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Several times I have seen newspaper accounts giving statistics indicating that the murders in Chicago are less per capita than in several other large cities. In fact, it seems that Chicago was sixth or seventh below the leader of the list...
Incidentally the experts discovered that the peoples who travel and spend most abroad per capita are, in descending order of spending: 1) citizens of the U. S.; 2) citizens of the Dutch East Indies; 3) Argentines and Germans...
California, he noted, has one motor car for every three persons, one divorce for every 3.3 marriages, $4,007 per capita wealth. Georgia has one car (or truck) to 7.7 persons, one divorce for every 14 marriages (many of Georgia's divorce cases go there from South Carolina, whose laws do not allow divorces), $1,306 per capita wealth...
Ingenious, but not strictly logical was his interrelating tobacco and coffee with divorce and crime: "Nearly every smoker drinks coffee (perhaps because the stimulant caffeine is a sort of antidote to the sedative nicotine), and the per capita consumptions of coffee and sugar in this country have both increased about 50 per cent in the last twenty years. All this is probably partly responsible for the increase of crime and divorce, though perhaps few smokers would concede that. Some very estimable gentlemen indeed use tobacco, but at the same time it can hardly be disputed that the great majority...
...capita the French now owe a national debt of $466. Just across the Channel every John Bull and his Jane are sunk with a debt of $830-the greatest per capita of any people on earth. Just now France is doing so well that last week she was able to pay back ahead of time $75,000,000 borrowed from Swedes. While Mr. Snowden is forced to raise British taxes, M. Reynaud was able to make last-week a slash of more than $75,000,000. Much of this cut will directly benefit U. S. tourists. The de luxe hotel...