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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-27
INCOME TAX FACTS
YOU SHOULD KNOW
No. 6

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| The man or woman whose income is from
salary or wages has several things to con-
slider in making out his or her income tax
return. The full amount received for person
al services must be returned as gross in
come Direct expenses incurred in earning
his compensation, however; are allowable de-
auctions. For example, travelling man sell
ing on commission may deduct his railroad
fare and amounts paid for hire of vehicles
in calling on his customers as business eX-
pense,'' but not his hotel board, which is a
personal or living expense.
Salaries must be reported as income for
the year in which they are received, regard
less of when they are earned Thus, man
who is paid on the 9Th of the month and
received his salary for the month of Deem
Der, 1918, on January 5, 1919, will include
the amount in his return for 1919 His sal
ary for December, 1919, which is not re-
ceived until January 5, 1920, need not be
included in his 1919 income, although it was
entirely earned during that year.
t, BONUSES MUST BE REPORTED
A salary. or commission credited to an &C
count and subject to withdrawal must be IN
cluded as income. Bonuses or any form OF
prOft sharing must be included, since they
are additional compensation for services A
Christmas gift, or other present from an EN-
plOyer is not taxable
Compensation for personal services may
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and lodging In this event, fair value must
be placed upon the room and meals, and the
amount reported as income by the employe'
Salaries of officers and employees of a
state, county, or municipal government are
exempt from taxation. The exemption does
not extend to federal employees and employees
of the government of the District OF Column
bia. -.,
Compensation for personal services palo
to directors and trustees OF corporatlon. VI
society which itself is exempt from taxation
is taxable income to the recipients. VII
nesses in law suits are not employees OIL
state. and the ices received by such witnesses
are subject to taxation.
TIPS ARE TAXABLE
Tips to porters, walters, etc, are not re-
garded as gift but as compensation for
services rendered. and must be included IN
the returns of persons by whom received.
Money paid under a marriage settlement
is a gift, and not taxable Neither allmony
nor allowance based on a separation is tax
able income, though if such funds are IN
vested the income derived from such sources
must be reported for taxation.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-27

persons has been formed at Santa Fee New
Mexico, which is in the heart of the Pueblo
country, and another one has been formed at
Taos. Pictures of the Pueblos painted in
these places are now to be seen in all Of the
principal eastern galleries, and many of the
great eastern museums have representatives
in the southwest
These scientists and artists hate to see any
thing done which tends to impair the pic
turesqueness of the Indian. Not only do they
wish to keep him unspoiled as subject for
study and art, but they assert that he has an
art of his own which is well worth preserv-
ing, and which will be lost if he is civilized
The Indians make pottery, baskets and blan-
kets, which are beautiful and are now to be
seen IN all parts of the country Authorities
say that some of this art especially the pot
terry and The blankets, is the best Of it's kind
that is being done in the United States today.
They say it is wrong and foolish to convert
the Indian to our civilization, when he has a
civilization Of his own which is capable of
producing more beautiful objects of art than
ours
Furthermore, they argue that the Indian
has a right to his own life. II the rights of
small nations and of oppressed people, for
which supposed to have gone to war,
mean anything at all, they mean that the
Pueblo should be allowed to live his own life.
That is what he wants to do. He does not
welcome change and does not pretend to. He
is extremely peaceful and will not fight with
anybody. He is good-natured and obliging,
and is always willing to pose for an artist, or
to let a linguist explore the inside of his
mouth to see how he talks. For a tactful
archaeologist, he will tell over the folk tales
which have come down to him from his fore
fathers. But he does not care for modern
agricultural methods. He does not want to
give|up his ancient ways, nor does he like to
see his sons and daughters lured away from
the ancestral Pueblo to become servants in
towns.
Each of these Indian villages argue the
advocates OF the leave-them- alone policy, is a
little nation, with life of it's own to which
it has just as good right as any other little
nation. The Pueblos are a distinctive. peo-
ples and have a right to remain if they
choose, which they do.
The negative in this debate is taken by
Cato Sells, commissioner of Indian affairs
and by most if not all Of his agents in the
field, who have charge Of the work of edu-
eating the Indians.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-27

