oc-plain-dealer 1923-12-12

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS I pray for strength to live To all life's noble ends, prompt, just and true, Myself, my service, unto all to give, And giving, yet renew My store for bounty, all life's journey through. William C. Richards BILLS POUR IN TORRENT UPON CONGRESS The annual deluge has begun—the flooding of Congress with bills. Measures by scores, hundreds and thousands are being introduced. Many of them never will see daylight in either house. Some of them are meritorious. Many of them would be mischievous, if enacted into law. Many of them are put forward only to make political capital. Some of them are backed by conscience and conviction. Committees of the two houses will wrestle with this usual accumulation of proposed legislation. The American people would do well to impress upon their representatives in Congress the importance of passing as few legislative measures as possible. This country is languishing, not because of too few laws, but because of too many legislative enactments. It would be a good thing if every patriotic organization; every civic-betterment body; every individual and every organization intelligently interested in the improvement of government, would petition Congress collectively, and individual members of Congress, to soft-pedal in legislating; to hold down the number of laws enacted; and to strive for better quality in measures which are enacted into law. How many times a day do you narrowly escape being run over by an automobile? RAIL EXPANSION HUGE IN NEXT FEW YEARS Railroads of the United States must expend approximately $8,000,000,000 in expansion of transportation facilities during the next ten years, according to the United States Chamber of Commerce. How many times a day do you narrowly escape being run over by an automobile? RAIL EXPANSION HUGE IN NEXT FEW YEARS Railroads of the United States must expend approximately $8,000,000,000 in expansion of transportation facilities during the next ten years, according to the United States Chamber of Commerce. Passenger traffic will increase 25 per cent and freight traffic 33 1/3 per cent in the next decade, according to expert estimates. To handle properly this expected normal increase in traffic the railroads must add to their present facilities and equipment in the next decade, 38,350 miles of track, 13,200 locomotives, 725,000 freight cars and 12,300 passenger cars. Development of transportation is inseparable from development in the economic life of the country. Adequate transportation is vital to business, to industry, to commerce. That which affects railroad facilities is of general concern to the whole people. As to being "willin'" to make the race for the Presidential nomination, Mr. Coolidge no doubt is in the frame of mind of Mr. Barkis. President Coolidge's insistence that Congress reduce taxes will produce hearty approbation throughout the country. The United States is leading the world in improving its streets and highways. The investment in this form of betterment is gilt-edged. Make it unsafe for reckless drivers to use the streets and highways. Make jails and penitentiaries yawn for them. Santa Claus will be stoop-shouldered, bending under the weight of the load he is bringing this year. Feel this Power! Give yourself a treat! Get into an Overland Sedan and "step on it"! The sensation of power is wonderful. The bigger new engine makes you master of traffic and hills! And the Triplex springs (Patented) give the road comfort of a long, heavy car. Before buying any car, find out how much better you will like an Overland. The price has Give yourself a treat! 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H-IM ALL H-EXOSTED AFTER MY THREE WEEKS' POLITICAL CAMPAIGN! PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) Add to the list of eternal triangles: Cold morning, used car, profanity. You can recognize Easy street by the incessant chatter about servants and symptoms. Character will get you to heaven, but it's reputation that gets you on the first page. You can judge a town by the sum of money required to make a man an important citizen. We know but one man who is invariably cheerful, and he tells his keeper he is Cromwell. Another good way to make presidential timber is to make an early beginning in the woodshed. A rich man is one who can growl at a collector and say that he will pay when he gets ready. If he takes thought of his soul, he is a wise man; if he laughs at such matters, he is a wise guy. Perfecting a civilization is just a slow business of teaching husbands how to act before company. No doubt the world will be a more restful and orderly place when reform begins where charity does. This would be a finer country if efforts to convert the heatheen would begin where charity does. ABE MARTIN "Economy in office an' reduction o' taxes! I remember o' hearin' that ole ruse when I was a boy," says Uncle Niles Turner, 103. Silence can't be misinterpreted, but it kin be misinterpreted. WHO'S WHO IN THE DAYS NEWS DR. PAUL KAMMERER "Darwin's successor" is the title given Dr. Paul Kammerer, Viennese biologist, associate of Dr. Eugen Steinach and rated as one of Europe's foremost scientists, who is now in the United States. Dr. Kammerer is credited with beginning "where Darwin left DINNER STORIES A lady out shopping one day entered a butcher's shop and asked for a sheep's head. She emphatically stated that she must have English mutton. "Sorry, mum," replied the butcher, "we only stock Scotch mutton." The lady was most anxious to purchase the sheep's head, but she was insistent that it must be English. Turning to the back of the shop, the butcher called his boy assistant to him and said quietly, pointing to the head of a sheep lying on a counter at the far end of the shop, "Jock, ta' the brain o' that held."