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TliUJ LU: UA1A11A, SATUKDAY, J'UttKUAKY. 'JU, 11)18.
A Rocky Road to the Income
Taa: 0ice a Girl Reporter
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By ELLA FLEISHMAN.
"Pay your income tax before March
J."
My gaze caught the inscription on a
street car sign, but it made no im
pression on me, being one of those
care-free mortals unbothered by in-
cpmes. but wait Every single per
son who earns over $1,000 a year must
make returns," I read on.
That made me sit up and take no
tice. It might apply to me. I was
single and thought I made more than
$1,000, though I wasn't sure, never
having had that much money all at
once to count be fore in my life.
" Painfully and laboriously, for arith
metic is not my forte (that's why I am
a newspaper reporter), I added up my
weekly stipends and found that I had
to pay an income tax. But where
and how and to whom? I didn't know
any more than the man in the moon.
Circumlocutiously (yep, spelled cor
rectly, I discovered that it had to be
done in the internal revenue depart
ment in the federal building, alias
postoffice.
Between Us Girls.
"Does that street car sign know
what it is talking about? And do
females come under that class of sin
gle persons or does it apply only to
men?'' I asked Joy Higgins, who does
Uncle Sam the honor of laboring in
his musty old internal revenue de
partment. I say she does Uncle Sam
an honor, because "Joy" has no place
there. She's a different kind of "spir
it" than the one revenues used to be
paid for before May 1, last. Joy
writes poetry and can act and she
loves birds, so I would have her out
in the sunlight all the time.
Anyway, Joy told me the street car
ad was the right dope and for me
not to wait until February 28 before
attending to this matter, or I might
be clapped into prison, so I hurried
over to the postoffice and wandered
about on the first floor for a time,
finding nothing but stamps and letter
boxes and things. Then I got into an
elevator and stayed In it till the ele
vator man called out "Second floor,
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; Should the modern woman marry a
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internal revenue department, last
room down the hall to your left hand.
Pay your income taxes now" all in
one breath.
That's Us.
"That's us," exclaimed the men in
the elevator in unison, and down the
hall we filed to the designated room
where another crowd oreceded us,
The men were armed with bank
books, cancelled checks, tax receipts,
etc., but, boasting none such emolu
ments of rank, I stood betore trie
counter with them. Finally my chance
came, and a nice old man waited on
me.
"I want to pay my tax," I said,
timirli'v-
"All right. Make out this return."
He handed me a large folder of many
typewritten questions, and my heart
sank into my shoes.
"Do I have to answer all these ques
tions?" I asked weaklv.
"Yes, but I'll help you," he volun
teered, for which 1 was everlastingly
grateful.
He's Decent, at That.
After I had satisfied him about my
name, address and present condition
of servitude, etc. (No, girls, he doesn't
ask how old you are, but that's all
you can hold back), he began to fire
these questions at my thoroughly be
wildered head:
"Married or single?"
"Single." I told him, but he persist
ed in asking, "How many children do
you support?"
"None."
"Any other dependants?"
"None."
That being settled, he pursued an
other tack.
"Any other income besides your
salary? How much bank or savings
accounts?" (In this day of II. C. of
L.1) )
"Any property? How much taxes
do you pay?"
I am very honest, so I told him
about the taxes. I pay on $50 worth
of personal property. You remember,
I did that in order to vote for the
school board, and he said, if I wanted
to, he would deduct a per cent of the
amount I paid on taxes, but as that
would be about 2 cents, I told him
not to bother his head doing so much
arithmetic.
"Ella" Not "Emma."
It seems that all mv first answers
precluded any possibility of his firing
any more ot the questions on the
pamphlet at me, so I got off easy.
Then he rapidly figured out what my
tax was. wrote it down on some
thing, made me sign it, then handed
me a duplicate slip to hand to the
cashier when I paid my tax. I noticed
he had spelled my name "Emma,"
which I protest, being pretty well sat
isfied with "Ella," on account of Ella
Wheeler Wilcox and other famous
women writers, but I felt sorry for
the poor man on account of the lots
of work he had to do between now
and March 1.
Oh, how much income tax did I
pay?
Well, yon couldn't buy a house or
lot or automobile or diamond ring
or any such like with the amount (ex
cept in the 10-cent store). You might
see "Cleopatra" or "Thais" with it,
and still have something left for ice
cream sodas.
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In this work the author shows that
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if it will the dearest things in the world are human
effort and time. Also, we of America believe that
recreation is economy, because it makes people health
ier, happier and more efficient.
Consider, just as a single phase of economy and
human convenience and resultant human happiness
how the motor car is responsible for good roads.
The people of America talked good roads for a
century. But since it was possible for horses to pull wag
ons through the mud and over bumps, with light loads
and great waste of time, they continued to do so. Roads
didn't improve much.
Then along came the automobile, with manifold
greater possibilities of transportation, both passenger
and freight. The mind of man was awakened. The am
bition of man was quickened. The energy of man was
spurred by a will to do.
Result better paved city streets, smooth, solid,'
well kept country roads.
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