pa NR By WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1930 MANY CO-OPERATE IN ROAD PLANTING Seventeen organizations and in- |than $6000. dividuals took advantage of the beautification the State Department of Highways, during the spring planting season [long the Lincoln Highway which has just ended, and furnish- | western | that were planted and | Greensburg. This planting included | construction of new Montgomery- | will be maintained by the State De- Ishade and ornamental trees, shrubs, 'Dorwart Highway. | roadside ed plants partment of Highways, the depart- land vines valued at $1332. These ' Plants | plants were set out to prevent ment forester are valued at more | erosion and to cover roadside bare! of propagation for the Game Com- thus donated The largest planting was carried policy of lout in co-operation with the West- moreland County Garden Club a- entrance the city of THE MOUNT JOY BULLETIN, MOUNT JOY, LANCASTER CO., PA. Orders Rabbits Charles A. Hiller who has charge areas, for screens to shut off the [mission has ordered 50,000 wild view of unsightly junk yards and rabbits to be distributed next fall. | dilapidated buildings and for orna- § Eee | mentation. es | yrs the | Highway No. 71 Belle Vernon—Work started on through North Work was started on preliminary | Belle Vernon. Consistent. Advertising Pays. Ta am | WE SPECIALIZE IN Business Cards Wedding Announcements Sales Bills Office Forms, Books Publications Letterheads Programs Catalogues THE BULA JNO. E. SCHROLL Proprietor 0000000 The Proof of Good Printing The proof of good printing can usually be accurately measured by the increased dollar and cents return as a result of printing care. Place your next printing order with us. The extra care we use in its preparation will please you—the satis- faction of a good job well done will more than repay the small difference in cost. MOUNT JOY, PENNA. T'S ALIVE!! T'S ALIVE!!! OU bet it’s alive—but it’s no freak—this newest gasoline. It had to be alive to keep pace with modern motors and their new fuel requirements. The makers of Mobiloil knew, as you do, that cars and motors have changed. They knew that the modern motor needs a mod- ern fuel. Mobilgas is modernized by Vacu- um’s process of distillation. It’s right for the car you drive today . . . in anti-knock, in cleanliness, in economy, in every phase of performance. And the price is the same as the price of regular gasoline. Switch for a week and let your car decide. Rhoads Oil Co., Inc. 917 North Prince St. BRAND OF 1° F PEAR oe Ro CLC J ETHYL GASOLIN fi CORPORATION so ons uv AND MOBILGAS ETHYL, TOO LANCASTER, PA. PLANTS WCU CLEANED Soot and Dust Blown Into 40-Foot Dirt Bag. Machinery has again come to the rescue of the home owner in the ac- complishment of one of the most menial and disagreeable of jobs, one which has heretofore been a mussy, dirty and undesirable job, says the Holland Institute of Thermology of Holland, Mich., and that is the clean- ing of the heating systems, In lleu of a grimy gweep with brooms, brushes, ropes and shovels, neatly uniformed operators arrive at the job with the big mechanical clean- er mounted on a motor truck. The cleaner parts include a powerful suc- tion fan, several lengths of flexible piping and a 40-foot dirt bag. The Ih | [hh Cleanliness Characterizes the Use of the Giant Vacuum Cleaner for Cleaning the Heating System. attendants put the giant suction clean- er in operation, and the powerful sue- tion draws the soot and dust ac- cunniarions rom every part or the heating system, blowing the dirt into the dirt bag. Without muss, fuss or dust the heat- ing system is’ thoroughly cleaned and ready to give more efficient heating service when fall brings the first touch of frost. Many vacuum clean- ers of this type are in use throughoet the country, but according to the Hol- land Institute of Thermology, to se- cure the best results it is advisable to engage one equipped with a high powered motor and suction fan, — Oe STATE TAX MEN AND BANKERS IN ACCORD Months of Negotiation Lead to Agreement on Changes Broad- ening Method of State or Local Taxation of National Banks. NEW YORK.—Months of conference and negotiation between an American Bankers Association special committee and the Committee of the Association of States on Bank Taxation have re- sulted in an agreement on a form of amendment to the Federal statute dealing with state or local taxation of national banks that “maintains the in- .egrity of the protective principles of he section and is satisfactory to the rommissioners’ committee,” says the American Bankers Association Journal. Thomas B. Paten, the organization’s General Counsel, in making the an- nouncement says that previously pro- posed amendments to the statute, which is known as Section 5219, have heen opposed when it was felt their terms would enable any state to place banks in a tax class by themselves. “The law as it stands today,” Mr. Paton says, “permits state or local taxation of national banks or their shareholders in one or the other of the four following forms: the share- holders upon their shares,—a prop- erty tax; the shareholders upon their dividends,—a personal income tax; the bank upon its net income; the bank according to or measured by its net income. Only one form of tax can be imposed, except that the dividend tax may be combined with the third or fourth form if other corporations and shareholders are likewise taxed. “The conditions permitted are: the tax on shares must be at no greater rate than ¢n other competing moneyed capital; the income tax on sharehold- ers must be at no greater rate than on net income from other moneyed capital; the tax on bank net income must be at no higher rate than on other financial corporations nor the highest rates on mercantile and manu- facturing corporations doing business within the state; the tax measured by net bank income is subject to ¢ same limitations as the tax on ne income of the bank but may includ entire