The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 16, 1921, Page 2

THEBISMARCKTRIBUNE Pc ES CR Ce il Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN : : : } Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT. Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. i PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEWYORK - - - -__ Fifth Ave. Bldg. pasha ees ae MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . Editor The Associated Press js exclusively entitled to the use; for republication of all news dispatches eredited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local, news published herein, - fe ‘All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved, MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year..... RSA | Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). . Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota...... THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1878) > YOUR SIGNATURE Here is the signature that controls more money than any other signature in the world: Handwriting experts say that the signature re- veals the character and disposition of.its writer. Knowing about John D. Rockfeller, and having his signature before you, compare it with your own. x That might lift the veil—give you an inkling of the future, of your financial destiny. ; A helpful thing you can learn from the way the world’s richest man signs his name: He writes 80 you can read it, in a free and rolling hand.. Copy that style, if you want to protect yourself from forgers. The open, rolling signature is the most difficult to forge. The signature that looks like & tangled fishline is easy to counterfeit. So said: Jim the Penman, cleverest forger that ever lived. In ‘his prime Jim the Penman could take colored inks and fine pen and duplicate a banknote. ! Did it ever occur to you what would happen if our system of signatures were suddenly: to’ be wiped out? The signature—rarely the same in two persons —determined by your temperament and nerve control—is man’s most ancient means of. identifi- cation. It identifies nearly as surely as the fingerprint. It’s more reliable than an individual’s personal presence, for somewhere in the world there prob- ably is a double of every individual, including yourself. Imagine the confusion that would follow if sig- natures were: impossible. The system of bank checks would become im- practicable. The authenticity of contracts: and orders would in nearly every case be disputed. Governments would not make treaties through their diplomats. Every important document would be questioned as a forgery. The business world would be plunged into greater chaos than if it were deprived of type- writers, telephones and telegrams. tere RM Your signature is your trade-mark, your protec- tion against impostors, your means bf identifica- tion and’ protection of your money. Time was when all schools taught the slant sys- tem of writing. This gave place to vertical pen- manship when French doctors discovered’ that slant writing necessitated a twisted posture of ‘the body that often caused eye-strain and spinal ‘cur- vature. But, no matter how much the system of writing is changed, your signature retains its individ- uality. i 5 $ That’s because it’s the expression of how you coordinate or focus your arms, hands, eyes, pos- ture and control of your nervous system. ~ Write your name on a slip of paper. Study it, for you can say: “This is‘a mirror of the real I.” HOW DO YOU VOTE ON THIS— A Champaign, Il]., man died leaving a wilt in which he requested his wife to re-marry as soon after his death as she desired. He then showed a lot more common sense than the-rich Pennsylvanian whose will provided that his wife lose a large part of her inheritance if she re-married. j : Bequeathing to the living the shadow of the dead hand. is man’s final expression of egotism and selfishness. Bie It is difficult to understand what satisfaction the dying can get out of it before they: pass: on what they expect to get out of it in the state after death. PENURY The penurious policy of the American govern- ment in respect of providing decent accommoda- tions for its ambassadors and ministers is again emphasized by the situation in the Argentine. The rent allowance for the embassy at Buenos Aires is $325 a month. This provided a-fairly satisfactory place in pre-war days. But rents have soared in South America as elsewhere. . The American ambassador, failing to get an increase in his rent allowance, has had to move to the second floor of a building on a side street. prec eae AOR “| drought: The first floor 18 occupied by a’ mattreks factory, a carpenter shop and a ladies’ tailor. Not a very good way to impress our South American neighbors with the greatness of these! United States. wodbu whats veer \ HUGHES’ OPPORTUNITY President’ Harding, ‘has doné the expected by | appointing Secretary of State Hughes head of the| | American delegation to the Washington disarma- ment conference. \ | It will probably be the verdict