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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH. *-.1924

THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.

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INCOME TAXES IN U.S. DIVORCEES INTERESTED IN PUBLISHED FIGURES.

DEMPSEY'S 300,000,

No political episode in years hus. caused such excitemeat and indignation as the publication throughout America of the income taxes paid this year by individus and corporation of all classes.

For the first time in the history of the United States the innermost financial secrets of the wealthy have been ex posed ruthlessly to the gaze of the entire community. The publication of the tax lists was due to the amendment of the revenue law which was forced through Congress by the Democrats and Radicals over the protest of the Republican members.

The amendment providea that the public may be permitted to inspect the tax returns, but does not specifically state that the list of payments should be published. As the result, the newspapers of the country are filled with the most appetising morsels, which have been prin- ted for many day.

The capitalistic element, represented by metropolitan newspapers._bitterly criticises the action of the Treasury: Department in making the lists public, claiming that while the law grants par- mission to do so, it does make such action mandatory.

Senator La Folletto is chortling gloe fully over the discomfiture of the preQUAINT datory rich" because of the exposure of the alleged babit of falsifying income tax returns.

The Democrats claim that a Republican plot is responsible for the publication of the lists 10 days prior to the election in order to show that John W. Davis, the Democratic presidential nominee, paid #01,000 as his income tax.

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INSURANCE RISKS. SOME EXTRAORDINARY CASES ON RECORD.

regarded as flying in the face of Pro- vidence. That was 300 years ago, when the Duke of Oldenberg was considering various schemes, which he dropped.

There was a time when insurance Was

The figures reveal amusing and amaz ing comparisons. Henry Ford's #17,000,000 Nowadays, insurance is almost as 'com. income tax heads the lat; John D. Rockemon as birth registration. It has grown feller is next with

tax of $7,000,000. enormously in comparatively recent Andrew W. Mellon, Recretary of the years. While 40 years ago the amount Treasury, and a couple of others paid a

paid in premiums on lives was only 15 million odd.

million pounds, it is cow nearer a hun- dred millions.

Jack Dempsey's $90,000 is fifteen times bigger than the tax paid by Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University. Al Jolson, Douglas Fair banks, Gloria Swanson and other promin ent stage and screen stars had incomes five to ten times larger than those of the most emittent bishops, physicians, law- yers, scientists and authors, according to the tax list.

Big business, which has hitherto been the chief bulwark of President Coolidge, is in such a high dudgeon over the in cident that the Prident's fate on November 4th may be affected.

ably extended. It takes every possible The principle has also been consider- form. People insure aeroplanes to ankles. Mile. Mistinguett, everything from the French actress, has insured her legs for a million francs,

A few years ago a young man insured his marriage. He was badly in need of cash, and went to a moneylender, wha agreed to let him have £500 on condition that he insured at Lloyd's his coming wedding to an beiress. When the e- the transaction was duly completed. gagement had been proved to be genuine.

Holiday-makers insure against wet weather, and organizers of all kinds of

A few newspapers like the Philadelphia Public Ledger withhold the figures on the ground that their publication is in viola-out-door events make provision against tion of the Inw regarding which the Attorney General is about to hand down an opinion.

Women are conspicuous among those who are seeking after the figures of the divorcees

income tax return with the alimony who are dissatisfied they are receiving and housewives who feel that their husbands are underpaying them.-Japan Advertier's Washington correspondent.

RURAL GODS AND RURAL

PROGRES.

THE GODB DOMINATE THE

SITUATION,"

falling off in gate receipts. Aircraft insurance has increased tremendously, and pilots who desire to take out policies to-day and that their occupation is now regarded as being almost as safe as motoring.

Valuable film and circas animals are heavily insured. There is a policy for $20,000 on Tom Mix's horse, on which be does all sorts of daring feats, and there was & similar. one on the famous chim- ; panzee, Consul.

Well-known pianists and violinista adopt the same principle. Paderewski pays large sums to secure compensation if his fingers are injured, and Kubelik has arranged to receive £2,000 if an accident to his right hand prevents him from fulfilling an engagement

Composers insure against their songs In making plans for bringing about being failures, and authors and play- progress in rural China, the rural gods Wrights take out policies which lighten are too often forgotten, says Agricul- the financial burden if their books and ture and Forestry Volts, issued by the plays do not catch on." though the pre- mums would be too heavy to be worth College of Agriculture and Forestry of while in the case of unknown people. Nanking University. Lack of roads, bridges and dikes; destructive insects The heads of great businesses often take and diseases, unmolested by human agen-out huge policies. Mrs. Mollie Newbury, cies, taking their annul toll valuable the owner and directing head of one of plants and animals; absence of forests; Chicago's biggest stores, is said to bo poor crops; poor people; droughts, insured for £800,000. foods and famines; lack of schools and Quite a number of people insura mon- Like are, after all only outward archs. Large sums were paid on the manifestations of an inner social and death of Queen Victoria, and again when national life.

King Edward died. Often, when promin- ent business men become bankrupt, large policies are flung on the market and arc bought by individuals as a speculation. One on the life of Farrow was sold for £110,000.

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The rural people for the most part, whether their condition be better or worse, manage to saler quietly among themselves, leaderiesa and voiceless in provincial, national, and international affairs. For acute sitations, remedios

If a man is in poor health his policy, in the form of reduced or excused taxes; temporary repairs, and food, in these money. In this connection, it is related of course, fetches proportionately more gifts that letter was once written to the person concerned in the following ironical general conditions terms: Doubtless you are aware that

latter years, often reprod

from foreign sources,.,a:0

"Fundamentally

do not change much, or but slowly. The it was I who bought the $5,000 policy on gods dominate the Bigation. Witness your life the other day Your early de- the following typical scene pictured by cease will be esteemed by H. S. G Professor

Ip, of our department of lores in the Evening News. during a summer field trip South-

try, during en Anhwei is having a great drought now. The natives infomed me that the last rain they had was 47 days ago. Thousands of people are marching "to Kimen every day, and the other poor magistrate has to prostrate himself be fore every idal they bring. Today there were as many as 68 idos, and each came at a different time.

HONGKONG YARH MARKET.

Meerry. Polishwalla, and Kotwall, cotton and yarn brokers of Hongkong, in a market report, ssy:-

Since the issue of our last report, on Many missionarice my not feel that the 18th ult, prices have declined 82 to they are directly concerned with roads, 4 per bale without, however, leading to dikes, better agriculture and village im-

much business, the dealers showing no provement programmes, but we cannot ex commitments owing to the serious situa disposition whatever to enter into any pect essential rural progress or rapid development of the church except as the tion in Canton. Latterly a demand has rural gods are being dethroned. In this sprung up for Yunnan, but that market latter process modern agricultural disappears to be more attracted by the coveries helpful to the lammers the world Shanghai than by the Indian yarn, the over will be the gods' most subtle enemy former being quite a fow dollars cheaper. and may be made the rural church's The latest reports from Bombay are that most helpful ally.”

milla appear to be willing to make substantial concessiopa for forward de- liveries.

SHANGHAI LAND COMPANY'S NEW ISSUE,

Unsold stocks 5,000 bales. Bargains in Chinese bands, 1,700 balea.

Bhanghai-A fair business seems to be passing, while goods are moving forward more freely.

Japanese yarn has beet' in an uncertain tone throughout the period under re-

Messrs. Benjamin and Potts informs us that, they are in receipt of a telegram from their Shanghai Offee to the effect that is is proposed to infrase the capital of the Shanghai Land Investment Co. by vic issuing 39,000 new shares at Tin. 99, 1.

tations: Bengal, 855 to 800 per picul;

Raw Cotton-No sales nor stock. Quo

in the proportion of i ne share to every Chinese, 868 to 300 per pical

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