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In one large city families are insisting they do not want thelr boys to be trained as sol- diers—that they hear beer Is sold at the camps-—that thelr boys would have to associate ®Iith low characters. Professing entire ignorance of the situation In that city, the CCC officials here Insist they do not belleve the objections cited by the parents are genuine. They say that the talk about military training was very widespread when the camps were first started, but that it broke down of its own welght a long time ago. They belleve the sole and only reason Is unwillingness to get off relief rolis In other cities, In fact In most cities, enrollment in the CCC camps has been way below what was expected, and the answer is believed by officials here to be just unwillingness to get off relief. But In every Instance officials say to inquiring reporters from the city In question: “Please don't mention that you talked to me about this." Incidentally the Veterans’ bureau has been having Its troubles along the same line, A Real Problem The whole question brings up the point whether the United States Is now going through what England went through a few years back. In England the dole brought some interesting con- sequences, and, as they occurred be- fore the depression hit this country, there was quite a self-righteous feel- bringing her troubles on her own head by pampering the dole collectors. Then came the depression, and the New Deal. Whereupon it became pro- gressive in this country to insist that it was the duty of the government to take care of the cold and hungry, and reactionary to point to Britain's troubles on the same sort of problem, Now It is being realized that It Is a problem Involving fundamental traits of human nature, and that the United States Is very in the character of its people from Britain, No one, not even the most bitter critic of the administration on Capitol Hill, is advocating that people should be al- lowed to starve or freeze. But a very interesting mental transformation Is becoming apparent In New Deal cir cles. For example, a high official of the Federal Emergency Relief administra- tion was told that his agents In a large middie western city had threatened to take families off relief if they refused to permit their sons to go to the ceo camps, or if able-bodied men In the not different were offered, “I have not heard about that” he said shortly. “You see it is a purely handling the relief siiuation has aun- thority to handle the matter In any way he sees fit." “You mean if he turns families off the relief rolls for such reasons as that, It is entirely up to him? he was asked. “Exactly,” he replied. “Would the local officials make a report to headquarters here about It the questioner persisted. “Nothing of the kind need be re ported,” he replied, And his whole manner Indieated, writer in confidence, that he did not want any such reports! Cut Huge Fortunes President Rooosevelt's objective Is to reduce all large fortunes to a maxi- to a maximum of $60,000 a year. He sald this in a conversation a few days ago with a very rich Democrat, who CLASSIFIED ADS | VE FISHING? THE SURF? Live where | a dollar counts, Homes, far noreage,s Write POX 223, WEWA " iA After Everything Has Falled to Cure your | billows stomach trouble and yor have lost | all hope wrile Jerome Judd, Kent, Conn, | WNU—4 SINGLE ROOM AND PRIVATE BATH NEW YORK CITY A naw hotel on 42nd Street 2 blocks east of Grand Central Station. In another most Interesting con. versation with a Wisconsin man who had backed him when Roosevelt really needed backing. In the pre-convention your peace with the La Follettes. They are our kind of people.” Which of course is purely corrobora- saying about his tax program--that It has two objectives, a better social order, as well as revenue. Meanwhile business men as a whole are aghast at the prospect, for they see ln the drive against bigness almost surely forther boosting of the rates to apply against all corporations which have big carnings. Most business men do not agree with the wisdom, entirely aside from their in the contention so often made In vate conversations by Justice Brandeis against bigness in privately owned corporations, Frequently, they admit, many of the faults which characterize all large scale government operations creep in when a corporation attains unwieldy size. They even admit that instances can be cited where the mere size of the corporation increases the cost of whatever unit it may manufac- ture, or the item of service It may render, Take the Automobile But they Insist that for the most part these Instances are the excep- tions, and not the rule. A favorite {llustration of the reverse is the auto- mobile. Anyone who knows anything produced by say 200 manufacturers | of fairly even size, the cost per auto- mobile to the purchaser would be more than double, The best {llustration of this is the Ford car now manufactured by a falr- ly good sized plant In Strassburg, France, That car costs the purchaser in Paris about $1,700, This is not due to the protective tariff, for the car Is made in France. Actually of course, | if the cars were made In the big Ford plant at Dearborn, they could pay 100 per cent tariff and still save he purchasers a good deal of money. It is the French quota system on Im- | ports which forces thelr manufacture on a small scale at Strassburg. Manufacturers contend