davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The New York herald., 1920-12-05

with the individuality of New York city.
Mr.. Lewis, who was seen at the Biltmore
Hotel, declared that it was this character
istic which appealed to the Western visitors.
The New York people are the most hos
pitable in the world" the former Senator
declared, and they are the busiest. The
city is made up of all classes of citizens
who come from the North the East, the
South and the West, yet they all call New
York home When they go back to their
native town for a vacation they always say
they are returning home when they mean
back to their adopted city. They like to be
identified with New York.
Il have the greatest admiration for the
New York traffic cop. 1t is a mystery to
me how he handles the traffic. People step
on his toes but he never gets impatient.
THE cfty is like a kid growing up. Old
buildings are constantly being torn down to
make way for new ones. the city is always
being built up somewhere. This means
progress. New York is growing and 1t is
going to continue to grow. There's nothing
to kick about here"
The New York herald., 1920-12-05
Washington Woman Finds
Delight in Everything Here.

: Perhaps the fact that Mrs. Richard Cross
land Jr.. of Washington had just concluded
her first months visit to New York ac-
counted for her very different impressions
OF the city. What she said sounded after
the Montreal woman's delicate criticism
like a pean of praise.
New York" said she. lis quite too lovely
I'm every way. I'm crazy about II and wish
/ was going to stop another month l love
the streets full OF such cheerful faces and
lovely dresses. the drives In the parks are
delightful and never saw greater comfort
In hotels anywhere. You may be sure that
! shall come back to your city every chance
/ get"
John s. Cravens and family have been
at the Ritz for several weeks and they left
for their home I'm San Francisco on the
Tuesday after Thanksgiving. In every way
their visit to this city has been happy, and
not the smallest factor in this result was.s
said the head of the house to the manager
of that hotel. the ease, almost Western in
it's graciousness, with which they had made
acuuaintances.
New York Is a sort of second home to
me-" said Charles s. Pillsbury of Minneap
oils scion of a name that Is literally
household word 1--WE been coming here on
an average of once q month for several
years. Sometimes I bring my family and
sometimes ! come on by myself. Either
way like the city almost as a confirmed
resident does. and in fact we all like IT,
The New York herald., 1920-12-05


toned seven classes of incomes for tax ex-
empt bonds.
AS the capitalization of income at 4 per
cent represents $4,000 on a million this is
taken as the millionaire line. For multiples
Of $4,000, the steps are by $4,000 and this
is misleading in any enumeration of mil
ionaires. Incomes are not fixed and even
those from wealth fluctuate, while those
from speculation are recognizably uncertain.
A millionaire who put his wealth In Lib
erty bonds exclusively would not be mil
lionaire according to the tax commissioners.
If he possessed a million of them he still
would not be included in the. millionaire
line It is also conceivable that by such an
investment in Liberty bonds he would have
lost more i'm principal than the income which
made him millionaire. That is, he would
have diverted his wealth from more re-
munerative investments
1t is reasonable to believe that there was
more wealth and more millionares in 1919
than in 1917 and the decrease In the num-
ber Of the latter In 1916 may be due to many
of them disposng of their wealth In exempt
securities so that they are no longer to be
counted in the millionaire class. This de-
crease then need not indicate decrease OF
wealth but diversion of income.
Variation in the number of income tax
PAYERS may signify different rates of taxes
and exemption or more efficient collection of
identical taxes 1t is difficult to show this
by comparison Of tables Of incomes and
The New York herald., 1920-12-05
Continued from Preceding Page.

man from the West doesn't at once respond
to the charm of the metropolis and say that
it is all very wonderful.
1T is the bigness Of the town and the
loneliness of its people that make the deep
est impression upon me. Every one seems
like some tiny bit in the huge machine, and
to be without very much energy of his own,
but rather to be hurled about by some force
which is not Of him but far beyond him, and
that is your New York. A fine place to be
in for a little while place of opportunity,
but hardly place to live in all the year
round and in which to sink deep the roots oil
life"
The New York herald., 1920-12-05

