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Decline Of Incomes.
HERE, THERE
Mr.
and
EVERYWHERE
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1023. AMERICANS FACING MORE TAXATION
ROOSEVELT ENCOUNTERS A STORM
COLLAPSE OF RADIO CITY
Storm-clouds are already gather he has always been since a dispute ing around President-Elect Roose with the management some velt, in spite of the fact that he jago,
Years
Maxton's Confessions Mr. Maxton, who complains that he has been misrepresented by aj Communist paper, says that the | journal relied presumably "on that very well-known story that he would be too lazy or too good Įnatured to reply." He quotes hin stock answer to those who accusu him of laziness, which is, "I have never been able to d cnough does not take over office until · What effect this low-priced mag- energy to do things that were not] March 4. Following the attempt uificence will have on sales is worth doing."
made on his life by the would-be problematical, although the recent- Later, he says his critica should assassin, Zingara, he has now pro-ly opened Radio City amusement not be surprised at his impudence. ceeded to New York, where he is centre, took only a few days to and adds, "When I am dealing faced with the problem of choosing prove that these are not the times with impudent people I can us-hle cabinet.
for magnificent "spreads." ually muster up suffetent to deal Confronted with the prospect of: Radio City collapsed within
a Budget deficit of 1,500,000,000 week. Its sponsors have already dollars (£300,000,000 at par), Mr. decided to abandon the magnificent Roosevelt, in conference with the Roxy cinema attached to it, and are Democratic leaders, proposed in-turning its companion music-hall, creases in income-tax amounting to seating 6,200, Into Д as much as 200 per cent. In the theatre. case of the lower salaries, and Radio City-or the Rockefeller The gradual militarisation of the which would bring into the income- Centre, to give it its official title. high offices of State in Poland, and tax fold many persons of restrict--has been described as "the most the replacement of clvilians by ed means,
stupendous private building · pro- army officers in the entourage of
The instant resentment express.
ject in the history of mankind." Marshal Pilsudski, may shortly beed throughout the nation was It was commenced in 1923, at the carried a stage further.
with them."
Confession may be good for the soul, but Mr. Maxton's confession of impudence may surprisà, many of his friends.
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Military Ambassadors
cinema
Some months ago the civilian amazing. Americans, to whom in-height of the prosperity, by John
come-tax is comparatively new, and D. Rockefeller as an
replaced by an Army officei. Colonel Joseph Beck, who was for merly Polish military attache in
amusement
Foreign Minister, M. Zaleski, was who are accustomed to paying and commercial "city within a city" what seems a trivial amount to the to perpetuate his name, at a cost heavily taxed Englishman, oppose
of round about £50,000,000; and, the proposed increases.
ootwithstanding the depresalon, it at On an annual income of 7,300 has been hurried forward Colonel Beck is now believed to dollars (£1,460) the married Eng-feverish speed. have recommended to Pilsudski the lishman pays about £212, while the Twelve acres of buildings In appointment of Army officera to American on a similar income pays! Manhattan, opposite. St. Patrick's only £34. With the increase pro-| Cathedral on Fifth-avenus-three
Paris,
replace the chief Polish Ambassi ders abroad.
Your Daily Smile.
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The manufacturers' sales tax,
The Polish Ambassador in Lon-Posed by Mr. Roosevelt the Ameri-solid blocks of the most valuable
lean would pay £54,
real estate in the world-were don, M. Skirmunt, has just complet
The outery against this from cleared, and a population of 4,000 been placed on industry, science ed ten years of service in London.
coast to coast was so unanimous people were displaced to make and engineering. If it is met by His colleague in Paris, Count Chla- that it is considered likely that it room for a city of 160,000. Twelve the genius that gave us mass powski, has also served a long
will force Mr. Roosevelt to drop great balldings were projected, each to be the largest of its kind Hong Kong, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1933. production, the depression may period.
the plan.. be followed by a new industrial
In the world, with a 70-storey If he is compelled to abandon building of the Radio Corporation day.
this plan he will be faced with the of America; known as the B.C.A., problem of raising the necessary in the centre. revenue. Even a sales tax, plus a An English grower complains beer tax, petrol, electric, and otherstone of the British Empire Build- This is already up. The corner- that the home market is flooded taxes, as well as drastic governing of six storeys, designed to be The two hundredth anniversary
The annual report of the with Thatch bulbs.
mental economics, would fall for the official headquarters in New of Richard Arkwright's birth,
Washington Treasury Depart- Just one Amsterdam thing after short of the sum needed. ment shows for the first time another.
