The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 8, 1917, Page 6

The Seattle Star fe second-class matter 41.90, Bho per month up to © & month, or ot the} ne North West League of Newspapers Entered at Seattle, Was Ry mati, out of city, one y month he Investment Feature of It a News from Washington recently called attention to a fact that should Shouted from the house-tops, in the offering of the second Liberty Loan bonds. It is that over half of the 20 billion total to be raised for war purposes, thru revenue and bond measures, will be pure investment by the people of the United “States and in no sense money to burn in war. ‘ The seven billions of loan to allies is not only a loan at fair interest, but the bulk of the money will help to keep our shops, ships and railroads busy. It is as if we were pawnbrokers, loaning money to be spent in our own shop, which "Sure has the features of a fine business cinch. Bh Nearly a billion and a half is to go into ships. Americas has got to have _ plent of ships, when commerce rehabilitates itself, after the war, or America — will be a dead one, commercially. Selves during the war. Moreover, they mean that in peace American overseas com- Merce will not be at the mercy of Corporation greed. An investment that means diate profit and trade freedom is surely a fine one, for nation or individual. We are going to spend $650,000,000 on aviation. There is no question but tion is tobe one of the methods of transportation. see this, and are preparing for it, and Uncle Sam is not the party to go to on any great proposition that signifies progress. Ry carrier, elty, 300 be Bo Such things as food administration, war risk insurance, the Danish West Indies, Mitrate plants, Alaskan rail , and government arsenals and factories of several 0 and on most of these investments a profit is assured. We are actually raising more than half of our present $3,000,000,000 Liberty a to invest for our own profit, and when we study the rest of that loan, we lust admit that we are only paying out in a lump sum money that yood policy should have prompted us to pay out gradually thru the past years. For a half-century we slept while Germany was making it her sole business #0 prepare to conquer and rob nations that were weak and fat with possible . We were the real sleepy, fat party. | We'll now pay for our sleep and for preservation of our fat. jout half of those 20 billions means. Moreover, in the billions which we directly spend on war, there is, indirectly, actually, a profits investment. We put those billions into war in order to permanent peace, and in peace we can beat all other nations as to profits. FOR “SOME LONELY MAN” ‘ E. D KK." ” A farmer’s wife down in Oregon thought of the men who os ) 0 0 Sly ho are lonesome at Camp Lewis. She baked some cookies Ss. nd This is all that wrote a letter and mailed both to the Y. M. C. A. for “some x lonely man.” t was a soldier who had never been away from home jwho received the cookies and the note. Suppose that you were to do something like that today Don't you think you would feel a lot better when, some morning, the mail man brought you a letter of thanks from some man who has given up his home, his friends and all that is dear and familiar to learn to fight your battles? | And there is something else you can do. The magazine you are now reading will reach some Sammy somewhere jyou just put a one-cent stahhp on the cover and hand it t fron is to be reduced to $33 | the postman, or lay it on top of a mail box Buy a ton of pig tron. If you write your name and address on it, Sammy may see write you a note. The Y. M. C. A. at Camp Lewis will be glad to help you find the “lonely man” you are looking for. a TRAINING THE APPETITE Among the things which may be trained into ways of usefulness as well as along paths of wastefulness is the ap petite—your appetite, included _ At a grocery store last evening one woman was overheard telling another, “It’s no use for me to cook rutabagas or because I know from experience my children will | I think it is more economical to use scarcer “jand more expensive foods, because they will not be left on V fe are greatly interested fm a} Plates. & story that tells of