The evening world. Newspaper, March 6, 1920, Page 9

SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1920 ~ Uncle Sam Will Get You If You Fail to Make Out Adequate Income Tax Returns. Uncle Sam Can Ask for Your Check Book and Examine} Your Bank Deposits—Fifty Agents Recently Recov- | ered $40,000,000 After Three Months’ Investigation. | By David Lawrence. Copprigtt, 192°. uy The Prose Pulitiching Co. (ike Kew York Geeatnge Wane) (This is the second of a series of articles oa how the Gorern- -ment gets after the people who forget to make income tar returns or fail to pay the proper amounts WASHINGTON, March 6. OME day the persons who 2! Uncle Sam would nes time to check up on indiv dual re- turns will be just as surprised when they are indicted and punished as the Persons who never dreamed that cer- tain kinds of graft entirely unrelated ay {returns. These are carefully guard- | _In fact, that is one of the ways the | Government detects faise returns. All the bakers are grouped, all the butch- ers. all the doctors, all the lawfers, all the farmers in certain sections of |the country, all the cotton growers. to income taxes would be exposed to| Each has filed a return showing his Public view. _ Cost of preduction and deducting the There are, for instance, plenty of /€XPense which be thinks he should be laws. on the etatute books to- stamp | @llowed to eubtract from the total of out political corruption. Yet the | bis income. Governnient may never have had the; Now, of course, it is improbabie evidence. Suppose a firm has been | ‘hat all the bakers, for example, acted accustomed to paying a few thousand |{" # Conspiracy to put down exactly dollars to somoboay as “pofitical /"CW Much their costs of production pul” in Federal, State, county or| Were im any year. Competitors do ity. That item might de uncovered |20t engage in Conspiracies. So on the @a ef investigation is made of what | 0? Of it, the Government has a constitutes proper salary allowances, | 5*8¢Ts! collection of statistics on each The evidence might be turned over to|'T24®. Profession or business, And another branch of the Government or | then when somebody comes slong and ‘WS State authorities for prosecution. pete betta oon that he png an em- with United States Attorneys in | wholesale or retail, included any such ied Pte ke of cases in which [return the Government investigator urns have been falsified. (takes the matter in hand. To de eure, ory, toe See mera some odd cases have arisen. And Gaiirantat Wi nit gobliching of | carve on pert bertbeharog gtircsineg ca ere “ . its information, but in one rather pdt Saute ‘ab ine wane ieaaus populous section of the country Jof one’s trade or business competi- i is weak take big ie bere tors is the best check the Government 100,000,000 in taxes haven has on efforts to charge off to salaries paid that should have been paid. | sums that iozically should be subject Slowly but surely Government in-/|to the higher percentages of taxation vestigatons are cctting daia. The! or excess profits taxes. Many a man ‘Treasury Department's agents have | would prefer to pay an individual tax the authority to subpoena all persons | On $190,000 rather than an excess who have reconis of dividends paid. | Profits tax on the same sum as @ For instance, the Government can, if | business profit, for in the second case Tt chooses, ask for a man's check |he might have to give nearly half of book and can get from his bank the | :t to the Government. amount of his deposits, As a general rule, that isn't done unless fraud is] Years ago, long before the Imcome sunpected and evidence is being guth- | tx laws were ever thought of, certain ered for a possible prosecution. jmen entered into contracts, recorded Tt took fifty agents of the Govern. |!" their Dooks each year and on the ment recently nearly three months | ™!nutes of their corporations, paying im the field to audit a big account | hemselves big salaries or even speci- and something like $40,000,000 was | fed “sums of the net profite of. the fecovered when the job was over. |>usiness. Those sums are not tazabie Non-resident aliens cannot escape | 5 excess profits The contracts any more than can allens who try |C22eet be invalidated by the Govern- te leave the United States without | Mert But these cases are not numer- ing their taxes. A special ma- | 7% chinery has been devised to act in emergencies. There are certain ports ot the United States where agents of the utmost resourcefulness are | Not long ago, a group of for- | @igners left the country without | paying their taxes. They com- | plained that they didn’t