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Show XO EXCI SE NOW. "Come back here" were the shril cries that overtook a crippled Ar gonne hero as he hobbled from ; Chicago drug-store where he b: purchased his favorite bunion pads to ease his remaining foot, wrecket when fighting Huns in the trenches He had deposited the regular pries stamped on the box, 25 cents. "'ua come accross with two cents more u meet the luxury war tax on coiv pads for crippled soldiers," he was told. And as the hero digged dovn. for the extra brownies, he was hear.; to mutter something familiarly similar simi-lar to what Sherman denominated War. American Economical. Even the children are taxed on every si'ei-. of candy they buv and ice cream they eat. During the rush of war and necessity ne-cessity for raisinig money rapidly, the passage of this act can be excused excus-ed but there is no excuse now foi failure to change this "nagging tax.': |