The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-04-11
MUST PAY HEAVY PENALTY
Two Hundred Percent Month Clalked
Up Against Clubs and Other organi-
cations Who Failed to Pay Their
Share of Cost of Battling Hun.
And the COLLINS have come to g

And the COLLINS have come to get
you.
Meet Mr.. Joseph 2. o,Neill, Cen
tlemanly collector for the United
States Internal Revenue Department
who arrived in Kenosha this morning
determined to make collections of a
lot Of nickles, dimes and dollars which
rightfully belong to Uncle Sam but
which have been withheld.
Not a nickle has slipped away and
the people who have considered them
selves clever enough to get away with
out paying their share of helping to
whip the Hun are going to be on the
carpet and pay a mighty big price for
their cleverness.
Collector O'Neil is not after the
fellows who have been lodging the
! Revenue taxes in the form Of income
tax but he is after the little fellows
who have been lodging the payment of
the tax on admissions to dances and
other entertainments. He admits that
there is lot Of huskier fellows on the
job to catch the big tax dogers and
that they are being eminently successful
and he hopes to be just as successful
in catching these little fellows.
A lot of Kenosha people who are Of
fcers of clubs and societies have been
giving dances in Kenosha ever since
the internal war tax revenue law went
into effect but they have failed to re-
member that when they charged peo-
pie to get into these functions that
Uncle Sam was entitled to ten percent
| OF every dollar that went over the win
dow. Collector O'Neil is here to i'm
press this matter rather forcibly. The
method Of enforcement is the collec-
ton not only of the ten percent tax
which should have been sent in to Col
lector Paul Hemmy of this district at
the time the party was held but also
penalty at the rate of two hundred per-
cent month for every month that
has passed since the dance was held.
The collector is going to put an awful
crimp into the treasurers of the
Jolly Four, - "The Faithful Three, -
1.-THE Independent Pleasure Club''
The Eata Bita Pie,'' and lot of
other clubs which have gone merrily
on and danced the evenings out and
the mornings in without ever a
| thought of helping to furnish ammuni-
! ton to lick the Germans.
Long lists Of names of clubs which
have given these social events are in
the hands Of the collector and the Of
fcials of these clubs will be called
right up to the scratch. It makes no
difference how long ago the dance was
held, it makes no difference if the
money has all been spent some one
is going to have to dig up the portion
due to Uncle Sam and in most cases
they must dig up the penalty along
with it.
| The fact that the officers of these
clubs did not know that the Govern
ment expected them to pay is not CO.
| ing to be any more of an excuse than
Ignorance Of any other law.
"We need the money! was the sug-
gestion of Collector O'Neill. cit
takes lots of money to lick Germany
and we must have the nickles and the
dimes as well as the hundreds and
thousands Of dollars. These people
must come right up to the scratch and
settle with the government. The rate
gees up for every month they wait and
failure to pay will have other heavy
penalties connected with it.
Mr.. O'Neil explained that the idea
was that every one of the parties
where an admission was charged was
expected to pay ten percent of the
receipts to the government as tax.
Cabaret proprietores who do not charge
admissions are expected to pay two
percent of their ceceipts for the meals
they sell.
Collector O'Neill is also checking up
/ the theatres and picture shows in Ken
osha to see that the Government has
been getting the share of the receipts i
which the war tax law demands. Ev-
cry one of these places must be cheek
ed up.
In the future there will be no ex-
cuse for any one not paying as every
owner Of theatre, public halle lodge
room or other place in Kenosha where
dances or other public entertainments
are given must be registered with the
collector of Internal Revenue before
April 18th and after that date the
owner must furnish to the collector the
names of the officials of every organi-
cation which leases his hall for any