Judge — January 11, 1930 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Yes, We Need the Money | is a characteristic of the financial Seldom have we scen a sharper demonstrat an on a certain day in December—the sixteenth—when by magnificent coincidence, the following events occurred all at once 1. Nine foreign governments paid into the treasury of the United States nearly one hundred million dollars of war debts, 2. The Senate ratified the agreement by which France will pay us more than four billion dollars, plus interest, over a period of sixty-two years, The President signed the bill reducing our income taxes by one hundred and sixty million dollars. The House appropriated two hundred and_ fifty million dollars for new government building normal,” 6. In New York the city fathers resolved to ra F s from Controller Berry’s from $25,000 to 7. An announcement stated that the annual income of American industry has jumped since the war from fifty billions to seventy-six billions. 8. Senator Watson declared that the first action of Congress in the new year would be to rush through the tariff, which will protect our industries foreign competition, at the same time m: than ever for these same foreign countri they owe se their $40,000, nst vicious ing it harder to pay us , if you like, ‘thi at we have been mellow and gencrous, that the debt settlements amount almost to cancellation ve forgiven so much of the principal and terest rates so low, The fact rem: that we are insisting on collecting more than twenty-two billions, from countries whose people are taxed with tragic severity—in France, for example, the tax burden is one-third of the national income as against ten per cent, in the United States, No wonder we are prosperous! No wonder they call us Shylock! The real wonder is that, with all our vaunted hard-headedness, we haven't be- gun to figure out how much we are going to lose in the long run by collecting these debts from those by whose side we fought. Colorado's Misfortune Coorcrano politicians are still persecuting Ben Lind- sey. He has now been disbarred from the prac- tice of law. his follows two and a half years after he was ousted from the bench of the juvenile court. Wise in advising others, Ben Lindsey was too often ill-advised himself. He said and did things that ranged all the way JUDGE from mild indiscretion to sheer folly. One of these—his assistance of his friend Helen Stokes in contesting her husband's will, and accepting money for it—was techni- ya violation of law. Samucl Untermyer states that it was done “with the full knowledge and approval” of the probate court, and that the money was not a fee but a voluntary gift. vertheless, the suit to disbar was finally successful. ‘The chief justice who rendered the opinion,” says Lindsey, “is a member of the old political machine which I fought.” Ben Lindsey, for all his mistakes, all his publicity-seck- ing, all his departures from the conventional notions about sin and its wages, remains, to our way of thinking, a good man and a big one. He has had plenty of calumny and ridicule. But he has, too, an international More than that, he holds a warm and permanent place the hearts of thousands of people whom he saved from ruin when they were but boys and girls. Find a Dead Law, and Earn $5 D” you see the announcement on this page last week of our 1930 campaign for law enforcement? We will pay five dollars each for the best examples of laws or ordinances which nd on the books of federal, state, county or municiy vernments and are not being en- forced. An example of the sort of thing we mean is the law cited by Albert Jay Nock in Harper's: statute passed in one of our Middle States, I believe, to the effect that two trains approaching an intersection must both come to a full stop, and neither may start again until the other has passed! You can look up the laws at your state house, city hall or public libra Consult authorities to make cer- tain that the law you intend to submit to us has not been repealed. send us a brief statement of its essence. For each one printed we will pay $5. By the way, we will also pay for examples of practices ought to be forbidden by law. For example, wife- ating, which we understand is entirely legal in New Jersey. g * * * iis man Hoover certainly gets in a survey of the United graphic, coast and geodetic. Eighty years was the time originally allowed to do the job. The President got the boys together and now they agree to get it done in eigh- teen years. They'll need to spend an extra million dollars, but considering the uses of maps and charts, that’s cheap. The most wasteful factor in modern societ the most profitable is speed. Before he came anned—topo- comicbooks.com