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Uncle Sam’s Monthly Revenue Highest Since 1922 New Taxes Add I To Collection Beer Ami Excise Taxes Gain A.J Do Other Revenues; Deficit i Is Cut Down (By Richard L. Gridley) Revenue other than income taxes! is pouring into the United States; treasury at a faster rate than at! any time since the war-time taxes were repealed, official figures show-j ed. Miscellaneous internal revenue, j which includes beer, tobacco and! various manufacturers’ excise taxes, reached approximately S! 10,000,000 this month, the highest collections from this class of taxes since August 1, 1928, when the capital stock tax of that year boosted miscellaneous internal revenue to $113,661,844. Last month miscellaneous internal reve nue collections amounted to $106, 483,764. Total revenues of the govern-i rr.ent, including income taxes, Panama Canal tolls and customs receipts this month were 'nearly double those of the corresponding period of last year and went far in cutting down the present excess of expenditures over receipts. In the first 27 days of July the government collected $144,563,-1 789 in all classes of revenue, against j 576,013,404 in July, 1932. At the, same time expenditures other than those in the recovery program fell1 from $33 5,5 8 1,467 a year ago to $212,729,074. This left a deficit in "ordinary”; operations for this period of $21,-; 000,000, against a deficit of $260, 000,000 in the first 27 days of July, 1932. Not included in these figures is $60,000,000 spent in re lief activities this year as compar ed with $125,000,000 spent by the Reconstruction Finance Cor-; ©oration a year ago. The newly-imposed beer taxes, now running close to $15,000,000 monthly and the new excise taxes not in effect a year ago, naturally improved this year’s comparison. An inmpressive growth of miscel laneous internal revenue, never theless, is showed in the first seven months of this year. Internal revenue collections other than income tax for the first seven months of this year com pared with those of a year ago are as follows: 1932: 1933: Jan. $37,907,843 $66,769,261 Teb. .... $35,568,900 $64,333,758 Mar. $39,313,223 $67,188,717 April . $36,270,105 $93,501,924 June . $46,307,247 106,483,764 July (esti mated) $42,000,000 $110,000,000 Along with the improvement in miscellaneous internal revenue other income of the government has risen above the corresponding period of last year]. Customs re ceipts, a lucrative source of reve nue in the first 27 days of July were $20,626,235, aj^iinst $16, 5)94,046 in the corresponding mon th of last year, the highest in a bout eight months. Income tax collections, repre senting payments for last yearns | income are well below the previous; year. As these cover the calendar | year ending December 31, last, they do not reflect the business im provement that has taken place' since March. — ABANDON SALES TAX TEST Directors of the state merchants association decided in Raleigh to abandon the proposal to have a court test of the Constitutionality of the 3 per cent sales tax, and in stead to concentrate all efforts on naming a 193 5 general assemblyi which will remove the tax. Bad Taste in Mouth, Sour Stomach For quick relief from constipation troubles, such as are mentioned below, get a 25-cent package of Thedtord’s BLACK-DRAUGHT and begin taking it today. “I have suffered a great deal from biliousness and constipa tion,” writes Mrs. D. C. Jones, of Waterloo, Ala. “When I get bili ous I have a bad taste in my mouth, have sour stomach, my color is bad, and I get dizzy and feel awfully bad. I have head ache constantly. When I take Black-Draught it relieves me and I feel like a new person. I don’t think there is a better medicine than Black-Draught.” O NOW you can get Black-Draught «% the form of a SYRUP, for Childun. IT’S LUCKY DAY FOR WORLD’S FAIR VISITOR CHOSEN FOR KISSING GAME IN BELGIAN VILLAGE STREET SHOVt HICAGO. July 00.— Kisses are words in a universal language. Perhaps that explains why thousands of visitors to the Chicago World’s Fair—A Cen tury of Progress—roar their applause to the colorful street festival that daily makes the market square of “Picturesque Belgium” one of the gayest and loyliest spots of the Fair Nestling intimately in the heart of this Belgian Village, with its houses and chapels and shops built from actual moulds of Old World buildings that date from the 13th century, is an outdoor stage, surrounded by dining tables and beer garden balconies, and ter raced in by a broad expanse of cobblestone steps leading upward to a cluster of hillside shops and the setting sun. Kisses to Music. At the start of every hour sight seers scramble for seats on the steps and at the tables to watch the flaxen-haired maidens and peasant boys of old Belgium pre sent their native folk-dances and songs with a spontaneous pleas antry and delightful naivete that spring from happy hearts. The rhythmic waltzes, dainty and graceful for all the cumbersome ness of the heavy wooden shoes of the dancers, own a charm that is well