The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 15, 1920, Page 4

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Secretary of the Treasury Houston advises Congr to make certain changes in the incom: tax law. He would wipe out the excess profits tax and some of the luxury taxes. The execution of; this suggestion would, of course, cut a big hole in| the income tax receipts. At the same time Hous- ton, and other heads of federal departments asked for appropriations larger than they now receive. To make up a major part of the deficit caused byincreased governmental expenditures and de- creased governmental expenditures and decreased receipts Houston would increase the tax upon in- comes of $5000 and LESS by 50 per cent. That would reach about every wage earner not exempt! under the present law. It would place an added and heavy burden upon nearly every worker and his family. But this does not satisfy Houston. He asks Coggress tb tax every gallon of gasoline; to place heavier burdens ,upon automobile buyers, upon theatregoers, movies, and users of tobacco, chew- ing gum, soaps, perfumes, and medicinal articles. He suggests an additional tax of $2,000,000 on candy. P A clear insight into Houston’s idea may be gleaned from a comparison of his proposed tax in- creases. He asks Congress to increase the small salary man (under $5000) 50 per cent., but he asks that the larger salary ($5000 to $10,000) be increased but 25 per cent. Houston’s idea being, one supposes, that the smaller the wage the larger the proportion of the additional burden may be borne. The new taxes proposed by Houston are oppres- sive. They are imposed with no idea of placing the additional burdens upon shoulders most able to bear them, but upon those from whom it will be most easy for the government to collect. To Secre- tary Houston it doesn’t appear to matter if the burdens are equitably distributed or lumped upon what. tax collectors have labelled “the easy marks” that is, the small income easily traced and easily taken. The less you make, the more they take! i i i Bryan is now in Florida waiting for the Chau- tauqua dates to ripen. i ee i BUSINESS OF LIVING In his autobiography Benjamin Franklin tells how he kept books on himself. He had a ledger, at the top of each page of which he wrote one of the several virtues he regarded as fundamental for right living. One page he devoted to frugality, another to temperance, a third to industry, a fcurth to silence, and so on. . At the end of each day he examined himself and if he had failed in any of these virtues, he way he kept himself informed as to the weak spots of his make-up, and devoted himself constantly to improving them. Thus he kept the record in the ledger balanced. \ To Ben Franklin living was the most important of all businesses. He was more concerned in showing gains and stopping losses in his living business than in his printing business. Franklin’s bookkeeping system was practical application off the injunction, “know , thyself.” Selfknowledge is the fundamental of the livmg business. Most of us are too busy with other businesses to look after this most important of all business. It generally runs by itself. That’s why there are so many failures in that business. Pickpockets have no terror for a man returning from a shopping tour. HOW DO THEY SUIT YOU? They are talking rather glibly about a return to the blue laws. The idea, which is expected to be brought to the early attention of Congress, may be rather far-recahing in its effects. Anda great many people will be interested in how the nation’s lawmaking body handles the problem. Just now, though, some wonder if there are not a great many who do not just understand what the “blue laws” of early Connecticut and Massachu- setts were. Here were some of them under which our forefathers “did the best they could”: “If any person is a witch, hé’or she shall be put to death. Anybody who sets a fire in the woods and it burns down a house shall suffer death. Sus- picion of setting fire in the woods shall make one jailable but not bailable. None shall make mince pies, dance, play cards or play on any musical in- stument, except on the drum, trumpet or jews- harp. The judges shall determine guilt or inno- cence and not a jury. No woman shall kiss her | jare an actual majority, and they have control of ‘new members elected in both houses to put up a ‘from other states, who know that the lands them- d BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE child on Sunday. None shall cross a river except! an authorized ferryman. Married people must live together or suffer imprisonment. Man shall not court maid except after written consent of her