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Show j CARDBOARD MONEY. Although the treasury's recommendation recom-mendation that new one mill and one-half cent pieces be authorized (was not acted upon by congress before be-fore adjournment, the state of Missouri Mis-souri has sought to facilitate the payment of its 'one per cent sales tax by using cardboard disks of those denominations. de-nominations. These disks resemble milk bottle leaps, but are v treated with paraffin to make them ' waterproof, and are expected to withstand wear for several sev-eral months. They may be obtained at banks and . most stores, and are used only for paying sales tax dues ;in which frpfctions of a cent are involved. in-volved. In Missouri nc purchase, however small, is exempt from the tax, but a system has been w.rked out whereby the amount payable is approximated within one mill of the" exact amount. On purchase of one to 14 cents the retailer collects one mill; from 15 to 24 cents, Wo mills; from , 25 to 34 cents, threje mills; and so on up to 95 cents to $1.04, on which the tav. is an even one cent. Figurig and paying the small tax on purchases involving frsictions of ja dollar is annoying, and is' said to be tending t increase the use of profane pro-fane language in the "show me" state. But the sttu&tion is being" generally gen-erally accepted good naturedly, in view of the laudteble purposes to which the resulting"! revalue is to he devoted old age pensions, unemplow-i ment relief and for the public schooAs. Some RepublicBiK, however, are seizing the opportunity5 to ridicule the arrangement, and art' writing on the cardboard "money" svich slogans as "Vote G. O. P. and end the sates tax." |