The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, February 01, 1913, 2, Image 5

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WHAT DOES A MILLION DOLLARS MEAN, ANYWAY?
COOWT H13 PRIVATE. Ft3- JHTKOLZ
How Morgans billions and billions and billions look to Artist
Higgins.
What is a million dollars, any
way? Here are the newspapers tell
ing us about that Pujo money
trust investigation in Washing
ton and talking about a million
here and ten millions there and
a hundred millions in another
place, and they even get into the
billions when they show by tes
timony that J. Pierpont Morgan
controls 134 corporations having
an aggregate capital of $25,335,-000,000.
Get that $25,335,000,000?
What do all these figures
mean? Correspondent Gilson
Gardner decided to find out if
there was any way by which the
human mind could be made to
grasp such monster sums, so he
went to see the Hon. O. P. Austin
of the government's bureau of
statistics, who eats nothing but
figures for breakfast, dinner and
supper. Austin put it this way:
"The United States treasury
experts will count 4,000 silver

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