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Show Prevailing Opinions Comment of th sAmrtc.n Pfu ' Samples The devices for avoiding taxes, explained to the congressional investigating in-vestigating committee by Dr. Ros-wcll Ros-wcll Magill of the treasury, are fearfully and wonderfully complicated. com-plicated. It la evident that the legal personality known aa the corporation has been drafted for yeoman service by experts familiar fa-miliar with the corporation's possibilities pos-sibilities aa a merciful evader of disagreeable tacts. Tb men who have resorted to these devious means of escaping taxation can hardly complain when their excess of faith in legal fiction is exposed. ex-posed. Nevertheless Senator La Fol-lette Fol-lette has put his finger on an important defect in the treasury's apparent plan to submit merely a sample list of such rases and convey the impression that they are typical of thousands of others whose evasions have had a serious effect upon tbe national revenues. As a matter of justice, there is no reason for singling out these men for publie condemnation if it is true that numerous other men have emploved the same devices. de-vices. Dr. Magill declared before the committee that moat of the practices cited by hire yesterday were "perfectly legal" as the law stands today. Nevertheless the legality of such schemes will hardly help the ease of a man wbe is summoned as a "tax dodger' and denounced in ad-1 vance as "immoral." To pick out a few such men as horrible examples ex-amples for the delectation of their fellow citizens may help the committee com-mittee to amend the tax laws, but it is an injustice to the individual selected for this shellacking from a supposed long list of similar offenders. Baltimore Sun. . Summer Worries Dr. H. Spencer Jones, England's astronomer royal, startles London by announcing that "the moon is moving off its calculated position." posi-tion." But a colleague in the solar laboratory at Cambridge clarifies the news by . explaining that tbe real trouble is not with the moon but with our mathematical ays-tent ays-tent of charting the moon's course. Our mathematics is crude, he says, it lacks precision. It is so faulty, he explains, that astronomers undertaking to calculate cal-culate where the" moon will be 30 years ahead may miscalculate the exact spot by as much as two full seconds. And. as if that weren't enough to make us lose sleep. Colonel Lindbergh breaks the news that it is doubtful whether airplanes caa ever be built that will attain a speed "of above a few hundred miles aa hour." San Francisco Mews. Vacation Health theck-Up The value of periodical health examinations, especially for those past middle age, has in recent years become widely recognised. Many ailments. In particular those of the degenerative type, are thus discovered and rendered amenable to helpful treament which, failing the eariy diagnosis, would have been impossible. Parents would do well to appljs this principle as well with relation rela-tion to their children's health. The vacation season Just beginning furnishes an ideal time for an annual an-nual checkup. School health examinations ex-aminations ia large cities almost invariably reveal an unusually large percentage ef pupils with defective eyesight or bearing, diseased dis-eased tonsils, heart weaknesses, Incipient hernias or ether physical physi-cal conditions which hamper the child's progress and keep his general gen-eral health below par. If such conditions are discovered discov-ered by a thorough examination, at the outset of summer, aa interval in-terval ia afforded for their correction. cor-rection. A general health-baild-Ing program for the underweight er anemic is more effective during dur-ing the time of maximum sunshine and the handicapped youngster starts the new school year in better bet-ter condition to face its demands. Columbus Dispatch. |