tors One of the latter told THE New YoRK
HERALD man that he was receiving daily
cabed inquiries for rooms from Argentina,
Chile. Brazil and Cuba
Francis Bennett in spite of his American
name. is a Norwegian who is making his first
visit here. He arrived recently on the
Bergenfjord and is at the Hotel McAlpin.
He expressed himself amazed by the beauty
and interest of New York.
Mr.. Bennett is director of a travel bureau
In Norway, which was established by his
father in 1s4S. He escorted the late Col.
Theodore Roosevelt through Denmark.
Sweden and Norway when Mr. Roosevelt re-
turned from his hunting trip to Africa, and
II was while they were travelling from Chris
tania TO Stockholm that a telegram was re-
ceived telling of the death of King Edward
of England. and Mr.. Roosevelt Immediately
cut short his tour and started for London.
1--WE are naturally just having our first big
travel boom to the scandinavian countries
now since the war" said Mr. Bennett. AL
though during the war we handled thousands
OF Red Cross. war and civil travellers be-
tween Russia and England and the United
States and at the first outbreak of war had
perhaps thousand Americans stranded
there for whom we got vessel to send them
to New York
New York can give points TO Europe i'm
the matter of hotels Rates there are as
high as here, and in many cases higher. The
service abroad does not compare with what
we find in New York"
The opinion of Madame ]. Hebert OF Mon
treal, who has been at the Ritz-Carlton
with her daughters. breaking her journey
from Paris. is not complimentary. Nine.
Hcbert knows New York well by reason Of
frequent visits. and she likes to come to the
city because of her many personal friends
who are citizens but for no particular at
traction that the city itself holds out"
And the reason why 1t has none for her
Is this
You are too casual; one may come or not
come to New York. but New York does not
care. In other great cities of tho world
The New York herald., 1920-12-05
Towans Hasten Home to Escape
Noise and BustIe of Metropolis

A man and his wife from Davenport
Ia, who were at the same hotel for a
fortnight cut short their visit, which had
been planned to cover month. because
New York seemed to them very unhome-
like city. Having gained a promise that
her name should not be used, the wife let
herself go in a veritable stream of censure
The first counts against Gotham were its
crowds and noises.
IL admit" said she. that both are to be
expected in a metropolis, but many OF the
noises are unnecessary and might be con-
trolled. and certainly the crowds are not
polite I've been in your subway only once.
but j vowed nothing should ever take me
into II again.
I'VE succeeded in getting orchestra seats
for the opera on the first popular night, q
Saturday. | enjoyed seeing the Metropolitan
Opera House. of which had read so much
and the music was heavenly, but when we
went into the foyer for restful stroll be-
tween the two parts ] found II unbearable.
The rudest men pushed and jostled without
any manners whatever. There were very
few ladies walking about, and guess they
knew by experiepce. as we didn't, that the
promenade of the opera is only for males
And as we were leaving. before we had
reached the exit TO, get into our automoDile
I can't number the men who lighted up
cigars and cigarettes and puffed their nasty
smoke into my face.
"Your New York is very huge and very
interesting. | admit. but II is not well
hammered city like Davenport"
That is a womans view. Here Is mans.
Victor Mendoza of Havana says he is nap
pier here than at home except In the sum
mer for strangely enough he prefers the
summer climate Of Cuba to our Senegani-
bian heated term. In his opinion polite
ness and urbanity are marked features in
the treatment accorded to strangers by the
people of New York Life here. he thinks,
Is always agreeable. because whatever Ills
they may have to endure the citizens of
this city are unsensh enough TO hide them
and TO appear cheerful. The Cuban thought
this outward aspect of cheer true asset.
likely to bring guests ana TO hold them.
The New York herald., 1920-12-05

period undoubtedly meant that wage earners
of these lowest amounts had advanced into
the class above From these inferences there
is no reason in the supposition that the
country is no longer prosperous, but the
contrary.
Chairman Good. who succeeded Mr.. Ktchin
at the head of the Ways and Means Com
mittee of the House, expressed amaZement
when shown the decreases in the seven prin
cipal sources of income revenue. Upon his
reorganized committee will fall the response
bity of making new tax schedules. Their
duty will be to find new sources of taxation
to supplant the deprecated revenues which
had been prescribed by his predecessor.
The Ways and Means Committee has be-
gun to tackle this enormous task 1t is
now in session and expects to present re-
vised schedules shortly after Congress con.
venes tomorrow.
The heavy toll of dual assessment on cor
poration earnings and stock has been de-
scribed as a reason for the present serious
depression in business. To the heavy bur-.
den of double taxation and ensuant large
depreciation of earnings have been widely
ascribed discouragements which have beset
enterprise throughout the country
Tax Burden Falls Heavy on
Some and Light on Others
Further. to take stock in trade, review
of the inequality of taxation as conceived
by the Kitchin Ways and Means Committee
may serve us better to understand the busi-
The New York herald., 1920-12-05
Wife of Kansas Governor Finds
Best in Art and Music Here

