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Prime source of profit is "mileage," paid at the rate of 400 per mile to & from sessions. The ordinary traveler pays $4.38 to make the round trip in a parlor car between Washington and Baltimore. For the same journey Maryland's Goldsborough draws $16 from the public treasury, pockets $11.62. New York's Wagner collects $96 for a trip which costs ordinary citizens only $23.78. Transportation home & back costs Idaho's Borah $239.56 for which the Senate pays him $1,058.80. Ohio's Fess profits $198.42 for each session; Washington's Jones $1,074.22. Representatives enjoy the same generous allowance...
Last winter members of the Loyal Order of Moose and of the Fraternal Order of Eagles complained to the New York World-Telegram that these organizations were running large lotteries with small prizes. Someone, it appeared, was making an unholy profit. The alert World-Telegram turned the complaints over to Federal District Attorney Medalie for investigation. Last week the Federal Grand Jury in Manhattan indicted Pennsylvania's Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, Conrad Henry Mann, president of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, five other individuals and Western Union Telegraph Co. on charges of operating interstate lotteries. Conspiracy...
...Human Betterment Foundation is not a little family organization, but it is a non-profit corporation organized by 26 charter members, 18 of whom are listed in Who's Who in America. It is managed by a board of nine trustees, all prominent, conservative men. Its work is a constructive type of prevention of dependency, rather than the "patch work" of relief. . . . E. S. GOSNEY President...
...customers, indirect rebates have demoralized the trade. Though steelmen testily deny that they are enthroning a "tsar," President Lament's chief job will be to whip steel companies into a strong and united price front, stamp out the buyer's notion that he can always wheedle a profit-sucking concession, encourage him to take on normal inventories. Said Myron Charles Taylor, biggest steelman of all: "... A decidedly progressive step. The Institute . . . should prove increasingly successful in its activities...
...farewell editorial the publishers explained: ". . . The prospect of the paper's making a profit still seems remote after more than a year of operating at a loss. The capitalist system being one under which a profit must be made by any enterprise that is to keep its head above water, we are forced to call off the fight in this case...