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Show THE CITIZEN 6 there is nothing left. In fact the poor are never able to pay up their bills in full. Ask any grocer. A man who has a wife and say three children, purchases a $3,000 home, which in this day and age is but a shack. Including his interest, he may be able to secure the place for $30 per month; his taxes on a $3,000 home will run from $75 to $96 per year; his grocery bill for. five persons will run at least $1.50 per day, or $547.50 per year; it will take at least another $200 to purchase clothes, shoes, etc., for the family; insurance will run at least $25 and may be double that; coal will go $50; gas, $25; electric light, $25, all of which totals a sum of $1,307.50. We have not cited any money for amusements such as for theatres, automobiles, summer resorts or other outings. on the above, J. V. Dittemore says the great- est events in all human history have had their appearance unknown or unrecognized by the world. There already exists as a practical operative institution a league of nations more powerful, more stable, and more effective than any combination of peoples ever brought together by political negotiation. It is thtO1 alliance in the unseen realm of thought, cemented by a common purpose and a common interest, between the two great groups of English speaking peoples the United States of America, and ... the British commonwealth. (t That overruling destiny which guides and guards the affairs of men has already annointed and appointed the channels for stabilizing and balancing world interests, during this transitional period which is hastening the development of a Higher standard for all human government. In spite of their human individual and national limitations and weaknesses, their racial traits and past mistakes, the collective mind of these two great peoples looks always forward toward a common goal. Their battle" plan has already been united unseen to the physical senses, unannounced in audible tones, and unknown to the hundreds of millions living under the protection of the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack. There can be no effective league of nations or world court without the active participation of both Britain and America. The United States will never become a unit in any mere political combination. An overshadowing destiny, a divine intelligence, combines and recombines the human circumstances and groups, on earths stage. Nothing shall prevent the fulfilland ment of that divine event, a conscious unity of motive and purpose within the two great branches of the one collective consciousness, offering in this age the avenues of least resistance to the highest ideals of human government, true liberty under just . . . Then we wonder why more poor people' do not own their homes or do not purchase one. It must also be remembered that tradesmen do not work at least four months during the winter, when they are idle. Among the trades that are greatly handicapped by winter in our locality are the carpenter, bricklayers and builders. dollar tax on a nordinary working mans home A twenty-fiv- e should be considered high. WHAT PRICE WEALTH it worth the price? The young man of today sets his mind upon making a million, and when he gets his million, he wants two million and becomes a veritable money fiend. So it was in the case of John W. Thompson, a St. Louis millionaire. He had more money than he could. possibly spend in this life had he lived 500 years. He conspired against his government to defraud, was caught in the act, found guilty and sentenced to two years in the federal prison. At his age of 64 years, his miserable craving for gold was still uppermost in his thoughts and when he was caught by the government in an act of criminal pursuit, his soul came to life and his conscious smote him and the "grim reaper smote him with death. Thus, does the law' of compensation exact its toll from the lowly and meek, from the rich and high, and never does it fail to pay the deserving with full interest, or to penalize the guilty according to their Is works. Gold can purchase the many good things desired in life station, pleasure, prominence and social standing but it cannot purchase health and real happiness. The person that lives according to the Creed-oScience, words by that great orator and eminent American, Robert G. Ingersoll, who becomes greater as the ages come and go, who said: Superstition is not religion. Belief without evidence is not religion. Faith without facts is not religion What is religion? To love justice, to long for the right, to love mercy, to pity the suffering, to assist the weak, to forget wrongs and remember benefits to love the truth, to be sincere, to utter honest words, to love liberty, to wage relentless war against slavery in all its forms, to love wife and child and friend, to make a happy home, to love the beautiful in art, in nature, to cultivate the mind, to be familiar with mighty thoughts that genius has expressed, the noble deeds of all the world, to cultivate courage and cheerfulness, to make others happy, to fill life with the splendor of generous acts, the warmth of loving words, to discard error, to destroy prejudice, to receive new truths with gladness, to cultivate hope, to see the calm beyond the storm, the dawn beyond the night, to do the best that can be done and then to be resigned this is the religion of reason, the creed of science. This satisfies the brain and heart. Thus closes another chapter of the result of greed, leaving sadf J ness in its wake. ' V UNITY This.would be a perfect hell to live in today, were it not for the concord that exists between England and America, England and America are a League of Nations. The Vancouver (B.C.) Sun. In commenting re-grou- ps law. NIX There is some talk of making a radio commission to consist of five members, with arbitrary powers to regulate radio. The salaries of the individual members of the commission are to be $10,000. Now you can see why there is a demand for the commission not so much for regulation, but to get the salary. Radio is being taken care of, and quite efficiently, in the Department of Commerce, where it rightfully belongs. The people right now are in a mood to abolish all, or most of the commissions, and Congress will do well to eliminate a few commissions and bureaus, which in most part are only money getters, with little service rendered to the public. CHANGE OF HEART Judge E. H. Gary, who is the chief of the United States Steel Corporation and who with his financial support has supported the drys in their prohibition cause, has had a change of heart and now believes that the best interests of the people and the country will btj served through the modification of the Volstead Act. EASY Application of tax has become so easy and heretofore there has been registered so little opposition, or rather so little attention has been paid by the powers that be to oppositionists, that the Quebeck provincial government has decided to charge a five per cent tax upon every meal over $1. v No doubt we will have legislators in this country who will try. to follow suit. But the man who will be able to devise some means to make ui pay for the air we breathe will be the boy to draw don the money. . . The world now has 20,000,000 motor vehicles, of which 77: could ride at per cent are in the United States. one time in the motor cars now operating in this country. All-Ameri- ca |