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Show SMITH FIELD. CACHE COUNTY. UTAH. FRIDAY. FEB. CITIZEN EXPRESSES ON VIEWS TAXES uon for this great tax to our present problem system According a ve (Continued from page 1) go bud to get becaustf of bpnf able to meet their taxes. not terms all this Speaking In general oouW be avoided, our taxes could our e be greatly reduced and our Increased. It much very next legislature meet (1939) would -- pnar a bill, enact It Into law, tbat would place the burden of reve-au- equally on the many and not the few, get the man that tax or no tax pays but very little who man has been the whatever; go for too long, require everyone who earns, to bear bis just assess portion of. the tax burden, the wage earners according to tmrfr famings, whether they earn or little not lose than 1 nru-It certainly would be a ptf mm In the right direction and law In force would with v'nh grfftiy reduce our taxes, Increase the states revenue by millions of and would bring great relief to the farmer, realestate, and business men who an now taxed with a tax which Is grievous to be bone. The time is ripe for a measure, The cost of just wide government should be as cltl-s- en with as every possible apead contributing his share. lfiinn h load, a ahich is unbearable, while burden many thousands of wage earners, salaried people, people who are making considerable money and in many cases easy money, are exfrom taxation empt generally speaking, to give proof of this las statement I win refer you to ou present Utah exemptions laws Any person having an Income of over 11,000 a year after deducting allowable exemptions, must pay i percent cm the first 11,000; 2 per cent on the 2nd $1,000; 3 per cent on the 3rd $1,000 and 4 per cent on the 4th $1,000 and 5 on the 5th $1,000, or on allpercent additional incomes. An exemption of $000 is allowed to single persons, $1,200 to married persons, and $300 for each child. dependent Hie average family in Utah, I believe, would be about 5, then a family of 5 would be entitled to earn $2100 a year and not pay a nlckle in Now If there was a survey made of all the wage earners of our state, excluding no one, which runs way Into the thousands, people working hi the schools, college. universities and other institutions of learning, as teachers and otherwise, also banks, stores. Dour mills, railroad shops, woolen mills, sugar factories, milk factories, pea factories, shoe factories, hospitals, lumber yards. Implement houses, min (gold, silver, copper and coal) smelters, cement plants, salt coaA yards, saw mills, brick yards, printing estVdishments, breweries, laundrys, hotels, drug stores, Iron factories, gas and oil companies, also people working In the Capitol Building, also county, city and state buildings, doctors, TODAY SAT lawyers, and professional men, officers and FEBRUARY 11 and '12 business houses of every name and description and a hundred and one other places too numerous to mention, where men and women are employed, find out what their salaries are, what each person Is earning. WITH BETTE DAVIS AND X believe 1 would be safe hi HENRY FONDA saying that a big majority of the Deep in the heart of 'That wage earners, 80 percent or more, Certain Woman lies the story are not making over $1200, $1500, that all women should know . $1800 and $2100 a year and as a result they are exempt from taxation, dont have to contribute one SUN. to TUES dollar out of their wages for taxes. Yet they derive equal benefits FEBRUARY 13, 14 and 15 with those who are bearing the tax burden. A few of the benefits enjoyed by all are, our free school system, which Includes health protection by way of expert mixes and M. D. attention. WITH DICK. POWELL, FRED Inoculation, vaccination, libraries, WARING AND music, art etc., access to our counHIS PENNSYLVANIANS, ROSEMARY ty hospitals public parks, improved and other LANE, TED HEALY police All out for the Varsity Show jf means of protection so necessary I The musical that turned Am- to the well being of every citizen. erica in'.n a cheering section Since these benefits are enjoyed Gags, Gals, Songs and Dances. by all and since they are mainThe very latest in Romances. tained at the expense of the general tax payer, why should not all who have an income make their WED. TKUR contribution accordingly, and not leave the burden to be borne by FEBRUARY 16 and 17 ON THE STAGE just those who have property. When In most cases their property is already groaning under the load of mortgage and such overhead expenses that is causing the owner to leave his holdings and walk off In despair. ONE HOUR OF FASCINAIt requires money to pay taxes; TING MAGIC PRESENTED why not all pay in proportion to BY MALAN. the money they receive from what ALSO ever source it comes. Three years ago, if the legislaHollywood Cowboy ture, then In session, had repealWith George OBrien and ed the property tax law, and substituted in its stead, income from Cecelia Parker the form and business concerns of CHILDRENS MATINEE every name and description and made provisions for tlie farmer, SATURDAY and all business houses to earn from live farm and oil business FEBRUARY 12 at 2:30 concerns 12, 15. 18 hundred, os Admission 10c. Free candy to 21 hundred dollars (famU who high attend. Second episode or 3. 