parents. Penalty for violation of this law was five pounds for the first offense, ten for the sec- ond and indefinite imprisonment for the third.! Whoever shall bring cards or dice into the settle- ment must pay a fine of five pounds. Every male shall have his hair cut round according to a cap.” There was another naive old blue law, and it was this: Ifa child above 16 years shall curse or smite his or her parents, it shall be put to death, unless it be proved that the parents have been very un-! christianly negligent in the education of that | child. | Care for any of them? EDITORIAL REVIEW. | Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here in order that our readers may have both eides of important issues which are being dis- cussed in the press of the day. “TOLERANCE AND HOME RULE” “Tolerance and home rule” is an excellent slogan for North Dakota to keep in mind. The Forum has long been preaching it, and ex- pects to continue to do so, and it does seem as if we were working toward such a goal. The report that the management of the Nonpar- tisan league so far as North Dakota is concerned, would be turned over to a committee of five actual farmers is a long step toward home rule, provided these five men are chosen by'the members. ‘One of the greatest objections to the league was the ecmplete lack of democracy in its organization. It was a dictatorship, and two or three men abso- lutely dominated the organization, controlled all of its publicity mediums, had full control of its fi- nances, and there was no appeal from their de- cisions. These men were not even residents of the state, yet they were actual dictators of all our legislation. As long as these men were able to retain ‘this unrestricted power, there was no chance to nego- tiate with them, and no opportunity to “give and; take.” It was all “give”, and the independent} forces in North Dakota had to fight or be elimi- nated entirely. Under such conditions there was no opportunity for tolerance. ‘ But those, days have passed or are passing. The independent forces no longer are a minority. They at least half of our governmental:machinery. They can now treat on equal terms,. and not sue for peace with the certainty of getting the ultimatum of “unconditional surrender.” If, in addition to this factor, the league should be reorganized in this state on a democratic basis, and be franted complete home rule, there would no longer be any excuse for the bitterness that has marked North Dakota politics for the last foyr years. We might differ with each other on many issues but all this arraigning of class against neighbor would end. | We would enter on a new era cf neighborliness and good feeling here in North Dakota.—Fargo Forum. TAXPAYERS MUST ORGANIZE. The. North Dakota legislature’ will soon be in ' session, and it is believed, there have been enough successful fight against a continuance of the pres- ent high state taxes. The new members know that they were elected on a platform of reducing expenses of state government. There are numer- ous, commissions and departments, all of which cost'a lot of money to support, with officials, sten- ographers, traveling expenses and other items, that are not now, absolutely necessary. With the fall in prices of farm products, it is harder to pay taxes than ever before, and the list of delinquent taxes shows this fact this year very plainly.’ There is no use trying to cut expenses however, if the citizen tax payer remains indifferent and takes no action to help head off the big appropria- tion bills. Delegates from chambers of commerce, from business organizations, and from farm bu- reaus must get to work early, and show how and why a large part ‘of our state taxation, “especially on farm lands, can be cut out. But if property owners do not pay due attention to the schemes for retaining the big appropria- tions that will be found in the coming legislature, ‘there will be nothing done to cut down expenses of our state government. For every official, every head of every institution and department, will be in Bismarck with prepaganda, personal influence! and arguments with the members of the legisla- ture, to retain the present high taxes, if not to in- crease them. ,The legislators who want to do the right thing by the state must have backing and encouragement frcm the tax payers themselves. It is up to the farmer, to the real estate men, the banker, the business man and the actual tax payer to look out for his own interests at Bismarck be- ginning January 4 next. To only wey this can be done is by organization and the sending of delega- tions from each couniy to present to the legisla- ture the positive necessity cf cutting down to