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Of SEWARD, ALASKA
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INCOME TAX LESS.
In the case of most persons who pay income tax
the rate on last year’s income is just half what it
was in 1923, or 2 per cent on net incomes up to $4,
000, after exemptions have been deducted.
Exemptions for those with net incomes up to
$4,000 are the same as before, $2,500 for the head
of a family and $400 additional for each child un
der 18 years of age.
Blanks have been or will shortly be mailed to
all persons who paid income tax last year and the
returns must be in the hands of collectors of inter
nal revenue by March 15. Those who have become
liable for income tax the past year for the first time
should apply for blanks, as failure to receive a
blank form does not relieve you from responsibility
and a penalty if you fail to file a return.
Although, as this is written, the publicity clause
of the present law has not been passed on by the Su
preme Court, the lower courts have held that pub
lication of amounts paid by taxpayers is legal.
So, unless that part of the law be repealed, the
amount of tax paid by anyone is available lor the
information of the public.
T1101JG1 ITLESS CRUELTY
A recent news dispatch told of Teresa Corona,
14 years old and six feet tall, who ran away from
school and home to get away from the ridicule of
her fellow pupils. Thoughtlessly her associates have
made her the victim of a heartless tragedy.
It was hard enough to bear the self-conscious
ness and embarrassment which the child’s abnor
mal size made inescapable, but those who made her
burden greater by their derision were upspeakablv
cruel.
Thousands of instances like this occur, where
some physical defect or peculiarity of sensitive per
sons is used as a pretext to torture them with unkind
remarks which cut to the quick. AYe read some
time ago of a young girl who finally committed sui
cide because she had been driven to desperation by
ridicule of her family name, which had a sugges
tive meaning to evil-minded persons.
Children will seize upon such opportunities to
harass their associates, sometimes in a spirit of fun,
but often with vicious intent. While most parents
would disapprove of such conduct, many do not take
the trouble to explain to their children how really
cruel it is, or appeal to their better natures to in
duce them to refrain from it.
Unecessary infliction of mental suffering is as
bad or worse than the infliction of physical pain
and children should be earnestly admonished to
avoid , both forms of cruelty.
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MORE ABOUT ROADS
We read in different newspapers recently of pro
posed new routes into the Gulkana and Chisana dis
tricts at present served from McCarthy, which shows
that other towns are alive and aware to the advan
tages to be derived from being the supply center
for the outlying mining district.
We believe litat McCarthy is the logical sup
ply center for these districts and are aware that
the newspaper talk of other routes is mere propagan
da to boost their own stock in view of the new ap
propriation asked for by Colonel Steese to expend
on such projects in this part of the country. But
logical or not the fact remains that the best road or
trail regardless of distance or convenience wdll take
the preference. Give any packer the preference
of a good road or trail tva> hundred miles long and
an almost imj sable route one hundred miles long
both leading to the same point and see which he
will take.
The interests concerned in these districts look
to McCarthy as their supply center. The project
in the White River district, headed by ex-Governor
Wiliam Sulzer, turns naturally to McCarthy but if
some other points beats us to the road there inter
ests have no other choice than to turn there for their
supplies and operating base.
Why then, does McCarthy continue to idle and
let this opportunity slip from her grasp to strength
en her position in the district. The proposed road
has already been well commenced and the bridge
over the Nizina is well nigh completed and the only
logical outcome now is to continue the route from
this point either in the form of a wagon road or, in
view of scarcity of funds, a good pack trail. Other
wise the money already spent to this point is dead
loss.
Where is our McCarthy business club? The
judicious expenditure of a little time and money
right now will come back a hundredfold within
the next few years.
The time is ripe now and delay is dangerous,
so let us waste no time in getting into this matter
and protecting our interests. It is the “go get-it”
plan that will win the day in this case, not the “wait
and hope” system.—McCarthy News.
DEBT SITUATION IMPROVES.
