HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1930-05-22, Page 2Britain's Huge Tax Incubus
Canadians Have Cause to • Rejoice, and Say;; "Lo, the Poor
Britisher," When They Consider His Income Tax
1 That'swhat ninny editor. think, at
least, in surveyingthe budget of Chan,
eelor of the Exchequer, Philip Snow
i3en, which provides for 223; per-
seta a of income tax, and involves,
a Lehdon press dispatches advise us,
a new basic rate of $1,12 on each $5 of
income,
While relatively Pew Britons pay the
full rate of the income tax, cables a
London 'correspondent vast numbers.
'are obliged to pay something, begin -
ming on
egin-ming'on incomes as low ea $675 for
single .persons and $1,125 for the mar-
ried.
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the cooperation of his four brothers, body and works in close co-operation
who help him with unusual devotion with the King's Cabinet of Ministers" in
'Under the new rates, this interment
Cbancellor of the MecDonpld Labor
Government, the London Daily Herald;
official organ of the Labor party, de
glares that the budget "places bur-
dens on broad books" -0n the other
hand, the London Times remarks:
"The new taxes will certainly deepen
the disquieting, impression that the
wealthier section of the community is
merely being exploited to Provide for
the expansion of fleecier services for
which the appetite of the eleptorate Is
not likely to diminish as long as the
voter is protected from the fiscal con-
sequences of his own' extravagance."
Ever since the war, writes a special
adds, an unmarried man would pay ap-
proximately $254 on an income of
53,000; 5442 on $4,000; 5629 on 55,000;
52,348 on $12,500, and up to $43,190 on
5100,000. a
A married man without children,' it
is further noted, would pay 5528 en
55,000; triple that amount on. 510,000,
and up to '52,964 on 515,000.'
Championing Mr, Snowden as the
a1
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Government
correspondent in the London Morning
Post, Britain has been groaning under
a load of taxation. In comparing Bri•
twin's' burden with that of other come
tries this writer cites Mr. Stanley
Baldwin's Government; 'as having
given the' House of Cotnnrons in De -
cember, 1928, the following figures
showing the national taxation per
head in several countries:
National Taxation per Head
1913-14 192.-27
Great Britain £3 11 4 Lil. 11. .8
Fran^ 3 7 0 7 7 0
Italy 2 2 0 4 4 0
United St tes 1 4 0, 6 c 0
This corespondent of the London
Morning Post (Ind. Cons.) goes on to
say:
"Great Britair was tins paying in
1927 four times as much per head as
before the war, and twice as much as
any of the other three countries. In
Januaiy, 19e0, Mr, Snowden informed
the House of Commons that, according
to the latest figures, British taxation
was .215 is. 50, per head, while that
of the nited States was £5 13e. 60., so
that Brit tin's position had hecome re.
ratively still more unfavo able as corn-
pared rith :he United States,
"This basis of comparison suffices
to give a very rough idea of the bur-
den of taxation in different countries.
tt is nevertheless aelmittedlr inaccur•
ate s a guide to the real burden of
taxation.
'For, in -the first place, it takes ee-
count of the national budget and
emits local taxation,thepo
P ro rtion of
which to the national budget varies
from country to country. And, sec -
ondly, it does not allow for difference
in national income, which is an im-
portant factor in determining the ca -
pacify of a country to bear taxation,
"Unfortunately, exact calculations
of national income are impossible, but
sufficiently near estimates can be
made which leave no room for doubt
that Britain is tbe most heavily taxed
of the great countries of the world lit
proportion to her income. The follow -
ing table, based on approximate fig-
ares, shows the proportion of the ne-
tional income paid out in all taxation,
national and Iocal, by five principal
countries:
National All Percentage
Income Taxation of Taxation
Year £000,000 to Incnnie
Great Britain 1928 3,750 826 22.0
Germany 1927 3,100 625 20.1
Italy 1926 1,100 200 18.2
France .... 1928 2.050 350 10.1
United States 1924 12.000 1,270 10.6
"It is thus clear that Great Britain
bears a substantially heavier load of
taxation in relation to her resources
than any of the principal European ex-
beligerents, and 000 of altogether dif•
ferent magnitude from that of the
sited States. Both the size of the Bra
tish contribution and the comparison
with that of other countries speak suf-
Sclently loudly for themselves,
"But we have not yet surveyed the
whole field of taxation. Not included
in either national or local budgets are
the compulsory coutions by
employers and workersntribto thepaid social
insurance services. This is an item—
unemployment lsuranee, health insur-
duce, widows', orpbans' and old -age
contributory pensions and workmeh'e
compensarton—wbieh costs the em -
ployee some 255,000,000 a year, in
addition to over £40,000,000 paid by
the workers."