Mrs Henry J. Allen. wife of the Governor
of Kansas. who has been at the Biltmorc
Hotel with her daughter awaiting the ar
rival of Gov. Allen, Is particularly interested
in New York city as an art and music centre.
She devotes most of her time when here
II she is not engaged in chaperoning Miss
Henriette her young daughter, who is at
tending school, and her numerous friends -
in visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art
and the Various picture galleries along Fifth
avenue She is devoted to Childe Hassam's
art and considers his series Of flag pictures
one of the most interesting and beautiful
souvenirs of the world war.
Mrs. Allen has travelled extensively In
Europe and while there she made a point
Of attending concerts where great musicians
played or sang and going to the art mu
seums. She now considers New York the
equal, If not the superior of any European
city from the standpoint of art and music
offerings.
Mayor f. V. Babcock Of Pittsburg and
Mrs Babcock who came to New York for
the Army and Navy football game and
stopped at the Biltmore Hotel, consider New
York an ideal place to visit. Mrs. Babcock
praised the police force which she said was
wonderfully efficient. especially the traffic
department. and she was enthusiastic about
the brightness. the cleanness and the checri-
ness OF the great metropolis
The only criticism l could possibly Of
fer" she replied when asked IL there was
not at least one flaw in New York "is the
way mobs gather and sometimes destroy
property" Mrs. Babcock referred to the
recent Sim i'en attack on the Union
Club, the compensation taking place the day
following that episode. 1T is a pity 10 de-
face any part of the beautiful city and not
TO control mobs. With this one exception
no one could find a more delightful city 20
visit and TO enjoy thoroughly" she said.
J. Hamilton Lewis of Chicago. recently
Democratic candidate for Governor and for
mcry United states Senator. is impressed
The New York herald., 1920-12-05

First, they make us very comfortable
here: your hotels could hardly be improved
upon, and it is pleasant for any one to get
away from housekeeping cares to the en-
joyment of comfort that equals and fairly
resembles home comfort.
$50 you see I can't be counted as "a
critic. Nor do / feel like becoming one.
II you ask me what has struck me forcibly
on this my latest visit say that ii is the
resumption of building. The great efforts
being taken to house your millions is per-
haps more noticeable to transient than to a
permanent resident If list is being made
up of those who love New York and of
those who don't put myself high up among
the lovers of the CITY,"
The New York herald., 1920-12-05
70;

rorth of the Mason and Dixon line; fur
thermore, that the major part of the needs
for war debts would be supplied by wealth.
In 1917 there were recorded on the books
OF the Treasury Department some TAI per-
sons whose taxable incomes were in excess
of 81. 900. 900. There were 315 persons who
paid, on incomes exceeding 100000. Five
hundred and fifty-nine incomes in excess Of
100000 were subject to the levy Of the
Federal Government. Two thousand three
hundred and forty-seven incomes of $780,,
900 to 100000; 1902 citizens possessed in
comes subject to taxation which were from
The New York herald., 1920-12-05
Millions Spent by Government
Virtually a Free Gift to fhe Sour

