anaheim-gazette 1932-08-25

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE HENKY KUCHEL, Editor and Publisher ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPT PER YEAR ... $2.00 SIX MONTHS ... $1.00 Entered at the Anaheim, California Postoffice as second-class matter. LET EUROPE COMÉ TO US Says an internationalist: "Uncle Sam could not find a better bargain today than to exchange a worthless piece of paper pledging the payment of war expenditures for an opportunity to establish a firmness in prices in the debtor countries of the world and thus offer business a chance for recovery." Nobody is yet willing to concede that the allied debt settlements are worthless pieces of paper excepting a few internationalists who have investments abroad, the value of which would be enhanced by the cancellation of the war debts or rather the saddling of their payment on to the American taxpayers. Certainly it is not up to Uncle Sam to declare these contracts worthless bits of paper. If there is to be any calling into question the value of these agreements, any demand for their scaling down, it ought to come from those who owe the money, not from Uncle Sam, who is the fellow who holds the note. It is difficult to see also how cancellation of the debts would give Uncle Sam the opportunity to establish firmer prices abroad. We have no assurance that any money saved by the European governments by debt cancellation would not be used to build up further armaments for the next war. Certainly Europe, in spite of all agreements and messages of good will, seems to be preparing feverishly for the next conflict. More men are under arms now than before the World War. If European nations have any trouble in raising money for their debt payments they might try these agreements, any demand for their scaling down, it ought to come from those who owe the money, not from Uncle Sam, who is the fellow who holds the note. It is difficult to see also how cancellation of the debts would give Uncle Sam the opportunity to establish firmer prices abroad. We have no assurance that any money saved by the European governments by debt cancellation would not be used to build up further armaments for the next war. Certainly Europe, in spite of all agreements and messages of good will, seems to be preparing feverishly for the next conflict. More men are under arms now than before the World War. If European nations have any trouble in raising money for their debt payments they might try going a little easier on military and naval expenditures. The internationalists in seeking to bring about the impression that the debt agreements are worthless scraps of paper, are doing the cause of their friends in Europe no good. Neither are they helping the spirit of international confidence to any extent. For if national debt agreements, entered into by governments, can be broken at will, what assurance is there that securities from private sources, or private loans, will be of any value if a nation decided to repudiate its debts? The best thing for Uncle Sam to do is to sit tight and see what the other fellow has to say. It is up to the fellow who owes the money to do the first talking. LIMITING WAR In objecting to an editorial in an Eastern newspaper supporting military training for college boys a pacifist writes: "The essential point is this: If we are to have peace the first thing to do is to eliminate the means of war. Whether this should be done gradually or not is a matter of opinion, but we should begin immediately. The natural point of departure is the schools and colleges. The means to peace is the elimination of the means of war. While we have men to fight there will be war." Exactly so. The pacifist comes near telling the truth in the last sentence. The truth that he misses is that men will fight when the occasion warrants, whether they are trained to fight or not. The object of training young men in a military way is not only to form a war machine but to give them a high idea of patriotic duty. And then, if war comes, as it may, they will be in less danger of death or injury if they are trained and prepared to meet the foe. When there is hostile contact between a trained force and a raw army of undisciplined troops, there is little argument as to which side will suffer most. It is to be remembered also that men fought when there was noting with which to fight but stones and clubs. Later they used spears and swords, bows and arrows, before the modern means of warfare came into use. So it would be impossible to eliminate war even if every battleship and every gun in the world were destroyed. "While there are men to fight we will have war," just as the good pacifist says. So in addition to eliminating all modern implements of warfare we will have to ban the human race itself, if we are to be sure there is to be no conflict. What the pacifists overlook is that there are two kinds of war, just and unjust. Just warfare is that fought for defensive purposes, when our children are indanger. All modern statesmen realize the difference between the two kinds of warfare and all efforts in recent years have tended to discourage or eliminate so far as possible, offensive warfare. That is why President Hoover, in the recent Geneva conference, proposed the limitation or elimination that economic generally are improving in Washington, with a good agreement on both sides as to how it is going to develop fast of political value. Of course be an effort