The Truth Doesn't Hurt Unless It Ought

It Is Easier To Start Taxes Than To Stop Them. A Tax An Inch Long Can Easily Become A Yard Long. That Has Been The History Of The Income Tax. Would Not The Sales Tax Be Likely To Have A Similar History [in The U.s.]? ... Canadian Newspapers Report That An Increase In The Sales Tax Threatens To Drive The Mackenzie King Administration Out Of Office. Canada Began With A Sales Tax Of 2%.... Starting This Month The Tax Is 6%. The Burden, In Other Words, Has Already Been Increased 200% ... What The U.s. Needs Is Not New Taxes, Is Not More Taxes, But Fewer And Lower Taxes.

The Man Of Fixed Ingrained Principles Who Has Mapped Out A Straight Course, And Has The Courage And Self-control To Adhere To It, Does Not Find Life Complex. Complexities Are All Of Our Own Making.

Finally, There Is More Genuine Joy In Climbing The Hill Of Success, Even Though Sweat May Be Spent And Toes May Be Stubbed, Than In Aimlessly Sliding Down The Path To Failure. If A Straight, Honorable Path Has Been Chosen, The Gaining Of The Summit Yields Lasting Satisfaction. The Morass Of Failure, If Through Laziness, Indifference Or Other Avoidable Fault, Yields Nothing But Ignominy And Sorrow For Self And Family And Friends.

Whenever Possible, I Like To Have The Supreme Head Of A Company Show Me Over The Works. It Is Extremely Illuminating To Note The Attitude Of Workers Towards Their Boss, And Equally Interesting To Note The Attitude Towards The Workers. It Is Tragic To Notice How Many Chief Executives Of Large Concerns Are Absolutely Unknown, Even By Sight, To The Rank And File Of Their Workers.

The British Have Their Own Conception Of What Constitutes The Typical American. He Must Have A Flavor Of The Wild West About Him. He Must Do Spectacular Things. He Must Not Be Punctilious About Dignity, Decorum And Other Refinements Characteristic Of The Real British Gentleman. The Yankee Pictured By The Briton Must Be A Bustler. If He Is Occasionally Flagrantly Indiscreet In Speech And Action, Then He Is So Much More Surely Stamped The Genuine Article. The Most Typical American The British Ever Set Their Eyes On Was, In Their Judgment, Theodore Roosevelt.