recently announced the organization of the Absaroka Ol Development Co, to develop off and mineral resources on ite Jand grants in Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming, Valuable timber righty are «till held by the various roads. There are other claims on valuation. ‘The railroads have insisted at times on having the “reconstruction cost’ of the roads established, Sometimes they contend on this score that the vali in greater than $30,- 000,000,000. At other times they have insisted on thelr “property investment account’ and this would extablish a yalue well be- yond $23,600,000,000. All in all, however, they were thoroly nat- {nfied with the finding of the comminsion of $18,900,000,000 three years ago. The progressives contend that if the commission will find the amounts honestly invested in the roads, the value will be somewhere around $15,000,000,- 000, If that were extablishted as the value there could be a tre- reduction in freight Opponents of the rntlroad executives persist in the charge that the average railroad presl- dent today fs a master of actual operation only and that he is a servant of the financiers in their dickerings Rafirond executives deny the statemént. HOW KOADS CAN MAKE PUBLIC PAY TWICE Take the Baldwin Locomotive works. It is owned by the big men in the Pennsylv The income of the Pennsylvania ts sulated. The income of the Baldwin is not. The Pennsylvania might send its locomot to Baldwin for repair or buy new locomotives ¢ at an excensive cost. That lessen the earnings of the Pennsylvania. The railroad then might come to the inter. state commerce comminsion and demand en increase in rates. At the same time they would be taking excessive profits out of the Baldwin, The public would pay twice. It is true that the various construction companies that deal with the railroads have made wonderfully fine profits as a rule, And it f» true that most of these construction com: panies are related to the rail. roads in tome degree. 80 alno are some of the coal lands. So also im the steel trust. ROADS REGULATE BUSINESS CONDITIONS There i another important thought ip this connection, ‘The railroads are spending more than a billion dollars this year, Investment of a Dillion dollars in business, controls, to a great extent, the general busl- neas situation. Invest a billion dollars and there is @ good pros pect for business prosperity, Cut it off and business will bags. The raliroads certainly do not want that ‘power removed from their control, the power to pur- chase business conditions. Another thing—political, It fs best explained by an {mme- diate example. The republican leaders today insiat that there fs n good chance to elect Presi. dent Coolidge, provided business conditions remain good, The railroads can contribute much to keeping thern good next year, Thereby, the railroads assert a tremendous political control. And solely because of the finan- cial opportunities under certain political administration, the rail. road directors have a tremendous interest in getting the admin- istration they desire. A THOUGHT | He that giveth unto the poor shall not Yack; but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a © xxvill.27, cee HE miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also nis own soul—Theodore Parker. ‘This year's new life insurance is $11,000,000,000, which certainly {9 a lot of arguing. 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