The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 3, 1923, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT ~ P. 0. REPORT SHOWS DROP IN DEFICITS New in Busi- Postmaster — General hows Incre: ness For Year SESTIONS MAK Hope to Place Department on a Self Supporting Basis In Time Washington, Dee. 3 nary increase in business taxed the ability of the p ice under inadequate app Jast year but “a most gratitying de © in the postal deficit,” amount $30,000,000 ¢ to upp from the previou brought about Post Presider report. It would be depurtuient econo infory n his an Coolidge today condition if become self. und service to do equal said un ideal could the ustaining, with postag charges so adjusted a. justice to all the using public,” Mr, New. ‘To attain ths end, each class of mail matter need not neces- } sarily contr.bute its entire es simated'| cost. Public policy, for instance, has recognized special publications the dissemina ion of information of a public chur- } acter, long for voted tg literature, the cience It is a wise policy and m for the yeneral good and the public welfare, On the other hand, publie policy, as evidenced by the uct of Congress establishing the Parcel Post System, favors the hal ciple that rates for such matter sh equal the cost of the service. this, too, is a wise policy, for there is no, sound reason why the government should conduct a parcel business, so ynalogous to express, for example, on prine:ples other thun those ot ound business.” Paying Business. The Money Order, the Postul Sav Parcel Post: Systems, should be entirely self | ning. ‘The relation of cost to revenue for ahe several functions was studied in 1907-1¥11 und the de- partment is making another cost as- certanment ut the instance of the | Post Office Committees und the Joint | Postal Commission, which has been authorized by Congr When re- sults are known, Mr. New declared they will furnish a basis for an in telligent judgment to posts rates and charges. The Postmaster General made a number of recommendations for leg- islation along those lines including authority for him to: Fix a charge as © for a return receipt for a registered article; fix the fees “chargeable for ration of mail matter and the limit of indemnity; extend the in- surance und collect-on-delivery serv- and pres ed to Geoffrey FLAX TARIFF INCREASEIS | ASKED TODAY Ladd and Young Join in Mak. ing Formal Applications To Commission KEEP THIN TO BE SUCCESSFT BY BOB DORMAN. uckson, prominent member of New York's younger set Akroyd. NEA Service Staff Writer. foston, Dec, cessful? Then youshud better keep a weath- —make sure that | your waistline is still where it used | er-eye on the sealec jto Le. “The lean he holds as true o> person: Would you be suc- e for the long race in th of life as it oes on the track,” “MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 192% BRR FY drifts of Sussex, England. Yet older| |re the bones+of the Foxhall man, | - also found in England, But oldest i all are the bones Trinil man of Java, far back in time have scientists assigned the place of the Trini] man that he is supposed to have lived in those far yesterdays of the earth when life ielf was hardly out of] 4) the GA ea stuge in Nature's | jay aeidieis ‘WILL REVEAL LONG SECRET | OF TRINTL MAN of the - Pees Sita rate WILLYS- KNIGHT For Murder May |% Be Delayed Towner, N. D., Dee. 3.—A confer- | 4 ence scheduled to be held here lute { this afternoon between States At-| 7% Scientists Hold That This);orney Atbert Webber of this city Man Is at Last 400,000 R. Sinkler of Minot, Ursula Smith Ancestor Lived EXPLAINS IN LECTURE FOR CHRISTMAS = woe = Picture a woman’s happiness if on Christmas Day she sees a New and Attorney FE, chief counsel for Mrs. Years Old of Granville, charged with the mur- | gp der of her ‘divoreed ‘husband, ‘Jéhn | see Willys-Knight waiting at the door. Peking, Dee. doThe story of what | Smith, by poisoning la:t June is ex-| : pected to determine whether the woman will go to trial at the term of district court which opened here today. Judge Kneeshaw of Pembina {some prominent scientists believe to have been the first human ancestor (of the humun race—of how he pro- bubly gained his. livelihood, . wooed | is presiding at the term. his wives, reared his children und Counsel for Mrs. Smith iad inti- got his recreation—will soon be told] muted fhut a change of venue to an- to the world by Professor Dubois,|gther county will be sought but » famous Dutch paleontologist. desire to take the cuse to trix! be- This revelation is to come princi-|fore Judge Kneeshaw may result in vally as the result of efforts ef Dr.!,nandonment of these plans. Henry Fairfield Osborn, curator of| It is the contention of the defense the American Museum of