of the nation, | irrespective of politics, that no wiser choice could; ‘have been made. This entirely apart from the! fact that Hughes’ position as cabinet premier clusion. , appointment as has Hughes. history. Much will depend \ officer. ‘ ‘ officer. + it hee STATISTICS According to official ‘soviet statistics, published in the London Times, the population of soviet Rus- sia at the end of 1920 was. 138,000,000, a decrease of 12;000,000.for the same area since 1914. The population of Moscow, the soviet caiptal, | was 1,050,000, as against 2,548,000 in 1917. Two hundred and fifty thousand in Moscow are government officials, which is more than the total number of ‘government officials in the whole of Russia in‘1897. ; The death rate in. soviet Russia'in 1920 was 45 per thousand, as against 23 per thousand pre-war. «. The-grain deficit in Russia is due to the chaotic conditions throughout the country and not to Not much hope for bolshevism in these figures! ALAS! The white population of the Samoan Islands were delighted when under: the terms of the Ver- mandate. But they didn’t realize what they were being let in for. sent Now that the New Zealand prohibition law has been put into effect on the islands, their delight has changed to disgust and they are demanding that’ the mandate be transferred from: New Zea- land to the British: ¥ ‘ EQUALITY Two items of interest to Women as showing the sexes’ t nominated women for jailers. : “ A circuit court judge in Oregon has ruled out, as a reason for divorce, a wife’s plea that her hus- band’s earnings were: insufficient for the family and that she had to go to work. ii a“ avih ton EDITORIAL REVIEW not express the opinion: bere iu order that our readers may which are being Eee macro wah ae DR. HARDING AS BRIDEGROOM : The President's father: didnot look ‘to ‘his dis- tinguished son for leadership and counsel in the matter. of a: new enterprise of matrimony. -The! doctor was lonesome, he said, “unbearably lone-| some,” and he craved a companion who’ would| lighten and brighten the days:for him. He found| her in a woman whom he had known and esteem- ed for many: years-as an assistant in his profes- shinal life. ie A : ? _ Whether Doctor Harding should marry or not at 76-was his own affair—-and his bride’s. _They had been associated long enough to know each other well.. They are old eriough—and not too old —to understand how serious’s thing is marriage and to.know the yearnings of their own hearts. The bridegroom preferred that there should be no undue publicity at any time and none at all to enliven: the first hours of the new relationship, but:the attainment of a wish of that kind in these days. is not so easy as secret diplomacy: secretly arrived at. t y ayy It may be that Dr. Harding grew “unbearably lonésome” ‘because son’ Warren and his wife. are not able.to be in Marion‘as often as they used:to be when Warren was only a senator and had fewer. responsibilities resting.on him. . Of the five chil- dren of Dr. Harding only one, an unmarried school- mistress, lives in Marion, the others being scat- tered from Washington to California. The White House appears not.to have been consulted at all about the advisability of the alli- ance brought about in a little Michigan town. Dr. Harding deemed it:necessary to take counsel with just one “best mind” on his domestic policy, and that mind was his own. His countrymen will wish for him the full measure of happy companionship he-craves, knowing that to be “unbearably lone- some” is one ofthe little tragedies of the human heart.—Minneapolis Tribune. = ta made his appointment practically a foregone con-' No man in high position in the Harding admin-| istration has grown in public esteem since his It is not too much’ to say that this conference; jhas possibilities of developing: into the most -im- portant international. gathering in the world’s | upon Hughes, who, as head: of the delegation of the nation calling the confer-| ence, will undoubtedly be chosen as: its presiding No such opportunity for world service and world; fame has ever before come to an American cabinet sailles treaty, New: Zealand was given: the Samoan | nation-wide progress: toward: full: equality of the |« The Democrats of two Kentucky counties have) {I(T ie BISMARCK TRIBUND |: | | | ADVENTURES { | | | Did‘ yeu catch old’ Whizzy ‘After Nancy and Nick had taken |Whispering Forest. where they met Mr. Sprinkle-Blow with his lasso jwaiting for them. nado?” they asked, noticing how tir- ed the. Fairy Weatherman looked. Sprinkle-Blow shook his head. too fast for me. My magic umbrella But*he knew that I was after him, go he hurried across forty states and a dozen rivers and two oceans and gome ,mountains to his home in the Cave of the Winds at the End of the Earth, and slammed his door. But I jon’t think he'll come out again for awhile, 80° the best thing we can do is to hunt up all these lost creeatures and take them home.” The three of them got busy. The poor, Z90 animals were scattered all ’ Practice of This