For the first time in history a woman has
spoken in the mosque of FL AZhar at Cairo,
in Africa. The speaker who figured in the
unprecedented incident was an American
whose name has not yet been learned, and
she spoke for two hours on political subjects.
The Mosque of Ell AZhar was originally built
by Gohar the founder of Cairo, about A d.
973, and was transformed into a university
in 9SS. The number of students, which rose
to nearly Il 0 900 in the latter part of the
nineteenth century, decreased considerably
since British occupation. The teaching in this
institution consists of learning by heart vari-
Gus old treatises on religion, Jurisprudence,
logic, rhetoric and poetry.
Cairo and Cape Town, representing the ex-
tremes OF the African continent, have at last
been linked by air service. The British air
ministry has announced that the air route,
over which engineers have spent long months
of labor amid great difficulties, is finally
ready for traffic. This means that the time
heretofore required to traverse the continent
from ten to twelve weeks--has been cut to
about week and that heretofore secluded
sections of Africa will be opened to the world.
Tnifcation of the northern and southern
factions in China is imminent, according to
Honolulu cable adyices received from Canton,
via Shanghai, by the Hon Mon Bo, Chinese
language newspaper. The Canton dispatch
reported that the revolutionary government
at Marking, south emma, mad lndlcatea us
readiness to establish peaceful relations with
North China and was about to declare the
cancellation OF its independence and unite
with the Picking government.
Count Arco Valley has been sentenced to
death in Munich, Austria for the assassina-
ton Of Kurt Eisner, the Bavarian Premier
at Munich. OF February q, 1918. Count
Arcn Valley was on the witness stand al day
in the court, which was guarded inside and
Out by troops, Describing events which led
to the assassination. he said:-"l shot him
from behind because he betrayed my father
land
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-27
CONGRESS Ceases to Function

FTHE dangers of the inaction and in
competency which have marked legis-
lative matters at Washington for al
most year are we'll suggested by the I1t-
ton Gazette when it asks with the Con-
gress talking and procrastinating while the
world waits with the Senate playing poll
tics, venting spite and nursing personal am
bition while America is left behind the other
civilized nations in the effort to save the
fruits of Victory-is it any wonder that the
people are dissatisfied, and that there is a
growing contempt for government which
does not functiOn?'
Congress might as as we'll have been nom
existing for any reconstruction problems that
it has solved or any reconstruction service it
has rendered. 1t has done worse than moth
ing; it has stood in the way Of executive
plans which, had they been carried out,
would have done substantial good. Useless
itself from partisanship and prejudice, it has
frustrated the usefulness of others. Con-
fronted with duties of the most imperative
and most inspiring nature it has frittered
the months away in political fustian The
consequence is that more than a year after
the armistice we find ourselves still in a state
of war and as far as ever from the readjust-
ments which must be made ere conditions
will be fairly settled and secure. No rail-
road legislation, no merchant marine policy,
no military or naval program, no assured
basis for the development of foreign trade,
no peace treaty, no dependable status of our
international relations, no answer to one
of the tremendous questions in which
American interest and honor are bound up!
The country is paying for the folly of
electing Republican Congress to hamstring
a Democratic administration at time when
concerted action was all important The
people, 1t is true, had a right to expect their
representatives at Washington to rise above
partlsanship and work harmoniously for the
nations good. But instead partisanship has
gone from bad to worse until at length Con-
gress virtually ceases to function. How
much longer this deplorable state of affairs
VIII continue, there is no predicting But
certainly not until it ends will there be hope
OF sowing the grim problems that press upon
America and upon the world. Congress. if if
WILL can restore peace and certitude; but
nrst 1t must learn to function again.
Reading the kaiser's letters to the czar
one wonders how he held his job as long as
he did.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-27
Mrs. Sarah Ann HembhiW

gracious and golden chapter in the
story OF Southern WomanhoOd has closed with
the passing of Mrs. Sarah Ann HemphiIl at
the age of one hundred and three years Not
only in Athens, where she resided, nor only
IN Georgia where were her kindred and so
many hundreds of her closest friends, but
through the Southland's length and breadth
Mrs Hemphill was honored and loved. AS one
OF the six surviving Mothers of the Confed-
eracy she was dear to every heart that cher
ished the memory of that heroic cause. Con-
tinuaf reminders of this esteem were reach
ing her. 1t was only few days before her
death that the United Daughters of the Con-
federacy presented her with a memorial pin
in token of their affection; and as evidence
of the Wide-reaching interest in the occasion
distinguished men and women from divers
States were present. To her latest hours Mrs
Hemphill reflected the beauty and the ben
ison of those brave days of old'' which glo-
rified the South of her girlhood and sancti-
fled the South for which she and her sisters
suffered. A wondrOusly full life was hers
and WOndrOusly noble.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-27
The Price Outlook.
~HE Federal Reserve Board in re-
cent report, remarks upon the gen

THE Federal Reserve Board in re-
cent report, remarks upon the gem
eraI anxiety that prevails in Amer
lea concerning the continued advance in
prices. The maximum point in prices
was reached in 1919, but new high
mark may be registered in 1920 unless the
production of American and European indus
tries shows a decided increase. In word,
the course of prices during the current year
depends very largely upon the attitude of
domestic and foreign labor, more especially
the extent to which European labor con-
tributes toward increasing production. In
deed, high prices in America have been due
in part to the fact that Europe required and
took a considerable portion of what we pro-
duced.
Increased production in Europe will, it
seems certain, be followed by a steady de-
cline in prices in America, and it is crafty
ing to note that indications in Great Britain,
France, Belgium and Italy point to renewed
productive energies.
European paper money issues have con-
tr1buted to increase the price levels through
out the world, and the future course of
prices will be Influenced by the issue of this
credit money, which has added to the public
debts and deprecated the value and purchas-
ing power of English, French and italian
money. This, of course, has helped to in
crease the cost of everything
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-27
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST

French and Italian engineers have gone to
Chamonix, Switzerland, to make studies on
the ground for tunnel under Mont Blanc,
directly joining France and Italy. This
project which has been under examination
for many years, now appears near attain
ment as both governments have voted pre-
liminary credits to commence work. France
has appropriated 45,000,0OO francs and Italy
46 10000
The French crown jewels deposited in
hank at Bordeaux at the end of 1914, when
the German advance threatened the capital
will be taken again to Paris and placed on
exhibition at the Louvre.
The historic Jewels were taken to Bordeaux
by NJ Dalimir, state secretary OF fine arts,
in his own suitcase. They include the Regent
diamond which is today worth more than
100000 francs the Pink and the Mazarin
diamonds, the watch presented to Louis XIV
by the Bey of Algiers and the handle OF Ma
poleOn'S SID.
A surprising number of American-bOrn
children are growing UP illiterate-more OF
them in the country districts than in the cities
according to figures made public by the
children's bureau of the department of labor.
Statistics gathered in five states in which
the employment ~ children is general, it was
stated, show that out of ,696 children be-
tween fourteen and sixteen, more than one
fourth could not read or write their names
legibly Nearly 10 per cent had never gone
beyond the first grade of school, and con-
siderabIy more than one-half were in the
fourth grade or lower when they left school.
Only about per cent got far as the
eighth grade, and about one in a hundred
had reached high school.
influenza is spreading through Japan as
well as other countries, and Prince Yashito,
second of the emperor, is seriously i'll.
Business has been restricted because of the
epidemic.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-27

