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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-30

CORDOVA

George Bruner of Nebraska visited
relatives here sunday.
Mrs l. H. Gardner is sick
Mrs. c. r. Lindell entertained the
Pvthian Sisters after lodge meeting
SATURDAY evening.
Lou NJ. Harris. county superiutepd
ent of schools, made several business
calls here last week. An effort is on
foot to standardize the school
The Red Cross and Knights of Pyth-
ias viii conduct an oyster supper and
auction sale for the Red Cross Satur-
day evening. Dec l.
Mr. aud Mrs. Fred Smith spent Sun
day with the formers mother. Mrs
IneZ Smith.
The Boosters and Merry Maids classes
Of the Baptist Sunday school are hav-
ing an attendance contest The Boost
ers are in the lead
pr Brand a Baptist state worker
VIII preach here Dec O.
Mrs. Forsythe's Sunday school class
of boys took a hike TO the Rocks and
Docia last Saturday. George Shumate
was leader The boys report fine
+ time.
All the news all the tipe-The
! Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-30
Nurse Saves 2 Rock Island
People From Operation

Il had two patients that the doc
tors seemed unable to reach with their
medicines and in both cases advised
the knife. A friend who had tried
Mayr's Wonderful Remedy for stom-
ach trouble proposed that I recon-
mend it to my patients, which l did.
Both are now entirely well. I am very
glad that | was able to recommend it. p
1t Is simple, harmless preparation
that removes the catarrhal mucous
from the intestinal tract, and allays
the Inflammation which causes practi-
cally all stomach, liver and intesti-
nal ailments, including appendicitis
One dose will convince or money re-
funded Bengston's Drug Store
iAdyl
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-30
PERSONS TELLING
LIES ABOUT CAMP
HUSTFACE COURT
rrirre Tales Concerning Cantonments
Are Traced to Origin by Counter
Espionage officer.
one WOMAN TO GO BEFORE JURY
sender Of Letter Continuing Malicious
and False story Is to BE
Given Trial.
special to The Argus)

Camp Dodge, Iowa Nov 3G.-lf you
,osslp better NOT do II I'm writing
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'S'' 0H
true 'ti'' ABOUT ihe So'ulers at camp
Dodge A woman ia southern Iowa
.s going 40 De brought before the fed
...t ..-,rl t,-,, ali ,o.o,,., ..a -.
''"' .0'0
ieilsF I'D woman Iriehd IN Des
NoiHe9 telling OF the horrible things"
going 0n at Camp Dodge
THAI letter just reeked with nice.
mjry scandal
Bul unfortunately for IFS sender
that letter fen into the hands of Can
tain John N. Ouikev. counter espion-
age officer at Camp Dodge
r1Dfalu Du.rlcv is the very man
who ORIGINATED the idea of running
down the false rumors which have
baer circulating about the soldiers
Tine letter was forwarded TO Wash
iogton The woman will face the fed
ersl grand iury Under paraeranh 2
of tr. esDirpars ast she can he sem
fenced 60 20 wears i'm TAIL or to nav a
10000 fine
n was after several weeks of nor
sistart and clever WORT NAT the coun-
tsr eenionaga department at ramn
Dafea traced the ppIv and unfrre
storv rejecting upon fine characters
of ,ba soldiers to the woman In south
srp Iowa At least 10 different wo-
mem oars irtervfsvsd Eacb foId tbat
some otrer woman had told the story
IA hon
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,,.. 80 ~ i'Hi Do,,u-
Van, ""n' " OayS Ma. "iu soSSlpe' NJ ~
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-30
GRAIN MOLDS IN
CRIBS IN COUNTRY
Corn Taken in Early Spelling, Accord
ing TO County Crop Correspond
ent's Report.
THREE.FOURTHS NOT TO KEEP
Many Farmers Trying To Dry Ears,
Leaving Air Circulate Through
Storage Place.