to make care the national conference and industrial committees;eral Reserve districts which called upon by the President in Washington on August 15th by another consider means for the production of the five day branches of business and that will be followed in an international economic in London. What effect these conditions have upon economic condition question; what effect they upon the political situation else. Those International Leaders here see signs of of the political fence of a common-sense attitude debts which various Europe owes to the Government of States. It is not though people of he United States tolerate for a minute any cancel these debts. But if there would be a favor toward any sound proposal them in something else cash. Senator Borah recently door for discussion when if insistence upon the payment debts in full and in gold to the detriment of the American and producer he would other way of settling the Governor Alfred E. Smith proposed that some scher adjustments between the U.S. and our debtors should that credit on account could be given to nations products, in proportion to of their annual purchases. Dent Hoover, intimates that be willing to consider some settling these debts through pansion of markets for future and labor. It is not record as to who it was that England and France their debts to us by transfer United States the sovereign West Indian Islands which Perhaps the immediate benefit the ownership of Bermuda mas, Jamaica. Martinique and the other islands of Indies may not be appear least such an offer from war even if every battleship and every gun in the world were destroyed. "While there are men to fight we will have war," just as the good pacifist says. So in addition to eliminating all modern implements of warfare we will have to ban the human race itself, if we are to be sure there is to be no conflict. What the pacifists overlook is that there are two kinds of war, just and unjust. Just warfare is that fought for defensive purposes, when our children are indanger. All modern statesmen realize the difference between the two kinds of warfare and all efforts in recent years have tended to discourage or eliminate so far as possible, offensive warfare. That is why President Hoover, in the recent Geneva conference, proposed the limitation or elimination of instruments used for offensive military operations. But war cannot be eliminated by destroying all the guns and battleships. Continents were devastated and nations destroyed by war long before there was a gun or a cannon. The elimination of war will only come about by education and by gradual elimination of offensive armament by international agreement, all nations making equal sacrifices. Any effort on our part to go farther or faster than this would be to commit national suicide. THE SPURT IN THE STOCK MARKET We do not know, because nobody ever knows, all of the causes for the recent noticeable rise in prices of securities on the New York Stock Exchange. Neither do we know how long this beginning of a bull movement is going to last. We say those things by way of warning to such of our readers as are inclined to speculate that they have no assurance that Stock Exchange prices are going to continue upward. We strongly advise everybody who is not in a position to lose money not to take any chances in the effort to win money by gambling in stocks. We think a great deal of the financial difficulties the nation has been going through came from the fact that millions of people who had no business to gamble were playing the stock market in the hope of getting rich quick without work. Nevertheless, this new activity in the stock market is an encouraging sign. It signifies, primarily, that capital has got over the worst of its fear of the future. Fear has been the principal deterrent influence operating against a speedy recovery in business and industry. There is more free capital in the United States today, the economists tell us, than there ever was before. But it is owned principally by people who have been afraid to do anything with it for fear that something worse was going to happen than had already occurred. Now this money is coming out of hiding. It is one thing to express such a belief in words, but it must be taken seriously when it is expressed in money, be willing to consider some settling these debts through pansion of markets for future and labor. It is not record as to who it was that England and France their debts to us by transfer United States the sovereignty West Indian Islands which Perhaps the immediate benefit the ownership of Bermuda mas, Jamaica. Martinique and the other islands of Indies may not be apparent least such an offer from them would be an evidence of There is an idea that it accepted. It is held by experienced servers here that as certain thing can be, which has no place, that, regardless of complexion of the next legislation liberalizing liquor laws will be passed constitutional amendment leaving the question of prince to the individual states. That legislation will retaliate control, to a greater degree the old pre-prohibition data state traffic in liquor, and dry states. It is remorse there was always a question stitutionality of the prince laws designed to prevent intoxicants into states that themselves dry. If such an amendment will not be, as many people think, the Twentieth Amendment. The precision amendment is the eight document was first pro 1787. The Nineteenth Amendment everyone knows is the work amendment. But there are for ratification by the state amendments to the Constitution. The precision amendment is the eight document was first pro 1787. The Nineteenth Amendment everyone knows is the work amendment. 