York for leading British firins, was recently celebrated, is a fit occa- the full effect of the depression
Mr. Roosevelt's financial ad-
laid by Lord Southborough last sion for examining what the In-on incomes in the United States.}
visers are seeking some new means July, and is now practically com- of raising revenue without impos-plete. This is the first of several dustrial Revolution, of which hel For purposes of comparison, The steak-and-kidney-ple maker ing more than a moderate sales buildings, each intended to concen- was the very incarnation, has figures are given for net incomes is another fellow who never makes tax, because they fear that a heavy rate within its wails the New
of $5,000 and more in 1928, 1930, both ends mest. meant to society His claims 'ns and 1931. In the first of these
sales tax would lead to further
York commercial activities of 0 stagnation. inventor of labour-saving years, coinciding closely with the
different country. NO SLEEP FOR POP,
The International Music Hall spinning and carding machinery peak of post-war prosperity, net "Doctor can you tell me how to which has been successfully em- and the "Roxy" Cinema, the first were shattered in his own day by income from salaries, dividends make my husband stop snoring?"
and business earnings amounted "Don't worry. Your baby will ployed in Canada, is a Democratic of which is to be turned into judges who declared his patents(10 $11,977,000,000, To this was soon be tething and you will not Proposal for which the United picture theatre, and the second, invalid. But there is no doubt added $4,322,000,000, represent-¡need to atop his snoring."
States Government tried to obtain with its 3,700 seats, abandoned, sanction early last year, but, alwere opened, within two days of that he was the creator of massing profits from the sale of
though approved of in principle, it each other, in the last week of production in
stocks, real estate, etc., bringing The Innocent Shall Suffer. Our sense-the
was rejected by the House of Re-December. the total to $16,299,000,000. In man who started an avalanche by 1930 income from the first of it is believed that one must know whelming majority through fear of of a novel oval shape, like the in- To be a consistent novel writer presentatives in March by an over- The interior of the Music Hall fe rolling a rock down the industrial these two major sources held up suffering. The same thing applies its unpopularity in the consti-eide of a dirigible, and the light- mountain-side, the forerunner of surprisingly well, despite the de- to the consistent novel reader.
tuencies, It was to be 2% per ng effects imitate the sunrise. It- It amounted to all that Essen, Pittsburgh, Man-pression.
cent, on most manufactured goods, scata 6,200 people, has the largest chester and Detroit stand for. 16 per cent. from the figure for $10,027,000,000, a decline of only
and the President was again urg-stage in the world, and is under "When our son has completed his ing it upon Congress last month. the With this barely literate barber the boom year 1928. But pro-studies, what will he be?"
direction of the popular The situation is further complie "Mayor of Radio City." Mr. S. L |begins the rational utilisation of fits from the sale of stocks and “A very old man!”
cated by the prospect that Federal Rothafel, known to all New Yorkers the machine. A sense of organ real estate were almost wiped
expenditurea will be heavily i-as "Roxy." isation that amounted to genius out by losses in 1930, leaving a Attraction.
net gain of only $92,000,000.} An army of locusta 500 miles in: enabled him to substitute mech- The total income for the year length is reported from South anical collectivism for craftsman was thus $10,119,000,000. Fin- Africa, Somebody out there must ship in industry, so that we now lally, figures for 1931 show a sharp have planned an exceptionally see thousands of men and women, drop in both main divisions. Net inrge picnic,
income from salaries, dividenda
not one of whom can make a pair and business earnings amounted
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creased by, farm mortgage rellef, The failure of these two gran- which can hardly be avoided, and diose enterprises is the most sen- also by unemployment relief..
Although Americans are not yet world has ever known.
sational "Hop" the entertainment
burdened with unemployment in- surance, the growing unemploy- mont makes it appear likely that nome substantial contribution mustį
bs made to avert starvation among MR. J. H. BACKHOUSE ja- quarter of the country's popula-
tion,
LAID TO REST.