The Strong Man
Of Afghanistan
---- •
The Hero of the Hour in
Afghanistan, It Seems, i5
King Nadir Shah
Through rare courage and intellect,
t is said, he is endeavoring t0 win for
iis country, peace, prosperity, and
prestige.
The great revolution left Afghanis-
Afghanis -
an both sick and prnstratcT, writes
he Peshawar correspondent of the
1aicutla Statesman, How Ring Amen-
Blah was forced to flea with his wife
ted retinue to Europe, and bow ifs
nceessor, the "water boy," RingHaat-
wllah, was overthrown, has been told
e -these cohimns,
The new phase of Afghan progress
e now called to our attention. Mean -
iddle .Chis Peshawar informant points
ut that:
"In some respects the great npheav_
resulted in conditions most satis-
actory to Afghanistan as well as to
he peace of Central Asia,
"lt is not an exaggeration to say
bat the peace of the world would
ave been in jeopardy had it not been
or the patience and great political
oresight on' the part of the Britishver
and the Lindon of Soviet
ocialist Republics,
"The way in which the Afghan situ-
tion was handled by both these great
'ewers will go down in histry as a
['Bevel of diplomatic skill.
"It is a mistake to think .that Ama-
ullah's reforms were the basic cause
f the revolt,
The real causes were quite different,
n0 the question of reforms and West-
rn modes of living were. Only brought
t to give the Shinwaris an excuse for
rising,
"Whatever the causes and the
curse of the revolt, it is now clear
let the revolution has resulted in the
ttablishment of a stable and strong
ove•nment, and the accession to the
gone et Afghanistan of a man who
among the best that Afghanistan
is so far produced.
"King Nadir Shah, who may be ap-
oprjately styled the . savior of AZ. .of
tanistan, lige been called upon to
le and guide the Afghan nation in
eft hour of. great misery." the
King Nadir Shah, we are then ad- is
sect, has many assets. The chief, it
A
nant, Ara bit, " naaaaan 'It ., .. n1�
to discharge the responsibilities of
Government. We read:
"Two of his brothers have taken
charge of the whole civil and military
administration at home, One is Sara
dor :Mohamad Hasham Kiran, the Pre-
mier, and the other, General Shah
hlabmud Khan, Is Minister of War
and Commander--in-Chief.
"Again, two of his remaining broth -
ors have been placed in charge of the
two molt Important resters of for -
eign diplomatic intercourse; Shah
`Pail Khan 1e Minister Plenipotentiary
to the Court of St. James's, to London,
and bf"hamad Aziz Khan is Minister
at'Moscow.
"IIe has thus distributed the most
important Offices of State to his broth-
ors, eatb, of whom is to my personal
knowledge most capable of discharg-
ing the duties entrusted to him."
Other salient features of King Na-
Shah's Government, this Pesha•
war
war informant goes on to say, are al-
M-
most identical with those of ex -King
Amanullab's Government.