a| That mother was in error. The cheaper foods will NOT celebrating her 25th wed-|be serbes plates if the children’s appetites have been trained Gpniversary by wearing the properly. For the first few days the youngsters may be a ee ewes married. |trifle “pickish" and turn up their tiny noses. But Lineal hey , Oe te canal So Gunitted have become assured there'll be no filling up on pie and 2 eee let {t out? cake, they will make the most of the cheaper vegetables if so, how much? Why, nine-tenths of the German people Rave nothing but tutabagas, morning, noon and night, seven days in the week Let those of us who “can’t” eat the cheaper vegetables Nutty Knowledge A new pen is on the market that - and coarser grain flours, start training our right away quick! to prove a useful and valu- le to many, especially to It can be made to That will be a long ; & neat blot over a word or! and of when the spelling is in doubt. by one ting of sluggers, would it be that Benny Kauff ts in Way connected with the Seat: eee on His Desk, no Doubt hereby tender the deepest of our heart to Mr. S. J , er., for a nice lot of ess: (Miss.) Enterprise. . . One Coat Is Enough rs of the Young Wom- Christian Association are be ‘painted and put in condition for ‘winter.—Kalamazoo (Mich.) eee only war song that we'd Ike to hear ts one written ‘& New Orleans poet,” says Har- ‘Weeks, of the Melody shop, g title being, ‘America Will For- fer Be if You Served Her Like Beauregard and Lee (The | C@rots, O'er Land and Sea).’ We feel| not eat them. the song lives up to the title.” eee icky appetites id important step in food conserva tion immeasurable assistance to our allies, in sore jneed of the food which will keep body and soul together many attempts a Cincin-| | We will be the healthier for it, and that, Mrs. Mother Senios has given up the idea |includes thase children of yours with their wasteful, expensive of a tail og on & rowboat as be-| 2 netites GERMAN CONSULATE id. Look out, Alfonso! "That men are called “whalers” | forces at Barcelona have been greatly not mean they are natives of | Incr You're going to be knifed In the back. Scientists are unable to solve iy it is that when you wish to at a fella’s attention by whis- rybody turns around ex-| the fella. WOULDN'T IT be well to observe how many of the ers who are exempt from income taxation wear the “ Bond” badge? ffice hold- Bought a A CHINESE ship having been submarined off the Irish coast China is now formally in it. sf THE BEST BRIDGEWORK ft Is possible to find any- where in Seattle Is the fin- Ished product which be- epeaks the skilled work- manship employed In our ‘own laboratory. For beauty and perma- mence, for sanitation and service, our J LA FOLLETTE’S and Thompson's collections of libel suits against publishers won't be the real thing unless they get that man Roosevelt | into the list of defendants. N FORMER wars more men died of disease than from bullets. Today an army camp is far healthier than the average home. If the army camp standard prevailed the country over, our national health would im- prove enormously. The health of the nation is dependent upon the sanitary conditions existing in the homes of the nation. Help in the fight against disease. See that garbage cans, toilet bowls, kitchen sinks, and all dark, damp places are disinfected with Acme«wLime KILLS GERMS BLEACHES DESTROYS ODORS Bridgework at $5 and Up Per tooth will etand the acid test of competition, and give the wearer that supreme satisfaction which only the highest quality of modern bridgework can bring. Examination and esti. mates free. N. W. Cor. Fourth and Pike Phone Main 3256 Our government uses it—the big hospitals and the Boards of Health in the larger cities are using it. Sold by all first-class druggists and grocers at 15 cents for a large can. Igefuse substitutes which may be stale and worthless. Write for Booklet A. MENDLESON’S SONS 120 Broadway, New York City Established 1870 Factory: Albany N.Y. ) NATIONAL | | DENTISTS, These ships now building will pay for them-| The greater foreign na-} Then. in these 20 billions are many hundreds of millions to be invested in) STAR—MONDAY, . -y PRET Bi Gia Ese SS Continued From Page 1 | —« levied upon it, The method of using the table can best be ex plained by a simple example if you are married, with no chil dren, and have an income of $6,000, you will pay no tax on $2,000, which is exempt under the On the $2,000 failing Into the tax group $2,000.