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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-07-22
SOMERS.

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About hirty Of the members of Som
ers Camp Royal Neighbors of America
No 1852, were the guests of Mrs.
Charles Doerfiinger at her home in
Kenosha Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. S. C. Sorenson and daughter,
Myrtle, spent Monday in Racine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edd Leet and daughters
of Milwaukee, were over Sunday guests
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. George
P. Leet.
The many friends of Mrs. Anna
Longley will be glad to know that she
is rapidly recovering from her recent
operation at the Fond du Lac hospital.
Miss Dale of Kenosha and Mrs. Ed
ward E. Pearson of Winthrop Harbor,
were over Sunday guests at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Bullamore.
| Congressman Randall did not speak
at the Federated church on Sunday
evening as had been announced on ac-
count Of the threatening weather. 1t
lis expected that he will come at later
date.
The Masons of Kenosha will have
charge of the services next Sunday
evening.
\ Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Bullamore
and Miss Zine Bullamore, accompanied
by Mrs. Edward E. Pearson and Miss
Dale, motored to Waterford on Sunday
and visited with relatives there.
Joseph Bach, one of our Somers
boys, who won distinction in the re-
cent worlds war, is on his way over
sea to little town near Paris, France,
to wed Miss Doris Schillio Mr.. Bach
met his bride to be while serving at
AK Lex Bains, where she was also in
service. 1t is expected the young cou-
pie will return and make their home
in Kenosha.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. W. Kosterman, Mr..
and Mrs. William Ryder and son, Will
liam, and John A. Carre of Racine,
spent Sunday afternoon at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. E G. Ozanne.
\ William r. Birch died at his home
on Saturday morning, July II, 1920,
following an illness of several months
duration. Mr.. Birch was a son of Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Birch and was born
in Canada, July %, 1858. When about
eight-years of age he with his parents
came to Somers and he has lived here
since that time, He was united in
marriage to Miss Minnie Witscheber,
who with three sons, William, Frank
and Christopher of Somers, and one
daughter, Mrs. Peter Tennessen Of
Burlington, survives. The funeral
services were held from his late home
conducted by the Rev. Buenger of Ke-
nosha, on Tuesday morning at 1880
o'clock with interment at the Oak
wood cemetery.
Mrs. Longley is visiting at the home
of her son, DR.. Rhodes Longley at
Fond du Lac
Mrs. ]. A. Whitcomb and her
mother, Mrs. Lydia Lawrence of Ke-
nosha, and Sherman Whitcomb and
son of Beatrice, Nebraska, spent
Thursday evening at the home of Mr..
and Mrs E. G. Ozanne
/ Mr., and Mrs. Charles Dorey and
family attended family reunion held
at Hastings Grove Sunday afternoon,
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Leuker and
family, Mrs. Weber, Mrs. Yarrow and
son of Racine, were called at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. John Klinkhammer
on Sunday afternoon.
4 Otto KirchRerg Of Chicago, is visit
( ing at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Her
man j. Herzog.
4 Mr.. and Mrs, Herman ]. Herzog and
family aid Mr.. Kirchberg of Chicago,
motored to Milwaukee on Sunday and
spent the day with Mr.. and Mrs.
Jerome Paddock.
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KENosHA RUSSIAN DEAD.
Roman Kulbiski, Tannery Employee,
Dies at Home Today After a
a Lingering Illness.

Lingering Illness.
Roman Kulbiski, aged thirty-two
years old, an employee of the N. R.
Allen Sons tannery, died early this
morning at his home at 1853 Grand
avenue, after long illness from a
complication of diseases. He had
been in failing health for the last
year and for this reason death did
not come Unexpectedly.
The deceased was born in Russia in
1888. He came to America nearly ten
years ago and has lived since that time
in Kenosha He has been employed
both at the Simmons company and at
the tannery He is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Kate Kulbisld and two
children
The funeral services win be held at
the home Wednesday morning with in
torment following in the family plot
at the Green Ridge cemetery.
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STRUGGLED NOTE
DELAYS HEARING
Continued from page y

when confronted by St. Mary declared
that he did not know him and that he
had never cashed the check. St. Mary
declared that there could be no mis-
take as to his Identification.
Amount Secured Exaggerated.
Officials of the Nash company said
today that the amount alleged to have
been secured as result of raising the
checks had been considerably exag-
gerated. They declared that the total
amount secured from the raised checks
did not exceed S40O. 1t had been pre-
viously stated at the police Office that
the total amount was in excess of
$4,000. All of the raised checks are
in the hands of the police officers and
it is expected that the prosecution of
Jukaitis will be connected up with the
check given to St. Mary.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-07-22
PICK SLOVENIAN
TO LEAD LEGION
Clyde Stoneman Is Elected
Commander of Local
Post Of Legion.
TALK BUILDING PLANS

