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mation Service and Audit Bureau
do not need, by the very tax laws which
some feel should be the instruments for
the wider distribution of wealth.
* * %
OTHER men, when tax liabilities loom
U suddenly, go to their commercial or
investment bankers for funds—which may
or may not be readily available. The
bankers assume a sort of tax - farming
function; sometimes they also assume an
unwarranted control over enterprises built
up without their aid.’
As witnessed during recent depression
years, some estates, normally sound, are
forced into bankruptcy by the sudden im-
position of tax liabilities, so that there
is nothing left for the Government to col-
lect on,’ -
With respect to income taxes, it is not
unusual for normally profitable transac-
tions to be delayed, or abandoned alto-
1 gether, because of the taxes involved. In
the latter case, of course, the Government
gets nothing<
‘Grand Old Man
Benet, the Machine Gun
Maker, Is Covered With
Medals of Many Nations .
-nowarb
of Circulation.
What I want to stress is that in all
of these cases it is not generally the
‘To Lead Us Back, Round the Corner
Into the Same Old Dreary Street?
Weird Story
pen
Planter Tells Broun
Our Psychology
Won’t Work
FRIDAY, JANUARY 10.1936
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“Give Light and the People
Will Find Their Oten Way"
A Thought for Today
A ND be would not) but went and cast
A him into prison, till he should pay
the debt.—St. Matthew 18:30.
amount of the tax itself that is discour-
aging, that holds up action, and that
; harasses responsible management, but the
difficulty of financing payment in cash,
-—or ofabsorbing into an—otherwise reason--
able balance sheet a new large government
“cash on demand”' ‘obligation.
What I would like to see thoroughly
| expWored, in our editorial columns, and
[ indeed, in Congress and the Administra-
tion, is the possibility of our Government
I doing its own banking, extending its own
credit to solvent income and estate tax-
payers. This could be accomplished
through acceptance by the Government of
long-term notes, or other paper, payable
in annual installments in the 15 to 25.1
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
PARIS. — The grand old man of the
I American colony in Paris is Laurence
Vincent Benet, the manufacturer of ma-
chine guns, who has been in the machine-
gun business here for 50 years. He was
born at West Point, N. Y., 72 years ago,
received his edudcation at Yale, emerging
-in 1884, and came to France the next year
to join the Societe
Hotchkiss et Compagnie,
which produce's the
Hotchkiss guns. *
He is covered with
‘honors bestowed by va-
rious nations, including
the Military Order of
BUCKET
H SHOP
ToRY/L
SEMPYMent
(30 AGENCY
I RECEIVERS
SALE 1
t S
Pegier
Christ, a Portuguese dis-
tinction, and all of the
French decorations, with
the single exception of
the Order of Barflies,
■ which Is not really
French anyway, but
Scotch, with headquar-
ters at Harry's New York
Bar, in the Rue Daunou.
Mr. Benet is believed to
I have discovered the
stone, that turns everything into, gold: it
is, “Pay as you go."- John Randolph.
year period that sellers and buyers of |
bonds no at intarest rates anurov
bonds are used to, at interest rates approx-
imating those on industrial bonds. -
be the only American in France who is
not a member of the Order of Barflies,
a distinction in itself.
In 1898 Mr. Benet interrupted his resi-
. dencesin France to serve briefly as an
---------A TAX CREDIT PLAN
ITH a half billion dollars, already loom-
VY ing. up in the federal tax picture as
TF such taxpayers are really solvent, or
* if profits really exist, the, Government
could not,, over a long period, lose any-
| thing, while government income would be
stabilized.
■ ensign in the United States Navy in the
war with Spain, but continued his work
of manufacturing machine guns even
then. He served with the American am-
bulance and hospital services in the World
By HEYWOOD BROUN e,
NEW ORLEANS, La.—"But," . ]
+ said my friend, "you don’t 1 .
understand them and you never .
will. None of you will. You try
to apply white psychology and 2
you miss the point that you are h
dealing with a1'®
people who
cannot possi-
bly compre-
bend our
ideals.
"Fill up
your glass,
Yankee. Fill
a round and a
half ahead of
you. I don’t
know whether
it’s the dinner
or the drinks.
1
Get 1
ing s
Num
chao
must
a result of the AAA decision, further
taxlegislation at the present session of
Congress seems likely. Should the bonus,
- pass, another vast sum must be raised,
., Therefore, despite the reluctance of Con-
gress to deal with taxation in a campaign
year, the problem begins to appear in-'
escapable..:..
in this connection, as well as in con-
As stated above, the direct benefit
would be that,a large part of the uncer- *
tainty and financial “fear” element would
be taken out of our national business op
eratiyn.
