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CHINA TRYING BIG PACIFIC MAIL PROBLEM TASK OF YEAR i f fl s Postal Administration Experiencing Harding as Begin Estim&te of Governfor Result of War - en--fcTjs- sed '' bull’s eye” 1 On the treasury’s guess of what revenues will be in 1931 depends whether the administration will ask congress to continue te temporary ope per cent tax reduction authorised last year on income taxes paid in 1930 This cut aggregated divided between corporations and individuals 'The treasury’s ‘‘$180000000 guess” will be transmitted to congress in report on Secretaryay Mellon’s annual in December the Fdr the last fiscal year the treas- uty originally estimated a surplus of $225000000 which was reduced to $145000000 by the tax reduction The actual surplus at close of the year was $184000000 or $39000000 more than the treasury’s estimate the i Taking Into consideration fact that total government revenues are close to $4000000000 annually treasury experts said they believed a gbess that was within $39000000 of tie correct figure was remarkably accurate Their estimate of reve- rtties was only $11000000 off as compared with actual receipts this JThe business depression year will undoubtedly cause a reduction In income tax payments to the The problem before pbvernment tpe treasury now is: Will this re- cmction be so low as to preclude tax cut? continuing the temporary i In other words it is the treasury’s jbb to estimate how seriously business profits have been hit by the and to guess the probable Vifend during the remainder of 1930 -- $180-0000- 00 first-Mond- 2 3 ! j de-pi-ess-ion a3sd PROBLEMS UP TO SOLVE HER By CECIL OWEN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON — (UP) — United - Stajc§" treasury officials are now in one of the most difficult casks they have ever faced Estimating the government’s prob- -j abl: revenues during the next fiscal year fs an annual duty at aboutthis time but this year the treasury’s j?b is more complicated than 'ever before Criticism has been directed at the -tijsasury in the past for alleged in-A accuracy of some of its estimates high official said today if the treas-of ury comes within $50000000 guessing the surplus this time it will be “hitting the bull’s eye within a By RANDALL GOULD United Press Staff Correspondent NANKING— (UP)— Of all the government enterprises in China the postal service is generally considered to be the best managed Yet according to the ministry of communications the postal administration is experiencing as many hardships as the country’s other means of communication today Ever since the postal service was introduced it has been in the hands of foreigners After the establishment of the national government at Nanking the ministry cf communications established a general postal administration with a view to placing the entire administrative power in the hands of Chinese The former general postal administration at Peiping was abolished as soon as the nationalist army entered the city A step toward ' diminishing the number of foreign employes was a drastic reduction in the salary of high officers and an increase in salary for employes of lower rank Training more Chinese for the service has been another step along thik line The Chinese postal administration is facing a particular difficult problem at present Contrary to ordinary conception the postal revenue is derived mainly from the parcel post service instead of from first-clas- s? mail matter Formerly when facilities in the counthe possession of Leon D Hill liv- Ming dynasty by the Emperor transportation were the parcel post degood try was Wu T’ai Tsu title whose near here Hung ing: a did 1368-9’thriving business partment 9 : Hill received the curio from a A W In China like But everything Printed from wooden blocks on It is almost paralyzed else Is now Washington D Cn friend who wrote 4 that it was found by American sol- paper made from the bark' of a McPherson Kas C O tree and illustrations Boxer rebellion — diers the Aspegren mulberry For the during Sweden VISBY (UP) dishimself $1 for note are fined on a the Chinese in been secreted judge easily police writings having first time In 600 years a new church overparklng and “warned himself tinguishable will be erected on the Swedish is- image The note is for “one kwan” against a second offense 'Thenotewaissueddurintl land of Gothland in the Baltic sea This island with over 50000 inhabitants has nearly 100 churches but none is less than six centuries old The new temple will be located in Slite and will reproduce the mediaeval architecture ot other ancient churches WASHINGTON— (UP) — Importrans-Pacif- intant problems of terest await the third session of the ic 71st congress of the United States r December 1 China' Japan 'the Philippine islands and the Samoan islands will be especially affected by projects already on the program or expected to be introduced Trade with China has been studied with special reference to the silver situation by a senate relations foreign headed by Senator Pittman Democrat Nevada The committee report Is awaited with much interest Japan’s interest relates particularly to the possibility of some action Intended to relieve grievance arising from the terms of the 1924 Immigration law islands will watch conPhilippine gressional - developments with special interest in the fate of the Hawes-Cuttin- g progressive autonwould bill It omy permit an independence plebiscite five years after passage A special Samoan commission vls- -- sub-commit- tee Ited American Samoa during the reSkirts? cess with a view to formulation of a new organiv act The commission’s report and subsequent action fet will determine whether the islands are to continue under control of the — Now that worn--en- ’s JLONDONf-(Unavy department with local admindresses’ again cover their knees istration by naval officers or be the fair sex is smoking less and given a new form cf civilian gov- more ernment discreetly a tobacco manufacturer here observed “Since the return of the’ long skirt we 'have noticed a reduction Logs in cigaret sales to women” he said “I suppose it is because men have tired of masculine womeni’ A psychologist (added: MURPHY8BORO 111— (UP)— A “Women smokes because it small fortune In walnut logs lost them confidence f By puffing gives at a duiing a blizzard 40 years ago was cigaret they can cover any amount recently recovered from the Big of nervousness ” i Muddy river near here M Several valuable logs in a pile of driftwood were noted by a group of lumbermen and an examination disclosed a huge raft lying several feet below the surface in which it is claimed were over 75000 feet - of choice walnut logs MURPHYSBORO 111— (UP) — Investigation showed the logs to be the property of a Cairo timber-ma- n Henry Borgsmiller aged wholesale who started a raft of them merchant has planted 26000 fruit down the Big Muddy 40 years ago trees during his life time and plans A storm sunk the raft and no trace to plant more “as a nest egg for my ’ of it could be found At that time sons” Borgsmiller tried to raise corn- on they- were worth $40 per thousand without success- but his farm-bu- t feet The logs are in an excellent state he bought more land and planted of preservation peach gpole and 'pear trees Cut y Cigar Smoking P) Fortune in Found in Drifts Merchant Plants 26000 jFruit Trees - PLAIN WHITE OE DECORATED CHINA FREE! 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