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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1913.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Georgians Interest in Drainage.
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Atlanta, Ga.
All the world is a probe, these days.
Among other changes—a new governor.
The Vital Importance of
National Road Building.
It Is estimated in a bulletin recently issued by the
National Highways Association that during the next
five-and-twenty years more than twenty-five billion
dollars will be spent on the improvement and exten-
uon of the country’s public roads. A well considered
and well managed expenditure of this v„st sum is of
paramount importance to the American people. It
should be made to produce the largest and most per
manent measure of results possible; and, if that is
to be true, this money should be applied in accord
ance with some carefully designed plan so that the
nation may acquire a connected system of roadways
adapted to its growing economic needs.
It is the Belief of the Association that the surest
means to this end is for the federal government to
construct a series of main highways’ throughout the
United States and then “to encourage everywhere
the building of good roads as the distributing and
collecting medium for the traffic of national high
ways.” Certain it is that if these great arteries of
travel are once established, they will furnish the
center and the stimulus for the logical development
of hundreds of other roads and will thereby make
sure a national system—which, from every point of
view, is the thing most to be desired.
• Of the more than two and a quarter million miles
of highways in the United States fewer than three
hundred thousand miles are now improved, and those
only in part. This fact represents a tremendous loss
to business in general and to agriculture in partic
ular. A recent writer has stated the case clearly
' and forcefully in this wise: “There are twenty-five
million farm horses and mules, a million, six hundred
thousaiftl horse-drawn vehicles and eight hundred
and fifty thousand automobiles In the United States,
valued at four billion dollars. They travel over two
million of fniles of country roads unimproved, rutty,
muddy, dirty, dangerous and over three hundred
thousand miles f improved roads, such as they are.
If the annual depreciation, due to unimproved roads,
is only ten per cent (four hundred million dollars)
this amount would build, at five thousand dollars a
mile, eighty thousand miles of excellent roads. In
less than five years the amount now lost in this
depreciation would pay the cost of our present im
proved roads and in thirty years would improve the
other two million miles of highways.”
Federal aid lor good roads is a matter in which
every State and every county in the Union has vital
cause to be interested. For, tao establishment of a
national system of highways will not only encourage
the building and the improvement of thousands of
miles of roads which do not now exist or which, if
they do, are in a miserable condition; it will also
enhance the value of every good ,road by linking it to
a great chain of nation-wide thoroughfares.
Agricultural States like Georgia have particular
reason to he interested in this enterprise, for, if
there Is one group of people upon which the burden of
poor roads falls most heavily it is the farmers. Where
a team can haul one bale of cotton a few miles in
one day on a bad road, it can haul twelve bales twice
as far on a good , oad; and the same Is true in re
spect to the marketing of all other products. It is
cheering to note that Congress has shown a growing
disposition to inaugurate a plan of federal road build
ing. This movement should have the earnest support
of the people of the entire country and, particularly,
those of the South.
There is reason to hope that in the course of its
present session the Legislature will enact a drainage
lav/ sufficient to meet the insistent requests from
every part of the State for the reclamation of swamp
and overflow lands. Scientific drainage is no longer
a theory in Georgia, appealing only to a few people
here and there but a practical enterprise in which
hundreds of farmers and business men are definitely
interested-
This is witnessed by the fact that the State and
the federal geological surveys are continually receiv
ing applications from various counties for assistance
in carrying forward such improvements and by the
further fact that the Georgia Drainage Congress, sup
ported by an active membership of public spirited
men, has progressed so rapidly within the past few
years as now to have district organizations in differ
ent parts of the S.ate. Interest in this matter has
become specific as well as general. Not only in
South Georgia where there are thousands of acres
of marsh or swamp land but also in North Georgia
where there are many tracts of overflow land along
rivers, the drainage question is one of immediate and
vital concern.
Georgia has an inviting opportunity* to meet and
solve this issue on an economic basis in co-operation
with the national government. A State appropria
tion of five thousand dollars annually for a period of
five years will secure an equal sum from the federal
government and also the latter’s valuable assistance
in making the preliminary surveys which are neces
sary to drainage undertakings. By a comparatively
small outlay of money on its own part, the State
can thus inaugurate a far-reaching and fruitful cam
paign for the reclamation of its swamp and overflow
lands. As an investment, this proposition is highly
attractive, for, the increased tax values which would
inevitably follow drainage enterprises would within
the course of a few years repay the State for its orig
inal expenditures a hundred times over.