Also having faith in the essential pa-
triotism of the -majority of American busi-
ness, industrial and financial leaders, I
believe that there would certainly be less
"apprehension of or opposition to reason-
able Government expenditures —even emer-
nection with the Job of raising the maxi-
mum amount of money under tax laws al-
ready existent, we believe -the following
letter from Robert P. Scripps, controlling
—stockholder of The Scripps-Howard News-
papers, to be ’pertinent; that it states a
... problem which, could it be solved, would |
result automatically in a much improved
state of health in the Federal Treasury,
gency expenditures—simply because they
seem large at the moment.
* Sincerely,"
War, succoring many soldiers who had
been shot by machine guns manufactured
-by his business rivals. Later, he gave un-
stintingly of himself in the cause of God
— and democracy as a member of the ad-
visory-committee of the purchasing board
of the A.E.F., which used many Hotchkiss
machine guns.
»* »
; MR BENET wears white whiskers, which
impart a. benevolent appearance--en-
tirely consistent with his generous and
humane nature. He is always' interested
in the affairs of his native land.
H A
ROBERT
% The letter:
—Mr. (5. B. Parker,
Editor-In-Chief
>
The Scripps-Howard Newspapers:
Washington, D. C. :
Dear Mr. Parker:
WHU "MAKES THE LAWS?----.
A NOTHER Judge of the lower federal
A. courts has used his injunction powers
'to nullify an act of Congress and stay
epos "The working class in the United
P SORT Pe States are showing a fine spirit/ M..
Benet said recently, "and are turning a
—deaf—earto-Communistpronaganda which
comes from only the small foreign ele-
ment in America."
From' this it will be seen that although.
the Government's hand in carrying out
I such an act. *
This time it is Federal Judge John
P. Barnes of Chicago. In an oral opinion -
„. he has declared theGuffey Coal Act un-
I Mr. Benet has found it preferable to live
I abroad for 50 years, his heart still beats
| true for the Red, White and Blue and.the
“ constitutional and enjoined its operation
. . , . . . 0 ,on the ground that "mining is not inter-
The thesis of this letter-is that, re- state commerce." More than a score of
injunctions', have been laid ' against this
gardless of how we conp out of the de
pression, or who is electowythis year gov-
ernment debts and probable future and -
continuing responsibilities are such that
continued high federal taxes are Inevit-'
able, and that at this time profitable dis-,
cussion must be, not of how much we pay,
• but of how we pay it, and what with.
The chief point I wish to make is that
conceivably most of the drag on business,
industry and finance that the contempla-
tion of high taxes produces would be elim-
inated should the Government itself pro-
vide a guaranteed credit medium, on a
long-term basis, for the payment of a
large part of the federal tax bill.
.As an experienced payer of income,.
—estate and—inheritance taxes, as—well as-
■controlling stockholder of these news-
papers, perhaps it is about time that I go
on record as still believing in the prin-
ciples of visible, graduated, and ability-
to-pay taxation which these levies repre-
sent. As you know, I have been executor
and trustee for two large estates, the
beneficiary of these estates, and the re-
ceiver of income calling for upper-bracket
income tax payments.
Without underwriting all or any pres-
ent Federal Government expenditures, I
am not objecting to any of them. Ttiis 1
country has faced—perhaps la still facing
;—an economic emergency. It is at least
doubtful if any administration could' have
done a better -or more economical job un-
der the circumstances than has the pres-
ent one.
act, passed by Congress to ameliorate the
intolerable conditions in misery-stricken
coal fields of the land.
The Guffey Act is a law, duly passed
—by Congress and signed by the President.
.So are the Utility Act, the Wagner Labor
’ Act and other reform measures' Yet hun-
dreds of injunction's have been issued by
lower federal judges halting the Government
in its enforcement. These judges are using
home of the-brave and free. He never
lost his confidence in the good sense of
the American working class.’ Mr. Benet
Is not of the working-class himself, al-
though he has worked very hard for half
a century improving the deadliness of
Hotchkiss machine guns and increasing
their popularity with the armies of the
world. • ,
TT. IS not all a mere matter of making
‘ hand-across-thessea speeches to cham-
bers of commerce and accepting decora-
their equity powers not to prevent lawless
acts but to, nullify laws; not to protect
the people from harm but to protect
interested corporations from the effect of
laws passed by the people’s Congress.