13nt, he acids, a wise step has been
taken by the present king in securing
the co-operation of religious leaders
in his administration. Two well -
known religious personalities have
been already absorbed by the Govern-
stent, this narrator states, anti con^
Butes:
"The Hazrat Sahib of Sher Bazar,
tbe famous religious leader who was
responsible for Amanullah's downfall,
has been appointed Minister Plenipo-
tertiary at Cairo, and has already left
Afghanistan to take up Ms duties,
"His younger brother, the 33azrat
Sher Afgha, is now Minister of Jus -
tice at Kabul.
"Again, in order to provide an op -
po•tunity for the expression el their
collective opinion, the King bas con-
stituted a armlet-al-Mema- (Grand As -
sembly of the Learned) which will
help the Government in the discharge
of their duties toward questions re -
lating to the Shariat of Islam.
'This Assembly will indeed be help-
ful in maintaining the equilibrium
when ever the fanaticism othe tribal
masses is fanned by some sort of real
or imaginary grievance.
"Persia also has such an assembly
Mujtahids, and it bas proved of real
assistance to the Persian Government.
"There is again the Mejisis-i-Shoora,
Grand National Assembly, which
presided over by Abdul Ahad Khan,
an experienced and able Wardak
a n„+ nf. Ia,nttol
nhiaf... Thio rtl o -fu .,
Hart'A..1•Iassey fellowships have been .awarded by the American. nivev-
•sity, to .0iv .fourth-year University of Toronto Students:: Howe H, Martyrs
(left); in phfloaophy .honors at. Victoria College, who is the son of H. G.
Martyn, vice-principal .of the Stratford Normalschool, and John T. Wilson.
(right), in physics;and geology honors at Trinity College, who is son. of J. A.
Wilson, director of civil Aviation, Ottawa. -
The new king, it appears, has spent
a-lifetime..in the army, :is an experf-
enced sdldter, and is keen on improv-
ing and bringing to. an efficient stand-
ard the forces of Afghanistan,
He knows, declares this Peshawar
correspondent, that on this army as on
nothing else depend the peace of Af-
khanistan and the stability of the
Government. Turning to educational
matters, we find that:'
"King Nadir Shah has lost no time
in re -opening schools for boys. The
education of girls is for the present
out of the question,
"He has not laid down any clear line
of policy with regard to the system of
education in Afghanistan, but so far
as I am aware, the system comtem-
plated by him will differ in many re-
spects from that adopted by ex -King
Amcenullah,
"Although he believes that it is
necessary for the Afghan youth to
learn European languages, be prefers
Russian and English above all ethers,
and he Is perfectly justified,
"British India and Russia are both
Afghanistan's immediate neighbors,
and it is with these two Powers that
Afghanistan has to deal politically,
socially, and economically.
"Why then should the Afghan youth
be ignorant of the languages of their
neighbors and let the vast field of
literature, science, arts, and politics
provided in these two of the world's
best media remain unexplored?
"Ring Nadir Shah is believed not
to be In facer of sending to Europe
boys of tender age. He favors the
saner policy of having the children
educated at Kabul until they grow up
and complete a standard at home not
less than that of the matriculation in
India. Only after such preliminary
education will the boys be sent to
Europe. At present there is no such
item in Ring Nadir Shah's program,
for the education budget hardly covers
the expenses necessary for education
at home."
Out On HIS Feet •
Somebody has pricked the enormous
bubble that was Primo Camera, It
now appears that the giant Italian's
pseudo -triumphant tour of the United
States has been nothing more than a
clossat fake from the beginning. His
Opponents have fallen before bis great
reach and windmill arms like wheat
before a scythe, Some of them, in-
deed, timing their falls inaccurately,
tumbled to the mat before the huge
Camera's fist established contact with
their chins. One held off for six
rounds, which was not at all aceod-
ing to schedule, so one of Camera's
seconds went round to the opposite
corner and whispered magic in the
obdurate boxer's second's oar, with
the result that the towel weal into
the ring instead of Camera. As a
result, his license and that of hie
manager have been cancelled, and
now be can only fight in Alaska, the
Panama Canal Zone, and the Hawai-
ian Islands, in American territory.
