The evening world. Newspaper, April 14, 1921, Page 8

a ee ee "PRONE CATECHISM REVEALS HOW “CORPORATION FAMILY” IS GORGED AT PUBLIC CRIB _ American Telephone and Telegraph Owns New York Telephone Company and Con- trols Western Electric Company. By Sophie Irene Loeb. Q. What does your telephone Dill say this month on its face? A. Local Service Charge—plus 20 per cent. Q. What ciso do you lose? A 8 per cent. more than you have deen accustomed to getting in a @iscount—which together means &n increase of 28 per cent Q. How does this work out? A. Where formeriy you paid $11.69, you now pay $15. @ How does such an enormous Increase wh will cost the con- Sumers $11,000,000 more than for- merly, come about? A. By order of the 1p-State Public Service Commission, with a vote of 8 to 2. Q. Who v for such a raise? A. Joseph A, Kellog, Georg Van Name and John A the lust being the former counsel Gliding vote. Q Why did these three com- missioners vote this $11,000,000 phone Company not ficient return from A. So the company claims, bu courts will have to decide Q. What do we know about it? A. A fe days after the o it would pay 9 Instead of & per cent, i» hereto- Q. What was the A. The American T Telegraph Co’ points on the Q. What is phone and ‘Te A. \t ts the parent of a huge “corporation family n Q. How is that® A. The Now York Telephone Company is owned comp e Ameri- can Telephone and Telegeaph Company Q. What else does the Ameri-~ can Telephone and Telegraph ‘ompany own? A. It owns 98 per cent. of the Western Electric Company. Q low do the members of rporation family” deal h other? A. The ew phone Company buys 90 per cent. of its supplies from its brother, the Western Electric Company. Q. What do such supplies amount to? A. Last year they amounted to $27,000,000, Q. Whe this profit? A. The parent, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Q. What other items of profit for example? A. The parent, the American Pl ape and Tele~ graph Com) . charges its son, the New Y phone Com- pany, 41-2 per cent, of its gross revenues for the use of instru- ments and for alleged accounting and engineering services. Q. How mucn does this amount A. Last year it reached $2, @ What is this one item to the consumer? A. It meni he pays for telephon son company is called upon to pay 41-2 cents to the parent company for the use of the phe instruments that the son has, and for counting up the money of the son. Q. In what financial condition is the New York Telephone Com- pany? A. Well, for one thing, it ha surplus of $36,000,000, tl a depreciation reserve of $75, 000,000. Q, How does this help the pa- rent, the American Telephone and’ Telegraph Company? A. It enadles its parent to declare 9 per cent. dividends in the future inatead of 8 per cent Q. Why must the consumer pay 28 per cent. more for its tele- phones? A. Why? RESTAURANT GETS TOO MUCH MUSIC; TENANT MAKES IT Some Diners Driven Out and Some Stay Too Long—Rem Laws Protect Conservatory. LLEGING that trreparable A dal e has been done to his Dusiness by the inter- minable music emanating from the Andrews Conservatory of Music, one of the plaintiff's ten- fants. located on the floor above his restaurant, causing some pa- trons to flee from the place and others to remain too long, Gus Bearmalis, who conducts La Mode Restaurant, No. 762 Eighth Avonue, to-day applied to the Su- preme Court for an injunction re- straining the studio from contin- wing the musical recite, Several affidavits corroborating Bearmalis's allegations were sub- mitted with the papers. A woman tenant of the premises complains that her family cannot sleep, nor engage in conversation on account of the racket coming from the studio. Searmalis says the “conserva- Yory is four months in arrears in rent, but owing to the new rent laws ejectment js impossible, Qs only relief, he says, ts to ei goin the defendant from continuing the serenades. Searmalis is the Jessee of the building. “BOOTLEG” PROFITS BILLION A YEAR But Like Gambling Returns, No Part Paid Income Tax. WASHINGTON, April on the basis of gmately 30,000,000 gallons of 14.