The corn crop in Rock Island coun-
ty is big disappointment.
This is the opinion of County Crop
spondent Charles c. Campbell,
as expressed in his monthly report TO
the bureau of crop estimates of the
department of agriculture at Wash
ington. He says:
Corn that was cribhed early has
moulded. 1t had to he removed from
the cribs and sorted Many farmers
are trying to dry their corn by crib
bling it SO the air can circulate through
it. At least rs per cent Of the crop
will not keep
The report shows that there has been
about as much winter wheat sown
this year as last, five per cent more
than the normal amount. The eondi-
ton is 100 per cent Acreage Of rice
sown this year compares favorably
with other years. The report states
further that 20 per cent of the apple
crop will be shipped out of the coun-
ty Mr.. Campbell states that about
twenty cords OF wood are burned per
year on each farm, the average value
being S. per cord.
List OF Prices.
Prices being received by the farm
ers for produce and grain, is as fol-
lows. according to the report:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-30

prove 1t is scheme OF German agents.
Inc story goes thus. A poor, hard
WORKING mother knitted a sweater and
sent i to her boy in camp, first sewing
$40 bill in the collar. Soon after
she saw an officer wearing the same
sweater on the street downtown.
Mother approaches, jerks secret
string and out drops the bill. The Of
hcer declares he bought the sweater
from the Red Cross.
False to Begin With.
This, on the face OF 1t, would at
once brand itself to a thinking person
as falsehood, as officers from CamT
Dodge are not permitted to wear
sweaters outside their coats in Des
Moines and the Red Cross sells nc
garments. Nevertheless, the rumol
was doggedly traced from one woman
10 another. who said her friend, hat
heard it from the butcher, who said
the grocer told him, etc, until finally
the martyred mother who was said t
nave knit the sweater was reached
Why, I haven't any boy in camp,'
sue said in surprise. This is the frs
| ever heard of it,
Uncle Sam is in deadly earnes
about stopping this malicious gossip
ing. You don't know. these days, bu
what your next door neighbor may b,
a secret service agent, ready to repor
you when you relate tales for which
you have no proof.
The whole mass of tales now be
Ing whispered about discrediting thu
american soldiers is deliberate par
Iof German propaganda. The sam,
tales were spread through France ant
England about their soldiers at tn
beginning Of the war 1t is for tn
purpose of mailing these lies that tn
/ counter espionage department of III
army has been organized.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-30

All the news all the tipe-The
Argus.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-07
100000
500,00n
10000
EXCESS PROFITS TAX.

The excess profits tax will impress
every one who has to make a return
under ii as an example of barbaric
frightfulness. II is unlike any tax
ever imposed in any civilized country.
BY next March all American asylums
will be full of people who lost their
minds trying to calculate what they
owed Uncle Sam under this terrible
tax. Lawsuits to determine its appli-
cation will still be going when our
great grandchildren are dead and
buried.
WHO MUST PAY? Every corpora
ton with a net income exceeding $4,000
and every partnership or individual
with a net income derived from the
operation of any kind of business which
exceeds $4,000 for the present year is
liable to pay a tax on the amount of
it's excess profits. This includes every
body that buys or sells anything, all
kinds of agents and commission men,
including commercial travellers. unless
they are on a fixed salary without COM
missions. 1t also includes all kinds of
professions. 1t hits farmers, doctors.
lawyers. store keepers, authors, real
every body that works who is not on a
fixed wage or salary and has an in
come big enough to come within the
scope of the law.
WHAT ARE EXCESS PROFITS?
Excess profits as now defined bear
practically no relation to the amount
earned before the war. If you want
rough idea of the excess profits of
which its net income for 1917 exceeds
per cent on the capital invested, and
subtract $4,000 from this if You are
operating a partnership or individual
business, and $4,000 if you are organ
lied as corporation. For example.
suppose your capital is 100000 and
your net income is $4,000. Eight per
cent is $4,000 to which you add $4,000
for a corporation and $4,000 for an in
dividual or partnership, leaving the
excess profits $4,000 for a corporation
and $4,000 for an individual or part
nership business.
II you want to know exactly. you will
have to do some REAL figuring. Here's
how you go about it:
First determine the net income of
your business for each of the years
/ 1911, 1912 and 1918. by subtracting
from the gross amount of business
done In each of these years the proper
deductions for expenses, interest, taxes
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-07
also be handled by the Red Cross.
POINTS TO BE OBSERVED.

