The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-04-16

Smoking jackets-$7.5O.
Mems fancy waistcoats-$5.
| Women's hats-$15.
Mems and boys hats-$S.
Mems and boys caps-s2.
Boots, shoes, pumps, slippers-$10
Neckties and neckwear-$2.
Mems and Misses silk hosiery-$1
Women's and misses silk hosiery
So.
Mems Shirts.
Pajamas, nightgowns, underwear
IS.
Kimonas, petticoats, waists-$15.
Carry few extra pennies in your
pockets after May /.
Uncle Sam is going to take them
away from you to help pay for the
war.
Every time you spend a dime at a
soda fountain or ice cream parlor on
and after May 1 you'll have to throw
an extra penny on the counter to pay
the war tax.
Many soda fountains which charged
Is cents for sodas and sundaes dur
ing the war have reduced the price
back to 10 cents, but you're likely
soon to see signs over their fountains
reading:
"Sodas and sundaes now II cents"
The tax on ice cream and soft
drinks is only one of the many which
go into effect under the revenue act
On May l. The most important of
these are the so-called luxury taxes"
which are written into the revenue
bill before it became apparent to our
congressman that they were unneces.
sary.
Repeating Measure Talked to Death
An attempt was made to pass a bill
repeating them before congress ad-
journed, but it was one of the bills
talked to death in the filibuster. II
is likely that the luxury taxes" will
be repealed during the coming special
session, but until then well have to
pay 'em.
They call these luxury taxes, but
the commodities taxed are by no
means all luxuries Congress intend
ed the taxes to fall on the rich and
the well-to-do people of the country,
but some of them will fall just as
heavily on the great 80 per cent. of
the population represented by the
middle classes and the poor.
Take, for instance, the tax on med
icines. After May / you'll have to
pay a tax of per cent. for each
rs cents worth of proprietary medi-
cines you buy, whether they are pills,
tablets, powders, syrups, tonics, plas.
tiers. salves, or ointments. If you
pay 81 for bottle of medicine, you'll
pay 4 cents tax.
The same tax will apply to tooth
powders, hair dyes, hair restoratives,
toilet waters, perfumes and other toll
ct articles.
The tax on the other "luxuries" Is
not so heavy as that ON medicines,
toilet articles and beverages. The
reason for this is that, while the tax
is 10 per cent. it is imposed not on
the entire price OF the article taxed,
but on that part of it in excess of a
specified amount
For instance, carpets and rugs are
taxed 10 per cent. on the amount you
pay over SIS square yard. That is,
II you buy 10 square yards of carpet
at S. square ard, or $50, you will
pa no tax. But if you pay Sc square
ard for 10 yards, or $50, you will be I
taxed on that extra dollar a yard.
Thus you will pay 500 a yard, or
SCI for the 10 yards.
Movies Are Taxed Some More
Another luxury" tax that will hit .
he poor after May is that on mov-
ing pictures, which requires every ,
person leasing moving picture films :
'or exhibition to pay a monthly tax 9
If 5 per cent. of the amount of his ;
lin products in rentals. This tax, of
course, will be added to that already &"
being paid by the public on admis- 9
lions to moving picture theaters. In q
many cases it will diuble the price of :
movie tickets. :
These new taxes are in addition to
many others which went into effect 9
N April /. Prominent among these I
S the tax of 5 per cent. of the total \
rice paid on all articles Of jewelry. :
Still other luxury" taxes, which !,
fleet wealthy people principally, but =
lere and there dig into the pockets of =
he poor, have been paid ever since )
he revenue act was approved by the
'rsident in March. These include the .