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Show mSHNCTpN Where the Income Taxes Are Largest The Central states group ranked next with a total of $245,144,140. The New England states were third with $106, 702,090. The highest per capita Income tax was paid by the people of New York, $27.00; the per capita for the District of Columbia was second, $19.51; Rhode Island, third, $19.33; Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, fourth, $18.01; Illinois ranked ninth with a per capita tax of $13.17. The people of Mississippi paid the smallest per capita, $1.39. Steadily diminishing returns from taxpayers with large Incomes were Indicated In-dicated in the analysis of personal income in-come taxes. The number of Individuals showing net Incomes of $1,000,000 or more for the calendar year 1920 was only 33, as compared with 65 In 1910, 67 In 1918. 141 In 1017 and 200 In 1910. In contrast with the steadily decreasing de-creasing number of individuals reporting report-ing incomes In excess of $100,000 arc the figures for those with Incomes below be-low that amount. Increases have taken place each year In the Incomes ranging between $1,000 and $100,000. Treasury officials point to the figures as bearing out their contention that excessive surtaxes have caused wealthy taxpayers to Invest their funds In tax exempt securities and otherwise evade Income taxation. The smaller Incomes also reflect the decline de-cline In business activity which commenced com-menced during 1920. X7ASHINGTON. In 1020 the peo- " pie of the seven central states-Illinois, states-Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin paid In Income In-come taxes nearly $7,000,000 more than were paid by the people of 30 states In the Southeast, Southwest, West and the Pacific coast. The total amount of income taxes for 1920. paid Into the treasury by all the states and territories of the nation na-tion was $1,075,053,080, of which Illinois Illi-nois contributed $85,400,203, or 7.03 per cent, ranking third In the list of states, New York being first with $280,607,280 and Pennsylvania second with $118,750,089. New York's percentage per-centage wra 26.05 and Pennsylvania's 11.05. By groups, the Eastern states. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia, paid the greatest amount of the total Income tax, $480,681,736. Dr. Abbot's Solar Cooker in the West THE Smithsonian institution, In announcing an-nouncing that Dr. C O. Abbot, assistant as-sistant secretary of the Institution, had left Washington for Mount Wilson. Wil-son. Cal., where a solar observing sta tlon is maintained, said Doctor Abbot would, during the summer, make further experiments with his solar eooker. "This device for cooking, using only the heat of the sun as fuel," said the Institution's announcement, "was brought to a considerable degree of perfection last year, all of the cooking cook-ing for the field party for the whole season being done with it The apparatus consists of a parabolic para-bolic cylindrical mirror with a polished pol-ished aluminum surface, which focuses the sun's rays on a tube filled with mineral oil, which communicates with an Iron reservoir In which are two baking ovens of different temperature. tem-perature. The circulation of the heated all produces a very high temperature tem-perature In the ovens, which Is maintained main-tained for several hours even after the sun has gone down or Is covered by clouds. "With this cooker It was possible to cook meat, vegetables, bread, cereal, etc., and to can fruits and vegetables vege-tables and make preserves. This year it Is hoped to even further perfect the device so that higher oven temperatures tem-peratures and more prolonged periods' of heat storage will be obtained." Doctor Abbot's solar cooker may function all right on the top of Mount Wilson, but It will need a lot of tinkering tinker-ing to work satisfactorily In other parts of the West There's the Imperial Im-perial valley, for Instance, where they fry eggs on stones along the road In shady spots. In Death's valley they have to put the stones In the fire te cool them off or the eggs would be almost al-most Instantly burned to cinders. "All Year National Park" an Oddity In them and probably do a number of other things which this nutlon does not permit in national parks. Including Includ-ing using the streams for Irrigation. Lenvlng the reservation the proposed pro-posed All Year National pnrk Jumps across 15 miles of desert to Include a smnll area of wonderfully plctaresque had lands known as the Mai Pals lava beds. Then It Jumps again, this ttane across 35 miles of desert, to include an area of white gypsum sand which the winds blow back and forth, heaping heap-ing them Into mighty dunes and scooping scoop-ing deep valleys. This region Is known locally as the White Sands of Otero county. Finally the proposed AH Year National Na-tional park takes still another Jump across the desert, this time covering 70 miles, to gather In the "Elephant Butte lake and all the lands appertaining apper-taining thereto acquired or set apart as the site of the Elephant Butte reservoir." res-ervoir." The people have not fought reservoir reser-voir building In national parks for two years to be willing now to throw awsy the fruits of their victories by dragging drag-ging in one already made. POSSIBLY the oddest nutlonul park bill ever offered In congress Is that creating and denning the AH Year National park In southern New Mexico. The proposed park Is to consist of an undetermined number of detached areas within and without the Mesca-lero Mesca-lero Indian reservation. Those within the reservation are to be chosen by the secretary of the Interior and are not to exceed In the aggregate 2,000 acres, or a liiile inure iiuui Uifee square miles. There may be six or seven of these little bits ixtted through the reservation. The bill permits per-mits Indians to hunt and cut timber i Aren't Senators the Knowing People! WHILE debating on the tariff bill the other day several senators found occasion to mention the scantiness scanti-ness of women's clothes. Said Senator Sena-tor Underwood: "In our grandmothers' time the high cost of living had not forced the dresses down to the size of a pocket handkerchief, and they were really wrapped In some clothes that were visible to the eye. "Our grandmothers may not have ridden In automobiles; they may not have been able to buy Florida strawberries straw-berries In the middle of winter. Itat their health was much better. They lived In more comfortable homes. bI-thotigh bI-thotigh those homes may not have ! heen heated by a steiim heiitlng plant. ! They ate better and purer food, nnd they had more of It. Although they may not have hud the latest patterns from Purls and may not have worn as many clothes, when they bought a woolen suit they hoiiKbt It cheaper, and It was all wool and not shoddy." "I can Imagine some of those good old conditions of which the senator SiMiaim, replied Senator MeCumber. "I can Imagine the good housewife at midnight with her knitting needles working away until the 'wee small hours' of the morning to make stockings stock-ings for her little brood. It might be that fotw or five of the children would be stuffed Into a trundle' bed that was shoved under the other bed to keep It out of the way during the daytime. "In our grandmothers' day, the gond woman was married In her h!nk gown and kept that old silk gown for her shroud. And It was perhaps tin only good dress she lied for forty or fifty years. I confess 1 would ru'.be ce the conditions it odav." |