Show THE INCOME TAX RETURNS the time for the annual struggle with income tax returns has now come and for people whose business is at all complicated it is a bothersome task it is made worse by the remoteness of tile the federal government and the fact that if errors are made it may be difficult or tedious to 10 get them corrected everything possible ought to he be done to simplify the law so that most people could make out their returns without having to hunt up a federal deputy to get the law interpreted but while the job of getting out these returns may be an unwelcome one everyone should see the necessity of making a fair and honest report the man who tries to cheat uncle sam by unfairly manipulating his hia income figures about the same type as the yellow sl ackers who dodged the draft he Is not willing NIl ling to take up his end of the load ot of government ern ment and lie he shifts off part of it to people who may bo be less able than ho be to carry the load burdensome as the tax hill bill may seem itis it is hard to see how tho the country could have got by the war without this kind of tax and a 1 heavy one otherwise a much greater debt woul have had to be incurred at still higher rates ot of interest tho ta tax tak K is heavy on people of large wealth and a lighter assessment would have less effect to discourage enterprise but the wealthy people ire aro able to p pay ay it without suffering and they still can live in luxury they can call well be thankful for a government that has protected their for tunes through a world convulsion and they should pay their assessments smilingly also let the little fellows with in an income just over the margin come across with his little assessment with a cheerful good matuie ile he ought to be thankful that he earns enough to come within the tax paying class |