—Dry Good Economist. Tim, the gardener, had recently married and one morning while working in his mistress' rose garden, she stopped to speak with him for a moment, reports Judd. "Tim,' asked Mrs. Sweet," your wife cook as well as mother? "Indeed, mam, an' she can replied Tim, 'but I never me it for she can throw consider betther." A woman advertised for caterer interviewing a large ber of applicants, found or sat suited her. "Thanks for me the job," said the mean might. I ask you a question. You stated in the ad you wanted a married man. That mean you have some in view for my wife?" The acute labor shortage leaves only 20 or 30 men to watch the man play the three-ball into the side pocket. An excellent study of human nature is the reaction of the family when a rich old uncle finally gets married. The time to retire is when subordinates say: "This plan is a wonder if only we can get the old man to see it." "It is the spirit and not the price of the gift that counts," said the man, as he walked into the ten-cent store. If a man makes a better mouse trap, the world will make a beaten path to his door and invite him to address 7632 clubs. Correct this sentence: "I'm 52," he declared, "and I don't feel any older than I did at 30." Experienced drivers are not noisy. It is the greenhorn that keeps tooting so much. WHO'S WHO IN THE DAYS NEWS DR. PAUL KAMMERER "Darwin's successor" is the title given Dr. Paul Kammerer, Viennese biologist, associate of Dr. Eugen Steinach and rated as one of Europe's foremost scientists, who is now in the United States. Dr. Kammerer is credited with beginning "where Darwin left off" with the theories of evolution and the heredity of acquired characteristics. But he is known equally well for his work in rejuvenation along the lines pursued by the great Steinach. Dr. Kammerer is young as famous scientists go. He is 43 years of age, sparse in build and has an engaging smile and manners. He began his researches in biology in Vienna in 1900 and pursued them until war conditions and poverty forced him to leave the Austrian capital. He comes to the U.S. as the first associate of Dr. Steinach to make the trip to this country. He is a prolific writer on many subjects. One of his books which has attracted much interest and comment is "Are We Slaves of the Past or Master of the Future?" In it he expresses the belief that the beautiful works, words and ideas which are produced by men during their lives will be handed down to their children as part of their nature—as instincts." 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Gazette In a recent discussion of plans for Federal taxation a prominent economist makes the assertion that not all of the taxes imposed under Federal income tax laws can be passed on to others. This undoubtedly is true. But, though it is true that not all of a tax can be passed on. There are none of us who can entirely escape taxation. Every man who lives in a house, who wears clothes, who eats food, who travels on street cars, who purchases gasoline if his motor, or who attends a theater, pays Federal taxes when he pays for those commodities or services. High taxes are largely the cause of the great cost of living. No one likes to be a tax collector. The owner of a large manufacturing enterprise who pay taxes to the government becomes in a measure a tax collector, since it is necessary for him to collect at least part of the money from his profits in order to pay the tax to the government. He could not otherwise pay the government tax. His customers complain of the high prices he charges for his commodities. He dislikes to hear these complaints and would gladly be relieved of the necessity of keeping his prices high. For that reason, although the manufacturer does not in the end pay all the tax, he is anxious that the tax shall be reduced as much as possible. Although ultimate consumer does not pay all of the tax he pays the greater portion of it and for that reason he is the person who should be most zealous in his efforts to have government expenditures reduced and government taxes accordingly diminished. Ex-president Hadley, of Yale, says: "Europe is more cultivated than the United States." That may be so, but with all its cultivation, it can't raise much whout a little American money for fertilizer. Xmas Books All the latest copyright fiction. 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