The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 22, 1924, Page 6

PAGE 6 eattleSta Star Publishing Co, 12907 feventh Ave, P erprise Ansoctation and United Prese sere 2 thet @ months $2.00, year $8.60. Newspaper o. Ry an, Special Representatt fan Francti ago office New Yerk Better Babies NE ray of sunshine in the census bureau's dreary amouncement that deaths in 70 principal citie creased from 359,392 in 1§ 78 in 1928, that the number of infant deaths decreased from 50,0 to 49,106. The total death rate rose from 12.6 to 18,0, but the Pbaby death rate dropped! Few people realize that approximately one out of every »seven deaths in the average city, and more in some cities, is that of a baby under one year of age. And the rate used to be much higher. i ro 52 | Will some philanthropist offer a prize for a peace plan that will give ) the dove a permanent residence in Herrin, Mlinols? The Democratic Convention )ESPITE the fears of progressives in the party, the democratic national convention is to be held in New ork. And it may not be sucha bad thing for the pro- Sressive democrats after all. + A real knock-down-and-drag-out progressive fight in the coming convention will be illuminating to New York Tt will be an education in what the rest @f the country is thinking about, an education in the Treal issues of the campaign. » There is a disposition to believe that a progressive can- @idate cannot carry these Eastern states. Fighting out Pthe progressive issues where the East can see the fight Pmay pave the v toward winning part of the East over ‘to the progressive program i Another scientist says we are lazy ‘been banging around congress, but don’t heed him, He's probably i E, Pluribus Weakening " ABORING with child labor legislation, in the last, Session of congress, the senate judiciary committee , as its best effort, that: “The congress shall have power, concurrent with that if the several states, to limit or prohibit the labor of per- under the age of 18 years.” And the movement for such legislation is becoming in the present congress. There is some virtue, undoubtedly, in the doctrine of es’ rights, but it seems to have come to pass that g to establish national character and of benefit to ity, generally, can be accomplished save with that mce of the several states” feature. Sixty years we cut throats to settle the matter of concurrence land establish human freedom as a national characteristic. | "Phe thing appears in propositions for uniform marriage cand divorce laws, education, transportation, banking, in- ype Volstead enforcement, woman's wagep child- - : | in everything involving national morality and er, One state may do for or against national er and common morality what the people, as a ole, may not. And, moreover, states and municipali- of states can defeat the payment of national debts all, thru issue of non-assessable bonds. Some day, the folks will have to knock much of the out of that little proviso, “concurrency of the tuffing } Blacksmith at White Plains, N, ¥., has Just died, leaving ‘valued at $103,000. We guess that is a on the automobile Opportunity Thunders HAT joy ‘twould be to be sole legatee under the will of old Mr. Croesus,.in these days!) : The French get scared over the labot party’s fine pros- tts, over in England, and their franc drops to a new low fel. Same day, the reparations experts get going, d the pound sterling shoots up six points, the Italian lire foes to 101 francs, the Belgian franc from 89.90 to 91,80, the Dutch florin from 7.94 to 8.45, and the peseta gains 20 Putting into our patent leather valise $10,000,000 left by Mr. Croesus, we go over to Paris and buy francs at » Pretty soon, that reparations commission does some tle thing that indicates improvement in Europe's finan- tial razzle-dazzlement. Pretty soon, it is seen that that lish labor party can’t do much without aid from liber- r conservatives. The French are mercurial, like climate orthern Ohio. They jump from purgatory to heaven he jump. We sell our nine truckloads of 22-franc pieces or 44 the piece, _ Then, we come home, build a palace on Riverside drive, ; a beautiful chorus girl, play golf by day and mah ongg by night, fill an eight-room cellar with “the real f,” are called an octopus by the plain people and live ppily to a grand old age. ‘ _ Dre Bite Thunderation! It’s an 18-karat Wall Street sibility Having lost the democratic convention, Chicago is now entertaining elf by inventing slogans. “Keep Coolidge” is one that it invented in midst of a howling blizzard. Looking Toward Suicide OTH the republican and democratic national commit- tees are well embarked, each upon a road that runs the political cemetery. _ This, because no national party can live long without ing a strong following in the group of middle states r extends from Oklahoma to the Uanadian border and Colorado to Ohio. ie republican committee is using the big block of ored delegates from the solid South to-so assure the Homination of Coolidge as to discourage all contest at ie national convention. The