w 5oa, s'@:seas ss 1' treasures: a ns
ginning to be appreciated. it is
doubtful that her potentialities of industry
ana commerce are as yet more than dimly
dreamed. Who, for example, save a few
special investigators, knows that one-third of
the countrys iron ore reserve, one-fourth of
It's coal reserve, more than one-half of it's
lumber output and more than one-fourth of
It's aggregate mineral production are in the
South? Or who-outside of particularly in
terested circles-has caught the full signif-
canoe OF the fact that the South has three
hfths of the countrys coast line and, has
streams whose hydro-electric resources are
easily capable of yielding nine million horse
power?
Touching the details of mineral production
the Manufacturers Record reminds us that
from the South come approximately all of the
country's bauxite, barytes and fuller's earth
approximately ninety-nine per cent of it's sui
phur and phosphate rock; ninety per cent of
it's aluminium, sixty per cent of it's graphite,
fifty-six per cent of it's natural gas and gaso-
line, fifty per cent of it's petroleum, forty
five per cent of it's asphalt, thirty-three per
cent of its pyrites, tale and soapstone, thirty
two per cent of it's COAL tWenty-four per cent
of it's lead and zinc, twenty-five per cent of
it's coke, and twenty per cent of it's cement.
With SO broad and deep basis of raw ma
terials, the South's manufacturing growth
has no measurable bounds. Add the power
awaiting development in her streams and the
trade expansion invited through her ports,
and there is no predicting the limits of her
industrial and commercial empire.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-27
STARS

When all the world stands heaped in silent
hills
About the dying Sun hear the stars
Start singing; as soldiers sing in far-off wars
When each mans thought the distant home
land fills
I watch their breathing draw as the nightn-
gale trills
Into their skyey country, and the CLEAN
Of their strange gaze bending DER me that
dream
Among. the trees. shines in earth's distant
There I sing faint songs among the ferns and
grass
Of some far land that has been lost to them.
Under the somber boughs those wanderers
pale,
Imaged like flowers dropping in streams that
pass,
The dark earth's quivering rivers nightlong
gem,
Till from the world like ghosts at dawn they
sail.
BY w. J. Turner, in the New York Sun,
The Japanese, are told, look upon kiss
ing with horror, and after sizing up some OF
these picture brides we don't blame EN-
SAN FRANCISCO BULLETIN.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-27
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-27
PIJNGENT PARAGRAPHS

Hints to housewives: Sugar bowls can be
nsed to pot plants.--DETROlT NEWS.
Gerard says his candidacy was not intend
ed to embarrass President Wilson. we mad
no idea that it would.-LOS ANGELES
TIMES.
II is said that some folks over in Europe
are using butter for axle grease. 1t is just
the other way around here.-JO HNSTOWN
DEMOCRAT. .
Even if it is agreed that the League of Ma
lions shall control Fiume, who will control
D'Annun2io?- GLOBE.
Holland still objects to exporting the big
oest cheese ever held within its borders. Yet
the allies may insist upon it.-PlElLADEL-
PHIA RECORD.
Pittsburg tombstone dealers have boosted
prices 20 per cent. And no doubt they will
still have the nerve to cut on the monument
REST in Peace ''--ALTOONA MIRROR.
It does seem that team Of such good
losers as TAFT and Bryan ought 10 get hear
ing at least on shat treaty trouble.--WASH-
TNGTON POST.
Admiral Sims says. criticism Of Daniels
was duty. And a duty not unmixed with
pleasure, perhaps--PITTSBURG DISPATCH
The fair price commissions are having hard
work to advance their lists to keep pace with
the prices at which dealers are selling sugar.
BALTIMORE AMERICAN
1t may be that Herbert Hoover is looming
big on the political horizon because the peo~
pie wish to try a stomach specialist after their
experience with heart diagnOstician.- MIN
NEAPOLIS TRIBUNE.
After ten years of hot air the senate finally
has passed the water power bill. With pres
poets of ample water power, the country can
now get along with little less senate lung
power.-ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-27

Foch gives his pipe credit for winning the
war probably on the theory that the Ger
mans got Whit of it.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-27

