Show howe about more holidays taxes bad habits tt 4 bell WU batto by ED HOWE WHAT wida HAT the people are really trying to achieve la Is for every day to be the fourth of july christmas labor day washington birth day sunday mothers day NOW new year day holidays merging into each other every mornings sun to light up a new day when we will have nothing to do but get into our cars and attend a picnic liberty rally or show of course a few must work to operate filling ailing stations hot dog stands and the like that can be attended to by making slaves of the rich we capture and putting them to work 0 0 0 the excuse for public extravagance in the united states Is that only the well to do pay taxes and that taxation Is the quick and proper punishment for or scoundrels it if the reader will call on me I 1 will show him the poorest man I 1 have ever known ne ile lost hla his home lately through a tax sale after paying in taxes on it during a long and struggling ownership me ile had eight lots they were assessed at each although ho he originally paid only 60 for all 0 of the them at no time during his ownership ersal were the lots worth halt half the amount at which they were we assessed reassessed year after year I 1 do not know he how much longer I 1 shall be here I 1 have a shorter expectation pec tation than many others being older but I 1 am determined while here to pursue the course best calculated to produce most comfort I 1 an am still able to keep my hands handa out of the fire and prevent unnecessary and painful burns I 1 am still able to avoid shooting those of my neighbors with whom I 1 disagree or breaking into their houses such actions would land me in jall jail where accommodations are poor I 1 can better afford to practice honesty and re remain M a I 1 n at home with all its natural discomforts dis comforts I 1 hope to continue to the end to avoid other bad habits which do not pay ing swearing drunkenness cheating idleness I 1 do not much fear punishment after I 1 am dead but have lively appreciation of the punishment threatening during the remaining days of my journey it if I 1 am extremely practical it to la what life has taught me I 1 have encountered nothing to cause me to greatly respect visionary things 0 0 0 in the old days when there was a disaster at sea the women and children were first given seats in the life boats it has never mado made much difference what happened to men moderns are forgetting that gallantry in iowa mobs of armed farmers blocked the roads and would not let milk wagons pass on the way to town with necessary supplies for the women and children there were plenty of food supplies in the country town people were willing to pay tor for them and farmers needed the money but the farm fann ers were mad and determined to starve women and children to show their indignation we are becoming worse than the russians the russian peasants have always been willing to sell food supplies to town w women 0 men and children if paid for the russian town men went out into the country and took things before thedeas the peasants rebelled I 1 believe the american farmers should rebel but in the name of common sense why dont they jump on the politicians who have robbed them instead of innocent women and children god deserted us it Is our senses a the russians in enjoyment of perfect freedom to act without interference ter ference from capitalists have not done very well their average comfort Is probably lower than la in any other country in the world so go I 1 do not bellere believe the capitalistic system Is as great a scourge as has haa been charged by radicals ever since I 1 can remember even now when we are in our deepest slough of despondency spon dency we are doing far bettor better on an average than tho the russians no radical writer has returned from that country with a different story the russian expert ment Is founded on a book not on human experience and nations havo have never been well managed by books 0 a we human creatures are said to be ba the best specimens of living things the greatest of our tiny ambitions should be to make the most creditable history possible for future professors to write about will readers who consider us a thousand or a million years in the future say we did reasonably well or will they say we played the game badly in the distant future a man may find your skull and carry it to colleges museums and laboratories for examination what win will the professors say thousands of years in the future of the 1934 man will they speak as well of us as our professors now speak of the old greeks I 1 |