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CANADA VIEWS SALES TAX AS UNFAIRBURDEN All Classes Unite Against Levy; Small Income Hard Hit. Thi l the *econd of Iwn articles on the sales tax as it affects Canada. \ Hij Scripps-Mowaril Xctcspapcr Alliance OTTAWA, Canada, March 16. Canada's sales tax has few, if any, friends outside government departments. It is resented by business men as vexatious and unfair, and by farmers and labor organizations as a tax which increases the cast of living and falls most heavily upon those with least ability to pay. The consumers’ kick against the tax is that it adds to prices. In Canada the tax has yielded an- 1 nually from $40,000,000 to SIOO,000,000, depending on the rate. This I year, at 4 per cent, it is expected 1 to produce $65,000,000, which is S3O from each Canadian family. The poorest families may not pay S3O, but every family contributes. Though the list of articles exempt from sales tax is long, it does not include clothing nor any but primary foodstuffs. Small Income Hit It is held in Canada that the rales tax docs not give due weight to ability to pay. The man of small 1 income and large family, obliged to J spend his whole revenue for goods, bears too large a share of the bur- j den. He may actually pay more in v ales tax than a man with a much j larger income and no dependents. Canadan experience shows that the sales tax not only is passed on to consumers as an addition to prices, but pyramided on the way. Manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers figure their percentage profits on pri<je plus tax. It was calculated, when the rate was 5 per cent in Canada, that for an article costing SI,OOO to make, $1,050 j wtih tax added, the manufacturer taking 15 per cent profit, the jobber 20 per cent and the retailer 33 1-3 cent, the ultimate buyer paid $1,932 instead of $1,840, the price without sales tax. Os the extra $92, the government got only SSO. On this basis the S3O a family gathered by the Canadian government this year may be pyramided to $555 in increased living costs. Tax Branded Unjust In Canada big business and industry, as well as consumers, denounce the sales tax as unjust. Manufacturers and wholesalers object to doing the job of collect- j ing for the government. They have to show the amount of sales tax on every invoice, add the labor of calculating and writing these amounts in a heavy expense. Sales tax is due in Canada at the j end of the month following that I in which the sales are made. The tax on March sales, for instance, ! is due April 30. Manufacturers I and wholesalers say they do not' commonly called from their custo- j mers in that time and so have to pay sales tax with borrowed money j bearing interest. A third defect they find in the tax is its complexity. The sales tax law includes ten closely printed pages covering special provisions, exemptions and deductions. | These are constantly made more complicated by fresh regulations, ! and they are interpreted different- j ly by local officers, causing endless confusion. GARDEN INSTITUTE IS HELD AT LIBRARY* Realty Board, County Farm Service Sponsor Library Event. Sponsored by the Indianapolis ; Real Estate Board and the Marion county agricultural extension service, a garden institute were to be held today in Cropsey hall of the : Indianapolis public library. Sessions are scheduled for 2:30 and 8. Speaker is to be R. B. Hull, assistant professor in the horticulture j department of Purdue university, who will discuss lawns, their care and landscaping. He will be introduced by Clarence E. Henry, Marion county farm agent. The library will co-operate with a display of garden books. CAB DRIVER, GROCERY CLERK ARE HELD UP ‘•Fares*’ Take Taxi; Gunmen Loot Store and Cash Register. Bandits robbed a taxi driver and a grocery clerk today, escaping with $34, according to police. Two bandits brandished revolvers at Arthur Embry, clerk in a grocery store at 728 South West street, this morning, and looted a cash register of S2B. Harry T. Skinner, 43, of 3433 East Tenth street, cab driver, reported to police that two “fares’’ robbed him of $6 and forced him out of the cab near Fifty-fourth street and College avenue, early today. FOOT EXHIBIT PLANNED Demonstration to Be Held Friday at Seulean’s Shoe Store. O. T. Watkins, representative ot the manufacturers of Dr. Scholl shoes, will give a demonstration of foot comfort Friday and Saturday at Seulean's shoe store, 2214 Shelby stret.

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CABBAGE SOUP FOR JOBLESS ‘Grow-a-Garden’ Plans Are Pressed in State. Cabbage soup, staple fare, of the j Russian peasant, will be on the | menu of the unemployed and needy Hoosiers if the “grow-a-garden” plan of Hoover’s unemployment relief commissioner in Indiana is carried out. Warren Fairbanks is the Hoover commissioner and has obtained the co-operation of Dr. John H. Hewitt, head of the state relief, in the garden making plan. Under orders from Governor Harry G. Leslie, state institutions are to supply cabbage and tomato plants for the unemployed to cultivate on vacant lots donated by property owners. Hewitt said the state has been divided into nine districts, with institutions available assigned to provide the plants in each district. He, also asserted that Bicknell miners had declared they would not grow gardens and that relief will be withdrawn if they do not. When the wheat for the needy will be given the state by the federal government remains problematical, since no official request has been made through the Red Cross, Hewitt said.

Heat's On How Postmaster Clancy Was Subjected to an Embarrassing Hour.

