The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 6, 1918, Page 6

STAR-——WEDN ‘ ISDAY, FEB. 6, 1918, PAGE INCOME TAX PUZZLES The Star's “Income Taz” Editor Will Answer Your Questions. Mail Them to Him. “ED. KK’s.".{| COMEDIES OF CAMP LEWIS LIFE | COLYUM Allies Look to America to Lead Way in War, Says Ambassador Sharp HY WM. G. SHAKE American Ambassador to France which I would send to my the beginning of a year destined momentous in resulta in the | Right cute in Naker to world’s history tw he did things on ad , Stand unitedly | Wood, Must m 1 | <n yeh ON t only for our country’s | volt throw some f own future welfare, but for s+ the stability and seourity of WE OBTAIN RE human government among | One word f the nations of th: Horr, candidate for he pleases. Y ed to know why tache it off, THE SEATTLE STAR feventh Ave. Near Untom 8t, _OF SCRIPPS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWSrAarens United Press Assectation countrymen in to be the mont The America at A Rallard man has invent ae, mask, Put one on your pr Postoffice as Second-Class Matter $1.15) @ months $200 & month Ain man Entered at Seattle Wash. clared mayor, ple Tu into th tangien verve ¢ it of elty, 400 per month; 3 months, yoar, $3.50. By carrier, city, 306 A Main 600, Private married and rm Q—I am are all grown ur wife and I will e In home. Our sole tn year 1917 consisted of ir elved on tr celved fro recelved “ner tag 2,128 Tax saa paid on cottage, $20 | (Beg pardon—will you please | remind your relative or friend | in the U, 8. service that he mast Our childreg My 1° owe for the n private, varied. LTT and Ralph mayor an we demand us ome Sees and moral forces of America should be dir solute unity of « All the an well of the neu tras, are looking to un to lend the way in war, as in the peace to follow. The part which the United States should play and in expected to play in the world's terrible crinis in large and command it will be great and beneficent only in the propor tion that It reflects the degree of united purpose of the Amer lean people Seeking for many months to avert the sacrifices of war for ourselves—indeed, to bring about peace among the battling nations—at the end of infinite our government was forced into the conflict thru the wilful ar arrogant violation of our rights, It had long been menaced by constant evidence of insidious intrigues against our national solid arity. No other course was left for an {respect ing people, whether dictated merely by or the more noble and generous call of contributing our ald to the cause of world-wide freedom an nity, Both threatened today by an enemy which neither I know of no higher honor or title than to be citizen, ‘The inestimable benefits of #uch a for the reciprocal obligation to give to th tion a patriotic whole-hearted allegiance in the defense of its rights. In the over of our bravest sons in that cause to the shores of so mplendid in this struggle—a sublime testimony of fid beat traditions of American indepe: to friend and for. mtorday ricacen he wears a And last Saturday he shaved mus in an ab. m one on mo from paid on home cottage, $42 total, $156 repairs om net $1,971, This is Thrift week. Do your bit. Buy a war Savings stamp. Invest cents with Uncle Sam as @ starter. Let your money help fight the Hun. and thi pL0od t th nvorit profit 1 “Any with hi minatic ot his ¢ going “The mate ¢ take out his insurance this ing one: week?) Bat one of the perrons who pal@ me interest on mortgage for the year 1917 al paid me the addte tonal sum of $420 for interest thag 7 he owed me his mortgage tor |the years 1915 and 1916. Must | make an ine tax return? A— income when ree Yes, Interest was necessary to } ie we id rea cil Must Consider | It at Once “3 Seattle’s councilmen should lose no time in determining] \"\(y aie course in regard to the Skagit river power site. They must either accept or reject it. Uncle Sam has made a proposition. It is now up to le to act. If the city decides to develop the Skagit power propo- on, development must be launched without delay. There be no fencing for time. The government has made clear. Is it “too big a bite,” or are the rewards—a vast sup-| 1 have a fairly ly of cheap power—worth paying millions for? ci re ' This the council must consider—and consider at once. | then, but wish to become a regular delaying the day of consideration, and burying|Po*’, “st do the meet ensentinl} I matter in committees, is NOT a fair course to pursue.) You cannot hope to become a reg Corporation Counsel Caldwell, whose untiring energy} the lower tl patience, * ved. Would be make return ation ne Q—i am a Canadian, unmarried, Have resided and worked here for six months, My income for 191% was $800. On the other side — call ‘ about the same amount. Is and it necessary for me to make @ Te ning turn? A.