Taxes in Nutshell
What New Taxes Do tc Poor
:'- (Second of a Series) v - '
;-; By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE
AP Features Writer
. WASHINGTON Many solid
. citizens have been Baying for years
- that a . majority " of the nation's
. Toms, Dicks and Marys took scant
interest in the federal government
v .. because .they ; paid' no federal' in-
- come taxes.
Well, if it takes a tax to make
them government-conscious, a lot
' , of small-income people are going
to be that way and plenty soon.
' Uncle : Sara really is : reaching
down into the lower brackets to
1 get money to help fight .the war.
More than, 49,000,000 will pay in-
come taxes under the new law,
about 32 million of them for the
. . first time. . .U
The most abrupt dip. into- the
: low income groups occurs in the
case of heads of families. For ex-
ample, a married man with two'
. dependent children and a net in
' come of $2000 in 1942 didn't even
come close to having to pay a tax
thi vear. In 1943. however, his
combined Victory and income tax
on the same income will be $93.
; (A post-war credit of $35 on his
Victory tax will make the net tax
. eventually $58.) ;
If the same family man has an
income of only $800, hewill con-'-
i- tribute $7 Victory tax after' post
war credit. The single person with
.$800-a-year income will pay a net
tax of $62 next year as compared
with $3 in 1942 and not a dime in
1941. '
Everybody must pay a Victory
tax of 5 per cent on all gross in
. come in excess, of $12 a week or
($624 a year). Besides the Victory
tax, four new provisions of the
r ! revenue ; law enables the govern-
- . ment to reach more income earn
' ers and to hit all taxpayers hard
er. They are the reduction of per-
sonal exemptions, the lowering of
- credits for dependents, an increase
. in the normal tax rates and a boost
in surtax levies.
- : The personal exemption v for
married persons is cut from $1500
. to $1200 and for single persons
, from $750 to $500. The normal tax
is raised from 4 to 6 per cent and
- . surtax rates begin at 13 per cent,
'. instead of 6 per cent, on the first
. 12000 of taxable net income. ,
r These ; increases, together with
" ' the 5 Der cent Victory tax, mean
s that the treasury gets 24 cents of
every' dollar in the first $2000 of
taxable net income. The take wm
, . be 27 cents of everpr dollar in the
s ' ' second $2000 and so on, up to w
' cents on the $5,000,000' a year in-
1 " comes. You'll get 'a cent or two
- V .. credit, 'or,,, rebate, on each dollar
, under Victory tax" credit provi-
, -v sions. , . iz
-V; (Tomorrow; A Jolt to The White
Collar Boys.) f -
Glatt Tells
Of Pincers
On Farmer
Caught in a "four-pincers move
ment.' the , farmer ' is in need of
help, Ray Glatt, Woodbura ag
riculturist and civic, leader, told
the' Salem X Lions - club Thursday
noon.--! , r5 - ;.???"
. The i four prongs pinching , the
farmer, Glatt said,-are "less labor,
higheri wages, ceiling prices and
questionnaires."
"The farmers can take it, and
ma k e sacrifices if necessary
Glatt declared, but "they must
have help. h ;: , --'V;-;
Saying the problem of labor
had become paramount in farm
production, Glatt asked for;; an
understanding attitude on the part
of the public, and a campaign
to sell city dwellers on the need
of spending their vacations assist
ing the farmers in their harvest
The speaker questioned ; a ! re
cent magazine article purporting
to show that farmers were "well
off last year.
, "By that article's figures, the
farmer, representing 25 or 30 per
cent of our people, was getting
only 12 per cent of the national
income, Glatt asserted. "His per
capita net income in 1909 to 1914
was $82.42; last year it was $226.
40.That is not shipyard wages.
Glatt, said the farmer did ,not
want to be subsidized, but did
want to receive a fair return for
his labors and the labor to pro
duce the' foodstuffs which, he said,
will be sorely needed this year.
Medicine Sale ;
Limit Banned
PORTLAND, Jan.; cir
cuit court decision . Thursday per
manently enjoined the Oregon
state board of' pharmacy from
enforcing "an order confining the
sale of nearly all Proprietary rem
edies to licensed pharmacists.
The opinion '"was rendered by
Judge Arthur D. Hay of Lakeview,
who heard the case here. - - ,
JThe way now is clear for some
3000 shopkeepers, mainly grocers,
to sell, the medicines, Albert W.
Gentner.i attorney for Hudson
Duncan ; & , Cov, and 150 inde
pendent shipkeepers who filed in
junction f suits, 'opined. ' .'-:'
Plaintiffs contended the board's
order would have created a mon
oply'ln the sale of cough, drops,
cough syrup, foot powders, tooth
paste, corn remedies "and similar
remedies. V
; . The law establishing the pharm
acy board, did not authorize the
board to issue such an order.
Judge Hay held. ,
Gifts to YT.2
Cut Mortgage
v Thanks in considerable part to
several large "special gifts, the
Salem YMCA board of directors
was able Thursday to appropriate
$445 for needed new; equipment.
including radios; and in addition
$3500 to apply on the Institution's
building mortgage.
The building payment wul re
duce the Y debt to $23,500, a fig
ure directors said was gratifying
to attain.- v
Gifts reported; to the directors
by Frederick S. Lamport, endow
ment committee chairman, includ
ed $5C3 from John J. Roberta,"
$1S5 from Salem Sand St Gravel
company and . $2450 from - the
Anunsen company
Paul B. Wallace, chairman of
the religious committee, an
nounced that the Y is assisting in
bringing E. Stanley Jones to Sa
lem for one day on the anniver
sary of the National Christian mis
Adults Can jOBtain
'Oregon' Souvenirs
- j Adults in Marion county who
- buy bonds ' can how obtain sou
. venirs from -the'' Battleship Ore-
gon . by displaying the bond at
. either Salem bank or in the Sears
-& Roebuck or J. C. Penney stores,
according to Frederick S. Lam
port, county war savings bond
. chairman, who disclosed Thursday
. that - 1 1,500 : : souvenirs are " now
available. : '
; ' Since, special plans have ; been
made for school children to gain
souvenirs in school, the 11,500 re-
. ceived by Lamport are for adults
j only. : " ;
Hyslop Envisions
Oregon as Garden
Of Vegetable Seed
PORTLAND, Jan. 7-("- Prof.
George ; Hyslop of Oregon State
college envisioned Thursday the
conversion of Oregon valleys in
to a vast vegetable garden pro
ducing a $5,000,000 annual crop.
1 "Oregon's soil and.climate offer
great possibilities for the develop
ment of a specialized vegetable
seed industry," he told the new
Oregon state farm chemurgic
committee. "The mountain ranges
seperating the hundreds of small
valleys in Oregon would reduce
to a . minimum . the unfortunate
tendency of vegetable seeds to
cross-pollenate.
Pointing out . that adequate re
search would uncover- countless
new possibilities in soil produc
tion, he said Oregon's enormous
variety of wild plants might yield
insecticides and other commercial
products. The state's budding for
age seed. crop has made consider
able progress, he added. '
J Experiments in the chemurgy
field have only scratched the
surface, state Senator HowarcH
Belton of Clackamas county told
the 150 delegates.
Morton Tompkins, master of the
Oregon state grange, was named
president; Dean W. A. Schoenfeld
of Oregon State college and E. B.
Aldrich, editor of the Pendleton
East-Oregonian, vice presidents,
and H. W. Derry, manager of the
Pacific Power & Light companys
new industries department, -secretary.
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