Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 18, 1922, Page 8

e e A A Good Suggestion One guy, who is decidedly opposed |" to haying a chaperone’ with him and his young lady friend, suggests that a_ boiler_factory would be a good place for a fellow to do his courting and then everybody for himself. —Ain’t It a Fact?— Strange Coincidence Lawyer—“So you want me to de- fend you, Rastus? Got any money?” Rastus—‘“No suh, but ah got me a mule and a few chickens and a hawg."” Lawyer—“All right. Let’s see. What're you accused of stealing?” Rastus—*‘Oh, a mule, a few chick- ens and a hawg.” —Gulity, Your Honor!— Won’t They Have Fun? Detroit is said to be preparing for the entertainment of the annual con- vention of the Amalgamated Asso- ciation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work- ers of North America during the first. week of May. We can imagine that such ‘a_convention would be some- thing like the sound made by a wood- | en-legged man laying a tin roof. But we are glad to see that the tin work- ers are to be included in the conven- tion. We always did like to see Henry Ford’s plants represented. —That Gives Them a Chance— Agsin We Say: In Congoland, men do the sewing and wash the clothes. But again we say: What American married man would want to live in Congoland? He could do that here, if he wanted | to. —But Who Wants to?— Another Wonder . A man's lungs contain 200 cubic inches of air and still we often won-: der how some men ever manage to| keep any air in their lungs. —You Know the Kind!— CGHIO ELECTION TO GIVE VERDICT ON FAVORED SON (Continued From Faxe 1) tariff and the record of the govern- ment the last year. Purely state and local questions have not so far arisen to becloud the national questions. The personnel of the :najor par- ties’ tickets is the main matter of conjecture now. Both Republican and Democratic- poss:bilities appear apathetic about announcing their stands, They are awaiting dafinite ’ction from the other side. Dead lines for filling declarations of can- didacies probably will be approached befqre there is a break in the stub- born fronts of the two sides. Representatives Fess and Long- worth are talked of Republican choices for governor, and Senator Pomerene, Democrat for re-election to the senate while Congressman Burton is being doomed for the sen- at by the Republicans and Represen- tative . Knight probably will enter the fight. Walter F. Brown, Toledo, also is talked of. BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUB WORK WELL UNDER WAY (Continued From Page 1) will be iwo classes for the calves in the first year contest, namely pure- breds and grades. Grades have been included in order that the contestants niay ge: some experience in feeding and caring for them, preparatory for the pure-bred work. The winners will go to the State Fair this fall in- stead of the Livestock Show at So. St. Paul. _ Pig Contest—Those who have their pigs should start feeding May 1st. All others should plan to start not later than June 1st. There will be two classes, sows that were exhibited' last year and pigs that were farrow- ed this spring. Sheep Contest—At least ten mem- bers must enroll before this contest will be recognized as a sta? project. iaatmbs must be dropped after March st. Bread Baking Contest—Contest- ants are divided into two classes, A and B. The baking should be com- pleted before June 1st. There will be_demonstrations in_both classes. .Duixy. Judging—Contestants will he requred to judge the four dairy, breeds. There will be two classes, {\_and B. ; Any boy or girl who wishes to en-] roll in the above projects, may do' so by sending'in~their names together with their age and the name of) the! contest tg H.;A.rBflughoeftyor D. C. Dvoracek. LH ¥ Potato Mafl;;; Chicago, April 18.—Potato mar- ket steady; receipts, 51 cars; on track, 170 cars; total U. S. ship- * menits, 589 cars. Wisconsin round whites. sac:ed, $1.60 to $1.70; Min- nesota Ked River Ohios, $1.55; Ida- ho rurals, $1.68 to $1.70; Idaho rus- sets, $1.48 to $1.60; Colorado brown | beauties, $1.65 to $1.70. New mar- ket slightly stronger. Florida double- head barrels, No. 1, $7.25 to $7.50; LIMITED |- FIGURES SHOW INCOME TAX IS BEING EVADED - (Continued From Page 1) ably at least $66,000,000,000 at the present time. It is hard to say just how much money remains uncollected by the government through the extraordi- nary dereliction of these millions of persons. Mr. Rogers estimates it as between a billion and a billion five hundred million for the past five years, Not all of the millions who broke the law by failing to file an income tax return actually owe the govern- ment money. (i Many of them come within that very large class whose exemptions are larger than