The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 22, 1924, Page 4

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MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year... weeds «$7.20 Daily by mail, per year in (in Bismar Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota, ‘Bis “THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER tablished 1873) TAX RETURN PUBLICITY Publicity of income tax returns is quite likely to be a question much discussed in the forthcoming session of Congress, Public attention has been concentrated on the ter, since the government has entered suit against newspapers for publishing returns, after the Treasury Department had opened them to public inspection. The law, it is frankly admitted by government officials, appears to be contradictory, and the courts are to be asked to find cut what Congr meant. There is divergence of opinion among Senators as to their exact intent in the passage of the law. Advocacy of publicity for income taxes is not new. President Harrison, know as a conservative, advocated publicity of tax returns more than thirty years ago, hold- ing that no man should shield his income from the govern- ment and declaring publicity was an advantage to the government in making collection of taxes. The modern income taxes, however, have cast a new light on the subject. It has been customary for the largest corporations, such as railroads and industrial corporations whose stock is listed «a the stock exchange and whose stockholders are wide- spread, to publish frequently statements of their financial condition, These will not be affected by the law asked for in Congress. Nor will any of the strongest corporations be affected, except insofar as they dislike publicity. It is the smaller business man and individual who ma. suffer. A strong corporation, out to crush a rival in com- petition, may be informed through publicity of income tax- ieturns of the ability of the rival firm to withstand a con- certed drive. A y result in which the firm with the most money wins an advantage no government law should give. There also is the opportunity for “‘snoop- ing” by busybodies who might use the information for malicious purposes. Those who contend against the wisdom of publicity of income tax returms as an aid in enforeing collections, hold th: the government is amply able to check up on taxpayers through the elaborate system of reports of corporations on salaries and investigation by the internal revenue bureau’s own BCCOUnLS TLS: ATTOO Tattooing is on the wane, even among sailors. This isn’t surprising, for the lure of the sea has also waned. Tattooing is a Chinese art. Sailors “took to it” to show they had traveled. Landsmen, envying sailor life, aped them. . .. The American drift is away from the briny deep, and toward the inland west. It has been demonstrated by the Wagon” and by the national lack of interest in merchant marine and navy. k MOTOR PRODUCTION F: From American factories this year come 2800 million dollars worth of passenger cars and trucks. The auto is no = Jonger a luxury or toy. In most cases it is almost as much a necessity as other factors in cost of living. Its health = value alone—getting people out in the fresh air and away from a monotonous rocking chair—makes it a necessity. = What a fortunate nation! The amount we spend on autos would pay Germany’s entire war reparations in a few | years, AUTO TAXES Motorcars in our country last year paid nearly 472 mil- lioy dollars in taxes, or an average of $31 apiece. This total includes everything from licenses, gasoline taxes and personal property taxes to federal excise taxes. Combined, these taxes amounted to not much more than half of what was spent on. the nation’s roads. Directly or indirectly, you’re helping pay for the roads whether you drive a car or not. Since nearly every family has a car, .~ very few have an unfair burden, FLORADORA Ahoy, old-timers! It’s just 24 years since the first per- « formance of “Floradora” and its famous double sextet. * “Teli me, pretty maiden, are there any more at home like 2 you?” Ah, if they sang it now, the answer would be, “A “few, kind sir, but they’re not at home—at the movies, danc- * ing and necking.” The theater has changed, hasn’t it? so than the public. But not any more The stage is a pretty reliable mirror of CRUELTY The first American society for prevention of cruelty te animals was started in 1823. It was exactly 50 years later when the first society for prevention of cruelty to children was founded. We still have campaigns for kindness to dumb brut How about