$4,000, you will pay 2 per leent, or $40; on the $1,000 falling Jin the tax group $4,000.$5,000, you |will pay 4 per cent, or $40; on the |$1,000 falling in the tax group | $5,000-$6,000, you will pay 5 per leent, or $50; making a total income |tax of $130, If you have two children under 18 years, you have an exemption of $200 for each, so that you would pay no tax on $2,400; 2 per cent on | $1,600, between your $2,400 exemp tion and $4,000; 4 per t on $1,000 between $4,000 and $5,000; 5 per leent on $1,000 between $5,000 and | $6,000, making a total tax of $122 COMBINED NORMAL AND SUPERTAX RATES UNDER OLD |AND NEW BILLS-—Note: Rates shown apply to amount of income | The excess profite tax will im- press every one who has to make @ return under it &# an example of barbaric frightfulness It ie un like any tax ever imposed in any civilteed country Hy next Mareh all American asylums will be full of people who lost thelr minds try ing to calculate what they owed Uncle Sam under this terrible tax Lawaults to determine its applica | tion will still be going on when our great-erandchildren are dead and burted WHO MUST PAY IT? Every cor poration with a net income exceed ing $3,000, and every partnership or individual with a net income derived from the operation of any kind of business which exceeds $6,000 for the present year {ts If able to pay a tax on the amount of ite excess profits, This includes everybody who buys and sells any thing kinds of nts and com mission n, Including commer cial travelers, unless they are on a fixed salary, without commis sions, It also Includes all kinds of professions. It hits farmers, doc |tors, lawyers, storekeeper, au thors, real estate men, contractors, and, In fact, everybody who works who in not on a fixed wage or sal ary and has an Income big enough to come within the scope of the aw WHAT ARE EXCESS PROFITS? Excess profits, as now defined, bear practically no relation to the amount earned before the war, If you want a rough idea of the ex cess profits of your business, take the amount by which {ts net fn come for 1917 exceeds & per cert on the capital invested, and sub tract $6,000 from this ff you are operating ® partnership or Indl- vidual business, and $3,000 if you are organized as acorporation. For example: Suppose your capital ts $190,000 and your net income ts $20,000. Etght per cent in $8,000. to which you add $3,000 for a cor ration and $6,000 for an individ 1 or partnership, leaving the ex cess profits $9,000 for a corpora tion and $6,000 for an individual or partnership business If you want to know exactly you will have to do some REAL ing. . Here's how you £0 about it First determine the net income] ooiy the cash value. of the stock|taxes of $1.10 and of your business for each of the years 1911, 1912 and 1913 of business done in each of these years the proper deductions for ex penses, Interest, taxes and depre elation, substantially as 4 tor Income taxes, except that you cannot deduct gifts and charitable donations Average these and see what percentage they are of the actual capital invested in the bust To {tal are $27,000, or 37 per cent. On the Amount Under $15,000 you will pay \* Nursing Mother | Should Avoid | Mental Strain 4 Ik colt The diet for the nursing mother |should be nutritious, laxative and | appetizing. She may follow her own wishes as to the choice of her food. The old idea that acid fruits and veg etables give the baby colic {a probably not true, since all acids are changed in the {process of the mother’s digestion. However, if they or any other food disturb the mother's digestion ‘this may have an unfavorable ef fect upon the milk, It 1 neces sary therefore to watch the diet very carefully and avoid all articles that actually show themselves to be unsuited to the mother If, in addition, a woman eats slowly, chews her foods thoroly and, above all, refrains from worry, there will be no reason to suppose that the maternal milk will not agree with the baby