similar knowledge OF those uses on the
part of the electorate aided greatly to bring
about the unprecedented Reputation of an
entire group of governmental sectionalists
The War Department expended many mil
lions of dollars on Southern camps. nitrate
plants and arsenals. One hundred million
dollars more now is being asked for the
production of fertilizer for Southern cotton
Plantations. Military roads were built in
the South with other millions. They were
left by the War Department as a free gift
to those States in which they were con
structed. Local as well as Federal taxation
thus was escaped. Southern harbors got
tens of millions from the North Carolinan
Secretary of the Navy. Many of these sta
tions never were used for troops, munitions
or supplies transportation.
The fathers of the Republic provided that
Representatives and direct taxes shall be
apportioned among the several States ac-
cording to respective numbers" The Six
teenth Amendment provided that Congress
shall have the power to lay and collect
taxes on incomes from whatever source de-
rived without apportionment among the sew
eral States and without respect to any CEN
sus enumeration"
The Sixteenth Amendment became effect
i've in 1913-at the beginning of the Wilson
Administration. The consummation of the
threats of Southern lawmakers to make the
North pay the freight came in 1918, when
the Kitchn income tax law became enacted.
The Good Ways and Means Committee
has heavy undertaking on its hands. 1t
must revise the tax schedules so they will
fall equally, without regard to section or
class. without malice or revenge. 1t must
coordinate it's deliberations with the tariff
the finance and other committees so the
heavy debt which has accumulated during
the last eight years will be assessed as
equitably as possible
The New York herald., 1920-12-05

who pufed their smoke into face
well hammered
like
Old buildings being constantly torn
down ones"
New York; but New
York does
nothing should take
it again"
Yorker o Htterng streets"
the New York
and
on subw football"
The New York herald., 1920-12-05
Million Dollar Incomes No Indication of Poverty

taxes for the three years, 1916, 1917 and
1918; they are not given in identical form.
The total number of those paying income
taxes in 1918 showed an increase of almost
a million. The increase in income reported
by all income tax payers was $2,272256,-
1880. and the increase in taxes paid was
s43622S, ,Ss1. These figures show anything
but loss of wealth to the country. AS
matter of fact they indicate more general
prosperity. The small income tax payers
number 44O4,170 reporting incomes of $4,000
or over In 1917 there were 1,s32,132 of such
reported incomes
Indications of Gain
Instead of Loss in Wealth
The increase of 954614 in 1918 reflected
prosperity of widely spread kind. This
was enlarged in 1919 presumably, for the
wage level still remained high. In fact, there
was an increase in 1918 of all incomes be-
low $4,000, except those which range be.
tween $1,000 and $4,000. High wages at that
The New York herald., 1920-12-05
Revenue Act Falls Flat
When War Profits CeaS

When the Ways and Means Committee of
the House of Representatives under the
Craftsmanship Of Claude Kitchin of North
Carolina constructed the revenue act in
1918, under which taxes for the payment of
the stupendous war debt were to be levied,
the vision of those who controlled the COM
mittee did not extend to the inevitable time
when war profits should cease to be the
chief source of revenue.
Reduction of war profits in 1918 and
their dminution in 1919 and 1920 have
confrontedA Congress with the problem of
revising Shajor portion of the revenue act.
OF the classes provided for by the act, grad
uating down from $1.O0O,OOO and over to
the class $4,000 to $4,000, the Internal
Revenue Department of the Treasury re-
ports that in 1918 it failed to collect on the
average of 81 per cent. much in 1918 as it
lad collected in 1917.
Chaii man Kitchin in 1918 assured the
committee that the tax bill reported would
assess the taxes on the country chiefly
The New York herald., 1920-12-05

ness stagnation existing in certain sections
OF the country.
New England. with population of 7,500,-
COO, paid to the Government last year S543,-
S43646.2S; New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl
vania. Delaware and Maryland. with a pop
uation of 24,000,o00, paid $2.246, SIG, ,055.36;
and Ohio, Indiana, Illinois. Michigan and
Wisconsin. with a population of 20000,000,
paid s1,264. s33, ,SSs.O2.
These sixteen States, with az population
OF 54,O0O00O or total of one half the popu-
lation of the United States. paid $4,055, ,553,-
0sS.66. or nearly four -fifths of the total taxes
collected by the Federal Government last
year. The thirteen States south of the Po-
tomac and Ohio rivers, including Oklahoma
and Texas, with a population of $4,000, 900
or one-fourth of the whole, paid $571,S15,-
646.14 or little more than one-tenth of the
total and one-seventh of the amount COL
lected in the, sixteen Northern States.
When Chairman Kitchin told the Demo-
cratic caucus that the taxes assessed by his
bill would not be largely collected in the
South he prophesied correctly. When Sem
ator John Sharp williams of Mississippi
told his Democratic colleagues that he
not be collected in his State he apparently
epitomized the best wishes of Kitchn and
others who had such an omni-important
part in the imposition of the law which
should prescribe and collect those taxes
Knowledge of the use for which a great
portion of the unequally laid taxes were
made serves further to stimulate the Good
Ways and Means Committee to effectuate
different distribution of the burden than
that accomplished by the Kitchin COM
mittee.
The New York herald., 1920-12-05

