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And Now, 'Educationettes'
New Company Formed to Make
Films for Use in Schools
Bv Hubbard Keapv,
Bv Hubbard Keapy,
HOLLYWOOD.

Every picture has
after the Hedy
strictly educational nature
will initial prospectus to
of the equipped with movie projectors offering
"educaionete"
group be
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about presenting educational SUBJ
jects as motion pictures should pre-
sent them-that is, with a story
where necessary, with continuity,
with action and, above all, to keep
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IS games between August 81 and
December 4, or a game a week for
a little more than three months. So
when the New York Giants caught
up with them in the Eastern title
deciding game the Redskins were
scalped in no uncertain fashion. To
the tune of 800!
TOO many games" said some.
TOO long a season" said others.
But if you had sought the opinion
of any of the Redskins as to the
reason for their downfall, it's prob
able that he would have pointed to
that unbearably hot three-Week
siege in August. when he and his
teammates worked four and five
hours a day under a sun strong
enough to broil a steak or French
fry the potatoes or TO the nights
when sultry summer weather made
sleep next to impossible.
1t won't happen again. At least
to the Redskins and several other
National Football League teams, who
have taken the tip and borrowed one
of baseball's Oldest ideas to forestall
experiences similar to those suffered
by the 1888 Redskins.
1t wasn't with the idea that he
would be setting a record for the
distance a football team travelled
from it's home base to training camp
that prompted Owner George Mar
shall to accept the bid of Spokane,
Wash, as training quarters for his
Redskins last year. 1t wasn't the
mere thought that ne would be
doing his coach, Ray Flaherty. a
favor by training in Flaherty's home
town that he agreed to start his
squad on the longest training trip
he claims any athletic team ever
undertook.
No, the real reason the Redskins
signed a contract to train in Spokane
in 1899 was because Marshall had
resolved the preceding year never to
train another football team in the
National Capitals summer heat,
which is almost as Legendary as
the White House.
Marshalls Query.
"Why?" asks Marshall with a
somewhat tardy, but refreshing
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Spokane. 81 can think Of no better
place to train a football team than
Spokane" declares George in the
style of a member of Spokane's
Chamber of Commerce. I've never
felt such climate. Warm enough to
produce the sweat you want to roll
of: never hot to the point OF ener-
walton, cool enough nights to neces-
state light blankets and-here's
something else-we haven't had a
day of rain in two seasons of train
ing in Spokane"
Used by Other Teams.
The Redskins weren't the first
professional football team to follow
baseball's long practiced custom Of
training in seasonable localities.
For five years the Chicago Bears,
always a power-house in the league S
Western division, have trained at
Delafield, Wis. Last year the New
York Giants trained at Superior
Wis: the Pittsburgh Steelers at
Two Rivers, Wis, and the Cardinals
(Chicagos other entry in the big
pro league at Duluth, MINI.
With the National League sched-
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par excellence. Trouble is his dish,
and he can take it or make it. Since
1920 re has made it. and plenty of
it, for 10000 tax dodgers.
Mr.. Trey has the distinction of
having one of the few air-cooled
offices in the building-but tax dodg-
ers who call there by request would
never know it. He can make 1t so
hot for them that if they are lucky
enough to get out on the blazing
streets of Washington, instead of
into cell, they would sigh with
vast relief Among those who have
occupied this hot seat either in per-
son or by deputy are Messrs. Capone,
Pendergast and Annenberg. Per-
haps one of the greatest compli-
ments Mr.. Trey ever received is the
firm conviction of this trio that if
they never see him again it will still
be ever so much too soon.
Feared in Underworld.
So dreaded is his name among
the underworld that for years boot
leggers, racketeers, gamblers and the
like fell over themselves in frantic
scrambles to pay income taxes on
their illegal gains. They still do
Annoying as it may be for them to
admit their sources of revenue, it is
a mere trif1e compared to the an
noyance or spending 10 years or so
in one of Uncle Sans stone-and-
iron flats. with uniformed janitor
service, at Lewisburg, Leavenworth
or Alcatraz.
Mr.. Trey modestly says that he is
only cog in the machine, but even
assuming this is true. he is the
cog that makes the others move.
His 245 special agents may do the
field workout he gets the convic-
tons.
Il have given you the main mes
sage I wanted to get across" he
said. I will now turn you over to
Mr.. Charles P. Suman. head of the
Practice and Procedure Division,
and Mr.. P. H. Steltz, assistan head
of the Field Procedure Division"
These gentlemen proved co-opera-
tive, and seemed surprised that any
alarm should be felt by the new
taxpayers.
"All they have to do" said Mr.
Steltz. lis to remember the $500,
or the $4,000. as the case may be-
But you don't know who they
are" I protested, You've never
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to have subsequent losses. capable
of easy proof Nothing could be
simpler. after the bad news is in.
than to pick up off the ground
$500 worth of losing tickets.
Rule for Deductions.
Speaking of deductions" 7 re-
sumed. there is one thing that has
puzzled me for long time. On
YOUR 1899 income tax form I find
the following printed:
mo deduction is allowable for
the amount of any item of expense
or part thereof allocable to class
Of exempt income other than in
terest.'"
What about it?" Mr.. Suman
wanted to know.
Merely that some day I would
like to meet the man who wrote 1t"
I replied 81 would like to bow be-
fore him in humble reverence. There
are only 25 words in it, but to me
they represent the acme of genius.
With fiendish ingenuity. the author
has seen to it that each word, even
the jawbraaker 'allocable, has a
meaning, thus Turing the unsuspect-
ing reader on to the very end.
have seen strong men weep over it,
then get a grip on themselves, grit
their teeth. and determine that they
will not let it defeat them, but
have never seen one win yet. Sooner
or later, if they don't give up trying
to understand what it means, some
one has to call the wagon, and they
60 off screaming.
II myself find it absolutely inval-
liable around the home. I keep a
copy of it handy, and use it with
great success on flies, moths and
guests who stay after midnight
When my children misbehave, I get
it out and"
At this point Mr.. Steltz could con-
tain himself no longer. Mr.. Suman,
he informed me, was chairman OF
the committee which passed on
forms. You have your wish"
Mr.. Suman humanely came to my
assistance and pulled me out with q
laugh. He then proceeded to explain
what the sentence means. Here goes
If, for example. man leases oil
we'll pr 1perty from a State, so that
his net income from the well is non
taxable. then he cannot deduct. from
the rest Of his income. any expenses
on ths well for wages, equipment
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arrive in most Of our member cities
until October. To be sure, we don't
run into freezing temperatures in
preseason days, but there are
many places where fall weather is
Appropriated even in August, just
as the South is the land OF peren-
NAL spring. So why shouldn't we
establish training camps in those
climes?"
When Marshall's intentions OF
training in cooler lands were known
to be serious, the Redskins received
a dozen more offers from cities and
towns in Wisconsin, Minnesota and
Northern Michigan. Any Of them
would have been an improvement
over the disastrous site Of SO but
SUPERINTENDENT its nationally
known Athletic Round Table
kicked in with a better proposition
and got the Redskins.
They needed no high-pressure
salesmanship to get the Redskins to
return this year. And If Marshall,
long renowned as a No. l booster for
his home town of Washington. D. c.,
has a second love, it has become
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transportation. etc But bank or
other financial institution will not
be denied a deduction for expenses
incurred in earning tax-exempt in
tereSt.
CuriouSly enough, I received this
explanation with distinct feeling
of regret I suppose I should have
been glad to know what it meant;
but at the same time the sublime
beauty of that brain teaser was de-
stroyed forever. A baby reaching
for the moon would feel exactly the
same way if he could get his little
hands on it and discover that what
he once thought was a beautiful
object was in reality a mere drab,
dull, dead thing.
For further details I was shuttled
over to the Office of Mr.. Schoeneman,
supervisor over the collection of in
ternal revenue. He gets it from "a
districts, with the aid of some $500
deputy collectors, of whom 2,70O are
rowing. or field. deputies.