—Yes. If you are a Cang> ance Hian and claiin citizenship and rege lity to the dence there, return on the $806, has been furnished both No exemptions allowed you. If intend to become a citizen be different. Then you have exemption and pay tax om in excess of that sum. independent and » of m Answered by E, D. ne prenery “ are Pleane tell recognize Roosevelt wears n American privilege surely ned wuffering from I | trouble good education of writing poetry | I write verse now and lence “Oy yes! last Seturday—well, TACOMANS SET PACE FOR SMILEAGE DRIVE Here's th’ Uttle girl that cheeks my hat for two bits we're goin’ to do some more checkin’ today.” ‘PATRIOTISM IS NOTE or remain, your case will siightly most vanes amount ular poet unless you have the acquisition of this power site possible, clearly —_ out that the city must act promptly. The council may not be sufficiently advised as to the to make at this time. If so, it is all the more nt why it should at once take up a consideration of eeeposition, so that it may learn what is necessary before deciding. “The city is entitled to action, President Fitzgerald. Please print & foot rule.—Mins ne foot rule a man, yelled at feet! the ch Dear FE. D. for failed |when 1 | answer can't be too to answe: ask you them m: Evidently Swift & Co. | Francis J. Heney. itting It on the I Head 7 While the effectiveness of the government's new food , '; largely on the willingness of the people to} mmply, no mistake has been made in going right to the te of supply in order to control the consumption of it. If millers don’t put over 74 per cent of wheat into) flour, it is certain that consumers will not get more} that. It must be remembered that we have some millions of Germans and pro-Germans amongst our consumers, | an over-consumption of wheat by them would be aid to} ny, as clearly as the burning ‘of elevators, ware- and ships would be. we are also to have one meatless and two porkless | ‘a week and one meatless meal a day. For the reason| at this season of the year, people can buy two or} days’ supply of meat without danger of its spoiling, meatless order may not produce satisfactory saving. | Why not, as in the matter of wheat, control the source | supply of meats? Any one reading the expose of pack- rascality made by Francis Heney and the federal trade n ion will be willing that the government use its club) the big butcher speedy Recau: make we U.S. prisoners should worry if there isn't any room 7em in jail. We imagine they'd just as soon stay in tels. pw, Isn’t It “So? When you analyze the recent Hoover order, you find that means discipline rather than change from cus-} For instance, one meatless meal every day. Isn’t it a fact that very few families have meat on|* ir menu three times a day? Certainly the millions in} ultural pursuits do not. Certainly the very poor do because they cannot afford it. Meat three times a day ely confined to regular patrons of restaurants and |x s, and, really, they are a small proportion of the total lation. en we are to have two porkless days each week, five days on which we can consume pork with a conscience. Any one who must have pork more than times a week was never intended for this intelligent Nor does the order for two porkless days demand th change in general custom. Actually, it is only that part of the order applying to ‘ tlessness that smacks of revolution, and tell us that there are a lot of first-class i Seattle’s bank clearings Tuesday broke all records. Breaking records is getting to be one of our popular sports. May Be of Lasting Benefit Fact is there’s no distress whatever in the new food orders, but the contrary. There’s no other people on h better able than ours to get along without wheat and meat. There’s no other country with so many substi- tutes of equal or greater food value. The new order is simply discipline in the matter of *?Tne bottom p eating with brains instead of cultivated false tastes. The nop eedeyht fellow who mis: 20 or 25 per cent of wheat in his bread Never throw is like the fellow who can’t get along without the “dope” table's « Eethis cigaret: use them lige sacrifice, if any, will not be on the part of the ae poor. They are already on meatless meals and meatless days. But the order hits people whose ideas of luxury really conflict with intelligent eating. Intelligent eating may be one of the lasting good things growing out of the war, like government management of railroads and other | corporations of a public utility nature. Have you registered? Friday is the last day. So Let It Be Is Gen. Allenby really winning the war, ’way down é there in Palestine? Certain it is that, if Turkey “cracks” away from the central alliance, Bulgaria is a goner and those Austro-German armies in Italy must run for their Teutonic holes. Then, too, there would. be decided change the Russian front- —or rear, as you want to call it. Wouldn't it match in fine with the eternal fitness of things, if the recovery of the Holy Land should mean the preservation of civilization? “He moves in a mysterious _ way, His wonders to perform.” QUESTIO Why don't dre ners have doors?—F. T. € My neck is think it would h ruft?- endoly nay when P she cores,” our brains). c. v substitutes for! If 9 dozen Jac in the street tle?—8. T. J 1 wish about one says it is vulgar sugar except re her arrented?