Show LUNACY AND ITS CAUSES Dr Forbes Wilson who first gained celebrity by claiming that Jack the ripper was a homicidal homicidal homi homi- maniac declares that the world is growing mad ad and aud that it is a simple mathematical problem to reach the time when lunatics will be in iii a 8 majority ma ma- that in l England and Wales Vales in forty years lunatics have increased from one in every in inthe inthe inthe the population to one in every There we have it England smiles at the figures but she sho should study them nevertheless And should bend her efforts toward finding work vork for her poor an and encouraging encouraging en en- early marriages That applies as well Avell to the United States as to toJ J England Great estates states in this country should be he taxed so so should incomes so should inheritances the they are arc very large the tho question whether these should be national or 01 state taxes or both should be q quickly settled and with the surplus money moner should be a regular system of getting families families faini- faini lies on small parcels of land and letting them pay payback payback payback back the money to to give more families a chance more practical education given ghen the poor for poverty poverty pov pov- erty and the absence of hope are direct causes of insanity and then early marriages g give gc c men and women new incentives to maintain a home and self respect it throttles vice and indifference ItO duty i and l keeps th the vagrant germ which is present in inI inso I s so Sc many men and women from expanding Going back to the farm should have haye special enc encouragement en en- c from the government and this should be one of the uses which money w from income taxes should be put to We Ve stated Saturday what was being done on this line in ill man many European countries The result h hi in twenty years will be a vast ast increase in government govern govern- ment nt revenues There is another tax which should be bl looked to Where men own great areas of land and hold the land m merely rely through pride of ownership ownership ownership owner owner- ship cultivating but small portions such land should be taxed as though it were cultivated and the owners given ghen the choice to either cither employ labor to cultivate ate it or sell it for from the lands bread comes and from no other source and the poor need the bread |