H.R.H. the Duke of
Connaught
uh
g
Canada joins heartily' with the rest
of the British Empire in congratula-
tions to K11.11. the Duke of Connaught
on the attainment of his -eightieth
birthday anniversary. His 'life hes
been a Tong and active one, spent
wholly, until very recent years, in
the service of the Crown, and, there.
fore, of the:Empire. As a soldier he
established and retained a high re
1 putation, and many of the reforms ef-
fected in the British army were due
to his activities. He was a strict dis-'
ciplinarian, but at the same time won
and held the affection of all who serw-
ed under him.
lCanada was fortunate in having him
as Governor-General from,1911 to
1916, and he ,was both popular and
efficient, setting a sound example of
scrupulous regard for the responsi-I
bilitles, as well as the limitations, of
his high position. His daughter,
known to every Canadian as Princess I
Pat, endeared herself to the people 1
of this country by her democratic:
ways and her charm of manner, and'
her name is permanently associated
with Canada's war record as Honor-
ary Colonel of the famous Princess
Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, a
regiment.thatniade history and left
a reputation that will never fade.
The Duke, while in Canada, travel-
led extensively, made himself acquaint-
ed with all parts of the Dominion, and
frequently revealed in his speeches a
keen understanding and appreciation
of our peculiar problems and needs.
His tact and his long military ex-
perience proved Invaluable during the
first two years of the war, and' when
be went home in 1916 he carried with
him the good wishes of the entire Do-
minion. The example he has set the
Empire of hard work Is one that may
be emulated by all. It is of parti-
cular significance in that it embodies
the principle that royalty is no bar to
service and that a man in whose veins
the blood royal runs may serve as
faithfully and as ably as those of less-
er birth. The wish of the Empire is
that His Royal Highness niay be long
spared to enjoy the leisure his self-
sacrificing devotion to that Empire
so richly merits.
HEARTACHES
Let us awaken to the divine privi-
lege of sharing the heartaches of our
friends; of the meaning of good fel-
lowship; 00 that independence of
spirit that does not imitate; of cour-
age and pride that can endure adver-
sity with: dignity, and without fear.
COURTESY
Give the other fellow a chance to
talk. he'll appreciate the courtesy
and you may learn something.
An architect think the small
houses,now being built could be much
improved. For one thing they might
be arranged so that the rooms would
fold into the walls when not wanted.
Blood -Spilling
In India's 'Revolt
Gandhi's "Soul -Force" Gam-
paign for Independence
Runs Into British "Vet.
'vet -glove" Policy in
._.'vt' India
Then "violence" and "the iron
hand" appear,
'Attempt to make a news -reel, of
widely scattered developments 'in
huge Indian provinces, following the,
Mahatma's solemnly - defiant "salt
party;" as ' told in the dispatches,
would show at least: '
• Weazened Gandhi, on speaking
tour, preaching non-violent civil .itis -
obedience, even to death for 'it. IIF
dividnals and crwods--disobeying the
salt law by 'making' and selling salt•in
.many places. Mrs, `Gandhi, minus
Carrie Nation .violence, leading groups
of women to persuade natives not to
use liquor or patronize liquor shops,
Other bands•of women on picket duty
In the boycott of foreign made cloth:
shops. Importing merchants Join-
ing boycott for a year. Thousands of
demonstration marchers In Bombay,
Calcutta, • Madras, Delhi streets sing -
Ing the official Nationalist .song
"Bantle' .Mataram" ("Hail 'Mother-
land"), but also "The Wearing of the
Green." "Hartals"—both orderly and
disorderly general cessation of work
in factories, ,schools, exchanges, and
business houses- Protesting crowds.
outside trial collets, as well as strik-
ers, throwing stones in conflict with
police, 'Riot fatalities and arrests
by the score. Hunger strikes among
salt -making prisoners.