—J By Mrs ver throw a the knee shions. on hot weath protect it from An Akron rubt saves the house Taking warm . has a pull. Fourteen spies utive been shot in th war was declare’ . account of Hon birthday nex If you have a friend or relative in the U. 8. service, : remind him that this is the last week for insuring him- self with Uncle Sam. It’s the last week for those who been in service since Rotober last. mistaken, Cheap talk name of the man w that never amount to CANNOT screen of some k ufacturing a rubber trouble of answering The man who's likely to do his best than one who! jeaiing power Defense in was not in nildren, K.: fever I have anked you qt et yeelt Th be an actors’ anyth NS E. D, ANSW nsmakers turnatiles at th urt me if n what Here he k tare bh that you would tell Mr of my neight to use fined. Ca HH » E. D, y a pn ants. Cut 4 and use away an old paper the vented the| vented by | but by the woman who first Wipe your | beoks al but Hereafter eon uewered quarrels | ng? 80 eany for them te TODAYS CARIQONET ER and milli oir front Do you I were a would we Here omens" 4 pitched bat Hoove yore. She kind of n 1 have HOUSEHOLD HINTS K, ir of the them as billiard Take them off and the daven ind over the flies or doo and lis a wit! forme more winter sport Talking about cold baths. ones: oo. always nport and keep a the Ice ompany is man bell, It maid the t the door pushed is more ways & member of committee soc United d, With h oe ent Saashas. [idea when we wrote it that we were comes of the y, have tes since igh balls? A man who signs himself “Agent” writes us that we're mistaken in our prediction that the landlords intend to return a day's rent to tenants on expensive when you pay any attention to it. CAMP LEWIS, Fe Ta ma awed of this ¢ to th books. to defray compa eapenmen « wo perating sending theatrt San Fernando Valley, in Califor nearly as much agricul as some Huropean ¢ |tural area FOOD SOURING IN STOMACH CAUSES INDIGESTION, GAS Pape’s Diapepsin” relieves stomach distress in five minutes un | Wonder what upset your stom ach—which portion Of the food did the damage—do you? Well, don’t ner. If your stomach is in a re nd and has head * and acids and food; bre any upaet five minutes ecame of the in- an and women to- in needless to digest ic Millions of me day know that it have dyspepsia. A little Diapepain occasionally the stomach | aweetened and they eat their favor | ite foods without fear. If your stomach doesn't take leave of your liberal limit without rebellion; if your food is a damage natead of a help, remember the quickest, surest, most harmless re |lief is Pape's Diapepsin, which costa only fifty cents for a large case at drug storey. It's truly won derful—it f and acidity and #0 gently and easily pally astonishing Rheumatism Rabie | keep stops ntation sets things straight that it is The government is talking of tak | ing off all trains except mail trains If it should do this a train ts coming Heme Care Given by One ® He » know he In the a by Muscular and Inflammatory Rheuma it kn | trouble to atl try this marve Don't send « cont tthe coupor |it free to try. After you have used tt and it has proven Itself to be that long looke ans of curing your Rhe mati vend the price of it want yo fectly satinfied hua offered Write today you free? TRIAL COUPON 199-D Gurney y Bend to OF EAGLES’ BIG BALL! The cagie night Patriotinm in the key-note of the 19th annual ball of Seattle Aerie No. 1, Fraternal Order of Bagles, to be given in the lodge hall The program is in the form of « service fag with a star above the nag every member in the serv { the 18 dances is a pa- tr number EAGLES HERE DANCE will scream Tuesday UNDER SERVICE FLAG) tempt tor the individual American | der a huge The progran f a service flag, with a star man ur the colors, The uded A Witehe nin France, Sept. 12 CHARGES DISMISSED Attorney & ard lL. Byron of hay ates in appl parties for land land act Tuesday by U. 8 Robert W. McClelland ‘The evidence showed that the land office has no authority under the inolated land act to require any af fidavit whatever. DISEASE IS led in 1916. 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The lons of fe wan small, The German news papers, however, pointed the ship to- ward Europe, described it as full of} oldiers, and said that all had been Home They said that this {lastrated the activity and effectiveness of the mub- nem, and, wt the same time, the ennens of America They maid that the incident had so htened America that had ‘ ling troops would ntent herself with supplying the jalties with food and munitions. This. | ey suid, America had done before jshe entered the war, no that doing it| |now could not in any way change |the situation Keep Public Ignorant The German public knows nothing about the 16 cantonments in Amer. ca that are training noldiers for the war, Nor do the German people know anything about this nation's extensive shipbuilding program Some of the German newspapers Aid print a little about the proposal |to manufacture airplanes on a la jrcale in America and use them |put out the eyes of the enemy.” The in ¢ ng on