The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 9, 1921, Page 4

THEBISMARCKTRIBUNE ‘ptt Enter Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN : : . - Editor Foreign Representatives { G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY DETROIT CHICAGO Kresge Bldg. Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or, not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published’ herein, i ; 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 $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) Daily b;: mail, outside of North Dakota...... sstwoee THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) <e | RAILROADS | A plan for consolidating the railroads into 20 big systems has been worked out by the Inter- state Commerce Commission. j That would cut out a lot of foolish competition. It doesn’t matter how big a railroad combina- tion is, as long as the people control it through) their government. And government regulation | of the railroads is here to stay. MYSTERY Another old mystery solved. For centuries, archeologists were puzzled by perpetual lamp: eften found burning when they opened Egyptian tombs thousands of years old. Now it’s discovered that these lamps have wicks soaked with chemicals that don’t burst into flame until struck by fresh air when the tomb is entered. Time solves all mysteries. i SECOND-HAND | Karachi, India, prepares for its monster annual , second-hand clothing bazaar. It will dispose of; one of our peculiar exports, cast-off clothing, mil- lions of dollars worth a year. | Hindu dudes’ greatest ambition is to get a sec-| ond-hand American dress suit, at $25 a dozen.; Old vests are next in demand, at 20 cents each. What Oriental this winter will wear those old clothes you sold to the ragman? : DEBT i What to do with the national debt. That wor-' ries many. Gentlemen with blue glasses think it can never be paid off. American mines last year yielded $6,707,000,- 000, says the Geological Survey. Three and a half national debt. The debt could be wiped out overnight if every American contributed $224.81. To carry it re- quires interest of only $8.65 a year for’each of us. Like most problems: Not as serious as it seems. NETS . Fifty million dollars worth of hair nets, which} help take care of woman’s greatest nuisance, are sold in America yearly, says Theodore H. Gray, the hair-net king. , Hair for genuine hair nets comes from China. It’s sterilized and dyed by Americans. Then back to China to be made up into nets by cheap labor. A year after the original purchase of raw hair, the finished net is offered for sale. Few realize the tremendous details, work and travels of the common things of life, before ready for sale. PYRAMIDED | Hot-dogs are threatened by the tariff. For 50 years sausage-casings have been on the free list. Now it’s proposed to protect them by tariff, though] 90 per cent are imported. A. W. Kemfner, representing the sausage-casing importers, says‘the tariff would add half a cent a! pound to the cost of making sausages, which would be pyramided to three cents a. pound by the time the sausages reached the retailer. And what! would he add? . | This, brethren, is what is known as indirect or} “painless” taxation. The ultimate consumer pays} +several times over! | as oesoeinnieh orale | HOMELESS | “All dressed up and no place to go,” pretty ac-| curately describes the rather pathetic situation of former Emperor Charles of Austria. | He has been living in Switzerland since he lost; his throne but has ceased to be a welcome guest) and has been ordered to move on. He has asked half a dozen European governments to give him| asylum but they have all refused. “ae The “moving day” fixed by the Swiss is close at| hand and the former emperor is pleading for an; extension of time. | : RIGHT! i The declaration of President Gompers of the} American Federation of Labor that the American| workingman is entitled to something better than| a standard of living which gives him and ‘his family the bare necessities of life and that he will] ‘ostoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second | income in rent. | Ed can afford it, she says, because his income | How does that compare with your income? | But somebody else does! | What kind of a brain and heart must a man have {tion laws do not forbid the exportation of liquors, /and as humorously suggesting that we might be |Special Policewoman ° lall the promising claims on the earth’s surface actionary group of employers to bring about just such a condition. i Gompers puts the proposition thus forcefully land picturesquely : | “Everybody knows that there has been but a islight reduction in the cost of living. A hog gets \its swill, a horse its feed and both are given shel- ter. But food and shelter alone must not be re- jgarded as the basis of the cost of living of the American workman. ' “fe must not be put in the same class as the jlower animals. He requires and deserves some- |thing more than a bare existence. He is entitled |to a few of the luxuries and finer things of life.