Many Friends Present At Gravesite.
of shoes by hand, producing, mil to only $7,123,000,000. Losses “Do your neighbors borrow much lions of pairs by machine in a on the sale of stocks and real from you?" year. In two centuries the apestate actually exceeded profits} "Borrow1" Why, I feel more at! plication of Arkwright's prin- from the same source by home in their houses than I do in)
It is being recognised that the ciples, coupled with engineering $634,000,000. Total income thus my own."
cumulative effects of depression activity, has brought about more amounted to $6,489,000,000 a
are making it increasingly difficult sweeping social and economic shrinkage of 60 per cent. since Weaker Yət and Wasker. changes than the world ever wit, 1928. Inevitably, this great
In a London suburb recently the to raise relief funds through volun- nessed before. Machines are the melting away of earnings and bung of a barrel on a brewer's dray tary contributions,
Even New York, the centre of The funeral of Mr. James result of careful planning. What profits had been accompanied by became loose and beer was sprayed of the larger, social effects of a decline in the number of tax- over the road. Passers-by thought the nation's wealth, is having dif- Herbert Backhouse took place in the machine? The Arkwrights payers and in the amount of re- that the dust was being laid by culty in raising the needed relief the Protestant Cemetery last even- fand, which it is hoped will reaching, in the presence of a large and Watts, for all their plan- venue received by the American the municipal watering cart
16,000,000 dollars (28,000,000). In gathering of friends. ning, never gave them a thought. Government. In 1929 taxes were
other parts of the country contri- The Rev. N. V. Halward per {"Technocracy," whether its pro paid by 936,470 persons on in-
butions are still more difficult to formed the last rites. nouncements are sound or not, comes earned in 1928. In 1932
raise.
Present as chief. mourners were |furnishes additional evidence that the number of taxpayers declıq-
While the national income titres | Mesara, J. F. Wright (who was ae- engineers and scientists are ated to 556,120, Meantime, the last thinking socially. It has Treasury's receipts have fallen
Japan exports approximately 82 years ago was 90,000,000,000 dol-companied by Mrs. Wright), J. and H. S. Dinsdale. dawned on them that they creat from $1,181,000,000 to $284,000,- per cent. of its reduction of raw lars (£18,000,000,000) it is now less Harron ed this social order-created it 000, with disastróns consequences
silk and about 87 per cent of its than 50,000,000,000 dollars (£10,- Others present were Mesura, J. M.
000,000,000); jalik textiles.'
Therefore even Noronha, C. S., Rosselet, Ko Leong- without any social purpose in for a Government which has de-
nominal tax increase to raise hoe, Ho Taat-ting, H; E. Goldsmith, view," inspired solely by economic}pended, for most of its. revenue motives. But if we are to plan on a one-track system of taxa-
Forty eight feet of spiral tubing Government revenues to an ad- G. F. Lammert, H. A. Lammert, production on a world scale in tion. When the amount of taxes carried in a casing only five feet quate level means a double burden F. J. de Rome, T. Hynes, IL A. order to forestall social distress, pald by different income groups long are used to literally wear out compared with what it would have Taylor, A. Humphreys, E. R. will there not be a chilling of in- is analyzed, certain striking ro the exhaust gases in a new airplane been three years ago, ventive ardour and of the spirit sulta appear. Payments made in mulier,
Facts You Did Not Know.
of industrial research? And if the class of incomes ranging fr
Duckitt, M. F. Key, J. T. Prior, The American Motor Show, W. J. Hanson, Ho Kuk-kwan; *116 which is now in progress in New Wing-ho, Ho Shu-nam, Chau Kang- York, discloses another paychologi-yan, P. Lobel, M. J. R. Montargis, eat result of the depression in the M. J. Quist, E. M. Raymand, and luxury of the cars presented and J. A. Shoenen.
in compstison with the prices pre-
The public is offered veritable {"jewel croan” of magnificent care
we are to give our social evolu- from $5,000 to $19,000 have de Slightly more than five per kept tion purpose and direction, whe clined by 45 per cent, but those of Siam's total population of are to be our guides? We want in the clase from $10,000 to 11,500,000 persons live in Bangkok, cheap automobiles, clothes, com- $100,000 have declined by 72 per where almost every far eastern race walling a few years ago,t forts, but without slums and cont, and those in the class above is, represented. periodic misery and, above all, $100,000 by no less than 84 per without being subjected to the cept. A grenfor, proportionate tyranny of the scientific oligarchy decrease of returns from the that Bertrand Russell predicts we per brickats must be must accept; if we are to tuksiin hard times, as the number our social destiny into our own large taxpayers
Or Aghting TAFE OF JOHIMIWAPAN of tha type „pravivusly designed. has been designed to be car only for Indian princes, and priced
Many wreaths were sent.
WEATHER FORECAST
North-east
moderate,
operated to-day in figures almost comparable cloudy, is this wonthe, Yoruchafed in pare motor with those of Henry Ford, who, as to-day's report Issued.
usual, in absent from the Shaw, as Royal Observator