The reclamation of overflow and swamp lands,
fa.- from being a subject of individual interest alom,
is pre-eminently one of public welfare. How true
this is, is indicated by the fact that in a number of
counties farmers and merchants have organized to
promote In so far as they can the drainage of wet
lands in their vicinity. They realize that by so do
ing they will Increase the production of crops, en
hance the value of real estate and turn to practical,
business account large tracts of land which now is
relatively worthless. Such undertakings should
have the State’s guidance and support, for, they will
extend and quicken the prosperity of the entire com
monwealth-
Besides the economic value of drainage, there is
this additional and very Important fact to be consid
ered. The existence of swamp or overflow lands Is a
constant meance to public health. Official records
show that in those States where drainage enter
prises have been extensively carried out the death
rate from malaria has been reduced to a minimum,
while in other states where little or no such work
has been done, this insidious disease Is as prevalent
and as fateful as ever. As an efficient health meas
ure, therefore, Georgia cannot do better than to en
courage the reclamation of her swamp and overflow
lands.
A well considered bill with this end in view has
been introduced In the House by Judge Aiken, of
Glynn, formerly a member of the Senate and a dis
tinguished leader of the drainage movement in
Georgia and the South. It Is to be hoped that this
timely and useful measure will receive favorable
Cjnsideration.
Small comfort to us that Duluth, Minn., shivers.
Still, we don’t have any heat prostrations.
Our idea is that talking doesn’t make the hot
weather go.
The New Census Director.
The Senate’s confirmation of Mr. William J. Har
ris as director of the United States census, to which
position he was appointed some months ago by
President Wilson, is a matter of peculiar satisfaction
to all Georgians and an assurance to the country at
large that the work of this important bureau will be
faithfully and competently done.
Mr. Harris’ distinctive success in large business
affairs, his genius for organization and for the mas
tery of details eminently equip him for the tasks
of his high office, while his sterling integrity of
character guarantees a just and spotless administra
tion of the department. In his home State, Mr.
Karris is so well known as to render further com
mendation superfluous. We predict, however, that
he w }11 establish a record which will earn the confi
dence'and approval of all sections of the country and
will be a credit to the national administration as
well as to his own commonwealth. The directorship
of the census could not have been more worthily
bestowed.
The greatest fiction is the summer vacation fic
tion number.
A Determination That Will Win.
One of the most appealing passages In President
Wilson’s recent address to Congress on the need of
prompt legislation foi banking and currency reform
was that in which he said:
‘•I know of course that the heated season is
upon us, that work in these chambers and in the
committee rooms is likely to become a burden
as the season lengthens and that every considera
tion of personal convenience and personal com
fort, perhaps, in the cases of some of us, consid
erations of personal health even, dictate an early
conclusion of the deliberations of the session;
but there are occasions of public duty when
those things that touch us privately seem very
small; when the work to be done is so pressing
and so fraught with big consequence that we
Jcnoiv that we are not at liberty to weigh against
it any point of personal sacrifice."
Many members of Congress who came to hear the
President in a temper of protest at the thought of a
prolonged session went away not only reconciled to
this prospect but heartily determined to stand by
him until the laborious and urgent task is complete.
Such is the persuasi - and inspiriting power of
Woodrow Wilson.
It is evidently the purpose of the President and
ais followers to stay in Washington the long summer
through and, if need be, until the beginning of the
regular session of Congress in December rather than
leave undone the all important duty of giving the
country a banking and currency law that will be ade
quate to business needs. Democratic leaders realize
that constructive legislation of this character is more
imperative now than ever before, though it has been
needed early enougl for long years past. If the tariff
bill, now assured of passage, is, to yield due benefits
and is to take effect without disturbance to business,
it must be accompanied or immediately followed by
well considered banking and currency legislation..
For, these two iproc ems are naturally concomitant.
Tariff revision will release great forces of enter
prise and of individual initiative that heretofore
have been in bondage. But, as Mr. Wilson has ex
pressed it, “We must not leave them without the tools
of action when they are free. What will it profit us
to be quit of Bne kind of monopoly, if we are to re
main in the grip of another and more effective kind.'
