The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 7, 1923, Page 15

359. SBR TUE TOE a " RRR: HE eraNM@NNERA Ao) THe ogNarnemert The Seattle Star — i SECTION TWO 9 : SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1928. aE ro ral ‘AY Slow 'Eaban bac: finishing at 4 will find the prices wont MARRY: | Saxophones are very sensitive, A PASTS 26 DAYS _ CHEERING be! mg ot have increased during the meal, patel , spy [sudden draught of cold alr may ORC +a tay Ast trong the ru BRAIN Ree Tee wlOn eater®/ asked with each order nowadayal ter Phillips, attractive widow, was| able, trustworthy man’ bitorg | better every Gaye) mia hopeet Te] ttab je thd jaro penalized In Gormany, A dinee! iy; | “Will I pay the morning rate] willed $16,000 farm by hor grand| Christmas, Mra. Phillipa doemt Jayfield, evangelist and former| day without food. He is fasting for IN AIS REP starting to eat at 3 o'clock and! or the afternoon rate?" father, provided she marry “a cap-! want the farm. newsboy, as he entered his 26th| hia health, ) Burden of Unsound Taxation Called Menace to American Prosperity; De- crease Would Inspire Business WASHIGTON, Dec. 7.— Business) duction in tho income tax reduces ‘and industrial prosperity, which Tel expenses, not only of the seven turned to the United States this year/ million taxpayers but of the entire 110,000,000 people of the country,” after two lean years of post-war de pression, can be continued only thru tax reductions, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon told congress tn his annual report today taxes jrow imposed upon American business, which “would have’ been thought fantastic and impossible of payment before the war, constitutes | a “most insidious menace to contin ued prosperity,” he declared. He put the future of American economic life squarely up to congress, “Phe opportunity is presented to congress,” he said, “to make the tax structure of the United States con form more colsely to normal condi. tions and to remove the inequalities in that structure which dip jure our pr y and cause strains upon our economic fabric.” NOW IN ents the appearance of be: sound and stable condition,” forward in the revival that has taken place likely to } Sound,” but also condemned the |burtea of local taxation, The burden of high and “unsound” | jin this causing a state of discon. Mellon not only flayed the general tax achedules, which he termed “un. “These taxes," he said, “are at fectiig land values unfavorably. and | tent.” He urged congress to enact a constitutfonal amendment forbidding the Issue of tax exempt securities, which he said prompted the orgy of local expenditures. SMALL BIT CUT OFF NATIONAL DEBT On. purely fiscal matters of the treasury, Mellon informed congress that; | 1, The treasury has completed the first phase of its refunding program Which will take care of all secur ites maturing until the third Lib erty loan becomes due in 1928, The gross national debt was reduced $613,674,000 during tho year ending January 30, 1923, Ume it totalled $23, 3. Over $250,000 In back taxes will be collected this year Mellon took sharp issue with Sec: | retary of War Weeks, who recently | dectared that only 6 per cent of| Selling he Greatest ‘ ee PEN artments. Fee SEH Scie, Oh. He SOR eae! jd war forelgn debt fund. | uisiness to an even keel will only } be felt by the entire population when tax reductions permit, Mellon Mey al in consid. | P&tlonal expenditures went for mill: | remain ie dah eyeing % 2 tary purposes. Mellon declared that | erable d 60 per cent are due to past wars, | . ? But. he " rease in taxe: ee ide Bi nee 1c t sige on to trade} B® Another 20 per cent are at: j would b i tributable to the war and navy be and commer: : . ing commission, of which Mellon Is chairman, is now making @ detailed | study of all foreign debtér nations | with a view to following their fi- | nancial and economic conditions : ment of the debts ts hoped for, hi a. | burden | “without ming responalbility 189° lfor the rece ndation or giving borne out | its author, lion stated that “tt! amer, High | is recommended that the appropria-| wage level tion for the const guard be in- n ot Tiv creased by $25,000,000 for the next 10N WOULD | fiscal year—to widen Its activities| OF HELP TO ALL | against rum runners.” | eduction in taxes, therefore,| ““<rnis will enable the department not only in an immediate! to purchase 20 additional sea-going to the individual or prep-) cruisers, 203 cabin motorboats and ty directly affected. but an ult!/ 91 smalt motgt boats and to in. mato saving to all the people .of/ crease the personnel of officers and the country, jenlisted men of the coast guard by It can safely be sald that a re-'3.535," the. report continued. when levied if Tiny Mannequins Will | Feature Dress Bazaar Gd@mma Phi Beta Scholarship Fund to Be'| Raised in Unique Program Cunning little garm or Mr. and Mrs. Walter Williams; Shir. from six indntlis tos rs wil ley Anderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Woodworth Anderbon Mary Ann Shiel, daughter of Mr. a Mrs. Walter Marion and Dorothy ters of Dr. and Mrs. Wil in the Louis XIV room of th Julia Carrmody, and Mra. 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