that if Ford of small size In this country, each | owned by a different owner and oper- | ated Independently—Iin short if the policy desired by the administration 'n this use of the taxing power against bigness were forced into effect—the cars would cost purchasers in this country more than the £1,700 charged in France. For it so happened that wages in the Strassburg plant are lower than In the Dearborn plant All of which helps to explain what some critics of the plan mean when they insist it is a “distribution of pov- | erty” not a “distribution of wealth” One Real Danger Only one phase of the huge “share the wealth"—level off the big for- tunes” and “pass prosperity around”— | taxation program of President Roose. | velit seems In any real danger. This is the sliding scale tax aimed at big corporations. There seems no doubt whatever that the big levies on inher. tances, and the boosts in the upper income tax brackets will be approved by congress substantially as desired by the President. Already a trickle of protests has begun arriving from holders of com- mon stocks In the big corporations. A few of them have already realized that heavier taxes on the companies in which thelr savings are Invested hits them, and them alone. For the bondholders, and the preferred stock- | holders, will continue to get their in- terest and dividends, If they are earned, Additional taxes will hit the | equities, not the debts, porations. Except of course such as are not earning to pay divi dends at present, and have no prospect of paying any in the pear future, If the big companies should do any- thing like as thorough a job In rous- ing thelr stockholders as the utilities did, there 1s little doubt that this phase of the program would be In serious danger. For there Is nothing like the spontaneous appeal to this levy that there is to the proposal to tax big for. tunes, both when In estates and in in. | Comes, Some lawyers are contending, how. ever, that the big Inheritance taxes are unconstitutional They contend that the object of the tax is not to raise money for the needs of the gov. | ernndat, but is purely social In char. | acter, with the object of leveling off | fortunes. This, they contend, runs counter to the Constitution. { Not much attention Is apt to be pald | to this by the senators and representa- | tives. “Soak the rich” has always | been a popular slogan, politically, and | the theory that It is good politics to | vote for such legislation is strongly | held. Question of Politics Lots of men in both house and sen- ate will vote for these levies who do not really approve of them. Hence the comparative certainty that they will pass, Opposition to them might prove very hurtful at the next elec tion, The opposition Is based chiefly not on any theory that it is a bad Idea to cut down the big fortunes——though there are a few who Insist that many big fortunes have proved far more beneficial to the public at large than if the same amount of money had been spent by the government--but on the old Mellon theory of efliciency. Andrew W, Mellon, when secretary of the treasury, frequently contended that lower percentages of taxes for the high brackets would bring more money into the {reasury than higher per centages. He pointed to the fact that every time taxes were reduced on big incomes, receipts from big Incomes In. creased. Critics of the Mellon regime always insisted that the reason for this was merely that it occurred dure ing a rapidiy rising tide of prosperity. As there was undoubtedly such a ris. of th ese oor enough strongly held view that he was, This theory—and it Is the one entertained today by many men In congress who will vote for the new levies despite thelr views-Is that when tax rates are oo high, ways of evading them will ose holding this view Insist that Captain Cook, Explorer, Was Slain by Hawaiians Capt. James Cook, English naval cap ber 28, 1728, at Cleveland In York shire. In 17050 having become a mate on a commercial ship he joined the Royal navy. After four years’ service he was appointed master of the sloop “Grampus.” From 1759 to 1767 Cook surveyed the St. Lawrence and the coast of Newfoundland, relates the Phi) adelphia Record, In 1768 be was sent to the Pacific with an expedition to observe the transit of Venus, Having observed the transit from Tahitl, he voyaged west ward, completing the first clrcumnavi- gation of New Zealand, charting the coast. Passing on to Austra¥ia, he sur- veved the east const morthwards and, sailing through the stralt separating it from New Guinea, showed that these two lands were not connected. "he following year (1772) Cook re- command of an expedition which was sent out to determine the extent of the reported southern con- tinent. Salling again to the south and east, in January, 1774, Cook's second covered more than 20,000 and was the first eircum- of the globe eastwards, ber of the Royal society and recelved the Copley medal, In 1776 he started on his third and last voyage ln an attempt to find the northwest passage. However, he was going to sall from the Pacific to the Atlantie, not from east to west as had the others, Of course he didn't ac complish this, but turning back from Alaska, he discovered the Ha- wallan islands, Cook was slain by the - natives there, on February 14, 1770, on Leap Year Is Needed to Average the 3651; Days Leap year comes from the addition length of the ordinary year of 365 days. This Is to