Clyde Stoneman was unanimously
elected commander Of the Kenosha
Post of the American Legion to take
the place made vacant by the resigna-
ton of Claudius G. Pendill, now state
commander, at the special election held
on Tuesday evening 81 the meeting of
the post at the Coliseum. Commander
Stoneman as chairman of the enter
tainment committee of the post during
the past year, has done much to build
up interest in the Kenosha post and
help to make it the largest post in
the state and his election to head
the legion is recognition of this
efficient service.
The new commander was one of the
first Kenoshans to volunteer for serv-
ice during the early days of the war.
He was overseas for many months and
served in the Army of Occupation fol
lowing the signing of the armistice.
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Building Committee Reports.

The most important other business
that came before the meeting was the
report of the building committee, pre-
Claudius G. Pendill. He explained the
two plans which had been considered
by the committee-one for the erec-
tion of legion home, with business
room on the first floor to pay for the
upkeep of the building and the other
for the erection of community house
to be used and built by the legion in
conjunction with all civic organiza-
tions of the city. The latter project
called for the building of four story
building with all the accommodations
of auditorium, gymnasium and a civic
center. 1t was admitted it would cost
not less than 100000 and that the aid
of the entire city would have to be
gained to back the movement
The discussion of the report brought
out two other projects-one for the
purchase of temporary club house
and the other for the building of a
legion club room and hall in connection
with new hotel. The opinion on the
project was so evenly divided that the
question was reported back to the com
mittee to be threshed out and another
report made when more members of
the legion are present.
May See Business Men.
In the meanwhile members of the
committee are planning to interview
prominent business men of Kenosha
regarding the plans for the erection
of either legion home or COM
munity house and bring to the legion
naires at meeting in the near future
the result Of their inquiries.
The report brought out the fact that
the residue of the Patriots Fund
8,000-has been offered to the service
men as nucleus for their building
fund and that several organizations of
the city have offered their sup
port to any building movement fost-
cred by the legion.
Plan More for Picnic.
The committee in charge of the
preparations for the big legion picnic
Of the Kenosha post with all other
posts in the First Congressional Dis
trict on Saturday afternoon, August
the 7th, at Paddock's Lake, brought in
their report regarding special trans
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portation facilities for the event.
State Commander Pendill also an
nounced that a meeting of the state
executive committee, composed of le-
gionnaires from every part of Wiscon-
sin, would be held on that day in Ke-
nosha and that these men would be
honor guests at the picnic.
The legionnaires voted unanimously
to secure from "The Stars and Stripes"
supply of cards to be used in delug-
ing Wisconsin senators to urge them
to- vote for the soldier compensation
law The way was again paved for
the organization of ladies' auxiliary
to the Kenosha post when it was de-
cided to ask all Kenosha women eligi-
Bile to membership in such an organi-
cation to meet with the DICTIONARIES at
the next meeting. A special program
will be planned for this meeting with
"a dance and luncheon to follow.
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Miss Beulah Rockwell has gone to
Hebron, Ill, for a weeks visit with
friends
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-07-22
Women Spin Wool
Left in HedgeroWs
English Housewives Have Discovered a
Unique Way to Beat the High
Cost of Living.
(By United Press. J

London Many extraordinary and
drastic economies are being devised by
women who find it impossible to cope
with high prices. For ingenuity in this
direction, Mrs. Cooper, who lives in
Kent, can scarcely be beaten. She
takes the wool left by the sheep on the
hedgerows in their efforts to squeeze
through, spins it, dyes it with bark
and onion skins, and then makes it up
into fieecy jumpers. In the village of
Kineton, Warwickshire, the women
save all the pieces of waste fat which
their unappreciative families would
otherwise leave on the sides of their
Sunday dinner plates and make soap
out of it. This soap is made in their
homes and they supply the whole viii
lage with it, both for household and
toilet purposes. The cheapest soap
available at store costs eightpence
(about 16 cents) pound, while "Kine-
ton soap" is sold at eightpence for FIVE
pounds and is(of very superior quality.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-04-29
Taxing a Soap
Bubble Proposition
Suggestions for Return TO Sanity
and SOIVency and Lower Prices
Through Taxation Change

