Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-04-25 | Page 5 | Blue Laws Would Cost $1,000,000 Each Sunday

BLUE LAWS WOULD COST EACH SUNDAY Tax Reduction of Program Menaces United States Treasury By ns y RALPH n. FORD COUCH United 1 Press Start Correspondent W WASHINGTON April 23 Sunday Sunda Sunday y closing of movies soda fountains to tobacco tobacco tobacco to- to bacco stores and the like as urged by bythe bythe I the blue law enthusiasts would cos cost t the federal government g nearly 1000 a Sunday in reduced taxes It w was estimated here today on the basis o of returns of the internal revenue bureau The loss of a year is a am m mere re drop In the bucket to the government govern govern- government ment which last year ear collected nearly in taxes according to blue law proponents This shortage could easily be made up h h taxes from other sources it is u u ur urA A federal tr nv sv proposed by those behind th the lep- lep 1 I purification movement would cost the government t approximately a n. year rear That Tha t was the amount collected last year on cigarettes cig A law forbidding the sale of tobacco in all forms would mean a a. loss logs of nearly nearh a year In Inthis Inthis Inthis this connection It is disclosed that snuff Inure so much affected by our grandfathers grandfathers grandfathers grand grand- fathers has not yet completely gone out of fashion Snuff taxes last year netted the government near nearly or nearly more than the e year before Taxes totaling about are collected collected collected col col- directly by bv the government on cigarettes soft drink beverages movie admissions and tobacco for each Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day of the year This Tills was estimated on the basis of seventh one-seventh of the total tax collections from these sources with the exception of tobacco From this tilts source only twentieth one-twentieth or 5 per cent was subtracted since It is a assume per that Sunday closing of tot toa to- to t acco shops would not reduce sales In Indirect Indirect indirect direct proportion to the tho period when purchases could not be made Addicts of or the weed it is assumed would stock up on Saturday