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4 THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA„ TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1913. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. JAMES Jt. GRAY, President and Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Twelve months 75° Six months % * Three months * - 6o The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday and Friday, and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It hf\s a staff of distinguished contributors, with strong departments of special value to the home and the farm. Agents war ted ut every postoffice. # Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R- BRAD LEY, Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have are J. A. Bryan, * R. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, L. H. Kim brough and C. T. Yates. We will be responsible only for money paid to the above named traveling repre sentatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The label used for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on . this label, you Insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old, as well as your new address. If on a route please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back numbers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this de partment to THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga. Kisses may come home to roost. A Noteworthy Movement , For Drainage Enterprises. The drainage congress which is to be held at Commerce on May the twenty-third betokens the keen Interest which Georgia farmers are coming to feel in the matter of reclaiming swamp and overflow lands. In Gwinnett county, the recent progress of such enterprises . has been especially marked. The drainage work now being done in the vicinity of Haynes creek has attracted popular notice through out the surrounding districts because of its economic methods and because of the great benefits it prom ises to yield. . It is said that as a result of this one undertaking organizations have been formed in several neighbor ing communities and that in the counties round about plans are being made to drain a number of farms which are now subject to overflow from rivers or creeks. Indeed, the interest in this cause is so widespread and pronounced that the farmers have decided to assemble at Commerce and to discuss plans for a permanent and inclusive organization through which they may better serve their common welfare, in reclamation endeavors. The convention will be not ably educational in its effect, for among those who will be present and make addresses are State Geolo gist McCallie, Mr. J. V. Phillips, representing the federal government; Mr. L. P. Aiken, president of the Georgia Drainage Congress, and Dr. 'A. M, Some, president of the State College of Agriculture. When it is reflected that one-fourteenth of the entire &rea df Georgia is in swamp or overflow land and that thus a vast amount of soil which might be turned to productive account is lying useless, the importance of the drainage movement becomes evi dent. It is to be hoped that the progressive example of the farmers of Gwinnett will stimulate other counties to join in this vitally-needed constructive work. Reducing Typhoid The census bureau reports that the typhoid death rate has been reduced from twenty-three and five- tenths to twenty-one per hundred thousand of the population. This improvement, though appreciable, ‘is far less than that which has been effected in other fields of disease, and leaves America still a long way behind France, Germany and Austria. Such progress as has been made against typhoid Is due largely to perfected and extended methods of ; sanitation and to the educational campaigns of med ical societies and boards of health. To he sure, the disease is treated more effectively than it was years ■ ago, but in this, as in all health interests of today, emphasis is laid on preventive rather than curative measures. Municipal and county governments should see to it that every possible source of.typhoid is removed. Neglect of sewerage facilities or of the water supply or of garbage disposal is nothing short of criminal. Many of the duties and responsibilities of public i health, however, must be borne by the individual j citizeh and household. At the approach of summer it becomes especially important that every home I protect itself and its neighborhood against the peril i of disease in general and that of typhoid in par ticular. Clean premises and well screened windows | and doors will go far toward putting an end to the fly, which is the bearer of all manner of disease. Atlanta’s climate is naturally healthful at all sea sons of the year, and with due vigilance on the part ; of public authorities, supplemented by watchfulness on the part of individuals, this community’s mor tality from typhoid should be reduced to a minimum. That Long Dry Spell. This is a season when that Methuselah ot conversion, "the Long Dry Spell,” grows spright ly and yarmissible. Men talk of the need ot showers not because their wits are dull or their stock of gossip is out but because that is a matter of really vital interest. Gardens snow signs or languishing and the larger crops are backward for lack of a drink. It is a noteworthy fact, however, that weath er problems nearly always settle themselves. Re ports from the farm demonstration agents of tna State College of Agriculture are, on the