The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 6, 1924, Page 4

Spe We Ad al the ame eit ado » suc wor loa anc Toa rt tio pre sto of of ing wo suc 2 poohds e° ae a ee . ai 4 F la . “decay. *PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK Butered a: the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D.,.as Second Class | re Matter Pei tay seeing not relpress Foreign Representatives Heng dise "tho press vot 4. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY al CHICAGO - - - DETROIT c REDUCTION Marquette Bidg. Kresge Bldg. aa neue ores PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH In the last analysis, the sole con- | NEW YORK 2 5 : 3 Fifth Ave. Bldg.|sideration on which the President MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or tepublication of all news dispaiches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. 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............. Boon. 0) Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). . os Sada 4!) Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) . 5.00 Daily by mai!, outside of North Dakota........ + 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Hstablished 1873) THE WALSH REPORT The repo, prepared by Senator Thomas Walsh, the oil committee prisecutor, is notable for the conclusions it reaches with respect to certain testimony adduced before the oil committee, condemned at the time by many of the newspapers of the country, who at the same time fulfilled their functions 2s purveyors of news by giving the publie all of the juicy, though apparently mendacious, tales told. It is to be hoped that the report will prove as interesting reading as the extraordinary stories told regarding the late Jack Hamon’s attempt to buy the Presidency at the 1920 Republican convention. =~ The Walsh report finds that “the evidence fails to e lish the existeuce” of a conspiracy between oil operators ab- and weathers at thé Republican national convention in 1920 for ex- ploitations of public resources. Only the most gullible or prejudiced believed the many “dead men’s tales” told before the committce at the time they were related; the stories that the late Jack Hammon had boasted of spending hundreds of thousands of dollary to buy prominent political leaders and to place Warren G.-Marding in the Presidential chair. The report exonehates former Secretary of the Navy Denby and Assistant Secretary whatever” the negotiations “leading up to the leases” of oil reserve The retirement of Mr. Denby was forced, and was demanded, by many who did not believe him guilty of any wrong-doing, but believed that it was necessary to re- assure the country that all ef those whose official duties placed them in contact with fhe oil leasings should retire trom office. The committee found no substantial’evidence to support declarations that government officials speculated in Sinclair oil stocks on the strength of their knowledge of the leasing plan. Another bit of sensational news at the time the oil iry enjoyed its most fulsome, publicity is exploded in atement. Such speculations as there were appear to have been chiefly in the usual-course of business. The i h report condemns former Secretary Albert B. f flagrant disregard of law and public policy, and Dokeny for their financial. relations with him. 1 the wisdom of the oil leases remains un- decided. It is reeommended by the Walsh report that leases shall be made only to prevent draining of government oil reserves by wells drilled close by. That also is sound policy which has not been contraverted, and it was the claim of those defending the leases that they were made actually because of this situation. The question is one experts only can settle. The Walsh report urges competitive bidding, Congres- sional action and other safeguards in future leasings of gov- ernment oil reserv. All of this in principle is usually ac- cepted as proper government policy, national or local. The Walsh report, as a whole, ought to do much to ease the minds of those who believed that the entire government was honey-combed with rapacious officials or weaklings who succumbed to the influence and bribes of unscrupulous men. “It ought to confine the odium for the Teapot Dome situation to a very few men, of which, from the standpoint of the gov- ernment, former Secretary Fall must bear the chief blame. It ought to produce a public demand that in the future inves- tigations shall be limited to material facts, and that clearly incredible stories shall not be permitted to disseminate a | wide-spre impression of a wholly crooked government. li ought, in fact, to be reassuring to the people of the nation as a whole, that wrong-doing in his places is not customary. but is exceptional, and that most of the men in public life are anxious that such wrong-doing shall be punished without