How are we to gai and keep the confidence of the
business comm., ity unless we show that we kno /
how both to aid and- to protect it?”
The fact is thoughtful business men the nation
over are agreed that the time for a revision of hank
ing and currency laws to meet widespread and press
ing needs is ripe. The President is backed by pubnc
sentiment and public judgment in his determination \
to settle this vital question without further delay.
And the probability is that the firmness of his posi
tion will shorten the task.
Latest cable advices are that the Balkans haven’t
ceased to balk. *
With the exception of his “licker,” a man will
get his necessities cheaper under the tariff.
Georgia’s New Governor.
Governor John M. Slaton begins his administra
tion under fair skies and in a field that is worthy
the Best labor of constructive statesmanship. Geor
gia is looking forward to a plenteous autumn; her
people are not onl; cheered by material prosperity
but are also quickened by a generous sense of duty
to their commonwealth; the day of bitter partisan
ship is over; an era of good feeling has dawned and
all good citizens stand ready to press forward shoul
der to shoulder in a spirit of workmanly patriotism
for the upbuilding of their State.
Happy is the chief executive whose lines have
fallen upon a season so harmonious and promising.
It is the manifest' purpose of Governor Slaton to
serve all the people of Georgia, and in this, we are
sure, he will have thei. hearty support. That the
tasks before him and The Legislature are very prac
tical and urgent, he has clearly recognized in his
inaugural address. Especially noteworthy are his
references to the need of readjusting the State’s
financial system to present day conditions'. It is
essential, as he declares, that appropriations be held
within the bounds -f revenues and that at the same
time some means he devised for meeting those in
creased demands which a growing State inevitably
develops.
His recommendation that the tax rate be ad
vanced one and a half mills for a period of two years
in order that the State’s teachers may be fully and
promptly paid should commend itself to all think
ing citizens as a fair and really economical plan.
Equally well-timed ia his plea for an equalization
of taxes and for other measures that will place the
State’s fiscal system on a businesslike basis and re
move the financial barriers in the patch of Georgia’s
progress.
Governor Slaton has done well to stress the im
portance of a prompt and thorough consideration of
the future of the Western and Atlantic railroad, the
present lease of which terminates a little more than
six years hence. While he has not discussed the de-
tailg of this great issue, it is evident that he stands
for a liberal policy and one that will preserve and
increase the road’s value to the State.
His suggestion of certain amendments to the
criminal law and certain changes in court procedure
will meet the approval of the bench and bar through
out the State, His appeal for a State Highway Com
mission to the end that Georgia may develop a uni
fied system of good roads will win a wide response.
These are but features of an address that is lib
eral and constructive throughout. The Journal ex
tends to Governor Slaton its cordial greetings and
its assurance of co-operation in his every effort to
serve the people of Georgia in their common interests.
Strengthening the Game Law.
Georgia’s game protection law, which was passed
several seasons ago and which has been administer
ed with uniform satisfaction to all true sportsmen
( and the public alike is, for the most part, an admir
able measure. It has become evident, however, that
a few supplementary provisions will greatly strength
en the original act and make it far more effective
than now in conserving an important field of the
State’s natural resources.
Bills with this end in view have been introduced
at the present session of the Legislature, by Senator
0. H. Elkins and by Representative Methvin, of
Dodge. They are intended to regulate the size and
the use of seines, nets, a'nd traps, a particular require
ment being that the meshes employed by fishermen
be large enough to permit the escape of small fish,, an
obviously fair and sensible safeguard. Such a meas
ure should, and doubtless will, pass without opposi
tion.
*
It is likely that kindred hills to perfect other de
tails of the game law will be introduced. Commis
sioner Mercer has called attention to the vital need
of protecting the State’s oyster beds against the wan
tonly destructive practices to which they are now
exposed. In many instances valuable reefs are be
ing ruined and unless some practical remedy is soon
applied, the State will have lost beyond recovery one
of its rarest stores of treasure.
Properly conserved these oyster beds would be
come as famous and as profitable as any along the
Atlantic coast and would he practically inexhausti
ble in their supply. They are now exposed, how
ever, to all manner of heedless and ignorant usage,
so that the very source of natural wealth which
ought to be preserved for the people of this State
is being destroyed. It is to be hoped that legislation
to meet this condition will be enacted.
