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U.S. Income Tax Law
The American income tax law differs from Britain's principally in the provision by which capital losses may be set off against cur- rent income.
The four "big men" who are now in facing charges of tax evasion the United States are alleged to have made fictitious. sales of stock
in order to show. paper losace.
different States.
SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1934.
WONDERFUL WOMEN OF THE NORTH
COURAGE KEYNOTE IN
LANCASHIRE
FEMININE BREAD-WINNERS
(By Margarat Lane.)
Whenever a Londoner goes in-fare often wrecked
because
the
The rate of income tax varies in to the North the North receives man gets sick of being the one to him with a not unkind contempt, stay at home. That is not hard to the Federal tax is charged at the very irritating to the southerner. understand, but it is hard on
has spent her youth rate of 4 per cent, on the first $4000 It implies (and sometimes says so woman who
plainly) that a southerner is albetween her home and the mill, and of income, and 8 per cent. above soft thing. a bit of a ninay, a who gets so little reward out of that figure.
G
In New York State there is an creature who gabs too much and it all.
bothers with superfine manners Some of the younger men react additional tax of 2 per cent on
jand other nonsense.
¡differently and cling to these sturdy- incomes up to $10,000, and of
The women of the industrial women as they clung to their ow per cent. on all incomes in excess
north are like their men in that millworking mothers, as their only of $50,000.
bostile world. (as in other ways they despise secure hope in a
the southerner because, not being There are many marriages nowa- of the North, he cannot know what days between mill-girls of forty a work is, or what money is, and and unemployed youths of nine-
*
One Of The Accused Mr. Thomas S. Lamont, one of the big men who are being accus- ed of tax evasion, is the eldest son
on
men's
Personal Allowances Personal, allowances are on more generous scale than in Bri- cannot know life as they have had teen. tain.
to kubw it, plain and hard.
In some of the big factories of A bachelor is allowed $1000 free Although I was born only an the North I found myself wonder of tax and a married man $2500, afternoon's walk out of Lancashire ing how it was possible for women, with an additional $400 for each I have spent all my life in the with ordinary female bone and child.
South, and recognise the faint muscle, to work as hard as they Gifts to charity, money paid in contempt of there women when were working, for nine hours a
due other taxes and Jonser
to meet it. In the past month I havejday. In the wholesale clothing fire, burglary or the acts of God been working in the North again-factories there was always a fer- may also be deducted from the tax-in towns I barely remembered and erish, activity.
They spend their strength able income.
towna I had never seen-and learn.
the ed things from
in the heavy pressers, lifting women those smoke-blackened cities and bulky overcoats and pressing them in the sour back-streets of the into shape in a hissing cloud of colliery towne that have put me steam, one after another, hundreds in their debt for ever.
a day. Yet they do not work at particular, contains
They are a breed, these women, this furious pace because they are of Mr. J. P. Morgan's famous part-sharply different from the rest, driven by overacers, but because crowded areas close to the prin- iner.
with a hard, independent courage they are paid by piece-rates, and If replan- FLEW. On cipal thoroughfares.
He himself is a junior partner PRITTIE-PERRY
their men might envy. Hard no woman born into the industrial Julius
afraid of hard March 31, 1934, at Holy Trinity (ned and rebuilt on modern lines in the bank, and with Mr. Cathedral, Shanghai, by the they would provide abundant ac- Morgan is largely responsible for work, which was waiting to grab North was ever
Frequently they sing to- them from their cradles, follows work. of the purely Very Reverend Dean A. C. Scommodation for an even larger the management
them through their married lives, gether over the roar of their ma- Trivelt, M.A., B.D., Phoebe
banking business.
them chines. The older generation attend to stay unremittingly with
I often wonder how the women through old age to the grave. In to John Hastings Prittie-Perry, a condition varying from indif-which the firm specialises.
