The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-09

WASHINGTON, Aug 9.-Oi the
 $173. 100000 personal income tax col
 lected for the fiscal year 1916, invest
 OTIS and spectators in all fields shoul-
 dered just one-third of the burden,
 labor ,OS6 per cent of it. and the re tmainder came from the multitudinous
 ranks of those whose incomes were
 classed as derived from business" and "services."
 Embraced within the latter classes
 is every calling from that of banker
 to the farmer with scant acre, and
 in the professions from the practi- tioner of International law to the mod
 est chiropodist.
 Ninety per cent of the total tax was
 derived from those fulsome incomes Of more than $25,00O. and l.66 per
 cent from those of the 5000 class
 and less. although the latter consti-
 tuted more than a third of the total 437 900 returns. The highest average
 rate of tax actually paid upon net in
 come subject to tax was l2.9 per cent, which fell upon the highest income
 class of $5,O0O .O0O and over Only ten individuals, however, bore the burden
 of that rate. They contributed $l3.- 900 .OOO to the total tax. The aver age rate of tax paid declined through the income classes to minimum of 28 per cent for the s3.0O0 to s4.0OO class
 Although incomes of $l00,000 and more constituted only Is per cent Of the total number of returns. they paid nearly three-fourths of the total tax.
 Property" income from stocks, bonds, rents, royalties and all money orkng sources-constituting nearly one-half of the net total of $6,00O, 900 reported. even in the face of the ex- emption dividends. amounting to ex' actly third of the total net income returned-bore nearly it's proportion, ate onehalf of the total tax because Of the much higher proportion of property" income in the returns Of
 the higher income classes, paying the heavier rates of tax. Incomes from business" and service" footed the remainder of the tax bill.
 As an evidence of the inducements to thrift in matrmony, the returns or married men. making due deduction for point returns of husband and wife, indicated their wealth at more than | five times that of single men, as shown by their returns. the former bearing a corresponding burden Of tn" tax except for exemption in the S3,Oo" to s4a00 class. amounting to about .
 per cent O. their total income re
 ported.
 Although for the country at large
 the returns of single men were double those of single women, the six Ne" l! England states were a conspicuous exception to the rule. The total ln' come reported by single men in that section exceeded by barely l5 per cent the total income Of single women, bearing testimony either to the SUI perior independence and earning ca, pacity of the New England women or to a reluctance to share inherited I riches in matrimony. The District ol ! Columbia and Hawaii were also con l spicuous in that respect showing | about equal returns for single mer | and women.
 ! A striking eccentricity in the report ! is the return in the skilled and un | skilled labor class of twenty-two in - comes above the $50,000 mark, five Oi them being above $100,000. Two hun
 dred and eighty labor returns were
 above $lO.OOO.
 l Four commercial travellers showed
 incomes of over Sl0O,O00. as did two
 saloonkeepers, one professional sports
 man, eighteen hotel proprietors and
 twenty-two insurance agents. Actors
 singers and musicians to the number | of 914 showed a total income Of Sll,' | 128 900. net average of over Sl2,OOO
 and possibility to stimulate the
 other 170,000 not making returns. | Five of these incomes were over $50. 900. In the class of authors, editors and reporters there were sixteen in comes of better than $100,000. and two above s5OO.0O0. Twelve ministers of the gospel showed incomes of more than $50.0O0.
 The legal profession earned the greatest total incomes among profes ] sions, although the average incomes among enineers were higher. tho 0pO ynapufacturpr0 in the