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The Nineteenth Amendment everyone knows is the work amendment. But there are for ratification by the state amendments tothe constitution.The precision amendment isthe八teenthAmendmenteveryoneknowsistheworkamendment.Butthereareforratificationbythestateamendmentstotheconstitution.givingCongresstolimit.regulateandprohibitofpersonsundereighteenThischangeinthefundwasproposedinthe68th1924aftertheSupremeCourt ANAHEIM GAZETTE BUD N' BUB, THIS IS THE PROFESSOR, HE'LL TRAVEL WITH US AND TELL ALL ABOUT THE PLACES WE VISIT NOW LET'S START FOR THE WEST INDIES... WELL - WEVE BEEN UNDER WAY JUST TEN MINUTES. HERE'S SABA POKING UP 2000 FEET ABOVE SEA-LEVEL. THE VIRGIN ISLANDS ARE TO THE RIGHT... SABA IS AN EXTINCT VOLCANO-ABOUT 2000 PEOPLE INHABIT THE TOP OF THIS CONE. THE VILLAGE IS 1½ MILES IN DIAMETER. A ROCK LEDGE 300 FEET HIGH FORMS A BOWL IN WHICH THE VILLAGE NESTLES. THE HOUSES ARE PAINTED WHITE WITH RED ROOF. BOAT BUILDING AT ONE TIME WAS CHIEF ACTIVITY. BOATS WERE LOWERED 2000 FEET TO THE SEA BY ROPES. NOW, HOWEVER, THE INHABITANTS FIND IT CHEADER TO BUY CRAFT. THESE PEOPLE ARE OF DUTCH AND ENGLISH STOCK. SOME ARE DESCENDENTS OF MORGANS MEN WHO CAPTURED THE ISLAND IN 1665. THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON The feeling that economic conditions generally are improving is growing in Washington, with a good deal of argument on both sides as to whether this is going to develop fast enough to be of political value. Of course there will be an effort to make capital out of the national conference of business and industrial committees of the Fed. cided that Congress did not have the power to forbid interstate commerce in the products of child labor. Only five states have ratified the amendment and it has been rejected in twenty-five states, so that there is little likelihood of it becoming a part of the fundamental law of the land. It is much more likely that the twentieth amendment will be the one which changes the date of the inauguration of the President-elect and the date when the terms of newly elected members of Congress and the Senate begin. This so-called "lame duck" amendment was submitted last winter by the present Congress and has already been ratified by fourteen states. As the Constitution now stands, the President elected in November does not take Tomorrow. FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDGE JEFFERSON ... shrine in danger WASHINGTON The feeling that economic conditions generally are improving is growing in Washington, with a good deal of argument on both sides as to whether this is going to develop fast enough to be of political value. Of course there will be an effort to make capital out of the national conference of business and industrial committees of the Federal Reserve districts which have been called upon by the President to meet in Washington on August 26th to map out a coordinated nation-wide program of action against the economic depression. That is to be followed on September 15th by another conference to consider means for the general introduction of the five day week in all branches of business and industry, and that will be followed in October by an international economic conference in London. What effect these conferences will have upon economic conditions is one question; what effect they may have upon the political situation is something else. Those Internationel Debts Leaders here see signs on both sides of the political fence of a much more common-sense attitude toward the debts which various European nations have to the Government of the United States. It is not thought that the people of he United States would tolerate for a minute any proposal to cancel these debts. But it is thought there would be a favorable reaction toward any sound proposal to settle them in something else besides hard cash. Senator Borah recently opened the door for discussion when he said that insistence upon the payment of these debts in full and in gold would work to detriment of the American farmers and producer he would favor some other way of settling them. Former Governor Alfred E. Smith not long ago proposed that some scheme of tariff adjustments between the United States and our debtors should be made so that credit on account of the debts could be given to nations buying our products, in proportion to the amount of their annual purchases. And President Hoover, intimates that he would be willing to consider some means of settling these debts through the expansion of markets for agriculture and labor. It is not a matter of record as to who it was that suggested that England and France might pay their debts to us by transferring to the United States the sovereignty of the West Indian Islands which they own. Perhaps the immediate benefit to us of the ownership of Bermuda, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Martinique, Barbados and the other islands of the West Indies may not be apparent, but at least such an offer from those nations states, so that there is little likelihood of it becoming a part of the fundamental law of the land. It is much more likely that the twentieth amendment will be the one which changes the date of the inauguration of