under- stand the laws and gave every evidence of not wanting to have any representatives take the mat- ter up for them either. So the Government merely began attach- ing the property they left behind and would have sold it if the t | Speaking of data on corpora- tions, however, the Government can tell at a glance what consti- tutes excessive cost of production. The burden of proof rests on the taxpayer. He may be able to ex- in why the salaries he pays or the expenses he incurs are out of ail proportion to the ether men in | the same business. And when the Government agents begin examining books and minutes lof corporations they may find evi- idence useful to the Department of | Justice in prosecuting profiteering or combinations in restraint of trade. _| Prosecutions for improper returns on individuals in question hadn't © i .cme taxes are not always left to voluntarily given themselves up | +h. United States Attorneys, because and paid the taxes due. It amount- | the latter haven't the time to famil- ed to several millions of dollars. — iarize themselves with the intricacies Information about every conceiv- ich cases. Thousands of men are pecially trained for investigation and prosecution. For failure to make able activity from ratural resources to farming, to shipping, to manufac- turing—every phase of human en-/a return on time there Is a penalty deavor—is recorded by the Govern- | of $1,000 plus 25 per cent. of the tax ment through income tax returns. due. For failure to pay tax when due ‘Access ty other Government ree) or understatement through negli- is available, but else in the | gence there's a penalty of & per cent. Government, no o' department or|and interest. For making a fraudu- bureau, can get hold of income tax | lent return the penalty is $10,000 and Maxims of a Modern Maid By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Coprright, 1930, by The Press Publishing Company. (The Now York Evening World.) N Lent, we all repent the sins we have committed; the rest of the year we repent those we have not had the courage to commit. If the average husband can get the sort of Sunday dinner he wants, Fiume, the League of Nations and Governmental extravagance might be problems of the next planet, so far as he is concerned. Home is a vastly overestimated spot, The water faucets are always leaking, the coai is always giving out and somebody is always hurt- ing the feelings of somebody else. 8 nobody [_ Indeed, some people are bucky.| |) The unkindest cut of all is the one you get from the man who owes you ten dollars. It's all very well to talk about knowing a man before you marry him, ‘ut the only way TO know him is to marry him—and then it’s too fate. “Will you walk imto my parlo! said the spider te-the fly, “Will you come to a little lunch we are giving for newspaper women?” says the Wosthy Cause to the Girl Reporter, With the prices of candy and of flowers soaring into the empyrean, isn't it about time to demand a Congressional investigation of the high cost of courtships? The truth about Women, for a cy: truth about them. “Jurgen,” one of America’s gayest and greatest books; is suppressed, ‘but nobody puts the lid on the sales of Harold Bet! Wright—is not that something to be glad about? Z| >Yakes to love as a duckling takes to a swimming pond, but a man %. —-) is like a fisn out of water, _. Why shotid a woman be unctual? No one else ever ts, amounts to this: that there is no WHY DON'T YOu Put ON NOUR NEW Gown DINNER AND SURPRISE* JOHN You Beat It! By Maurice Ketten FoR ONCE > te i? lps |that's fop-sided wins, A Presidential |of resotutions. Wi NN )) 8 N 1S DINNE R R HUNGRY. HURRY UP THE DINNER! [AN LAM GOING Good NiquT! TOMY DEN 1 AM_GOING To HIT THE HAY a year's imprisonment plus 50 per cent. added to the taxes evaded. And, | vesides, individuals are at the same | time liable to prosecution under other statutes for perjury, conspiracy and| other things that could keep a man in jail for years. Tentative rettrns can always be made and amemted returns filed later. Honest mistakes are often made. It is a case of good faith and good in- tent. It’s also a case in which honest people have nothing to fear, while dis- | honest persons may find themselves in | plenty of embarrassment if the Coy- | ernment catches them. And the chances of being caught are excellent. No one need make any mistake about it. ee Next Monday’s article will deal = with the amounts of money al- §/ ready recovered or expected to be obtained ftom back taxes.) Copyright, 1989, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Byening World.) 1, How many members are there 10 the President's Cabinet?’ 