voters of the debatable fid-West have become more and more restive under the factice of being expected to furnish the electoral votes y to elect candidates selected by colored delegates ym states that have never given and never will give blican plurality. ‘On the democratic side, the alignment of the boss ele- of democrats to beat McAdoo and nominate Ral- or Underwood is equally offensive to the Middle ~When, by virtue of the two-thirds rule, three Murphy of Tammany, Taggart of Indiana and onan of Chicago (not Illinois)—try, by balance of # rather than will of majority, to dictate convention e, the end of the democratic party as a dominant or is in sight. Is PARTY RULE BY BLOCS—A NEGRO BLOC ONE SIDE AND A BOSS BLOC ON THE OTHER. IS YEAR THE PARTY BOSSES SEEM TO BE ING TO SEE WHICH CAN BE THE MOST RAW. Pp bosses, polittcai machines and campaign con- utors-may be able to keep control a few years longer. each year the grip becomes less firm and the steady nd for the past 20 years indicates with painful clear- is that a voters’ revolt is being fostered. <A failure to inside the party will mean, before. many years political death to one or both of the old parties— ‘Soret SUCH DEATH COMES IT WILL BE PLAIN ; 12 3 Tom Sims’ . 3) NEWS \($ PAPER Here’s How to Settle | Bonus iC havo closed the ¢ 1 r the jsolution Make it h for all wat vets to use loaded dice and then they will collect the own bonus. | FOREIGN NEWS | A young Argentine girl swam 26 }miles In 24 hours, If she was after a man he got away EDITORIAL colt hotel fire drove guests to clad in Magnus Johnaon, in Wash: says ho wears no not even his own. 12 Wear your cate upshot in Cle and and Dets | the weather reet scantily | ington, pajamas, be a dar Jamas Why pa MOVIES Fatty Arbuckle fs now a Buster |Keaton director under the name lof Will B. Good. PORTRY ban thing cau happen. MARKETS Hartford (Mass.) man says he bas beon to heaven. We write to ask [him about coal prices there, | SOCIETY | ce a Chicago University pro- | feanor says it ts all right for girls to |smoke, Miss Livewire has quit. And jon hearing a Los Angeles court awarded a girl $10,000 for a stolen |kins ako sald, “I got an ico cream soda’ for one once,” | ADVERTISING Minneapolis man bit off his wife's ear, Why let your bus band get so hungry? Buy one of our conerete frying-pans. Here is & concrete example: You can cook with It or argue over why you didn’t cook, HOME HELPS If your chickons feel bad, let them read the pletures in the seed cats logs being mailed out. ALTH HINTS Boston cops captured 9,600 pints! of hair tonle, When drinking such, uso hair remover for a chaser, THEATER PAGE Bpooky plays are making the ghost walk at New York box offices, Ghosta drink booze in Bound.” That may be what mado them ghosts, Spooks play harps in “The Spook Sonata.” That may be worse than drinking, FASHIONS News comes that a Dorchester (Mass.) man’s collarbutton ts 33 years old, It should quit work, SPORTS Dr. Coue, world’s champton op- timist, is in America again. This may revive the indoor sport of arguing with yourself over how you feel. Long ago his formula was whortened to “Hell, I'm well.” ETIQUETTE Besides being impolite to chew tobacco at ‘a dance, you seldom find & place to spit. | Frieda’s Follies | SOMETIMES old maids like to ro- mance and dream. I SAID so one day tnadvertentty to another eat. EVEN CATS should have honor among themselves, THIS one hadn't. SHE WAS married, and didn't have to. “PRAY don “YOUR 8U humor," I WAS too hurt to respond, TO SUCCEED I recognized this AS ONE of the pathetic truths OF my existence. NO ONE ever takes an old maid ser- fously-— THAT 1S, no man. THAT'S why they are old maids, What Folks -Are Saying WILLIAM SMITH, assistant torney- general, Kansas; “In all my experience I never have found a atill or mash which was mot filthy and dirty. We never find ono where cleanliness {5 noticeable.” MAYOR STEPHAN, Holland, Mich., discussing a committee of 20 this one had said, ESS is your catty conference: “The majority of them looked weak. When I mentally com- pared them with men whom I meet in busiriess, it seemed to mo they | peared in the looks of many of them timonious, pious humility—almost a Pharisalc and ‘other-world’ air—that brought to my mind the picture of the men Jesus had continually to combat with.” ‘ RALPH BLOCK, motion picture maker: “Better and bigger motion | pictures in 1924, Not bigger in the sense of production cost, but bigger in the sense of intelligence; more human, moro simple. Pictures next year will not cost so much and will not be #0 elaborate, but more time will be spent in writing them and shaping them for the acreen.” EX-JUDGE GLENDY B. AR- NOLD, St. Louis: “The courts be. long to the peopie and not to the Judges and lawyers.” PAUL DEPUY, french editor and |statesman; “I have spoken to scores of newspaper men on all sorts of sub. Jects in English, which I do not know well, and never once has what I said been misrepresented in print. Please let that be a Journalist's trib- ute to America" man’s | “Outward | ministers with whom he had been in| didn’t stack up favorably, There ap-) that self-satisfied, complacent, sanc-| THE SEATTL r)Why My Plan’s | the house has made | However, Mellon and G, 4E STAR it practically certain that the Mellon bill cannot be Gor. leaders insist that their bill must not be amended. TUESDAY, Best, by 3 Tax Bill Author Star's Washington Bureau, 1322 New Yorit Ave, ASHING'TON, Jan. 22,—Introduction of the democratic and progressive tax reduction bills i n ssed without changes. 