The following points are to be OBJ
served by all inquirers:
!. Letters of inquiry must be adj
dressed to the Bureau of Communica-
ton; not TO the person concerning
whom inquiry is made.
2. Letters must be concise. since
only the briefest communication car
be sent.
3. They must mention only person.
al matters, such as communications
concerning the condition OF members
of the family and requests for similar
information.
4. Letters must be legible and must
be in English, French. Italian, Rus
sian. German, Polish, Hungarian,
Turkish or Greek.
5. They must include the fun name,
address, and occupation of the send
er and the full name. address, occu-
patton and age of the person for whom
the inquiry is destined.
g. Inquiries concerning the Same
person may not be made oftener than
once in six weeks.
The bureau of communication re-
serves the right to refuse to transmit
any information or inquiry which ap-
pears to be contrary to the national
welfare.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-07
THOUSAND CARLOADS
OF PRUNES FROM THE
VALLEY THIS YEAR

All Libraries OF the United States arc
being lined up in the food conservation
service. according to r. F. Bicknell.
federal food administrator for Idaho.
At the suggestion of the war service
committee Of the American Library
association, Mr.. Bicknell Saturday
named Belle Sweet, librarian of the
University of Idaho, to act as library
publicity director. Another honor came
to the University of Idaho Saturday
when Mr. Bicknell named Jessie NJ.
Hoover director of home economies,
to be food conservation director for
north Idaho.
Mr.. Bicknell was much pleased Sat-
urday by the action of the state in
surance department that sent out at
its own expense 5000 posters urging
conservation against loss by fire.
Mr.. Bicknell Saturday appointed Mrs.
Henry l.. Falk member of the state
executive committee to represent the
Judith Montefiore society and the Ma
than Falk lodge of the Independent Or
der of Bnai Birth.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-07

aroused both the Republican and Dem
ocratic leaders of the house, many OF
whom are determined to force an in
vestigation of Heflin and his charges.
The sentiment that Representative
Heflin should be expelled from con-
gress is shared by several of them.
MIR. Heflin has said that in case of
his expulsion he will Take his case be-
fore the American people.
Representative Norton of North Car
DINA, who has introduced resolution
for the investigation of Mr.. Helm $
charges has declared that I'VE should
clean our own house first" THE only
interest | have in the matter said
Mr.. Norton, lis the interest that every
member of the house should have. |
consider these very serious charges. |
know of nothing more damaging than
the charges that members have re-
cCiVed German pay. If the charges
are found true the guilty members
should be hurled out of congress and If
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-07
THE INCOME TAX.

WHO MUST PAY? Every unmar-
ried man, woman or child with a net
income from wages. profits, interest,
rent or any other source exceeding
$1,000 for the calendar year 1917. and
every married person With net in
come exceeding $4,000.
RETURNS MUST BE MADE under
oath on or before March :. 1918, by
every person with an income exceeding
the amounts named apove, even il there
is no tax due, under penalty OF $40 to
$1,000 for failure.
HOW TO CALCULATE NET IN
COME. Net income. upon which the
tax is levied, is calculated by taking
the total amount Of money received by
the individual during the year from
all sources and deducting from that
amount the following items:
Necessary expenses actually paid in
carrying on any business or trade. but
not including personal, living or fam
fly expenses;
All interest paid within she year on
Indebtedness, except interest on oans
maze LOT the purchase Oh hak exempt
securities;
All taxes, local, state and federal. ex-
cept income and war profits taxes:
Losses actually sustained during the
year in business or trade or from fires,
storms, theft, etc;
Debts ascertained to be worthless
and actually charged off;
Reasonable allowance for wear and
tear of property employed in buviness
Contributions for religious, tharit-
able. scientific or educational purposes
10 an amount not in excess of Is per
cent of the net income withou, the
benefit of this paragraph.
EXEMPTIONS. Unmarried per,ons
have $1,000 exempt from income tax;
married persons have $4,000 exempt
and in addition 5000 exempt for each
dependent child under IS years of age
TAX RATES. The taxes levied upor
Incomes are a composite result of fou,
separate sets of taxes, the normal
; tax rates in the old revenue bill ant
the new, and the "supertax" rates IN
the old bill and the new. For example
under the old law there was a norma
tax of 2 per cent on all income of un
married persons over $4,000, the new
bill adds new normal tax # pc
cent and lowers the exemption I,
1000, under the old bill supertaxe,
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-07

