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Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-12-01

New Income Tax Forms Simplified.
More taan 100000 persons or
about 20 per cent of these who are
required to file individual income
tax returns annually, viii be affected
favorably by the revision and
simplification of Form 1040-A,
copies of which will be available
January /. The Internal Revenue
Bureau has endeavored to change
the form so that the taxpayers whose
incomes are not in excess of $4,000
will be relieved Of many worries
and doubts about the information
they should send the government.
Form 1040-A has been revised in
the interest of the largest class of
taxpayers-salaried persons and
wage earners. Heretofore used for
reporting net income of $4,000 and
less, from whatever source derived,
the new form will be used for re-
porting net income Of not more than
200 derived chiefly from salary
and wages.
Reducing to a minimum problem
of correctly making out an income
tax return. Form 1040-A consists
of single sheet, in which space is
provided for answers in relation to
income to only three questions:
Salaries, commissions, wages, ETC.,
interest on bank deposits, notes
mortgages and corporation bonds;
and other income" On the reverse
side are instructions for making out
the return.
Formerly Form 1040-A consisted
of six pages, the questions pertain
ing not only to salaries and wages
but to income from business and
professions, sales of real estate,
income from royalties, partnerships
and other sources.
Persons, any part of whose income
is derived from business or pro-
fession, sale of property or rents,
through the amount is $4,000 or less,
will be required to use the large
form, 1040. The use of Form
1040 will be required in all cases also
where the net income is in excess of
$4,000, regardless of whether from
salary, business, profession or other
taxable sources.
Forms for filling individual re-
turns of income will be sent to
persons who filed returns for the
year 1922. In view of the fact that
it is impossible to determine at this
time the form desired by the tax
payer, he will receive both the 1910
A and the 1910 form.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-12-01
He B A R b Err

Oh, poets have twanged on their
silver Tyres in praise of the warriors
bold historians have written twelve
billion quires on statesmen both
young and old. We honor the
doctors who cure our ills and laud
them in prose and verse; and songs
are written with lots of thrills ex-
tolling the clever nurse. But there
is one who's been neglected quite
and barred from the hall Of fame
It's the barber fellow in jacket white
i hail him with loud acclaim. He
takes face that would scare bear
and with art that is surely great he
dolls it up in a style most fair and
slick as silver skate. / wander
home when my task is done and I'm
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-12-01

Travel by airplane is increasing rap
Idly in Europe. Sixteen different
companies over there are operating air
lines, carrying more than 10000 pas
sengers year. The routes covered by
these air lines total 5000 miles. And
no buying a right of way, no laying
rails, building roadbed, blasting tun-
nels, bridging rivers. This must make
railroad executives very quiet and
thoughtful at times. When a really
safe. fool-proof airplane comes on the
market and begins competing In earn
est with the railroads as IS inevi.
table-itll have lot of big advan-
tages on its side.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-12-01

meaner than all get out; cuff wife
Betsy and sometimes l throw her
out. Now that is when | am hid
behind a glorious bunch of hair; my
whiskers are long and disturb my
mind and Pm mean as-I must not
swear. But down to the barber shop
| go and the barber with razor k cen
rakes off the bristles from face and
neck and some that are in between.
/ sally home with heart most light
and I'm welcomed with smiles and
cheers; gather Betsy in hug so
tight and tickle the Riddles ears. Let
others pirate of some mail-clad
knight or master of brush or pen; l
thrum my Tyre to the guy in white
the friend of bewhiskered men.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-12-01
A LITTLE TALK ON THRIFT
By S. w. STRAUS
President of American Society for Thrift