whole, optimistic, despite the rather untoward conditions in certain groups of counties. The long-delayed rains are at length tailing in many parts of the state and, what is a particularly cheering circum stance, food crops are for the most part thriv ing. Agricultural conditions of the country are good and in Georgia, where scientific methods of farming are more widely applied this year than ever before, we may hope for plenteous harvests. Atlanta now has a population of about 200,000 people, largely Presbyterians. Calling a Bluff. The Democratic administration is not to De bulldozed by the threats of special interests to close their factories or cut their employes' pay when the Underwood tariff bill becomes a law. It is an old trick of the trusts to cry ’’panic'’ whenever an honest tariff revision is proposed. Interests that have fattened on special privi lege dolefully exclaim that they cannot continue to exist without the government's patronage in the form of exorbitant tariff duties. And now, they have grown so bold as to Intimate that if they are deprived of these favors they will take revenge against the party and against the pub lic by suspending their industries or by cutting their scale of wages. A more impudent or malicious attitude could scarcely be conceived. Here are pampered mo nopolies that have been taxing the consumer as they pleased, monopolies that have grown so ar rogant in their privileges that they defy a Dem ocratic administration, representing the people ot the United States, to carry out the people’s man date. They do not propose to await a fair and practical test of the new tariff schedules but to retaliate forthwith, simply because their old fa vors from the government have been cut off. But the present administration will not be bluned by such threats. Mr. Underwood, voicing the pur pose of the President and the sentiment of Dem ocracy, declared just before the final passage ot the new bill through the house: “I give you notice now that if any manufac turer attempts in the interest of the Republican party to threaten labor, there is a bureau in this government, the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, created by the Democratic party, that will go into the factory, make a thorough inves tigation and report the reason why." That is to say, if a plant shuts down or cuts wages on the pretext that it cannot continue »to operate profitably because of the Democratic law, its claim will be scrupulously sifted, will be sub jected to the test of facts and figures gathered by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce and, if its action is shown to be one of Ill tem per or spite and not of good reason or necessi ty, it will be placed before the public in its true light. In short, the people in whose behalf the new tariff bill is designed, will be told the full truth in all such cases in order that they them selves may pass judgment on men and interests that seek to intimidate the government. Mr. un derwood further explained the administration’s purpose when he said: “When a manufacturer says he is cutting wages because of tariff reductions, we want to know if he is telling the truth. If he is not and he is simply punishing labor, then the fact shall be. made public. If he is telling the truth, we ’. want to know it. Tf we have made a mistake in any particular instance, we i e not afraid to acknowledge it and correct it." The bureau of foreign and domestic commerce is empowered to ascertain the cost of producing dutiable articles in the United States and in for eign countries and the diffeernt elements of cost in the production of such articles, •TncludlnTg the wages paid in such industries, the hours employed a day, the profits of manufacturers and produc ers, the comparative cost of living and the kind of living, what articles are controlled by trusts or other combinations of capital and what effect the trusts or other combinations of capital nave upon production and prices.” It will thus be pos sible to determine the sincerity or the trickery of those interests that seek to play politics with the welfare of their employes and with the rights of the American people. This would in no .wise mean government inter ference with business rights. But it would mean that big business should not interfere with the government’s rights and the public's rights. It would simply mean that a group of men who conspired to alarm the country or to bring on a panic from selfish or political motives would be exhibited in their true character. And we may be sure that if would-be mischief-makers know that they must either justify their claims or stand condemned by the nation, they will be very slow to make uncalled for trouble. The truth is high protective duties do not benefit the wage earner. Statistics snow that em ployes in highly protected Industries receive low er wages than those in unprotected industries. It has been conservatively reckoned that only about one-seventh of the total number of persons en gaged in manufacturing of all kinds in tne United States are helped to the slightest degree by pro tective duties. But the remaining six-sevenths are compelled to pay an enormous tax in the form of a high and steadily rising cost of living. The to tal tariff tax for the average American family is approximately one hundred and sixteen dollars a year, of which amount only sixteen dollars goes to the government as revenue and ninety-nine dol lars to the protected