The hot weather is also a restraining influence on
the man who, as it were, gargles his soup.
President Wilson shows that the real wielders of
the big stick are the common people.
It takes a fussy woman to believe that neighbor
hood gossip is true when she knows it isn’t.
The Prevention of Lobbies.
There is good reason to hope that the Senatorial
lobby investigation will not only scotch a particular
evil but will also lead to broad and lasting reform
in this entire fielu of legislative interest. The tariff
lobby has undoubtedly been sent packing for the
nonce at least; well-timed publicity has wrought the
desired result. vVrong practices which the country
had long suspected but which had evaded positive
proof are now clearly defined so that it is possible
to devise practical safeguards against their recur
rence. %
And that seems to be the firm purpose of Congress.
Several bills with this end in view have already
been proposed or introduced. One of jhem provides
for the registration of lobbyists at Washington, a
measure similar to that now operative in a number
of States. Another would draw a clearer distinction
between professional legislative agents and individual
citizens acting in their own ,ehalf, or counsel rep
resenting (heir ir.-crests in an orderly and open
manner. A watchful supervision of paid agents
would undoubtedly go far toward preventing suen
pernicious and underhanded methods as the recent
inquiry has revealed.
It is evident that one of the most flagrant abuses
connected with the lobbying evil has been the indis
criminate use of Congressional franks in behalf of
private and special interests. It has recently been
proved that something like a million privately pre
pared documents attacking the proposed reduction of
duties on sugar were sent through the mails without
cost to the sugar combine but at a tremendous ex
pense to the American public. Simply from a stand
point of honest business, such practices should be
ended.
GOVERNMENT BY
LAW-BREAKERS
By
Dr. Frank
Crane
Do you realize that a great part of the people of
this country habitually regard the government as
something that is none of their concern? They say
“theirs” not “ours.” Du you
realize that children are grow
ing up with the idea that the
management of the affairs of
their own ward or city is as
much “none of their business”
as the management of the lum
ber yard or hotel?
I do not refer only to those
homes where there is continual
complaint against the govern
ment, as among foreign anarchis
tic folk. How many college boys
realize that an interest in town
politics is as much to be ex
pected of them as an interest in
' the golf club or social affairs?
The average business man
makes it a point of pride to say
that he never meddles with poli
tics. In other words, he regards the democratic self-
governing system under which he lives to be a thing
apart from him.
The whole nation is handed over to a group of men
called politicians. The average politician interests
himself in government matters only to the extent
to which they may bring him personal profit or ad
vancement.
Now, politics is at present mainly occupied with
the punishment of crime. The consequence is that
criminals and those who receive profits from crime
drift into politics. These are the people most directly
affected by laws.
The result is that we have what might almost be
called a government by law breakers. Not
that all officials are law breakers, but that the
most considerable pressure brought to bear upon
them, from the president down to the policeman, is
from the people whose livelihood or success depends
upon the violation of the law.
The huge wealth units, trusts and corporations
surround th* congress with their skilled lobbyists and
fill the courts with their expert lawyers. Around the
police the gamblers, white slavers and thugs are live
ly while the decent portion of the population is in
different.
The criminal element and their hangers-on are ac
tive in elections. The grocer, baker and parson hard
ly care to vote at all.
We shall never begin to realize democracy'' until
the children shall be taught to speak of the govern
ment and of politics as “ours” not “theirs.”
TRAGEDY OF LAUNDERED MONEY.
Since Uncle Sam now washes bills
Of all shades and denominations,
We shall be freed from many ills,
Embarrassments and small vexations.
Our money may be threadbare, very,
But we shall/ keep it sanitary!
My meager store, though patched and worn,
Can boast at least one lowly merit,
And poverty is better borne
When it has cleanliness to share it.
• • *
What’s this? A five? ’Tis shrunk a-plenty;
Why, when I sent it, ’twas a twenty!
Well, try for better luck next time!
I may be poor, but I am thrifty;
Perhaps—an error’s not a crime—
I’ll by mistake be sent a fifty!
Great grief! I ought to make a holler!
They’ve sent (marked “J. D. R.”), a dollar!
To send it back is my intent
For Uncle Sam to wash and fix up;
I cannot lose a single cent
On any sort of future mixup!
