Show A ARKE 0 boom and in gold the end of 0 almost evely previous de pres res slon n the history of the world has acen maikel by some kind of a sp speculative culi boom perhaps the wave vave of speculation it n in gold aning m nang stocks steel which started a couple cf weeks ago on the london stock exchange may prove the impetus that will ulli biang blin money bad back into circulation rapidly more afore gold was mined in 1932 than in any previous pi evious year since world records began to be kept most of it came from south african mines a big percentage c rf it from canada gold Is alth mole moie measured in commodities and labor than it hi has ever been that makes ah shares area in producing gold mines aall I 1 in times like these no predictions are sate safe but I 1 want to register a guess that the next net tew few months will see a revival 0 speculation not only in gold mining stocks but in other securities speculation docs rot not make prosperity but it is nearly always an evidence evid once that people aho vho ho control important money have 0 corns m to the conclusion that the is over and are taking their money out ot of b hiding g and that means that prosperity crity is closer at hand i TAXES and liow how app lIell I 1 cannot escape the conviction that the fairest systems ol of taxation are those that are based directly upon what the taxpayer pay e r gets for or his money every cigarette smoker pays a six cents tax every time he buys a package of twenty cigarettes but nobody protests because nobody feels that be Is being taxed few people object I 1 to paying the gasoline tax the proceeds ol of which make highway improvement and maintenance possible I 1 think one weakness of our income tax system Is that incomes from aill all sources are taxed at the same rate and I 1 lumped together incomes from rents ought possibly be taxed at one rate incomes from dividends on stock investments at another rate and incomes from the profits of trade at still another more mere people are studying this question of taxation and studying it more intelligently telli gently than ever before we are going to see radical chanas s in our taxation ry system stam 13 in the millie leoti house e I 1 remember when I 1 was a boy in washington that there was a great debate in congress over the question of putting a second bathroom into the white house mr cle eland cland was president and his political opponents in congress declared that he was a de devotee otee of luxurious extra ve gance in wanting more than one bathroom tor for the entire entera white house I 1 dont know how bow many bathrooms there are in the white virility lite house now but my guess Is at least a dozen but when it was aas proposed in congress the other day to give president roosevelt enough money to put a swimming pool in the white house basement and represents representative schaefer ot of washington objected on the ground ot of extravagance I 1 was reminded of the furore over mr Clev elands bathroom there pre ere lots of people in the united states that dont have swimming pools said mr air schaefer that was a pretty cheap appeal to unintelligent voters he might have added that there are a lot of people also who are not P president esi of the united states important ont OIL perhaps the next i to the federal constitution III be the repeal of prohibition but there Is another amendment that has been pending lor for ton ten years year which may get in ahead of repeal this Is the amendment permitting the federal government to bar from interstate commerce the products of the labor of children under tinder eighteen congress passed a law years ago to that effect and the supreme court held hed it was unconstitutional an amendment to the constitution EtI ution to overcome this was submitted in 1322 1922 only nine state legislatures have ratified it thirteen Thil iteen teen have not even brought it to a vote and twenty six have rejected it A great many people believe that this child labor amendment is more vital to the future welfare of the united states than the repeal of prohibition SILVER silar R again nearly two years ago I 1 began commenting in in this column on the price of silver and its effect upon commac commodity lity prim prices and trade since then a good many intelligent people on both sides of the atlantic have waked up to the tact fact that the of sliver silver in europe and the resulting ct cf devaluation of 0 the money of the orient Is one of the important causes of low commodity prices and a serious obstacle 3 le to international Intel national commerce I 1 think it can bo be proved that the re establishment ot of the prewar pre war price of silver would be the longest possible step toward a revival ot of business that does doer not mean sixteen to one but it does mean that the discussions of the silver question in congress ought to be taken seriously all and double 0 franklin Frankl ln roosevelt Is the third successive president to have a double ID 0 o in his name he Is also the third president whose surname Is the same as that of one of his predecessors we have had two president adams two presidents president harrlson harrison and now two P presidents r esi dents roo roosevelt s evelt mr roosevelt Is the third president of dutch descent martin van buren and theodore roosevelt being the other two he Is likewise the third president elected in his eltty farst year if there Is luck in odd numbers president roosevelt ought to have plenty of it alons al CONS as presidents president franklin roosevelt Is the I 1 thirteenth member of the masonic order to bo be president or of the united states I 1 have often heard some ot of my masonic brethren say bay that every president has been a mason but that Is not true washington was master of his lodge monroe jackson polk buchanan johnson mckinley theodore roosevelt tatt taft and harding were masons there Is no masonic record to prove that jefferson was a member ot of the order but there Is colo teral evidence which Is taken and accepted Masoni cally as indicating di that he be was mr tatt taft was not a mason before be was elected but the grand lodge ot of ohio made him a 4 mason at sight between his election and his inauguration president roosevelt was recently binl tinted into one oae of the masonic societies the tall cedars of lebanon RELIGIONS of presidents president roosevelt will be the ninth member of the protestant episcopal church to be president ot of the united states it Is a curious thing that this small denomination should have had mere representatives in the white house than any ot of the other branches of the christian church there are less than two million episcopalians Episcopal ians in america compared with nearly eight million baptists but only one president harding was a baptist there are nearly twenty million roman catholics and none has ever been president one president coolidge was a congregationalist one garfield a member ot of the disciples ot of christ one hoo j ver a quaker two van buren and theodore roosevelt belong to the dutch reform church both the adamsey Ad amses fillmore and tatt taft wele unitarians johnson grant and mckinley were methodists jackson polk buchanan Buc banan benjamin harrlson harrison and woodrow wilson were wece pres byte rians the episcopalians Episcopal ians include washington madison monroa william henry harrlson harrison taylor pierce and arthur I 1 dont imagine makes any particular difference to what church the president belongs two of them lincoln and coolidge had never been members ot of any church before they became president but every president of the united states has been a deeply religious man as every man must be it if he Is to command the confidence ot of the people a few although one of the youngest presidents mr roosevelt is one ol of the few who were grandfathers when they were elected mr hoover was also a grandfather but from then back for nearly a hundred years I 1 cannot find a record that any president was vas a grand grandfather f abber at the time of his big election washington had no children at all johnson adams and jefferson were grandfathers land and so I 1 believe was monroe william henry harrlson who lived but it a month after his inauguration has a grandson who later became president but I 1 believe there was no other president than those I 1 have named who had at the time of his election mrs warren harding was a grandmother through her son by her first marriage not that any of ct that Is important but I 1 set it down as of possible interest while we are talking about the new president BLIE inaugural gonn golin thirty years ago a presidents daughter gave her name to a new shade of blue alice blue was so named because it was wail the favorite color of alice roosevelt now how mrs nicholas longworth mrs franklin roosevelt has given her name to another new shade of blue it Is called eleanor blue and she will wear a cortum of this color at her first white house reception on march ath it Is ie described ns as a shade of hyacinth blue between a gray blue and a blue gray it if anybody knows what that means it if this starts the women of america to buying new dress materials it will be a 0 good thing for the revival of busti i af jt |