Mr.. Schoeneman explained that
the rovers have three major duties.
l. The service of distraint warrants
against taxpayers in arrears.
2. Search for delinquents. 3. In
vestigation of irregularities in the
smaller individual returns.
Returns are becoming more and
more numerous" he said. I'VE had
8. 200 600 for 1920 and that uaS q
million and half more than in the
preceding year. Most of them are
straightforward and honestly made
out, but quite few come under our
suspicion. We have, in fact, from
1917 to date investigated some Is
million-and when errors were found,
they were corrected.
Some seem to regard us as SINH
lar to the tax gatherers of ancient
China. Under that system, the tax
collector actually paid the govern
ment salary for the privilege of
holding his job, and it was worth it
because he could charge the poor
taxpayers pretty much what he
pleased, and keep for himself all he
squeezed in excess of a fixed amount
that he had to turn in for his dis
trict. We may not be popular. but
1t is mistaken idea to think we
are always against the taxpayer.
We just want him to pay what the
law says he must: no more and no
less.
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of New Income Tax PAYERS How to File Their Returns

"Often we find that he has paid
us too much, in which case we are
quick to send him a refund. and
besides that. he gets 6 per cent in
tereSt on 1t for the time we have it!
We are as completely impartial and
impersonal in our decisions as is the
photo-fnish camera at Bowie"
How many returns do you expect
for 1902" I asked
About 100000 more than be-
fore" he replied You see. the tax
able base will be lowered. You
ought to get that straight, II you
want to help us. Single persons
with incomes Of $500 or more must
file. and"
Married persons with $4,000 or
more" I interrupted. Il have 1t.
What Id like to know is this-how
are you going to find delinquents?
Mr. and Mrs. Jones. for instance.
living on $4,000 a year, have up to
now not been concerned with you,
so you've never heard of them"
Mr.. Jones employer has. though"
said Mr.. Schoeneman, land he will
send us a record of Jones pay. 1t
is all very formal and accurate, but
what it amounts to is having him
tell us that his employe is due to
make return. We. therefore. look
for it. If we don't find it, then we
look for Jones. It's very simple"
But suppose he's in business for
himself?" I suggested.
Then he must keep books and
must let our men see them on de-
mand. Besides that, our field depu.
ties know their districts, and they
can tell pretty we'll if Mr.. Jones, who
at one time eked out bare exist
ence, is doing better now. Such re-
ports get around. When they do,
Mr.. Jones is called on and asked to
file. Usually a word to him is suffi-
cient. Many more such cases will
be investigated now than before. as
we have increased appropriations
which will give us more deputies.
Very little revenue that Is due will
be missed"
So that's all there is to it Mr.,
Mrs, or Miss Neophyte. Your en-
ployer will have been given enough
income tax blanks for distribution
to his entire force. Get one from
him. If he has none, 60 to the post
once and get 1t. Then fill II out,
and pay on or before March Is.
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virtual unknowns, personally, outside
of the East or South.
Now. through the medium Of pro
football, stars of these and other
big-tlme college elevens of all sec
lions can be seen in Washington,
New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn.
Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit, Cleve-
land, Green Bay and Milwaukee
(foster home town Of the Green
Bay Packers. Rose Bowl heroes
thus can be seen on the Eastern
seaboard Alabama, Tennessee and
other Dixie stars can thrill residents
of the Great Lakes regions.
Even this absorption by profess
sional ranks of distant college stars
leaves a huge gap to be filled, for,
with only nine major cities repre-
sented in the pro league. many fans
| throughout the country still are
without means Of seeing the big
I names they've read about.
This is where the establishment
of training camps in faraway cities
like Spokane provides a distinct
feature Of its own. Now, for the
| first time. football fans who have
read and heard about great college
PLAYERS and whose home town or
State is unrepresented in a profess
sional league, can get close-ups OF
what must be. to them. almost
mythical figures. It's like having
the show brought home, the games
greatest coming to your doorstep
! instead of you going to see them.
