Judge — April 30, 1932 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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Knuckles ana Feathers By Perey Crosby E presents this column without regard to its agreement or disagreement with the ideas and opinions expressed by the author, Percy Crosby, one of America’s most interesting commentators. TH Senate is considering four per cent beer, while the house is nsidering a forty per cent tax on rge incomes. Why not a four per nt tax and forty per cent beer? Mr. Garner claimed “In five min- es I could put down a list of taxes at would yield $900,000,000 with- it including the sales t * Fancy ing without a pencil at such a me. The heavy taxation on the rich has id a leveling effect on the people the land—it’s knocked them all at. And under the new tax which Con- ress is working out for us, America ill be able to boast that its bread ne extends from Coast to Coast The Editor. While the Literary Digest poll is overwhelming for repeal of Eighteenth Amendment, the know that it takes on boys to round up their dry: attle. And it’s perhaps just as well that the 2.75°% beer bill didn’t go through the house with its possible taxation of three cents a pint. Listerine is a better mouth rinse. In the old days of the saloon, high school girls used to toast marshmal- lows in the winter evenings. Nowa- days many of them will toast any man that'll buy the drinks. A Washington street band recently played “How Dry I Am,” and Con- gre immediately stood at attention, thinking it was the National Anthem the | | few cow- | John Hancock Sere: - As you sit in your home or your club, give this athought... Lite tnsurance—the most adaptable factor in modern nd finance—covers p y every phase of family pro» tection and personal security, Now, in a single contract, known as the JOHN HANCOCK RETIREMENT FUND POLIC bined its two mi functions—family protection and old-age income, The arrangement is attractively simple. There should be it in your family budget. our booklet describing this policy, “Your Family—Their F and Yours.” OF Boston. Massacmuserrs Jonx Haxcoce Ixqemy Bearae 197 Clarendon Street, Boston, Mass. nd me yor Your Fam: Future and Ye ily—Theie Name Street ond No, SYSTEM Contract Bidding i Nutshell Order your copy of this handy little book now at $1.10 including postage from JUDGE MAGAZINE, INC, 18 East 48th St, New York City comicbooks.com