trust. Thus it is evident that the high tariff is simply a device for maintaining exorbitant prices and for protecting particular in terests against natural competition. When we find American trusts successfully competing iii foreign markets and selling tneir products more cheaply abroad than at home, we can see no reason why they- cannot continue to op erate prosper&usly when tariff duties nave neen re duced. The cry that they are being ruined is a shallow political bluff that will deceive no one fa miliar with the facts. The country has demanded tariff reductfon; it expects tariff reduction and competent tnisin.es3 is already making such readjustments as the change in duties may require. The Underwood bill, far from discouraging wholesome industry or chilling prosperity, will in reality release fresh forces of enterprise and send new currents or warmth and cheer s through the great body ot American business. The Task Before the Powers. Peace having been virtually concluded between Turkey and the Balkan States, it remains for the concert of European Powers to settle the question of war indemnities, define territorial boundaries and ad just such differences as now exist or may develop among the Allies themselves. The Bulgarian minister of finance is reported as saying that the Balkans will demand eighty million dollars from Turkey as compensation for the losses they have sustained. How the weakened and impov erished. Ottoman government could shoulder such a burden, it is rather difficult to conceive. The Powers are doubtless disposed to deai with Turkey in this connection as leniently as they may. In respect to territory, however, the Allies will probably get the greater part of what they demand. The fall of Adrianople settled decisively in their favor what promised at one time to be the most diffi cult and delicate issue the diplomats would have to consider. Indeed, the Allies have fairly won the ma jor portion of Turkey’s European realm. It is gen erally conceded that the Sultan’s domain will be nar rowed to Constantinople, and a small sphere of influ ence about the Bosporus. Such differences as may arise in regard to Turkish and Balkan boundaries will be comparatively minor—except perhaps in the case of certain Aegean islands—and dan be easily re conciled. But issues among the Allies themselves will call for more painstaking treatment. Bulgaria, Servia and Greece are eacn ambitious to build up their in dividual power.’ They have stood stanchly together during the war, subordinating their particular to their common interests. But now that the imme diate pressure of circumstances is removed, they are disposed to assert their individual claims. So long, however, as the larger Powers act in unison, they can enforce their judgment; and there is every indi cation that they will continue so to act, at least until present Balkan problems are satisfactorily worked out. An international force is now occupying Scutari. The fact that the Po- trs are acting together on this mission, instead of leaving it to any one of their number, means that Austria has assented to the gen eral plan and that Russia, too, has given it her sanc tion. The situation is thus greatly simplified and is relieved of many dangers that once threatened. So long as the powerful nations—England, France and Russia, Germany, Austria and Italy—move together in these matters, their suspicions and jealousies one of the other will be kept in the background and their will will be supreme. But should one of them, or a particular group of them, attempt to proceed inde pendently, trouble would undobtedly arise. Besides settling issues between the Allies and Turkey and among the Allies themselves, the Powers must also agree upon a government for Albania. They have already determined that this territory shall be an autonomous State and at least nominally independent. It was in this connection that the Montenegrin problem came about and here the de signs of Austria are manifest. Just how Albania will he disposed of remains to be seen. Much inter esting history has been made in the Balkans during the past seven months and much more, It would seem, remains to be written. . How a Business Leader Views Business Conditions. “There is no threatening cloud in the busi ness atmosphere of the United States." These are the words of James J. Hill, known throughout America for his discernment and leader ship in large affairs. In an interview recently pub lished in the Washington Post, Mr. Hill presents a remarkable array of facts, showing the sweep and soundness of the nation’s prosperity. He dwells upon the progress of agriculture and the expansion of industries; the one, he declares, is being quick ened by scientific methods of farming and the other encouraged and rendered more profitable by efficient methods of production. The demand for farm labor continues to grow and our systems of transportation are taxed to the utmost to meet increasing traffic needs. It is not so much the specific facts he men tions, however, as the conclusions which he, a trained and cool observer of business prospects, has reached that is significant. The Post aptly remarks: “To our financiers, our manufacturers, our merchants, to business men of every class and to the general public, the words of Mr. Hill sltould be of infinite value and afford them much satisfaction.” The truth is there is no echo of business appre hension today save that which comes from inspired sources. The