The year 1928 is rapidly drawing
to close, and it is not out of order
to suggest that the present is an
opportune time for us to take stock
of what it has meant to us in person.
al progress.
Are we further along in the realiza-
ton of our fightful ambitions than
we were at the beginning of this
period? Are we better prepared
for the days of emergency that may
lie just around the corner? Inas-
much as we are one year nearer the
period Of old age, are we in
correspondingly better position to
meet the days when we shall be
dependent either on the amount of
money we have accumulated or the
charity of others?
"The best prophet of the future is
the past" wrote Byron. If the
years behind us have not brought the
measure of success we have desired;
if we have not been able to save and
get ahead and place ourselves in a
position of some independence, we
have nothing better to look forward
to in the future unless we make a
firm resolution now to start on a
new line of personal management.
Get the thrift habit. Make
saving as essential as earning.
Conserve your resources in time,
health and money. Make these
practices, not matters of few days,
but determine to bend the entire
course of your life to them.
Any practice soon becomes habit
whether it is good or bad. Habits,
if not resisted, soon become a
necessity" said st. Anthony. Ii you
are not a practicer of thrift, let these
closing days of the year be the
period of great resolve. Begin
the ways of thrift. 1t will require
self denial, will power, character.
But it will be most important step
in your life. 1t will bring you
happiness and contentment. 1t will
increase your usefulness and add to
your self respect.
The first few weeks of the change
routine may seem somewhat I'M
interesting. But soon thrift will
become matter of habit with you
and as the days and months unfold
you will find in them an ever increas-
ing pleasure and upbuilding.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-12-01
SATURDAY, DECEMBER /, 1928

The next session of congress
should take up the question of tax
exempt securities. The congress
will take up this question if it desire
to be as fair to the man of small
means and the poor man as it is to
men Of millions.
When the government wants to
borrow money it issues bonds that
are exempt from taxation. These
bonds usually bear around per cent
interest.
Millionaires buy up these bonds in
large quantities because they are
non-taxable. They are more pro-
fitable to men of swollen incomes
than higher interest bonds that are
taxable, because the surtax would
more than eat up the difference.
The man Of modest means can not
afford to buy them because the
interest rate is too low, and he has
no surtax that he wants to cheat.
If men of great wealth were re-
quired to buy the same bonds the
pbUt man bugos anu 1T bilS ndiile EdbS
of taxation plus the surtaxes,
hundreds of millions of dollars would
be added to the government trea-
sury, and this in turn would justify
a general reduction of taxation
without inflicting an injustice upon
any class.
Through combinations of capital,
sitting Of competition, evasion of
taxation and systematic gouging of
the consumer so many fortunes of
staggering magnitude are being
built up in this country they con-
stitute a menace to national safety.
If congress does not do something
to check the growth of these
enormous fortunes the owners will
soon reach the point where they will
be able, through their billions, to
control both the government and the
congress.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-12-01

Uncle bud Says: "When a wife
spends more than her husband earns
it doesn't necessarily mean the poor
house-she may have job of her
own. Some fellows are loud in
to be self-made men, who
ought to be ashamed of the job.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-12-01

What secrets has Earth still In store
for us? And how long viii 1t be ere
the Invlncible spirit of science scars
beyond our own planet and begins one
by one to wrest secrets from other
spheres and other worlds2 We do not
refer to the nonsense of spirltuaIlsm,
but to a science which may one day
attain exact knowledge of those vast
material worlds, stars, planets and
suns which whirl through the immens-
ity Of unexplored space, says the Lon
don Daily Express. One day we or
our descendants may learn. Then
man may perhaps know what he is
and why God made him In His own
image.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-12-01
Rhinelander Girl Wrote Best
Essay for Legion.

Northern Wisconsin school child
rem captured all prizes in the essay
contest conducted by the American
Legion and the three prize winners
will now be entered into the national
competition. The prize winners
are: First, Helen Dorothy Wilde,
Rhinelander; second, Lucy +.
Dufek, Mishicot, Wis; third,
Margaret Pichotta, Wabeno, Wis.
The names of the winners were
announced by Superintendent of
Schools John Callahan.
In the state contest, Miss Wilde
win be awarded a silver medal, Miss
Dufek, bronze medal, and a certi-
ficate of merit goes to Miss
Pichotta.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-12-01

A poor beginning usually calls for
another start.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-12-01

