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Show NATIONAL CAPITAL II AFFAIRS B Poor Uncle Sam Has Well-Off Nephews IMCOME TAXES F PAID here: rfVOT- to $300.000 ; 2.0S3 of $100,000 to ?150,-j 000; 13,320 of $50,000 to $100,000; 37,-177 of $25,000 to $50,000; 1G2.4S5 of $10,000 to $25,000; 43S.S51 of $5,000 to $10,000; 1.1S0.4SS of $3,000 to $5,000; 1,500,741 of $2,000 to $3,000.. and 1,024,S72 of $1,000 to $2,000. Wives making separate returns from husbands numbered 5S.534 ; single men, heads of families, 862,797 ; single women, heads of families, 8S.595 ; single sin-gle men, nil other, 1,002,277; single women, all other, 301,000. New York filed the greatest number of returns, 083,085, or 12.7S1 per cent ' of the total. The amount of net Income In-come reported by New York was $3,-43G,?43,179, $3,-43G,?43,179, or 17.81 per cent of the total, and the tax paid was $309,792,-351, $309,792,-351, or 31.49 per cent of the total. The per capita income for New York, according to the population of tho census for 1920 was $330.89. ! Individuals with net incomes of $1,000,000 or more mounted from 60 in 1914 to 120 in 1915, and then to 206 in 1916. From that year they have decreased annually, there having been 141 In 1917, 07 In 1918 and only 65 In 1919. f The net Income of individuals In th class from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000 is given as $41,008,483; from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 tis $22,106,906, und $2'-000,000 $2'-000,000 and over as $S8,874,856. WASHINGTON. The government obtained $1,209,000,000 in revenue rev-enue from personal income taxes in 1919 an increase of $141,900,000 compared com-pared with 191S according to a preliminary pre-liminary report by Internal Revenue Commissioner Clair. The commissioner's report showed there were 5,33S,700 personal returns Bled In the calendar year 1919, representing repre-senting a growth of 907,646 from 1918, while the total amount of net Income reported for 1919 was $18,859,000,000, an Increase of $3,934,000,000 over the previous year. The average net income per return for 1919 was $3,724.05, the average amount of tax $238.08, and the average aver-age tax rate 6.39 per cent There were 65 returns of net Income In-come of $1,000,000 and over; 189 of $500,000 to $1,000,000 ; 425 of from $300,000 to $500,000; 1,864 of $150,000 "Small Regular Army in Time of Peace"' IN CONFORMITY with President Harding's Interpretation of the army reorganization act of June 4, Secretary of War Weeks has instructed instruct-ed General Pershing, chief of staff, to employ all the available resources of the military establishment to organize, organ-ize, train, and otherwise develop the National Guard and reserve corps Into In-to the effective forces. Under the terms of this order no skeleton regiments will be maintained In the regular army, but the 150,000 men allowed by congress will be concentrated con-centrated in fully manned, effective units, while surplus units will be placed "out of commission" and the surplus officers assigned to the organization organ-ization and training of the National Guard and reserve corps. "An examination of the statute," says the Weeks order, "shows that the new law is based on the idea that in the future, as in the past, great wars are to be fought, in the main, by armies composed of citizen soldiers. We still have the conception of a small regular army in time of peace. "But whereas in the past the necessary nec-essary citizen forces have been com pletely extemporized or materially re-1 organized upon the occurrence of an emergency, the new law provides that) they shall be allocated by territory,) that their officers and men shall be! assigned to local units, and that as funds become available provision shalli be made for the training of these officers offi-cers and men. j "As the law provides for a military expansion by reinforcement of thai regular army from the organized citl- zen forces, the President directs that these forces shall be developed to the! fullest extent and that the maximum,1 practicable number of carefully selected select-ed officers of the regular army be em-' em-' ployed for that purpose." Query: Does He Really Carry a Gun? after Braun. Women spectators shrieked. Mrs. Johnson was the first to act. She threw herself upon her husband, holding his right arm, screaming: "No, you must not do that." A second later Representative Peters Pet-ers of Maine, ekairman of the com mitte, tackled Johnson football fash-ion. fash-ion. Two more of his colleagues, Representatives Rep-resentatives Flood of Virginia and Luhring of Indiana, rushed to his assistance. as-sistance. Johnson, struggling with th fury of a madman, was on the vergn of shaking off his captors, when a husky captain of marines went to their aid. Meanwhile Sergeant-at-Arms Joa Rogers started to lead Braun out o the room. Johnson cursed with the)., vehemence of a pirate. "Am I not going to have a chance) to settle with that ?" he shouted. "Won't this committee let me punls him; that flag-hating V The committee and Mra. Johnson and the marine captain held him tight. As he left the hearing room, Johnson said : "I would have killed him In ani other second If I had not been held back." VIOLENT hostilities between Representative Rep-resentative Ben Johnson of Kentucky Ken-tucky and Charles A. Braun, brother of Grover C. Bergdoll, the draft slacker, slack-er, broke up a Bergdoll investigation committee in riotous disorder. Hostilities Hos-tilities burst from a tranquil sky while Representative Johnson was questioning question-ing Braun, who occupied the witness ; stand. Johnson didn't like the way Braun answered questions. "Yoaj aren't telling the truth," remarked re-marked Johnson. Braun rose from his chair, leaned across the table, looked Johnson in the eye, and in even, measured meas-ured tones said : "You are a liar." Johnson leaped to his feet, reached into his pocket as if about to draw a weapon, and started around the table Need of Naw Now Airplane Carriers THE. destruction by army air bombers bomb-ers of the German dreadnaught Oestfrlesland has convinced leading military and naval strategists that control of the air is now the most urgent netkl of our national defense. The best of these experts, even those most enthusiastic and forward looking In their claims for aircraft, do not concede that the battleship, as the fighting bulldog of the sea, has been made obsolete, but they do insist vigorously vig-orously that battleships, as the strong right arm of national defense, are going go-ing to be worse than handicapped unless un-less they can be accompanied to sea with sufficient aircraft to drive off enemy en-emy bombing planes. "Get airplane carriers and get them quickly," exclaimed one prominent r-fval officer who witnessed the sinking sink-ing of the Oostfrieslar.d. "England already al-ready has six airplane carriers," he -jntlnued. "Japan is getting two. The United States has none, except the old oilier Jupiter now being turned into me, and unless congress changes its nind, will possess no adequate careers car-eers for some time to come. "In the naval appropriation bill con-;ie's con-;ie's refused to heed the lvcomnicml;;-ion lvcomnicml;;-ion for two airplane carriers. Th:'. vas before the bombing of the OeM frlesland demonstrated the hard, coldj fact that the battleship can be quickly sunk with heavy bombs dropped from the air, and that the dreadnaught can be disposed of by dropping bombs inta the water, without even hitting th ship. The airplane carrier, a glgantH naval vessel, larger and speedier than any warship afloat, fast as the det stroyer, and carrying a cargo of many planes pursuit, reconnoissance, and bombing is regarded as the best way to meet this new aircraft bombinj menace to the battleship. Those in charge of naval aviatiot plans think t lie navy should be pro, vided with eight tiirplane carriers,' each to carry SO planes ready for iiii slant action, and 80 in knockdown eon ilition, ready to he assembled at once, Each carrier would cost $28,000,000. j |