the very lowest point possible, the present burdens of taxation on the property owners in this state. There can be no cutting down of taxes unless the necessity for raising them is removed and the legislature alone can do this. Unless this is done our farm lands will never sell at their present or even their true value. The high taxes on farm lands have already kept out thousands of investors selves are cheap compared with the values of lands elsewhere for North Dakota lands have never been; inflated beyond their true value—Jamestown ‘Alert. & WEEKS BEFORE CHRISTMAS 3 DAYS BETORE- CHRISTMAS. { | Sener! bf L WEEK » _ BEFORE CHRISTMAS, Ke 2 DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS ADVENTURES By Oliver Ro OF THE TWINS — berts Barton. L Wachee _. WASP WEA “Please take us after Wasp Weasel,” said Nick to the Green Shoes when Wasp had rushed out of the Meadow Grove School atter swallowing the charm. the Magical. Mushroom | had given them. * a “Oh, hide me!” he panted Instantly the little lifted the twins from Shoes the old under oak where Mr. Scribble Scratch had ‘his school, and carried them through the snow-dotted air to Wasp Weasel’s house, But there was something unusual about Wasp,:or Earney lrmine as we should call him, He was the best smeller in Meadow Grove Land, I mean that he had\the best nose and he smelled the twins coming through the air toward his ho the wind was in the right direction. Out he tore through the kite Ap where his mother was (and neart {upsetting her, too) then into Mrs. bun, jny’s burrow where he almost scared that lady to death. “Oh, hide me! hide me!” he panted, all out of breath. EL HIDE | “LH do no such thing!” som Bunny, shaking her. “Get out!” apron at Waspy Weasel had him. few friends, I must tell you, being the | terror of the whole neighborhood. So out he had to go and Nancy all out of breath. and Nick spied him for, of \course the Green Shoes had followed right But before Nick could catch him, Wasp had found Wally Wood- chuck’s nt door, and in he bounc= ed, the twins at his heels. Mr) ly just getting the beds re r long winter sleep when vy up the stairs and into the bedroom. “Land 0’ Love!” she cried, throwing up-her hands in astonishment. “Hide me, hide me!” W: her, as he had done . Bunny. Of course Mrs. Woodchuck was going to say that she’d do no such thing, but Wasp jumped into, one of her beds {and pulled up the blanket right over his head, then Jay as still a In rushed Nancy and, Nick. after. HAMLINE UN VERSITY G1 GLEE CLUB MAKES WONDERFUL RECORD. DURING THRTY-SIX ANNUAL CONCERT TOURS IN NORTHWEST The following is a verbatim copy of a news story printed in the coi- umns of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Sunday, November 28, 1920. “The Hamline University Glee clud on December 14, will start on a thir- ty days’ concert tour which includes Seattle, San Francisco, Salt Lake City and Omaha. Daniel C. Gainey, man- ager of the club, who has just re- turned from a circuit of the cities to be visited, made this announce ement yesterday. For the past thirty-six years the Hamline University club has made an annual concert tour in the fall, and it has been long considered one of Overwork, worry, anxicty or sorrow undermes strength andhealth. These causes contribute to kidney trouble, and weak or diseased kidneys make one feel old in middle age Filey Kidney Pills" help weak, overworked or discased kid- neys and bladder so that the system is free from waste and poisonous matter that causes one to feel old, tired, lan- guid. They banish backache, rheu- matic pains, sore muscles, stiff joints. a. J.D. Miller, Syracuse, N. Y.. writes: rs I suffered with kidney trouble and rheumatism. I bad @ re backache and felt miserable and all played out, I got to a place where had toda something. After tak- wo bottles of Foley Kidney Pills I can say my backache is gone, and where I used to lay awake at night with rheumatic pains I can now sleep in comfort and Gaivy @Aoed night's rest.” ¢ ' number the best amateur musical organiza- tions in the Northwest. The club this year is composed of seventeen voices, including Prof. John A. Jaeger, who has directed the Hamfine songsters for seven yours. As the majec y of the members of | the club have sung: together for the past year or more, their director an- [nounces that the ensemble singing j Will be of a very high order. Ths same qnartet that was identified with the ciub last y again will be. heard with but one‘ change/ Lorille Boyle, freshman, is tke new second tenor. j One of the most popular of the club's “The Nut Quartet,” will be 2 selection sung on almost every on2 of the concert programs. The Hamlinites have a plentiful sup- | ply