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FOR FEDERAL RETURNS
Penalties for Income Dodgers Are
Severe— Get Your Return
in if You Are Liable.
April 1, 1918, Is the final day al
lowed under the federal income tax
law for the tiling of federal income
tax returns. Persons who are requir
ed to file returns under the provisions
of law and who fail to get their re
turns in on time are subject to se
yere penalties, as follows:
For making false or fraudulent re
turn, not exceeding $2,000 or not ex
ceeding one year's imprisonment, or
both, in the discretion of the court,
and, in addition, 100 per cent, of the
tax evaded.
For falling to make return on time,
not less than $2O nor more than $l,-
'OOO, and, in addition, 50 per cent, of
the amount of tax due.
If on account of illness or absence
from home you are unable to render
your return within the time prescribed
by law you may obtain an extension
£f 30 days if a request therefor is filed
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business, we thought we could not re- •
lease the building we are now occupy
ing, but we have just made a satisfac
tory lease, hence will remain at the old ;
stand where 1 will be pleased to have
all my old customers and new ones.
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with thb collector of your district be
fore the due date of the return. In
this request you must state the rea
son why the return cannot be filed
within the time prescribed by law.
Collectors of internal revenue are
not authorized to grant extensions of
more than 30 days, but the commis
sioner of internal revenue has author
ity to grant a reasonable extension
beyond 30 days in meritorious cases.
If you desire an extension of more
than 30 days your request should be
addressed to the commissioner and
should contain a detailed statement
covering the reasons which make it
Impossible foi" you to file your return
on or before April 1.
The internal revenue men are now
completing their tour of the country,
during which they were in touch with
the people of every city and town. If
you failed to get in touch with the
deputy which visited your section it is
not too late to get advice. Consult
your postmaster as to where the near
est deputy is now. Get your blank
form, study the directions and the re
quirements as shown thereon and
make your return without fail if your
income was sufficient to come within
the bounds named in the law.
It is pointed out by Commissioner
Roper that it is important that the
people comply with the federal laws
as fully as they are complying with
the drafts for men and the conserva-
tion of foods and fuel. "The war must
be paid for," says Commissioner Roper.
"Congress has as much right to con
script a just portion of income as it
has to conscript our boys. The tax
for 1917 is designed to reach moder
ate as well as large incomes, so that
all persons who are in financial posi- i
tion to bear a portion of the heavy'
government expenses can be assessed j
in proportion to their ability to pay. 1
"The man who is barely makfhg a
living or barely supporting a family
is not affected by the 1917 law. But
the man who is able to bear a share
of the burden has been reached by
the new law, and he should accept his
responsibility in the same patriotic
spirit that our young men have shown
In offering themselves for this great
purpose of the country to make the
world safe for people of all kinds to
live In and to govern themselves."
This tax Is one which recognizes
women as on an equal basis with men.
The unmarried woman or the married
woman with a salary must make tax
return just the same as any man. Only
the woman supporting her mother or
other members of her family may take
out $2,000 exemption.
Under the law the head of the fami
ly is the one whose earning power con
tributes to the family's support
Similarly a widow with small chil- *
dren to support can take out $2,000
exemption and $2OO additional exemp
tion for each of her children under
eighteen. Thus it is intended that
the law shall work no hardship to wo
men having to struggle to get along.
But each must tile return if her in
come is $l,OOO.
A man whose wife dies and who is
left with small children to support
upon a moderate income may also take
full exemption under the new tax law
and also claim $2OO exemption for
er.ch of his children under eighteen.
The widower under the law is a
single man and must make tax re
turn accordingly. Married men need
not file returns unless they are earn
ing $2,000 or more.
"This is as much a national obliga
tion as the reporting for duty of a man
drafted for service with the colors,"
says D. C. Roper, commissioner of in
ternal revenue. "As it stands, it is
much a matter of the man or wo
man's own conscience. It is for him
or for her to determine just how far
he is liable to the tax He must figure
his own income and if it reaches tha
figures named in the law must make
faithful report upon it to the proper
authority
"This tax is distinctly a war meas
ure and will be in effect during the
war.
"This is a people's tax —it reaches
right down into the pockets of the
small wage earner; it makes him a
partner in the job of winning the
war "
CUT OUT WASTE,
SAYS UNCLE SAM
F. Lawrence Fell Heads Organ
ization in Pennsylvania
to Lend Assistance.
PLEA TO BUSINESS MEN
Co-operation Sought in Avoiding Ex
cessive Deliveries by Grocers and
Other Merchants.
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E. LAWRENCE FELL.
