Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 262, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1932 — Page 2

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SALES TAX IS HEAVY BURDEN ON CANADIANS Levy, in Effect Since 1920, Denounced by Labor and Manufacturers. By Srrippe-Hoicard Stwepnprr Alliance OTTAWA, Canada. March 11.— Since 1920, Canada has Obtained one-eighth to one-quarter of Its tax revenue from a general sales tax. This tax has been a good revenue producer and has been kept in effect for that reason only. Its injustices and defects are recognized by all political parties in the Dominion, and it is highly unpopular. But for the emergency need of revenue which has developed since hard times descended on the country, the Canadian sales tax would have been abolished last year. The tax first was imposed in 1915, to raise funds for war purposes. It still is classed as an excise war tax in the statutes of Canada and in government reports. While other war-time nuisance levies, such as taxes on receipts, telegrams, money orders, insurance policies, railway tickets and sleeping car berths, went into the discard, the sales tax stayed because it yielded a handsome revenue at small cost and inconvenience to the government. Abolition Long Demanded Its abolition long has been favored, in theory at least, by both liberals and conservatives and of course by progressives who, like the American party of the same nftme, regard income taxation as the most equitable way of raising national revenue. Among Canadian organizations on record for wiping out the sales tax are the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association, which generally takes a conservative attitude on taxes; the Trades and Labor congress, many boards of trade and chambers of commerce, and all major farmers’ associations. Farmers and industrial workers oppose the tax as burdensome to citizens of average or small income. Organized business is against the tax on the ground that it discourages trade, discriminates unfairly between classes of goods, imposes an expensive job of accounting on business staffs, and often is evaded. Tax Once Lowered The Liberal government, in power from 1921 to 1930 in Canada, first increased and then lowered the sales tax. It was a 2 per cent levy in 1920 raised to a peak of 6 per cent in 1923 to meet the heavy public expenditures of the, post-war period. After 1923, the tax was cut down steadily, one notch at a time, until in 1930 it was brought to the nominal figure of 1 per cent. Through this period the Conservative opposition continually attacked the government for not abolishing the tax outright. Business welcomed the reductions, but repeatedly asked that they be speeded up. When the tax was cut to 1 per cent in 1930, the Liberals in effect promised to eliminate it the following year. The Dominion elections of 1931 placed the Conservatives in power and the shrinkage of the government's income due to the depression obliged them to find immediately a source of extra revenue. The sales tax was raised from 1 to 4 per cent on Prime Minister Bennett’s motion, not because he liked the sales tax, but because, to quote his budget address, ‘'in a period of great depression departure from known practiced

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FLEEING WOMAN SLAIN BY POSSE Companion Is Shot in Duel in Dark Canyon. fly Utiileri Pre** SAN JOSE. Cal.. March 11.—For half an hour, an unidentified man and woman crouched side by side in the darkness of Silver creek canyon, their rifles and revolvers spitting bullets at a posse which surrounded them. When the guns finally were silent, early today, officers approached and found the woman dead and her methods of taxation should be as slight as possible. “In other words, there should be as little dislocation of business as possible and the taxes imposed should be those with which the people are familiar.” The sales tax in the dominion is now a 4 per cent levy' on both Canadian-made and imported goods. It is paid either by manufacturers or wholesalers on finished products only. Formerly the tax was imposed on goods at all stages of manufacture, so that an article processed three times was taxed three times, while a similar article completely made in one factory was taxed only once. This injustice has been remedied, but there still are enough inequities in the tax to give it the reputation of a nuisance.

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MOTHER'S PLEA WINS CLEMENCY FOR WAR BABY Youth, Held in Drug Store Theft, Born in German Siege of Paris. A mother’s love raised a curtain in criminal court today upon a drama’ beginning with the World war, and saved her son from prison. She told of her son's birth in Paris, France, in the midst of the war, and found the road to freedom for her boy, Johnny Brixy, 17, of 2519 South Pennsylvania street. Consequently, American probation methods are working for him, although he confessed a theft from a pharmacy. With devotion born in hardship, the youth’s mother related the story of her son’s birth during the German siege of Paris, 1915. Extremely Nervous She explained her boy was extremely nervous. Doctors lay this to the circumstances of his birth, she said. Then, in broken English, she unfolded tragic details of the death of Private Brixy, the boy’s father. He fell on the battlefield obeying the command: “When you can no longer advance, die where you stand!” | Then the ihother married Ora May, an American soldier, and came to America at the close of the war. Influence Lacking “Judge, I want my boy to be good,” she sobbed, “but he never has had the rea} influence of a father.” “I left my home in France to give him a chance in life, your honor— America has been my land of promise.” Judge Frank P. Baker lectured the youth and withheld judgment. Now Johnny must attend church, instead of serving a three to tenyear prison sentence.

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‘INTERLUDE' TO BE CUT Half of O’Neill’s Five-hour Play Will Be Deleted in Film Version. By United Pretie HOLLYWOOD, March 11—Some 50 per cent of Eugene O'Neill's fivehour, play, “Strange Interlude,” will be deleted from the motion picture version. About 40 per cent will be cut before filming, and it is expected that 20 to 25 per cent of the filmed product then will be cut.

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GRISWOLD TO VOTE AGAINST TAXON SALES Peru Congressman Favors Greater Levies on *Pro- . tected Rich.' By Timee Special WASHINGTON, Mardh 11.—Representative Glenn Griswold (Dem.), of Peru, Ind., today joined the growing revolt against the sales tax, anouncing he would not vote to tax any necessity cf lif& and proclaiming his belief that funds should be raised by greater taxes on the "protected rich.” Griswold also announced he would vote against the provision in the revenue measure assessing a 10 per cent tax on admissions to amuse-

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