Show AM k released lUlea by western Kew paper union translating FIGURES INTO actualities IN A NEWSPAPER heading I 1 saw the for these days insignificant figure aure of 11 billion dollars the bil llon lion I 1 passed over as of no consequence to me and as something I 1 could not comprehend but the 11 stuck as something I 1 could apply to myself As a small boy my money was c counted oun t ed in pennies and w wealth was figu figured reain ln what i pennies would buy corll pennies I 1 get 11 penny suckers or 11 sticks of chewing gum or on the fourth of july 11 firecrackers with a louder than normal bang then came the early teens the first girl stage and money was counted in dimes with the 11 dimes ifould buy wro two tickets for the movies ies with two tap ice cream sodas after the show shove when working age came along alone and I 1 found 11 in a pay envelope I 1 had really arrived at mans estate and could carry I 1 folding money I 1 could puta bit of it in the bank each week f in the course of time th those small savings accumulated until they amounted to 1100 while that was wealth undreamed of but a few years before I 1 could still understand and comprehend it as applied to myself it meant a down payment on ai modest home over i the years I 1 have learned to realize what might mean but 1 my conception or imagination had not carried me on to 11 million when i millions became obsolete and the talk was only of billions I 1 cannot visualize one billion any more than 11 50 or billions I 1 I 1 cannot imagine what such a sum sum y could bo be used for because I 1 cat ti apply etto myself it is very bonal and idies es not mean me in any it particular but when I 1 pause long p enough to think a bit seriously 1 I know thatis it does I 1 know that as one of million people I 1 must as As more billion that must be paid by that million people their children and grandchildren and my share is something more than 1000 a sum 1 I can visualize that and more is what either 1 I or my children br or grandchildren must pay billions no I 1 do not kal know aw what they mean let u us got get away from th them em and talk in terms you and I 1 coa can understand the sums each lof jol us abrl or our children and grandchildren I 1 11 II must pay ti it congress would just put app appropriations 0 oh such a basis we w id know what abare wo are getting ina ifor tor a id d we might call a halt on in a unnecessary spending i yu you have tho the time these daiy y dayi daya since most all america is bu busy Y tor for a little diversion you could sit down and try to figure out just wiit what your part of the national debatis deb debt ls TAXES AND corporation DIVIDENDS taxes are being levied ostensibly for forthe the purpose of pre preventing venting inflation during a time of high wages land and high prices they are being levied not only against tho the individual but also against the corporation and to prevent inflation are cutting down and in many cases confiscating the dividends under such conditions there la is one closs class that Is especially I 1 entitled to sympathy those mho iwho through thrift and frugality sayed saved that they might davd a competency to see them through declining ye years arsand and must now pay the heavily Ip increased creAsed taxes out of what Js Is left of a diminishing income they are past the working years their swings mv ings from which they expected to live are invested in the stocks and bonds of corporations these cor pora tlona lons cannot now pay as they have in previous years and from their smaller incomes these frugal thrifty people must pay heavily in in creased taxes today this class has treason reason to quest question on the advantages advantage of thrift 1 I LISTENED to a lecturer describe the dangers of a trip through the malayan jungles ile he elpha sized the prowling lions as the greatest est of these dangers I 1 have never been in the malayan jungles but ut I 1 know a number of big game hunters who have among them is fraak buck frank has captured tigers and leopards for the zoos of df amer america ca A in those jungles and has hasetold I 1 told m me of i many exploits in the them ile he 11 has ni v N er to told id me of firms lions anywhere in asia and I 1 am quite sure they ere re not found on that continent I 1 think that distinguished lecturer an n englishman was putting over a pit it of misinform misinformation aaion but ho he made mad a good story of it I 1 THE SALE of government soc tirl iles war bonds and war savings stamps could be greatly augment ed in every community if the afir purchase were urged by people of each community if the bankers merchants churches lodges segue service clubs and individuals were pu publicly ly urging the people to buy the newspapers could do that job if the government would but give the pub ushers the opportunity underwrite ten advertising did it in the last world war and would do it again newspapers need only ad copy |