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November, 1922 THE ATLANTIAN 9 Suppose Tariff Loot Was Used For Public Benefits Even the most enthusiastic advo cates of the Fordney-McCumber prof iteers’ tariff law concede that it will yield not above $350,000,000 a year in revenues for the Federal Government. Conservative critics of the act have estimated that it will add not less than $3,000,000,000 annually to the cost of living. Accepting both these figures as approximately accurate, the conclusion is that the American peo ple are paying $2,650,000,000 in taxes to private interests. If the people of the country should decide that instead of imposing a tar iff for the “protection” of private en terprise the revenues thus derived should go to meet the expense of the Federal government, including the ex tinction of the national debt, to pay additional compensation to the sol diers and sailors of the World War, to initiate and complete various internal improvements and to enlarge and ex tend the benefits of the government, they might soon accomplish a great many things that now seem financial ly impossible. Suppose that out of this vast total of $3,000,000,000 it was determined to de vote $2,000,000,000 a year to the re duction of the national debt; $250,000,- 000 to the building of good roads; $250,000,000 to the reclamation of arid lands; $250,000,000 to additional com pensation for soldiers and sailors of the World War; and $250,000,000 to the impromement of inland water ways? The total annual outlay for all these purposes would be the equivalent of the sum now going into the pock ets of corporations and individuals. Instead of a tax upon the many for the benefit of the few, the tariff could in this supposititious case be made a levy upon all for the advantage of all. Whether the people will ever consent to bear so large a burden in behalf of these projects is a matter which they alone have the right to determine. What is written here is not to advocate any of these things, but to illustrate the'vastness of the sum which is now being taken from the people's incomes, and the public uses to which it might be better applied. In the course of ten years, provided the present Fordney-McCumber law is not meantime repealed or modified, the American people will have paid to their government $3,500,000,000 in taxes and by the way of tribute to private interests and special privilege some $26,500,000,000, or more than the cost of the World War to this country. LET “PAT DO IT” 510 Courtland St. Forecast of Democratic Victory in State of Ohio W. W. Durbin, Chairman of the Democratic State Executive Commit tee of Ohio, supplies the following analysis and comparison of the news paper straw vote polls, 1920-1922, in his state: “Concerning the Enquirer straw vote poll here are a few figures that dem onstrate its reliability: ( “On October 16, 1920, the straw vote between Cox and Harding showed Harding 7,719; Cox, 5,547, giving Harding a majority of 2,172 in a total vote of 13,266. “Figuring on a basis of two million votes, this indicated on October 16, 1920, a plurality for Donahey of 2,084 in a total vote of 12,572 and this on a basis of two million votes would indi cate over 331,000 majority for Dona hey. “These figures are taken and this comparison made because the latter figures are within 694 of the total vote in 1920 on the Harding-Cox compari son so that the vote of Dohahey shows better even than the vote of Harding did in 1920. “The straw vote for Senator is prac tically the same as that for govern or.” The Lotus Eater. The Southern Californian may think himself an adept at making seductive pictures of his end of the state, but he can still learn from the Honolulan out in the North Pacific. Down there they say a drummer from San Fran- sicco sojourned a month, and when they took him to the homeward-bound steamer and put leis around his neck and sang “Oloha Oi” to him a few times, he cried like a baby and said he had forgotten his wife’s first name.— Argonaut. All classes of City and Suburban Real Estate Farms a Specialty LOANS ON REAL ESTATE S. W. CARSON 414 Atlanta Trust Co. Bldg. Ivy 2023 A Cheerful Store We believe in Cheerfulness Our employees are selected, so far as it’s possible to do so, from the most courteous and cheerful eligibles. No grouch can hold a position here. That policy may seem a little radical-*- but think a minute; if you are always served courteously and cheerfully and pleasantly in a store, don’t you go back to that store? Aren’t you a regular patron and a “booster?” We want your business more than once and we want to please you so well that you will patronize us again. • imilllllMItlllMIIHIMHIHIIII lllllllllllllllllllllllll II Jrohsin's | = ! ^Correct Dress for Women e || 50 WHITEHALL 1 ^iiiiiiViiuiiniiiiHiiiiuniiiiiiiiiiiiiii>M>iiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiii immimimmimiiiiiiinE