rank and file of the people, whatever their field of occupation may be, are moving steadily forward in a spirit of confidence and cheer. The forthcoming reduction of the tariff and other laws designed to make our economic life more free and stable are interpreted in their true purpose and meas ured by their logical consequence. What few calam ity howlers there are find as little response as rea son for their sour temper.. Quarterly Reports of County Fees. It is doubtless through oversight rather than de sign that a hundred or more county officials in Geor gia have failed to observe the’ State law which re quires them to submit to the comptroller general at the end of each quarter of the year detailed reports showing the fees collected by them and the expenses incurred in the conduct of their offices. It is impor tant, however, for their own as well as the State’s interests that they delay this duty no longer; for, all delinquents in this matter are subject to a fine of a thousand dollars or to a year’s sentence on the public wopks. » The law in question was enacted at the last ses sion of General Assembly. It is a good law both-in its immediate and its ulterior purpose. Sound busi ness requires that the State should have a definite accounting of the funds received and spent in the transaction of its affairs. Public officials are not acting as individuals but as agents of the community. The people are entitled to know how every dollar of their money, whether derived through taxation or fees, is expended. The Legislature, in order to pro ceed wisely and efficiently in dealing with fiscal mat ters, should have at its disposal detailed and compre hensive information of this character. It was for this among other reasons that there was enacted a law requiring all officials receiving fees to submit quarterly statements to the comptroller and requiring the comptroller to compile all these reports. The law was also Intended to furnish data upon which the succeeding Legislature, if it thought wise, could frame a general act establishing the salary sys tem instead of the fee for county officials. Regardless of the merits or the demerits of such a law, these re ports should be carefully kept; for, only through such a device can the Legislature secure the definite in formation which it ought to have in considering a bill to this effect. The first quarter of the current year expired March the thirty-first. Though a majority of State and county officials promptly submitted their reports to (lie comptroller general, something like a hun dred of them, it seems, have not yet done so. The simple announcement of the facts in the case should serve to bring ail delinquents to an accounting. WHAT TO DO * BY UK. FRANK CRANE. (Copyright, 1913, by Frank Crane.) A very great and wise man came to America. His fame was such that all the nation believed that to follow his advice in anything would bring success. So all the legislatures of all the states elected rep resentatives to meet at Washington and ask him what to do. When they had gathered together he asked them, “What do you want most?” They answered, “To get rid of crime and crim inals, to stop the social evil, to abolish our slums, to clean our states and cities of poverty.” “Very, well,” he replied. “It will take thirty-three years, or one generation, but if you will faithfully do as I say you will certainy succeed.” Whereupon there was loud applause and exulting; and they said: “Tell us what to do, and upon our lives and honor we will most surely do K.” "I will tell you a week from today,” he responded. This he said in order that the enthusiasts who had ideas of reforming the people might make their sug gestions. And they came to him post haste, all sorts. Preach ers and priests came, saying they hoped he would say to give more money t churches and have grand revivals and get everybody converted. All kinds of pblitical and economical apostles besieged him; single taxers, Socialists, anarchists, progressives ajid prohi bitionists, and all had their say. 13ut upon the set day he arose before the delegates and said: “All the plans you have proposed to me have their good points, but all have a fatal weak spot, which is that they deal with ADULTS. “I do not propose to bother with them. They will all be dead anyhow in a few years. Besides, what you do with one adult crop of people must be done anew with the next. It is a fool way of trying to improve the race. Hence, go on» as you are now doing. It is the best you know and will last your time. Sixty years from now, when your children and grandchildren are at the helm of things, all your reform programs will fade away useless. “This is what to do: First, enlarge your public school system until it provides for the free education and ECONOMIC SUPPORT of ail the population under twenty. “Second, to raise money for this cause the state to be an equal partner in every concern or with every individual who has a hundred thousand dollars; one- half the profits or inome to go to the state to support its children. “Third, so reform your public schools that the chil dren therein shall be taught HOW TO LIVE; that is, first of all, moral charactei. Including honesty, clean liness, the value of truth, and of courage to tell and live the truth. “Train them in politics. Let the schools be as democratic as the nation. Do not govern the children. Teaoh them how to goverif themselves. Let it be ground into every girl and boy that it is disgraceful not to take an active part in the organization of the ward, city, state and nation. ' Just pay due attention to one generation of chil dren and it will save you a hundred years’ labor with adults.” This plan being so simple the delegates felt their intelligence insulted and said: “What! And did we come here to be told about children?” Also the re formers and instltution-job-holaers cried out upon him. The upshot of it all was that they seized the man and threw him into a madhouse. bditorials In Brief The British government has wisely decided not to suppress the official newspaper of the suffragettes. To have stifled the voice of militancy would have had a worse effect than a whole campaign of bomb throwing.