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Show A JOKE FULL OF LAUGHS Socialist and radical officers in charge of the administration of what may be called the "Garland foundation," are enjoying what they regard as a huge joke on the United States and its present social system. The foundation was started when Charles Garland of Massar-chusetts Massar-chusetts declined to accept $800,000 to which he became heir under the will of his father. The money was! set apart as a "fund to fight capitalism" in the United States, and the joke is that being well invested in-vested in good securities, the total original value of the investments has increased in a year to $1,500,000, together with an expenditure of $500,000 used to aid radical newspapers and encourage socialist propaganda in the country during the past year. For the socialists, the laugh in the joke is the fact that capitalism has been levied upon, at such a high rate, to contribute funds to fight itself. The joke is a good one, but like every good joke, it has more than one good laugh in it. Here are men who would destroy a government gov-ernment and an economic system that is capable of awarding such returns re-turns on, the fruit of industry and brains. Russia, the exponent of the opposing system, hardly is capable of showing such indices of prosperity prosper-ity or of returning the principal, let alone the interest, on any man's earnings. It is only in the United States of America that the socialists have a chance to laugh at such a situation. It could happen nowhere else in the world today. Yet, the socialists want to change it. Unlike socialism and some other things, that joke is entitled to the stamp: "Made in the U. S. A." St. Paul Pioneer Press. |