Martial law prevailed in cities where
Protest meetings anct general. strikes
had been called and broken up. Then
a band of revolutionary raiders at-
tacked Chittagong a river port 01
Bengal, looted -the amorles of the
police and auxiliary forces, killing
seven persons, and fled back to the
hills. Whereupon troops from Cal-
cutta were ordered to the scene for
pursuit, and Viceroy Lord Irwin reim-
posed the ordinance enabling Bengal
authorities to arrest and intern sus-
pects without warrant or trial. Thus
omoi•ges "the iron Land "
News dispatches come from a tow
city -centers and may be -subject to
censorship, yet they give the impres-
sion of spreading revolt, subject to
many crosscurrents. Correspondents
report:.
"Nationalist campaigners adapt
propaganda methods learned from
Soviet Ituesia and China revolutions.
There are more kinds of revolt than
ever previously attempted in .India—
econornic, educational, religious, soc-
ial, feminist, and political, Com-
munist leaders attack Gandhi's, disob-
edience program as' futile and vislon-
ary,' Some Moslem leaders refuse to
co-operate. A caste anti -revolution•
au party has appeared. Ruling
Princes of native States have come to-
gether seeking additional privileges
front Government.. Besides Viceroy
Lord Irwin's strategy in refusing im-
mediately to make Gandhi a martyr,
but interning hie chief lieutenants
and taking necessary military meas -
Mee to suppress 'riots," it is surmis-
ed that the report of tbe Simon In-
vestigation Commission, withheld for
two years in. London may be thrown
into the ring for a compromise settle-
ment, short of independence at an op
portune time."
Most of our papers find It difficult
to understand how Gandhi's psycho.
logy can possibly win, although many
continue to emphasize its .amazing
character, and hedge enough to sug-
gest that what wolrldn't go in the
West may -or may not go far in the
East. Uncertain editors agree that
the one certainty seems to be that
Britain has one of her hardest em-
pire nuts to crack.
Wins 133 -Mile Dash For Sputtery Sea Fleas
THESE INTER,ESTiNA Sd T QRA,
1. E. Wilkinson in lits otut `arts ei' i ln5
record time of three hours, 27 minutes aiid
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„ RR GAINING WIDE POPULARITY
1mile race down Hudson rives, Prom Albany to New York,
vee seeond5.
Chicago's :Amazing
Gang Merge
"We Three" Win
Merger
Another Record
Out Of the midnight sky a,sbadow,
n� then, es 10,000'eyes streiue6 to follow-
its .dipping =flight, an airplane grace
filly circled, late the radiance of the
37,000,000 -candle-power iioodlighte of.
Roosevelt, Field, and Lindy bad brolten
another recent.
1 'This time the famous -"We" was 'a,
trinity„ ,since Anne Lindbergh` rode
e ,with her .famous •Husband 'across the
continent, handling °`'the sextant, and
taking 'her. turn at the controls,
1 "Anne is superlatively All ,right," is
p
a characteristic newspaper tribnte.-
'The '.old transcontinental record of
Prank M. Hawks was made lust dune
in a, non-stop flight of 17 hours, 3a
urinates, 16 sacdnds. The Lindberghs:
made the Los -Angeles -New York flight
in 14 Mains, 446 minutes,. and 52 :sec-
iEmphatically does Captain
ends,
Hawks assert that his reooi'd has been
beaten, But not $o Lindb.er•gh. He
refuses to take credit for it in the
course of a 'brief -statement to the
press, running' :in part as folows:
"The flight was purely an expert -
medal flight, .a flight testing the
theory that greater speed and efi}ci-
elicy_can be obtained by taking ad-
vantage of better weather conditions
in the higher altitudes.
I•. "We made the entire flight at. alti-
tudes varying from 14,000 feet to 15,-
500, Mrs. Lindbergh acting as co-pilot
and navigator. Throughout the trip
she used the aviation'sextant to take
observations to keep us on our course.
"I want to make it plain that I'real-
ly did not break the transcontinental
speed record, despite the fact that our
elapsed time was less than 'the time
taken by Captain Hawks on his trans-
continental flight. The reason for
that is tbat we Made one stop while
Captain Hawks's flight was non-stop.
