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Show I . MIDDLE CLASS INCOMES . Tho problems of povorty an not j verj lntenso for slnglo men who get more than $2000 n year, or mnrrlcd luien who get moro than $3000 and tho fuss wldc'i has been mndo In Con- greBs over dropping frlniws of tho In- como tax to cover theso Incomes Is mote political than economic, it In politically as safe ns It Is socially fair SXALiL ijBBBBBJBpjBBjwp)BBBtM- -J" """"T reasonable nnd altogether desirable, to make owners of great fortunes pay In proportion to the size of their fortunes, for-tunes, because thsro nro so few ot them and their votes count for almost al-most nothing. Hut ns tho basis of taxation Is broadened tho number" of voters affected naturally widens, nnd n good many thousands of them may stop 'voting for the party which taxes tliem . It Is foolish, Just the same, to worry wor-ry over the lnjustlco of taxing tho $2000 or $3000 incomo. If taxing such incomes will help In tho slightest degree de-gree to lift tho burdens from the shoulders of tho overwhelming majority ma-jority whoso Income Is nearer $1000 thnn $2000 they ought' to be taxed. Tho economic middle class docs not need nny coddling. The great prob-loin prob-loin In America Is to draw In both extremes as fnr as possible In the direction of the $3000 family Incomo. Great wealth and extreme poverty nro both poisonous to tho national life, but the middle classes arc, as usual, getting nlong very nlcoly. San Francisco Fran-cisco Ilullettn. FILIPINO WINS LAURELS AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Washington, D. C, Aug. 21. Mr. Oulllermo B. Guevara is on his way to Manila, P. I., after graduating as LL.M. from Georgetown University. Mr. Guevara Is assistant to the city attorney ot Manila, tho Phllllpplno capital. His record at Georgetown is fne of tho most brilliant In th annals of the university law school. Graduating Gradu-ating from the Llceo do Manila with un A. 11. In 1306, nnd LL.D. In 1912, Mr. Guevara, already In me legal service of tho Phllllpplno government como to Washington about a year opo on tho staff of the resident commissioner, commis-sioner, Hon. Manuel L. Quezon. Ho entered Georgetown University In law, and proved the most brllllaut student stu-dent of his class. |