The evening world. Newspaper, January 31, 1918, Page 11

THURSDAY JANUARY 31, 1918 e Ten Biggest _ the Most Money Out of War, ‘ By Samuel M. Williams. MBRICA'S ten largest income tax payers in 1918 will be corpora tions, not individuals, as was the caso In previous years, The reason for this is the new feature of the Revenue Act which im & war excess profits tax on business for the year 1917 as com- area with an average for the prewar years of 1911, 1912 and 1913. The honor and the bumen of being the largest tax payer in the ‘Waited States and probably in the whole world falls to the United Bteel Corporation. Its Chairman, EB. H, Gary, estimates its war taxes at $235,000,000, ‘That amount is greater than the annual budget of Now York City’s ed Tt ig three times tho revenues of the Now York State it for a year, It ts nearly aa much as the rovenues of Spain (04 fo far moro than the ordinary revenues of Canada, It ts $55,000,000 Brore than the total corporation income tax Jast year and is almost one @ourth of the Treasury Department's Dilliondollar estimate for total @mceus profits tax receipts. Here are tho ten tax leaders of the country, although their order of Precedence after the first cannot be given, aa they have not yet esti- @ated and announced their figures: United States Steel Corporation, Standard Of1 Company of New Jersey. Standard O11 Company of New York. Ford Motor Car Company of Detroit, Chicago Meat Packing Companies. Du Pont Powder Company. International Mercantile Marine, American Smelting and Refining Company. Kennecott Copper Corporation and substdlartes. 3 Bethichem Steel Company. Pormer Smail Concerns Now in Front Rank It is not necessarily the largest corporations, nor those doing the Most business, that must pay the heaylost taxes, although with the Steel Corporation this is tho case. But it 1s concerns that have gotten Wich during wartime, whoso profits have swollen out of proportion to their capital investment, that must pay up. The most successful of the profiteers will hand over 60 per cent. of their gains to the Government. This is tho maximum tax rate Teached when profits are in excess of 33 per cent. of invested capital. There are many largo corporations in the United States with mil- Hons of capital and large turnover of businoss that continue along on & modest 6, 8 or 10 per cent. income now as bofore the war. Excess Profit tax will not hit them hard, although they, as woll as individuals, . Will have to doubio or triple their former income tax payments. This war tax scheme takoa the names of John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnogic, J. P. Morgan and thoir super-millionatre associates @own from the tax top Hne end puts in their places inanimate, !mper- Sonal corporations. Truc, the gentiemen can still have the honor of heading the individual income tax list, with ratos running up to 63 per ent. on inc@nos over $3,000,000, of which there may bo a fow. Last year tho individual who had a million-dollar income got off with about $100,000 tax; this year ho pays up $475,000. Leading Beneficiaries From War Profits Still, this progression Is not sufictont to put him ahead of corpora- tions swollen with profits of war. There aro six groups of industries fn the United States that have benefited most by the conflict. These are: 1—Steei manufacturers, headed by the United States and Beth- them Companies. 3—Munition makers, with Du Pont Powder in first rank, fol- owed by Winchester, Colt, Bliss and Unton Metallic Companies. 8—Shipping concerns, lcd by International Mercantile Marine, that, before the war, was bankrupt, and in charge of a recetvor, ‘Atlantic, Gulf and Wost Indies Company is another shipping bene- felary of war profits. 4-—Oopper mining companics, among which the so-called Gug- genheim group of Kennecott, Utah, Nevada and Calli Companies have profited greatly, as have the Verde and Clark, Dodge & Co. peorne beef packers, including Armour, Swift, Cudahy and Wilson, 6—The automobile makers, teith Henry Ford in the front rank, followed dy the General Motors and other companies ‘While the Government gives out no names or detal Pargest taxpayers in the Unitod States this yoar in t Glasses are tho following: Corporation—United States Steel Corporation, Partnership—J. P. Morgan & Co. or Pholps, Dodge & Co. ‘Trust Company—Guaranty Trust Company of New York. Bank—First National nr Natlonal City, of New York. Rallroad—Union Pacific Individual—John D. Rock First Kitchen Soldier led figures, the olr respective plier, ferther opportunities for enving in| And, Anally, 1 shut it War time. Bho describes them as fol-| possible when not in use, *Z found, to my murprise, I could | moro ooal @ day when this care potatoes and apples even more| ta I¥; I could bake potatoes In thotr] ‘Taxpayers Profits Tax Puts Corporations Ahead of Multimillion- aires in the Income Tax List—U. 8. Steel Leads Them All With $235,000,000 to Pay—Six Groups of Industry