The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-22
TARIFF BILL
BOOSTSCOSTS
OF HOLIDAYS
Christmas, July Fourth and
Decoration Day Will
Pay Toll.
FOOD TO BE EXPENSIVE
Pending Measure Increases
Protection on All Fire
works Products.
BY LAWRENCE SULLIVAN
Times stan Correspondent

Times stan Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May 22.-Holi-
days won't be what they used to be
if the tariff bill gets through con-
gress.
Christmas, Easter, the Fourth Of
July and Decoration day, in par
ticular, will pay their toll, accord
ing to statistics compiled by the
United States tariff commission.
Christmas trees have been taken
off the free list and subjected to a
tariff of 10 per cent. Tinsel and
decorations will be taxed 10 per
cent of their wholesale value. Toys,
dolls. marbles and air rifles will be
subject to another tax of 70 per cent.
And tennis rackets, golf balls,
baseballs, golf tees, ice skates, roller
skates and boxing gloves will be
protected" out of SantaS pack py
a tariff of 80 per cent.
Even Cards Are Boosted
A nice double-deck of bridge cards
for father will pay a toll OF 20 cents
if they are not too fine, and var1-
able tax of 20 per cent of their
value if they have that rich and
durable feel of quality cards.
If Little Jane will take doll
with no movable parts, the tariff
will be only 20 per cent, but II Sne
is old enough to demand joints IN
her babys arms, or eyes that close
for sleep, the tariff will be 80 per
cent.
An electric flatiron for mother
was free last Christmas, but a tariff
of 81 cents pound is proposed
for jolly old 1880.
The growing boy who wants a
pocket knife may force his daddy
to pay a tariff toll Of 172 per cent.
Retain Rate on Dice
But there is a great victory for
"limited revision" in the tariff on dice
The 1929 rate of so per cent was re-
tanned in the Grundy adjustment.
And neither was the tariff raised
on muzzle-loading shotguns. Re
minded that a muzzle-loader had
not been manufactured anywhere foI
more than forty years, congress
transferred the time to the tree isl
in 1922. There the Grumpy econo-
mists have left it.
But Christmas dinner will be more
expensive, for the Grundy rates are
higher on cattle, sheep, ducks, ttlr-
KEYS. chickens and reindeer. After
these increases the senate commit
tee tackled an amendment to the
free list. Under this amendment
"horses and mules imported for I'M
mediate slaughter come in duty
free.
Fireworks Are Increased
AS with Christmas, so Independ-
ence day will necessitate trimming
in the family budget. The pending
bill increases the tariff on every sort
of fireworks from cents a pound
to Is cents.
And the proposed new tariff on
cut flowers is 40 per cent OF the
wholesale price, against Is per cent
in the 1922 bill. If you turn 70
artificial flowers, you will find a
new tariff rate of 90 per cent.
Sheltering America from the ram
will be more costly, too. The steel
schedule increases the rate on
umbrellas, ribs and tubes from
the present rate of so per cent to
the Grundy toll of so per cent.
Razor blades, of which the United
States exported 132,000,0O0 in 1927
are protected" by new tariff d
IS per cent
Surgical instruments liked
Surgical instruments have been
increased from As per cent to %
per cent. despite vigorous protests
from the American Medical Assoc1a-
ton and the American College OF
Surgeons. Hospital utensils are sub
iected to an increase averaging Y
per cent, and dental instruments, IL
. per cent.
The hoe used in the garden, the
rake for leaves on the front lawn,
the spade for turning the sod also
have been removed from the free
list. In the Grundy bill all are sub
ject to a tariff of Is per cent.
The old kitchen broom carried q
rate of is per cent in the 1922 bill,
but the Grundy rate is 25 per cent,
Before Grundy, the toothbrush
was protected by a tariff of IS per
cent. The new rate averages 721s
per cent.