A hopeful note is seen in the impending negotia
tions over the French war debt. After a few days
of unofficial controversy, apparently induced by a
trial balloon sent up by French officials, it looks as
if the threatened dispute might be ironed out. The
reason is France’s apparent willingness to recognize
the debt and make some move toward meeting it.
When the hint was given that Paris might seek
to repudiate the obligation incurred during the war
—on the ground that the United States should pay
in money what it failed to pay in fighting power
during the early part of the war, and that the allies
had scaled down German reparations far below what
France had expected—it looked as if a protracted
controversy that might affect adversely the econo
mic situation might develop. French officials have
been making similar representations for several
years, and the fact that no provision was made in
the budget for meeting interest or principal on the
debt, gave color to the reports that it was Franc/’s
intention to let the United States whistle for its
money.
Now the finance minister of the French govern
ment has entered into unofficial negotiations with
Secretary Mellon regarding the debt. A morato
rium of ten years is asked for and certain sugges
tions as to France’s ability to pay are set out. The
note is regarded, not as actual negotiations for a set
tlement, but as the basis for negotiations.
France will find the United States to be a le
nient creditor. At no time has this country offi
cially intimated to Paris that it was time to begin
payment. But members of congress at various
times have openly pointed to France’s apparent dis
inclination to begin negotiations and expressed the
op:nion that at least some of the interest on the
700.000,000 indebtedness should be paid The
French government has known the state of public
sentiment in this country through expressions of the
press and spokesmen in congress. Undoubtedly
it hoped to find a vigorous sentiment in favor of seal
ing dovn the debt according to the “pooling” plan
sugested abroad, but that it has been tatally
missing. Yet there has been a general fading that
France should be accorded easy terms of payment as
well as a moratorium of reasonable duration during
a period ot recuperation.
The situation has been somewhat further tangled
by the whole subject of inter-allied debt, for Great
Britain lias let it be known that if France funded
its debt to the United States it should make some
anangements for paying what it owes in London.
The British also have intimated that they would look
with official disfavor on an arrangement whereby
the United States gave France much lighter terms
than were provided for in the British refunding
plan. Now Great Britain makes it clear that leni
ency tow/ rd France will not be disapproved by Lon
don.
The encouraging feature of the situati >n is that
France aparently is willing to begin negotiations
for a settlement, thus proving in a rather belated
way that it does not intend to permit the increasing
charges of bad faith to be sustained.
The iconoclasts who are trying to rob Franklin
of his kite and Washington of his hatchet will be te'I
ing us next that Cock Robin still lives and Charley
Ross never lef thome.
There are 1,801,296 employes on the railroads
of the United States. Wow! What an orchard of
plum trees that would make under government own
ership.
Join the Chamber of Commerce. Help Seward.
Liberty Theatre
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Sunday night will have the opportunity to see
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THE 10 MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN
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AND A ONE REEL COMEDY
Fort Omaha Soldiers
Killed by Grocer
(By Associated Press)
OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 26.—Arthur
Fay, 21, of Fort Omaha, and Norman
Kelly, 19, of Fort Des Moines, both
enlisted men in the United States
army, stationed at Fort Omaha, near
this city, were shot and killed tonight
when caught by a grocer robbing his
wife and a man customer.
The grocer entered his store and
found one soldier with a gun holding
up the couple, while the other went
through the cash drawer. He pulled
a pistol he was carrying and killed
them both.
Mrs. Grace Brook, formerly of Sew
ard, is an applicant for the postmas
tership of Fort Yukon.
Miss Elsie Leslie will give a show
er tonight in honor of Miss Marjorie
Neville, whose engagement to Mr. C.
O. Thatcher was announced Saturday.
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Yes! no autos
today!
But you auto see our shipment of fresh
Goods that auto satisfy the most auto
cratic appetite in Seward.
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Telephone Main 65
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Look them over and see what they will do for
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Terms of $30.00 down and the balance in 12
monthly payments will be made to responsible
home owners. The cleanest and most economical
heater on the market; an ornament to th e home
SEWARD MACHINE SHOPS
PLUMBING AND SHEET METAL WORKS