tnerey. . AMES More Johns in America than any other name. After John comes William, then James. This is shown by check-up of many city directori Religious names, from the Bible, exert a great influence when it comes to naming the average child. Just why John Jeads all other names in popularity should interest the clergy, for it unquestionably indicates a very definite preference, admiration or interest. Once started, of course, names become hereditary. It takes courage to give a child a name that isn’t as common as dandelions. SUPREME Ford gets ready to make 10,000 cars a day. Already he’s turning out over four-fifths that many. The best equipped auto works in Europe is supposed to be the Flat plant in Italy. It cannot make more than 200 cars a day. : s 3 Young men, in particular, should read this twice. It is typical of the industrial supremacy of America. There are other kinds of supremacy, and in many of them we have room for improvement. Ours, however, is an industrial civiliza- tion. Higher art and culture will come later, symptoms of SPREADING Democracy is as contagious as smallpox. It is a fire that teadily consumes aristocracy. In England, for instance; less fan 40,000 families paid heraldy tax in 1923 (registration of coats-of-arms). In 1880 the number was 252,000. Rising democracy is submerging the nobility over the! e. In nobility’s place will come an aristocracy of wealth, if Bri- tain follows the American precedent. Muncie (Ind.) bootlegger has been arrested three times three weeks, but it doesn’t seem to be often enough. A Chicago girl who inherited $700,000 is engaged to a plumber who couldn’t make that much in a month. in __TRIBUNE Roosevelt from “any part. | Editorial Review signed the revenue superiority over the enue law, inherent merit. There has been an immense amount of talk tion. Now it Is a fact, to the extent of $128 000 next year, and more t (00,000 in succeeding years. this and in this alone is the new lew superior to the old. That i very great virtue, but notwith standing it, the law falls lament ably short of what it might been. As the President ind ‘ Congress has given the go-by to bet- ter proposals, and, “s fortunate influence which ought not to control fiscal questi passed a pill porate a sound bill was its not its own permanent policy, which the enact, the Administration hoped to Administration can well duetions. The Administration last November trongly advised by the party s in Congress not to raise the question of tax redue- | |tion. It was only over these pro- |tests, and by reason of the cour- | ageous insistence of Secretary Mel- lon, supported by the President that the subject was opened. ‘The realities of tax «reduction ha | most been lost in the Co: miasma, where cheap foul politics obscured the issue, but finally a much compromised meas- Jure has come through and duction of a sort | means that tax | per cent less t that a man jincome of les | will next year ha moderate earned than $8,000 a yea pay only about one. third as much he did in 1923, that taxpayers with incomes in the higher brackets will get some tri- | fling relief and t | xeneral will be fr a whole j es of nuisance taxes, on telephone | and telegraph messages, drinks and candy, carpets, trunks. theater admissions than 50 cents, and so on. The outstanding features of the new law are: A reduction o income taxes 1924. A reduction of 25 per cent on earned incomes of less than $10,000. A reduction of 50 per cent in taxes on incomes less than $8,000. Repeal of various excise tax- es and reduction of others. A graduated reduction in the surtax amounting to 4 per cent > per cent in payable in in the highest bracket of $500,000. Administrative reforms, in- cluding the establishment of a board of tax agents. Provision for limited public- ity of returns. Increase of the estate from 25 per cent to 40 cent. : Institution of a gift tax of 40 per cent. | The President’s statement, {a | which he takes exception to many of these provisions, is one of the ns of fiscal pol- icy which the present discussion of taxation has produced. For clar- jity, directness and concise expres- | sion, indeed, it deserves to take # | leading rank among the pronounce- jments of recent American pres- | idents. tax per President Coolidge has chosen a great issue on which to go to the jcountry next November. He has | accepted the revenue law as a measure of temporary releif. Not the least of its good points fact that it removes the uncert ty of busin over fiscal polit and permits | But he does not . “A correction of its defects,” he announces, may be left to the next s n.of Congress. IT trust that less political and more trulv economic may be time. To that end I shall bend all my energi: This is notice of the chief plank in his platform sound fiscal poli He has chosen well. Those defects are te: lily stated, The Dispatch thinks that the country will agree with the Pres- ident that they are defects. In the first place, the new law virtually aves unremedied the error of the confiscatory and non-productive surtax. The decline in productiv- ity of the suretax in proportion to its graduation upward has heen | demonstrated. A vast tax ev: | forced by confiscatory | rates is progress. The door to this evasion {has been left wide open through |the refusal of €ongress to pro- | hibit tax evempts. No new induce- ment has ‘been offered to large capital to enter private enterprise, and no relief has been offered the ‘consumer from the huge indirect taxation which he pays. know it or not, by reason of these surtaxes. In this the law, if no worse, is still almost as had as the old. In the second place, there is the new high estate tax. which amounts to a capital levy—the execution of working capital—and which in- fringes on the revenue resources ot the states. The value of the new ‘board of tax appeals, third, has been reduced by unwise tamo- ering with the Treasury proposals. And, fourth, even in its tamed con- dition, the publicity. provision is yet too wild. The nation needs a sound fiscal policy. The President will go to the country representing it.—St. Paul Dispatch. passed at that There are fourteen different kinds ‘Austria's bank clerks struck, perhaps for more holidays. ere tein nee text scompanies present rev-| about tax reduc- | 010,000 this year, $361,000.- | ject to un- | which fails to incor- | which in two or three respects is positively vicious, and wl take no cognizance of t! t need for reduction in indirect as well as direct taxation Although the law is not the one | im credit for the fact of tax re- | the public in| THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | “I can't get along without meat,” Mr. Jones would say. | And, except in hot he | was likely to eat two portions a day. While meat has definite food value, | use of it can be abused as surely as can the use of sweets, About meat there has long been a division of opinions. The stimulation is declared by some undesirable for growing chi- | dren and for many oldsters. The maximum _ prescribed weather, for N va TanTAs SHARP 4s iT wGHT BE Bul Tut Surew SHORTEN SITS 1 | Even a Dull Ax Is Sometimes Better Than None | FABLES ON HEALTH 3 NOT TOO MUCH MEAT ——_—————————_—_————— adults has been four ounces of meat day, and vegetables and milk are vised as part of the menu. The chief argument advanced against meat eating has been that, in many people, toxic effects are pro- duced by decomposing products; but this is not the case with all, by any me The seems it Health experts advise plentiful use of vegetables with the meat dish. only danger, if one exists, to be in tine overeating of ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON — The door into Mr. Bags’ store nt tingalingaling and in walked ddy Cracknuts. “Tomorrow is our wedding anni- versary,” he said to Nick, who wait- | ed upon him. “Ma and I have been | married two years, and I want to | buy her something nice. The only troyble is that I haven't thach money.” | Mister Jay Bird, the barber, hap- pened to be in the store and heard every word. “Say,” he said to Dad- dy, “I have an idea. I'd like to have a lot of hair to make a wig. Why | not come to my barber shop and let | me cut the hair off your tail and I'll pay you well for it. Tl give you twenty-five cents for-all the hair on ycur tail, Daddy. Twenty-five cents! | That's a lot of money.” “Yes, it is,” said Daddy thought fully. “That's a lot of money, Mis- \ter Jay Bird. I believe that [1 do jas you advise. The hair will grow on my tail again, won't it “Of course it will, Daddy,” said | Nick. “Why don't you take Mister Jay Bird’s advice?” “All right,” said Daddy. “I'll do it. Come along, Mister Jay. I'll go over te your barber shop with you, and you can give me a tail bob, or a bob EVERETT TRUE MR, TRUE, 1S ONG He CIGHTS -- | J. BURD INKING TON, OUR LITERARY te ql or whate call it. I'l t the twenty-five cents and get Ma fine present for her anniversary ent. So away they went. At that very minute the door of Mister Bags’ store went tingaling- ling again and in ran Mrs. Cracknuts in a great flutter. “Oh, dear,” she gasped. “I’m id that Daddy will see me. row is our anniversary and want to give him It’s to be a surprise.” pr 80 To- 1 kike?” waiting asked | who was the lady. “I hardly know. on ” said Mrs. Crack- nuts. “I hardly know. You see L haven't been able to save much money and so I can’t spend much.” “Why, I need some nice soft hair like yours to stuff a pillow,” said | Mrs. Owl. “Why don’t you go to a beauty parlor have it.clipped off short? I'll give you twenty-five cents iw” That's a fine idca!