Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-27
THE REFEREE
(By Albert AppIc)

StrdnSeSC income Tax story COulSS
from Boston where a barber, having
thirteen dependent children under
eighteen years of age, is granted
$7700 exemption in making out his
! income tax return.
$1,000. Somehow we can't get the
idea out of our heads that Uncle
Sam owes him $500.
Too bad, so much exemption going
to waste, will be the reflection of
many a taxpayer who sat up nights
trying to figure out a loophole. AS
for the barber with courage enough
to raise thirteen children in these
days of high prices, he should get
Carnegie medal.
Taxes
On an income of $4,000 a year
the income tax is $456 in our coun-
try. SAYS in Canada, $416 in France,
$112S in Great Britain and $701 in
Germany.
On income Of 100000 a year the
tax in Britain is $43,450 while the
four other countries average about
100000 and none of them very far
from the average.
Britain is putting the screws on
tighter than the rest OF US. Natural
ly she'll reduce her national debt a.
a faster rate.
Zeppelin
Germany reports rapid progress
on the Zeppelin airship being made
for the American government. 1t
will start flying from Berlin to Chi
cago late in June, under ouy flag.
Its speed limit viii be about as miles
an hour, carrying 500 passengers,
their baggage and a crew of sixty.
On the trip to Chicago it will be
"sold OUT
An airship with sleeping and other
accommodations for $50 people is
considerable of an achievement.
This Eeppelin's transatlantic trip
will be the most important flying
feat of 1923. The trip may help
settle the question whether big air
traffic of the future will be in dirigi-
BILE balloons or -than-air"
planes.
Alcohol
Mexican oil fields have produced
over billion barrels of oil since the
first well was brought in by "Mexi-
can Pete" at Ebano, April, 1904.
This enormous figure calls attention
to the fact that exhaustion Of the
Oil stored in the earth is only a
matter Of time. New fields will be
discovered, but the supply Is limited.
a Probably the oil will outlast all of
us. But the fuel of the future, for
autos and airplanes, will be alcohol.
The potential supply of alcohol is
unlimited. AS home-brewers know,
it can be made out of almost any
thing. Alcohol, by the way. will
gradually become brake on soaring
gasoline prices. You can corner oil
fields. But you can't corner industrial
alcohol.
Dancers
a queer angle about the turmoil |
in Russia is that it hasn't interfered |
with the dancers. The ballet of the |
Bolshoi theatre in Moscow has more |
dancers in training than in the time |
of the cZar.
Avramova, girl of twenty. is the /
dancing sensation over there. Ex- |
perts say she'll be the worlds |
greatest dancer. Already she is |
the laurels of tha pres |
ent Russian leaders, Geltzer and her |
dancing partner. Tikhomirov. About |
time. Both are past fifty. Remember |
name. You'll see it in |
electric lights in America later.
Home
"Home, Sweet Home" was sung !
in public for the first time 100 years |
ago next May s. There'll be celebra- !
tions. Payne, a homesick, wander
ing American actor, wrote the |
words; Sir Henry Bishop, the music. |
They didn't know what they were
starting. That's generally the "ay |
with things that last, After all, do |
any OF us ever know what we're !
starting? The uncertainty is what |
makes life interesting.