We print below a copy Of letter
received by US from Galley & Lord,
% Madison ave-, New York, concern
ing our existing internal revenue law,
and suggesting corrective and con-
structive changes. This subject is
so timely and important that we feel
justified in giving it space in these
columns.
Some revenue measure, one which
may materially change the present
method of federal taxation, will, in
all probability, be shortly under con-
sideration by Congress. Shall this
new legislation be sound, simple and
equitable, or will it perpetuate the
faults, complexities and inequalities
of the present law, passed to meet the
emergency of war? The answer will
depend to a large extent upon pub
lie opinion, so we invite you to con-
slider some of the evils of the pres
ent method and some of the advant-
ages, as an alternative Of a tax on
sales.
The excess profits tax may auto
matically become a dead letter. 1t
was imposed as an offset to govern
ment price fixing. The individual in
come surfaces, however, as levied
against earned income, are in a diff
ferent position and are likely to re-
main and to bring their unfortunate
consequences unless their danger is
pointed out and acceptable alterna-
tives suggested, and the taxpayers of
all classes made to see that the pres
ent tax, to the extent that it bears
on earned incomes Of individuals or
partnerships, is really consumption
tax, and a contributing cause of the
present high prices.
We may criticise the existing
method on the following counts:
l. 1t bases the bulk Of the govern
ment revenue on a thing as evanes-
cent as a soap bubble. In other words,
upon profits or income which with the
first setback in the business affairs
of the people will very largely dis
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with the present high prices, and we
would not belittle these factors, but
an additional and primary cause has
been the present method Of taxation.
The present federal taxes have
been levied, apparently, upon the the
DRY that the strongest back should
bear the heaviest burden, or, in
other words, progressively increas-
ing income be subject to a progress
sively increasing tax. This theory has
It's appeal; it seems on the surface to
have sort of elemental fairness
about it, but when we recall the ten
dency Of all taxes to follow down and
lodge finally in the price of articles
and services and so be paid by the
consumer, the theory referred to loses
much of It's altruistic appeal.
1t also has its political appeal.
Very few people understand the the
Dries of taxation. The identity Of the
ultimate payer of the tax is camou-
flaged and politician may go before
his constituents with the statement:
ave have taxed the rich man, while
permitting the rest of you to escape
with little or no tax" Perhaps that
is why we have a system of taxation
which is more socialistic than sci
entifc.
Let us connect up directly the pres
ent system of taxation with the high
cost of living, and, in doing so, we
will first give an illustration. Sup
pose a business man, say, a manu-
facturer of some necessary article,
has heen accustomed to make
profit of hundred thousand dollars
a year; he suddenly finds that he is
to be taxed thirty-fve thousand dol
lars on that profit, and as he does not
want to make any less net income,
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the tax will tend to be absorbed
along the line rather than to be added
to.
We take it that such a tax would be
levied at uniform percentage
against all sales of commodities,
whether at wholesale or retail. That
brokers' or agents commissions
would be treated as their sales. In
the case of professional men their
fees might be regarded as their sales.
All matters which can be readily ad-
iusted once the principle is accepted.
Sales or transfers of real estate
should not be taxed.
This method also commends itself
for other reasons. The debt of back
taxes hanging over the people and the
borrowing by the government in an
ticipation might easily be disposed
of by making the tax payable month
ly. 1t would be very simple matter
for any individual or business house
to report net sales for a month and
pay one per cent. upon the same, say,
within the first fifteen days of the
following month; no elaborate cleri-
cal work is involved either upon the
part of the individual or the govern
ment in collecting such a tax; and the
tax is based upon something more
substantial than profits, for while
sales will shrink with a change in
conditions, they cannot shrink to
any extent comparable with the
shrinkage which will take place in
profits.
In considering a tax upon sales,
however, we must not confuse it with
the present luxury tax wherein a di-
rect percentage is added to the cost
Of certain articles and collected from
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and as he cannot escape paying the
tax, he strives to secure a larger
profit than before, in other words,
to make a profit of $1.60 or more
where he was making $1.00, so that
he may meet the accommodating sur
taxes on the largest amount and still
at least secure his former profits.
He does this and passes the article,
tn the price so loaded ON to the
wholesaler or jobber who, facing the
same situation, meets it the same
way, and the experience is repeated
when the article reaches the retailer,
sothat by the time the article reacher
he retailers counter it has been
loaded three times to meet the taxes
of the three classes of traders.
That is not very lovely, but it is
human nature, and if such course
has not been followed by all, it has,
without doubt, been followed by
many, and in following that method
of passing the tax along the loading
is always excessive or the tendency
always is to add to the tax.
Now, it may be argued that COM
petition should correct this, and if a
manufacturer competing with the one
in our illustration should be accus-
toned to making but fifty thousand
dollars a year, he would not have to
add so much for taxes and could
undersell the first man, but at present
competition is practically abs mt,