Andrew w. Mellon, secretary of
the treasury, is to the fore with an
other scheme which many believe to
be nothing less than an effort to
prevent the passage of soldier
bonus law by congress.
He wants taxes reduced to the
extent Of three or four hundred
millions of dollars.
A prominent feature of his scheme
for reduction, however, is the lower
ing of the maximum surtax on
swollen incomes, with a slight lower
ing of the surtax on smaller incomes.
Thus it will be seen that the man
of great income, who doen't need
relief, gets it by the wholesale. The
man Of small means, who does need
it, gets pittance, and the poor man
a smell.
The service man, to whom we are
all indebted, will get nothing at
all--if Mr.. Mellen has his way.
Presidential candidates should
think carefully and long before they
swallow the Mellon bait.
The American people will well
come a reduction in taxation if it
can come to them in honor. They
will not welcome it, however, if it
means a reputation of the debt they
owe to the service men.
American manhood has not fallen
quite so low
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-12-01

The boy scouts now have over
10000 boy members In the United
States alone. An excellent movement.
for It keeps an important part Of the
rising generation close to nature Most
Of our troubles are caused by living
unnGturally--and close contact with
nature viii help pull us back to nor
NAL Nature is very kindly to us. If
we only give her the chance.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-12-01

Politics makes stronger bed
fellows and somebody always gets
all the covers.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-12-01

An expert In the Department Of
Agriculture says that bees DO not
work more than half the time thereby
showing that they know how to i'm
prove each shining hour a good deal
better than the poetic moralist
thought.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-12-01

America is playing a game with
Europe declares a foreign CORE
spondent Perhaps we get so little
pleasure out of 1t because we take r
50 much less seriously than we do our
golf and baseball.
knowledge comes to him who
seeks and doesn't stop until ne finds.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-12-01
Plum
AND
PHILOSOPHY
By Uncle bud.
By Uncle bud.

Uncle bud Says: "When a wife
spends more than her husband earns
it doesn't necessarily mean the poor
house-she may have a job of her
own. Some fellows are loud in
claiming to be self-made men, who
ought to be ashamed of the job.
A poor beginning usually calls for
another start.
Politics makes stronger bed
fellows and somebody always gets
all the covers.
A stitch in time may save nire
and it frequently saves no end Of
embarrassment.
The ship of state would make
better voyage if some of the bar
nacles were knocked off.
Sure your business will run
without advertising. And your
car will run without gas. Both
will run down HILL
There are men who can't hear
the cry of distress in the next
block but who can hear a stray
cent whisper ten miles away.
Self praise may be no recon-
mendation, but the guy who ad-
vertises usually totters home with
generous share of the bacon.
Mary's hair was a topknot fair;
She had it bobbed one night
And now the hair that isn't there
Makes Mary look fright.
Many great statesman owes
his honors to thorough college
education. Yes, and many a good
section hand has been spoiled by
the same process.
"Now is the time for direct ac-
ton" howled the soap box orator.
And just then a rotten tomato hit
him in the mug. That is what
might be termed getting quick
results.
Another proof that there is
positively nothing in a name. A
Chicago judge has just handed
fellow Jail sentence for vagrancy
and the culprit's name appears on
the record as win Work.
John" where have you been
until this late hour?" queried his
wife. "Dearie, I've just been
riding around drinking in the
wonderful moonlight" you'd
be telling more truth" was her
retort, eff you said you had been
licking up the moonshine." And as
usual, the woman was right.
A local man recently decided to
quit chewing tobacco. He kept
his resolution for one week and
then went back to Lady Nicotine.
During that week he consumed
$3.50 worth of candy, 85c worth
of gum, 81 bags of peanuts, IA
sacks of popcorn and II sticks of
licorice. He chewed the tips from
fourteen lead pencils, ruined three
perfectly good fountain pens by bit
ing the ends, bit his fingernails until
the blood came and browsed off his
/ h LII, L I,
He had four fights, lost all his office
help and was sued by his wife for
separate maintainence.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-12-01

Is the farmer getting the big end
of it, or is he getting it in the neck?
Here's a case that has just came
to light
Michigan farmers send large
quantities OF potatoes to the
Chicago market. OF late they have
been receiving 25 cents bushel
for them The same potatoes have
been sold to the Chicago consumers
for $l.60 a bushel.
Who gets the SIPS?
Who's doing the gouging, and who
ought to be in Jail?
But Michigan farmers are not the
only ones who suffer. The same
story is heard everywhere.
The farmer raises the product,
gets a small price, and horde of
blood sucking and gouging middle
men and spectators fatten on
exorbitant profits.
There ought to be some way of
putting an end to such methods of
doing business.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-12-01