the President-elect and the date when the terms of newly elected members of Congress and the Senate begin. This so-called "lame duck" amendment was submitted last winter by the present Congress and has already been ratified by fourteen states. As the Constitution now stands, the President elected in November does not take office until the fourth of the following March. After this election and before the inauguration there is a final session of the held-over Congress which was elected two years previously. Under this new amendment there would be no meeting of the old Congress in December, but the new Congress elected in November, would take office in the third day of January and begin its sessions then, or the new President will be inaugurated on the 20th of January instead of March 4. The common sense of this amendment appeals to practically everybody When the people vote a new deal in November it is absurd that they should have to wait until March for the new President to take office. Also, unless the new President immediately calls a special session of the new Congress, it is absurd to wait until a year from the December following the election before the new Congress can begin to function. Another point about the new amendment is that in case of a tie vote, when the Presidential electors meet in Washington the second week in January, the House of Representatives which will decide the tie will be that which was elected at the same time the Presidential votes were cast instead of the holdover Congress from the previous administration. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON By REV. CHAS E. DUNN The Tent of Meeting Lesson for August 21—Exodus 33:7-16 Golden Text: Exodus 33:11 The Tabernacle of the congregation, as the Authorized Version calls it, or the tent of meeting, as the Revised Version more correctly names it, was a portable sanctuary constructed by the Hebrews, in their wilderness pilgrimage, to serve as the earthly dwelling of God. Its furnishings were very costly and elaborate, directly foreshadowing the famous Temple of Solomon, its counter-states, so that there is little likelihood of it becoming a part of the fundamental law of the land. JEFFERSON ... shrine in danger The beautiful old home of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, designed by the third President himself, is one of the historic buildings of America that ought to be kept as a national shrine. The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, which purchased the property several years ago, restored it and maintains it for visitors to see and admire has been hit by the depression, like everybody else. There is danger, unless something more than a hundred thousand dollars can be raised quickly, that the small remaining mortgage on the property will be foreclosed and it will pass into private hands. I have a peculiar interest in Jefferson. I think his ideals and principles ought to be kept alive, and I do not know how that can be done better than to keep Monticello as a monument to him and them. I sent the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, New York, a dollar toward the mortgage. If everyone else who feels as I do about Jefferson will do the same, there will be no foreclosure. FROST ... harnessed by industry I went to a luncheon in New York the other day at which everything that was served, except the celery and the coffee, had been frozen while fresh by the new dry ice process. Fish, steak, strawberries, everything else on the table, had been subjected to a temperature of fifty or more degrees below zero and thawed out only just as the meal was being prepared. Instantaneous freezing like this does not cause ice crystals to break the cells of meat, vegetables or fruit, and so there is no change whatever in the flavor, and they can be kept perfectly fresh for years, as long as they are protected by dry ice. A big corporation is spending millions to establish these "frosted foods" as a new industry. It is quicker and cheaper than canning, and ought to be of benefit to farmers and fishermen. OXEN ... again in service Up in my Berkshire country, farmers are beginning to swing back to the use of oxen for heavy hauling and plowing. The slow, sturdy, reliable yoke of oxen has become a rare sight in recent years, even in New England, where the hilly contours make farming with tractors more difficult than in the West and South. Now we are beginning to see them hauling great loads of hay, dragging "stone boats" and doing many It is held by experienced political observers here that as certain as anything can be, which has not yet taken place, that, regardless of the political complexion of the next Congress, legislation liberalizing the present juror laws will be passed and a new constitutional amendment submitted having the question of prohibition up to the individual states. They think that legislation will retain Federal control, to a greater degree than in the old pre-prohibition days, over instate traffic in liquor, between wet and dry states. It is remembered that there was always a question of the constitutionality of the pre-prohibition laws designed to prevent shipments of toxicants into states that had voted themselves dry. If such an amendment is adopted it will not be, as many people seem to think, the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution. The present prohibition amendment is the eighteenth since the document was first promulgated in 1877. The