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Show ICANNERS SHOULD RECEIVE AID. There Is Immediate need for relief s from federal taxes based on excess profits. In Utah no industry has suf fered more from an unfair application j of ihr war tnx.es than 'hat of tomato I canning P ' During the highly prosperous period of" one or two seasons, the cannera V were taxed a very big percentage of all a Iheir profits Now they are goins through a slump and the surplus they should have had on hand to meet the adverse conditions has gone to the tax gatherer. i In Industries which fluctuate as I much as does tomato canning, income should be on a basis of a period of years. The tax might be paid year bv I year, but there should be a readjustment readjust-ment about every third year, and. if a tax has been required in excess of the aerage profits then the manufactur-I manufactur-I ers should receive a rebate. I In 1918 the government took a large I percentage of all the profits of the can I nerles. This season the tomato pacK. I has noi moved and the tanners are I loaded down with inant ial obllgationa I The excess profits they paid in 1918 I would help to tide them over this period pe-riod of financial strain The coming OOngrCBf in an effort I :n i orreel the aronf nflicted hould I attend loans to those Industriei i rip pled by extraordinary federal taxe |