most any life looks like a bed of [licry towns of the North manage Maritime ferent to bad, originally buiult
still to turn that quiet courage of Life brings them up hard. life that has carried them through strangers to luxury, and out of so much in the past ten sight of beauty, and gives them, in There is no softness or beauty any. compensation, an integrity of char where about them, except what, faster and a strength of loyalty far, they inhke-and out of how littlef to far more valuable than the "trim-in their own homes. Perhaps it con-rings" they have no time for. Is in unconscious protest against
many over--
Mary Score, daughter of Mr. Population, blocks of flats replac and Mrs. J. P. Flew, of London, ing thousands of houses now in the wider financial operations in comparison with their lives al-who spend their lives in the col-
of Customs.
Chinese the
The China Mail
Tackling The Evils Of Overcrowding.
Thomas was at Cambridge just for one family and now let out after the war. His two brothers, in many cases in six. The prime Corliss and Austin, were both at
New College, Oxford. essential is that the municipal authorities should prepare a gen- [cral planning scheme and then
An examination paper set adapt their rehousing to it. The would-be R.A.F. apprentices
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Per Ardua
годея.
years old.
years,
Bweet
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Hong Kong, Saturday, April 14, 1934. Minister has said that the na-tains several questions which seem The women of the mill towns the mean, raw streets and the de- tional subsidy would be "restrict-at first sight a little out of place, have been bread-winners for solate slag-heaps behind them, the ed to work that neither privatej "How is a primrose construct generations. Many of the old wo-black chimneys at their doorstep, enterprise nor the local authori-jed?" and "Who are the six most men standing in their worn pina-the endless dirt and darkness of ties unaided can economically un-famous British painters?" appears fores before the machines to-day the pit, that they create that at- dertake." That is essential or to be a somewhat arbitrary test worked a sixteen-hour day in those mosphere of warmth and
of a young man's aeronautical sume sheds when they were ten familiarity which you find in The Minister of Health's na-the expenditure would be fabu- abilities.
They accept those many of even the poorest colliery tional programme for getting rid lous. The governing factors in Questions of this tyne are machines and those sheds as part homes. of the slums throughout Britain the problem will be the cost of test of common sense and quick-of their job-in addition to those
building and the rents that mess." by building 300,000 replacement
people can afford to pay. We One candidate scored houses in the course of five years hope the Minister of Health will marks by refusing to answer has been fairly launched. Sir E-concentrate on the needs of the question which he described Hilton Young is as re-poorest and see that they get "footling." solutely bent on tackling the the largest benefit from the new In out-national housing subsidy. Hither- lining his plans before the Auso-to they have had least.
now
evils of overcrowding.
ciation of Municipal Corporations! he was at paine to emphasise that this second campaign is quite distinct from the other.j There is widespread overcrowd-
Valuable Preferences In India,
Evidence of the value of the Ottawa agreement to British
Your Daily Smile.
cares of home and children that
Sephistication Unwanted
The women in them work har high other women find a whole-time un-der, very often, than their sisters
4dertaking.
in the factories and mills; have a still heavier burden
BS
Married But Working
they
of
are
In the winter mornings before unemployment to bear, and when day-light, in the mean streets of their men are in work they the wool and colten towns, you see never free for an instant from the young women letting themselves nagging ache of fear.
These women have had to face MARKET PRICES
out of their houses with a child A collection of moths has just in their arms and another, perhaps, bitter realities so closely that it e no wonder they despise "frills” realised twenty guineas in London, at their heels. They have been up
auft.
LOUD PEDAL
I only got five shillings for my old an hour or two already, getting and laugh grimly when they hear their husbands' breakfast, feeding of the latent extravagance of fash- No wonder they set loyalty and dressing the children, setting on.
before "education” the house in order. Now they are and courage ing without the conditions of trade is afforded by the figures I read that wireless has led a lot taking the children to one of those
(Continued on Page 11). absolute slumdom. The cure, of India's imports prepared by more people to play the piano, the houses in nearly every street where ukulele. and the saxophone. babios are "minded" for so much a however, is broadly the same. It the Department of Overseas
Trade. In the nine months' per-about wireless nowadays.
never seem to read anything nice week is to provide dwellings enough
iod that ended with Dec. 31 last to house the overcrowded.