net income from all sources.” States Seek Broader Law National banks and their sharehold- ers are taxed in different states under a diversity of systems, he says. The U. S. Supreme Court has held that the low millage rate on intangible person- al property Is in violation of the pres- ent law where it results in national bank shares being taxed at a rate greater than that assessed upon com- peting moneyed capital. A number of states, unwilling to use the income methods permitted, had the alterna- tive of either repealing the intangible tax laws or limiting taxation of na- tional hank shares at the intangible rate. Therefore they sought a broad- ening of the permissive provisions. Also, Mr. Paton points out, a Su- preme Court decision held a state's excise tax on corporations invalid where it included income from Federal and local government bonds in the ex- cise measure. This created doubt as to some state bank excise taxes. “Conferences have been held to reach some agreement which would protect the banks, satisfy the tax com- missioners and avoid a contest in Con- gress,” Mr. Paton says. “From the standpoint of the tax authorities, the main objectives have been an amend- ment which would permit certain states to retain their low rate tax upon intangibles and at the same time de- rive an adequate, but not excessive, revenue from national bank shares, and an amendment which would per- mit certain states to tax corporations on their net income, excluding income from tax-exempts, and at the same time derive the same revenue from the banks as heretofore. From the standpoint of the banks, it has been deemed imperative to maintain the protective principles of Section 5219. The Changes Agreed On “In the proposed amendment the ex- isting provision permitting taxation of bank shares no higher than the rate upon competing moneyed capital has been modified with respect to certain intangible tax states only by a provi- sion under which, instead of the moneyed capital limitation, the rate shall not be greater than the rate upon the shares of other financial corpora- tions, nor upon the net assets of indi- viduals, partnerships or associations employed in the banking, loan or in- vestment business, nor higher ‘than the rate assessed upon mercantile, manufacturing and business corpora- tions with head office in the state. “Also an added fifth alternative per- missive method, designated as a spe- cific tax, permits a state, in place of an ad valorem tax on bank shares, to add together total dividends paid the preceding year and the increase in capital, surplus and undivided profits, less additions to capital or surplus paid in by stockholders, and to divide this total by the number of shares. The state may tax the shares based upon this amount, but not to exceed the rate on other corporations in pro- portion to their net profits. “This method is designed for states which have heretofore taxed national banks upon their entire net income from all sources at a proportionate rate to that assessed upon business corporations, The amount which is the basis of the tux is the equivalent of the entire net income from all sources, but being assessed against the shareholder upon his property in the shares and not a tax upon the bank, it is not open to the objection as an indirect tax on exempt income,” + @ K { our townsmen is a brewer of qo little | ability. One of our past masters be- PAGE THRER —— { OWL-LAFFS mem ah: A ete Rl De pr Ee — =| 0. WL eo (On With Laughte: fi A fellow went to the Grey Iron and asked Jack Miller for a job. Jack said: “So you're a mechanic, are you?’ The man replied: “No, I'm a Me- Carthy.” I went to the movies in a nearby town and while there 1 said to the fellow sitting next to me: “That lit- tle girl is certainly some musician.” He said: “You'll have to— speak louder. That dern piano is making such a racket I can't hear a word you say.” A lady in town, who was away on a visit, arrived home unexpectedly and found her husband absent. She sent this note_to five of his friends: “Is my husband spending the night with you?” A little later he walked in and a- bout ten minutes later she received five telephone calls in response to her notes and all five said: “Yes.” edo po I'm to state I know a lot; ~ It's never cold when it is-hot, It’s seldom wet when it is dry; A basement’s lower than the sky. Our master’s phone is ever goin’ Vith news that's mostly bosh, Who ever thinks his job's a ¢inch, Knows more than me by gosh! It was rumored around that one of ing curious, ecured for himself a iquid and shortly began to see rep- quart bottle of after taking a drin tiles and animals in assorted colors. He rented a room and opend seum. People sion and ty room police The off rest him. However he Bad Example ry had a little lamb, _ ts fleece was white, and It followed her where'er s So it's a black sheep nol Ma —— I told a chap from Land] I thought he was getting admitted he was and ac it by saying that his wifi 30-day diet. Sixty Groff came over t er day and dry as it has r 1 said; chains on his ¢: g idea, George?” He replied: “They're want to wear them dow they don't 1p SO muc This poison liquor days has done more to ism than anything I've ¢ All the drinkers sing song, “Oh, Say, Can Yg¢ A man here declar more happily married dred years ago than tg He si hefore Edisc slectric light men ney exactly what they we Now I know there’s of fellows. We h musician in town Kidney. A boy at the for a day off on old grand-father Th he had a day off last old gent. > boy replied try and get in touc spiritual seance thi I asked a man at shoes he wears an two and a half. By that he and a keg of There's a young is certainly while in a town W corset factory he three days becaus sign outside “Al DIES’ STAYS HE Just heard of a who turns off al} every night and play movie, just bill. maste five in months He claims w play a sociable ning, you do couple hours | A lady wer store and ask€g gloves for her Dan said: She said: