Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1939 — Page 18

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oll Shows Voters Oppose Lowering ~ Present U. S. Income Tax Exemptions If Public Set Tax Rate

An Institute of Public Opinion survey shows that the public is largely unaware of how much income tax is paid by persons in the highest brackets at’ the present time, and that if the public were setting the tax rates the $100,000-a-year man might pay considerably less than he does. | . The Institute asked a cross-section of voters in all parts of the United States how much they thought families earning $5000, $10,000 and $100,000 were now paying and how much they thought they should pay in Federal and State income taxes combined. . | “ The following figures show how their estimates compare with maximums now being paid, as based on Federal and New York State rates: ”

Feel Charitable Toward Men in Higher “Brackets, Although Having Little Idea of What They, Pay.

By GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Institute of Public Opinion NEW YORK, March 14—With another Federal income tax deadline just around the corner, tomorrow, a nation-wide checkup by the American Institute of Public Opinion offers some comfort for the large group of wage earners who are not paying any tax af present. “The survey shows that the public in general is overwhelmingly against lowering the present tax exemptions of $1000 for a single man and $2500 for a married man. That means that such proposals as Senator LaFollette’s (Prog. Wis.) to tax single men earning an average

Married Man With Two Children and Who Earns - $5000 $10,000 $100,000 veeeee $100 $400 = $9000 150 500 9000: 90 590

. What Public Thinks He Pays What Public Thinks He Should Pay...... What Man Pays NOW.....ccocceesccccess

of $15 to $20 a week and married men earning $40 to $50 a week has not gotten very far with John Public at least. : The checkup reveals that the public is charitably inclined toward the man in the highest brackets, too. «

While the average American has very little idea of what the upperbracket citizen is already paying in income taxes, the survey shows that, if it were up to the public to set the rates, the $100,000-a-year man would pay about one-fourth of what he does.

‘Hard Enough to Live on $20’

The Institute asked a Cross-secy tion of the voting population from Coast to Coast and from North to South whether they thought persons in the income brackets affected by the LaFollette proposal should pay a tax. The actual vote was:

“Do you think a single man earning $15 to $20 a week should be required to pay a Federal income tax?”

Yes Sssavsessssevssnes ello No ceesscsesscsssnises 88%

“Do you think a married man earning $40 to $50 a week should be required to pay a Federal income tax?” Yes sess sissaswereves 30% No sess essnssesvsnses 01%

The answers have a bearing on tax discussions going on quietly in Washington. President Roosevelt has announced that the New Deal will avoid passing any new tax increases this year, but Treasury Department tax experts have been in long and careful study over the problem of raising additional revenue and the LaFollette plan is one of the proposals on their dosier. The most frequent comment of today’s voters is that “it’s hard enough to live on $20 a week.”

Favor Combined Tax “The voters’ consensus is that 8 married man with two children who earns $5000 a year should pay $150 in Federal and State income taxes combined, however. This is about two-thirds more than such an individual now pays on the average. In New York State, for example, a married man who has two children and who earns $5000 a year now pays not more than $90 in State and Federal taxes combined. The other rates the public would set are $500 for persons earning $10,000 a year and $9000 for those earning $100,000, the survey shows. In a State like New York, however, a man earning $100,000 may pay as much as $40,000 of it to the - “State and Federal governments. +And here’s the rub for the man earning $10,000: While the public thinks he pays about $400 in taxes and thinks he should pay about $500, he is now actually paying up to "bout $500.

~~ NORTH SIDE GROUP TO FIGHT TRUCKS

Civic Unit to Be Formed To Oppose Lifting Ban.

A North Side civic association to oppose the proposed repeal of the ordinance prohibiting trucks on North Side streets is to be formed tonight at a meeting at the American Legion Hall, 61st St. and College Ave. Mrs. Carl Foltz is acting as secretary of the formative group. Other { leaders in the movement are Eail Hessler, Mrs. M. M. Phares and O. Wo Armstrong. Opponents of (the repealer claim that to open the streets to trucks will result in a traffic hazard to children.

TRUCKMEN WARNED ABOUT SOLID TIRES

Truck operators were warned today by T. A. Dicus, State Highway Commission chairman, that a 1937 law regulating the use of solid tires on highways in Indiana became effective two months ago. Under the law, solid tires are barred except on farm implements, when they are not driven at a speed in excess of 10 miles an hour.

