Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1918-01-18
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Human curiosity will never BE-
satisfied until the names of the hcav-
lost income taxpayers may be lawful
ly published. but the publications of
the surtax receipts by States gives
some comfort. A table appearing In
IN" New York Annalist gives much
interesting Imagination. All the
States. and Alaska. Hawaii and tn"
District of Columbia have residents
paying surtaxes on individual in
comes up 10 $2OO.Ooo Then Ala
bama, Alaska. Mississippi. Nevada,
North Dakota. South Carolina, South
Dakota. and Wyoming drop out. Ar
kauSas, New Mexico and Utah have
nobody paying on incomes between
$25O.O00 and S3OD,OVO. Iowa has
none with AN income above 5000
900. Hawaii. Idaho, Kentucky,
Maine. Montana. Nebraska. and New
Hampshire have no individual in
comes above $5O0.O0O The District
of Columbia. Oregon. Virginia, West
Virginia, and Wisconsin. have no in
comes in excess Of Sl.000.000. Cal
ifornia. Colorado. Georgia. Indiana.
Minnesota. Missouri. North Carolina,
vermont anu w HdN' Nv
incomes in excess Of 81 800. 900. On
ly thirteen States pay on incomes In
excess Of $4,000 900. ranking in the
following order as to surfaces from
this class: New York. Oklahoma.
Delaware, Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio
Massachusetts,. Connecticut. Michi-
gan, Rhode Island, Illinois. Nav, Jer-
sey. and Florida, the latter getting In
by the skin of its teeth. it's payment
being l3 per cent of $%4.
New York leads in every class and
in the total. The surprise is that
Oklahoma, the baby State, should
stand second in the highest class, its
payments more than dOugling those
of Delaware and of Texas. trebling
those OF Pennsylvania. and being
nearly six times those of Ohio. In
fact. it's surtaxes from this class
equal the total Of all the other
States, after excluding New York and
Pennsylvania. II stands seventh in
total payments of individual income
taxes. the rank being New York, IL
linois, Massachusetts,, Ohio. New Jer-
sey, and Oklahoma. The answer Is
oil. nothing else could account for
such a showing either in the highest
surtaxes or total individual incom"
tax The surtax on the class of 81,
600 900 and over furnishes $4,000.
600 of the $l67,OO0. 900 total from
individual income taxes. st. Louis
Globe Democrat
Ten dollars IA quart for the sort
r ,;.,t, f,r "a tG
when purchased of bootlcggers !"
surely sending the cost of living Il
new attitudes for those who Zee
they must be saturated To surviv"
| II ii even Il price out of proportion
to present prices of daily bread ano
portcrhousr. and other regular food
The man who wants il AT such Il fig
urc should take the eur" To save
money. If nothing else. Man doe
not live by bread alone, but car
easily get along without drink of tn
sort that rOtS Oui his alin"ntarN
canal and gives him hobnail"'
liver. And, at the risk of diScOur
aging those persistent and malig
nant dealers in the stuff. II may b
stated that no bootlcggrr ever go
rlch a' II. no iha'''I ho" 'Nh' "''"'
the price Oklahoma city Times.
| The News wishes to commend tn
people of Achillc in baniShing tn
pool halls from their town. To sa
the least. pool halls encourage lott
crinr andw astr of time, and ar
among the most useless of all IN
unpSsontialS to the maintenance q
either the civil or military establish
mcn,s In actual fact the pool hall