Show rJ POLITICS ix IN 1 DRAFTING TAX X LAW W n II II 11 h ROWELL I The spectacle Is predicted In the next congress of ot the tho DeMocrats out 1 Mellon ellon Instead of or cutting tutting the maximum surtax to 26 25 per cent cont as al' Mellon proposes some lomo f nt the Democratic leaders leader are arc talk talk- talking Leg ing of or half halt that thaL The argument to cynical ical leal Washington correspondents vho ho never nover see any but vote get ting sing motives Is that t last year the Democrats tried the experiment of ot joining with the insurgents on the supposition that it was popular to lower tho the taxes on small email incomes and keep them up on largo large ones onos But from the tho election they con- con that there thore was something unpopular about their party and Inferred that It mu must t be he this So now they may try tho the reverse pot pol- Io Icy loy I y to see seo if It that Is any more pop pop- ular How would It be for tor somebody to YO consider not popularity but lut Iu right Ight Fortunately In financial matters malleIs the right policy eventual eventual- eventually ly I becomes the tho popular one It vindicates itself by its It II practical operation Taxes may bo be too low as well as too high Results tell The worst way to adjust taxes is III isto isto to try either Ither to cinch the rich or orto orto orto to bluff tho the poor If It you really realty succeed In cinching the tho rich you YO usually Injure the poor hy by lowering wages raising prices and Increasing ment More 1010 often otten you do not succeed but merely bluff blutt the tho poor Into thinking that you rou have dono done so The very tax that seems to favor the poor Is likely to be the on one on which they pay themselves most TIlE THE T GHE n OF Or SCIENCE Step by step tep science is approaching ap ap- approaching the point when there will wilt be nothing left lett to die of ot ex- ex except ex except e violence or old age ng From two sources one In Canada and one in France neither r of ot them quack come reports ot of ap ap- apparently apparently promising progress toward a specific cure for tor tuberculosis This news new It is fair fall to add Is of no present practical interest to totI anyone tI now afflicted Neither elther treatment It Ir successful will be available In time to be of ot u use e to anyone anone who Is beyond re fr recovery re- re recovery covery by present hygienic methods meth meth- methods or to make It safe for any anyone cne one who needs need the treatment to delay taking It ft in the hope of ot more specific But Dut If It some specific for tor cure cur er cr Immunity Is developed one of the major plagues ot of mankind will willbe be tiE gone There Is far tar to go but consider the progress that has been made medicine became partly scientific s within the last BO 60 years cars The acute Reute infectious diseases are some somo of ot them mastered and the st f st on the tho way to mastery master Tuberculosis Is already largely curable without a specific remedy and that is almost In sight Cancer is still a puzzle but al already al- al already ready rad there Is li knowledge enough to save save multitudes of ot sufferers sufferer if It they the will wilt take advantage early enough nough with the emphasis ls on the early of ot that knowledge Diabetes is not cured but con con- controlled controlled controlled trolled so 90 that it can be lived JIved with disease Is Ii harder but something something- can be done even e with I that Heart disease covers a largo large range of ot conditions many of ot which can con be prevented pre There is much till till to do but If It Itt this his t generation does as well veil as us the list lut the normal working life lite of ot our grandchildren should be 80 years cars |