The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-04-25
WAR TAX ON LUXURIES
TO Be IN EFFECT SOON
Quitting Self and Family Along
Customary Lines Will Put Fresh
Crimp in Fathers Bank Roll.

ooh, boy!" painted MI. Common Citi.
zen, sinking into a seat on a street
a late on the evening of May /, 1919.
"the man who invented taxes is the
cute little thing, especially these war
taxes"
He famed himself with a brand new
panama hat, says the Washington
Star.
"What's the matter with the taxes
now?" asked his neighbor who had
just come in from the west after a
three-day trip.
where you been-asleep all day."
demanded Mr.. Common Citizen. Don't
you know that this is May l, 1919,
and-well, look at this hat. 1t amt
so much to look at, just a common, or
binary $3.50 panama hat, and look at
this necktie that would have set me
back just So yesterday. The hat cost
me S7.75 and the necktie $50. | ask
ed the clerk what he meant by stick
ing the 25 cents onto the price of the
hat and 10 cents onto the necktie.
Clerk Has the Documents.
"He just looked at me and smiled
and then he got out a little printed
slip.
These said he, are the new var
taxes, effective today
You don't say l came back at
him; maybe you don't know it, but
the var has been over for six months.
President Wilson said so last Deem
ber.'
THE war may be over he said to
me, but you haven't quit paying the
bill for it yet
"He went on to say that these char
ges were the 10 per cent tax on Lux
uries.
LuXuries,' | said, 'ain't I got a
right to wear a hat and a necktie with
out somebody's calling 'em luxurieso'
"'Yes,' he said, you got a right to
wear a hat and a necktie, but if you
don't want them classed as Injuries
you buy a hat that don't cost more
than S. and a necktie that don't cost
more than So"
Mr.. C. C. hitched himself forward
in his seat.
The Family's Troubles.
"Say, FRIEND" he said to the traveller
from the west, "that was early this
morning. l learned a lot since then.
This is the day my wife and the kid
dies came downtown to get their out
fit for summer. They are going away
for a trip in a few days. The trouble
is they didn't go last week.
"Well, we started right in to get
what was wanted. | tried to explain
about the war tax to my wife, and
she said: 4 think you ought to be
glad to pay it any way, to help those
poor boys over in France She and
my daughter wanted new hats right
off the bat. My wife picked out a
simple little thing that was marked
$40. That means $2O.5O,' | explained
to her. ooh, don't bother so,' she said,
amy n would think you didn't have
so cents
"My daughters hat cost $40, and
there wasn't a nickel of war tax on
it, because it cost less than SIS. Ny
boy got a cap for So, though, and the
tax was 10 cents. The next thing we
tackled was a parasol for my wife.
She found a pink one that set me back
SIS, and a 10-cent tax went on that.
In the Shoe Department.
1--WE jumped to the shoe department,
and there I got off fairly easy, for
unless you paid more than $40 for a
pair of shoes there wasn't any tax.
The boy and girl each got shoes at So,
and my wife picked up one pair at
$40 and another at S12, only 20 cents
on the lot.
My wife wanted a new trunk, one
OF the kind that you hang things in
and use for a closet in one of these 2
by 4 rooms at a summer resort, She
picked out a dandy for $50 and | paid