The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 3, 1923, Page 8

MKAY PRICES SET LOW MARK ‘New Ford Agency Startles Car-Buying Public __ The aggressivencss of the Wiliam McKay company was displayed this week when the announcement made that the William 0, Mo company would sell Fords for $49 Gown, For several days the “entire city was at a loss to know) was coming, as the forerunner) ‘the campaign was announced by the McKay locomotive, an interest- gpectacle which was seen on) ‘the street, bearing tho sign “T f 7.” “The telephone operator at 501 Pine st. was about as busy as ‘any of the newspaper information Dureaus, informing the inquirers that the cat would be let out of ‘bag on the eve of the Slut,” Mo- said Saturday, > It ts loss than 90 days ago that | William 0. ("Bill") McKay announced ‘the organization of one of the larg- ‘est Ford sales contracts in the city,| “which was an achievement that cre- Bted wide tpterest in the automobile field. Since then the McKay com. pany haye piled up sales, and now Tank as one of the city’s largest d foremost agencies. The organt- n ls now well established—hav-| ‘an excellent sales force, an effi- | it service, parts department and/| which has made possible the pid advancement and wide follow: which this firm has enjoyed. ‘Mr, McKay's past record speaks for itself. His ability as an organ- Yager and captain is exemplified in the large undertaking and the suc- cessful efforts of the sales force (headed by Claude Wismolek, sales- Manager, who is a pioneer in the ran of the world war), Is largely to the policy adopted by the } OQ, McKay company, whose “After We Sell We Serve.” Dell Thompson, Ralph Ostrander Harry Gibbons, McKay sales. have maintained their regular of a car a day—January being ord-breaking month, which con- the report of an early short- this year on Ford cars. some Tax Facts larried Yet Single. egal Separation. THEIR BRAINS BUILT THE W. 0. McKAY FIRM 'RICYENBAGKER | s — Ee a THE SEATTLE STAR SS SS eS eS Ye Ie ak SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1928. beh 4 RALPH OSTRANDER yg McKAY CH.WISMOLEK Ce Vf Gray ” 7 ty ‘4 Gay COS Above are the men to whose efforts and integrity William O, McKay attributes the remarkable growth of the auto firm that bears his name. Included in the group are the rapid-fire salesmen who will attempt to carry on the task of maintaining the selling drive that is now featured with a new low-price initial payment record in purchasing Ford cars on the installment plan. What Is the True Value of Single Blessedness? Should a Bachelor Have to Pay Tax? Leg- islators BY FIELDING LEMMON OLYMPIA, Feb. 3—How much should it cost to be a bachelor? ‘That's a question that has been oo- ‘cupying some of the brightest legisla- tive minds for the past few years. Representative Charies Heighton of King county started all the trouble two weeks ago when he introduced a Ponder Representative Floyd Danskin, of Spokane, claims that even this tnn’t enough. He also is a bachelor, and he should know when he says it ts worth $25 a year. Over in the senate tho prevailing opinion is entirely to the contrary. Senator Walter 8. Davis, of Pierce | county and Senator Dan Landon, of | bill which would tax all bachelors in| King county, both emphatically de- the state $5 a year, Heighton, who is a dyed-in-the- ‘wool bachelor himself, says it should be worth $5 to any man to enjoy such a privilege The revenue and taxation committee, to which the bill) “| was referred, evidently thought the Ab Seeakebs ‘mutual consent or were each fg allowed only the privilege was worth more than that for it Is rumored that they will pro- pose an amendment that would make the tax $10. place and his wife at another, they are not living together for the pur pose of the income tax law. The law works both ways. A man may wed on December 31, yet he is granted the exemption allowed a married person for the full year. ‘The bride's income for 1922, how: ever, must be considered with that of her husband In filing a return, A widower whose wife died before the end of the taxable year is classed as a single man and allowed only an exemption of $1,000. Similar conditions exist with re spect to the head of a family. If during the year his support of rel- atives in his home ceased, he is entitled only to the $1,000 exemp- tion. A man who has a dependent child, not mentally or physically de- fective, that attains the age of 18 years just before the close of the taxable year cannot claim the $400 for a dependent. Likewise, if a dependent dies before the end of the + | benefactor’s taxable year, the $400 Modern Practice:- Abs motor construction dictates the following: for oll-feed to insure positive lubrication to beurings.” “Adjust- ment for end play.” TMM DULMAGE MOTOR CoO. credit fs not allowable, clare that they should be given a bonus, “We ought ty get something for having to eat ut restaurant counters when martied men can ait at their own table.” “Sure, he's right,” seconded Lan- don. But then the plot thickens when we come down to Representative Carl Morck from Aberdeen. Morck was in the bachelor lists ast year, but now he ts looking from the other side of the fence, His theory {s “Tax them the limit. If they don’t know any better than to stay single they ought to be taxed.” But then, hist! This ts a secret. It is rumored that there will be another bill that would tax spinsters. Miss Reba Hurn, the woman sen- ator from Spokane, would vote for It. But when asked what tho age limit should be she sald: “It wouldn't be diplomatio to answer that.” Appraise Estate at Over Million EVERETT, Feb. 3.