2, Which of the Great Lakes ex- tends the farthest north? 3. What is measured by a unit known as a “miner's inch"? 4. Who is the national hero of itzerland? What system of betting on horse races is generally used in Europe? 6. Who was Presidept between the two terms of Cleveland's administra- tion What Western Judge is noted for is’ work with children’s courts? 8. What American soulptor made busts of the chief members of t Peace Conference? . In what opera is the famous “Anvil Chorus"? 10. Who was responsible for laying the first transatlantic cable? 11, Who sent the message: and Stripes nailed the North P: 12. What force makes an abject weigh less at the Equator than at the i? poles’ ANSWERS TO YESTERDAY'S QUESTIONS. 1, 7; 2, 1912; 3, 3%; 4, Mt. Town- send} 6, Julius Caesar; 6, Hamitic, hi “Stare ole"? Semitic and Aryen; 7, Californie; 8, Samuel T. Coleridge; um 2 3 10, German; 11, 24; The Silent ‘Love By Sophie Irene Loeb. Copyright, and #he became y seemingly good sense. When I first read this communics uon it seemed amusing and like one She 1920, by The Proas Publishing Co. (The New York Bvening Worid) WOMAN writes about a school friend, aleo a woman, who. is seemingly heart-broken. The woman calls her friend “the living dead woman.” tells a long story the molds altogether different; nor did He break the molds as He made them. Therefore, there are many, many People very much alike. In common, Plain pariance “there are as good fish ‘Courtship and | Marriage | By Betty Vincent SHE FAILS TO KEEP FRIENDS. T looks as if Helen had a lesson to | learn, “I am a girl almost eigh- teen years of age,” she writes, ‘and am considered very pretty by many of my girl friends, but cannot seem to keep any of my boy friends, When a boy takes me to a dance or whom | They put a stone wall around them: |to the theatre I am very nice to him Very | selves—a wailing wall. ‘ y)much infatuated. | Eons He dia not seem to| return the interest) selves as miserable as they possibly |éenly. stops, ‘ery despondent, The friend who writes wonders why she has not gotten over it, since whe} is not a young person and one of} about how miser-/in the sea as ever were caught.” able this beh ae | The great fault with the individual has been for over) who thinks that there is only one five years, At that) person in the world gor bim or her time she met 4! \y that they shut everybody else out man with | she became | And there they hug their grievance | close to their hearts and make them- lean, Sometimes they weaken up and find that they have lost their good looks, their sweet temper and their power to attract. They find that People want to run away from them. If they had just taken the opposite course, in nine cases out of ten the of those unrequited, thrilling affairs | results would have been different. that are but mere episodes in the lives| Lf 1 were in love with any one who of women and that pass when the big| did not show signs of reciprocating events come along. woman it is different. She ‘has lost whle, The average person would perhaps | smile and suggest that she necds a good shakeup. Yet, there are 90 many women like her that there is some- thing to be said about it. known women who their call, ‘The public prints often record the case of the girl who made away with herself because somebody has failed to return the affection that she craved, The trouble with such people is that they look down all the time. If they would but gaze upward a Kittle they would find there is a very They would realize that the Supreme Power that made that vast dome, made many men and Many women. He did not construct but lange sky. But She has much to live for and, scemingly, has Mttle interest to keep the fire of life alive. interest in everything | and has made her family most miser- with have » tht I have| gone through life choosing to be unloved and practically burying themscives ‘ecause some plact back-there in the past some man has failed to come at is | my feelings I would crush it—crush it out of my life as fast as I could. "The “living dead woman" mentioned above would not agree with me. She would say “it can't be done as easily as it sounds.” That is because her soul ig sickened with five years of wolf-torture, But it can be done by the pr sss of elimination. Eliminate the cause of the trouble and the trouble is gone. Go out and meet other people whether you want to or not. Join in merry- making even if it hurts. Seek others. Become interested in others. Do things, But whatever you do, don’t stay at home and mope by yourself. I know @ woman who had such a great grief. The