—New York World. With battleships costing twenty million dollars apiece a navy has become a tremendous expense to this country. But did you ever happen to notice that nobody picks on the big, broad shouldered, two-fisted six-footer? It’s the little fellow who gets into trou ble.—Kansas City Times. < There is a movement In Buffalo for an ordinance forbidding the heating of rugs or carpets within the city limits. Good idea! There should be an ordi nance also making it a penal offense for a man who has been eating garlic and drinking alcohol to take a ride in a street car ob other public conveyance within a period of twenty-four hours thereafter.—Chicago Tribune. Decisive Battles The present celebration of the sixteenth centenary of the conversion of Constantine leads to some literary reflections: "Creasy’s “Fifteen Decisive Battles" seems to re semble the various best lists of authors w© read of from time to time—they always arouse criticism by some- serious omission. It will he recalled that the “Five Foot Shelf” of what, in a great educator’s mind, were the best imaginable books in English was found deficient in that it omitted both the Bible and Shakes peare. A few inches added to the shelf would have been a good thing in the minds of many. The “Fifteen Battles” would have been quite as euphoniius had it been called the “Sixteen” and had it included the battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312 A. D., where tradition declares that Constantine saw in the heavens the luminous cross which badj him conquer "In This Sign." Surely the giving of Europe and eventually America to Christianity was, to say the least, quite as important as the battles whlcl} saved Europe from Persian despotism or the later one which gave western Europe to Latin rather -than Greek su premacy, or any other named 'in the book. However great the consequences of others, none exceeded this in its results. Sins of omission are as bad as those of commission.—From a Letter in the New York Times. Pointed Paragraphs People never pay any attention- to a cheerful liar. * * * Some girls are born foolish and some use peroxide. THE INCOME TAX IV.—GRADUATING THE TAX. Ba FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Until recent legislation In some of the more pro gressive states there has been little effort in the United States to graduate income taxes, increasing the rat© with expanding incomes On the other hand, in Europe and Australasia the general ten- dency has been in that direction for years. There it has been assumed that the right principle of uniformity in taxation is uni formity of burden rather than uniformity of rate. As the wid ow’s mite was more than the richest gifts that were placed in the contribution box, because it was 100 per cent of what she had, while the other gifts rep resented perhaps only the frac tion of 1 per cent of what their donors had, so a tax of $20 may hit the small taxpayer Infinite ly harder than a tax of $500 hits ♦ he large taxpayer. The Euro pean idea is that each person shall bear a tax burden deli cately adjusted to his ability to bear it, and that the larger the income the higher the tax rate it can bear without putting an undue burden upon the taxpayer.* • • m v There are really two forms of graduation, and in the parlance of the tax official they are known as “graduation” and “differentiation.” Graduation, under this division, has to do directly with a sliding scale of tax rates, applied to various sized fortunes. Dif ferentiation has to do with a levying of different rates upon incomes secured from different sources. They both aim to produce results that will produce equal burdens upon all classes of taxpayers. With refer ence to differentiation, Gladstone once used a re markable expression to differentiate between the sources of incomes. One class of incomes he called “industrious” incomes, because they spring "from the sweat of the brow.” The other class he designated as “lazy” incomes, because the only labor involved in 4 getting them is the clipping of coupons or the cash ing of dividend check-. Differentiation, then, aimt to assess a lower tax against the money a man has tc work for than against that which comes to him frorr investments. Still another form of graduation is tha* of exempting incomes which fall below a certain fixed amount, the theory being that a man or woman whe has no larger income has need for every dollar of il in maintaining the proper standard of living. * • * England adopted the plan of differentiation, as wil; be explained later, In' 1907, after the most extensive in vestigation of the workings of tho principle In othei countries. There were those who asserted that it would result in great loss of revenue. Others be lieved