Alas! Too late’They’ll wash it, steam it
And all that—but I can’t redeem it!
Quips arid Quiddities
When the young husband reached home from the
office he found his wife in tears.
“Oh, John,” she sobbed on his shoulder. I had
baked a lovely cake and I put it out on the back porch
for the frosting to dry and th© dog ate it!”
“Well, don't cry about it, sweetheart,” he consoled,
patting the pretty flushed cheek. “I know a man who
will give us another dog!J’
* * •
A man went into a druggist’s shop and asked for
something to cure a headache. The druggist held a
bottle of hartshorn to his nose and he was nearly over
powered by its pungency.
As soon as he recovered he began to rail at the
druggist and threatened to punch his head.
“But didn’t it ease your headache?” asked the
apothecary.
“Ease my headache!” gasped the man. “I haven’t
got any headache. It’s my wife that’s got the head
ache.”
Pointed Paragraphs
All the world loves a good liver, more or less.
* • *
If you would save money, never bet on a sure thing.
• * **
Only little girls and engaged girls care for hen
parties.
• * *
Smile and the world smiles with you, unless you are
in a prohibition district.
• • •
A woman married to a “good fellow” usually has
a bad time’of it.
• • •
A woman’s idea of a good husband is one who
never feels sorry for himself.
• * *
Even the intoxication of love may result in a se
vere headache the next morning.
Matchmakers never set the world on fire.
Second-hand thoughts are sometimes best.
Where there’s a young widow’s will there is a
marriage.
Many a man’s soiled character has been washed
in a woman’s tears.
The girl whp fully intends to marry her ideal
usually compromises.
A man plays the game of love for pastime; a
woman plays it to win.
Why not call ’em the Balks?
Pretty soon the midsummer reduction sales will
bring a ray of comfort.
THE INCOME TAX
XVI.—LAWS IN OTHER COUNTRIES.
BY FREDERIC .1. HASKIN.
"If it wasn’t for carfare and luncheon,” says a
Bachelor, "a woman wouldn’t have any need of
money when she goes shopping.” But every married
man knows better.
With fifty-odd countries already having adopted
the income tax as a part of their permanent system
of taxation, it is interesting to note that in the past
quarter of a century no nation
W——' I that has adopted such a tax
I | has re P eale<1 it- Teh of these
I a countries have national as well
...... as local income tax laws. The
average date of the enactment
of such laws is 1881, although
a large majority of the coun
tries had laws many decades
ago. Taking twenty countries
for averager it is found that
the average rate is about 4 per
cent, that one person out of fif
ty pays the tax, and that, count
ing the families of these tax
payers, about one person in ten
is affected by it. When the
United States had its Civil war
Income tax law in force the ex
emption was placed at $1,000
during .the years between 1867
and 1870, and yet only one per
son out of each 150 had to pay the tax. • In looking
for guiding lights in governmental matters the eye of
the Student nearly always turns to Australia and New
Zealand, for there one finds much of the world’s pio
neer progressive legislation. The income tax laws of
these countries are no exception. They are character
ized by high exemptions, liberal graduations and sharp
differentiation between labor-produced and capital-pro
duced incomes. When the English committee was in
vestigating such matters in 1906 it called in T. M.
Coghlan, who had helped frame these Antipodean
laws. Among other things he did was to furnish an
estimate of what the New South Wales land tax and
income tax would bring In in the way of revenues. In
the London inquiry he testified that he had estimated
correctly to within less than 2 per cent. His testi
mony was to the effect that the laws have worked
well in ^practice, and that practically every contrary
prediction has been discounted. For Instance, when
It was proposed to tax capital-produced Income more
heavily than labor-produced Income, It was widely pre
dicted that the effect would be to drive capital out of
the country. He testified that no such effect has been
noted. Labor produced, or earned incomes, are there
called "personal exertion” i: omes. It was feared
that there would be a great difficulty in distinguish
ing between capital-produced and labor-produced in
comes where a man manages the business in which his
capital Is invested. They get around this rather neat
ly, as the way the farmers are assessed will show.
The part the Income which arises from the land is
considered as the equivalent of the interest on the
capital invested in the land, and the remainder of the
Income Is supposed to arise from the "personal ex
ertions” of the farmer.