14 DIE IN FRENCH WRECK

PARIS, March 14 (U. P.).— Fourteen persons were killed and 30 injured when the Paris-Toulouse express was derailed today near Chateauroux after running into a freight car.

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Do you think a single man earning $15 to 320 a week should be required to pay a Federal in‘come tax? : YES ....scavins ssn 12% NO ...cv.onsivncrtneih: 383%

FARM BUREAU PIGKS 2 FOR CHICAGO MEETING

Livestock Association Will Convene March 22-23.

A. A. Tomey, Washington. and H. L. Royce, Rockville, both livestock marketing representatives of theIndiana Farm Bureau, Inc. plan to attend the annual meeting of the National Livestock Marketing Association at Chicago March 22-23, it was announced today. Mr. Tomey is a director of the national organization. “The efforts of the organization at this time are to improve the quality of livestock and then strive for a premium price on this stock,” Mr. Tomey said. “Already the movement has been started in southeastern Indiana to standardize certain types of hogs which will produce the kind of meat cuts demanded by the buying public. To do this, organizations have been set up by farmers residing in certain communities who will use types of breeding stock agreed upon by the membership. By this method it is hoped that these communities will become known by the kind of hogs produced and, consequently, packers who have built a trade on this type of meat will respond by premium prices.” .

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Purdue Professor. to Give First Talk Friday.

Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, March 14— The first lecture in. the Wabash College series on marriage relations will be given Friday by Prof. O. F. Hall of Purdue University, it was announced today. Professor Hall will speak at 7:30 p. m. on the “Sociology of Marriage” at the old Wabash College chapel. Dr. Waldo Furgason, Wabash faculty member, will speak next week on the “Biology of Marriage.” Prof. E. G. Stanley Baker of

Wabash will give a second lecture on the same subject March 30 or 31. Dr. E. V. Hahn, Indianapolis neurologist, will speak on the “Psychological Problems of Marriage” April 19. Other lecturers and their topics have not been announced.

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Sinclair Lewis Suggests Hutchins to Succeed FDR

. CHICAGO, March 14. (U.P.) —Lloyd Lewis, sports editor and drama critic of the Chicago Daily News, today had turned political reporter to tell what Sinclair Lewis had to say about 1940 Presidential prospects ‘after a tour of 29 Midwest cities. He reported the Nobel prize-winning novelist in. part as follows:

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“President Hutchins of the University of Chicago is the man best equipped to succeed Mr. Roosevelt. I'd like to see the Democrats run him and the Republicans nominate Governor Stassen = of Minnesota. Then the country: would be safe

| whoever wins. .

“Governor Stassen, however, won't be eligible in 1940. He is only 31. He’s the man for 1944. Big; calm, practical, progressive, with the ‘most. amazing eyes I ever saw-—the eyes of & man who can calm anybody or any situation.” “Dewey (District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey of New York) will not be the next President. At a' distance people feel that he is too light and! inexperienced . . . to get a Tammany leader now is about as dif-

dier in 1900. “The people of the midlands, as I make out their thoughts,” Mr. Lewis said, “think the New Deal is in the

.. . they want the reforms kept, but administered more economically.”

"SO SORRY, JUDGE!

DETROIT, March 14 (U. P)— Gust Damas, 47, enraged because he was removed. from WPA rolls, methodically tossed a marketbasketful of bricks through the office window of a municipal judge. Arrested later, Damas said he thought the office was the City

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WABASH KAPPA SIGS INDUCT 2 FROM HERE

Times Special ; CRAWFORDSVILLE, - March 14. '—Two Indianapolis students at Wabash College are among the ‘who have : been initiated into Kappa Sigma Fraternity. , They are Thomas R. Drybrough, | 5760 'N. Pennsylvania St, and Martin C. Wirth Jr., 5741 N. Penn-

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OHIOAN TO DISCUSS STAINED GLASS ART

Dayton. Expert on Subject Due at Museum Friday.

Siegfried Weng, Dayfon Art Institute director, is to discuss “The Art of Stained Glass” at 8:30 p. m. Friday ‘before members of the Art Association of Indianapolis at the John Herron Art Museum. : Mr. Weng, who founded a stain glass department at the Dayton institution, is to illustrate his lecture with slides ' made from original stained glass windows. Mrs. Frederic H. Sterling is in charge of the program.

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Mother of Crawfordsville Girl Scout Is Employed In Indianapolis. Times Special

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