their total incomes. % However, that fact does not alter their status as law breakers. If your’ income is $1,000 or more, you are required to file a return even though yvou are not obliged to pay any tax. This fact has been printed so many times in the newspapers and else- where that there must be compara- tively few persons left who can plead ignorance .of the law. Manufacturing Group Studied A realization of this situation may be had by studying the figures for one particular group in the community. Let us take, for example, the group ecngaged in manufacturing. The total value of manufactured products in the United State in 1919 according to the official figures of the United States Census Bureau was $62,910, 202,000. From this total val- ue must be subtracted materials, $37- 372,684,000; wages,$10,545,905,000, and salaries $2, 893, 046,000 or a total of $50,811,635,000. This sum, subtracted from the total value of manufactured products leaves profits (without counting interests on invest- ments or depreciation) of $12,098,- 667,000. In manufacturing according to the censuus, there are 9,103 200 wage carners, This number divided into the total wages carned, $10,545,905,000 gives an annual average wage of $1,- 8 [ I Yet of this total of 9,103,000 wage carners in manufacturing only 65- 488 are cspecially shown to have made income tax returns in 1919. One-half of 1 per cent. ‘What did the other 9,000,000 people ido? How did it happen that only one- half of one per cent. of the wage-earn- ers in industry is specifically shown to have made returns, when the aver- age wages for the whole industry were $1,158. Mr, Rogers, who worked out these computations, by no means charges that nine million persons engaged in manufacturing arc engaged in tax dodging. His position is merely that of asking to be shown what other conclusions can be drawn from the official statistics of the Census Bur- cau. A similar situation exists among the farmers, unless the official gov- ernment reports are unreliable. Farmers ag Tax Dodgers There are 6,448,366 farmers in the United States. The total livestock ‘and crop value in 1919 was $21,367,193,~ 384. From this total must be sub- tracted: Wages, $1,356,403,452; fer- tilizer, $326,399,800, feed, $1,097,- 452,187; making a total of $2,780,- 265,439. There must also be sub- tracted the interest on farm mort- \gages, to the value of $4.000,000,- 000, which amounts at an interest of 8 per cent. to $320,000,000. These items, added together and subtracted from the total value of farm products leave a net income of $18,266,937,- 945, or an average income per farm- er which 'is well over $2,000. Yet in spite of this fact, only 418,- 945 farmers out of the total number of 6,448,366 are especially shown to have made income tax returns. (Re- member, these figures refer only to owners or lessees of farms, and do not include farm-laborers, Must Revise Wholc System If these figures are correct—and a group of the most distinguished econ- they have been submitted failed to challenge them in any important par- ticular—they carry implications of the most sérigus-gature possible. Not only' mi our taxation system be revised from top to bottom, but we must do very serious think- ing about t| question of citi- !|'zenship anf nsibilities. ‘| Our governfifent.is founded on the || assumption most. citizens will ;| obey the'law,#ind want to bear their i|gust portion o the burden of gov- ernment..Whatywill become of a {|country which reaches a point where | these assumptions no’ longer - hold good? % These and other aspects of this whole question will be discussed in subsequent articles. DISTRICT JUDGE MILLER SITTING AT GRAND FORKS (By United Press) Grand Forks, N. D., April 18.— United States District Judge Andrew Miller w!ll receive pleas and sit here No. 2, $5.75'to0 $6,00, today for arraignments... M ow DEMR To MY HEART.AS TH' OLE SIVER DOLLAR, WHEN SONE KIND SUBSERIBER £ PRESENYS AT YO NIEW .yarfire gréw more ¢omplex a stand: :ing "force was''built up, and it was the effect, “promoHng- ‘resorption ns omists in the United States to whom: ———— W UBER™ N ALL TH STRANGE YHINGS WHIGH O US SEEM S0 GAVE WORLD POWER T0 ROME Congquering Legions Carried the Eagles to Victory in Practically Every ' Known Land. In the early days of its history the republic of Rome consisted of a city, but wars of conquest extended its dominifon over the whole Italian pen- |- insula. For centuries only the citi- zens of Rome had a vote in the elec- | The republic was j tion of the ruler. a conquering’ state, and extended Ro- man power as far north and west as Spain, ‘the British isles, Belgium. and Germany, and as fér east as the Black sea.” At first' the army consisted of a leyy._of ‘citizens. ~As’Rome: came- to need mdre thith one army at once-and larggly because of its superior equip- ment and discipline that the ‘armies of ‘the barbarians, often superior in | numbers, were defeated and crushed. The unit of the Roman army of that time was the legio, translated into English, the legion. It corresponded to a regiment in our army but was much larger, for a Roman legion contained from 4,000 to 6,000 men. They were heavy Infantry with some cavalry. The leglons comprised the first-class troops, while the auxllia, or auxiliaries, were the troops of the second class. At the time of the death of the first emperor, Augustus, in the year 14 A. D, the Roman army consisted of 25 such legions. This heavy infantry lost much of its importance when the bar- barian invasions altered the character of ancient warfare and made cavalry a more important arm tham infantry in the late Third and the Fourth cen- turies. The word legion came to express any large number with the accessory ideas of order and subordination. HIGH VALUE OF SAND BATHS From Findings of Danish Medical Men, It Would Seem Their Impor- tance Is Underestimated. From the earliest history of man baths of hot sand have been used to relieve bone and joint disease, es- pecially gout and rheumatism. Faber and Plum,; in a Danish medical jour- nal, tabulate the findings during and after the sand bath in a number of cases as regards the pulse, respiration, temperatyre at different points of the lody and the blood pressure, urine and changes in welght as well as the effect on the pathologic condition. Thelr conclusions are to the effect that the hot sand bath seems to com- bine with the benefit from the heat— reducing pain and stimulating local circulation—a direct action on the muscles from the welight of the sand. | This reluxes the muscle and tends to break up the various circles of pain and musele contraction. This relaxing ef- fect on the muscles from the sheer welght of ‘the sand has 'been over- logkéd before, they’ think, but they regurd it ‘as’' an important factor in. well as combating the possibly unsus- pected hypertonia in the muscles: An- other advantage of ‘sand haths is that they dan bé graduated with precision to 1it’ conditions in the weakest. The only contraindications are febrile dis- eases, valvular defects, great Instability of the circulation, and possibly anemia and asthenia, His Mistake. The editor of a magazine which is published by a New York bus com- pany offers a prize each month for the best story turned in by an employee of the company on any topic pertain- ing to company affairs. Here is the one which won this month: “One seat on top and one inside,” shouted a bus conductor at a stopping place. “Sure, now, and you wouldn't be after separatin’ a daughter from her mother,” said the elder of two women on tbe sidewalk, = p “Right ye .are, ~I" would not,” sgid the conductor, starting the bus. *“I did that once gn’ I've been regrettin’ it ever since.’—Cincinnati Times Stare, H A Doc .for a Dime. An Indianapolis physician on his way downtown ome evening recently was approached by a man who asked for a lift. “Say, Doc, can you let me have a dime?” asked the man. “Why, certainly,” said the physi- clan, “but where have I known you?" “You don’t know me,” said the man. “Then how did you know I was a doctor?” “Oh, I call everybody ql}'mupulls News, Doc.”—In- T EAGLE “TH' ARROWS BELOW IY TH' STARS') ¥HE BENDIY DAILY PIGNLER MEAD WITHOUY NECKTIE OR COLAR NEW— “TH' WIDE-SPREADWN® AND TH WORDSWITH PROBLEM OF SKEWED BRIDGE Methods Used for Calculating Stresses and _Proportioning Are Not Approved. - N (Prepared by the United States Department ot Agriculture.) Methods of calculating the stresses and proportioning the size of skewed concrete-arch bridges which have been considered good practice in.the past may be incorrect and result in the col- lapse of the structure, according to engineers of the bureau of public Skewed:-Arch Bridge Used for Stream Crossing Road Diagonally—Note. Po- sition of Railing“on Opposite Sides ‘of Road. v roads of the United States Department of Agriculture. A skew bridge is one in which the center line of the bridge is not perpendicular, with the abut- ment on which the bridge rests, and Is used when a bridge crosses a stream or rallway track. diagonally. The bureau is jointly rresponsible with the several state highway departments for the. correctness of the design of all structures on federal-aid . roads, and for this reason the problem is being carefully studled.fl. WIDER HIGHWAYS WIN FAVOR Originally Engingers. Considered 10- Foot Roadway Adequate—Now Urge 20 :Feet. Former Superintendent of Illinois Highways S. E. Bradt of DeKalb, Ill, who has done niuch to boost the govd roads movement’in his