Evening star., 1924-11-30

but his son, Elihu Root. jr.. paid
$25S SS4. And Charles e. Hughes
couldn't tend to law business. Here
are a few lawyers and their taxes:
Samuel Untermyer. ss1,6a2: MARTIN
w. Littleton. s16.116: Ellwood M
Rabenold, $500: Charles F.. Taft.
s142, ,492; John w. Davis. $94,425;
william G. McAdoo. $11.15o: James
W. Gerard. s17,103: Nathan L. Miller,
$25, 5,050; Joseph NJ Proskauer, s47,-
657; Alfred Jaretski, s141,90s: Chaun-
cey M. Depew, $143,361: Charles e.
Hughes, $3.69S; Morris Hillquit' W
sSs; Morgan J. OBrien, $31,726; Paul
d. Cravath, s107.9O5.
Speaking of athletes, Jack Demp-
sew paid an income tax of s90,S31.
(Wonder what Luis Firpo got, besides
a wallop on the chinD Harry Greb
paid a tax of $595 and Frank Frisch
1854. OF the mental athletes. Thomas
A Edison paid a tax of $9,1sf ana
Perley Morse, the well known &C
countant, who knows all about In
come taxes, II anybody does, paid
S2,6S5. George w. Goethals. engineer
and an outstanding mental athlete,
paid s45.093.
Artists varied Some made a lot
and some didn't. judging from the In
come taxes they were assessed. here
are a couple of samples: Charles
Dana Gibson $4,S1S and Childe Has
sam $50.
Savnnts Varied.
Ss.vants varied, too. in their range
although all were comfortably low,
President James II. Angel of Yale
paid sI,S65. President Nicholas Muir
ray Butler of Columbia paid $6.522.
Hamilton Holt paid $50. Angelo A.
Patria, a well known teacher and writer,
paid 5000.
Those figures aren't so steep, are
they? Actors and actresses ought to
do better Some do and some don't:
Jackie Coogan, s505; Mr.. and Mrs.
Jack Coogan, s4.255; Douglas Fair
banks. s225,769; Mary Pickford. s2'444;
William $. Hart, s22.654; Charlie
Chaplin. s6,s63; VIII Rogers, s5.s66;
Ann Pennington. S1.091: Al Jolson,
s45,07O; Richard Barthelmess. S29.995;
Peggy Hopkins Joyce, $1,06s: Fannie
Brice. s1,346; Eddie Cantor. s6,515:
Jeanne Eagels. s1,SS6; Leonore Ulrich,
s10.325; David Warfield, ss.S42: Ina
Claire, S3,S0S; Ethel Barrymore, $1,29S;
Ben Turpin. s1O.9s6; Pola Negri.
s14,6S1; Ruth Draper, $3.S31: Peggy
Wood. s1,4l2; Thomas Meighan,
$51.329.
That's more than producers pay. in
known producers and their taxes:
David Belasco, s13,s5S; Anne Nichols.
$62.673; Marc Klaw. s9.30S; Hassard
Short, S1,5S6; Lee Shubert, $9,779: J.
j. Shubert. s9,767; L. +. Albee. $s4.-
9ss; Marcus Loew, 1,1S1: Carl Laem-
nile, $50, 24e; Adolp Zukor, s22,s56.
Money In Food.
Making money seems to come much
easier when you make something In
the foodstuffS line and then get it
well known. Hero are n few such, for
gum, yeast. pickles. cigarettes. oleo-
margarine and candy: William Wrig
ley. jr., S1,154, ,4c0; julius Fleiscllmann.
ss27.3S4: Howard Heinz. s1S9,122;
Shinast, s70,166; John +. Jelks, 1885,
264: Henry. jr, $3.50.
Or do any kind of manufacturing.
Make automobiles or talking ma
chimes or typewriters or silk and fig
ures like these will appear at the
bottom OF your Income tax returns:
Cyrus Mccormick, s235,S71: Harold
Mccormick. s76.465; John f. Dodge
estate. s62.544; Horace Dodge estate.
$1.211.s04; Henry Ford. s2,467,s4o;
Edsel Ford, 81, ,9S4,254; Austen Colgate,
sci Colgate. 1851; Sidney Colgate,
s4s.13e; e. II. Gary, s473,sS4; John T.
Underwood, S2os.617: NJ. NJ. Belding,
s243,6s1; c. NJ. Schwab, s29,4s4.
Then there's the oil business. There
seems to be plenty of cash in that.
Look at a few of these figures: John
u. Rockefeller, s124,266: John d.
Rockefeller, jr., S7,435, 1853; John r.
Pratt, s1s2,574; Edward T. Bedford,
$242,274; Walter c. Teagle, $33,992.
and E. l.. Doheny, s159,674.
Financiers do pretty well, and so do
brokers. Here are few samples to
prove that they pay big income taxes: