The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-16

Warrington. Oct l4.-M0fe IMAM
. million single women In the Unit
ed States paid income tax in 1920
and many Of them pair an income
Of fabulous size. The precise num-
Der is sol. $50 and the aggregate Of
their incomes reached the astound,
ing total Of $1,3s4.s55.727.
These are all in the class which
stAtistictans Of society would class
ordinarily rs dependent females"
that is they are not rich wives nor
heads Of families. For the full to-
tai Of women taxpayers the others
must be added. Women heads 1t
families, that is, widows with chill
dren or daughters supporting par
ents, paid tax to the number IL
132.1S1 and their aggregate net Ia
come amounted to $3sS,364,530.
In cases where wives have es-
tates or earnings separate from
their husbands they frequently
make separate returns. Those do
ing so in 1920 numbered 77,55S and
their aggregate income 1854. $40. 405.
These figures reveal that the sin
gle women were the richest OF all
by many millions. All of the fair
sex combiQed paid taxes to the
government on net incomes aggre-
eating $2,18S, 160,662, but the wives
and widows together only showed
three-quarters as much income as
the girls.
The year 1920 is the latest for
which income statistics are avail
able. The government in issuing
these statistics is compelled to put
them in such form that the identity
of the rich recipients of the great
incomes is not revealed. Under
the law; income tax returns are
deeply confidential.
Nevertheless, the statistics can
be studied to bring interesting facts
to light. They indicate that the
richest woman in the United
States, or at least. the woman who
received the greatest net income.
was single. The statistics do not
reveal whether she was young and
beautiful, or forbidding old maid.
What they do reveal is that she had
an income somewhere between
100000 and 100000 a year.
This does not mean THAT she merely
was worth between $4,000. 900 an I
50, 900, 900, but that each year added
that vast fortune to her estate.
The next richest are two women
who are married but who make re-
turns separate from their has
bands. Purposely, the figures are
combined SO that the income OF
each cannot be ascertained, but
each of them has an income some
where between 100000 and
$1,500,000 a year. In the same
class is single woman.
The next in line are two women
classified as heads of families
which means either widows with
children, or daughters supporting
parents. brothers, sisters or otnel
relatives. These two ladies' each
receive incomes of from one-hal1
to three-Quarters Of q million dol.
lars year.
| Who Are Theyl
Now comes q fascinating group!
There are Is single women in one
classification each of whom ha.
from half to three-quarters of {
million dollars income a year will
no one to support and. apparently
not care in the world. Who ar,
they? The printed column OF sta
tistics reveals nothing. Are the.
actresses? Are they stars Of tn,
movies? Are they only daughter
of fond. deceased parents? Their
are Is OF them somewhere in tn,
United States. You may be rul
over by ones automobile.
\ There seems to be no lack o
!. millionaires among the women. Il
this group, that is q class of won
. en- who have approximately $1,000,
900, the single ladies' again FREEDOM
, mate. Millionaires usually ~hav
, incomes of about 100000 a veal
There are 181 of these single won
en- who have such incomes. Wive
, making separate returns rank mex
, They number 174. The way i
which a family cuts down ones or