@cried Mrs. cknuts. g summer and Warm, anyhew. Besides, it If grow. again and, by fall I'll have @ finé new crop of hair when the days are chilly.” So away went Mrs. Cracknuts to a beauty parlor and had her hair all cut off short, Mrs. Owl paid her twenty-five cents and away she went with the money to Mister Bags’ store in the oak tree. “Here's the money!” she cried. | BY CONDO MSCT i 4k nee Or a nice present} “I'm going to buy a twenty-five cent comb for Daddy's tail.” Mister Bags wrapped up the comb and ‘she took it home. Next along came Daddy Cracknuts, his poor tail as hairless as a lead pencil. “Here's twenty-five cents,” he shouted joyously. “Please give me that brush I've been wanting for Ma.” Mister Bags wrapped up the brush and Daddy took it home. When he opened the door, Mrs. Cracknuts took one look at his tail and cried, “Daddy!” And Daddy took one look at his wife’s short coat and cried, “Ma!” Then both of them laughed and laughed and laughed. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) ims VS The voice of the people is heard best just before an election. A heavyweight has a fat chance of keeping cool this summer. When a women gets a man up a tree she makes a monkey out of him. Maybe the immigrants think they have a right to this country because it was discovered by an immigrant. June brings to mind the peculiar fact that the shortest sentence in the world is also a life sentence, it is “I do.” An easy way to make a friend is to tell someone he works too hard. Congress doesn’t worry as much about the farmers as it would if the farmers could raise a majority. The man who has the least credit takes the least care of it. Bet there are no bills in the dead letter office. Dempsey has adopted some phans, proving Jack is putting heirs, or on Now that warm weather is here we can see what the girls had up their sleeves all winter. What is so rare as the money for the income tax payment in June? ' It seems as if the right side for a politician to be on is the inside. A man who knocks at our door is always welcome if he quits after we let him in. It must be great to be so rich you can afford to have spring fever. Vacation daze will soon be here. ’ It is hard to believe there are germs in kisses on a moonlit night. A Day With the Candidates——. Edwards Knows Commuter’s Life By NEA Service Washington, once a week Senator Edward I, Ed- June 6,—At least wards of New Jersey hops off a train from Jersey City and walks two blocks to the Senate office building to start his daily job of senatoring. That's why they call him the Com- muting. Senator, Edwards is president of a bank in Jersey City and usually on Saturday morning he is playing banker. _ Monday sees him back in Wash- ington. For the balance of the: week the senator rises at 7 and goes horse- back riding or hiking before break- fast. By 9 he is at his desk and when- ever the Senate convenes he most always ans roll. call. A cup of coffee and. possibly » FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 19 | ithe reformers have recently clothes. This novel reform was decided on after solemn con- sideration of the report of investigating committees. The idea is that it’s harmful for natives to wear garments , ‘in the Papuan climate. i | Some American theatrical ‘by precedent, been working tgward a similar program. lin Toronto it is illegal on the Sunday movies. | Golf is permitted, pro! game. work. ‘a year ago wrote: |like. \from you.” tionists. Compulsion always has its BLUE LAWS AND TABOOS By Albert Apple eT ee | In Papua, large island in Australia’s part of the world, Ontario, Canada, has Sunday blue laws galore. ream, etc. The printing of newspapers on Sunday is pro. hibited, and Sunday papers are for sale Saturday night. No bably because it’s really a rich man’s The purpose of all this is religious observance of Sunday. |It has another effect — compelling people to rest and take jlife easy on Sunday, recuperating for another bout with , Discussing the psychology of prohibitionists, Felix Audley “It is a trait of primitive men to like \those who are like themselves and dislike those who are un- This insistence on sameness is particularly strong in regard to ways of believing and behaving. The more intense ‘you are about the things you believe or the way you behave, the more you will be prompted to abolish those who differ | That’s the principle of some of the more fanatical prohili- Not enjoying liquor themselves, they are deter. mined that no one else shall enjoy John Barleycorn. v prohibited the wearing of producers apparently have, Even Sabbath to sell cigarets, ice inevitable reaction. LETTER FROM JOHN ALDEN PRES- COTT TO LESLIE PRES- coTT DEARE I miss you, miss , dear, very much, and I think you might have written me more than one letter, I don't wont you to get into those | morbid feelings that you wrote me about. You're not going to leave little Jack and me, If you did we | would both trot right after you and jb