Ii is said that some folks over in Europe
are using butter for axle grease. 1t is just
The other way around here.-JO HNSTOWN
DEMOCRAT
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-27

Turkey came near fighting on the side of
the allies, showing what close calls we had
in the war.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-27

Whether he is finally punished or merely
ignored, the kaiser will suffer.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-27

Even if it is agreed that the League of Ma
lions shall control Fiume, who will control
nnunzio?--ROSTON GLOBE.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-27

Holland still objects to exporting the big
nest cheese ever held within its borders. Yet
the allies may insist upon it.--PlIlLADEL-
PHIA RECORD.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-27

Reading the kaiser's letters to the car,
one wonders how he held his job as long as
he did "
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-27

Hints to housewives Sugar bowls can %
used to pot plants.--DETROlT NEWS.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-27
Dixtes Industrial Since

w rHILE something of the vastness of the
Wv Souths agricultural treasure is be-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-27

Gerard says his candidacy was not intend
ed to embarrass President Wilson. We had
10 idea that it would.-LOS ANGELES
TIMES.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-27

After ten years of hot air the senate finally
has passed the water power bill. With pros
poets of ample water power, the country car
now get along with little less senate lune
power.-ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT.
Arizona republican., 1920-08-15
cHRIsTY MATHEWsoN

Christy MathewSons illness has shocked the entire sporting world. The great Mathewson is one of the really great idols in the sporting world, and an athlete who holds the respect of the fans even after he has faded from the spotlight of fame. Mathewson's courage in accepting the verdict of his physi clans was characteristic of the base ball hero. Christy is suffering with tuberculosis. according to the physi- clans who diagnosed his case. Matty declares he can conquer the disease by his sheer will and resourcefullness That sounds encouraging for it will be recalled that when Mathewson's speed left his arm he invented the fadeaway ball and still pitched on his sheer will and his intelligence.
 There is not man or boy who knows the great American game who doesn't know of Matty, and who will not be roofing for him as he faces this sector so courageously.
 Reports from the east state that Matty is planning on coming to Ari- zona to recover his health, and he will possibly make his home in Phoenix Local sports. though sympathizing with the Great Matty in his present illness, will welcome him to Phoenix and try and make his stay here a pleasant one, that he may remain with us, even after he has regained his health
Arizona republican., 1920-08-15
Yeah, Like Hear Fans Roar, Says Babe
 'Buf My Real Interest Is .JISt Hit Elm Hard'

him shuffle around the bases in his queer cinnamon bear-like fashion, you get the idea that no one with such powerful muscles could have a core spending brain.
 But Babe has. He thinks rather
 deeply. He knows fame and for
 tune are passing things. The hats
 that are thrown in the air when he
 does his spectacular stunts may be
 thrown for some one else next year.
 And so he has made up his mind to get while the getting is good, break all records into a thousand pieces. smile happily at the applause he gets, but not take it to seriously, and provide for his older days while the providing is good.
 Babe has a queer, hesitating way of speaking. You have the impression that he's afraid he'll make a mistake, but when I.3 does say it, just as when he does smack the old horsehide, he does it with force. That's Babe all over.
 Yeah says Babe. T like to hear
Arizona republican., 1920-08-15

want to get them. That's where the sport in it is for me-
 (The teams are Philadelphia and Claveland)
 And so it is that Babe convinces you that he is a first class fighting man.
 But he has the instincts of a Blue beard.
 You needn't gasp with horror, either, for it isn't so terrible, after all.
 You remember, don't you, how the California Bluebeard, Harvey, said that he always felt happy after he had killed a wife? Well. that's the way Babe Ruth feels after he has killed the baIl-happy and peaceful, and content ed with everything.
 When I feel the impact of the ball against my bat I am almost always able to judge whether or not it's going to be a homer" says he. T d >l't think I miss once out of ten"
 And there's just one thing that
 worries Babe and that's the fear
 that some day some player will get
 directly in the way of one of his