Show w rw romen V omen Desirous 0 of 0 Sharing T Tax ax Burden Womans Woman's Party Advocates Separate Income Returns to Preserve Theory Of Equal Rights BY DY CAROLYN CAROL VANCE VACE CoP Copyright right 1924 1926 b bi The Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated dated Press pres Association WASHINGTON Fob 9 Won Wonder Wonder Won Wonder der of onders there at are women who like liko to be taxed Th There re are even ven en setting up a loud lamentation but kind Mr 1011 Mellon would itt Ift the thet t tax x burden from the shoulders of the married wom women n and place the responsibility squar squarely ly upon the 3 husband Of course women want to b be taxed declared Elsie Hill Hili chair chair- chairman chairman man an of the Council of ot the National Womans Woman's party If It the t federal deral government takes away from mar mar- marrIed married ried ned women omen the right to make a a separate Income tax return It will weaken the tho theory theon already established In the laws of ot many states state that th the wife shares thares equally with the husband and the family In corn corn- on PROTEST MELLON PlAN PL From women from eight stateS state Louisiana California ew 1 ew Mexico St ada Arizona Washing Washing- Washington Washington Washington ton Idaho and Texas came Texas came formal protest against the Mellon pro pro- pro proposal J oral osal that and wife be com compelled pelle a to mali male make a Joint income tax return In these states tates there thee fire are community property laws lava which permIt a wife to 10 make a separate Income tax return on 50 per cent ot the family Income even includIng Including ing ng the husband a S salar salar Thus If the Income of the family Is 20 the separate tax returns can be made by each on 1 0 and a tidy sum ta cd b by avoiding the brackets bracket I When hen the tho Mellon proposal came cameto cameto to a 0 vote In tho the house commIttee on ways and means mean It was reo re 1 ro I because of the pressure brought to bar bear by women Two o members member w ho voted against l vere var were from stats states where the laws las are In effect They were nore ere Garner of It Texas and Hadley of Washington Washing Washing- ton Another woman brought for for- fora for nard a Id I'd In support of the separate In- In Income Income In Income come return was sea 8 that In making one out they were re enabled to find out what friend husband was dol doing nil with the family Income The one drawback to th the communIty community ity property laws from the feminist Is that they give Ive varYIng d degrees of control of the pooled to the husband Miss lIss Mary Iary Anderson of the tho United States department of labor h ha thrown the feminists working for equal rights Into connIptions by her statement that the mad md cramble of business Is I 1 unfItting women omen for marriage and that the woman oman who works In a factory Is In Inmany inmany Inmany many ways better off oft than tho woman employed In business offee of- of fee tic ici or the professions because the latter Is subject to terrific nervous strain No Ko matt matter r how much we e shout about about equal rights and similar mat mat- matter matteri matters ter teri said Raid Miss Anderson Andersen no e emust must admit that In many ways waya P SP cannot compete with men without suffering the consequence The phy- phy phy physical Ical ical makeup of men and women AI are so radically different the nervous system of one much finer tineI than that of the other r that we can can- cannot can cannot not expect this sudden udden plunge or o women Into the business world to tobe tobe tobe be without Its Iu serious consequences DEPLORES ERS I 1 know of young women who have had bad careers In music and art artand artand artand and other lines who Hied only a short time after marriage or hung on for a number of drags sears ears dragson on their and a source of constant expenditure In the way nay of medIcal and nursing bill bills The feminists stormed 0 00 o w o 0 or this statement and the squall showed signs of turning Into a rainstorm were so made that they were on the brink of shedding tears Just Jut at th the time when nomen omen are struggling to get out of the lower paid forms torms of Industry Into the higher paid Jobs along comes a person who holds a responsible position In the who would drag them thorn back said sald Miss lIlIs Hill Hili by crying of the hurt they will do to their m tune tune- functions Miss Anderson Ander Ander on on would rather see lee women omen remain sewing women cooks nurse nurses maid maidS charwomen arid And Sweatshop factory workers for tor fear they wilt will Injure their nervous systems She even advises them to stay hom home and do hou housework If they would preserve their health I d like to know what Is a greater r strain on a woman oman than to try tl to keep house houe and make ends meet on onan onan onan an insufficient Income |