Nineteenth Amendment, as everyone knows, is the woman suffrage amendment. But there are still pending ratification by the states two other amendments to the Constitution, one which is very likely to be fully ratified before next summer by the State legislatures meeting during the coming winter. One of these, and the one first proposed, is an amendment to the Constitution giving Congress the power to nit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age. This change in the fundamental law was proposed in the 68th Congress, in 1924, after the Supreme Court had de- a portable sanctuary constructed by the Hebrews, in their wilderness pilgrimage, to serve as the earthly dwelling of God. Its furnishings were very costly and elaborate, directly foreshadowing the famous Temple of Solomon, its counterpart and successor. While called a tent, the Tabernacle was in reality a house, with upright walls of thick boards on three sides, and a curtain at the fourth. There was a large, outer apartment for priests only, known as the Holy Place, containing the table of shewbread, the golden candlestick, and the altar of incense. A smaller, inner apartment entered only once a year by the high priest, and containing the Ark of the Covenant, was the Holy of Holies. There are two fundamental truths heralded by this ancient structure. First of all, the tent of meeting teaches the holiness of God. It was ever, whether at rest or in motion, an outward and visible sign of the beauty of holiness. "The Lord our God is holy" said the Psalmist. Now holiness signifies that God is apart from us, that we must bow in awe before Him. It further teaches that God is unlike men, with no trace of the evil that so mars human nature. Secondly the Tabernacle proclaims the necessity of the Church. It was a center of worship, a meeting place where the people could assemble for the social and sacred celebration. Now the Church today has ceased to be a major interest of the majority. Yet few would deny that we need an organized form of religion. All right thinking persons agree that the Church as a beloved "Community of Memory and Hope," to quote Professor Royce, is indispensable to the health of society. There alone can men, cursed with triviality and secularism, catch an adequate vision of God, and speak unto Him as did Moses who, our Golden Text assures us, addressed his Maker "face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend." OXEN again in service Up in my Berkshire country, farmers are beginning to swing back to the use of oxen for heavy hauling and plowing. The slow, sturdy, reliable yoke of oxen has become a rare sight in recent years, even in New England, where the hilly contours make farming with tractors more difficult than in the West and South. Now we are beginning to see them hauling great loads of hay, dragging "stone boats" and doing many of the farm operations for which horses and tractors have been used. Oxen are cheaper than horses, and easier to feed and take care of, for one thing. A well-broken yoke of two-year-old steers is worth about $200, while a good working team of horses brings almost double that. The farmer who needs motive power can raise his own fuel for the oxen, but he has to pay cash for gasoline for his tractor. There are very few farriers left who know how to shoe an ox, but the art is not entirely lost. I think this return to "hay-burning motors" is one indication that our national economy is swinging back toward self-contained local community units. I find my neighbors saying that the craze for modern improvements has been overdone. CHINA Worth knowing It was my week for dining out. I was one of a couple of hundred invited to meet Pearl S. Buck, the author of the best selling book of the past five years. "The Good Earth." Mrs. Buck born in China of missionary parents, got the Pulitzer prize for the best American novel of 1931. The Chinese Consul General in New York told us at the dinner that she has done more than all other influences to make America understand China and the Chinese people. She sees them as human beings exactly like us, only living in a different environment. That is a real service to the world, because most international difficulties come from suspicions among people. The differences between the different kinds of people in the world are, after all, only differences in manners and customs. Fundamentally, we are all alike. OBSERVATIONS BACK INTO CIRCULATION Over in a city in another state where they blew the lid off, two sisters who married two brothers, took up hotel reservations for the six weeks sojourn there before breaking the matrimonial handcuff. After getting their bearings the sisters strolled around a bit and later found their sister-in-law also basking in the sunshine and waiting for the final words of the judge to pry her loose from the moorings of unhappiness, or whatever you call it, and the girls all joined hands and danced and made merry because three makes a convention while two is just company. BALANCING THE SCALES In another country quite a fuss was kicked up there awhile back when it leaked out that several judges had accepted suits of clothes from a man who had quite a jingle in his jeans. Of course, a judge should pay for his own tuxedo and after this no doubt some folks up there might ask to have the jurists put away in glass houses in order that they would not become contaminated by mingling with the common herd; or maybe they should lock them