of soloist. material which should ido much to make their entertainment ipleasing. Lloyd Sundin, barytone, is {soloist in ‘the First Baptist church ‘choir, Minneapolis . ! Fred Frankson, tenor soloist and | reader. was the first tenor in the Chi- cago Preachers’ quartet in 1919, At j the close of its season’s tour the | quartet Sang for several phonograph | records. Malcolm Farley, flute soloist, wiil }accompany the singers on their tour. |Mr. Farley played flute in the or- t the Champs Elysee theatre, before General comely, “Let's Go,” Clemenceau and Pershing. ; Among the organ | the concerts to be given by the glee |club on their projected tour are the! > . at Tacoma: Golden Gate American Legion, in San > and the musical depayt- NTACLAUSING DAD cried Blos-; p begged : a mouse. } ng the presentation of the | ations handling | WED: SDAY, DECEMISER 15, 1920 4 DAYS BETORE- SHAPST EN AS. ~ ment of the public'schools in Omaha j The committee from the Methodist church has kindly offered to enter tain the club ‘in various homes dur- ing their stay here. Dr. Quigley’s , Son was teacher at Hamline for three years. Tickets will be on sale all week and on and after the twentieth for sale yand to reserve at Harris and com- | pany. | le — + | AT THE MOVIES | & _ ELTINGE Charles Ray \has another country hoy characterization in ‘A Village | , Sleuth,” coming to the Eltinge: the-| ater riday; but this time with a brand; new twist. The picture was} produded by Thomas H. Ince for; Par- amount release. According to the story, Charlie is / .|farmer’s son, with aspirations to be- come a great detective. His bungling ‘amateur efforts when thieves invade | {his father’s melon patch leads to his | departure from home ‘and a new job as man of all work around a private sanitarium. Here he becomes involv- ed in a mystery worthy of a Sherlock Holmes and wins his spurs when he solves it. Of course, there’s a girl in the case. American Ambassador to ' Italy Finds Great Strides Made Toward Recuperation Rome, Dec. 15—The American Am- assador, Robert Underwood Jonnson, who has returned from a visit to the Piave, Isnzo and the Asiago sectors ;of the Italian \ much of the de ed reg’on, declares that the Italians are progressing well! ¥ ris to make tnese war in fit for habitation, - of the war would ma ing of recuperation,’ son to The Associated Press Corres- Pondent. “In April I saw the devasted regions of France from Chateau Thierry to Rheims, an awtul sight which be commended to those who are will- ing to take the risk of another great war. Saye for a few barracks in iso- Jated pieces of repair little had been done to, rebuild. “Today inthe midst of Equal devast- in which 20 per cent of the houses have not been renewed or ‘repaired for occupancy, and the proportion is usually from 50 to 65 per cent. The refugees, most of them ‘still living in the government Sarracks, are hard at work, New houses on handsome iItalian models are, going up every |week. ‘The second stcry may have jbeen destroyed, but if the first’ has walls it is roofed and made habitable | for the time. “The courage and resourcefulness (of war time was not greater than is ‘that of peace, and both call for the admiration of the world. . This needs to be acgentuated because Italy has had so much to contend with, first in ithe failure of this year’s crops. of wheat and corn; next, from the cloud bursts and floods; and, third from the disturbing industrial conditions. For- tunately, the season has been good for building and for every.man in Friule seems to haye become a carpenter or j.mason, Still, this region, with. all “the aid to reconstruction that the vernment Can ¢§ , faces a winter hardship and severe cold. “The people cf Trieste are not only ! brave and industrious, but gentle and courteous, and like most Italians, We saw they respond to treatment. no evidence’ of ‘current violence, ich indeed is not directed against and is local. machivery manufacture was The cotton off. by the Austrians. Most of the inhabitants have hax but they are | and to begin at the bottom, used to the conflict of nature, with’ fai good harvest or two, the region will he restored. r front, including; may'| ation, there is hardly a town in Itaty | but is either industrial or} for the silk and]; all carried y normal conditions, and a, Ambassador Johnson compared the - Italie battlefield on the Carso with the fields of famous battles of the American Civil War, and declared that nothing at Gettysburg or Bloody Angle was more difficult than thé assault by which the Italians. won Podgora, the precipice, 760 t high, which commanded Gorizia, anu with it that important town. The Devil's Den on the Union left at Gettysburg