Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1920 — EXPLAINING THAT 30 CENTS [ARTICLE]

EXPLAINING THAT 30 CENTS

It, and the Clerk Gave Him ‘ t the Information. Champ Clark likes shirt* thaT have < small red-stripe. '-Not lOfag UTd he Went into the slTOp Of a “WSfiffilnflfon haberdasher to buy a dress shirt Selecting one r fie gave the clerk a |lO bill, and while waiting for Ms change wandered around looking at the shilts displayed. But let the former speaker tell us about It, says The Nation’s Business. “I found a fine shirt With smdll rbd stripes and I like to wear that kind. During the war you could notget a shirt with red stripes which would not fade. I said to the clerk: “ ‘What 1s the* price of that shtrtF "Three dollars.’ "’Give me that and take It outef the ten.’ “When he came baCk With ’the change he did not* have enough and I called his attention to It " ‘You are gouging me. What is that extra thirty cents for?’ “ ‘That,’ replied the clerk, ‘ls the sales tax that you d- — fools enacted np there in congress.’”