man married an- other. She plunged into a fine piece ot work, It was a successful venture She exemplified the wise words, “Work up your grief into art and it is gone” Later the man came back; but she had grown beyond him. He seemed much smaller in her eyes than ever before and certainly less desirable. After eli, one is master of one's fate, a Pining 4s a poor spirit that is pacemaker of old ame. and he seems very friendly. But after taking me out several times he sud- Now, can you tell me the cause of this, as I try to be agree- able? | | | know if it is proper to let a boy kiss “Also, Miss Vincent, please let me you after taking you home from a dance, as when I go out with a boy he al night.” I am afraid you are too agreeable, Helen! Your last paragraph lets the cat out of the bag. Try saying good night and omitting the kiss and see If they don't call again y8 insists on kissing me good J. D, states: “I am a young man employed as a ticket chopper, and am deeply in love with a young lady |who used to drop her ticket in the |box every morning. Recently I have been transferred, and now I ever sec her. I never spoke to her but we uged to smile and ‘bow ‘good morning.’ Now that I don’t eee her mornings as she goes to business I realize. how foolish I was not to have spoken to | proper to write to her. Remember that ‘faint heart never won fair lady.” No doubt she és tuinking about places her ticket in the ox. her. She is a girl in o Station of life and I beKeve we would enjoy each other's company very much. Do} you think it would be proper to write her @ note, giving my name and address and lea it with the new ticket chopper to give to her? I do not see any other way of meot- |ing her now.” Certainly it would be perfectly Me Presidential Election Is an Occasion When Many Are Called and Only a Few Get Away With Their Bluff— ~ Campaigns These Days Don't Use Red Fire—Cam- paigning Is Now Fireless, the Same as Cooking, and = All a Candidate Needs Is a Good Gas Range. ' By Neal R. O’ Hara. Coprright, 1929. by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) politicians have sweetened ;leave home. It's when good pot and politics is now|get together. Except this year stirring. There are two sides | good fellows get together the to every question, which is why we/|goimg to be on the table have to have an election. The side | going te stay there—along wi val + election is an occasion when many AMPAIGNS these days are called and only » few get away red fire. ‘with their bluff. But thank heavings, | fireiess, the same as cooking, less than a few are elected. One| aii a candidate neds is a President is plenty and always bas range. A gas range of 500 yards at been. A Demoerat or Repub must open-air meeting is considered win. So that half these guys that! yory good. Campaigns to-day are ~ want nominations are only fighting | conducted by press agents who <; for the privilege of getting licked. | axe you think they've got a good . Except Bryan. Bryan is fighting for| snow. But politics is different from the privilege of getting buried. the show business. For,in that 1 Raed candidate is a cinder in the |trade George M. Cohan can wave The Public eye, It only takes &/star-spangled Banner and he's got cinder to make an eye run, and it a very good show, A candidate can takes less than that to make the wave the very same thing and cinder run. The cinder in the public they'll want to k who the next eye is @ big disturbance, but in the ker is. There's only one thing ”* end it's wiped out—usually at the ‘ you wave in politics that ever gets i! party convention. The convention is ults. And that's the star. only a machine surrounded by hot air. Not a bit different from the com- | *Pnsied oy eer. * “& bustion engine except you can shut GUY'S friends will push for - him tilt he’s elected and them , off the engine's supply of gas. The) ‘ st convention is also a reason why men | they'll come round and ask him for pull. While you're running every one listens, but when you stop run- | ning they don’t give you a look. It's co the same way with the town clock. =) ORE are all kinds of reasons for running for President and _ sometimes no reason at all, But. when 10,000,000 stenographers al! _ jover the country start writing “Now ~ is the time for all good men to come ~ to the aid of the party,” it makes « lp guy think! Half the candidates are running in response to this impres- sive summons. Which is fair enough.