is not to be mentioned with these ‘Bad Lands’ that form so strong a defense of Trieste,” he added: “Let it not be forgotten that the Italians held a front of 420 miles, that they lost half a’ million killed and a million and a half wounded and that they held a million and a half of Austrians trom reinforcing the western line.” NO MORE SUITS FOR NEW BABIES SAYS SMALL Calls Deal off Made Years Ago with One of His Congres- sional Constituents Washington, ‘NX, C. Dee. 15. — For many years Kepresentative Small of North Carolina has by agreement been presenting to R.C. Bland, a Carolina farmer and one of his constituents, a new suit of clothes for eath ad- ditional child in his family. Having presented thirteen suits, and being re- cently notified to send the fourteenth, Rep. Small has informed Bland_ that the contract will he “off” with Mr, Small's' 'retirenient from Congress on March 3. Small and. Band made their com- pact a number of ‘years ago when Bland he now at Robersonville, near here. then had ‘twenty children; hes thirty four. Twenty-six of the thirty-four Bland children are living and the present Mrs. Bland, Bland's second wife, is the mother of nineteen, nine of whom were born during the last ten years, inciuding one ‘set. of twins,’ Eighteen children still live at home but Mrs. Biand declares she gets lonesome , because so many have and Mrs, Bland! recently had a group photograph taken of the family still remaning on the Bland farm. ; While the photographer was working a buzzard cast its shadow on the ground, Bland was asked if he was superstitious. D “No,” he said, *“I'm not afraid of buzzards, but at first I thought the blame thing was a stork.” In calling the Children together for the photograph, Bland simply cupped jhis hands avd in a stentorian voice cried: “Children.” Results were immediate. Childén appeared from every direction. Some of the “chil- |dren were grown men and women; others were darely able to toddle | forth, and one still was being carried in arms. Bland says it is no more trouble to bring up fifty children then it is ;to raise ten, 2 “After you pass ten,” he says, | older ones are a big help.” The .childreti;. were not unusually jmoisy, Bland said, aithough “they | made considerable racket when four- jteen were taken down together with | whooping cough.” The Bland grocery | hill is equivalent to about $150 a week, | although. Bland produces a large part of his food. On one o ion he says he spent mést of one night computing the cost of keeping his family com- fortable, but that the figures reached such alarming proportions he gave up the jod. i Bland is 65 “the years old. Russians Honor : American Writer Amsterdam, Dee. 15.—John Reeil, | the American writer, who” died in ‘“foscow some weeks ago of typhoid {fever, has been buried at the Kreme lin, in the plot of greund which Len- ine has designated as” a sort of a “Westminster Abbe of Bolshevism,” & says a ‘Moscow dispatch in the Am- sterdam Tribune, a Communist news- paper established here. “Reed's, remains rest”, said the ‘Tribune, “in the sacred precincts be fore the walls of the Kremelin, where |so many revolutionaries have already found a resting place.” The Tribunesalso. printed a_num- ber of details connected with Reed’s career, including the statement that | Reed and his wife, Louise Bryant, fought before the Winter Palace in the first battle of the Bolshevik against the Kerensky troops, on the side of the former, in November, 1918. NOVEL CHRISTMAS TREE DECORATIONS Effective Christmas tree decorations can easily be made at home. Take candy sticks and. dress them up in crepe paper and ribvons and thus con- vert them into novel ~candy dolls. lentes nuts, acorns hung from the branches with colored ribbons, and balls of cotton) sprinkled with dia- mond dust as well as rings of tiny gumdrops strung on white thread, makes effective trimming. Why Druggists Recom- mend Swamp-Root For many years druggists have | watched with much interest the 1e- markable record maintained by Dr- Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, the great kid- ney, liver and bladder medicine. It is a physician's prescription. Swamp-Root s a strenghtening meq- icine. It helps the kidneys, liver and bladder do the work nature intended they should do. » Swamp-Root has stood the test of s. It is sold by all druggis merit and it should help you. No other kidney medicine has so many \ Be sure to get Swamp-Root and start treatment at once. However, if you wish first to test this preparation: send ten cen's to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, Y., for a sample bottle. When writ- ing be sure and mention this paper. Small was making a campaign speech _