and depreciation, substantially as de-
scribed for income taxes except that
you cannot deduct gifts and charitable
donations. Average these and see what
percentage they are of the actual CAPT
tai invested in the business during the
same three years. If they average less
than I per cent, you will be allowed
the full per cent; but if they average
more than per cent you will be al
lowed only 9 per cent. Only if they
fall between : and 8 per cent do you
take the actual average For example,
with 100000 of actual capital. if the
average net income is $500 that would
stand as SO per cent; but if the aver
age was only $500 yol would be al
lowed I per cent, while If the average
was $4,000 you would be allowed only
8 per cent SO you will see that while
you have to go through all this risma-
role in making your return, for all
practical purposes YOU might as well
take an average of per cent and let
IL go at that.
After you have got this pre-war rate
of profit determined, you apply that
percentage to your present capital, add
$1,000 to it for individual or partnership
business and $4,000 for a corporation
and subtract the result from your net
income for the year 1910 This gives
you the amount of your excess profits
on which you will be taxed.
FOR PROFESSIONS and all kinds
of business and trades in which only a
nominal capital Is employed, il is OBJ
vious that this plan cannot apply. SO
the act provides that they shall pay
flat rate of per cent on the amount
by which the net, income exceeds $4,000
If they are organized as corporations
and $4,000 if they are run by partner
ships or individuals.
WHAT is CAPITAL? It will be seen
that the application of this tax depends
absolutely on the definition of the word
capital. That is what the conferees
from the house and senate have been
wrangling over for two weeks. and the
more they wrangled. the worse it got
Actual capital invested as il stands
in the bill has no relation whatever to
the amount of stock outstanding, nor
does Ii include bonded Indebtedness or
borrowed money or property. 1t must
be determined for each business and
for each year by adding the following
items: Actual cash paid in. the actual
cash value of other property paid in to
secure shares in the business, and the
surplus or undivided profits actually
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-07
OTHER TAXES.

This does not however. begin to
cover the multitude of taxes imposed
by the new revenue bill.
In the first place there is an addi-
tional per cent Corporation tax"
which must be paid by every corpora
ton upon the amount of its net income.
Then there are internal revenue
taxes of s1.l0 and s2.15 gallon on dis
titled spirits, $3.50 a barrel on beer, >
to 20 cents gallon on syrups for soft
drinks. cent a gallon on grape juice,
soft drinks, near beer" etc.
Cigars are taxed from % cents to 81
per 1000. depending on quality, with a
tax of 81 per 1000 on the scent variety.
Cigarettes are taxed to IL cents per
hundred,
Tobacco pays cents pound and
cigarettes papers l cents a hundred.
Then there are the transportation
taxes, per cent on all freight bills
1 cent on each 20 cents of express bills.
g per cent on passenger tickets and
10 per cent on Pullman car charges,
and cents on each telegraph or tele
phone message costing over Is cents.
on all jewelry. autos. motorcycles,
piano players, monographs and records
in future per cent of the sale price.
New life insurance policies pay cents
for every hundred dollars of face value
or IL under $500. 40 per cent of first
weekly premium. and all other new in
surance policies / cent for each dollar
of the annual premium
After 80 days the postal rate on all
letters, except drop letters will be 5
cents an ounce. and there will be an
extra charge of cent for each % cents
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-07

