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Show TAX DETECTIVE LATEST TRIAL OFGERMANY BERLIN, March 10. (U.P.) ( "Tux detectives" ure the latest un-i pleasant novelty in Germany. The sauve, well-groomed man at: tlie next table to you in the flashy! wine restaurant, who seems to have an undue interest in how lhany lobj-sters, lobj-sters, oysters and bottles of chain! paign you consume, Is, just as likely as not, one of these detectives. It is the tux detective's duty t spy on prosperous members of thei community, whose tax returns howi-ever, howi-ever, resemble the report of a mark who has just been through the banki ruptcy court. j By the time that the tax detecr tive gets through with this particj-ular particj-ular citizen, this latter party wishes he had adopted George Washington's principles of veracity earlier in Ii feu For the, tax detective stlckH closer than a brother to the tax dodger. ' He finds out how many servants the poor taxpayer has, how many gowns his poverty-stricken wife cau afford, whnt pleasures the poor man himself affords, how large his tailor bills are, how his business goes and whether the big limousine was bought out of this or last year's profits. The next timo the taxpayer walks up to the tax bureau to pay in n small sum for his Income tax, he is politely asked if he hasn't made a mistake. Of course he hasn't, he tells the tax collector. Then the fun starts. What the collector doesn't tell him about his income and outgo for the previous year simply doesn't exist. The near-bankrupt thereupon gen- erally digs deeper into his "deplet- ed" pocket book and pays, lamenting r and cursing the while. z |