There is no one ,;more certainly interferes with the secretion of the milk than any overwrought, nervous condition The mother should have pleas ant exercise, out-of-door life, pleas ure, cheerful society and be sur rounded as far as possible with the things that Interest her thing which There are 2,750 languages, not counting teamster language Spring cleaning at all seasons is dope by waichmelara by} subtracting from the gross amount) not to exceed 20 per cent of the) syrups for soft drinks, 1 cent a gal ne ring the same three years If they average less than per|the actual capital for the present) ent, you will be allowed the full| year. Then apply the following} 7 per cent; but If they average | rates On the Amount g Leas than 15 per cent of capital you pay 20 per cent 15 to 20 per cent of capital you pay 25 per cent! 120 to 25 per cent of capital you pay 35 per cent] to 33 per cent of capital you pay 45 per cent| More than 33 per cent of capital you pay 60 per cent ILLUSTRATE—Suppose your excess profits on $100,000 cap. a 2 OCT. & 1917. PAGE 6 falling within each tax group, and not to the Incomes as a whole TAX GROUP TAX RATE. Unmarried | Oto $1,000 0 $1,000 2,000 2 | 2,000 6,000 4 } Married | Oto $2,000 0 | $2,000 4,000 2 | “4,000 5,000 4 | Married and Unmarried | $5,000 to $7,500 6 10,000 6 12,500 q7 12,500 15,000 r 5,000 r 9 20,000 40,000 rT] 40,000 60,000 16 | 60,000 £0,000 2 | 80,000 100,000 on | 100,000 150,000 29 150,000 200,000 36 200,000 250,000 rr | 250,000 200,000 46 200,000 600,000 50 500,000 750,000 MM 760,000 1,000,000 59 1,000,000 1,500,000 5 1,500,000 2,000,000 66 2,000,000 and over 67 more than 9 per cent, you will be {allowed only ® per cent. Only if they fall between 7 and 9 per cent do you take the actual average. For example, with $100,000 of ac |tual capital, If the average net tn lcome is $8,200, that would stand as 8.2 per cent, but If the average was only $2,500, you would be al |lowed 7 per cent, while ff the average was $50,000, you would be allowed only 9 per cent. 80 you will see that while you have to go thro all this ple in making your return, prac tleal purposes you might as well take an average of 8 per cent and jet it go at that if | After you have got this prewar rate of profit determined, you ap | ply that percentage to your pree/ jent capital, add $6,000 to tt for in dividual or partnership business jand $3,000 for a corporation, and |subtaaret the result from your net income for the year 1917 This gives you the anfount of your ex on which you wi cens profits he taxed FOR PROFESSIONS and all kinds of businesses and trades in which only a nominal capital {s jemployed, it In obvious that thin plan cannot apply So the act provides that they shall pay a flat| rate of & per cent on the amount by which the net income exceeds $3,000 If they are organized as cor- porations and $6,000 if they are run by partnerships or individuals WHAT 18 CAPITAL? It will be seen that the application of this} tax depends absolutely on the defi jon of the word capital Thtt} | what the conferees from the | house and senate wrangled over for two weeks, and the more they wrangled, the worse it got Actual capital invested, as ft) jatands tn the bill, has no relation! whatever to the amount of ntock| outstanding, nor does it include} bonded Indebtedness or borrowed oney or property. It must be de-| termined for each business and for! |each year by adding the following! items: Actual cash paid in, the! jactual cash value of other property paid in to secure shares in the| busin and the surplus or und! vided profits actually employed in} the business, Patents, good wil!) land franchises are to be allowed ! or other property exchanged for them, in the case of all intangibles stock now outstanding. | HOW TO CALCULATE THE yn distilled spirits, $1.50 a barrel telegraph or telephone message 10 cents of the price. Taxes do on beer, & to 20 cents « gallon on | Costing over 15 cents not apply to movies where charge On all jewelry, autos, motor-|is 5 cents or less, or to other 10- lon on grape juice, soft drinks, |cycles, planoplayers, cent shows. l’near beer,” etc and records in future 3 And to wind up, there are a host ribed| AMOUNT OF EXCESS PROFITS ,. TAX. After