As
NEW FEE SYSTEM FOR MARRIAGES
All that must be over and done with long before the ordinary the total of India's buying was Letter to the Chancellor of the housewife is awake, for there in Double Price For Second
still a long tram ride to the mill,
the Minister starts from the less principle that "overcrowding is the
than in 1932, but proportion of
Exchequer goods Dear Sir,-Enclosed in a cheque,
There is one
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BAD STORY
at the machines when the town
Weddings no longer to be allowed," and supplied by Great Britain for 21,000, which I wish to contri, and they must be in their place
51 per cent.bute to the Budget surplus. As 1 clocks strike' seven.
Springfield, Missouri. vows to make the principle effec-increased by tive and keep it effective, local With the measure of prosperity prefer to remain anonymous I am
There is no question, to the mill A new system of fees for mar- now being seen in India the pre-leaving the cheque unsigned.
girl, of giving up her job because riages has been worked out by housing authorities and the ferences which have been accord-
she is married; even in good times Mr. J. IL Duncan, a Magistrate. public utility societies will be ed to British manufacturers Fers from the Adding Crowd
"If i couple has never been A bankrupt confessed that thet is often her wages that make called upon to brace themselves should lead to improvement upon expensive motor car was simply to marriage possible, and all through married before," he says, "I may the depression in many thousands marry them free. They are get- for still further housing activi- those figures.
keep up appearances. Some people, ties. This means large addition- group of statistics that, in par- of course, have them simply to of families it has been mothering into it bad enough the way
wage packet that has kept, the it is. al subsidies from national funds, ticular, is a matter for congratu-keep up disappearances.
"But if the couple has been lation. A few years ago the In-
home together. because it is frankly recognised dian market for motor-cars scom-
She has her independence, won married before, 1 charge them that most of the rehousing willed in danger of becoming a pre- He could read her like a book by hard toil, and it has made her double price at least £1. They have to be carried out on or near serve of the American manufac She was such a plain type
moré free and downright, 'a little ought to know better."-Reuter.. the original site.
Consider-turer.
more truculent and sharp-tongued, To-day the majority of
than other women. She is BOS able replanning, therefore, in the cars sold in India are of British inner areas of cities, where land make. The vagaries of the At a circus in France a woman Picious of "foreigners” which She ta is dear, will be required, and full American exchange account in did a dance in a lion's cage. They means anyone from another town powers will be conferred on lo-part for that reversal of the post-have no Bociety for the Prevention and afraid of no one.
ways plainly generous with friends. cal authorities to acquire comtion, but a fer greater factor has of Cruelty to Animals over there, often taciturn with strangers,: al. She "keeps herself decent" but, pulsorily what sites they need at been cheaper manufacture in On the Road fair and reasonable prices, This Britain and the realisation on the
"Sandwiches!"roared the coun-unless she is very young, despises part of the trade that the Indian try hotel proprietor. "Why, I was
"frill." involves "building upwards in market is already valuable, and making sandwiches before you Where Men Cling To Wonnes fate. That is the only practi-is capable in the future of endr- were born, young man P, The experience of unemployed tricts to which they have been cal method of rehousing the mous expansion if the cars for Bure you were. It's you try man in these towns, where Indus- sent will offer them no oppor poorest classes near their work India's needs are designed and ing to sell 'em now that I'm com- tries are run on female labour Is tunity for exercising their proc In large cities: Inner London, in supplied.
'plaining about.”
an embittering one, and marriages livities-Reuter.
HARDLY FAIR
NATIVES DEPORTED FOR CANNIBALISM,
Lisbon.. Cennibalism still exists in Portuguese West Africa.
Four natives have just been deported from Angola for eating human beings, The new dis