| | And we are going to keep right on fighting to see| |that he gets them.” { | TIPS | Five bootblacks, the Gregory brothers, will build a $1,000,000 hotel at Uniontown, Pa. | They saved the million in 15 years since they | came from Greece and opened a cubby-hole shoe; shining “parlor.” | That’s what can be accomplished by “watching ithe nickles and dimes.” | How many customers, whose tips helped the| | Gregories reach the top, have accumulated $1,000,- 1000? Probably none. INJUSTICE | An estimate, based upon figures gathered from ‘every section of the country, is that landlords are |taking from the average family one-third of its The pre-war figures showed that the average family’s rent bill was but one-fifth of its income. There is some justification for higher rents to-| day than before the war, but no justification what- ever for the refusal of the great majority of land- lords to join in the general liquidation. Sooner or later the public will find a way to square accounts with the rent hogs. INCOME © Five thousand dollars: a week alimony is asked by Mrs. Edward Small, wife of a New York theat- rical promoter. : is $18,000 a week. It seems enormous. Yet $18,000 a week is less than $1,000,000 a year. And more than 200 Amer- ‘icans take in that much. And they don’t all earn it, either. QUESTION .; . An assistant treasurer of the American Red horse races. who will steal charity money for such a purpose? | The Canadian authorities are reported as saying in response to complaint that their own prohibi- offended if they undertook to assist so great a country as the United States in enforcing its own statutes. Unlike*Prof. Einstein, Mme. Curie did not see in the uniform cordiality and enthusiasm of her welcome in this‘country amusing evidence of American ignorance and-lack of culture. She was pleased—and said so when she went home—with this land of “limitless possibilitiesfor the future.” ‘old and goodlooking, | of Philadelphia first attracts street “mashers,” then pulls her club. and “swats” them—a method which the “mashers” regard as not quite onthe level. By being only 30°¥ The Gazette of Emporia, Kansas, boasts that: when Ku Klux Klan organizers invited prominent | citizens of that place to “join up at $10 per join”! they found no suckers and’ were laughed out of | town. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in thie column may or may not expreas the opinion cf The Tribune. They ere Presented here t. onler that our readore may have || both sides uf important ianues wnich ore being dis- cussed in the prese of the day STRANGER THAN FICTION | Oliver Optic, Horatio Alger or Mayne Reid; would have vied with onc another to make “copy” of the five Greek brothers of Uniontown who made! so much money shining shoes in the last fifteen years that they are about to build a hotel costing $1,000,000 in the middle of the town. Bootblacking, or bootlegging—anybody who has anything to do with the boot these days seems to be getting rich. ‘The chief end of man seems to be no longer the head but the foot. The story is a rebuke to those who whine that were staked out before they came along. There is no more paralyzing fallacy than this. The chances abound for those with the will and the wit to seize them. FORT RICE MAN WINS 40-ACRE Fort Rice is the winner of the 40 acre corn contest which has been staged {this summer by County Agent G. H. Ilse.as an incentive to the farmers to! MANDAN NE CORN CONTEST Making a total score of 93 points of| a possible 100, Charles Rambow vf: {where her marriage to“S./°R! Miles, | brother of Mrs. Edgar Johnstone took }place yesterday. Mr. and Mrs: Miles jrwill make their home in Minot. H | Mrs. Anna Schroeder; who has been |Visiting at the home of her daughter, rs. F. P. Homan left yesterday tor ;Eird Island, Minn., where she will | Visit relatives for a short tine enroute ito her home in Io John Homan of Alton, Ia., arrived in| BY Gott | IT Takes The EARTH A LONG Time To answer! 1 ;to the woods and bided his time. Now that he was safely down to earth again, he wasn’t going to let any med- dling fairyman and two children inter- fere with him any longer He laughed and laughed and laugh “Goodness!” ex Blow. “I guess | ¢ sh my va- jeation after all, kiddies. What hap- pened in the sky? How did all these | Nuisance Fairies get loose?” He | looked as forlorn as anything stand ing there under his dripping umbrel- la with his. shoes soaking wet, and his mustache as droopy as a_ wet | rooster’s tail i The Twins told him that it was all their fault—how they had left the key jin the door, and all the rest of it. Suddenly Sprinkle-Bi:w began tc Sprinkle- raise more feed in Morton County. A'the city and will visit at the home of; Smile. Then he laughed out loud and total of 70 entries were made and there! hig gon, Frank Homan. Mr. Homan i slapped his knee, “Wel!, well, well!” were six farmers scoring above 90 ac-/ has been at Litchville, N. D., looking! he cried. “Well, well, well! I forgot con ing forthe judges, G.H. Llse and) aster farming interests for a few days.