and the smaller manufacturer, find
ng that he can obtain the price set
by the big man, does so and secures
that much additional profit. In this
manner a camopflaged tax probably
takes from the consumer an amount
much greater than the actual total
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appear for the time being. 1t keeps
the community all the time from three
to fifteen months in debt to the gov
eminent, with the government con-
stantly borrowing in anticipation of
the collection Of that debt.
1t does not take the gift Of
prophecy to foresee a condition, per-
haps not very remote, when individ-
ual profits will for a time disappear,
business bankruptcies occur and the
government simultaneously, so to
speak, ego broke" because it has bor-
rowed ahead in anticipation Of taxes
based upon profits or income which
have never been realized.
That is the most serious funda-
mental error of the present system.
2. 1t treats all but the most mod
crate incomes as something to be
heavily taxed and so prevents the ac-
emulation of savings which would be
used in further expansion of produc-
tive enterprises which, by increased
production, would tend to lower cost
to consumers.
Great Britain has already recog-
nized this peril and cut in half GER
tain classes of income taxation.
3. 1t is needlessly complicated and
expensive to collect, expensive alike
to the government and to the tax
payer, and withdraws from produc-
tive employment tens of thousands Of
clerks and accountants at a cost of
millions of dollars.
4. 1t encourages waste and extrav-
agance in business operations, leads
to the paying of large salaries, en-
ployment of unnecessary people and
wasteful methods, all of which in
crease costs of living.
The points we have just covered
compel the attention of the student of
taxation and the legislator. There Is
another consequence of these taxes,
however, which interests everyone,
whether taxpayer or not, once it is
pointed out, and that is the effect of
the present method of taxation
heavy surfaces upon earned income
ON the cost Of commodities and as a
main contributing cause to the pres
ent so-called high cost Of living.
1t has been generally recognized
that currency and credit initiation,
lessened production, extravagant
buying, ETC., have had much to do
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Of the tax received by the govern
ment, and it takes from the con-
sumer just as surely as if it were a
tax levied directly upon consump-
ton.
Now, to take up tax on sales as
m alternative to the present method,
we think we may say that it is a
ak upon spending rather than. upon
saving and in that respect whole
some, that it is clean-cut, straight
forward, easily determined anu easily
and cheaply collected, and that it
spreads out with absolute equality
and fairness over all elias es of our
people and would raise sufficient
revenue.
Let us examine how it would work
in the instance Of the manufacturer
Of the former illustration. If there
were tax of one per cent. on sales
he would sell to the wholesaler 800
worth of goods Plus s1.O0 tax, the
total amount of the bill being SlOl;
the wholesaler would follow the same
method in selling to the retailer. all
ding the tax to the foot of the bill
and the retailer, not desiring to o,!-
lect a specific tax on each sale, bat
would estimate in advance the APP
proximate amount of his tax based
on the volume of his business and
treat same as an expense, such as
rent or advertising, and add the frac-
ton which is represented to the cost
of the article.
In either instance the consumer
would pay the tax. In the 2 'st in
stance an inflated amount built up to
meet a rising scale of tax, and IN the
second instance only the amount of
the tax itself. 1t is further manifest
that under the method Of taxing sales
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the consumer in that form at the re-
tail counter. Such taxes should be
abolished. They should never have
been imposed. The tax on sales
which we are now contemplating
would be tax on the sales as re-
corded on the books of any concern,
large or small, and the illustration
we have given shows how this would
be added as a direct percentage in
billing by manufacturers or whole
salers and estimated as an item of
expense in fixing retail prices, where
qready the custom is to assemble
TENS of expense and represent them
by a certain definite percentage
which is added to the cost of the ar
ticle itself to cover all the expense
of distribution at retail.
The present luxury tax is a tax
against consumers purchase, while
tax on sales would be a tax
against the merchants sales and, as
shown, would be treated as an item
of expense of doing business and
need not be collected from the con-
sumner in the manner of the present
luxury tax. A proper understanding
of this point should remove any OBJ
lection which a retail merchant may
have had against a tax on sales, and
formed from his experience with the
present annoying luxury tax.
If there is any merit in this sum-
mary, are we not justified in impress
ing upon all citizens the fact that
the present tax is in many respects
consumption tax camouflaged to look
like something else and taking from
their pockets far more money than
would be necessary to meet a
straightforward consumption tax and
by such education to prepare people
to look at this subject of taxation
intelligently and to concur in and
urge upon Congress change in the
present method Of federal taxation,
whereby it might be simplified and
levied and collected in the form of:
(a) A Straightforward tax of say
4 per cent. upon all incomes of over
$1,000 or $4,000, as the case might
be, (or even $4,000 and $4,000 re-
spectively).
(b) a straight tax of per cent.
upon all sales at wholesale or retail.
(c) A limited series of surfaces,
sufficiently moderate to avoid sitting
enterprise, upon all unearned incomes
over certain amount, that is, in
comes from bonds, investments, rents,
etc., as distinct from income de-
rived from personal service or eff