appreciated, even though most of the onlookers have never been abroad, know little of the customs and traditions of the “old country”, and understand little or nothing of the symbolism of the dances. But in the grand finale—the “kissing game”—is a world of clean, fast fun thoroughly under stood. A kiss is a kiss, be it in Brussels or Chicago. Moscow or Mayfair. Paris or Tangier. To the strains of the llting mu sic, the boys and girls dance about the stage in a circle, with one boy or girl alone in the center. The dancer in the center chooses a partner of the opposite sex from the outside ring, and the two then Become tne leaders or tne dance. At given breaks in the music they kneel, and flrst he kisses her. then she kisses him. Dancers of the cir cle follow suit. Game Pleases Crowd. It’s great fun. but the big laughs are yet to come. There is a pause in the music. One of the peasant boys leaps from the circle and1 takes the hand of a girl selected at random from the audience. Then she must become his partner in the center of the dance. When the dance is over, all the boys rush to Initiate the new dancer with their kisses, much to her embar rassment and to the merriment of the onlookers. The stunt is then repeated with a boy from the au dience. After the show coins rain from the seats of the amphitheater and the dancers are thrown into a mad scramble for the money, more than often with comic results. vvnen visitors leave tne Kissing game, they are sure to have be come genuine admirers of the Bel gian Village, and are ready to ac cept the more serious beauty of It in a proper mood. Display Famed Painting. There Is plenty of beauty about the historic old buildings. Here is Antwerp’s St Nicholas church, built in 1450 as a chapel of the j shoemakers’ guild; here is a con-i vent house from Diest. a home j from Tornai, the house of the j Hangman of Bruges (13(H)). There is the gateway where Napoleon J spent his last night before Water loo ; there is St. Donatus bridge of Bruges in 12(H). with its water mill and pond of swans; there is the beautiful city hall of Damme; in the distance the slim white watch tower “Pagode” of Antwerp. All about are guards, attend ants. bar-maids and peasant girls in the authentic and gaily-hued costumes of the 16th centurj Hours without end may easily be spent In the dozens of quaint shops where Dresden China, laces, and other articles are sold, or i» the shops of the glassblowers and “koper smids”. Almost hidden away in a little building on St. Nicholas plaats is a quiet note of piety in contrast to the rest of the town, and one of the most important exhibits in the village. It is the world-famed painting. “The Crucifixion and Transfiguration of Christ’’, by Sil vio Paini. brought from the cathe dral of Brussels. Valued at $250. tno. and the work of nearly 12 years, it is unique, in that the eyes of the Saviour appear to open to the holy light from heaven as the watcher gazes upon it. it is said to be the only painting wherein the artist has succeeded in repre senting both death and life eternal on a single canvas. Belgian boys and girls in native costumes daily present folk-dances and songs in the street festival of the Belgian Village at the Chicago World’s Fair —A Century of F _,.ess. Thousands gather on the cobblestone terraces to enjoy the delightful charm of the shows. Conscience Fund Passes $600,000 Largest Item Was $3 0,000, Small est, One Cent; Some "Con science” Letters Washington.— The "Conscience Fund" at the Treasury department has crawled up above $600,000 which goes to show that some pco sle insist on being honest. The federal government has had i conscience fund since the day of President Madison. It was started ay a fellow who had defrauded the U. S. A. of $5 and gotten away with it clean as a whistle, as the phrase went in those days. But years later his conscience began to hurt, so he sat down and sent $5 to the treasury. Didn’t put his name on the letter, though; they seldom do, but it doesn’t matter much because the treasury keeps all names confidential. Other people started doing it until now there has been a total of more than $600,000 collected. All of it is just velvet for the gov ernment, because they never had missed it. The largest single sum ever col lected was $30,000. The smallest is one cent. That was paid by a man who strayed across the border into Canada. He was in Buffalo, anyway and figured he would just run across the bridge so he could say he had traveled in a foreign country. That’s where his trou ble started, for once he got in Canada he started spending money. First thing you know, he had bought a pencil for two cents. Well, he got back to America and started using the pencil. Then his conscience began tormenting him. Technically, he was a smuggler, because he had not paid duty on the pencil. Se he sat down and wrote this letter to the treasury: "Herewith I hand1 you a one cent stamp for duty on a lead pen cil which I bought from a Cana dian. The pencil cost me two cents, so I have decided to pay one cent duty.” A