Life — April 8, 1920 — page 12: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Le atk ZEIT SEI TA Se \ ZO a Waa a tte —_ = Zoe fi Ym Proprictor of Great Paper (to would-be editorial writer): YoU SAY YOU HAVE MADE A SPECIALTY OF HISTORY, POLITICAL FCONOMY AND THEOLOGY, RUT HAVE YOU A SENSE OF HUMOR? Applicant: 1 WAVE TO HAVE! Hands Off SHOULD the pulpit be made more attractive? The point is often de bated, Latest statistics show that of th one hundred and seventy thousand ministers now doing business in the United States only sixteen hundred and seventy-one—less than one com- plete minister in a hundred—paid an income tax. Few other industries can equal this record. Think what it means. It means that it takes approxi mately one hundred ministers and fraction to pay one income tax. The fraction presumably is a curate. Judg ing from experience the task of payin the tax is in all probability assigned to the curate. The rest of the hundred have nothing to worry about. Can any other industry offer such inducements? And yet one hears talk of a ministers’ THE GARDEN ENTHUSIAST IS BEGINNING TO SEE THINGS ALREADY union, Why not let well enough alone? comicbooks.com