Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-03-15 | Page 7 | Signs of the Times

c. c GNS S OF THE TIMES TIME I IV 4 V 4 HOOCH A New Kew York woman has her husband husband husband hus hus- band arrested rested and brought Into court curt for failing falling to her properly She She tells tolls the judge she has checked ed up and found that Friend Husband spen spends s 40 per cent centor of or his wages for bootleg booze Its It's still possible to buy liquor in any community for anyone anone feebleminded feebleminded feebleminded feeble feeble- minded enough to pay tOe price If It the average customer of a bootlegger bootlegger bootlegger boot boot- legger would spend an hour contemplating contemplating con con- what he pays for his firewater and compare It with his salary or Or- wages It might occur to tim that h bo's bos not all thor the there mentally men men- tally Paying 10 to 20 10 a quart or or more more for whisky is insanity In Inthe inthe the first degree Any drunkard would have admitted it before It-before before pro pro- V V VOODOO A negro voodoo doctor Is in an Eastern jail He did a big business business bustness busi bust ness selling charms One of ot them at 5 a a. aL head was this How to tomake tomako I make mako y yourself In June on St. St Peter and St. St Pauls Paul's day dig blue wort wa roots fifteen minutes before 12 o'clock midnight Also procure the heart of the plant and carry it with you OU and all ropes fetters fetters' and locks will spring sp-Ing open Neither can you OU be sh shot t. t A good many are gullible enough to believe this sort of rubbish even today Not long In the past the witch doctor had nearl nearly everybody everybody every every- body under his sway Explains why primitive man advanced so slow slowly Superstition bars the road 10 o 0 ress mess And most superstition Is the acceptance o of precedent DELAY Lewis Elbert who works In New Kew York City City- and commutes from his home at a distance s out that he has traveled nearly a million miles making the back and amid forth trip In the last st twenty-five twenty years Assuming that the trains averaged averaged aver aver- aged fifty miles an hour L Lewis has spent hours on commuting trip trips or the equivalent of eight ht hours a a. da day for eight years How much munch time are you com corn to waste similarly The fast airplane lying flying flying flivver flivver eventually S 'S vill lost 6 ill V. V save sae V most of ot thi this time now menus Nearly twentY four wr billion dollars was the total Income of ot the Artier Artier- er- er who made more than 1000 a a. year In 1920 This just dust about matches the national debt It compares com com- pares with about sixteen billion dollars In 1918 1913 war bottom ve via year r The fl figure ure for tor 1920 is 18 r rather ther amazIng compared with 1918 period the last halt half ot of f 1920 wa ea was a slump sine since V Few Few of ot us realize the enormous normous wealth and earning power of ot our nation Tho The Income of or orall all the American people for about sIx sl months would cancel our entire Ure na na- na tonal d debt bt That's not much a or of mortgage on the the- alf future fut all QU I