AMERICAN POCKETBOOK
HIT BY WAR TAX TOLL
Within Three Months the Buying
Public Will Be Paying a Tax on
Practically Everything
(Washington Special)
The war tax toll on the American
pocketbook began Friday. Within
two months the buying public will
be paying over the counter, through
ticket windows of various kinds, and
almost everywhere else, the levies
under the $2,535,000,000 revenue
bill, now a law.
Throughout the land today the
high cost of living mounted higher
with additional taxes on hard, soft
and medium beverages effective im
mediately. Everything from cham
paigne to sarsaparilla and soda
fountain syrups is hit by the new
tax.
Drinking costs arose about 25 per
cent.- Smoking may also be more
costly within 30 days when aded
taxes on tobaccos, cigars and cigar
ettes are clamped down, ranging
from $1 to $7 a thousand on cigars
ad from 80c to $1.20 a thousand on
cigarettes. Even snuff users will
suffer.
On November 1 also the tax on
freight and express packages 1 cent
for each 2 cents charged becomes ef
fective, together with a 10 cent levy
on the comforts of berths, seats and
on state rooms or parlor cars. Every
telephone, telegraph or wireless
message costing more than 15 cents
after November 1 will bear a five
cent tax, and taxes of 8 cents on
Leach $100 of life insurance and 1
cent on each dollar of fire insurance
also begins.
With a tax on "movies and legiti
mate" theatres after November 1 of
one cent on each 10 cents admission
charged, the cost of "looking them
over" either on the screen or in the
"pony" row promises to mount. The
usual new year outbreak will be
more expensive with a new tax on
table reservation. It will cost a
tax toll equivalent to 10 per cent of
the due to join a club after Novem
ber 1.
Stamp taxes on bonds, promissory
notes, bills of sale, and playing
cards becomes effective December 1,
as does the one cent tax on parcel i
post packages cost 25 cents or more, j
The additional one cent on letters
additional second class postage is
not effective until July 1, 1918.
Automobile owning, with a tax of
3 per cent, on the sale price, be
comes more costly immediately. Al
so such beautifiers as jewelry and
cosmetics and reliefs in the form of
pills, patent medicines and chew
ing gum are hit also.
Sporting goods, motor boats, es
tates, inheritances, incomes, war
profits and other luxuries of the
wealthy are taxable immediately.
Here are some things upon which
the average citizen will pay taxes j
from time to time under the new
war tax bill. ,
Approximately 2 per cent increase
on incomes of $5,000 or less.
Letter postage, except local let
ters, increased to 3 cents and post
cards to 2 cents beginning Novem
ber 3.
One cent for each 10 cents paid
for admission to amusements. Five
cent shows and 10 cent outdoor
amusement parks exempted.
Ten per cent on all club dues at
$12 a year or over.
One cent for each 25 cents paid
for parcel post.
One cent on each two cents ex
press package charge.
Three per cent on all freight
charges.
Eight per cent of passenger fares
by rail or water, except trips of less
than 30 miles.
Ten per cent of charges for seats,
berths and state rooms on parlor
cars or vessels.
Five cents on each telegraph, tele
phone or radio mesage costing 15
cents or more.
Three per cent on jewelry.
Three per cent on checker boards
and all kinds of games. i
Two per cent on perfumes, toilet
water, toilet soaps, etc.
Two, per cent on chewing gum.
One cent on each dollar of prem
ium for fire and casualty insurance.
Three per cent on on graphapone
records.
Eight cents on each $100 life in
surance. The tax on whiskey is increased
from $1.10 a galon to $3.20. The
tnx .on beer is increased from $1 a
barrel to $2.75.
FARMOORAPHS
Sow Wheat to
and Save His
Let Every Farmer
Make His Flour
Flour Money.
Treat seed wheat for smut. For
haldehyde 2 ounces to 5 gallons of
water sprinkled on the wheat and al
lowed to remain in a bag covered af
ter rubbing the wheat together long
enough to be sure that every grain
is moistened with the formaldehyde
will free your next years crop of the
loss by smut. This is very impor
tant. Two hours in the pile is long
enough for it to remain, when . it
ought to be spread again to dry be
fore it swells. If it should swell,
allow for this in rowing by putting
more to the acre. After treating
the wheat for smut, treat the bags
which contained it before treatment,
or else but the treated wheat in per
fectly clean bags to prevent reinfec
tion with the smut spors.
Don't let the high price of tobac
co lure you away from doing the
right thing in sowing wheat, oats
and rye. The prices for tobacco can
never be high enough to take the
place of these. You must eat next
year. So must your stock. If you
have none of these made on your
farm, your tobacco money, as big as J
it looks, will not purchase these and
PUBLIC LEDGER
meet your other expenses.
Every single man who expects to
crop next year ought to sow rye as
a cover crop to be turned under for
soil building after saving plenty for
seed.
Fertilizer will be high priced; and
rye turned for all next year's crops
will make the fertilizer count for
very much more in production; be
sides, it will save the washing away
of teh soil you expect to make your
crop.
Lime must become a sure part of
farmer's investment for crop pro
duction in this county before best
I might say good crops will be re
turned for the labor on the soil. Use
lime right and your labor will re
turn from 20 per centmp more for
your labor every year.
I would urge every farmer to vis
it and study the Oxford Orphanage
farm. Limet and phosphate are the
sheet anchor on that farm. Mr.
Brown, the manager does not use
these as he does because he has
money to bury in the soil, but be
cause he needs profits to come out
of the soil. That is what every farm
er wants. Then let him use lime
and phosphates, plow deep, and turn
back to the soil some of the greater
crops he will be making.
Do your best to keep your sweet
potatoes throughout the winter,
Handle them as gently as oranges.
Dry them thoroughly before piling
them. Don't let them chill below
45 degrees Fahrenheit, nor let them
get too warm, or they will quickly
soft rot.
Sow rape, rye and clover for the
hogs. Be careful in feeding cotton
seed meal to hogs. It is alright to
feed them one-third of their grain
rations of cottonseed meal for a
time not longer than three weeks.
Then danger begins. Some have fed
longer without bad results, but dan
ger begins. Remember this.
JAS. A. MORRIS, Co. Agt.
ruined, yet the Austrain Emperor
spent vast sume in the entertain
ment of his guests. Ludwigf von
Beethoven presented several new
compositions during this period, and
assisted in the great Mass which sol
emnized the anniversary of the exe
cution of Louis XVI. Prince Met
terriich presided at the councils, but
Talleyrand was the leading spirit of
the congress called to remodel the
map of Europe.
"It resembled a market of man
kind," says Drury. "The commis
sion charged with dividing up the
human herd among the kings was
greatly troubled by the exigencies of
Prussia, which demanded 3,400,000
additional subjects as an indemnity.
The congress even discussed the
quality of human merchandise and
gravely recognized the fact that a
farmer Frenchman of Aix-la-Chap-elle
or Cologne was worth more
than a Pole." All the nations gain-
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Features of the Memorable Gather
ing at the Court of Francis.
The only peace congress compar
able to the one that will follow this
war, in the number of nations and
great and conflicting interests in
volved, was that which met in
Vienna following the defeat of Na
polean and his banishment to Elba.
It is interesting, in the light of
what must come, to recall some of
the features of that memorable
gathering at the court of Francis, in
the Austrain capital.
For weeks the delegates did lit
tle but indulge in a succession of
festivities. The Austrain people were
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