that it jfcould upset the whole tax system. But after it was tried out there was no loss of revenue and the chancellor declared that it had worked a moral as well as a fiscal reform. After three year* trial It had proved Itself such a satisfactory innova tion that the government decided ,to go a step furthei and fix a system of graduated taxes. Differentiation made incomes that were th© result of “th© sweat of thf brow” bear a tax of 9 pence on the pound and invest ment incomes a tax of 12 pence, when the income did not go over 2,000 pounds. When the government de cided to graduate the tax the differentiation was in creased, so that . hile earned incomes were still taxed 18 cents, or 9 pence, investment incomes were taxed 2S cents instead of 24 cents. When graduation was taken up, the same gloomy prophecies that were made that differentiati n would not succeed, cam© to b« mad© that graduation would fail. But they were mistaken, and England now regards its income tax sys tem th© best that civilization has produced. • • • n ft •’ - T • Different countries approach the question of grad uation in different ways. Some of them first make an exemption of a living income, and assess the tax against nothing but the excess of income above that point, levying a different rato of taxation upon each $1,000 of income. If, for instance, the exemption were $1,000 and th© total income were $6,COO, and the rate 1 per cent on the first $1,000 above that, 2 per qent on th e second $1,000, etc., the tax would be calculated as follows: $1,000 at 1 per cent, $10; $1,000 at 2 pel cent, $200; $1,000 at 3 per cent, $30; $1,000 at 4 pe: cent, $4, and $1,000 at 5 per cent, $50; total tax, $150 • • • On the other hand, some laws provide that an in come in excess of the exemption, shall be taxed ac cording to its size, the ascending rate applying to alJ of th© income, instead of to each $1,000 of it on a sep arate basis. For instance, suppose the exemption i? $1,000, and that the rate is made 1 per cent if it does not exceed $1,000 above the exemption, 2 per cent il it does not exceed $2,000, etc. Under this plan th« man with a $5,000 income over and above the exemp tion would pay 5 per cent on the entire $5,000 or $25C on the Income. • • • It has been found upon a careful investigation o 1 the income tax laws of the various countries that 8f per cent of the aggregate population of all the ^coun tries having such laws are residents of countries where graduation is a recognized principle. Of the fifty-odd courvtries which tax incomes, forty-six use some form of graduation. In a large group of coun tries the average tax rates on incomes of varying sizes were calculated, and it is shown that taxable incomes of $500 paid 1.50 per cent, incomes of $1,000 paid 1.94 per centh, incomes of $2,000 paid 2.37 per cent, in comes of $5,000 paid 2.92 per cent. The average of all these countries on incomes of $100,000 was 3.89 per cent. These figures are on incomes arising from per sonal exertion; those derived from invested capital are somewhat higher. • * • A tabulation of the tax rates in twenty different: countries where the principle of differentiation is rec ognized has also been Ynade by the same authority, K. K. Kennan, of Milwaukee, and the composite distinc tion between earned and unearned incomes ascertained therefrom. The tabulation shows that where earned income pays a tax of $3, unearned income would pay $5 on the same amount. • • * * Even with a graduated income tax, and with ex emptions amounting to $1,100 as the average for Eng lish-speaking countries,' not , great many people ar» vitally concerned in the tax when compared to the whole population. Taking as a group England ana fourteen of its colonies, and Hawaii, it is found that the average exemption is $1,100, and that less than one person in twenty has to pay an income tax. In England itself, where only those who have an income of more than $800 have to pay a tax, only one person in thirty has an income that puts him in the Income tax paying class. It, therefore, follows that under a system of graduation such as England has, perhaps less than one person in several hundred has to pay any more than a nominal sum. When misfortune overtakes a hustler it has to go some. , • • • There are no game laws*to interfere with the kill ing of time. When a contrary man agrees with you it’s a safe bet that you are in the wrong. • • » The man who throws himself at a young widow’s head will soon find himself under her thumb—or foot. No other country in the world so thoroughly rec ognizes the principle of graduation as England and its colonies. While in the United States, where gradua tion might be taken as an effort fostered by delta- gogues to shift an undue burden to men of large incomes, it can be said that in England the leading tax-authorities, men in no wise influenced by such po litical considerations, claim that the graduated income tax is the only just one, ;«nd that the whole tendency of the times is in that direction. Some people run into debt and others jump. The barbers’ strike in New York will save many a tip. It is easier to love in spite of faults than because of virtues. Professor Taft is now watching the other fellow make history. Congress, so far, hasn’t come to the Washington baseball team. V It remains to be seen which is better for diplo macy—grape juice or mint juleps. “Pickpockets get busy at polite picnic.” Weil, this is like burglarizing the police station.