state, says en- gineers originally considered a 10-foot highway adequate-to meet the needs of traffic between populous centers. Then they learned the folly of this contention and boosted the width, It was finally made 16 feet. Roads are being buiit 18 feet in width and now come prominent engineers advocating a 20-foot highway. The shoulder maintenance is a prom- inent factor entering into this prob- lem. The upkeep of a shoulder usual- 1y exceeds the original cost of the ex- tra two feet of pavement, it has been Jearned by experience. For this reason highway experts are going on record advocating the wider pavement for trunk line highways. The upkeep of shoulders is very high, especially where there is heavy truck traffic. PAVED ROADS AND DAIRYING As More Improved qufiwayn Are ‘ Constructed Milk Réutes Ace Being Extended. Paved roads-and dairying go hand in hand. As more improved roads are constructed, milk routes are extended and the farmer farther from the city is prodvided with a market for his milk. Over unimproved routes re- quiring wagon delivery, the longest route possible is only approximately 15 miles while over paved highways, traveled by motortrucks, routes cov- ing as high as«40 miles are estab- lished. Large “areas of prospective ‘dairy country are waitiog ouly . the construction of more herd surfaced toads. -When these are bullt, many -more farmers, now cut off from their fnarket, will receive the benefit of the economical._and- rapid: transportation made possible. by the motortruck and the paved highway. — HIGHWAYS ON PACIFIC COAST Various Western States and. Govern. ment to Spend Immense Sum for Road Improvements. Twenty million dollars,. the largest amount of money expended In one year ast Dy the federal e highways and| post roads, i3 to be Spent during this season. The western states, Washing- ton, Oregon, California, Wyoming, . Calorado, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico will expend . the same amount. Many of the roads will be 20 feet wide and Jt concrete six inches thick, much heavier than highways bullt by the states heretofore. SAD FATE OF HENRY JASON Abject Condition of' Heripecked Hus- band, Example of the Loss of « . ..Pergonal Property. Henry: Jason, the .noted.henpecked husbend, -is: another example of what the loss of-personal libexty gan do to a man. When the fathers of our.constitu; tion passed, the law relating to matri-’ mony they forever put the shackles on Henry Jason.- Henry's, zero hour came when Portia Stropg.led him to the altax’ and the justice of the peace. tied.the fatal knot. He has tasted no nectars of liberty sigce, Bert Walker writes in the Topeka Capital. But Henry has not the strong and forceful charac- ter of Old Bill Shiftless, so he sub- mits without a whimper. He tried whimpering once and it put him in a hospital for two weeks. One day when Portia was away attending a meeting of the Advanced Thought club, which was very busy emancipating woman, a long-haired leader left a pamphlet at the Jason kitchen door. Henry stopped long enough to read the front page. The first line read: “It is high time to administer a rebuke and to check the forces which are try- ing to overthrow our constitutional immunities and liberties.” Just then ‘Henry heard a step on the front porch, He thought it was Portia. He was at once stricken with palsy and fell in a dead faint. It was two hours before he came to and was able to burn the pamphlet. ¢ He was still shaking like an aspen leaf when Portia returned at midnight. Had Henry Jason not been deprived of his personal liberty when a young man his name would have gone down on the pages of history alongside those of John L. Sulllvan and Jack Dempsey. Trick Fatal to Many Magicians, Herrmann, famous magician, who died in 1896, invented most of his stage deceptions. To him is credited one of the most mystifying and at the same time'the most perilous of all tricks, that of catching upon a plate bullets fired at the magician from dif- ferent parts of the auditorium. To the profession it was known as the “trick with the trall of blood.” In attempting its performance on the stage of a London theater, Willlam E. Robinson, or, as he was better known, Chung Lung Soo, met his death. Another vic- tim was an JIrish/ conjurer, who dropped dead, struck by six bullets, on a Dublin stage; others were a son of the:famous French magician: Ed- mond de Grisy, the wife of the, Ger- man prestidigitator de . Linsky, and the well known “Black Wizard of. the West,” who. was killed: on a Dead- wood, South Dakota,, stage. It is spid too that H. T. Sarte]l .perverted. the trick to the use of deliberate sulcide in a Lynp, Massachusetts, theater. MOST POPULAR SCOUT BADGES For the past five years.the most pop- ular