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Show budget bisii. If ou Utp track of all your penjiturei, at the end of a few monthi you tan run your eyci over the IM and the Items that fin be pared down will be 10 obvloui that they fairly slap you In the face. "then, knowing what to cut, you can Imlall a hjjfct appropriate $o much out of every pay envelope for food, so much for clothing, lo much for amusement and the like and make it a poinl to bank or Invest the balance. One Cent Income Tax VOU read about numerous people lendiruj ' Uncle Sam I cent as first quarterly payment on their, income taxes. One stenographer mailed a .money order for a quarter, and with it a basket of stamps she'd paid for on perfume, silk stock ings, theatre ticket! and the like. These stamps represented taxes already paid and, If you kept a receipt, could be deducted from income on which tax was paid, on the principle of not paying taxes on taxes. The Income tax hs taught people to keep books. William H. Edwards, collector of internal revenue for Manhattan, puts it this way: "It's Interesting In-teresting to hear people discussing, trying to re fresh their memories as to the amount of luxury taxes they paid for Instance, the tax on theatre tickets. In one corner of the Corridors I came across a man and woman debating, how much luxury tax they paid on different things in furnishing fur-nishing their home." People, like corporations, are developing a genius for keeping track of itetia they can deduct In paying Income tax. Here li a rare opportunity to learn scientific thrift. Every individual, every family, should go on a |