Natural that Smith ‘committed <uicide by History who is now in China direct-| poisoning himself rather than by | ing researches on the destrt of Gobi! drinking poisoned coffee which the Lahr Motor Sales Company Buy Accessories For:Christmas. FRT@TRIe! where so many ancient fossils re-|stute contends was prepared by the : [ae ie gaa rs the freshman class at the Universi-| cording to Dean ~Francis F, Brad-) percent of thé new men are sclect- How Dr. Osborn prevailed on Pro-| Boys SHUN PAR- ty of Nerth Carqjina are wholly de-| shaw. ing different occupations, indicating A study of the matriculation cards made by the dean reveals also that students are not following in the footsteps of their fathers in choos-| ing their life work. {fessor Dubois to make public his ‘| findings in connection with the jcovery some years go of the bones jof the Trinil man in Java were ex- {plained recently. by the American | scientist in a lecture before men of alscience in Peking. | The ‘Trinil man of Java, known to {science as the Pithecanthropus Erec. | tus, or upright man-ape, is supposed | pendent ‘on themselves for support,} Chapel Hill, N. C., Dec. 3—More|and are working their way through jthan one-half of the 760 members of | college ax self-help gtudents, gc- Cough, cough, coughing — all night long. aa Marat ENTAL VOCATIONS to industrial life. | with the law second and Ninety-five | third. FOR COLDS COUGHS to, antedate by thousands of years any other fossils of man ever found. Discovered by Professor Dubois “more thun 20 years ago the details of the} ° find have been kept virtually «| YOu Can stop it... secret, It was known, the curator That cough—it kecps you awake at night, breaks your rest, wastes your strength, e dangers the delicate tissues of your throat and chest—break it up now. sono that the skeleton, largely ¢ | reconstructed, bore a resemblance to both man und the her apes, but in many respects differed from both. € Pa Dr. Joc uldihwait, noted New thing of the supposed age of For more than fifty years, thousands of Hie England physician who was a colonel | inil man is to be had from ies haye,relied upon Dr. King's New Washington, Dec. 3—Pormal rin the Medical Corps with the first {Dr, Osborn’s theory, which is shared ‘break up coughs. It does this quickly application signed by Senator Ladd | A. E. F. troop8. ae jby other paleontologists that the! naturally by stimulating the mucous membranes to and Representative Young, Repub- “It wus mot by chance rae ne youngest ee presumably pre-hu- throw off the secretions that are clogging them. Harm- Evhausting night- licans, of North Dakota, for an in-]Sam’ was depicted as a long, lanky | man or sub-human ancestors of man 3 ‘ Ry rater plies in the duty on flax from| person,” says Dr. Goldthwait, “for | whose fossil: have been found is pale wah any pelea erelcets. it quiets the Pesci bes repre YOUR DRUGGIST HAS IT is a bushel with|he is the true American type, the | the Heidelherg man, Bones of the| -thtoat and lung spasms,and the irritation that is ° e in the duty filed today with Senator Ladd and Mr. Young an- | nounced they would also introduce identical bills to increase the duty on wheat from 30 cents to 45 cents a bushel with similar increase on| jp flour and other wheat preduets. Pl NT BILLS. Washington, D. C., Dee E add and Congr M. Young, both of North Dakota, joined in the preparation of _ pills which were introduced in the S issue of domestic money orders, and House today, entitled, “Bill Mr. New also recommended that {fnereuse the duties upon wheat and logislution be enacted to: Bovdedne nd their products.” for the appointment of postmusters | Phe Ladd-Young bill of the third class by the postmaster | weneral; pay rent on postoffice prem montHly instead of quarter! compensate employees for overtime services in excess of efght hours daily; establish motor vehicle rural | routes of less than 36 nor more than 75 miles in length; increase the in- | terest rate on Postal Savings de- posits to 3 per cent and for other ise proposes an increase of the duty upon wheat! from 30 to 45 cent. er bushel, with i corresponding increase of the du- ties upon ¥ ut products. An increase of the duty upon flax is proposed from 40 cents per bushel to 60 cents per bushel. An application is pending before the U. ff Commission to in- improvements; and amend existing laws in regard to examination and | renewal of official bonds; age retire- ment of certain employments, leaves | of absence of railway postal’ clerks, | and moving expenses of officers and | railway postal clerks. Revenues for Year. The postal revenues for the year | were compured with | $484,863,540 in 1922, und the expendi- | S, obligations and losses $57 E compared with $522,45! The operating