Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-28
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Between $4,000 and $4,000 goes
| out OF Harrisburg every month in
| the form Of the war tax on amuse-
ment tickets. c. Floyd sHopkins,
manager of the Wilmer & Vincent
| interests, says that it is nearer the
| five thousand mark and that it is in
cash. The average person who pays
three cents for a letter and war
duties in various forms in addition
! to meeting installments on Liberty
Bonds and laying by a quarter every
now and then for Thrift Stamps does
not realize how much the theater
tax mounts UP. The men who de-
vised the war taxes did not let much
| go by and people who are puzzling
over the income tax forms are con-
| jecturing whether they will be ar
rested if they slip a cog. The war
| tax on amusement tickets is one
cent on each ten and the Govern
ment thoughtfully added of frac-
| ton thereof. And it hits the dead
| heads just the same as the cash
payers. A newspaper pass does not
escape and If the owner of build
| ing goes in he pays a tax. while the
head or an agent of another show,
people who from time immemorial
have been rendered the courtesy of
free admission, have to come
across" too. It's going-in tax that
let's none get by. There are two
theaters in Harrisburg, one known
as a Legitimate" house, where the
real drama is staged; one vaude-
vile and ten movies. Wilmer &
| Vincent have one of each and pay
about $4,000 tax a month. The
! Victoria, Regent and other man
agements pay less, although their
tax goes into the hundreds. The
people at the ticket windows de-
clare that customers often buck"
but that they soon subside because
they don't get in unless they pay.
up in Niagara Falls yesterday
afternoon l passed up a good din
ner and L would like breakfast.
had a sandwich at Sunbury," said a
man who came off q Northern Cen
trail train in mid-afternoon. And"
| he added, "please get me to bed.
want to be warm. too. / don't
drink, but I'm indignant" This was
the story: The man visited niece,
in Canada and dinner was not ready
in time. So he took the trolley for
the Falls and then a train for Buff
falo. He thought to get dinner on
the train that night. There was no
\ diner. The train froze up that night
and there was no diner for break
fast. So, after some delays on the
road, he wired ahead to Williams
port for breakfast. When he got to
the lumber city he found he had
beaten the telegram He had cup
of coffee and then a sandwich. No
wonder he wanted breakfast in mid
afternoon, even at the risk of dam
aging his reputation.
Keep the little ball of yarn well
wound up and don't let it slip in the
theater hall or other place. The
other day some one knitting in the
balcony of q hall allowed the yarn
to go over the edge. She went on
knitting from the ball on the floor
below. About three times a night
some one lets yarn go down the
slope of the city theaters. But,
worst of all, is the woman who lets
the ball fall on the floor of trolley
car and then helplessly watches it
be tramped off toward the door.
Saturday afternoon an automobile
went down Market street with a
streamer of yarn as mute evidence
of wartime industry with some de-
tails of management lacking.
Some very prominent men appear
to be taking part in the annual
frolic of the Pen and Pencil Club,
of Philadelphia, the Oldest newspa-
Ipermen's organization in America,
which takes place next Wednesday.
Frank l.. Knight, Jim Chambers,
III. II. B. Campbell, Barran Lewis
and other newspapermen are on
publicity while Senator Penrose,
Congressman Ware, S. M. Vauclain,
Joseph B. Mccall and T. Z. Mitten
are on what is known as the Army
and Navy" and George j. Brennan,
naturally, on Midnight Frolic" com
mittee. Samuel Rea, District Attor-
ney Rotan, A. Merritt Taylor and
Hot of Congressman, bankers and
captains of industry are on the gen
eral committee.