a few campaigns for kindness to youngsters? ®% A lot of them need it—are neglected far more than the par- ents would neglect a horse or flivver. COMMUNISTS Justice, organ of communists in England, reports that their party’s membership is diminishing rapidly in- every om: & Bred "RE bers in 1920, now is listed under 600,000. Communism is an extremist’s belief. Extremes never last in politics or economics. Nor is any extreme ever right. Common sense always is somewhere arouid the “happy medium.” Se AS ROE cure a cold except the chap who has one. 5 5 When a man with but a single idea gets ie ing he hasn’t seen much on the trip. popularity of such fiction and movies as “The Covered a the audience, especially their morals, faiths and credulity. | ecuntry of Europe. ‘Even Russia, with over a million mem- It seems probable that every living mortal knows how to 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 sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. WHERE THE SALOONS ONCE sTroob (Christian Science Monitor.) Recently su was made in| w York, or that part of the city known us Manhattan, to discover what has become of the saloon of pre-prohibition days. It was showr that of the establishments th; held liquor licenses in the year 19 there are now only 349 places that show no outward change, But it. is explained that those places which + continue to maintain the appearance | of saloons are selling — so-called | near-beers and beverages supposed | to contain less than one-half of 1 | per cent alcohol. Of course it is | not claimed that this pretense is | any more than a flimsy disguise. No doubt many of the bars are the source of much of the poisonous synthetic liquors which find their way into the hands of | addicts und private bootleggers. Gradually it is becoming more and more difficult to replenish liquor stocks from hovering —rum-running boats off shore. Heavy losses | through seizure are rendering the traffic more and more precarious, | with the direct result of increasing | the price of all contraband alcoholic | mixtures. i { mee | remaining | | i But the figures quoted — supply what should be a convincing answer to the ussertion that the prohibi- tion issue should have been left to| the s 1 states to determine as they saw fit. New York state and city officials have not lent sympa- thetic aid to the enforcement the federal law. And yet it appears that under twenty years of as strict reg- ulation of the liquor traffic us it us possible to enforce under state | nd municipal laws the number of, saloons and groggeries in the city was reduced but 31 per cent, where- | as under five years of indifferently enforced national prohibition the number was reduced 79 per cent. It} is shown that in 1896, when the li- quor traffic held full sway in New York and was recognized trolling influence in city poli there one saloon for every con- The most striking change is ob- | servable along Third Avenue, the former stronghold of the brewery- | controlled saloon. In the year 1916, } which is e y recalled because of idential campaigi there saloons, 44 liquor stores, 17 drug stores on this street, there are but 41 such places, | tT ch 23 are saloons which have not been altered in their outward | appearance. The decrease in the number of saloons h been almost | 84 per cent. The 211 saloons and— 44 liquor stores which ha been displaced have given openings to 453 stores engaged in legitimate | commercial business. The assessed value of the property affected has | increased $98,759,000, or approxi- | mately 64 per cent, as compared wi a 214 per cent increase in the sessed valuation of Manhattan 1 ate a whole. That the change that has been in a single American city by hibition. It does not attempt show the greater chunges that h been wrought in countless home: ¥ is another and a still better story. The record could be dupli- cated, proportionately, in ever: munity in the United SI should provide an unanswerable ar- ; gument against all the pleas for the return of the saloon as a dispenser of alcoholic drinks of any kind or} description. and Tod is an ineomplete picture of wrought | pro- to THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON ADVENTURE OF | | MISS MUFFETT’S RIDDLE | “Here's a riddle in rime,” said the} Riddle Lady. “See if you can guess it! “The fairies have spun some lace so fine, ’Twould never do for a dress of mine, ! But ‘twould be fine for an elfin fay, Who wouldn't mind if it blew away. “The silver thread was spun at night, | From a single shred of moonbeam bright, And patterned ufter the rising sun,| With rays like