Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-03-22
TAX COLLECTORS
 MEET WITH MUCH
 AID FROM PUBLIC
Payers of "Liberty Tax Send Checks Far Ahead
 of Time When Due.

Washington, March 20.-The whole nation is at work willingly helping to gather it's own war taxes, accord , ing to reports gathered from all parts of the country and made public by the Internal Revenue bureau.
 Unlike the old days when publicans i were classed with sinners, and tax collectors were the periodical pests of every community, this years col , lection of the Liberty tax in the Unit ed States is marked by emphatic CO., operation with the officials by thou sands of business, civic, religious, professional, fraternal and labor or ganizations.
 The spirit this year is different, says Daniel c. Roper, the Commission CT of Internal revenue. The grudg- ing attitude of former times is. gone, and income returns which now are reaching collectors by the thousands indicate willingness to pay the levies on patriotic grounds, or to as- sist voluntarily in the roundup of the
 returns by April l.
 Although payments are not due
 until June 15, many persons have sent checks with their returns, and re- ceiyed three per cent discount
 The readiness is partly spontaneous and partly the result of we'll organ ized propaganda, supervised by c. B. Hurrey, director of business cooper ations of the Internal revenue pu reau. Under his direction. publicity has been given the multitudinous problem of the income tax by banks and trust companies, preachers, pub lie speakers, moving picture houses, chambers of commerce, Rotary clubs, cartoonists, daily newspapers, maga- zines and the trade press, mail car riers, street car advertisements, pub lie utilities, merchants, school teach CTS, and other agencies.
 Many banks and trust companies have organized special information
 bureaus to furnish the public with counsel on the filing of their income returns, with the employment of from one to twenty men each. In some cases they printed at their own ex- pense tax return blanks to eliminate delay in obtaining these from revenue officials. Most of these information departments were established after consultation with MT. Hurrey of the Revenue bureau, and furnish all de- fined channels for disseimnating rul- inss direct to the public.
 Columns of informative publicity
 have been published by newspapers and periodicals. Some of this news
 was written by staff writers, assign
 ed to make a close study of technical phases of the income and excess pro- fits law, and some was supplied by district internal revenue collectors or the headquarters at Washington. The
 revenue bureau has relied strongly
 on the press association to distribute
 to newspapers all over the country information on rules and regulations
 relating to the gathering of tax re-
 turns. Popular magazines, agricul-
 tural papers, religious, trade and oth- CT journals have given many pages to tax matters. At suggestion of the
 revenue bureau, cartoonists called at tention pictorially to citizens tax du-
 ties. Organizations supplying news in the form of ready o-print plate,
 sent out tons of tax publicity. Companies managing street car ad- vertising recently have contributed more than $35,0oO worth of space urg- ing citizens to file their returns by April 1. Along with monthly bills on March 1, hundreds of public utility
 companies and business houses en-
 closed leaflets on the income tax.
 Nearly every moving picture house in the country displays daily appeals to make returns promptly, together with short sermon from Secretary 1 McAdoo or Commissioner Roper on
 the privilege of participating in the Liberty tax.
 Merchants advertising in daily newspapers insert tax slogans fur lnished through the advertising mems
 organizations. Preachers have been supplied with model dissertations, and tabloid information, to form the basis of tax pleas from the pulpit. Twenty five thousand r-nhinute-men have invaded theaters and other public as. sembly places to push home the doc Urine of patriotism by tax paying. The postoffice department agreed to put city and rural carriers into the tax service, and gave them thousands of information cards to distribute to homes.
 These are only the outstanding features of the nations campaign to collect it's war taxes, which are eX- pected to aggregate $3,400, 100000 be- fore next July 1. without this help, it would have been impossible to gather the vast sum, officials say. Thai ic tho roaSnn thoV ca11 if nOn-