deficit for | this year was $37,995,307, compured with an operating deficit of $67,606,- 192 for 1922. The expenditures for 4 ar included $15,392,312 in pay- | of undischarged obligations | dover from previous fisca! | which deducted leaves $541,- | the expenditures applying | and makes a deficiency of postal revenues of $24,- 065,203 for the yeur. Addition of | $8,300,779 transferred ‘to the Civil | Service Re ment Fund, $12,677, | paid between June and Septem- ber $0 on 1923 fiscal year obligations, and $8,344,489 of undischarged liabil- ities (in past estimated) on account | of 1923 obligations, brings the total expenditure and undischarged liabil- ities chargeable to the fiscal year of 1923 up to $570,823,232 and makes the operating deficit $37,995,207 for 1923. Speaking of the growth of the Po: Mr. New pointed out that when the Parcel Post System. went inté effect, the revenues had increased approxi cent and that since 1907 the weight of the mails had probably increased 600 per cent. +In contrast he noted that the number of clerks increased only °57.8 per cent, letters carriers 27.6 per cent, railway postal clerks 13.2 per cent, and rural carriers 3.2 per cent from 1913°to 1922, inclusive. ~ Denial of postal privileges to those who use them to defraud the public, Mr, New declared, never has been more righteously and effectivély en- forced than in the action which has curbed the enormous cale through the mails of fraudulent oil stocks. The department has fssved fraud or- dets against 76 of these concerns and persons and is proceeding against , others completely cure the evil. The extent of their fraudulent trans- actions, hexsaid,!run into millions. | wheat i = SWEDEN BECOMING EI ately 100 per | crease the duties upon wheat and products under the flexible | provisions of the tariff law. There has always been in both the Republican und Democratic parties } considerable prejudice against amending tariff laws by piece mez but there was a recent precedent for ithe passage of the Ladd-Young bill in connection with the increase of the duty upon sugar. The late Rep- resentative Kitchin introduced a bill to increase the rate of duty on sugar carried in the Underwood Law. His bill was passed by Congress and re- ceived the approval of President Wil- son. ‘CTRIFIED Sweden locomotive. all of her Stockholm, Dec. 3. bought her last steam She expects to electri railway lines within ten years, the | operating power to be developed al- most entirely from the many water- jfalls of the country, Oot baie Kellogg's Bre fine by eating Kellogg’s Bran regularly! What you should do for your faniily and for yourself is to serve Kellogg's uu | Bran every day, in any one of several Constipation and the toxi¢ poison- Angs that come from it not only ia the ate out of life, making i physically and Bratt | dull—but tie head you into the most Greaded uraan diseases, You can t \ j PRICE type thi progressive and prosperous nation in the world. Look ut President Coolidge, Henry Ford, Bill Tilden, the te: has made America the most Woodrow Wilson, John Rockefeller, Charles Chaplin and nis champ, “All are leaders in their lines 1 ure skinny. Not that the human race doesn’t they are the need the stout person abilizers, the conservatives, matter-o!-fact_ men who work out in detail the visionary dreams of their more slender brethren. “But the slender type is the pio- nee, ihe the man at chings. But great as America. could be much greater if her people were 16 pay more attention ‘to their physi A well being, “We ure too prone to consider our body as # machine that will ran with- us we supply outattention, as long us it with fuel’ and water, “Its's not until call trouble, “We should learn to keep the body fit, and use it rightly. To do that we should make it a point to learn some- thing of the mechanism that is be- queathed us, “The average man will take more care of his automobile than he will of his body—yet the body is the far nore important to him. “We can’t all be thin, good that we should be. “But we can’ all be sure that we not put on any excess weight | over and ubove what natiire intended | do that we should have. “We want to remember that for every excess pound we add, we take away that much from our emeigy for fut makes and aggressiveness, for slowness and sloth.” All of which must give Chief Jus- Howard Taft a good tice William jaugh, attractive ways, and fight as you have never fought it before! Ye WILL (*) ry ret is delicious i i it il I i 4 radical, the progressive— who dreams dreams—who hus the vixion of things to come, the nervous force and energy to plan is, something goes wrong with the mechanism that we in the mechante to fix up the nor is it f Atalled. 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