wheel-spokes neatly! run, “When each fine piece was done-— then tried, : And all spread out on the grass and dried, (For moonbeam lace, get through, Is sure to be damp on account of the dew). when fairies | i | i \ “It looked washing! day, If you had chanced to pass that way, like fairyland And you’d never dream each skirt | and blouse, | Was nothing else than a spider's j house.” | “Is it a cobweb?” shivered Miss) Muffet. hat’s exactly whut it is,” said the Riddle Lady. “A cobweb, What will you have for a prize, my dear?” “A box of candy, if you please,” said Miss Muffet promptly. “I am tired of curds and whey.” “A five-pound box of chocolate] drops for Miss Muffet,” said the. Ri dle Lady. | So the footman in red velvet who did all her errands as well as drive her coach and four, brought a lovely, box of candy to the little girl. It was all done up in pink and blue satin ribbon and looked wonderful, and I do wish that if anybody writes where he is go- other poem about her that he will make it something like this: |sense j kick at home when the |more than |their BYGou! iTS GETING BIGGER AND GOING FASTER EVERY MINUTE Eating chocolates all done up in blue Now had spied ‘er ere they sot, inside ‘er, ' I'd have made her a eall, wouldn't you?” i you the next one the; R it is as Almost as Riddle easy as pie. | trooper “My finger wears a little hat, \ It’s good for this but not for that | It has no feathers, or flowers, or} bows, But polka-dots all set in rows. The Maiden All Forlorn guessed it at on t's a thimble,” she cried. “And if that’s the prize, 1 need one. The All Tattered And Torn must be mended up before our vé-dding Here it is,” suid the Riddle Lady nding it to her. i “I wish I could guess something.” } whispered Nick to Nancy “What would you do with a thim- gee ted to know. “Any- are lots more comi I (To Be inued) (Copyright, 1 rviee, Tne.) We thing we have said about the women wish to apologize for every- even if they haven't than the men, much more | No man thinks a woman enough for him wood. unless she is too A husband who wouldn't think of darning socks can't see why his wife hates to build a fire, Men have a hard time deciding what to order in restaurants, yet} food doesn't | suit. Women's clothes are funny. They are almost as funny as men’s would | be if the men had the nerve. { Men have worn neckties a thou- sand years and laughed at the fool- ish things women wore. A man who doesn’t feel dre unless he to his wit ed up | 1s a shave, will object using rouge. | A man whose hair has never been a few inches long, will women have no right to bob} 8 A man who doesn’t do the thin; he shouldn't is considered as foolis us the woman who does. | Very few men would work if they had to ask the boss daily for what they needed, as their wives do. A man can’t see why a woman shouldn’t quit a steady paying job to work for him for board and lodg- ing, ' A bachelor is always considered one from choice; an old maid is con- sidered one from lack of choice. Another great danger a woman faces is she is always likely to fall in love with some man who has a mustache. And when a woman reaches thirty her stock dwindles, while a man just begins to make money at that age. A solution of alcohol and ginger ale is a bad . solution of the booze problem, Jumping from the frying pan into the ‘fire may turn out all right if you keep on the jump. “Little Miss tuffet, Moffet she sat on a is the way they select their heroes, | (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) The greatest crime in the movies THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE yo as twoldirectly to the jber I jthat it was war | | | | | | | | | ! i { LETTER FROM JOHN ALDEN PR TT TO LESLIE PRESCOTT Leslie: Arrived here this morning all s and sound. Went office and found that Atherton had been a regul: getting things under w I imagine that she will be able leave for Pittsburg’ day after to- morrow. Mrs. The Acme people have been more | than kind to me.