For years Florida cities like
Sarasota, Clearwater, Tampa and
Orlando have been claiming the
Yankees. Dodgers. Senators and
other big-league baseball teams as
their own, just because those teams
trained there. Spokane itself feels
a distinct pride in the Redskins and
last year not only followed their
game-by-game fortunes throughout
the season, but had a direct wire
from the Polo Grounds for the last
Inflated game with the Giants.
Maybe the day isn't too far dis
tant when Spokane-along with
such other towns as Superior. Du-
luth and Two Rivers-will be ad-
vertising themselves as training
camps of the Redskins, Giants.
Bears and others. And instead Of
going South to escape winters rigors
and watch the pitchers shake the
kinks out of their arms and the bat
tiers regain their eyes. 1t may be-
come fashionable in the years to
come to 60 North and get cool while
watching pigskins sail through the
air.
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heard Of them before. How will you
locate them"
I'VE won't" said Mr.. SteltZ.
They'll locate us. most Of them.
We intend to use 20 carloads of
paper to print our justly famous
publications, Form 1040-A, and will
see that copies of it are available
at some post Offices. We confidently
expect it to be one of our best
sellers"
Ignorance No Excuse.
How will they hear about it?'
I queried.
by press and radio. especially
near the dead line" was the answer
"Of course, if they don't, Ignorance
of the law is no excuse, but even
at that we don't want it. Every
one who should file will know in
plenty of time"
What happens if you don't file?'
I asked
Uncle Sam calls you delinquent,
said Mr.. Suman. The penalty fol
delinquency is 5 per cent of the tax
due per month, with maximum OF
Is per cent, plus interest. The
penalty for actual fraud-false in
formation or deliberately withhold
ing part of income-is so per cent
and interest, together with dose OF
the big house in aggravated cases.
Does any one ever complain"
continued, that the whole business
is unconstitutional?"
Sometimes" he admitted. "Wher
they do, ask them II they woulo
prefer to 60 by what the Con-
stitution says or stick to the income
tax law. They always take the
latter, because the Constitution say.
that all income is taxable, while
the much-maligned income tax Law
is far less cruel; it declares that only
income above exemptions and de-
auctions Is taxable.
I'm fact, we consider it the faires
tax of all, because it is pretty APP
to be in fair ratio to the amount o.
money a man receives. This is no
true of other levies. If Mr.. A is {
hundred times as rich as Mr.. B
he will not pay a hundred times a!
much for cigarettes as B does. H,
simply could not smoke that many
Neither will A 60 hundred times a!
often to the movies-if he did, HI
would have no time for anythini
! else. And 70 on. But he viii %!
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Cooler Land
Visited for
Preparation
Football Becomes
Big Business in
Sports Realm
By Bill DiSmer. Jr.

II your Washington Redskins ap-
pear in midseason shape when you
see them in their first National
Football League game of the year
here this afternoon there's reason,
If you become a bit astonished at
the lack of rustiness or the COM
parativelv few time-outs called by
the Skins in order to catch their
breath, there's the same reason.
In short. they are in mldSeaSon
shape, off-season rustineSs has dis
appeared and they've as much WIND
power as they'll have all year. why?
Because they've again come out OF
the Pacific Northwest-whose Gil
mate is more adaptable to condl-
tioning a football team than the
hot. humid temperatures of the East
trained to the peak and ready TO
play as much football as will be re-
ouired of them from the word go
Remember back in 1888? When
the Redskins trained over in Airing
ton County for footballs annual
classic-the All-Star game played
each August at Chicago's Soldier
Field? Remember how the tenn
perature rarely was below IS in
the shade and how the muggy.
sticky air made your clothes cling
to YOU like a burning bathing suit?
OF all the incongruous sights Wash
ingtonians saw that summer the
leader was the spectacle of the
worlds championship football team
going through fall maneuvers in
weather which was almost too hot
even for baseball.
