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Show IB j WEEKLY LONDON CABLE LETTER i ! British See Little Hope of Reducing Income Tax Bates, Now Six Times Higher Than America's; Nations Na-tions Seek Ways to Avoid Another Air Tragedy; Charge Unemployed Prefer "Doles" to Going Back On Job. LONDON. April 15. (By the Aeso- lated Press.) In few things is the I avgrage Britisher more Interested iluo II In his Income tnx nnd it la sad news he is hearing these days thut there is small probability of an early reduction re-duction In his present tax rate of .tix shillings the pound or 80 p r cent. (This Is comparable for the man of 5,oOO or less income with the four per cent normal Income tax Imposed In the United States Some time ago the British treasur HL I .announced the possibility of an early reduction In the tax by at least a shll-llng. shll-llng. but It Is declared now that tho budget to be presented May l makes no provisions for any reductions Jhe intended economics through which It was hoped the tax might be clipped cannot be effected in time. It Is said, while income from such sources as the sal- of left-over war stock" cannot be counted upon to make tip any of the deficit which would result from a low-erlng low-erlng of the rates In addition, it is pointed out. Hie excess profits duty has been discontinued and the treasury treas-ury has to make provision! for meeting meet-ing tho interest on the American debt. AIR SFETY METHODS The English public, pa rtk ula rly that growing portion of it which occaslon- ally travels by air, experlmenced a disagreeable dis-agreeable thrill over news of the recent re-cent fatal collision between the London Lon-don and Paris air expresses and much Interest has been aroused in the air ministry's efforts to seek means of avoiding such accidents in the future. fu-ture. This was one form of accident from which it was believed air travel was I reasonably secure, as an expert niath-I niath-I matlciam has figured that the chances I of surh collisions are less taan one in a million. It Is belieed a s stem of signal lamps, augmented by wireless for use In fogs, will ultimately be evolved by the ministry In co-operation with tho British and French operating torn-panlea torn-panlea ANOTHER BALFOUR COMING i Another Arthur Balfour, who Is asl prominent in buslne9s as the new Earl Balfour of the Washington conference; fame, is In tho political world. Is on his way to Washington to participate! In America's ancient British pastime of revising the tariff. As deputy president pres-ident of the British chamber of com-I com-I merco, Mr. Balfour will endeavor to convince America of the disastrous effect of the pending tariff on International Inter-national economics. VETERANS TRAINED The British have not forgotten their war veterans. Sixty-three thousand I disabled soldiers have been trained as i skilled laborers since the war under I the government's industrial training l plans, Minister of Iabor MscN'nmara j has Informed tho house of commons. I Twonty-threo thousand now aro In training and there Is a waiting list of 29.000 Money grants tctr.lMng 3.-I 3.-I 500,000 pounds have been givon to 1112,000 ex-servjr e men Appointments J have, been found for 65,000 officers with 14,000 still on the waiting list. APPEALS TO GOLFERS From golfing headquarters nt St Andrews has gone forth on appeal for funds to finance Great Britain's team which will go to America In August to compete In the Aanerlcan championship champion-ship tournament In every golf club throughout the land the question of who is to constitute the team, Is receiving re-ceiving attention. IDLENESS INCREASES Unemployment contlnucR to share, with immense government spending, n place of honor among British domestic topics This week there were on the registers of the labor exchanges 1,-638.490 1,-638.490 unemployed. If the opponents of government relief, re-lief, which they ral "doles' a word : which the Iiborltes object to strongly strong-ly are to he believed; a considerable portion of thouc are people who might find Jobs but who prefer de-I de-I pendenoe on the government This Hccuauatlon Is resented and denied by tho Labor commoners and the Labor prsse The progressive decline in British Industry since the wsr is Illustrated b the fact that the regiatered unemployed unem-ployed In September, 1920. numbered only 320 000 Apparently the official view of pronpoets for the immediate future lg not cheerful, since MlniMer of Labor MacNamara told the house of commons this week that 60,000.-000 60,000.-000 pounds would be available under the new insurance set between now and tho end of June 1923, for relief of uneniplovmtnt, If necessary, nnd ho spoke as though that necessity w.i-: not at all Impossible Only a fraction frac-tion of this burden would fall on the public purse Blnce 40.000,000 pounds would be contributed by workers and employers under the terms of th3 act. RADIO RULES CHANGED Once again the board of trade, has i-glven permission to captains of ship ''to sail without wireless operators if thty are unable to procure certified operators. This decision was necessitated neces-sitated by the refusal of manj wireless wire-less trade union men to sign new articles ar-ticles prior to Joining crows. A deputation deputa-tion from tho trade union committee Interviewed the authorities on the deciding: de-ciding: and was told that the board did not foel Justified under existing conditions in permitting shipping to j be held up solely because certified operators were not available nn |