Congress has already curbed the Fed-
oral courts’ abuse of the- injunction in two
respects. When it found these courts using
injunctions against labor unions under
the anti-trust laws Congress passed the
Norris-LaGuardia anti-injunction law. '
When it found these courts being used 1
by utilities in rate cases Congress passed ,
the Johnson Act.
-__:_____WHAT OUR READERS SAY
In Defense of Lindbergh’s Trip to Europe
think let
it s a little sls
stuffy in here. I-HHR
Do you mind Broun
if 1 open a window? Where was
I? What was I saying?"
.1 "It was something about our
ideals," I suggested. «e
"Oh, yes, if I didn't have te
get down to the plant at 9im
the morning f could talk about
that all night. Without ideals
civilization perishes. And 1
mean practical ideals. I don’t
keep them separate from - my
business rite. j take them right
into the office with me.
YOU might laugh at me, but
_-_____24 years ago—1—was going
— —to be a poet.We all-lived on a
plantation up the river near Ba-
ton Rouge. But when I was 26
my father died, and I had to
move into New Orleans and take
over the business.
1 “Yes, I get up to the planta-
tions from- grateful governments, this
business of manufacturing better machine '
guns and more of them.. It takes con-
stant research and invention and, constant
enterprise in a highly competitive market.
The ideal way to score Mr. Benet’s suc-
cess in life would be to record the num-
ber of men of various nationalities who
have been killed, blinded or crippled by
his—machine gw** in five decades of—his
conscientious endeavor, but such figures,,
unfortunately, are not to be had.
The next best
index then would be
the reckoning of the profits, and there
Is a clue to Mr. Benet's ability in the ■
French book on the munitions industry
Perhana the has which states that his net profits in 1931
I eraps the time has . were more than 20 million francs. -
come for Congress to speak again.
In his annual message President
Roosevelt suggested this might be neces-
sary: .
'“The carrying out of the laws of the
land as enacted by the Congress requires
protection until final adjudication by the
highest tribunal of the land. The Congress
has the right and can find the means to
protect its own prerogatives: ,
Dining In State
LOR some time now 1 have
D read letters from the peo-
ple about- Lindbergh and th e
reason he left the United States.
Of the letters I have read, not
one has applauded his act. All
condemn him.
, It seems that now, every one
is ready to cut his, throat Just
because, of t he fame his intelli-
gence and nerve have brought
him. I am not a hero-worship-
per, but I do believe in giving a
cur-dog bis dues.
A 1 Mayor, whose daughter
had been kidnaped, and re-
turned- safely, to him, (not hor- 1
ribly murdered) branded Lind-
bergh's act as “rank coward-
ice.” Another writer refers to
him as a coward. "America
doesn’t need cowarde!’ he says.
I am sure that Lindbergh
was not thinking of himself but
of his Nttle son- and of an-
other little son that had been
murdered in cold blood. . . . A
helpless little infant. I wonder
if these people" who refer to
him as a coward would act dif-
—tomorrow unless the more intel,
ligent and thinking- people, do
something about it. A child
who has insufficient clothing to
keep him warm and half
enough to eat naturally forms
a desire for better things while
young. It is then that children
’begin planning how things may
be obtained with the .least
work. Resentment is bred In
their minds early, - .
: One paragraph, in The Press
on Christmas Day gives me the
courage to state a fact that is
real. The people think the re-
lief has - provided bountifully
for the needy. They read in the
papers where so many have
been put to work and of the
many garments made for the
school’children and the hun-
dreds of quilts and comforts
that have been made. But ask i
-, put to bed at night, there • is
e only one single blanket an d.
quilt, for cover. There is only a
small cook stove that has to be
used for a heater, too.
Can anyone wonder that a
mother feels bitter when she
sees the injustices around her
and knows there is plenty for
all; when she sees her loved
ones facing cold, hunger and
sickness for the lack of necessi-
ties— not the luxuries '
. This is .a land of plenty and
the richest nation of the world.
I would like to have a card or
* whatever it takes to- belong to
the-Business—and—Proferelonal
Women’s Club and have the
ability to speak so I could tell
them a few things that would
make them stop and think: But
I suppose they would put up a
howl when faced with the truth
your case worker for some of
them and see what her reply is.
She says: “We justrdemethave
athing.-
like they do about Mr. Farmer.
