Evening star., 1933-05-23

|TdYPTTAN GAZETTE, Cairo
- That italian women and girls
must discard the slim outline
IL which has come from Paris Is the
latest fat from the Italian Fed
Grafton Of Dressmakers. This organi-
zation aims at creating Italian fashions
and ousting French rivals.
A generous subsidy Is being granted
to enable it to maintain fashion pal
ace" in the public park Of Turin, where
the latest modes in 1taliai clothes will
be permanently exhibited. As large
number of Italian women still cling to
Paris as the worlds fashion center, the
newspapers are called upon to help in
the campaign.
Some Of the extreme Right Wing
Fascist papers have started with series
OF cartcatures representing abnormally
thin girls wearing tilted berets. They
urge Italians not to copy these French
figures, but to put on more flesh and
clothes.
Clever young artists have been en-
gagged to create italian clothes and give
their figures big hips and sloping shoul-
ders.
Delinquent Taxpayer
Worried in Hawaii
Honolulu Advertiser.-The poll tax
question is beginning to agitate those
to whom the payment Of delinquent as
sessment and penalties is heavy bur-
den. While entire elimination OF the
poll tax may not be practicable, as
matter OF common justice delinquent as
Sessments should not be levied on per-
sons receiving small salaries or low
wages. Those, for instance, who can
prove that they are receiving less than
S75 month should be immune from
back poll tax
After all, such levy is more or less
relic Of the Middle Ages. To put
tax on man or woman merely for the
privilege of living does not comport with
modern ideas Of human rights. The Ad-
vertiser Is In favor Of the abolition Of
the poll taxes for persons Of small in
comes and eventually doing away with
1t altogether.
Reforms Expected
In Free State Taxes.
Irish Independent, Dublin.-Next
month 10000 taxpayers in the Free
State will receive the forms upon which
they are bound to make q return of
their income. Now that Mr.. MacEntee
has been year in charge of the reve-
nue. department, we trust that the forms
to be sent out and the instructions con-
veyed to his officials will give practical
effect to the reforms he advocated when
In opposition.
On that occasion Mr.. Blythe, then
minister for finance, pointed out that
the taxpayer Is not bound to answer any
questions put to him by the revenue
commissioners when cases are being in
vestigated. He admitted that hard
ships arise occasionally through the
| complexity of the system. The ordinary
person has certain difficulty in under
standing and filling FORMS" He added
that committee was at that time
June. 1930-sitting, examining proposals
for the simplification of the code.
This years administration WILL doubt
less, bear marks of MacEntees re-
forms. We trust the crude and almost
unintelligible forms sent out to the tax
payers will be simplified. We hope, too,
that some change will be made whereby
! poor persons with investments will no
liable stopped at the source and held
| by the state. In the last year for
which returns are available the reve-
nue. authorities had to repay no less
than f733000 income tax to which
they were not entitled. Probably much
more should have been repaid, If every
citizen knew his rights
| Finally. while we have no complaint
against the majority Of income tax in
spectors, there is no doubt that occa-
sionally some Of them show excessive
zeal for the revenue and forget that
their duty is to act with perfect i'm
partiality as between the state and the
taxpayer. It should be the ofiicials'
duty to assist the taxpayer to get his
full rights In claims, allowances and
abatements.
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Sunday Movies Scored
BY Glasgow Presbytery.
Evening Times. Glasgow.-Vigorots
attacks on cinema Sunday, which was
described as "wanton exploitation OF
the Sabbath" and as encouraging base,
! counterfeit charity which blesses nei-
ther the giver nor the receiver" were