The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-05-11
A,l Mus. An.w.r country. CAN.

Al Must Answer country's Call.
transportation: Freight bills, ST.
500. 600; passenger tickets, $75, 000,-
GO; express bills, $l5,00O,000; pipe
; lines, $4,500,000; seats, berths and
i kfafcrooms, $750,0O0.
~ Electric lights, gas, domestic pow
er. telephone service, $50, 100000.
W. Motion Picture Levy.
=, Motion picture films, $7,500,OOO.
:, Telegraph and telephone messages,
$7,ooo,OOO.
~, Advertising, $7,5OO,0OO.
:, Insurance, $5,OO0,OOO.
:, Automobiles, trucks and motorsy-
eles, $68, 900, 900; tires and tubes, $12-
100000.
Musical instruments, monograph
:, recoFds, $7,00O,000.
pnl sJewelry, $7,50O,O00.
sporting goods, golf clubs, base
:, ball bats, billiard and pool tables and
balls, $2,OOO,O0O.
riPleasure boats, 100000.
Perfumes, medicines, $4,75O,000.
Proprietary medicines, $8,500,000.
Chewing gum, $1,0O0,000.
Admission to theatres and other
amusements, $60,00O,000..
Dues in clubs and other organiza-
tions, $1,500,00O.
War estate tax, $6,OOO,OOO (esti-
mated, however, that the increase
will yield $38,5OO,OO0 when in full
operation).
Virgin island internal revenue, 500
600.
- Fight on Profit Tax.
One of the hardest fights, it is pre-
dicted, will center about the increases
IN the excess profits tax. Representa-
tive Fairchild, of New York, who OPP
posed these increases in committee,
and other Republicans, will carry
opposition to the senate if necessary.
Much confusion arose among men,
bers over the new income tax sched-
ules which also may meet stubborn
opposition. Committee explanations
Of the involved language of the bill
show that it's practical operation
would be as follows:
It proposes a normal tax of per
cent on individuals having incomes
between $1,000 and $4,000, if single,
and $4,000 and $4,000 if married, or
the head Of a family. An additional
normal tax of 2 per cent would be
added i'll the case of larger incomes.
At, 900 an additional surtax would
be imposed, graduated until at $780,
600 and over it reaches % per cent.
..y Surtax is Explained.
lA,married man with $500 in
come, for example, would pay a tax
Of $205. 1t would be assessed in this
manner. An exemption of $4,000; a
tax Of 2 per cent or $40 on the next
$4,000 up, to $4,000; a tax of. 4 per
cent on the difference between $4,000
and 500, or $40; a surtax of 1
per, cent on all over $1,000, or $25.
A. single man with $500 income
would pay $245. He would pay $40
at6a2 per cent on income between
$1,000 and $4,000; $3.50 at per cent
between $4,000 and 81 500, and sur
tax Of $25 at l per cent on the $1,000
above $1,000.
Surlaxes under the present law do
not begin until $4,000 is reached and
exemptions begin at $4,000 and $4,000
for single and married men, -respec-
lively.
The house provision for increase in
the pay of enlisted men by horizontal
increase of $15 per month for the period
of the war, was materilly modified.
Under the compromise provision the
advances in the pay of soldiers will be
rs follows
All enlisted of the army in active
service whose base pay does not exceed |
$21 per month shall receive an increase |
Of $40 per month; those whose base pay |
is S24 an increase of IS; those whose
base pay is $50, $50 or $40, an increase
of &c. and those whose base pay is $40 or
more an increase of IS per month.
Death Of George w. Butcher.
George w Butcher, life long resi-.