30th democratic and progressive leaders claim that their bills are the better ones, spreading the reduction out over | more incomes. Here is what each author has to say for his particular tax reduction plan: Democratic Tax Plan BY JOHN N. GARNER Ways and Means Committee ONEST H time taxation is the goal of the democratic party The proposals made by the democrats are in pursuance of this policy, Resting upon sound economics, we believe that they do full and equal justice to tax. | large and small, individ. | ual and corporate, and avoid the extreme views of any class The Mellen proposals contain | many good features, and each | of these will recetve, I think, whole-hearted democratio sup port, During recent years, least, prior to 1922, corporation | owners have t retaining in | thelr corporations more than 60 ot the corporate prof. He distributing leas th: | | und equitable peace: payers or, at per cer wh an Average of 40 per cent urtaxes thereon } after payis | profits, and expenses and her taxes except income tax proper, were $19, 000,000,000, while only $7,663, 000,000 was distributed as dive dends and paid surtaxes, It is apparent, therefo: the proper acale of surtax rates | fy greatly affected by the extent | | to which the corporate profits | are distributed or are retained in the corporation, and should | be increased or decreaned ace | cordingly, The proper scale can Dest be ascertained by degreen, | We are obliged to keep in mind, alvo, that surtax rates are to m considerable extent nomi- nal, rather than actual, For ex ample, an Income of $100,000 ts subjected to 48 per cent sur tax under existing Jaw, but the | total tax paid ts $20,076, or 30 Sper cent of the income, inst of the prescribed 44 per cent. The proposed 231-3 per cent re | duction on income derived from | personal service, as distin. ished from property, or cap- invested, will only tend to equalize the amount of taxes paid on earned and unearned tn- come, reapectively, as in patent from the foregoing rectials. Ralsing the individual exemp- tlone to $2,000 and $3,000, re pectively, will relleve between $00,000 and 1,000,000 individuals [ who now make tax returna but | pay no taxes on account of de | ductions allowed, and will also | relieve small farmers, laborers | | | | | | | | | | i , that } and mechanics whose tax ts leas than $12 eash, ‘There was no reason to single Out one or two of the miscelia- neous, or nulsance taxes, as Secretary Mollon did, and pro pose their repeal, without at the same time carefully analyzing | the entire mang of these taxes, | including those on aute trucks, Jowelry candy, stamps on notes, | ete, Sig: offering the maximum | relief, SCIENCE} Atomic Heat | Recent work In giving sctence an understending of the atom and its parts, the clectrons and nucleus, har siven a great impetus to the theor of unlocking and using atomic en- orgy. Very delicate measurements have) | been made of the quantity of heat| jwenerated by substances emitting j¢lectrons, such as uranium, radium fete, These researches show that |these substances give out a million! mes as much energy as would be! produced by burning the same! amount of coal. | Prof, Rutherford, noted physicist, | recently has disrupted hydrogen from ritrogen, These elements are! cheap and common. The use of their! ene! would turn the wheels of the | World's commeres and furnish the| world’s heat and light. | In figuring on the use of atomic! energy an interesting statement is jmade by O. W. Richardson, professor |of physics in the University of Lon- don, who warna that this energy may be destructive am well as helpful. He mays: “There in a possibility in the nuclel of atoms that if these effects Kot going at any time on a consider. able scale, they might spread from atom to atom with explosive vio- lence, That would be the end of all things.” || Telling It to Congress (Excerpts from the Congressional Record) GRATITUDE? You led tho wheat grower to be- |Meve that it was a curse to have |a democratic administration under |which he could get $2.26 for his |wheat, and you say to him today | |he ought to be thankful because ho | |lives under the beneficence and great prosperity of a republican aa | {ministration which has brought him |90-cent wheat, while the consumer {still pays war prices for bread— Rep. Wingo (D.) Arkansas, see IMPARTIAL | ‘When the good Lord, or whoever | was the responsible supernatural agency or physical agency that de- posited minerals in the ground Jn |the North American continent, he |did not recognize geographical lines. | You ean take it from the Gulf of Mexico up to the Canadian line, and jthe same ores occur, and In. prac: | |tleally every tine or district you get a composite of practically tho samo ores.