The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-10-29
Wednesday Last Day of
Grace From Manv New
ly-nade Charges
3-CENT LETTER
RATE ENFORCED
One Cent on Movie Tickets,
and Insurance Policies
Tobacco. Etc. Listed

Wednesday is the last day of grace
from many new war taxes, and afte,
that date If you are going to send a
letter out of the city, an additional
cent is required. The pcstal card
too, is increased, for instead of the
customary one-cent card, it will cost
two cents. and cards printed in such
denomination, as we'll as books O.
Scent stamps will probably be offerel
for sale beginning Thursday of this
week. First-class mail to gooc
many foreign countries is also more
expensive. Under the postal conven
tion rates, two-cent rate has been
for more than year enjoyed to q
number of foreign countries, but this
has been changed, and the rate o
three cents will be charged Coun
tries enjoying the domestic rate, ac-
cording to postal officials, are: Can
ada, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, England
Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Bahia
mas, Barbados, British Guinea, Brit
ish Honduras, Santa Domingo, Dutch
west Indies, Leeward Isles, New
Foundland and New Zealand.
Postal rates, however. are not only
the class which will feel the war tax
On the contrary, it is said, abou
every person in the. United State{wil
feel the effects in some way of the
law which was approved October 3rs
last. Some of the charges which vii
effect children as we'll as grown-,Aps
are:
One cent on each dime admission tc
picture shows
One cent for each 20 cents or frac.
ton paid for express packages.
L.
portation.
Eight per cent. on all passenger
fares.
Ten per cent. on payments for
Pullman accommoda tions
Five cents on each telegraph o,
telephone message costing fifteen
cents or more. Radio message are
also included.
Cigars, cigarettes, tobacco ami
products are variously taxed.
Eight cents on each 500 of nev
life insurance, and one cent on each
doiiar OF fire, marine, casualty o
other insurance policies.
1obacco taxes, however, do not be.
come operative until Friday next, but
retail dealers have already establish
cd an increase in anticipation of tho
advance. 1t costs six cents now for :,
hve-cent sack of Durham with 9th
er like Increases. New rates on ci
gars range from % cents to 81 Der
thousand, and on cigarettes, from 80
cents to $1.20 per thousand. Fiv.
cents per pound is the new tax or
tobacco, snuff and other manufac
tured tobaccos, while cigarette paper.
are taxed from one-half cent to one
cent per hundred.
Persons who are favored bv "nass
to the movies" do not escape. On
lucent tickets a charge of one CEN
is taxed, this to be made by the nat
ron, and the proprietor has to make
sworn returns to the government
SAID returns going to the treasury de.
partment. Passes are taxed. II ;s
held, except to those to bona fide ON.
ployes, municipal officers and children
under twelve, at the usual rate. This
charge is also extended to cabaret
or to other places where adnissA-.
IS charged. Oven persons leasing
theatre must pay ten per cent, of
their rental.
New insurance taxes, it is held
are imposed on now policies issued
with reinsurance policies EXEMPTED
Industrial or so-called weekly-pay-
ment policies are taxed forty pe1
(Contin-,ed on Pare l'wol