lady wrote to the government the other day to tell them she had got religion. Said she was very bappy now except for one thing— that matter of the stamp. “I am duly impressed,” she wrote, "to restore to the U. S. Treasury a postage stamp which 1 used once. It had served its pur >ose once but seemed not to have been cancelled much, if at all. Nevertheless, I usetLit-as-J-~s» as at the time very much in need of one. I am restoring it four-fold ! (eight cents enclosed) and I ! haven’t been guilty of it any more. I May the Lord bless each one and [save our souls.” Then there is the case of the man who went down to Tia Juana. He had a terrible day. Every horse he bet on ran backward and his bankroll shrivelled away. By the time he got through with the chuck-a-luck game, the bankroll was exactly the size of France’s June 15 war debt payment, which, if memory serves, was a neat or derly row of zeroes. All he had left was $10 worth of souvenirs. A few months later the govern ment got a letter from him. "Enclosed find duty on $10 worth of goods bought at Tia Juana. Buyers did not wish to smuggle, but was not prepared to pay duty at the time. I am sending $4 which I believe will cover the amount due.” The conscience fund income is remarkable stable. In 1930 the i government got $6,3 89.75; in 1931 iit got $6,398.77. The biggest year was 1916—more than $50,000— Treasury officials believe it was be cause citizens thought America might be drawn into war and need all the money she could ger^ I - Here Is How Beer Is Made At Brewery Since beer was last a legal drink, ■a new generation has grown up. Presumably everyone used to know how it was made. Today the pre sumption is the other way. The Scientific American, New York, for the instruction of youth, pub lishes what might be called a "primer of beer.” It runs as fol lows: "The basis of beer is malted bar ley and hops, altno other cereals, mainly rice, are used: The malt is either made by outside maltsters or is sprouted and kin-dried in the breweries own malthouse. "The object of the malting pro cess is to soften the walls of the grain so that the starch becomes i accessible and can be resolved into malt sugar (maltose) and dextrin. In the process the barley is steep ed in water and then allowed to sprout, the grain being turned from time to time. This usually consumes about eight days. "The sprouted barley is then j dried in kilns and is elevated from' storage bins or loading platforms to the top of the brewhouse where grit and dust are removed. The malt, after grinding, is fed by gravity to a cylinderical 'grist hopper’ in readiness to be weighed b.iore going to the mashtub be-! neath. Meantime rice his been I ground and cooked and is also held in reserve. "All of these operations have been carried on with view to the I chemical reactions which are to follow, assisted by mechanical, means. The rrfaltgrisft and rice !are run into the mashtub, water ; is added and live steam is admitted, j the mixture being constantly agi ! rated by means of mechanically |driven paddles. When the brew ! master decides that the conversion ,of starch to sugar has been carried i out sufficiently, the solubles are filtered off and the solid residue is then drawn off to be made into cattle feed. "The remaining liquid, known as 'wort,’ drains off into huge brew , kettles and cooks for four hours, j The hops are added to the liquid, one and one-half to two hours be fore the end of the boiling. The action of the h nns k rn oivp i slight bitter and stimulating taste 'to the beer, and also to promote the I keeping quality of the product. ! "The work of the hops ended, they are removed and brew is pumped into receiving tanks, cool ed, and prepared for fermentation, which accomplished in steel and glass enameled tanks. Yeast in the proper quantity is added at this point. Here the sugar is trans formed into alcohol, carbon-diox ide gas being given off and saved for future carbonation of the beer. "The fermentation process takes from twelve to fifteen days. Then the beer is aged in tanks, usually enameled lined, in cool vaults for two or three months. From bot tling tanks the beer, still cool, is divided for kegging and bottling. The barrels are soaked, scrubbed, and filled; the bottles are washed, filled, tapped1, pasteurized, and labeled. Both kegged and bottle beer are carbonated.” Americanism: Viewing with a larm because Junior takes a snifter at college; going back for the big day and getting soused with other old grads to set an example. —Buy In Salisbury— IT’S JUST NOT DONE We are more convinced than eve; that North Carolina should abolisl capital punishment. Our convic tion arises from maudlin sentimen but from the demonstrated fac that the penalty is never sufferec except in the case of a "nigger o a "pore white.” We have mad' some progress in that the influen tial can now be sent to the peniten tiary but it will be many a day be fore an influential man is executed It is just not done. A law tha discriminates, especially 'when a life is at issue, should be abolished — (Charity and Children.) ASKS DEATH OF HER PET Media, Pa.