May he live a long time and
continue to be a servant of the
STILL I do .know that there would not
D be any business at all in this country
did Ue not maintain a strong, and active
government, able to, meet just such relief
and reconstruction emergency as that re-
ferred to; and that I would rather pay
as large a part as possible of my share
of maintaining it through these out-in-
the-open personal income and estate taxes
than through any other form of taxes that
I know of—especially concealed ones like,
sales taxes, tariffs, corporation taxes, and
special ones like taxes on tobacco,
liquor, gasoline, etc.
The purpose of taxation, ought to be
to produce necessary revenues without
hindering, crippling or k-illing off business
—the goose that lays the egg. This is
something that our present laws do not
exactly do.
After the death of E. W. Scripps in
1926 there was a good market for bonds,
so that the financing of the obligations of
his estate presented no great difficulty.
— However as was proved in 1030, that was
largely a matter of chance; and chance
has no place in sound business or
financing.
The fact is that profits, as the Treas-
ury Department counts them, are fre-
- quently "paper," although tax claims
against them are "cash on demand.'
* *
ESTATES /consist of stocks, bonds, real
D. estate, livestock, notes or other items
which fluctuate widely with the market,
i often regardless of intrinsic values. Tax
"claims against these are also "cash on de-
mand," sometimes when cash is hardest to
get.
One result is that credit is disturbed.
, Mergers, liquidations, changes of control
and management take place. A great ele-
ment of uncertainty is introduced into the
conduct of businesses both large and
small —
Effectiveness, and continuity of man-
agement of the going businesses in the
control of which they function really rep-
- resent a principal asset of most large, and
therefore heavily taxable, estates, and any.
tax-forced management change strikes di-
rectly at this asset. But beyond this, in
every such case there will be policy and
employment changes affecting perhaps
hundreds or thousands of workers and
their families, so making this question a
social as well as a merely fiscal or eco-
nomic one.
To guard against this chaos, especially
with respect to estate and inheritance,
taxes, many business leaders carry exces-
sive cash or liquid, reserves, instead of
employin**this capital in the development
of their businesses and the employment
of workers. These men are forced to
create large personal fortunes, which they
Business Profits
By JOHN T. FLYNN.
NEW YORK.—As usual at this time of
IV the year there is a good deal of talk
about the profits of business. But un-
fortunately the data which is made public
is.quite inadequate. One is informed that
“business increased its
profits in 1935." On
closer study you learn
that 150 corporations—
or perhaps 750—increas-
ed their profits.
But there are half a
million corporations in
America and there are
millions Of individual
business men besides. To
know what are the prof-
its of business or wheth-
er business had had any
profits at all you would
have to be able to offset
the losses of all those
who operated at a def-
John T. Flynn icit against the gains of
those who made profits. There is no
end of discussion of what we call the
profit system. (Mr. Stuart Chase observe >
that it is much better called the “profit
' and loss" system). It would be possible
for the government, while spending relief
funds to make all sorts of studies, to
attempt to find out just what are the net
profits of all business and whether there
really are any profits to speak of for
business as a whole. ■
But certainly some corporations have
done well this last year. Running over
numerous reports printed in many jour-
nals, I find these interesting general facts.
In December 220 companies, paid extra
dividends. Also some 126 other com-
panies paid back dividends and 13 paid
■tock dividends.
1 notice also that out of over 1300
corporations only seven omitted dividends
this year and only eight last year.
I have heard a good deal of grumbling
among bankers to the effect that with
there was not much profit in banking.
But I noticed that the banks declared
substantially larger dividends in Decem-
ber than they did last year.
A careful reading of all the forecasts
for the coming year by business men in-
dicates, after all the flamboyance is
washed away, a pretty general belief that
business this year will be better, but that
the improvement will be moderate. What
fraction, then, of the unemployed will be
taken up by moderate improvement? And
to what extent will this be set aside by
the Increases In technological processes to ,
which business is turning?
By MRS, WALTER FERGUSON
EMERSON wrote, "A foolish consistency
L is the hobgoblin of little minds." If
that be true, then women must answer
to a charge of pettiness, especially when
it comes to their hos-
pitality.
To begin with, a thou-
sand or more rules were
made for the rich, and
only the rich can afford
to follow them. Take,
as the simplest example,
the custom of serving
meals according to ducal
palace standards." fer-
, tainly: the fashion must
have been originated in
establishments where a
full staff of servants
was available. Yet to-
day it flourishes in
many American homes
where only one maid is
Mrs. Ferguson
ferently if they were under the |
same circumstances?: And as
things are now, with threaten-
ing letters coming to him in
every mall he receives (branded
by some the letters pf cranks).
