Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-03
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Collections Drop

Collections Drop
Internal revenue collections from all
! sources during the fiscal year 1912 decreased
more than $81 900, 900 as compared with the
previous year, while the cost of collection adj
vanced from SIS cents to SO cents for each
| 500 collected according to a preliminary
statement issued by Commissioner Blair.
The increased cost of operating the inter-
nal revenue service during 1921 which
amounted to about $40 900, 900, he explained,
was due mainly to reduced collections and in
! creased expenses in supervising regulatory
| laws.
Total elections for 1921 amounted to $4,-
sos ,OOO,765 against $5,4O7, 5S0,251 in 1921
while income and profits taxes yielded So
225,79O,659 compared with $685. ,O03.
the previous year and miscellaneous taxes
produced 81 ,21O.112 against 450,644,-
248 in 1920.
Income and profits taxes represented near.
| ly 70 per cent and miscellaneous taxes 80
per cent of total receipts during 1921 COM
pared with z per cent for income and profits
taxes and 27 per cent for miscellaneous taxes
during the previous year.
Receipts from the national prohibition act
during 1921 were $2,152,083 as compared
with $641, 029 collected during the previous
fiscal year. In addition Commissioner Blair
estimated that collections made by the JUS
| tice department from fines and forfeitures
for violations of the act would approximate
$2,5O0,000
New York, with total of more than ST.
OoO,O0O,OOo produced the most federal reve-
nue. among the states, and Pennsylvania was
second with nearly $4SS,OO0,O00.
Huns Must Pay
Germany must pay for the American lives
lost on the Lusitania and satisfy all other
claims Of the United States and it's citizens
for war losses caused by the ex-kaisers gov
eminent before German property now held by
this government will be returned, Thomas
W. Miller, alien property custodian, an.
nounces.
The present German government, Mr.. Mil.
Ter pointed out has agreed to this in the new
treaty with Germany but he emphasized that
no steps toward the return of the German
property will be taken until actual payment
has been made of all just claims by the Ebert
| government.
The American claims against Germany, in-
Guiding indemnity for dependents of those
who were lost when the Lusitania was sunk.
total $300,00O,000. In addition, Germany
owes the United States $3.50, 900 for the
maintenance of the American army of occu-
| patton. -
The value of German property held by the
alien property custodian is now about $400,-
900, 900 due to depreciation of securities and
due to the fact that some of the holdings have
been returned, Mr.. Miller said About $780,
900 Of the property has been turned back
as the result of court decisions. The state
department, it was learned today, is now at
work a compilation of all claims against
Germany. Most of the Lusitania claims ale
ready have been filed by families Of those
who were lost in the great sea crime which
was in large measure responsible for Amer
ica's entrance into the war.
French or German?
Seven or eight thousand French citizens in
Alsace and Lorraine are amazed at the dis
covery that they are married to German
women, reports the Paris correspondent OF
the London Times
Under the peace treaty they became enti-
tied to French nationality, and they had the
right to assume that under the civil code
their wives became French also. Not at all.
An obscure section of the schedule of the
peace treaty provides that where woman or
German Belgian, Italian, or even French ORR
gin married Alsatian or Lorrainer at any
date before the armistice she became German,
and she remains German today unless she
claimed French nationality before January Is
last.
In ignorance of this provision, thousands
of women have failed to comply with 1t. Thus
it comes about that a French woman who
married German in 1913 now finds herself
in the odd situation of being the German wife
of Frenchman. Husbands and wives are
both naturally indignant at the eccentr1c1ty
of the peace treaty, which is certainly not
calculated to make peace in their homes. On
Sunday demonstration is to be held at
Strasbourg to demand an extension to jan
uary, 1923, of the period in which these un"
lucky women can claim French nationality
Historic Tree
| To mark the two hundredth anniversary
of known data in connection with the "Wit-
ness Tree of the Donegal Presbyterian
church of Lancaster county, Pa, the Amer
lean Forestry association announces that tina
tree is given place in Trees Hall OF Fame%
The nomination is made by Martha Bladen
Clark.
The Witness Tree chapter Of the Daugh.
tiers of the American Revolution has unveiled
beside the tree a monument and tablet This
tells how the congregation Of the church
gathered under the tree LA years ago next
month, when they heard Lord Howe was COM
| ing to invade Pennsylvania, and pledged
loyalty to the cause Of liberty"
| Clerks Strike
| After five weeks duration the general
strike of Czech and German bank clerks in
Czecho-Slovakia, which involved altogether
about 1900, has come to an end with the
defeat of the strikers, reports The Man
ont a