—A request that he Pekingese, Nana, be put to deaf by poison and buried on the da her mistress died, was made in th will of Mrs. Caroline Calhoun o St. Davis’s, probated here. Th will directed that money from lif insurance be used "to pay for m; funeral and Nana’s.” Husband Pleased After Wife Lost Bulky Fal Reduced 21 Pounds-Skin Clearer and Feels Much Better 'Tve lost exactly 21 lbs. with 3 jars of Kruschen and am so happy to get rid of that bulky fat. My husband is very pleased with me, My skin is clearer and I feel sc much better since I’m not so heavy on my feet. Friends say I look much better.” Mrs. Norma Spick ler, Maugansville, Md. To get rid of double chins, bulg ing hips, ugly rolls of fat on waist and upper arms SAFELY and with out discomfort—at the same time build up glorious health and ac quire a clear skin, bright eyes, en ergy and vivaciousness—to look youngr and feel it—take a hall teaspoonful of Kruschen Salts in 3 glass of hot water every morning before breakfast. One jar lasts 4 weeks and cost! but a trifle at Purcell’s Drug Store or any drugstore the world over Make sure you get Kruschen be cause its SAFE. Money back ii not satisfied. 1‘Chigger’ Fallacy Given Knockout, Bug Expert Take it from Stanley C. Arthur biologist, who "knows his chig gers,” that when the bug bites yoi ,ie doesn’t "get under your hide.’ Arthur recently blew up thal allacy when he explained re searchers had shown the inflam mation of a chigger bite, popu arly believed to be caused by th; chigger’s presence under the skin is caused byl ji poisonous saliva The chigger hatches, with thi Trst warm weather, from the egg of the harvest fly, he explained and attacks man only when in th .arva stage. As adults, they leavi humans strictly alone. But whei 'arvae—ouch! the little pests craw along ankles and bite unmerciful ly, injecting the poison as it feed on blood. The bug even feeds on smal wild animals, snakes and lizards and young chickens, without be ing the least bit "choicy,” Arthu said. , But the bug we call chiggers i no more a chigger, or 'chigoe” a it is properly pronounced, th-ai ileas are bats, he declared. Ou bugs really are closely allied t< spiders and mites. i ne real cmgger, jigger, o properly, chigoe, is a curious fie; of the West Indies and South A merica, and does not inhabit Nortl America, he said. In those region where it is found, it often doe burrow beneath the skin of th feet, and cause serious irritation. The bug popularly known as th chigger here, he said, is easy t control; simply dust the feet an; legs with powdered sulphur befor putting on hose, and it won’t giv any bother. DEMAND ACTION TO HALi DEATHS OF POLICEMEN Chicago.—Incensed by the kill ing of policemen, officials were de manding action to prevent furthe losses in the police department. Nine policemen have been slai in line of duty thus far this yea: including two shot to death la; Saturday night by a pair of allege 1; hoodlums, and Policeman John C I Sevick, killed by a gunman, Joh , Scheek, in the criminal cour [ i building. 'I "If I had my way we woul 'have more inquests on hoodlums, j Coronor Frank J. Walsh said i [continuing the inquest into tl deaths Saturday of Policemen Joh | Skopek and Elmer Ostling: ! "The sooner we deal with such hoodlums as they deal with society, the sooner will be solved this pro i blem,’’ the coroner said. "These j atrocious murders bear out my j contention that we are dealing with | such killing in the wrong manner.” — BRITAIN TRIES OUT NEW ■ RIFLE ,j London.—The poor benighted . infrantry apparently are still to have their place in the next wars. ,] The British War Office is ex , perimenting with a new rifle and ( bayonet, and if accepted the "P. [ B. I.” will have to re-learn all . their musketry exercises. .j The rifle has the aperture sight ion the sliding bar foresight, and [Iis said to be a step nearer scien tific perfection for accurate shoot ing I 666 S LIQUID - TABLETS - SALVE Checks Malaria in 3 days, Colds hrst day, Headaches or Neuralgia ’ in 3 0 minutes, FINE LAXATIVE AND TONIC. 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C. j Atlanta, Ga. - $ 6.10 Jacksonville, Fla. _ $9.10 Birmingham, Ala.. 9.45 Norfolk, Va.. 6.15 Charleston, S. C. . 5.40 Richmond, Va. 4.80 Cincinnati, O. —. 10.90 Washington, D. C. 6.70 Proportionate fares to other destinations. ' j REDUCED ROUND TRIP PULLMAN FARES | Also very low round trip fares to: New York, N. Y.. $14.85 Philadelphia, Pa. _.... $11.60 Baltimore, Md. _ 8.15 Atlantic City, N. J. 13.70 Tickets to these destinations routed Southern Railway to Wash ington, thence B&O RR. Through pullman sleeping cars to Washington only. ! Similar reduced round trip fares will also be in effect Sept. 1st, 2nd, 3rd; October 6th-7th, and November 28th and 29th. Reduced fare tickets must be secured before boarding train. 1 | Purchase railway and pullman tickets in advance. I SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
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