Show washington Snaps snapshots hois by james preston I 1 washington it if it really tried ought to bo be able to give tile tho kiddies some worthwhile lessons in how ring around the rosy should bo played but ono one influential inner circle who claims to bo bc tho the only one who it a year ago foresaw the present business re sees flaws til in the game as washington playa it listen to his summary we set out to do something for fo r those hose who live la in shacks aria and dont have enough to cat or wear so we put them on relief then to get the money we levy new taxes and naturally we got get tin an increase in prices so it costs casts tra 3 more to teed feed the needy and we have to levy higher taxes tabea take the farmers we try to help them by seeing that they get more money for the things they sell we raise prices of farm goods the bic prices get ao 80 high that factory workers cant buy farm goods so wo we tiling thing up an NHA or it a wage hour bill and w we i e raise the wages of factory workers then the prices of factory goods gooda go up to the farmers cant afford them and wo we have to raise the farmers income again and so BO it goes ting ring around the rosy there la in another group that we seem to ie be about add the six million tamers farmers and the eleven million factory workers toge together their they make seventeen million lees im than a seventh ot of the population if we keep keel boosting factory wages and farm farin income long enough the ilie law of averages says that some day we must reach a happy medium tor for them but meanwhile what happeny hap pena to the fellow who ts is in neither group the white collar man mail tho the great middle class the first thing he knows he cant buy either factory made or farm raised goods unless we stop this ring around tho the rosy business and lot things improve naturally for a while were going to end cud up with all our farmers and factories having a lot of high priced things they cant sell and with a hundred and ten million people on relief 11 if this economist had wanted to cite an illustration lie be might kave have chosen one that la Is drawing particular lat interest orest hero here now it involves the mil railroads roads and tho the coal industry railroads sizeable wage to their employees recently the interstate commerce corn com ail salon convinced that the awon action was necessary to avoid bankruptcy granted the request of the ran rail roads for or freight rate increases tota totaling lang annually that wont cover halt the increased railroad payroll coat on the other hand congress ere rl abed the national coal commission to isayo aavo 11 the coal industry so go the consumers counsel for tew coal commission for ward and announces ho he will ask reconsideration of 0 tho the freight rate increase via the coal industry lie says bays will pay of that what he weans meana Is that coal consumers all over the country couii try will pay higher alg her prices for their delly erni coal since it will coat more they will tr try to bairn bam less and the railroads will havo have loss less to haul and the coal miners will have to lo dig less out of the earth sounds uko like that song everybody got so tired of remember the music goes down and around Till eyre still squabbling about that mural in ili the Po dopart department part ment building here which indians pillaging a stage coach and scalping nude women john collier commissioner of indian affairs says it Is obvious from other things in itlie picture that the indians had time to tear the clothes from the women so he be women mus must have been riding along naked and the indians indiana scalped scalded them for bior In deacy dencY |