Many married woman wonders
how the fool killer ever happened to
pass her by.
A man is never so poor but what
he occupies the center Of the stage at
his own funeral.
Modern higher education would be
all right if it didn't lower so many of
it graduates.
The Coconino sun., 1923-02-23
TAX DELINQUENTS TO REMAIN IN
GOOD GRACE

According to Comfy Attorney John F. Ross
who recently returned from Phoenix, the pro-
posed law governing the collection of back taxes
drawn up by Mr.. Ross and submitted to the
Sixth Arizona Legislature by the County Attor-
neys association of this state, has little or no
chance of finding it's way onto the statute books
of this state.
The Maricopa county delegation, Mr. Ross
says, are strongly opposed to the measure, as
we'll as to any other move that will ultimately
lead to the collection of back taxes.
The present system of collecting back taxes is
an expensive procedure, the collection of taxes
Justly due being fraught with many disadvan-
tageous angles
It seems that it is to remain in Arizona, for
some time at least, that the man who pays his
taxes will be graciously thanked for his remit
tance while the delinquent will be patted on the
back for wiggling from under his share of the
load
When the publication of the delinquent tax
lists was done away with, one dollar was saved
with one hand, while many dollars slipped
through the other
It is fact that during the times that the
list of delinquents was published, fewer people
failed to pay up.
Economy is a knotty problem, and it is gen.
orally tackled from the wrong end.
Nevertheless, delinquent taxpayers are enjoy
ing an immunity to which they are not entitled,
and their neighbors don't know whethey they
owe the county or whether they are paid up In
full.
AS long as nobody knows the difference, and
they can enjoy the privileges of citizenship with
out paying their taxes, remain on an equal foot
ing with the man who does pay his taxes, and
be favored by legislatures who refuse to enact
measures that would interfere with the situation
then, more power to the delinquent. - Tomb
stone Prospector
The Coconino sun., 1923-02-23
HELPING THE HOPELESS MAJORITY

It is very amusing to read the proposed new
primary amendments offered by democrats, who
seem to realize there is something radically
wrong with their party but desire to so fix the
laws that it will be impossible for any repub-
lican to be elected to state office. The more
they mill around with this antiquated, cumber-
some old system, the worse off they are Their
painful efforts to make democratic defeat I'M
possible by some law is so patent that one should
rather pity than condemn. Their helplessneSS
reminds one of the two pOmpous colored gentle
men contenders for the hand of dusky maid,
upon whom both called inopportunely at the
same time One wore log chain of gold across
his vest upon which was attached bold-faced
Ingersol Knowing his adversary couldn't tell
what time it was even if he had watch, Sam
fawningly inquired: "Mose, what time it ls?'
Nose flopped out his Ingersol with flourish and
said Oar she is Sam" Sam couldn't tell the
time, so politely remarked: Dam If she amt.
Aside from that we believe if this legislature
would pass a law expressly stipulating that ev-
cry person having lived in Arizona five years
or more is educated" providing he or she de-
ares on oath that she or he is a democrat, and
rther, that any mark upon any ticket voted
all be lawfully counted for the regular demo-
attic nominee it would help great deal in
eventing republicans from morning in" now
nd then.
Still. even that would annoy, for the measly
republicans might register as democrats and all
would be lost in the primaries. That might be
remedied by a law prohibiting any person from
voting at the primaries unless he could prove be-
yond reasonable doubt that he had voted the
straight democratic ticket for the previous four,
eight or ten years. The four, eight or ten years
should be made optional with the democratic
central committee in order that desperate condl-
tons could be treated locally, as might be re-
Iuired.
The democratic ticket thus evolved should be
-inted without blank spaces upon which to
grite in additional names, with provision in the
aw permitting the voter to scratch out any name
3n the original ticket he did not wish to vote
or This would give the voter the vast freedom
{ not voting for those he did not want to vote
fcr, but at the same time prevent any possible
3hance of the regular democratic nominees being
lefeated by apostate, unregenerate democrats
no might be so wrought up as to vote for
omeone else.
The Coconino sun., 1923-02-23
LYING FOR A LIVING