Made 2918, by Tho Press Publishing Co (The Now York Fvening World). ff as closely ng I find there tows: is eaally a difference of half a bod or "More than anything, I plan to save ta, and mnke those {nckets adi-| time, for in these days we should gtve | JAMES A.HAMILTON .OF SKETCHED FROM LIFE BY HARMONY THIS 1S A VERY VERY BiG yOB FOR ONE MA Ny — OF J. LEWLS AMSTER HEALTH | HAVENT A WORD TOSA BUT you CAN SKETCH ME 1 BELIEVE STICKING TOA JOB UNTIL 1 MASTER IT ener NICHOLAS J HAYES COM,OF WATER GAS & ELECTRICITY Lumber Lingerie and Hootnannies BEAUTIFY CITYHALL PARK FIRST, / BATTERY PARK NEXT, CENTRAL PARK AFTER THAT. FIFTY YEARS HERE HAVE TAUGHT ME WHAT CHILOREN ANO GROWN UPS WANT. PARK COM. WILLIAM F. FIRE com. THOS. DRENNAN WHO HAS STUCK TO HIS POST THREE DAYS WITHA FEVER TEMPERATURE OF OVER 100 if You Wear German Efficiency Underwear You Can't Walk Against the Grain, whieh inhabits t tre fanged by th jo by first acruting them thor-|every minute possible to helping sup-| air and co WoPhly and then rubbing them over|ply our own dearly beloved soldiera| gomparing Ger With a bit of auet ao that after bat-/and our Allies with the comforts and dominoes, The fag the pking aro both tender and de-| necessitios they ao norely need, And, ae ) think ¢ Welovs Navor, |nnaily, 1 have oniisted the whole fatn- Making un am cutting the bread on tho fly as Kitchen Soldiers, too,” Tho lond w Else You'll Fill Yourself With Splinters—And There's No Privacy in Them, for Whoever Saw a Board Fence Without Knotholes? nt to talle | to answer the call for|table; not a scrap ia wasted. Crumbal F Kitchen Soldlers, sent out by] re priceless in oooh Gq0d Houskeeping in co-oper ‘H “ithe old. etxe will a smalter | nowadayn, fllon with the United States Food| iyo re i ee ED, =| bashed on the Administration, was Mrs. Florence| “Every gerap of trimming that the| Wa merely trying to 7 ‘Taft Paton. butcher used to be allowed ag his| Party of the first part 5 S02 course, I enlist gladly. I have) own Is now carefully wrapped with| one of thos: nutle i sin France| t"® moat I buy, and every parttote of Under t i » fro sons in the army—one {t 19 used, I uso butter substitutes walled onthe Geant my words come from the | wien not enough fat t# accumulated aevarciyahided Qeart,” wrote Mra. Eaton and signod]in thie way tthe wRenaa it fhe following pledge: | ‘I scrve tho smallest portions of| senso ot mel! \ % the member of the hourehold left-over vegetabiws, meat, bones,| ening under cont F scereates with the handling of food, ! EAs See aoe must oll}, ble sume Y @o hereby enlist as a Kitchen Soldier sa lhe sale ee | ett the Jude 1 for Home Service and pieds i RUS SES: Waker the container | 1 Ch 46 Waste no food and to use wisely |!n which « I ts cooked, scraping| ¢ icine Ql food purchased for this household, | Overy particle off later, then drainand| oP was dolns ng that by ao doing I can help|aid it to the next morning muting, mot . @@pserve the foods that must be An appreciable amount is thus saved Ww t k GBipbed to our soldier and our|/in a week and to the great advantagy| — assidor’s rofur of the muffins arate * Baton !s a Now England! ‘1 save coal in my Kitchen range by| te something Housekeeper, But although she had! keeping the never higher than the were ants tn it. ‘Th always managed bor sekeeplng ng, I never rake tt down cxcept matters by explatr Wh acrupulous economy, she found| when a hot oven ts actually needed were also full of sou on his soup at all, The ants were jn the ants, and all that the patr able right of eminent ptomat Comparisons are aa deadly ( valley of De on io BY A vy I unique a Or RTE 1UR re By World) in the n had to do w Wo the ne “BU ) BAER , burger the national emell 1 where t on wits that ¢ German aqueal ja the national anthe en v pine « r ne ‘ 1 and substitu Molen POOR RICHARD JR. * » Don't judge a man’s ability by the roving radius of his Adam's apple, Thee can't judge the depth of the well by the pump handle, and many an honest bunion throbs und a ragged hat The bachelor have a wife w mendeth hie clothes and the th that she seweth buttor his socks Tis better to getteth a co ma tight » than fi a tight hat. THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1918 _ War Weddings Increase, Divorces on Decline | The Old Days o Nation Now Keep American Women Busy. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. 