Form of Taxation By Haxen J. Barton President Tax League of America Q. Where such a staggeting sum of money must be raised annually |throygh the means of taxation as the government requires, is it not a wise provision to have the tax apply over a wide range of objects instead of be- ing confined to only a few? A. That is just the plan of the sales tax. It covers all commodities and all tangibles: It is thus diffused over a wide range of objects and is not con- fined to only a few. Q.. If a sales tax law as proposed should be passed would it correct to any extent the patchwork system of raising the government’s revenue now in use? ' A. jIt is a tax to take the place of the present patchwork system of rais- ing the government's revenue now in use. It could take the place of many of the’ present ‘taxes. * Is it possible under our present tax law to make returns which are correct both from the standpoint of the government and ofthe taxpayers? “A. Judging from ‘the: experience of the past two years, it is ‘almost impos- sible to do so. Corporations, partner ships and individuals have hired attor- neys and expert accountants to make up their tax returns and in spite of this the government has collected hun- dreds of millions of dollars due to in- correct tax returns, which it has stat- ed are not fraudulent, but merely mis- taken. It has announced that it ex- pects to collect many hundreds of mil- lions more when back returns have been checked up. Most corporations have not had their books inspected on later than their 1917 returns. Q. Why should the government col- Yect such huge amounts of arrears of taxes as it now is collecting under the revenue acts of 1917 and 1918? A. -The. revenue act ‘is so difficult to understand that even the advice of: highly-paid experts has not protected the taxpayers against errors. in mak: {ine their returns. | | ont A HARD PULL | By Olive Barton Roberts the poor lisards back to their home|°® by. the. barn-door, they returned to “Did you catch Old Whizzy Tor- he said, “the old felllow went can only go a hundred miles an hour, and he can go about two hundred. through Whispering Forest, some of ORR eee THE SALBS TAX i Exposition of the Theory and OF THE TWINS Tornado?” they asked ‘them’ ‘with homes, ‘but more. with- ut. The monkey boys ‘were found -in Cob Coon’s house in the tree, where Whizzy had. blown — them. Cob couldn't’ imagine what or who they were and wouldn’t go home, and slept two nights in the sugar-bush. Mr. and Mrs. Pelican landed on the edge of Ripple Creek, near the Willow-Tree Pool, and as Blackie Bass and _his friends ‘said afterwards, never had they seen such appetites. They vow- ed they’d never complain of Cob Coon and Marty Mink again. The lion scared everybody. to’ death with his mighty roar, and when he wandered up and down. the forest paths, never was there such a scur- tying. The tiger and the . elephant, the Hama and the moose, all were wandering ’round with no place to go. Whispering Forest had turned into a perfect jungle. (To Be Continued)- (Copyright 1921 by Newspaper Enterprise) Q. What has been the experience in the Philippine Islands regarding ad- ministration of the sales tax? A. In reply to an official inquiry made by Secretaray Houston, the Phil- ippine government stated that: ‘The sales tax is the most satisfactory, ac- UNLACE *EM FIRST, WARREN! a curate, economical, productive and equitable tax in our system.” |" This tax has been in force in the is- ‘ands since 1905 and has proven a com- | plete success. Q. What is the Canadian sales tax? A. This tax is applicable to sales by | manufacturers, wholesalers - or jobb- lers, and is payable on all goods or ‘articles which are not specifically ex- \empted. The sales tax is cumulative ‘in effect, the rate of tax being 1 per cent on sales and deliveries by man-| ‘ufacturers, wholesalers or jobbers; i but, in respect to sales by manufactur- ,ers direct to retailers, or to consum- | jers, and on importations by a retail- ‘er or consumer, the rate is 2 per cent. i Exports are exempted from the sales | tax. \ —-From The Minneapolis Tribune | | MANDAN NOTES || os | FORMER MANDAN RESIDENT DIES The many friends of the family in |'Mandan, were grieyed to hear of the \death at. Burbank, | Calif, of Miss |Gertrude Estrop, daughter of Mr. and ‘Mrs. Jarvis Estrop, pioneers of Man- who recently removed to Califor- ia, | Gertrude who was’ 25 years old was |born and brought’ up in Mandan, and ‘had ‘a host of warm friends. She had {been in very poor healthy for some itime and her recovery had been des- ' paired of. She had taken up a nurse’s i training course ‘and was compelled to \give up work last winter, and _ had igince then. made her home at Bur- ank, a suburb of Los Angeles. Be- ides her parents there survive four isters, Mrs. K.