—C, F. Keliey, before | senate commission of gold and sil- ver inquiry, | hi mistaken, Jedge. --Amer'can Legion Weekly. The G. O, P. Tax Bill BY ANDREW W. MELLON Secretary of the Treasury INCOME tax in the price 10 government charg for the & txable profit Experience haa shown that the present high rates of surtax aro bringing im each year pro: gressively leas revenue to the government, This means the price is too bigh to the taxpayer, and he ty income by which are available right to taxable ways him, With the open invitation to all men who haye wealth to be relieved from taxation simple expedient of inve the more than $11,000,000,000 of tax-exempt securities now avall- Able, and which would be unat. fected by any constitutional ame at, the rich need not pay t Where these high surtaxes do r the man who has axes avaliable man who, » ia ma eo man ta re producer is penal Andrew W. Mellon progress as a nation. Tho fairness of taxing more y that Income from wages, aries and professional nerv- ices than the income from busl- hess or from investment, 1s be yond question. The present burden of taxa- tion ts heavy, Tho bénefits of the reduction will be diatrib- uted among all classes of tax payers, and the revision gener- ally will help to free business and industry of vexatious in- terterence and encourage tn all ines a more healthy develop. ment of enterprise. LETTER FROM VRIDGE MANN January be found to avoid tructive in thelr na- ture, and the only way to save the situation ts to put the taxes On & reasonable basis that will permit business to go on and in dustry to develop. This, I believe, the readjust ment recommended will accom- piish, and it will n pro. duce larger revenues, but at the fame time establish industry and trade on a healthier banks thruout the country, The al- ternative {s @ gradual break. down in the system anda perver. tion of industry that stifles our only To David Whitcomb, Presi Seattle Chamber of Commero T seo you have won in the Chamber's lection, with all of your ballots to spare; and you were thé sole, uncontested selection for holding the president’n chair. The duties are tough, but we know you will bear them, altho they may harass or vex; 10 take everybody's good wishes and share them with Worrall and Robert and Rex! ‘We wish you « year of the greatest successes, right now while your duties are new; of course, you can gamble the People—.God bless us}—will cums you before you are thru. For no one can occupy such @ position and satisfy ALL of the mob—for that fs the great, universal condition that goes with a preaident’s job! 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Polite Youth (consulting watch)— | Nervous Gentleman—Thank you no | There have been so many What faintly resembles me. | holdups in this neighborhood that I/ didn’t dare take my watch out—Life Imitations may | Progressive Tax Plan BY JAMES A, FREAR Congressman From Wisconsin lun by the progress substitute plan per cent below the Mellor tion on incomes of $4,000 $19,000, and belo’ ona? to presen po as for consideration by tion is reached. In the proposed reductions, the normal tax is cut squarely in half, As the surtax of 1 per cent begins at $6,000, this tax reduction is shown to be abso- lutely fair to whereas the Mellon tax on indefensible the 1,000,000 incom who w efit un will ah er the plan ting the normal tax one-half. a sul no house when tax logisia- arge incomes 1 to 6,000,000 out Every one of the 7,000,000 in- come tax payers will get exact- same reduction, instead cut of 25 per cent of the x for men of large wealth and only 1 per cent or 2 per cent for the little fellow, This program can be defend. ed, whereas the Mellon plan ts apparently a bid thruout for t support of the favored interests, or @ trading. proposition Iam not asking to place un- due tax burdens on corporations or Individuals, but will be glad to have any reductions made in normal taxes that it may be possible to grant. My proposals have to do with maintenance of the Income tax principle and of taxing according to ability to pay, That principle Is now be. ing undermined by tax evasions familiar to every tax student. I have tried to present a falr, Just substitute for the Mellon pian. The whole income tax law {a In danger. Attacks in the courts have weakened ft. Every known method of evasion {s practiced today to destroy the income tax law. Uniess we apply correct prin- ciples of taxation firmly and quickly, woe will face an aban- donment of what promised to be a great tax law, A THOUGHT Have no fellowship with the un- [fruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.—Eph. y;lL ove ITHOUT good company all dainties painted grapes, Are only seen, not tasted. —Massinger, M JUNIOR S— Little Me One-third the regu- lar Gone, Made ot sams ingredients, then candy coated. 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