4, and 5) and exempt, 2, of "The new ily Thrilling Advenall that money from bring nixed tures of Tanas PLUS regular like tlie wage rarner, they would Shrfw one alike. have treated every business and realestate SUNDAY SHOW STARTS AT (Farmers, men. With such a law in vogue J F; M. ANI) RUNS CONTI N- there would not be one form sold midnight. WsTgain Prices to 6 for taxes where there are many m. p. now. and Instead of tlx1 re being Regular Priors after 6 p ,m. 3314 on tlie delinquent tax role, there would only have been post-offic- es, S That Certain Woman Varsity Show hl-wa- Witchery By Candle Light u lolsly until wry. very few. In my home city of Smlthfield, for the year 1937, the rate waa 3B.88 mills oil each dollar, and I am sure that farmers, realestate, and business houses are paying more than their just share of the revenue necessary for governmental purposes. A man with a family of 5 residing here in Smithfleld of whose income is approximately $3100 a year, and after deducting allowable exemptions which would be $2100 daLars, he would only be required to pay taxes on the 81,000, which would be on per cent. One per cent on $1,000 would only be $10 that would be his entire tax on $3100. While the farmer realestate and business houses on $3100, valuations would be $12363 a difference of $113.63 In favor of the wage earner. Now such a law as that X consider to be unjust, unfair, and very unreasonable and should by oil means be repealed. According to our present system of taxation the farmers, real-esta- te and business houses, banks, merchants, mills, railroads, implement houses or companies, jointing establishments, electric power companies, gas and oil companies, mines, sugar factories and a hundred and one other business too enterprises numerous to mention are bearing the burden of taxation, while the high salaried men and women together with a big majority of our wage earners, whose wages are anywhere from $40 to $600 per month and then some, with thousands of dollars during the year, are enjoying tax money, without contributing very much from their earnings, in fact the great majority of wage earners dont pay out of their wages for taxes. Now, therefor, it appears that but few have been bearing the burden of taxation and can no longer carry the ever increasing load. Sweden, where X spent 6 yean, has an income tax law that has been satisfactory and Is now satisfactory after many years of service. Let us fallowe her example and ask our next legislature to enact an inoome tax law to take the place of the property tax, do away with exemptions and let the high salaried university Professor, College Professor, School teachers, railroad men, doctors, lawyers and professional men, including all state, county, city officers, clerks in banks, atones, business houses ef all kinds, in fact all wage earners of every walk of life join in helping to carry the expense of the government. The government is as necessary to them as to the few who pay the bulk of our taxes. The Utah state Income tax, now on our statutes, should be repealed. It is just another tax and does not releave us of the load, enact a law that replaces the property tax and let the farmer pay a percentage of his net production as his only tax as does Sweden and grant the same condition to all other business, exempt no one who earns money, regardless of the nature of employment of the size of the pay check and tlu tax question will be answered. Nw the spirit of the times is to create new offices, continue of school raising tlie salaries teachers, also state, county, and city officials, and in some cases wny in excess of their earning power, and decidedly in excess of wh.it tlie revenue can afford, which makes tlie burden of taxation still greater, and the time inis come when their must be u stop to tlu'FC things, or disaMcr. will conic. Elect men to office that will work for a reasonable wage, men who have tlie courage and to use tlie strictest economy in nil departments of our stale, county amt city governdown and ments. cut expenses when salaries are way in excess of tlu'lr ability to corn, reduce them to a reasonable wage. We also ought to form a tax reform league In every community for the purpose of bringing about a great reform in regard to our system of taxation, that will bring the best results for tlie farmer, realestate and business concerns, and in fact all people in general that will Ingreatly' reduce our taxes and crease the slates revenue. $1-0- SAT. Richard Cromwell Helen Mack IN The Wrong Road AND DICK TRACT SUN. to TUES. 1638. THE SENTINEL SNAPSHOTS White Chinas Scotchman Shaves Expenses Boy Now York Fung Kwok whit boy has returned to his loiter lather, Dr. Fung Dong, who adopted him1 at the ago of four years. Bom Joseph Rinehart, Kaungr, 1 Fung was brought up in China and cannot speak a word of English. Jock Scott, of Greenock, Scotland, who has walked from London, Eng.; to Capetown, South Africa, a distance oi 15,000 miles, is in this country to make a walking tour oi the U- - S. He is shown here as he started his hike lrom New York. City, tak- Famous Hers er Laugh Charles S. Howard's. Seabis-cui- t, the handicap king ot last year, pictured recently at Santa Anita Child a! the It's always tennis weather in balmy Puerto Rico, where Lucille Cope, relu-ge- e from ice and snow, suns herself beside the bean. 0 Silk Stockings Lend Allure to these lovely American shown women discussing their objection to the silk boycott They are among the millions who refuse to join in the campaign lest America be harmed far more than Japan. Experts say that the silk represents only about 10 cents of the purchase price oi a dollar pair oi stockings, the other 90 cents going to American workers aiuf industry -- Spencer Tracy IN Harbsrt Iowa farm boy who won the Gruen award oi a Curvex wrist watch in a nationwide dressmaking contest is sewing his way to fame. Barred from athletics bye heart ailment he plays the baritone horn in the school band. In high school he tw up sewing and now plans to be a dm designer. He made the clothes he It wea lD9iq (hr j&tyrei B. P. NILSON WED. and THUR. tomatic Heaters in our territory has increased more than 720. And sales continue to soar, cs thousands of satisfied customers tell their relatives and friends of the advantages and economy of Electric Water Heating. Once you enjoy the convenience of all the hot water you want at a turn of the tap and fall t old-fashion- Freddie Bartholomew ing a last minute shave with his Packatard Lektro-Shavtached to portable batteries, using, of ail things, a barber shop window tor his mirror. will-pow- er Malts TODAY & H. Jack ed winter. 'spring, summer you'll never go back to methods. Holt Katherine DeMllle let's Talk It Overt Ask 9 about our IN Captain Under Courageous Suspicion 60-da- y trial offer I |