—Appraisers, filing thelr reports yesterday, esti- mated $1,048,117.44 to be the value of property left by the late John T. McChesney, former Everett business man, McChesney was found to have had shares in stock corporations and motion picture concerns In all parts of the country. Cynthia Grey: Bachelor Tax Class Legislation, Says One Man— Abridging Personal Liberties, Says Another— What Is Your Opinion? BY CYNTHIA GREY If the state legislature passes the Heighton bill providing for a $5 or $10 tax on bachelors, it will be class legislation, pure ard simple, writes one man, Letters are arriving from all over the state protesting against such a law, and if legislators are at all interested in the people they represent, they should “read 'em and weep.” Here are some of them: Dear Miss Grey: It was with mingled amusement and dis- gust that I read of the proposed Heighton bill to levy a tax on single or divorced men not the heads of families, between the ages of 25 and 60. It furnishes just another proof of the calibre of lawmaker that the big interests thrust upon us year in and year out. Tam not a radical or a bolshevik, but for the life of me I can- not see why we would not be a more orderly and law-abiding people if legislators were abolished, that is, the sort we must put up with. We are overburdened with laws and taxes. If one-half the laws we now have were rigidly enforced two- thirds of the population would spend its time in jails and penitentiaries. Any supposedly tes man who would draw up and present such an impossible, asinine law ought to be stricken from our list of lawmakers. Yourstruly, R.B.L 666 ‘ Miss Grey will receive callers in her office Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 1 te 2 p.m. and on Tuesday qnd Thursday from 11 a m to 18 m each | week. Please do not come” at other times, as {t seriously inter. fores with her writing. ' Dear Miss Grey: Apropos your invitation to discuss the tariff on bachelors: I will not argue the question re its fairness or unfairness; but will say that It is class legisiation pure and simple. It is unconstitutional and will not hold in any court. W. BLN CAR A SUCCESS Firm Plans to Treble Pro- duction, Says Dealer ‘There ts one car, exhibited for the first time at the last New York show, that has made unusual history during the past year, and which is cleverly shown at the ourrent ex- hibition in Grand Central palace, It ts the Hickenbacker six, de signed and built by Capt, B, V Rickenbacker and his organization in Detroit, Last January the Rick- enbackor had Just gotten into pro- duction and was not eligible to space in the national exposition, but in recognition of the achievements of Capt. Rickentgcker, it was unant- mously agreed to lower the bars, In that month the company bullt 27 care, increasing production stead-| fly until total of 6,000 cars were! completed during the year, and s0 successful has the automobile been that production figures for 1923 are) being trebled, and 600,000 additional | square feet factory space has been| taken over, according to Alfred| Ayorst, of Cline & Ayerst, Br | and Denny way, local distr! Advanced engineering ideas ited by Rickenbacker for the Ume last January will be exhibited on other cars during the current| show, enpectally the tandem fiy-| wheel, which eliminates periodlo vi- bration in the Rickenbacker, A strong organization of 65 dis tributors and 375 associate distribu- tors has been built up and of that number are numerous well-known retired automobile men who re entered the automobile business with the advent of the Rickenbacker, and not & few officials of other factories left thefr parent organizations to Sloer of the senate in the place of the eee Dear Mias Grey: What do I think about the bachelor tax? What did you think of the poll tax? What does the general public think of the Volstend act? We Americans are pecullar people —we no doubt believe in prohibition, but we resent the kalseristic methods of Imposing {t, #0 we violate It, Tl wager if the bachelor tax bill becomes a law, wo will see more bachelors than ever, simply becaune ft is a dominant trait of human nature to fight anything that abridges per- sonal Whberty, and we don't want a lot of long-faced, domestic-burdened solons to impose thelr condition upon us AN ELIGIBLE BACH. eee If the vice president of the United States becomes president by the death or resignation of the president, who muceeeds to the office of vice president? The office of vee president re- mains unfilled until the next el tion. 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