started with $4,000. and these super
taxes still stand. but there have been
added new supertaxes beginning with
$4,000 The result is very confusing
In order to bring all the existing
rates into simple form, ! have COM
bined them in single table which
shows for each separte class Of in
come, the total tax rate that will be
levied upon it, The method of using
the table can best be explained by a
simple example:
IL you are married, with no children
and have an income of $4,000, you will
pay no tax on $4,000, which is exempt
under the law: on the $4,000 falling
into the tax group $4,000 $4,000. you will
pay 2 per cent, or $40; on the $1,000
falling In the tax group $4,000 $4,000,
you will pay per cent, or $40; on the
$1,000 falling in the tax group $4,000
$4,000, you will pay per cent, or $50;
making a total income tax of $3.50.
If you have two CHILDREN under IS
years, YOU have an exemption of 5000
for each. so that you would pay no tax
on $1,000; 2 per cent on $500 between
your $4,000 exemption and $4,000; 4 per
! cent on $1,000 between $4,000 and $4,000;
) per cent on $1,000 between $4,000 and
$4,000, making a total tax of $l22.
COMBINED NORMAL AND SU-
PERTAX RATES UNDER OLD AND
NEW BILLS.-Note: Rates shown
apply to amount of income falling
within each tax group and not to the
income as a whole.
Tax Group. Tax Rate.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-07

charged on parcel post packages.
There are a new set of taxes on es-
tates over $4,000 reaching 10 per cent
on $1,000,000.
Yachts pay so cents to 50 per linear
foot and motor boats 50 each.
Sporting goods and cameras pay 8
per cent. toilet articles. patent medi-
cines and chewing gum pay per cent
of the wholesale price.
Tickets of admission to all kinds of
amusements pay l cent for each ten
cents of the price. Taxes do not apply
to movies where charge is cents or
less, or to other ten-cent shows
And to wind up, there. are host of
stamp taxes on all kinds of documents,
the mere enumeration of which would
occupy an entire column.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-07

Washington, oct. g. Washington is
stirred with the statements of Repre-
sentative Thomas ]. Hcflin of Ala
bama, who when called before the
house rules committee to explain his
recent speech on the German "slush
fund named four congressman whose
activities" he declared should be in
vestigated.
Those named by Mr.. Heflin are Sen
ator Robert M. La Toilette of Wiscon-
sin, Representative Fred A. Britten of
Illinois. Representative, William e.. Ma
son of Illinois and Representative John
NJ. Baer of North Dakota.
Representative Heflin, who in his
former speech declared that he could
name some fourteen congressman
who have acted in a suspicious man
ner" has more recently said that he
did not charge the men with corrup-
ton but meant that they required an
investigation. He denied that he had
meant to say that any congressman
had taken German gold.
INVESTIGATION DEMANDED
Representative Heflin's statements
before the rules committee have
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-07

A Belgian named Jean Roose. who
with two accomplices. murdered and
robbed one of his countrymen, was
executed in Paris recently. This is the
first time since the war began that
the guillotine has been used in Paris.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-07

AMOUNT OF EXCESS PROFITS
TAX. After you have determined the
amount of excess profits. as described
above, you are ready to figure the
amount of tax you will have to pay.
First, find out what per cent these ex-
cess profits are of the actual capital
for the present year. Then apply the
following rates:
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-07

Two Crimean veterans, probably the
last in Ireland, have just died. One was
John Hayes, age ninety-two. who was
wounded at the siege of Sebastopol
and the other Denis Heligan, age "a.
who had thirty eight years service.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-07

There is a convenience called the
washing mitt. 1t is a little aluminium
affair that is slipped over the hand,
and on one side it is corrugated like
dashboard. This is excellent for the
washing of small and delicate articles.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-07

employed in the business. Patents,
good will and franchises are to be al
lowed only the cash value of the stock
or other property exchanged for them,
in the case of all intangibles not to eX-
coed 90 per cent of the stock now out
standing.
HOW TO CALCULATE THE
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-07

A brush to be suspended on the out
side of an automobile wheel to prevent
it splashing mud has been ptented by
two London chauffeurs.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-07

Current is transmitted through bail
bearings in ne ,wswivel joint for tele-
phone and electric light wires; designed
to prevent them from twisting.