How is he to know which are
from cranks and which are not.
I wonder if they would have the ,
fortitude to face the unknown,
the uncertainty of it all. I don't
believe that they would.
One gentleman refers to him
as a snob. Just because a per-
son tries to avoid the crowds,
the mobs, newspaper men, pho-
tographers, people who worry
and nag him from morn till
night, asking question upon
question, prying into his affairs,
business or personal, day after
day, week after week, just be-
cause lie tries to avoid all this,
why he is a snob?
I’m glad he did leave, err he
can find the protection else-
where that his own country
can’t provide him, why more
power to him.
No, he didn't do so much.
He was just the first man to
fly across the Atlantic - Longer
flights have been made since.
My history says that Colum-
bus discovered America. Lots
of people ′ have crossed since
We who have been on relief -
and tried, know how it is But
the ones who have plenty think
it is laziness and ignorance on
common—people.—------------—
I' invite anyone to investigate
t i o n sometimes now. My cousin B,
runs it for me. We grow cotton S3
w hen the soternnT xnn tat • * ,
us. The plairanon has to pay •
ideals. I’ve got 50 hands work-T 1"
ing the place. Unless . you’ve t
grown up with them you can’t t.”
possibly understand then. They 2
come to me with their troubles. Mt.
Tactually had to decide which )′
* girl Armistice Cable (that real-FT
ly is his names ought to marry. !
" A ND yet even in my own case 1
A there are things which: l i
puzzle you. My cousin called me,
up and said that. Carter had de T
serted his cotton patch and was 1.
walking up and down the roads o
best hands. _ t ig
"I went straight to Carter‘s BTe
wife, Lucy, and she told me a sel
curious story. When he was a ph a
child he got pellagra, and it s slih
left him a little bit, nervous, a
Well, it seems that"in the mim pl
I he had a dream-and a vision. Pal
| The Lord God Jehovab appeared i €
. b
employed.
So you get a bit of this, or that, and
being hungry you gobble it down before
another dish arrives. Theft you sit star-
ing uncomfortably at an empty plate.
The bread invariablyfollowsalter—the
meat and all vegetables have gone their
rounds, although the male guests gnash
their teeth for it. Meanwhile the hostess
takes their minds off their miseries with
* sprightly conversation; for what does the
comfort or even the hunger of guests mean
to a woman who wants to impress them
with her fashionable menage?
• Hundreds of useless and expensive gad-
gets are now the vogue--service plates,
lace dollies under finger bowls, frills on
the chicken an’d parsley in the peas. It
takes as much china, glass and silver to
serve a. dinner party as it does to stock
a small hotel. Down in the cow country,
Emily Posting has even gone to the lengths
of serving butterless bread at formal af-
fairs, heaven knows why, since we all re-
semble Milne’s king in those parts and
"like a little butter with our bread."
Anyway, we sweat blood for fear we'll
break some Newport tradition, and we
run our husbands Into debt imitating Mrs.
Astorbilt of Miami, while the most we
achieve for our pains is a hospitality
which lacks sincerity or zest.
Human beings first used edged rocks
as cutting instruments 100,000 years ago,
which shows how all but women who t
sharpen pencils with razors have pro-
gressed.
In a way, that New York self-kidnap-
ing was big news, in that an actor volun-
tarily gagged himself,
the client's part. There are
many fine and intelligent peo-
ple on relief who a few years
ago never dreamed they would
one day be in line with the less
fortunate. Wealth, and social
responsibilities can all be swept
away very easily.
Consider the man who has
just started to work on a WPA
project. who has not had a Job
in months and just barely
enough from the relief to exist
on. Not a chance to prepare for
the cold winter months ahead.
He is presented with a notice
from the landlord to move if
the rent is not paid in a couple
of days. The water bill is past
due and threats are made to
turn the water off. -
He receives his first check a
few days before Christmas; he
has to pay $12.50 of it for rent,
water and wood. The remaining
$5 is to buy groceries to last a
family of six for the next two
weeks. There are three chil-
dren to send to school. • They
have no warm clothing, are
barefooted, and when they are
Columbus, and in lots faster
time. I suppose that was noth- P
ing. It is very easy to walk a
perilious path after the strong
man has gone before and at
great ‘risk to himself, cut hand
holds from the rock for you to
hold to, cleared the way for
those to follow.