"I don't believe that we would have
made the same time if we had -at-
tempted to come through non-stop."
Thus Lindbergh' "remains the-, fore
most knight of the air," declares the
Albany News. The New Haven Jour-
nal -Courier recognizes again that
"distinctive tang of personality about
his feats, "None of hie exploits is
meaningless," 0010urs the Philadel-
phia Record.
"It was adventure." But, continues
the Syracuse Post -Standard, "it was
Intelligent and purposeful adventure;
the intent of America's foremost aviat-
or was -to secure data useful in high
flying in transport and express service
across the continent."
There will be further experimenta-
tion by the Lindberghs and others,
but the New York World thinks "jt
may fairly be assumed that the upper-
air'levels will be increasingly used for
very long flights." As the Cleveland
News asks:
"Since storms endanger, airplanes
along the regular routes anti dense at-
mosphere
t
mosphere bolas them back, why not
ride above the storms in safety;
speedily through the lighter: ah'?"
Amazement Greets the An
nouricement 'that :Chicago's
Gangs, Have Amalgamat-
ed t "Reduce the '
Overhead:"
"To the man In ;the street it evil
seem curiously fantastic 'that 'Al' Ca
pone and ."Bugs' Moran, notorioil
leaders of notorious gangs, :should
have the hardihood to perfect' a mer
.ger of their criminal interests„and tel
Chicago all about it,” declares the
Portland, Oregonian. •
,It 'does seem incredible, . but the
Chicago Herald-Exandner assures us
that "the erstwhile violent leader$ of
the ,half -world armies 'have 'arranged
to pool their interests and their
forces, to amalgamate into one mighty
eylldicate,fer the'!ol'derly' control and
operation .of gambling, booze, and
.vice. • And Capone, we are told, elms
eleeteil'himself unanimously — an,d
'withotit-'opposition—to the chief of all
the : works."
"All for Al and Al for. All" -that Is
the slogan of the new combine, ac-
cording to The Herald -Examiner,
which then proceeds to tell us more
about this strange development in
Chicago's "racket": - -
'Under ,the terms of the agreement
the, gang coalition contemplatesmain-
tenance of what might accurately -be
described as a 'community chest.'
"Into this chest will be poured all
of the earnings 'of all of the gang's
units—earnings from vice resorts,
from gambling tables, from whiskey
and beer distribution, and from labor
rackets.
"Out of the chest will come the pro-
tection funds required, and, it has
been decided, these fees will not be
scattered indiscriminately, as hereto-
fore, but will be paid to certain desig-
nated
esianated individuals, powerful enough to
keep off the potty graft colectors."
"The amalgamation of interests now
supposed to have been effected was a
characteristic Capone coup," writes
Owen L. Scott, -Chicago correspondent
of the Consolidated Tress :Association,
"It means reduced overhead anti en-
hanced profits, inasmuch as the main-
tenance of private armies is about the
costliest feature of the gang business.
Good gunmen draw about 5100 a week
and keep. The number of men on pay-
rolls could be cut sharply with peace."
Close behind this news came the an-
nouncement, in the Chicago Tribune,
that Capone, who recently completed
a year's term in a Philadelphia jail,
was "seeking new realms of profit,
and had invaded the stronghold of po-
litical patronage, planning to seize
public jobs, public contracts, control
of budgets, and the power that attends
it all." Reading further:
"The plan, as it has been described,
has been to have a Capone man ap-
pointed commissioner of the Bureau
of Plumbing, with power to hire and
lire the city plumbers, to create re-
strictions and rules for building.in-
staliations, resulting in a czardom
over all plumbing work in the city,"
Meanwhile, Capone nien were re-
ported to be "muscling in" on the la-
bor unions. The police saw a tempor-
ary setback in this scheme when a
lone gunman entered a barroom and.
shot to death three alleged members
of the Capone gang,
News of the Chicago crime merger
seems to shock some of our editors,
but most of them write of it in an
ironical votn. Thus the New Orleans,
Item wonders whether it will bring an
investigation by the Department of
Justice "to determine if the anti-trust
laws are violated."
