Show How Is the remaining fivesixths oT the national wealth distributed asks Harpers Weekly Waldrou calculates In his Handbook of Currency and Wealth that In the United States more than 1000000 families comprising nearly a third of the nation must get along on annual incomes of less than 5400 per family more than onehalf of all the families In the United States get less than iOO twothirds of the families get less than S SOO while one in 20 of the nations families Is able to obtiun nn Income of over 83000 a year Mr Moftett cites the conclusions conclu-sions of experts In financial I statistics to the effect that wnatever may befall Individual multimillionaire or Individual Indi-vidual ions 01 grandsons of multimillionaires multi-millionaires the rich lire destined to grow w much richer that in 30 or 10 yours under existing conditions the 5000 richest Americans Instead of having I ing fifteen billions hitwccn them us they have today may have fifty or n hundred billions Some well Informed persons go so fur as to assert hint John D Rockefeller alone should he live to 1920 whon he would still be a younger man that Russell Sage is today to-day would himself be able to dispose of eight billions of dollars The mind reels when It I essays to reckon what might be accomplished with so vast a capital were it left to a son or grandson grand-son of great strength of Intellect and character I |