merit badges among scouts have’| been those in public and persotlnli health, swimming, firemanship and-first' aid, though' sommetimen’ ofie "and- sothe- times another -leads’ the ‘list. ~ During 1921, pubiic health was the most popu- lar, 7,465 scouts qualifying in'that sute’ Ject In the one year, whereas 7,325 qualified in personal health, 7,141 in firemanship, 6,820 in swimming and 5, B37 in first ald. It is noteworthy that every one of these five popular hadges are thosé on subjects which constitute marked steps’ tn " the making of a healthy, responsible and helpful citl: genry. In spite of the greater stringency of demands made-Jiy:- natlonal court of honor in the cages of life-saving ap-' plications, the number of medils awarded during 1921 for “consplicuous service was greater than ever before, totaling 147, against 92 of the past vear and 55 of tife year before. Three’ gold,medals werz awarded 88 follows: Thoinas H. Robinson, Camdén, N. -J.; Howard Rate of Vineland, N. J., and Henry A. Skilton of Wilmington, Del, Scout Robinson lost his life in saving that of his friend. Henceforth there will be only one type of medal awarded by the national court of honor In place of the three grades of gold, silver and bronze hith- W QOIN’ OF OUR FATMERS , WERE GLAD STHAT WE GOY 1T, FER SOME “fikS OR OTHER \T WILL QOME WRIHY o | ™ - | ADDITIONAL WANT ADS IFOR" SALE—A1 'D;iyton bicycle, cheap, inquire 1224 Minnesota ave- nue. 2t 4-19 WANTED—Floor girl at §t. Antho- ny’s hospital. 4-18tf FOR SALE—4 reciicn _bookease; fumed oak rocker: reed desk and chair to match; reeZ table; two buffet, dining: table -and chairs; sanitary cot; washing machine; kite en table; brass bed, springs and mattress; dresser. All at bar- gain prices you can’t afford to miss Call at 109-18th street or phone 8;8‘ S a88.4220- | DICK FRANKLIN ON FIGHT €ARD’ AT GRAFTON TONIGHT ~Dick Franklin, Bemidji heavy- weight fighter, left iast night for rafton, N. D., where he is to appear n, a fight card this evening. He re- ceived a wire vesterday advising him to appear for the match, although he did not know ‘when he left here just who he was io meét tonight. reed chairs; grass rug; fumed oak |’ SPREAD-EAGLE DOLLAR.) STAR- SPANGLED DOLLAR. OLE SILVER DOLLAR WE NEVER USE DRUGS Victims Liable to Suffer Heart De- pression or Shattered Nervous System. The use of medicinal preparations containing powerful minerals, salts, or coal tar By-Products should be avoided by people who need health Jhelp. Powerful drugs are liable to depress the heart, shatter the nerves or’ cause intestinal irritation, stom- ach ulcers or other complications. Physicians generally advise that some pure vegetable laxative tonic be used to freshen the blood and re- lieve constipation, sour gassy stom- ach, kidney, liver and bowel troubles. Bulgarian Blood Tea being purely vegetable is a splendid medicinal ton’c to'use to relieve .and assist na- ture to eliminate the poisonous wastes.” Millions are now using Bul- garian Blood Tea as_their favorite family medicine. Physicians and druggists knowing that Bulgarian Blood Tea is purely vegetable do not hesitate to recommend it.—Adv. THE PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS DISCONTEN If you wives who are dissatis Theatre SATURDAY, SUNDAY, BY ALL MEANS! greatest motion picture ever ma ycu to your finger tips, and it m: happiness. palace in the soutl. of France, villain in Europe plays the leadi Follow the Crowds to JOHNSON'’S Just ‘?he Hour Sal THEY ALL GO erto awarded. The new desigr, which will be worked ont In gold, was ce- signed by Belmore Broune, artist, trav- eler and scout man. | conditions that sun:ound you, want to go on being d. unhappy, don’t go to -see “FOOLISH WIVES” at the ELKO If, on thc contrary, you would like to sce what happens when wives stay away from thcir own firesides, and how a flirtation may make you as helpless as a chip on the ocean, THEN GO!— to one foolish wife -and what may happen to you. The Storc That Has Brought the Low Prices to Bemidji {DRESS SALE One ‘Hour Dress Sale at- JOHNSO 9 to 10 What This'M @ CANTON CREPE DRESSES CREPE KNIT DRESSES : GEORGETTE CREPE DRESSES CHIFFON TAFFETA DRESSES CHARMEUSE SILK DRESSES CREPE METEOR DRESSES ONE HOUR ONLY! Come and See These Dresses . 00000000000000. ALL TED WIVES fied with your husbands, and the tisfied and MONDAY and TUESDAY. Universal has spent cne million and a half dollars in the de, to show you what happened It will thrill ay give you an insight into real This play takes place in Monte Carlo, the gorgeous gambling in which the most accomplished ng role. Sec it and then see if your husband does?'t look batter to you than ever. SAT.—SUN. MON.—TUES. | ELKO,: 5 : [ d Jonnsons @ for HOSIERY éf%You Al Know ON SALE FOR