-W. McKendry, Man- |dan; Mrs. E. G. Ufer of _ Lambert, |Mont., Eliza and Esther now of Bur- | bank, and to them the sympathy of the jcommunity will go out in their | bereavement. The funeral ‘is being held today in Burbank, and the interment will be at that place. MOVE CLUB HOUSE TO PARK The park-commission is having the old Chautauqua grounds cleared up to make it more inviting to campers. As soon as funds can be secured work will be started on considerable park work, Which ought to make a fine showing for the summer season next ear. ari has been suggested that the Country club building be @onated to the park commiss‘on and that it be BY CONDO WHEN L_WANT TO Go WT, Xou WANT To STAY HOMG, AND WHGN L go out !! WANT TO: STAY HOME, You WANT MC To} CET'S HAVE IT QUICK — ONS WAY FOR THS OTHER WHat AGovT (tT, Now THAT (TAS KOUR DESIRE To REMAIN At HOMS Tes “| SVENING & A THERE'S A FILM RUNNING AT THE MOWE CALLED “DIPLOMACY” — HERE'S YOUR HD Bonner — We'cu. Go DOowN THERG THIS Hl GVENING AND Ou Gan STUOY THE TITLE I! | ba TUESUA?, AUGU: moved on the Chautauqua park. Most of the stockholders in the Country club have signified their willingness to do this. Since the golf course has been taken over’ for other purposés by the government it. will be neces- sary to lay out a new-course and it would be impossible to move the pres- ent builiding to the new site, und a new club house would be necessary. FIRST HEALTH CONFERENCE HELD The first- of a series of child health conferences which are to be held in Morton county under the direction of Miss Edith Ekman, county Red Cross nurse, is taking place today at Elks hall, and will continue through Tuesday and Wednesday, from 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. each day. Mothers jare requested to bring their children that the greatest good ‘may result {from these meetings. Doctors have offered their services, and children from the ages ef 2 to G are examined free. "The {clowing lacieS are as3*sting the nur: . Altnow, M:s. James Mary Thnmerman, \Mrs. H. 8. Walters, Mrs, Oscar. Zea- mer. Tuesday: Mrs, Zeamer, Mrs. Mc- Gillic, .Mrs. Cooley, Mrs. Walter Tostevin and Mrs. ‘Walters. Wednesday: Mrs. Zeamer, Mrs. McGillic, Mrs. L. F..Smith, Miss Mary Timmerman and Mrs. Altnow. Mrs, William Macken and children, who have made their. home in Dickin- son for the past year, have returned to Mandan and will make their home here again. Miss Muriel Mackin will teach in the Mandan’‘schools during the coming term. | * ie Mr. and- Mrs. 8. A. Young and..Mr. and Mrs. Roy Young have left on. a motor trip to Miles City, Mont., where they will visit Mr. and Mrs. Fred Young. Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Robertson have returned from a three weeks trip in the east. Mrs. Robertson also, yisit- ed in Arkansas and Kansas City. Miss Ruth Lowden, who has been the guests of her sister for the past three weeks has returned to her home at Bowman, N. D. aiid R. 0. Mercier of the Russell Miller Milling company has gone to Minneap- olis on a several weeks visit with friends. Mr. and Mrs. K, L. Glidden of Min- neapolis are the guests of the latter’s son, H. H. Williams. They motored to Mandan. B: BE. Kennelly and children return- ed Sunday from Chico Hot Springs where they have been the guests of friends for the past two weeks. Mr. and Mrs.’ Russell A. Young returned yesterday from a two. weeks visit with relatives near . Hettinger. Michael Haider, of Los Angeles, Cal- ifornia, formerly of Mandan is in. the city looking after. business interests. Alfonse St. Cyr: has returned from Brainerd, Minn., where he has spent the past few weeks visiting friends. Mrs. Tavis and. daughter Theresa of Glen Ullin are visiting at the John Tavis home for several days. Miss Anna Swanson returned yes- terday from a two weeks vacation spent in Minneapolis. i ' Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Moline have re- turned from a three weeks automobile trip in the east. Harold Lawrence -spent Sunday visiting friends in Bismarck. Mixing drunks “also causes trouble, With’ rents it is “put down or shut up.” Vacation days all roads lead to roam. ‘i . The real yellow peril is the price of lemons. Sometimes a pessimist is the son of an optimist. A bachellor is a man). who never made a Miss-take. Sherman must have been speaking of paying for a war. , North Winds will soon be going |South for the winter. These girls Who pose for magazine covers make a bare living. A steifographer who chews gum i$ always gumming things up. Infant industries want to be judged by their ability to raise a howl. “That Texas Village with 51 churches is well equipped with fire escapes. | The South’s cotton crop reduction may put some wool in woolen suits. Doctors ‘dre being asked to cut their prices. Very difficult operation: Bald-headed men should find ‘com- fort because there is no parting in heaven, 3 New British histories should con- tain a chapter headed “My Wild Trish Rose.” ; Congresswoman Robertson saya their pointed remarks? If you' don’t get a vacation this summer you'll be rested up from last year’s by next year. _ s i fi tO) Upssrede UD ost: The phone company might issue a directory showing what wrong num> ber to call to get the right one. —_— women should disarm. Lay down _