• • «
In Victoria the exemption is $973. For the first
$2,483 above that the tax Is a little less than 1 1-3
per cent, and this Increases with each successive In
crease of income until It reaches its maximum of
about 3 per cent on all Incomes above $10,000. In
comes from property are taxed at double rates.
...
In Austria (coming -back to Europe) there is a tax
on general earnings, a tax on corporate earnings, and
a general income and salary tax. The rates vary, but
go as high as 10 per cent. There is a provision which
authorizes the government to enter into Income tax
reciprocity treaties with other counties, so that there
shall be no double taxation of incomes between na
tions, Under this provision Germany and Austria
have entered into such a treaty whereby income frqm
land is to be assessed only where the land Is situated,
and income from personal property only in the land
of actual uomicile. This is probably the first such
treaty in the history of the income tax. Taxable in
come is declared to be the sum of all revenues in
money or "In money’s worth” to the indivdual. Includ
ing the rental value of his house and the provender
his family consumes. Gifts and inheritances are not
considered as Income and reasonable life Insurance
premiums m-y be deducted from the gross income.
Interest on debts Is also deducted. There Is an ex
emption of 200 crowns, and no one with an Income of
less than 2,000 crowns is required to make a report
unless asked to do so. "Money’s worth” Is a good
deal of a poser for the man who figures his income.
Technically it is -held that the value of a dinner given
by one official to another is required to be included
in income. There is no provision as to secrecy. Tax
dodging is punishable by a fine of from two to nine
times the tax. The Austrian law Is generally pro
nounced as looking good on gaper, but being at least
a partial failure in practice. It Is estimated that tax
dbdging Is so general that certainly not more than
half of the taxable income Is reached, and that this
may fall even as low as a third. This is attributed
to the fact that the sentiment of the people is too
overwhelmingly against the tax to permit of its effi
cient enforcement. . j
• • •
Italy has an Income tax law that embodies the fea
tures of stoppage at the course and differentiation,
but the rates levied are very high, so high, in fact, that
the administration of the law has largely broken
down in the face of them. The Italian rate is higher
than the rates in England and Germany, and yet the
yield is only a third as great as that of England and
half as great as that of Germany. Of course these
two countries are richer than Italy, and land incomes
are not taxed in Italy, but even these things do not
explain th© great disproportion. It is attributed to
fraud. Tax doging is almost universal. The people
regard the law as the “code of financial tdrture.”
One writer says that the Italian taxpayer is the most
patient human animal known to fiscal history, yet even
h© cannot stand the burdens of the income tax. Th®
tax goes even as high as ?6 and 20 per cent, and, of
course, the people dodge it. The worst dodgers are
said to be professional men, and of them it has been
said that th© diversities and undulations of their con
sciences attain a degree of refinement of which only
the higher talents are capable. Publicity was tried
as a cure for dodging, and it failed. It has been said
that the only thing that would surprise an Italian
would be to find that his neighbor had returned his
true income, or had been assessed in any degree com
parable thereto. The Italian tax is collected in a most
peculiar way. The government does not undertake
'the collection itself, but for each collection district
submits the privilege of collecting the tax to public
auction, and the person or firm cr company submitting
the lowest bid and proving the necessary responsibil
ity is awarded the contract. In the district in which
Rome is situated the lowest bid ranges around 1 1-2
per cent of the taxes collected.
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Holland has an income tax law for property income
and for exertion income. The property tax ranges
from 3 to 5 per cent on earnings, while the exertion
income tax is somewhaf lower, this giving the usual
differentiation between the earned and the unearned
income. Incomes below $261 are exempted, and the
meager income the Dutch average citizen enjoys may
be gathered from the statement that only sixteen out
of a thousand of the population are income taxpayers.
There is also an inheritance tax which contains an in
teresting sliding scale. Property that descends to
children and their children is taxed 1 per cent; prop
erty that goes back to parents is taxed 3 per cent;
property of couples without children passing from the
one to the other is taxed 4 per cent, and this idea is
followed on out as the relationship grows more re
mote until it rises to the‘maximum of 10 per cent.
Editorials In Brief
John D. Rockefeller has a flock of lambs to mow
the lawns on his estate. There are also other flocka
of lambs, but witji respect to these Mr. Rockefeller
always attends in person to'the harvesting of the
long green.—Boston Transcript.