you back, no matter if you had sailed across the River Styx. Between you and me, dear, I do not believe that Dick Summers will jever marry Paula Perier. In the | first place, I don’t think Paula will ever marry any man except he be one of great wealth; and, secondly, I do not think she wants to marry now. She is too much taken up with» her work, That was rather a smart epigram of Sally Atherton’s. wasn’t it, dear. to the effect that “hypocrisy is the attribute that animals take on with their souls.” She is a very brigh® woman, and she amuses me more than I can tell you. You bet I won't let her'-go back to your father if I can keep ‘her, for I don't mind tell- ing you that I don't think by any possibility I would have gotten that last million and a half advertising contract if it hadn't been for her copy. ‘It’s corking! Don't let Alice get your goat, I like you plump. I never liked those skinny women; and whatever men may enjoy in the women who var them they certainly do not their wives to be anything les: a comfortable sort of a won womaa whose very figure you to restfulness and repose. I don't believe, however, { you've gained more than five pound since we were married, and I tho if anything you were a little t then. You're just exactly right, dear, I wouldn't have you lose an ounce, I don’t quite understand how Al ice got that way, for Englishmen are proverbially less attentive to woman's wants than American m I think she was decidedly when talking about little Jack. You've no idea, Leslie, how sweet that kid is getting to be, and so smart he will take hold of my fingers | a little monkey and let me pull hin right up off his feet. He hasn't a particle of fear as long as I have him. I hope I shall never lose his great confidence. Mother, too, has grown mad m. She is spoiling him just as al grandmothers do. You'll have a time to get him back to the scientific basis on which you have raised him. Dear, I was awfully glad to read what you said about Karl Whitn for to tell you the truth I’ve alw: been a little jealous of him. in { so damnably rich, and you have known him all your life. I’m glad that you have told me that you lova me better. JACK, (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) sandwich answers at lunch time. Edwards would rather stretch his long legs up and down the capitol corridors than eat. The afternoon is spent in the Senate or at nis desk and 5:30 finds him homeward bound—to a_ hotel, where he lives with his wife, daugh- ter and son. » It's a toss-up whether the senator spends the evening reading, out walking, at a theater or early to bed, Edwards gets the greatest kick out of playing with his grandehil- dren, down at his country place at Caldwell,N. J.. He always spends a share of the summer there. There are three outstanding touches. of originafity to the sena- tor from New Jersey: ‘ He one of the féw senators who really wears a frock coat; he still dons a derby,. and he parks trick glasses on ‘his: nose, each lense be- ing about the size of a nickel. Motér vehicles ranked second in commodity exports in 1923. | A Thought \ (ER | > Let us therefore follow aftergythe things which make for pe and things wherewith one may edify” aii: other,—Rom. 14:19. Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind.—Collins, Injury Verdict Is Affirm The supreme-court today affirmed a verdict of $3,000 obtained in dis- trict court by Edmund Dubs, an fant suing through Rudolph Duis, for injuries sustained when he was run over by a Northern Pacific Railroad train near New Leipzig July 5, 1912, Edmund Dubs at the time was nine years old, The case has been fought in the court, on frequent appeals, for several years. } The overnight development of the radio industry, even in ajswitt- mercial romances of this tury. Within the span of a littl more than four years the ranksipf the manufacturefs, composed cl those who had alded the navy during the war in the of ‘the wireless, telephor Brown from a group of al pioneers into an army of 3.000. .. Sates of ‘padio 2920 amounted to a bai Its eatimate, t the public during the past year at least $150,000,000 in ‘acai sets and parts of the instru! that tapped the ether. The’ that the industry is making | THE INFANT PRODIGY, "@e haz: ; indicated by the statement that ex Denditures for research by one o! the large, manufacturing groupt during the next year will exceed the amount of the total ales jus! four years ago, iy ‘The industry-ts so new that the Government has been unable tc take a census to determine its rank or proportions. Congress has no! had time to frame legislation regu lating it. Its past events have beet kaleidoscopic, and the industry - m4 although there ar’ Growing indications that it tle down. For, with to mange phases, there .is # distinct move Ment im the direc! of standardi stionm Ameriann sBankore & will sag 3