. Review of reviews and world's work . ill, bonds and taxation together. Such a revenue It is much the largest tax levy ever made bill was drawn up by the House and passed by this or any other nation. It is equiva- on, some three months ago, to the Senate lent to an average per capita payment of $59 Finance Committee. Here it has been modi- from every man, woman, and child in the fied in many details, and finally, with the end United States. The reduction of the total of the war and on Secretary McAdoos fur- from the original House bill designed to ther suggestion, the amount to be raised was
. Review of reviews and world's work . ill, bonds and taxation together. Such a revenue It is much the largest tax levy ever made bill was drawn up by the House and passed by this or any other nation. It is equiva- on, some three months ago, to the Senate lent to an average per capita payment of $59 Finance Committee. Here it has been modi- from every man, woman, and child in the fied in many details, and finally, with the end United States. The reduction of the total of the war and on Secretary McAdoos fur- from the original House bill designed to ther suggestion, the amount to be raised was raise eight billion dollars was obtained by cut down from eight billion to six billion dol- combining the excess profits with the war lars. At the same time the Administration profits tax, a reduction of the postal tax, and conceived the idea of providing in this current a general cutting down of most of the sched- tax legislation for the revenue to be collected ules. Letter postage is to return to the old THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD 19. Paul Thompson, New York THE GREAT TRANSATLANTIC LINER MAURETANIA, ARRIVING AT NEW YORK ON DECEMBER 1. WITH THE FIRST AMERICAN TROOPS RETURNING FROM EUROPE (For more than a year, and particularly since the German offensive of last spring, British as well as Ameri-can transports had been making eastward voyages crowded with human freight in khaki, through a submarine-infested ocean. Now their peculiar war paint, to deceive German submarine commanders, is the Leviathan arrived, two weeks later than the Mauretania, the war paint had been removed. While warwas on it was not considered advisable to print pictures showing these so-called camouflaged vessels) rates. Not so important in the total amountof money involved, from the Governmentspoint of view, but of immense importanceto the publishing business, is the doing awaywith the ill-advised second-class mail rateincrease on the zone plan. Homeward ^^^ return of soldiers from theLookin
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