Yet the Redskins training was
typical of thousands of preseason
football training camps that fall
some of which continue to operate
under such unfavorable conditions
even today. Nearly two months be-
fore they are scheduled to play their
first games, thousands of young
gridmen annually practice in
weather acclimated only for base
ball and other summer sports. How
many games are lost on sun baked
fields where precious pounds are
shed, never to be regained. is a
moot question. How much enthusi-
asm for the great fall sport is for
gotten by once-ambitious pigskin-
ners is another matter of conjecture
Reason for Loss.
Some of their followers still say
that the reason the Redskins los'
their professional championship If
the final game of the 1888 season
was because their season had beer
too long. They had, indeed, played
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ule starting the middle of this
month and lasting only until the
first Sunday in December, pro
coaches and owners can't afford to
lose any time in whipping their
players into shape, for with sea-
son only half as long as baseballs,
games necessarily are much fewer
and every one big" one. Indeed,
only IL league games are scheduled
for each National League team, two
with each of their sectional rivals
and single games with three OF the
five teams in the other section.
Previously, pro coaches were loathe
to scrimmage their squads in hot
weather, and as a result, tackllng in
early-season games was mediocre to
say the least. Give EN- couple
of games" the mentors would say,
and they'll get their old form back. "
Consequently. the pros best per-
formances never used to be given
until midseason when the players
reached the form which had won
them play-tor-pay contracts.
Now Big Business.
But professional football no longer
is in the adolescent stage. Today
1t is big business, with owners spend
ing land taking in) hundreds Of
thousands of dollars during the
three-month campaign. In Wash.
ington. the Redskins 1910 season
ticket is near the 10000 mark-at
SO ticket. That means that
Griffth Stadium's seating capacity
of 10000 is nearly one-quarter &C
counted for for each of the Redskins
six home games AS matter Of
fact, more than 1000 were sold be-
fore the Redskins started training
more than a month ago.
1t behooves the responsible parties
therefore, to have their hired help
in shape to give their paying public
their best from the beginning.
Incidentally, there are couple OF
other angles to this distant training
that may be generally overlooked. ir
the thought that the players are the
only benefciaries of the plan. One
of pro footballs chief selling points
has been the fact that many ma
tionally-known college stars, seer
only in the vicinity of their alma
matters during undergraduate days
are presented to a fair wider public
through the National Football
League. UNIVERSITY af Southern
CALIFORNIA; famed Trojans, for in
stance, rarely have penetrated east.
ward beyond South Bend. Ind, anc
Dartmouth or Alabama teams arr
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not be all right with you. 1t is con-
siderably more sensible to lay his
share aside as you get it, say once
a month or once a quarter. Then,
when headache time arrives, all
too soon. you will have it for him.
How much better is this than
frantically rushing around at the
last moment trying to put the bite
on your friends, or attempting to
persuade a flinty-hearted bank to
lend you the amount needed?
1t may be that the ultimate
amount of the tax is negligible, say
5 or 10 dollars-but even in that
case a little thought beforehand
will pay dividends. 1t is often just
as much trouble to make out form
that calls for 1925 payment as
to fill out one calling for $1,000.
Much of the difficulty arises from
not being able to remember odd
items of income or possibilities of
deduction based on transactions
some months in the past. If these
ar, carefully recorded as they take
place, they may be instantly entered
in the spaces provided and great
amount of work saved.
Filing Returns.
For the help, then, of newcomers
who are farsighted enough to want
to prepare now for next years in
come tax, certain information is
printed herewith, hot from the
Bureau of Internal Revenue. Mr.
Elmer L. Trey, Chief of the Intelli-
gence, wishes to stress in particular
under what conditions the citizens
must file return. They are very
simple.
"An unmarried person of either
sex who receives $500 or more a
year must fill out a FORM" he de-
clares. HE or she may or may
not pay any tax, depending upon
exemptions and deductions, but a
| record must be made. Formerly this
limit was $1,000. Don't forget that
now it is $500.
ANY married person with an in
come of $4,000 or more must also
file. The former figure was $500
Bear in mind that the exemption
has been lowered by $780,"
Mr.. Trey gives this in a spirit OF
helpfulness, hoping that all will COM
ply with the requirements and keer
out OF trouble. This, In spite OF the
fact that he Is q trouble ahoote,