1018, by the Preas Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World, D you read that poem in the paper this morning!” the gtrt with the orange knitting bag began, “ Woman to Any Man? Copyright “TD! The woman sald ber spirit dared to wield a bayonet, but her flesh was weak. I don't feel that way, I've got physical etrength enough to Join the Russian women In the Battalion of Death, and I know f could take long marchos apd do everything olde that has to be done in war— everything, that is, except make up my mind to kil, I really bellove I'd rather be killed than kill ange body.” “You'd chango your mind in half a second if you were ever called upon to test that theory,” said the middle aged woman, who had not spoken for some time, She was rounding the toe of her first gray sock, and the task took all of her attention, “It's the feeling you have that makea so many pacifists.” “You misunderstand me,” the girl answered indignastl7, “Tm for the war, heart and sou! and hands, as you onght to know from the number of sweaters T have knitted, But I don’t think women should want to fight. And T don’t beliéve men want us to feel that way, either. There are a lot of things women can do to help win the war without talking about wielding the bayonet.” No Idle Women Nowadays. “Yes,” the middle aged woman agreed too. There are no idle women anywhere, Why, the biggest snob and parasite I know before the war got tp at $ o'clock yesterday morning to go to the Pennsylvania Station at 4 and help deal out coffee and sandwiches to a trainload of yuth, Now she puts in eight hours for the Red Cross, and then knits Ull she goes to bed.” Another thing the war has done, thfbugh Mr. Hoover, is to teach women who never knew a thing about housekeeping how to plan and economize and sayo food,” sald the girl with the orange knitting bag. “Lots of women a year ago were proud of not knowing the price of things. But the war has made all of us brag of saving money instead of spending It. and we tell how little things cost instead of how much.* “And we are doing them oldiers from the “There's another thing you may not have noticed, since you are so much younger than I,” said the middle aged woman, “and that is that taking care of their households and doing war work has made women a great deal happier than they were when they played bridge all day and danced all night, Not nearly so many of them complain of their husbands, and I don't know one married woman who imagines that she is in love with another man, Before the war the number who told mo that they were going to elope—and never did tt—aver- aged three a week. [ got tired of hearing that their husbands were brutes, It was so monotonous and false. tal husbands—only husbands that very much astonished if the war reduce the divorce rate im | this country. ‘The dovil has practically no idle hands working for him. Men and women are too busy to Intrigue.” For women never leave brue ‘® not brutal enough. I shall be joes not Uniforms Charm All. “Men are ever so much more attractive since the war began,” sald | | the girl with the orange knitting bag, “I wonder if anything could be devised which would make women so universally good looking as @ Uniform makes men, Everybody knows the number of weddings has Jumped enormously slnee the war began. You know I used to be rather bitter about men sometimes. But [ can't help feeling, now that they have rallied so splendidly to the war, and have given us the vote too, that they are fundamentally all right.” “You can’t afford to be so patronizing, my dear,” answered the middle aged woman. “Men are much more generally all right than women were before the war woko us up. We were shallow and cons | ceited and selfish and frightful imitators! ‘There were really not more | than twenty-five distinct women in the country. The others were all imitators. We,eould have been divided up into so many hundred thonsand Irene Castles, so many more Mary Pickfords and Justine Johnstones and Theda Baras, Woe copled thoughts and clothes and manners, and Jota of women would have had a difleult timo finding their real selvos under their layers of affectation and pretense. | “They followed fads in droves, Do you remember when every | earnest woman in the land had but one thought—the abolition of white } slavery, They talked about It in clubs and at dinner par There was no Ie #0 fantastic they did not believe it, no witness they did not swallow her testimony wh The former zealots of & » discredited Then the wind shifted, ex reform turned thelr furfous ardor to birth control, were hooted and Jail That wave too has receded without accomplishing anyt! f the war had not come and concentrated our scattering energies A real undertaking wo might now bo organizing a crusade to teach the Montessor! method to golde fish.” “That's quite a speech.” said the girl with the orange knitting bag, and I don't believe we desery ‘ ou know what George Elliot's M er sald when © " eritiolsed rhe Lord do ‘em to match the men” W r recasion Just as ri are too o-day it is only bee the men one called ‘Any | ees hallow Conceits and Meaningless Flirtationa Are Gone Forever—Genuine Attachments Grow on Every Side in This Hour of Trial—Karnest Efforts to Help the Swallow Stick Tested Worthiness of Old Indian Pries ino. ¥ 1 r rel ‘ nonles, These tribes ry i tloular t their p 1 t " t rlest wos w such as tho ¢ i . | Popular t of trourae, acte 1 sa fied the au ' Y purged of t i f P t f dian of the Asam t nlays of Gity, It aa estimated i \ # wet yuto hol \\