The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 2, 1924, Page 2

THE SEATTLE STAR i [VHLLION SECRET BALLOTS (The First 107,146 Votes Are Tabulated in This Week’s Literary Digest) Ina Nation-wide Poll Do You FAVOR The MELLON PLAN? Do You OPPOSE The MELLON PLAN? THE LITERARY DIGEST, with the absolute impartiality which is now universally recognized as its unvarying policy, is mailing individual secret ballots to nearly 15 million men and women voters throughout the United States, that the desires and opinions of the people on this great issue may be known beyond question. HE DEMAND FOR TAX REDUCTION is the paramount issue before the country to-day. The only question in dispute is how to secure the reduction. Many plans have been proposed by various political groups or leaders, but attention has become focused upon one plan—the Mellon Plan. The Mellon Plan reduces the taxes on all incomes in varying degrees; it provides that an earned income (salary, wages, professional services, etc.) shall not be taxed as highly as an income from stocks, bonds, etc. The so-called nuisance taxes, such as the moving-picture admission tax, the telephone tax and the telegraph tax, also are eliminated. This measure, however, is not without strong opposition. An important fault with the plan, according to such leaders as William G. McAdoo, ex-Secretary of the Treasury, and Commander John R. Quinn of The American Legion, is that it excludes the soldiers’ bonus, which they strongly believe should be paid, and which they claim can be paid without preventing some tax reduction. On the other hand Secretary Mellon says it will be impossible to reduce taxes in this generation if we pay a bonus. President Coolidge also disapproves of a bonus-in fact and principle, and has given unqualified support to the Mellon Plan. DO YOU FAVOR THE MELLON PLAN FOR TAX REDUCTION OR NOT? Mark your Ballot and support your views. ALL CLASSES OF VOTERS in all States and all communities’ in the Nation are being polled with complete impartiality. They include business men, mer- chants, farmers, manufacturers, railroad employees, bankers, clerks, builders, contractors, superintendents, managers, carpenters, plasterers, plumbers, painters, mechanics, printers, miners, steel-workers, workers in every trade and branch of industry, both union and non-union, professional men and women of all classes, including lawyers, doctors, clergymen, authors, actors, newspaper men, ebruary 2d issue. These reports will have unique and decisive interest for political leaders, the press, ‘and citizens of the whole country. DIGEST readers, of course, will get them first and in the most complete detail. At the same time, and all through the year, THE LITERARY DIGEST will be gathering carefully and reporting all the facts and opinions on all sides bearing upon all the great prob- FEBRUARY 2d ISSUE NOW ON NEWS-STANDS FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY (Pi EVERY VOTE IS THE FREE, UNINFLUENCED, SECRET VERDICT OF THE VOTER, UNKNOWN TO ANYONE BUT HIMSELF OR HERSELF llerary dentists, engineers, ediicators, architects, musician§, etc., in short, all parties and all the classes of men and women who make up the voting population in all parts of the country. NO PROPAGANDA OF ANY KIND is connected with this great National Poll of the American people. The Literary Digest is always strictly non- partizan and impartial on all controversial questions. It records tho facts and the opinions of all political parties and all classes. That is why it has come to be regarded by millions of Americans as the one representative and indispensable periodical record of all phases of American -life, 6 HERE IS A COPY OF THE SECRET BALLOT (Thia copy is printed here for information only, and will not be accepted in the voting) SECRET BALLOT—No Signature—No No Obligation—Just Mark agdyMyi Do you favor the Secretary Mellon if the Bonus to Ex-S Jems and issues which are being discussed and which must be settled by the American people in this great Presidential Campaign. THE LITERARY DIGEST is wonderfully equipped: for this service by = system built up at great expense through many years of careful work, and reaching into thousands of newspaper and periodical offices. in all parts of the world. The reader can depend br oa LITERARY DIGEST with absolute certainty as it reveals, from week to week, free all prejudice and partizanship, the real state of the Nation's mind, the issues, and the progress of all the great problems toward settlement. est FIRST RETURNS OF THE GREAT POLL FEBRUARY 2d ISSUE tts of the Famous NE"Y Standen’ Dicflonary) NEW YORK