I've done nothing heroic,
have no medals. I haven’t
much money, so I’m not rich.
/ But my mind isn’t so small that
I begrudge the other fellow the
money and fame that he has
the ability and nerve to acquire.
So gentlemen, don't be too
quick to call a hero a coward.
Just you wait ‘till you have the
misfortune to step into like
shoes with Mr, Lindbergh be-
fore you call anyone a coward.
I have heard lots of people
say, ’Why, if some guy stuck a
gun in my face why, I'd, etc.,
etc.” Fellow, let me tell you.
The funeral-end of a 45 sure
is big when you are looking into
it, I know from experience.
,-. ’. BUFORD HEATH. - "
Arlington, Texas.
A rumored plot to abduct Joe Louis
failed to materialize, but it would have
been interesting to learn how much ran-
som he would have demanded. 4
SIDE GLANCES
SHE LIKES PRESS
LETTERS REST
Editor, The Press: U '
FTVRE part of The Press 1 like
A best, I believe, are-the let-
ters from the people. One of E.
N. Mason's and a widow's let-
ters were among the best be-
cause they spoke of the most vi-
tal conditions the American
people are faced with today, but
the people don’t seem to real-
lie It.
The underprivileged child of
today will be the criminal of 1
If they doubt the truth of my
statement of my conditions.
The Press is accused of sup-
pressing the news and facts so
I have written just half of what
I would like to write.
MRS, E. L. HUGHES.
704 Louisiana Ave.
1—to him in person. Can you mfr-
1 i ine that! And the Lord God
“DO NOT WORSHIP
GOD IN CONFUSION"
Editor, The Press:
T WAS attracted by an article
1 on the Holiness Church the
other day in The Press. 1
should like it if everyone had
the same opinion of it as I do.
We find in the Great Book
that God is not supposed to be
worshipped in confusion. Ac-
cording to my belief, it is a
mock to „God. Therefore L’
should like to congratulate John
Cahill on his splendid article.
Where they get the idea that
"Unknown Tongue” is needed
to worship the Lord is unknown
to me. They have no solid
ground to base their belief on.
Of course, they could be sincere
in their belief, but I very se-,
riously doubt it,
H. A. HAYGOOD.
1320 North Calhoun St.
told Carter that he had sinned
and that he must walk the road
along the bayou beyond hi $ patch
night and day and speak in the
unknown tongues until he was
..forgiven.,
. * * *
ST CALLED in Daingerfield, my
foreman. He isn’t a white
. man, but he’s very light. 'I want
| you to go to Carter,’I told him.
I ‘and point out to him that while
| he’s mumbling I’m losing 10
acres of cofton, and that means
money. I can't let those 10 acres
go. Tell him if he doesn t get
back to work right away there'll
be no meat coming to him next
winter.’
"But the strangest part of It
all was that Daingerfield would-
n't do It. I g ew angry, and he
was frightened. But he kept say-
ing, ‘None of us can. We don’t
dare interfere with no man when
the spirit, is on him.’
.“And for another 24 hours
Carter walked the banks of the
bayou and besought God in the
unknown tongues to restore
peace to his soul. And then he
came home.
“And speaking ‘of home, how
about just one more drink? I’ve
got to be at the office early.".
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By George Clark
Today’s Poem
Contributions are welcome
- They must be original No
e contributions are returned.
PESSIMIST S SPRINGTIME
Birds may sing in gleeful voice.
The flowers in peace may bloom.
But what to me, if on this earth.
Around me all is gloom?
What to me if grass shoots up?
What if flowers are red?
How do I know but another sun
Will find me helpless and dead?
How do I know 1 shall live to see
Little birds grow up and fly?
Why should 1 care If the world's
alive
When tomorrow perhaps I will
die...
, NORRIS CHAMBERS.
This Is Life
U. A. PAT
"We’ll have to find a room pretty soon. ‘It’s already
their bedtime
• By JACK MAXWELL
TODAY'S short; Having lived
A quite a goodly number of
years and, in looking back over
those rather prosaic months
and days, I have come to this
conclusion: > ,
' Make but very few. "confi-
dants;" trust everybody to a
certain extent and, but few
people fully; never tell any-
thing you do not want repeated
- unless you have every reason
adgelieve the one to whom you
1 your stuff is going to
B his or her face closed.
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