Show this week aj ARTHUR BRISBANE why balance it an indian or freedom pennsyl Penn Perm sya first billion A no plan government like children with a puzzle trying bryin to get one metal ring out ol of another this country is intent on oa balancing balan clue the budget additional income tax that discourages initiative taxation ol of theaters already in distress ciatress di atress and a thousand other plans are suggested to balance the budget and unbalance bus business ness generally why balance the budget when a man Is sick you dont don t make him run a wile mile you wait until he is better why not borrow what the government needs beyond its normal income issuing bonds and calling allaug alli ug them in gradually gia dually as conditions improve it Is said we must balance our budget to maintain credit with foreign nations why worry about foreign nations it if they paid what they owe our budget would ile be balanced easily the nations capital will be a very beautiful city bhea the work or 01 tearing down and building up corn colu pitied it la is beautiful beauli lul tul now ow as you stand ou oil the capitol steps and look over t the he fine ine buildings lae washington the lincoln memorial uie tile cilito leoise on one side ol of it thu the war I on the other tile the treasury with its troubles tiou bles un on top of tilt the stands a figure ealing a loag loaia cloak und and what stem seem to be lea leathell iii us its hair bail sonia boma one tells tella you it Is id an indian chief it if so it may t that indian in tile the happy hunting to know that tile the average amealian Ame ilian white amount to much more than the average indian now telis you that it is a figure of 0 Iru eduin an unregenerate congressman horn flow new mew aulk aik oik le ie maiks Y you au can get a laugh out of that with prohibition hibi tion we have a valuable profitable country it if we could oulu only persuade it to start up anti and get going again A re ui oi the Kaili oad tor for instance shows that tile the institution managed by general atterbury has P paid aid lining the past year moie than tolly forty two million dollars in dividends and since its incorporation in csiti lias has paid one thousand and one million d dollars 0 clars to stockholders this Is interesting te because the pennsylvania Is the I 1 arst railroad to pass lao billion dollar mark in dividend payments in ohio labor troubles threaten but the most serious condition exists in the congress Con giesa giess of the united states blates where tome some small sized men w with jt no co thought la ia their minds except re aru are willing will iut to alade every thine for votes the they y target forget in their feeble provincial c lal itt ot of real radicals that they may trade themselves out of 0 a job permanently the sort ol of thing that they are imitating in hussla and elsewhere does not lot hire halt half baked incompetents at ten thousand dollars a year each just at present this big government like a car oft off the track is zigzagging zig zagging through space not quite certain in what aliat liat direction it is going when a buy boy makes a small stone skip on a pond it matters little whether it turus turns left or right but it does when the greatest richest country in the world imitates the 11 kipping stone and pursues its career without ut a plan our problem is lack of employment an and d while feeble futile efforts are made to solve that pro problem blew tools fools invent a tax system that would discourage all enterprise and make lack of employment greater than ever under our system the individual may lead his life and pursue happiness in his own way even when ills his happiness involves making more money than he needs in the course of his enterprises he employs other men who in turn develop their ideas of happiness and pursue their plans let halt half baked lawmakers law makers in a competitive peti tive system such as ours say to the individual you may initiate enterprises accumulate profits but we shall take the profits from you as fast as you get them and enterprise will soon die what will the great minds of con glass giess tax after that happens it should not be forgotten that things happen suddenly and when they have happened it is not easy to undo them our slump tor for instance came as suddenly as one of those twisters striking at the southeastern territory and as mysteriously but there aru are norse things than slumps one of them is tampering and experimenting with a system of government ern ment when you prepared any substitute tor for that system for the safety of the many their regular employment and regular food tills this country needs to continue along old fashioned lines at least until it shall have developed material tor for some of the new fashioned lines mr air 0 0 mcintyre prints a list of epitaphs that various individuals have prepared tor for later use on oa their tomb stones the best is dorothy parkers far kers excuse my dust an epitaph accurately expressing the eerlings of many would read 1 I wonder where I 1 am now by kog ka syndic I 1 lac |