- The president of the company. s that he had in- tended to arrange so that 1 could a member of the firm by the st of the y He was good enough to say that he had never had anyone in his employ that could handle men as well as I. This, of course, was very flattering to. me as one of the things that I pride elf on. ees aking of h ling men, T am jatraid Iam going to have trouble with that cub Condon, You remem- told you of the impertinent in which he spoke of you and M Atherton, It seems that he has been roped in hy Mable Carter, that women who was in the papers so much last spring when her hus- band was tried for murder. Mrs. Atherton read me today parts 1 letter where he asked her to e the women under her wing when she arrived in Pittsburg. Mrs, Atherton is quite worked up of about it. Of cour she declined to do anything of the sort and must have written a very snappy letter jto Condon, telling him just what she thought about the matt In return the woman wrote Mrs. Atherton a letter telling her that Condon had shown her Mrs. Atherton’s refusal to have anything to do with her and to the knife from ought not to go over to Pittsburg at all, but I tell her she is crazy, that I would much rather fire the boy than to get along without her. She EVERETT TRUE -: The Tangle Jis worth much more to me in the , business. She seems to like the young chap very much, Says he was very good | to, both her and her husband when ‘y husband was recovering from his blindness. She doesn’t want to jeopardize his position in the plant and made me promise I would keep him on, I can see, however, she is afraid something will happen that | will bring discredit upon him and much scandal perhaps to all of us. |} 1 was for discharging him imme- diately but she begged me not to do so. Said most ef- ficient in a b ay. This was confirmed by your father who had told me that he had practically run the plant while he was ill. I hate very much to have Mrs. | Atherton start in alone as no one will know what that she-devil will put the boy up to and no one knows better than,1 what a fool a man can make of himself when he thinks he lis in love with a woman, 1 did not see mother until noon, She is looking very well indeed, but that damned old maid, Priscilla Bradford, has gotten her all stirred up again. What is it, Leslie, that makes old people’s brains incapable of looking on the bright side of things? Mother told me about your letter. Said you practically told her you didn’t want her to live with us. She seems to think she ought to come and live in Pittsburg. I'll talk to you about this when I arrive home. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) PEDESTRIANS’ FRIEND Manchester, England, Nov. 22.— Pedestrians ‘of Manchester have found a champion in their warfare now on. .., | against careless motorists. A mys- Mrs. Atherton is of tle opinion | tcrjous, black-cuped man has ap- that under the circumstances she] peared at intervals on the — side streets of the city at night, firing a revolver at the headlights of speeding automobiles. His accur- acy is said to be uncanny. CISTSEN }- JEVER HEAR THIS ONG 2 — AT A COUNTRY COLLEGES FOOTBALCH GAME THE UMPIRE YECLED SATURDAY, now estimated that More voted than in 1920, more. four years. citizens entitled to vote. VOTE SLACKERS OF 1924 By Albert Apple NOVEMBER 22, 1924 ite the intensive national campaign to “get out the only about half of the eligible | Voters went to the polls and cast their ballots. to be sure — several millions But the population increased materially in the last The gain in voters was offset by the gain in Now, what’s the reason for this continued drift toward claim, already has arrived? president this year. government by minority—a condition which, many experts rea They claim that more than half ‘of the eligible voters stayed at home instead of balloting for One possible explanation is ‘that the number of people entitled to vote has been exaggerated. Such is improbable, to any material extent. Getting people to vote is a double job: jto the polls is one thing, inducing them to register is an- It amounts to a problem of enticing them to come But even this isn’t the major cause. other. to bat twice. } Even so, it doesn’t eliminate the un- ideniable truth that “vote slacking” hasn’t been checked. Inducing them When a problem such as “vote slacking” cannot be ex- matter of the pocketbook. | plained by psychology, by indifference or by lack of patriot- iism, it’s a pretty safe bet that in the final analysis it is a Most of our political, social and economic problems sim- {mer down to matters of money. It is probable that millions of peopple stay away from the polls for this reason: THEY FEAR THAT REGISTERING AND CASTING Our cities are gorged with jin the matter of state, county or municipal taxes. | | BALLOTS WILL PUT THEM ON THE LOCAL TAXATION | LIST WHICH MANY HAVA MANAGED TO EVADE. residents who “beat the law” The tax slackers sense that if their names get:on the record they wili shortly receive a tax blank for listing their savings accounts, household furniture and other personal property which so imany of them have concealed from the levy. Are the majority of “vote slackers” simply “tax slack- ers”? The problem of getting more citizens to vote in the na- tional elections is a constant problem. The error in 1924 was in campaigning at the last moment. If we want to induce them to vote in 1928, a campaign to that end must be waged steadily for the next four years. “Vote slacking” is a big problem. be solved by overnight education. a fixed and unalterable law. sary. And no big problem can n. Reformers know this is Time and patience are neces- New York, Nov. 22.