The Economic Crisis in
Canada
Review of Reviews (London)); The
fall in wheat, wool, copper, cotton, and
other products will not in itself prove
to be a bad thing eventually; but,
temporarily, its effects are disastrous.
It has caused serious emban:•,ssment
to the chief producif.g countries like
Argentina, Canada, and Australia. At
the first -named country th,. gold
standard has had to be suspended for
the time being, but that country, un-
like Canada through its wheat pool,
was wise to sell its wheat and other
products at .vh"tever prices they
would fetch. Canada unwisely decided
to hold wheat off the market in the
hope that the price would improve.
The opposite has happened and the
situation in Canada Is serious. The
funds of the banks are tied up in
wheat, dee and the resultant credit
strain is serious. It is the more seri-
ous owing to certain scandals which
the Canadian authorities are trying to
hush up,
Public and Private Enterprise
Load Melchett in the Windsor Maga-
zine (London) : It is hard to see how
the efficiency of production could be
inereased simply by the industry be-
ing cpnducted by Government depart-
ments instead of private individuals
(andthere are very good reasons
which indicate that it would actually
be less efficient), although I agree
that the efficiency of production in this
country at present is not on the high..
est poseDble standard, Nevertheless,
hire whole issue between "private en-
terprise and "public enterprise"
e fins to be tremendously over-exag-
t},'ec41 fres all, the vital question
ddb 31ot'twt.Q conducting industry, but,
UV le la et conducted; not one of s
ppoont] al th0eey, but one of industrial
pitpei38enepo
Babe Ruth Beginning
to Earn the $80,000
Hitting at .356 Gait
Washington.—After hie slow start.
Babe Ruth is beginning to play the
kind of baseball he is expected to de-
liver for his 580,000 annual salary.
Babe led the New Yoe- Yankees, at-
tack in their 9 to 0 win over the league
leading Washington Senators, with
three bits in five times up His re-
cord for the game:
First inning — Singled to centre,
scoring Cothhs a" Koenig^
Third inning—Rolled to Judge.
Sixth inning—Flied to Rice, who
made a spectacular catch against the
scoreboard.
Eighth inning—Singled to right, ad
vancing on Gehrig's walk and scoring
on Lanr-Ti's single.
Ninth inning—Beat out a bunt along,
the third base line, took third on Las-
zari's single and scored on Byrd's.
sacrifice fly.
The excellent batting performance•
raised Ruth's season batting marls
from .3225 to .356. His r.1cord:
G. A.B. 13. H. H.R. P.C.
11 45 12 16 2 .356
RESPONSIBILITIES
We all shrink, like cowards, from .
new duties, new responsibilities, We
do not venture to go out of the beaten
track of ourdaily life. Close to us.
on each side of the road are those
whom we might help or save with one
good action, one kind word. But we
are afraid. We say: "I am not pre-
pared; I am not. ready; T have not
Lime; I am not qualified; find some
better person; send some one else."
Perhaps we have only one talent, and,
therefore, instead ofusing it, we bide
it, and when the blaster comes we
shall meat him With the old answers:
"I was afraid, and went and hid thy
talent in the earth. Lo! there thou •
hast that is thine."—.tames Freeman
Clarke,
"Flaming Youth'
Needs . No "Fling" .
Hamilton, Ont.—"A 011110 is born a
savage and; for the first 20 years the
savage has to be civilized," said Magis-
trate Burbidge speaking here on tbe
Morale of Canadian youth,
"Applesauce," was the term he ap-
plied to the opinon of certain social
workers that "Ilarning youth must
have ire fling." He advocated more
trict home training with frequent 1(0'
P
lication of the rod as - a remedy for
wayward children,