| all about it. It was time, anyway!” vr. Thysell: i — “Time for what?” asked the Twins Cross has been arrested on the charge of stealing; ‘ Ye |$14,000 of Red Cross funds. The police say he years of that would pay off every penny of thei has confessed that he lost the money betting on } 42, | Second hlace in the contest was tak- ‘en by G."L. Love of Mandan with a score of 92; third, Frank McGillie, {Mandan, 91.5; fourth, Martin Graner Jr., Huff, 91, and fifth,W.F. Lawrence, Solen, 90:25,. Steve Koppy of Rice was the only other entrant to exceed the mark of 90,,his score be- ing 90.05:""Phe fietds were scored ac- Td} and yield. By: $40, $30 and cleanliness‘6f: the: are tt, of Solen fas the winner jv contest at'the Missouri hich has just closed at ed second, and Martin Graner of Huff third. Premiums. were $10, $5 and $2.50 respectively, The fact that 1921 has by the quality and maturity of the ears entered in this contest. “One of the big problems of the whole Slope country is that of feed,” says County Agent Ilse, in comment- ing on the contest. “In the contest 'which has just closed, a total of 2,800 acres of corn was involved. How- ever, we feel that the big benefit of the contest comes from the demonstra- tion by farmers in every part of the county that corn is a paying crop for feed in Morton county and that it should not be necessary to ship in hay or feed in large quantities. LARGEST j i] MENT IN A larger number of pupils are en- rolled in the Mandan schools this year than ever before. The total attendance in all grades and high school was 672 on Tuesday. The high school attend- ance was 200 and it was expected ‘there would be fifty more enrollments Before the end of the weck. Yn the Dilloway school, Miss Mary Stark in charge, there are 33 as com- pared with 25 last year. Custer. school, first room, Southney, 20; second, Muriel 18; third, Miss Hendrickson, 21 Miss kin, fourth enfelder, principal, 13. Total 72. Central school: First room Miss Greenwood; second, 38, tin; sixth, 41, Miss Huber. Grammar department, Miss Gaines, principal. 103. The other teachers in the gram- mar department are Miss Gibson, Miss Latimer and Mr. Bower. The above figures show an average of 18 pupils to the rovm in the Custer or east end schoo] and 44 in the west end school in the lower four grades Last Saturday night! at a meeting of the board of education, the dividing line between the two schvol districts was moved eastward from the center of First avenue N. E., to the center of Collins avenue. This. was deemed ab- solutely necessary by the board mem- bers and Supt. Love to more evenly distribute the pupils, The promotion of C. C. McLean to the managership of the Billings mili of the Russell Miller Milling company and transfer from Minot to Mandan of H. A. F. Roberts as manager of the local plant, has been followed by more changes in the Mandan mill. Arthur G. Rooth, who has been head book- keeper has been made assistant man- ager at Mandan, and Ray Hjalmseth is now head bookkeeper. R. O. Mercier, Fort; cording. ta,maturity, of:sue-corn, stand, | ‘oy, Veeder of Mandan plac-| been a banner corn year, was evident} room in charge of Miss Louise Grun-| 43, | Miss | Whalen; third, 49, Miss Brown; fourth, | Miss Mills; fifth, 51, Miss Mar-} The tale of the five brothers is a recent instance not go back to this standard without making aj of an old, old story, and a story especially charac- desperate struggle is a thing which needed to be said. teristic of America, the land of opportunity for those who are not afraid to work.—Philadelphia & For it is the undoubted purpose of a certain re-| Public Ledger. |former assistant manager here, has |resigned and gone to Minneapolis to enter the automobile tire business. Miss Maud Painter of Minot, who has been a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Johnstone the past | week, left last evening for Fargo, James R. Fitzsimmons of the O’Rourke grocery company underwent an operation for appendiciiis at’ the Deaconess hospital Wednesday even- ing. G. L. Olson has as a guest at his home, his ugle, Joseph Olson" of Dassel, Minn, George Tipper is on a several weeks, ; Visit with friends.at. Turtle Lake, Wis. | ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS By Olive, Barton. Roberts Nancy and Nick deft the house of the earth with the help of their Green | Shoes. They hurried to the spot where Sprinkle-Blow was trying to make | peace with the quarreling fairies. | Howly Thunder and Jumpy Lightning |had made short work of Sizzly Dry | Weather, and sent hit skidaddling. Jumping up to the sky, they rolled the barrel marked “Regular Pour- downs” .onto a big black cloud and took off the top: After that, with all | their racket and flashing and torren‘s jof rain, Old Sizzly didni.g 10 come j back. Old Man He te to : nieces and tore off to the. ac Jack Nippe | Frost was pleased, too, 2nd’ d off i i} | EVERETT TRUE ‘ i. (ACC READY FoR ' DINNER, ARE ‘YoU | | [the Nuisance Fairies, from which they | jhad all escaped. and sailed down Lo! ; curiously. | “Time for the regular fall storm. | Twice a year I have to let all the ! Nuisance Kaities out together, once in the spring and once in the fall.” (To Be Continued.) } (Copyright 1921, N. , A. Service.) t i Exposition of the Theory and Practice of This Form of Taxation President Tax League of. America. Q, Is it