"This," said the guide, showing a
party over an historic mansion, lis
the room occupied by Queen Elizabeth
when she visited these parts, and that
is the bed she slept on.".
my dear sir" remarked one of the
visitors, an elderly antiquarian, "hav-
en't you made some mistaken"
What dyer mean-mistake?" 2"
"Why the bedstead is of Jacobean
pattern, and apparently a reproduc-
tion at that"
"Well, she wasn't particular about
the pattern of the bed she slept on
"But it belongs to much later per-
iod. The house itself is very late Tu-
dor, and really / am not aware that
Queen Elizabeth ever sojourned in this
neighborhood."
"Oh, all ht-taking the bread out
of mans mouth. This amt the bed
what Queen Elizabeth didn't sleep on
when she wasn't 'ere before the 'ouse
was built. 'Ow will that do?"
The Coconino sun., 1923-02-23
DEMOCRAT FLAYS DEMOCRATS

Under the caption of 1.-TWO Kinds of Desert
ers, the Miami Silver Belt, staunch democratic
paper, intimates rather strongly that it disap-
proves of the present democratic legislature in
the following strong language:
when a scientist finds a new specimen he
proclaims it by saying he has differentiated a
new variety.
The roll calls of the sixth legislature have diff
ferentiated two kinds of democratic deserters.
One is a malignant type, foxy, unprincipled,
sagacious and maneuver-wise. This variety was
sold to the enemy before he was nominated. He
ran upon the platform with traitorous intent.
"The other is more or less of the Boob var
iety. Too weak to stand up and be counted for
his real principles in an environment OF pollti-
cal seduction
Zone of the pastimes in the press gallery is to
play the game of differentiation
1T is not difficult to tell which is which and
it is to be regretted that Arizona constituencies
are unable to look down upon their sixth legisla-
ture from a gallery. If they did they would
probably just stand there and weep"
The Coconino sun., 1923-02-23
SHE SURE SOAKED ,EM

A housewife, who had engaged a
country girl whom she regarded as a
very unsophistical person, told her one
morning to "take those clothes out of
the back bedroom and put them in
soak"
The girl was missing for some time,
and the mistress thought she must
have forgotten her task.
Going to the kitchen, she asked:
"Did you put those clothes in soak,
Mary ?"
"Yis, mum, and the mean old fell
low would only give me 81 on 'em.
The Coconino sun., 1923-02-23

Representative Douglas is discovering some
thing about the ways of legislators since adding
the S5 royalty reservation to the Colorado river
pact Taking it for granted that he loves extra
tax burdens, friend (?) in the senate has in
troduced bill putting a tax of cent per
pound on copper. It is done on gasoline. If it
should be taxed on developed power, why not on
copper? Cattle and sheep pay tax by the head.
No one in the legislature ever trades votes. Not
on your life! But most of them have strange
way of helping friend who has helped them.
The Coconino sun., 1923-02-23
PARTY DOESN'T MAKE THE MAN

There is little difference among the rank and
lie between a good democrat and good repub-
Iican as both desire the best government attain
able at the minimum cost. There is no differ
ence between bad democrat and bad repub-
lican, as both are simply place hunters, claim
ing party allegiance only as a means toward get
ting their feet under the table at the public
crib.
Statutory democrats and republicans follow
the flesh pots while men of principle do not COM
mercialize their politics.-Phoenix Messenger.
The Coconino sun., 1923-02-23

We are much pleased with the information re-
ceved from the water committee of the city
council to the effect that every detail of the
project for an additional supply of city water is
being taken care of and that every effort is be-
ing made to place the matter before the people
al the earliest possible time. The city council
has gone forward with all their cards on the ta-
bIe They have every reason to believe that the
Santa Fe railroad will meet them half way and
on fair basis, for their interests are mutual
The Coconino sun., 1923-02-23
1T WOULD SEEM LIKE IT

Every community ought to have pack horse
"a kind of fellow to carry around the public
load and see that the things that are worth while
in public way are done. He ought to be paid a
salary and the people of each community ought
to be taxed SO that all would bear part of the
public burden AS it is, if anything is done, a
few fellows always do it and bear the expense
The majority don't give a cuss whether the
community prosperous or not.-Chandler Ari-
Zonan.