you have determined the amount of excess profits, as de scribed above, you are ready to (igure the amount of tax you will have to pay. First, find out what per cent these excess profits are of | 20 per cent, or $3 000 | ‘CHILD'S TONGUE BECOMES COATED "IF CONSTIPATED | | — eae When cross, feverish and sic! | | give. “California Syrup | of Figs.” Children love this “fruit lax ative,” and nothing else cleanses |the tender stomach, liver and bow els so nicely A child simply will not stop play ling to empty the bowels, and the result ts, they become tightly clog ged with waste, liver gets sluggish stomach sours, then your little one becomes cross, half-sick, feverish, | don't eat, sleep or act naturally breath is bad, system full of cold has sore throat, stomach-ache or | diarrhoea, Listen, Mother! See if tongue is coated, then give a tea- | spoonful of “California Syrup of | Figs,” and in a few hours all the| constipated waste, sour bile and undigested food passes out of the | |aystem, and you, have a well, play |ful child again | Millions of mothers give “Call fornia Syrup of Figs’ because tt tn! perfectly harmless; children love it, and it never fails to act on the stomach, liver and bowels | Ask your druggist for a 60-cent | bottle of "California Syrup of Migs,” which has full directions for ns, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the bottle. Beware of count pits sold j her Get th genuine, made by |“California Fig Syrup Company Refuse any fenapt other kind with con First and Only 8 HOU FURNITURE STORE in SEATTLE rice, one set of terms to all hrases in our ad- O No deceptive ne vertising to mislead the uninformed SPECIAL NOTICE For the purpose of cooperating with the homefurnisher during the present high cost of living, the following terms on homefurnishings will pre until further notice: $ 4.00 $ 5.00 $ 7.50 $10.00 $ 50.00, nothing down, $1.00 $100.00, nothing down, $1.25 $1500, $ 5.00 down, $1.75 $200.00, $10.00 down, $2.50 $250.00, $12.50 down, $3.00 $12.50 $300.00, $15.00 down, $3.50 $15.00 We Invite the Accounts of All Reputable and Trustworthy Homefurnishers. Blankets, Comforts, Rugs, Heaters, added to customers’ accounts without the usual first payment BUCK’S CELEBRATED RANGES AND HEATERS are made in a factory end sold in a store that recognizes the mod- ern, progressive trend for “fair” working conditions, hours and pay —a “fair” article from the factory to the home. HAVE A HEATER ADDED TO YOUR ACCOUNT Your Old Stove Taken in Exchange M.A.GOTTSTEIN FURNITURE CO. SEATTLE’S POPULAR HOME FURNISHERS week, week, week, week, week, week, or or or or or or ete 25 per cent, or $15,000 to $20,000 you will pay 35 per cent, or ance policies 1 cent for each dollar $20,0¢ 5,000 you will pay 000 to $32,000 you will pay — " 5 per cent, or of the annual premium. 4 " ———— More than ) you will pay —...---60 per cent, or || After 30 days the postal rate on all letters, except drop letters wi be 3 cents an ounce, and there be an extra charge of 1 cent for each 25 cents charged on parcel post pakages, There are a new set of taxefijt estates over $50,000, reaching 10 per cent on $1,000,000. 50 cents to $2 per Making toe total tax Other Taxes This does not, however, begin to) taxed & to 12 cents per hundred. Yachts pay cover the multitude of taxes Im-| Tobacco pays 5 cents a pound |, posed by the new revenue bill and cigaret papers 1 cent a bun Boer foot, and motor boats $5 In the first place there is an ad- | dred ‘ ditional 4 per cent “corporation Then there are the transporta- Sporting goods and cameras pay per cent, toilet articles, patent medicines and chewing gum pay 2 per cent of the wholesale price, Tickets of admission to all kinds of amusements pay 1 cent for each tion taxes, 3 per cent on all freight bills, 1 cent on each 20 cents ‘of ex press bills, 8 per cent on passenger tickets and 10 pér cent on Pullman car charges, and 5 cents on each tax,” which must be paid by every corporation upon the amount of its net Income Then there are internal revenue 2.10 a gallon ars are taxed from 25 cents per 1,000, depending on qual with a tax of $1 per 1,000 on variety Cigarets are the sale price. 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