not a fact that the sales | tax was used in Egypt, Babylonia ‘and Kome; that it prevailed in France prior to the revolution; that ‘it has prevailed in many instances when a privileged aristocracy was in position to dictate the method of se- curing revenucs jf the. state, thus deriving the greater part of the reve- , BY HAZEN J, BURTON the common man; and that the deno- cratic movement was instigated and is maintained for the prevention of such methods of oppression? A. Both the income tax and the sales tax have.been safely used from. the time of Mises wth tithes on in- comes of. ten per cent and on gan- eral sales of one per cent. Both BY CONDO| Ze = a = = NN STOPPER OVT OF THE WASH BOWL THAT ou LGeT Fuce OF DIRTY SASANTIINANNTNUNUANIT A N we or. Es THE SALES TAX nues from the sales of necessities to | have succesded at reasonabie tates, and otientee they have failed. (Professor | Seligman ‘gavq ‘5 4590 q historical summa of Add od rates of sales taxes before the Senate: committee May 27th, 1921, Part 16 Committee Print, but his conclusions did not emphasize the certain failure of a high rate of every form of tax- ation, which usually led to revolution, whatever the tax. ‘He states of the Sales Tax:“The only country where it was tried in all its fullness was Spain. It sarted there in the early middle ages in the Communes, and when Spain became a nation it was introduced as a national tax in 1342, It includes virtually all articles, first as a 1 per cent tax, later as a 5 per cent tax on all sales. It was known |as the Alcavala. Apparently tho Alcavala was 80 successful at the original 1-per cent rate, that the absolute monarchs of that day jumped the rate five fold, and even then the people paid the tax. In later years it was again in- creased to 10 per cent, at which rate the people rebelled: Q_ Is it not a tact that the most notable instances of a general sales tax on a large scale are those of ‘France and Canada; that neither of these countries impose a flat rate on sales; that, according to official reports, the French tax is yielding less than 45 per cent of the estimated revenue; that the Canadian tax: ex- empts a long. list;.of commodities, among which are all food products, building materials for construction, purposes, fuel and other necessities, and. provided that the governor and council might add to the list of ex- empt articles so far as the public wel- fare made it expedient and necossary? A. France and Canada would. suc- ceod much better if the sales tax were confined to 1 per cent or legs, with no exemptions whataver except $6,900 annual sales for the small farmer and deale~. This exemption would otherwise treat al’ business: competitors alike, while all the social inequalities: of acquired personal wealth, could be leveled up by the graduated personal inqome tax and the inheritance tax, tariff and to- bacco. (From The Minneapolis Tribune) All women have a se“se of Tumor. The new tariff will scon report for duty. | Fall originated the Joose leaf sys- tem. Many telephone ‘girls miss their calling. The ,key ‘to success’ fits’ the school- house door. Some‘ men can’t feel ‘at home with their shoes on. % A case of liquor costs more when it gets in court. It's fine to begin at che bottom if you don’t stop there. British notes to Ireland don’t end “Yours respectfully.” Truth is stranger than fiction be- cause it is more scarce Builders’ estimates indicate they iz- tend using gold bricks. Let’s hope the last world fight wil! be that for disarmament. Another European violinist is coni- ing over to fiddle arouna. | | The ex-kaiser is proving he is hu- 'man by wanting to move. The question now 1s how much mileage in a pair of shoes. If all speeders go there the road to hell won't be paved long. If you don’t believe your days are numbered look at a calendar. tots of peonle are not known by the company they try to keep. The most important steps in some people's lives are dance steps. When a girl tells a man to save his money it’s a sign he is going to need it. The Ku Klux might try making vic- tims read the Congresstonal Record. — All other means failing, ten Sing Sing inmates have ‘broken out wita the measles. If auto prices keep on dropping they will give one with every new radiator cap. A New York man has married on $25 a month—thus usurping Ser- geant York’s place in aistory as the century’s greatest hero. H MEIGHAN A GUNMAN Fancy ‘'nomas Meighan, Paramount star, a gangster and guaman! This is the character he assumes in “The | Frontier of the Stars, his new star- ring vehicle which comes to the Bis- marck Theatre tonight. | ‘In this thrilling photuplay, Mr.Meig- jhan, as Buck Leslie, a Bowery ruffian |meets with a girl whose loftiness of } goul and innocence lead nim to a | better life. There are many thrilling ‘scenes in the action which are cal- {culated to hold the attention of film ifans to the finish. Faire Binney, a | popular actress, heads a capadlo sup- | porting company. | ROMAN CORNERSTONE | Geneva, Sept. 9.—M. M. Blondel, archeologists, have exca- | vated an old castle, probably built | before the yeir 1000 The corner- {stone was pf the Roman period. Berger and |