make an average of 3653 days, to correspond more close- ly to the solar year than a 305-day calendar year, With the numbering of years every year exactly divisible by four, as 1032, 1038 and 1040, is a leap year with the exception of years divisible by 100 and not by 400. Thus the year 1000, though divisible by four was not a leap year, while the year 2000, divisible by 400, will be a leap The date February 20 occurs in leap years, that month in other yedrs hav- ing only 28 days, In ordinary years the day week on which any date, say July 4, occurs advances ope step each year, falling say on Monday one year and on Tuesday the pext, but on leap year there is a leap of an extra day, occurred on Friday In of the 1630 and Sat a leap year~Indlanapolis News Old Time Splendor Seen in Japan's Aged Temples It seems that every Important city of Japan has been the capital and seat of government of the nation at Some time in the 2,500 year reign of the present imperial house, notes a writer in the Chicago Tribune, Jimmu Tenno, founder of this old- est existing dynasty, who took over the rule of the country in 660 B. C, Is buried in Nara province, Nara was the first permanent capital of Japan, but succeeding mikados have changed the seat of government many times to various cities. Moving the capital did not cost the people so much in this land of typhoons, earthquakes, and fires as it would in countries where government bulldings are constructed on a more costly scale with a view to permanent occupancy. At the height of its glory Nara was rich in palaces, temples, public build- ings and residences of noble and wealthy families, It established arts and crafts and encouraged literature and religion. Many tokens of Nara's former splendor still survive In the magnificent temples and shrines erect- ed In bygone centuries, carefully pre- served and loyally cherished. i Noisy Celebration A corroboree Is a ceremonial dance, of a more or less public character, in vogue among the Australian aborig- ines, It is generally held at night, the men doing the dancing and the women furnishing the music. This dance is the nesrest approach to a national in- stitution among these primitive people. It serves also as a peace ratification and as a means of intercommunication, Hence, the term Is applied to any nolsy or disorderly celebration, Formation of Natural Glass Natural glass is a phenomenon well known to science. As a rule it is caused by the fusion of lightning and sand. Examples found in the Arabi an and other deserts are invariably tubular and friable. Another variety, known as tektites, occurs in meteoric craters, and has long been familiar as “obsidian” “water chrysolite™ and “Moldavite,” the various names given to gem stones cut from IL When East Is West Columbus was ridiculed by the ig- norant when he proposed sailing west to reach the East yet his apparently crazy idea was eventually sound. the Isthmus of Pana essary to move east traveling (by the from sean the vice versa, In traveling the Pacific o« | or tlantic to Pan: {| 25 east of the entrance near ! s | Pathfinder Magazine, ud, Colon, —— Pronunciation of “Moscow” / The correct pronunciation of this name is Mos’ko, first o as in not, sec- ond o as in go, says Literary Digest. With one exception, all of the diction- aries, pronouncing gazeteers, and word books agree on this pronunciation. The one exception follows the German pronunciation mos’kau, au as ou in out. The Russian name is Muskva. To determine American preference, let- ters were sent to the postmasters of the 12 cities apd towns of this name in the United States. Of the 11 who replied, nine sald, “Second o In go.” One of these amplified his statement: “Local people say mos’ko; outsiders say mos'kaun.” Another wrote: “We pronounce it the same as Moscow, Russia, riming with the word The postmasters of Moscow, Idaho, and of Moscow, Mich, favored mos’kan, One of these wrote: “Rime. ing with cow, same as Russian city.” Without exception, official and nonofficial tussian authorities In Washington to whom the question was put verbally agreed In favor of mos’ko ” or 20, Brain Grows Fast The brain is one of the fastest grow- ing parts of the human body. Under pormal conditions, it has attained 20 per cent of its adult size at birth, 50 per cent at the end of two years, 80 per cent at the end of four years and its full growth at the end of six years. — Collier's Weekly. # Old Map Agencies The oldest and largest governmental aggencies for making maps come under this heading: Respectively, the coast and geodetic survey, established in 1807, and the geological survey, now more than 56 years at the business of plotting various phases of the earth's surface, “Ravenously Hungry” The word ravenous is derived from the verb raven which means: “To eat voraciously ; prey upon; as a beast prey.” These meanings do not necessarily Involve hunger; they denote rather manner of appeasing It is quite permissible, there. tear, of greed, fore, to employ the expression “raven- indicating & hunger satisfy it Di- ously bur go inten would by gest. one syle i # - eating voraclously.—Literary Blenheim Spaniels The Blenheim spaniels were always the south of England, par. around Oxfordshire, Blenheim cone. as a testimonial of gratitude juke from the Engli Battle of Blenh was confined | popular in ticularly in in structed and which castle was sh people i im. 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