Philadelphia. May 7. —Mr. E. Law
rence Fell, of Philadelphia, has been
appointed director of the Commercial
Economy Board for Pennsylvania, j
This board is a branch of the Council
of National Defence. Mr. Fell has i
| entered upon his duties, working in !
close co-operation with Howard Heinz,
U. S. Food Administrator for Pennsyl
vania and chairman of the Food Sup
ply Division of the Committee of Pub
lic Safety.
In setting forth the scope of his
i work, Mr. Fell made this statement:
"It must be evident to merchants
i and business men that in order to
win this war we will have to put
every available man into the army or
into the government's service produc
ing for that army. The purpose of
the economy board is to encourage
and assist in the elimination of all
waste.
"One of the first of our serious en
deavors will he to eliminate excessive
deliveries. We look forward, in the
grocery trade, for example, to not
more than one delivery a day to any
one household and over any one route
and probably it will be necessary to
reduce suburban deliveries of large
grocery stores and department stores
to two or three per week.
"Where this reduction has already
been accomplished merchants have
been surprised and gratified at the
hearty co-operation of the public and
have received practically no criticism
for so doing. Department stores in
a number of our large cities have cur
tailed deliveries to one a day and have
eliminated special deliveries and spe
cial service, or have made a satisfac
tory charge for this service, sufficient
ly large to discourage it.
"From time to time this office will
put forth various concrete proposi
tions looking toward the carrying out
of the general policy of saving waste
and when it is possible will inaugurate
local campaigns to carry out these
propositions."
Mr. Fell makes an appeal to public
officers, chambers of commerce, mer
chants' associations and other civic
bodies of the state, to co-operate with
him in bringing about the reforms
which are in his care. Mr. Fell is a
graduate of Swarthmore College in
the class of ISBS and is president of
the Franklin Printing Company. He
is on the membership committee of
the Union League and three years as
president of the United Typo the tae of
America —the printers national organ
ization. Mr. Fell has devoted himself
to the education of his craft in fac
tory management and cost-accounting.
He has spent fifteen years in lecturing
and writing on these subjects through
out the United States. He was select
ed by the Commercial Economy Beard
because of his experience in the elim
ination of waste and the study he has
made of efficiency methods.
What Food Control Does.
Congressman A. W. Overmyer, speak
ing in the House of the Food Adminis
tration a few days ago, said:
"What the Food Administration has
done is to regulate the world's food
supply so that America and her allies
may be fed at as reasonable prices as
it is possible to obtain. Reasonable
prices are not necessarily low prices.
They are the best that can be obtain
ed under all conditions of the situation.
"And whatever may be said, no one
is heard to complain that our armies
are not being fed, and that is almighty
important. Nothing else matters much
at Jhis.moment. .It' they are fed "
win lioal out unm we can get more
men and airships and canuon and am
munition to them.
"What if our population is calle
upon to forego and sacrifice and prac
tice self-denal. s > as our uruiier
and allied ariu.e> are red?"
Pigeons as Carriers.
Pigeons have been used as messen
gers for many thousands of years.
Dove is the Anglo-Saxon name; pigeon
the Norman name. During the fifth
Egyptian dynasty, 3,000 years before
Christ, it was the fashion to domesti
cate pigeons and to train them as car
riers and messengers. The promptness
with which Caesar was informed of
the rebellion in Caul, and thereby en
abled to cross the Alps before those
uprising could possess the entire prov
ince, was due to the use of carrier
pigeons. In the Crusades, these birds
were skillful and faithful messengers.
To Insure Pleasant Dreams.
The bedroom should be the snn
nlest and best room in the house. It
should be rounded, with no corners
for holding "dead air." The bed should
be in the middle of the room, and the
bedclothes light and warm in winter,
but never exerting pressure on the
sleeper. The bed should be aired all
day, and made up just before retir
ing. Sleep in the most comfortable
position, avoiding all theories against
special positions.
Must Develop Higher Tendencies.
• Every evil tendency in childhood
must finally be conquered, not by force
or punishment, but through the culti
vation of a higher tendency. The good
man or woman Is one whose life has
been slowly organized to act upon his
good impulses and to restrain his evil
ones. There is a thief or a robber in
us all, but fortunately for the major
ity of us, he has become too weak
through inaction to be able to do us
any harm. —Chicago American.
Holland's Windmills.
It was at one time stated that there
were in Holland at least 9,000 large
windmills, of which the sails ranged
from 60 to 100 feet long. At that time
their yearly cost was reported to be
nearly $10,000,000. The mills are used
for many purposes—for sawing timber,
beating hemp, grinding, but their prin
cipal use has always been to pump wa
ter from the lowlands into the canals,
to protect the little country from be
ing inundated.
The First Garment.
Come to think of it, Eve must have
worn a coat of tan even before the
apple episode.—New Haven Register. 2
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