—Boot- feggers made profits totalling nearly $1,000,000,000 last year, it ts estimated Internal Revenue Bureau reports showing that approx- liquor were withdrawn from bonded ware- houses. Between $200,000,000 and $500,000,000 of this should be pail to the Gov- ernment in income and excess profits taxes. So far as tax records show, no profits earned by bootleggers were reported or paid in taxes. Bootleggers, it is pointed out, are in the same class with winners at gambling games. Neither group has ever made an open return of money so received. William G, McAdoo, a4 Secretary of the Treasury, ruled that gambling winnings should ‘be included in the Income tax returns, Before leaving office, however, Mr. McAdoo said that so far as ‘he knew his ruling had failed to net the Governinont a ite the fact that approxi- 100,000,000 changed hands a ‘and betting on the Headed Tricotine, 15.00 THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, ccareaceanemnancar secs cron D Ne e phate sent ETA Br, 1921. |GET $20,000 FURS, POLICE Burglar Alarm in Ce Plaster Up Burglars, women's conte, pelts, The scene of the Weat 30th there is a policeman mort of the time. The thie entere through an alleyway climbed are Unable to jin ed a hole two f ceiling d with AMERICAN B B Latter Sa “You We British Shou! People. MONTREAL, Que., Frank Bishop of Te the Canadinn Club of audience with minded me of Roosevell fought Hritieh The ‘Bishop. xald might grow up to criticize her mother, but in the long run a went back on moth the United States, he politicians and hi fact to the Kin, also some in England gmiled at that Robert Young. Civil Mr. Young's children Cecil and Horace. The brothers —are Joh Young. So, if any on to Kobert Young, R. F. villians, Va., they will | Mr Chief Petty Officer 1 was held in $5,000 bail jay on a charge of connection with | the Leo, a Chinese. Be base have raised Orkin’s Fifth Avenue FRIDAY---A Very Exceptional Offer 530 New Street and Afternoon Dresses Including Fringed Canton Crepes, Taffetas and Tricotines Formerly 24.75, 29.75 to 39.75 Break Through Wall, mink skins and a quantity of only a little more than a block from) Street stuirway to the re unprotected, nnd the tly knew this LAUDS KING GEORGE (Special (0 the Evening World.) April 14 neasee and President of the House of Bishops, counting hia impressions of private King George, feans could not pay a higher tribute than that. “After a conversation that a commented on the remarking there were ‘ording to the Bishop. a VETERAN SEEKS KIN. ‘Trevillans, Va., through the advertising columns of The World this morning ex- presses 4 desire to learn the where- abouta of his three children and his brothers or their children, thing ‘to their Interest, ‘oung’s ndvertisem was given and it} said the navy men at the subma a $3,000 defense | NEARBY ing, So They Then GH. Altman & Cu. Hole. presumably working tate Saturday night, stole $20,000 worth of) fura from the establishment of A, Wecekastein & on, on the lith floor of) Ne, He: Beverth Avenue, 1¢, Sesaza8| The Upholstery Department known to-day. The loot Included ten between 700 and 800) rough the robbery: th offers innumerable opportunities for the satis- Station, and] factory and economical purchase of a the bu inal In the rear and 11th} to, eh Summer Draperies :'Cretonnes,Curtainings,Etc. arr | a burglar the loot the itteves| * earofuliy “plaatered up the hate, they of which there are remarkably large and paria which the aes brous t along. varied assortments from which selections may be made. Among them are the follow- ing (in regular stock at the prices quoted): sISHOP Americans and Id Be One Cretonnes, etc. American Cretonnes, per yard, from 45c. Imported Cretonnes . per yard, from 58c. Glazed Chintzes . + per yard, from 85c. —Right Galler, D. D., to-day regaled Montreal hy re- of whom ke rere Drapery Silks ihe 80 splendidly fitted to be " se Silk, i 4 let of a erent deinoeratic people. I Japanese Silk, in a wide range of plain colors, it, and we Amer- per yard . 5 . . . . 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