up over night in some down town hotel. BALANCING THE BUDGET A fierce verbal war raged when the tax bill came up for consideration in a famous legislative hall on the banks of a well known river. After the storm subsided the Speaker is quoted as saying: There never was a perfect tax bill. (Look at your last delinquent tax list.) He drew his breath and again remarked: There never was and never will be a tax bill pleasing to everyone. (Say, that's where a moratorium would come handy.) Again the speaker cleared his throat and ejaculated solemnly: And there never will be a tax bill pleasing to anybody. (Gosh, man, you said a mouthful; it's just like pulling teeth.) DULL, SICKENING THUD When the American delegate at the conference at Geneva made a plea for scrapping the submarine and prohibiting bombing from the air, it seemed to have an effect among the rest of the delegates likened to the dropping of a pin in a boiler factory. THE LOST CHORDS In a state up north a man ran for mayor on what he termed a jazz campaign, he being an orchestra leader. When the votes were counted the musical man was the low note on the ticket. DULL, SICKENING THUD When the American delegate at the conference at Geneva made a plea for scrapping the submarine and prohibiting bombing from the air, it seemed to have an effect among the rest of the delegates likened to the dropping of a pin in a boiler factory. THE LOST CHORDS In a state up north a man ran for mayor on what he termed a jazz campaign, he being an orchestra leader. When the votes were counted the musical man was the low note on the ticket. CAN'T EAT YOUR PIE AND HAVE IT It appears all the congressmen were in favor of doing all they could to balance the budget. Of course, if you keep taking out all the time and putting nothing back you are liable to have the sheriff post a notice on the front door. You “kaint” get blood out of a turnip. And when you have a squeezed treasury you have to resort to that popular indoor sport of stinging the taxpayer, and make him like it. UNCLE SAM, BEWARE! The chairman of the United States chamber of commerce warns the people that the expense of running this government must be curtailed. The gentleman says one dollar out of every four you own goes for taxation. Whoops and highlo!! FAILED TO CONTRACT Prohibition may or may not have had anything to do with the Lindbergh kidnapping; but the kidnapping surely had a lot to do with the delivery of booze, because the cops stopped every car for miles around and some of them belonged to the bootleggers, and as a consequence the price went up because it was hard to get. GUMMED UP THE WORKS The good people in Nevada are working hard to change the law over there that blew off the lid. They say that instead of making business good the openness of the place is wrecking the populace and taking away all their spare change. IT ALL DEPENDS WHICH IS THE CHASER Wine on beer gives you mal de mer; but beer on wine makes you feel fine. (Anyway that's how a German poet sizes up the situation.) CHOO CHOO CARS GO RAMBLING ON Speaking of this and that when they held that great horse race at Caliente the other Sunday, a railway company sent down three special trains, (eight coaches to a train) besides the regulars. LOOKING FOR A WAY OUT When that tax bill drew the spotlight some of the members said it looked like communism, or something. Anyhow they taxed everything from gasoline to hospital supplies. WHEN EAST MET WEST The young woman from an eastern college went out into the LOOKING FOR A WAY OUT When that tax bill drew the spotlight some of the members said it looked like communism, or something. Anyhow they taxed everything from gasoline to hospital supplies. WHEN EAST MET WEST The young woman from an eastern college went out into the Apache reservation to learn the ways of the redman, paid an awful price for her lessons. LEANING ON THE BREEZE They had a real hoss race down at Agua Caliente the other day. An Australian gelding, said to be as fast as a kangaroo, threw the dust into the faces of a flock of ten nags that were listed among those that also ran. The horse Phar Lap got away last but passed five within a quarter of a mile. The jockey was holding him back. The wise horse shook his head, meaning "let me go!" The rider slackened the reins and the noble steed passed the rest of the herd and came in two lengths ahead of the next best. The animal is a wonder and no doubt is the fastest race horse in the world. (P. S.—A month later the horse died mysteriously.) DISTANCE LENDS ENCHANTMENT That Australian horse brings to mind the story about the travelling salesman and the farmers' daughter. Her father had cautioned the gay Romeo to stay away. But he came back just the same. Then one bright moonlight night the father decided to beat up the man. The shiek started to run down the country lane with the father just behind him. Presently the salesman came upon a scared jack rabbit running in front of him in a zigzag fashion. The man gave the rabbit a vicious kick, saying, "Get out of the way and let a feller run who has to run." SKIMMING OFF THE CREAM If you work like the dickens and pile up 20 million bucks and have to give uncle 65 per cent, who pays for the lost energy, the wear and tear and the overhead. SLIPPING UNDER THE TENT If the rich will have to keep the poor the chances are that those who are not so poor will file the notice of intention to get their feet under the table when they pass the gravy.