—Fifth Avenue, America’s most famous Main Street, is celebrating. its versary. Fifth Avenue is the street on which New York holds its parades. It is the street on which women | who “have nothing to wear” go shopping. It is the street on which all the George F. Bubbitts of Gotham hold forth at corner-stone layings and monument unveilings, There is more window shopping done on Fifth Avenue than on any two streets in the world. The ladies, bless ’em, get ideas for dresses, cloaks and hats from Fifth Avenue windows for garments made at home or bought in cheaper stores, Fifth Avenue, too, is the nation's greatest Peacock Alley. On Easter Sunday poor working girls, who have saved for months to buy fine fea- thers, parade with the richest fam- ilies in America—anq the casual passerby can't tell the difference be- tween them. “Ever try sea bathing in winter?” Mr. Jones of Anytown smiled and shivered at the question. “I mean, in your own bathroom,” continued the questioner. Mr. Jones shook his- head. Salt’ water baths, mixed in one’s and restful. In nervous disorders physicians frequently prescribe that the pa- tient mix sea salts in hot water be- fore retiring, dip a towel well in the solution and ring it out, letting the towel ubsorb the salt during the night. On the following morning the pa- tient, after several minutes’ exer- cise, rubs his open-pored body brisk- ly with the towel and a most stim- ulating and nerve-soothing effect is secured. {six months there were I believe there are more styles of; in West Twenty-ninth street, between architecture on Fifth Avenue than| Eighth and Ninth avenues. are to be seen on any other street in a woman. FABLES ON HEALTH SALT WATER BATHS . own bathtub, are quite stimulating, the country. tectural Every aspiring archi- student should spend sev- hundredth anni-|eral weeks, at least, riding up and down the avenue. The most significant thing about Fifth Avenue, it seems to me, is that s alien to all the rest of New While it is just an overgrown Main Street it still is the most cos- mopolitan of all. New York thorough- |fares, Yet it doesn't represent New York’s mad rush as much as Broad- way nor as much as Wall Street. Nor does it represent the great hu- man drama of old races achieving new. life in a new country, as the Bowery and other East Side streets do. ; Fifth Avenue belongs to the coun- try at large more than to New York. fal It is the general belief that most of New York’s suicides are girls. The majority of them are men, and quite a number of them are married men whose homes have been disrupted, In iX suicides One was A pleasant reaction is to be had from sprinkling sea salt in the bathtub and, in many cases, it has been found helpful in cases of run- down constitutions. ‘ ~ ——_-———__6 | A Thought | Blessed are the meek, for they shall... inherit the 533-12, Meekness is the grace which, from beneath God’s footstool, lifts up candid and confiding eyes, accepting God’s smile of fatherly affection, and adoring those perfections which it cannot comprehend.—James Ham- ilton, HARD ! (By Florence Borner) “Put away the baby’s high-chair, ' He's too old to use it now, Put away his blocks and rattle, Cut the curls from off his brow; H He is four years old tomorrow, And, tho time does simply fly, earth—Matt. > We must make a boy out of him— There, there Mother, don’t you cry.” So they took my little sweetheart, Cut away his golden curls, ‘That I loved so much but Dad said, They were.only fit for girls; When they brought my darling to. me, I could not suppress a sigh, For he looked just like a stranger, , To my unaccustomed eye. Gone wete all his silken tresses, With their rings of shining gold, While they'd dressed him up in trousers, Scarce hig little weight could hold; As I pressed him to my bosom, Fondly ¢alling out his name, He exclaimed: Baby loves oo ist th’ same.” On, the days, how fast they're flying, Each one shorter than the rest, For the sun bas scarcely risen, Ere he sinks down in the west; Let a tear fall on the dresses, And the little stock of toys— For, it’s hard, upon us mothersy--er-—- When our babiea tutn to boys. “Don’t worry, Muvver, = “Soe