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...fall. More than simply the beginning of the torrential monsoon season, the showers signalized the entry of St. Gandhi's campaign into its second. more serious phase, that of nonpayment of taxes. With the monsoons, salt marshes become morasses of mud and slime, inaccessible alike to the Briton and to the Gandhiman...
...addition to these taxes, levied by the national government, Americans pay certain local taxes and in 16 of the States are liable to State taxation; each Briton must pay much higher and more various local taxes or "rates." No account is taken of the numerous deductions in both countries by which a citizen in special circumstances can reduce his taxable income appreciably...
...million-dollar-a-year class the Briton (married or single) pays more than half he earns in income tax alone, while the U. S. citizen (married or single), who makes $1,000,000 a year is allowed to keep more than two-thirds of it. In both countries deductions for wife and children amount to only the merest trifle on an income of $50,000 or more. The million-a-year bachelor, in either country, is as well off from the tax standpoint as the million-a-year father with a big family of children...
...will contains a further, ingenious clause: if any hitch prevents German veterans from accepting his money, it is to go to Dutch veterans of the Boer War against England, and the cash in this event will be handled by General Rt. Hon. Jan Christiaan Smuts, famed Boer-turned-Briton...
Last week a bald, ruddy-cheeked, jolly Briton of 69 arrived in Manhattan from England. His coming was the occasion for great activity among the pedagogs of Columbia's Teachers College, for since the turn of the Century no name has been more famed in pedagogy than that of Michael Ernest Sadler. He had come to deliver this year's Sachs Memorial Lectures at Teachers College...