* It's the campaigns” keep 10,000,000 stenogs at 2 Honestly, the dames that pla¢/ 2 ith don't is > Famil amity | iy Roy L. MeCardell. H Copyttaht, 1920, by The Prene Pubiishing Co. (The New York Evesing World.) WANT you to look after the children and the house,” said Mrs. Jarr. “Mra. Rangle and 1 are going over to see Amanda Smank's new baby. You know she was Clara Mudridge-Smith’s cousin, and her husband is the tail man I introduced you to some weeks ago when we met him outside the store the day we went downtown to complain about the new enametware chipping when it was sold to us fully guaranteed, and the man had the nerve to say it wasn't guaranteed against chipping if alowed to burn and then wi scraped. But I'm going to see the manager, and if I don’t get satisfac- tion I'll take away my trade. I never deal ot that store, anyway!" “Beg pardon, but didn't you say you were going around to see some- body's baby?" ask@d Mr. Jarr, wearily, “Yes, it's Amanda Smank’s first baby,” replied Mrs. Jarr, “and she raising it according to health rule: although I never saw a child yet that) thrived simply because you took its| temperature. She's always sticking a thermometer in the poor little thing's mouth, I hear. What good | does that do a baby?” “I shouldn't imagine there was) much nourishment in a thermometer,” said Mr, Jarr, “but what's the enamel- ware got%o do with it?” “Well,” said Mre. Jarr, “if I'm a Nttle late—although I won't stay long | ‘because Mrs. Rangle says Mrs. Smank doeun't seem to care whether people \call or not unless they talk about | |nothing ut her wonderful baby: won't be able to go down to the store and compla‘n. 1 want to ‘hurry | ‘ {him when dreams come (rue. $m | Or spell. OME guys have their own pri reasons for running for Preai- dent. For instance, one feller wants ¥ to be boss because they kept him out 5 of war! He missed two years of fighting and now he wants four! _ His platform will be Wood—first. last and always. And then there's another bird—the one that gave the Kaiser the census of U. 8S, lamp » posts. He wrote about his ro years in Germany and now ae talking about four years here, He ~ can win if he gets the lamp post vote! x“ ND then there’s Bryan. A guy © that's run as long Bryan > has run needs wind, And that's ex- . actly what Old Bill's got. He’ enough wind to move the Shi State even if all the boilers went ~ blooey! When Bryan runs, the race is always a sure thing. For thet bookies. He's the most consistent »~ loser Washington has outside of its... big league ball team. Bill is a per- . petual runner and a_ perpetual runner-up, Some. day they'll elect But \ back and change this dress, too.” ’ “What do\lipu wear it for, you| it will have to tes terrible dream, ire going iq Range it?" asked Mr, | == or | eee tin going to aroma, ZHE EVENING WORLD Mra, Jarr si “Here the girl's \ gone off and\ “now she's forgotten | 2s 4? to clean the A, box; she's left the| How do delicatessen store pro- flues “get that way?” f dishes unwashed, and if she thinks | I'm going to wash them she's mis- taken.” | & TRY THISON r “Well, I've got to hurry aaa YY YOUR - said Mr. Jarr. | SX OUIIA iq Man's Place, the Home. | YN “Now, don’t go running off just be-| 7 cause I want to say @ fow words to} you before I go «tt, and goodness | * knows I get out but seldom,” re- Send your answer to The Evening marked Mre. Jarr, “This is your) y orig ‘uta sai home, too, if you'd oniy be interested : . im et Here are some of the answers to ). “Depart in peace,” said Mr. Jurr. “I! yemterday’s question: won't fail you. I'll attend to every-|" wit the “reformers” succeed in thing and will stay right here Watch-| taking tobacco away? a ing for fires, burglars, bill collectors,| ©, H. Jr, West 121at Street—df they old friends with a grudge, and all) * rie | do 1 want to die, cther constant visitors and visita-/ @ gH, Boston, Mass.—My ouija”’ tions. board sai ‘The demon tobacco must In due time Mrs. Jarr returned, perish from the earth.” “No,” said Mr. Jarr greeting her at Jerry, N. ¥, City—Sir Oliver Lodge the door. ‘{ did not forget a thing. says that they have tobacco in the I even emptied the pan under the ice other world and that you can get goodi box; shore Jt te” sd cigars there. Why should we not ‘And you didn’t put it back?" asked! none here if we are going to here+ Mrs, Jarr, “Why, the water has run| afters ~) all over the floor Mr, Jarr got mad first. " —_ FOR LADIES ONLY. “Lt you'd you and misses bowing to you as she jagain, it is hoped, especially as they} fame and then Inserted stay at home and tend to things,” he} A hair dryjng comb has been im began, vented that i featured by a steel rod They'll be on speaking terms soon] that is heate§ over a gee scnata with a back spacer mo¥esag’ ment aren't so crazy as they Se@- dj i y