POSTMASTER LESLIE D. CLANCY has his embarrassing moments, and he revealed today one he’d been keeping se- j cret for a couple of weeks. Clancy’s son John, 13, a pupil at school No. 66, has been studying civics and his interest in court procedure mounted to the fever point. A week ago last Saturday John visited his father at the federal building so the postmaster could initiate him into the intricies of federal procedure. Postmaster and son took their seats in the courtroom. Two men were standing before Judge Robert C. Baltzell. “You two postmasters are sentenced to Bedford jail,” said Baltzell. “You for sixty days, and you for thirty.” He waved the men over to the United States marshal. The men had pleaded guilty to postal embezzlement. John Clancy looked at his father. The postmaster was busy mopping his brow. JOSLIN ENDS YEAR AS HOOVER’S PRESS AID “It's Hard Life,” Says Public Relations Man, but He Likes It By United Press WASHINGTON, March 16.—Theodore Joslin, who “used to be a newspaper man himself,” today celebrated his first year as press relations secretary to President Hoover. Joslin succeeded George Akerson, now an executive in a motion picture organization. “It’s a hard life,” he commented at the end of the first year, but he likes it.

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C. V. Sorenson, Official of Insull Corporation, to Speak at De Pauw. By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., March 16. —Second of the series of special lectures on public utilities will be given Thursday night in the chemistry lecture room of De Pauw university. Speaker will be C. V. Sorenson, general sales manager for the Public Service Company of Indiana, with headquarters in Indianapolis. Sorenson will represent the side of the utility, the Public Service company being a holding company in control of the North Indiana Power Company, which serves the territory in which Greencastle is located and is an Insull holding. Sorenson will talk on “Utility Management.” A large crowd turned out to hear B. B. Shively of Marion, two weeks ago, when he spoke on the utility question from standpoint of the legislator. Shively is co-author of the Shively-Spencer bill, which regulates utilities in Indiana. Third lecture in the series will be April 7, when Howell Ellis, member of the public service commission, is scheduled to speak. He will talk on “The Problems of Utility Management,” giving the viewpoint of the commission that must apply law to both utilities and the communities concerned. Fourth and last talk will be by the mayor of some Indiana city that owns its own utilities. Mayor John W. McCarty of Washington is being considered by Professor W. A. Neiswanger for this concluding talk. Professor Neiswanger arranged this series for students in his classes in economics, and the meetings are open to the public. Fred L. O’Hair, president of the

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Central National bank here, will introduce Sorenson Thursday night. The address starts at 7:30. TAX SURVEY PUSHED Legislative Group Preparing Data for 1933 Session. Indiana’s tax survey commission, authorized by the 1929 legislature, will continue its study of the taxation problem unmindful of the recommendations of the so-called “citizens’ committee.” Another meeting of the commission is scheduled for next Monday at L. S. Ayres & Cos. directors’ room, according to Senator Joe Rand Beckett, secretary. Beckett holds the commission is charged only with making recommendations to the 1933 legislature, and is not to consider any special session proposals. The Monday session is to be devoted to plans for cutting the governmental costs. Senator Alonzo H. Lindley (Rep.), Kingman, farm bloc leader in the senate, will give his views on possible governmental economy. PLAN CHILD HEALTH DAY Churches, Schools, P.-T. A. Groups to Assist Observance May 1. Indiana will observe Child Health day May 1, with the aid of churches, schools and parent-teacher organizations. State schools will observe the day either the week before May 1 or the week following. Churches plan their observance for May 1 because it falls on Sunday. ARTSAYS: be g in to JP jj think seriousW <****>„ ') ly of shedl ding the \ “woolies.” A j Baseball gosd lip- J sip is getting warmer and "ilk' •sl warmer and it wont be ART ROSE long now. * M On top of that the weatherman promises warmer weather so go next door and borrow the tools you loaned the neighbor last fall. # n n Canned foods exempted from proposed sales tax. Probably on the supposition that the can-opener is a necessity in the American home, and the opening of a can a sufficient tax on the nerves. a u u The Chief Tire Changer ROSE TIRE CO„ Inc. 365 S. Meridian St. MILLER TIRE DISTRIBUTORS

GETS SON. 7, DRUNK; GIVEN COURTMERCY Convicted, Father Escapes Penalty Because of Loss *of Hands in Accident. A father whose footsteps wandered from the "straight and narrow” in more ways than one, today stood convicted of child neglect because he gave liquor to his 7-year-old son. He is Henry McMann, 4500 West Vermont street, sentenced by Russell Newgent, juvenile court referee, after evidence showed McMann had a “girl friend” and gave his son booze out of a tincup. A sixty-day sentence and $1 fine against McMann were suspended by Newgent when it was revealed McMann recently lost both hands in a punch press accident. Appearing before the court Tuesday, McMann did not deny the accusations of his wife Edith. She said her husband had given ! their son liquor in a cup several i times. On some of these occasions, ; the boy became intoxicated, i Mrs. McMann further linked Mc- ! Mann with a secret love affair. | She found a pencil in liis pocket bearing the initials of Miss Anna Mann, she testified. The court suspended a thirty-day sentence against Miss Mann on a conviction for contributing to delinquency. Mrs. McMann, still without denial from her husband, told the court McMann had kicked the boy. Mrs. McMann said she had protested several times against her husband giving booze to the child. “This is the worst kind of child neglect,” Newgent said. “Because of your physical condition, I dare not send you to jail. Otherwise, you would have to serve a sentence.”

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BRITISH OATH IS VALERATARGET Ireland’s New Leader Acts to Alter Allegiance. By United Press DUBLIN, March 16.—Ireland's republican leader and president, Eamon De Valera, has made his first move to eliminate the oath of allegiance which Irishmen take to the British crown. De Valera announced definitely in the Dali that he intended to remove the oath from the Free State constitution. He said his government is fully conscious of the responsibility for preservation of law and order in attempting to break away completely from Great Britain. ’ "We want every section of the community to be able to send representatives to this assembly without their consciences being coerced,” the president said. “In order to do that, we propose to remove the oath. “We have the mandate of the peo-

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