100000 to $150,000; of the $4,000 to
100000 incomes there were 12,349; So,3s1
persons were calculated to bolster the Fed
eral need incomes from $4,000 to
$4,000.
From the foregoing group of incomes a
great portion OF Federal revenue naturally
The New York herald., 1920-12-05
Money in Tax Free Bonds
Suggested as an Explanation

Various theories are conjectured at the
Treasury Department and at the Capitol as
to why the large incomes apparently de-
creased so greatly in the year 1917 to 1918.
A favorite explanation is that many pos
SCISSORS of wealth had anticipated the heavy
drain they would have to bear as result
of the terrific war expenditures and got
under the cover of the various Liberty
bond issues which were tax free.
There were three classes of bonds which
were placed in the tax exempt category-
Federal, State and municipal. AS there was
a decrease of 1927. .O0o.Ooo in the annual rev.
enue from 1916 to 191s at the rate of per
cent. for all Federal. State or municipal
bonds, 1t would have required over $6,500.-
600, 900 In bond exemptions to make up the
deficit. 1t is believed by observers of the
problems of the Federal Treasury that no
such amount of money was taken from other
investments by those In the previously men
The New York herald., 1920-12-05

was expected Reduction of those incomes,
however, following the armistice and the
secession of war profits was an obvious pre-
ciusion.
Collection of such low percentage in 1918
of the amount collected in 1917 portends
grave predictions for the comparative col
lections in 1919 and 1920. the reports of
which have not yet been made public by the
rrraa sIlry Departrnent
The New York herald., 1920-12-05
Shifting of Wealth and Weak Tax Plan Shown
by Comparisons of 1917 and 1913
Figures Just PublishedHow
the North Foots the Bill

T%HE surprising decrease in the number
of incomes subject to levy of
i 81 900 revealed in income tax
statistics recently given out by the Treas
ury Department is taken by students of the
nations financial status to disclose a shift
ing rather than falling off in wealth, and
in their minds indicates conditions calling
for sweeping changes in the Governments
revenue system as applied to taxation. The
statistics for the calendar year 1918 show
only sixty-seven incomes, against which
tax of s1,000.000 a year or more was
levied, as compared to 1141 in 1917 and 206
in 1916. The sixty in 1918 were levied
upon at an average rate of 64.65 per cent"
as compared to 1886 per cent in 1917, and
age of $1.326,645.
The report shows a total amount of net
income of s15.s24 ess, ,s55 yielding total tax
of $1,127.721s ss5 and an average tax per in
dividuai of $254s5, as against an average
of $1s911 for the individual and a total
yield of $e91, ,4s2 ,954 in 1917 The total net
income reported in 1917 was $13,652,Ss3207.
so the figures for 1918 show an increase of
II per cent.
1t is notable that the largest in net In
come over the period in question were in
the classes from SO 900 to $4,000, the most
striking increase of all being one of 76 per
cent. in the $4,000 $4,000 class, in which
wages and salaries figure as distinctive from
dividends and profits.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-08-01
LIVESTOCK MARKETS.
Chicago Livestock.

Chicago, July 3l.-Cattle-Re-
ceipts" 1900 Market compared
with week ago; Choice corn fed
steers mostly 35c to soc higher,
strong weight strengthening most;
grassers very uneven, averaging
Use to 81 lower; best she-stock
slow, soc lower; in-between kind
irregular, 75c to $l.25 lower; can
ners zoe TO soc lower; handy
weight butcher bulls 25c lower,
others declined soc to Use; calves
strong 25c higher; stockers draggy
soc to 75c lower.
Hogs-Receipts $500. Light and
light butchers steady at yesterdays
best time, others slow at yester-
days close. Light and butchers,
$15.O0@16.00; top. $16.15; packing
sows, $13.40@14.00; pigs firm.
Sheep-Receipts 5000. Mostly
direct. Compared with week ago;
Fat lambs Use lower; fat ewes 25c
to soc higher; feeder lambs gen
orally 81 lower. s