thi the time America had her airplanes in Europe the war | would be | In every conceivable men running things in |have undertaken to keep f |German public the real tr erning America, allowing enough truth to “to eWwRPAPErR, over way the Germany TEUTON PRESS LAUGH AT T. R.; WILSON EVOKES THEIR WRATH : land in its project of world conquest. | This might have entailed some risk, | but what in risk to a superman, sum. toned to arms by the divipe call of | At any rate, all could have sent thelr dollars to the fatherland to| fight. Why t the Gercnan Amer cans subject themselves to the same ditions the Germans at as Mf neither they nor their dol- lars could fight, why didn't they keep America out of the war? Why didn't they at least do th the German newspapers want to know. Why They're for United States Many men who today would be peanants, laborers or servants, just as their fathers before them had been in Germany, have in America become merchants, manufacturers, public of. ficlals, persons of prominence. They are well-todo. Some are million aires. Their children, too, have op portunities that never could have been theirs in Germany. Almost without exception, Germans in Amer. | $1,000 | | Q—I am a married man. In 1917 I sold house and lot for $1,600, at quite a loss. What I would like to know is will I have to pay income tax on the money I Ex A—No. Do not tnelu ax income. If you hat $2,000 net income from other sources, make return. -Does a woman who is 66 supports her Q- years of age, who | blind boy with a rooming house that ine empt? | what is worth $2,500, have to pay ¢ taxes or will she be ex- A—It ts not a question of your property is worth. If you made $1,600 net income for the year 1917, make a statement, Owing to the fact that you have |a blind boy dependent upon you, you are entitled to an exemption | of $2,000. Q—I have stock in a@ corpora. tion which pays government excess tax. Must I pay income tax on dividends recetved from the cor poration? Does the same apply to both stocks and bonds? A—Yow must pay tax on the dividends, is $5,000. Otherwise they are ex- fea have prospered and owe more to the land of their adoption than to the | land of their birth But to all this Germany is blind. | She seems to think that every per- son of German birth or descent in : entirely the fact that many of the Germans nm America left the fatherland to es ape army service and other condi- tions Imposed by the -:nilitarists, | which are responsible for the world empt. This applies to both and bonds, Q—In 1913 I bought 10 acres of wild land in 1917. Failed. Sold one cow $85, one for $75 and one horse! for $100. All other stuff for $500, Came to town about November 14 I started to work for $5.25 a day. Do I have to make a return? I have one child, 18. A— Above sales were a return of capital and should not be returned as income and kind their distort There is ows, however, ewspapera print isually with fidelity to fac s the n that has to HARGES AGAINST TH MINISTRATION, INVE - TIONS, or other items that would indicate that America is not he war | after America entered | war a crack-br 1 Americ after a visit to Eur gave out an in which he} said the Hindenburg line was ur patable. I believe this interview since been printed in every © wspaper in Germany | As late December, of je Newspapers were still printing anc upon this inter It was offered as conclusive that the Americans before they started to| ions of American} that the German in full, i an That with | AD Tr in hortly an cer Interview has as some commentir evidence snipped were int All s the pro ed in th the ut patriot All Pro-Teuton Speeches | pches In congress bearing | an taint are reproduc German newspapers a of real American pranc kind of investigation of the American war department big news for the man newspapers It helps them to convince the man people that America is not se riously in the wa I doubt not that the t jat Washington re tpage at ation in all th n newspa: | ra, and t hes of former | President and Chamber. | lain of Ore en the subject jof much comment, calculated | Ger “probe” prove the division in America over the war. Laugh at T, Ry; The Ge Hate Wilson | # laugh at | Roosevelt, r NEVER |LAUGH AT SON, To them Wilson is always a n figure, | calling for black hatred, and not ridi cul The man newspapers express |no liking for any Americans, but | they seem to hate most of all the so-| |catled German Americans. | There is a feeling in Germany that | in 1914 the Germans should have went back thelr sons to aid the father: \t | win Place these big, light, on your breakfast cheerful response you “breakfast’s ready the family enjoys helping. You'll id th a hot-cake breakfast ev It makes pare. Albers flap, conservation for the ‘k flour Acquire the ce “look for the mine Your Groe: in nent nm supp! he Albers Bros. A Member 6f the U. & L (ar them ; folks ask for a second and even a third enticing hot-cakes table and notice the receive to the call Observe how much how eagerly the hem enthusiastic for ery day in the year. 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