The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 27, 1925, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE EQUALIZATION OF TAXES Is AIININ STATE Bigger Problem Than Reduc- tion of Taxes, Thoresen Declares The equalization of taxes, more than the reduction of taxes, is the big problem in this state as well as other states, according to T. H. H Thoresen, state tax commissioner “The work of the Tax Commission- | er is a mighty big job,” said Mr. Thoresen. “I have discovered that there is an unlimited field of work.| It deals with every phase of the gov- ernment. “The tax problem js the one all im- portant problem not only to the peo- ple of this state but to the whole na- tion, Our system of taxation in North Dakota places the greater por- | tion of taxes upon real and personal pfoperty, That is not a bad system provided all the citizens, who receive the benefits and the protection of government, had property which was subject to identification and loca- tion. To a certain extent, however we find that about the only property | which may be so located for taxation is the real estate and the personal property upon the farms and the lo- cal business people. “That, however, is not all the pro- perty in the state. We find that there nreyothers who enjoy the same benefits of our government as those who till the soil or who conduct the local business places. We have cor- Touts a mt th Wea ing to try to di ana Regiment, captured at Cold Harbor by the Eleventh Con- | the error. We are going to try to do Porattunty boll domes ane for-| necticut Regiment in 1864 has been returned by its captors to New| better. We are striving for that eign, The vaiuation of their pro-! Orleans and placed in Memorial Hall, Captain James Dinkins, young. geal of perfection, and we would like perty is not always so easy to deter- mine as that of the farmer or the local merchant. est Confederate offi banner from Commander Ira er of that rank, i: CAPTURED FLAG IS RETURNED After 60 years in strange hands, an cld battle flag of the Tenth shown receiving the tattered R. Wildman of Connecticut, DEAD LETTER OFFICE WASTE IS AVOIDABLE Postmaster General New De- termined to Curb Careless Correspondents Washington, General New has determined to at- {tempt to curb careless correspond- May 27.—Postmaater ents and prod parcel post users-who are responsible for a drag on the postal wervice which causes an enormous economic and considerable financial loss each year. | With a view to reducing dead let- |ters and parcels, now going to the Idead letter office at the rate of 21,- 1 690,000 letters and 803,000 parcels a year, the postmaster generai has des. ignated the week of June 1 to 7 as “Better Mailing Week”, during which |a nation-wide campaign will be‘con- ducted to educate everyone to, use more care in the addressing of ‘mail. “If everyone who mailed a letter or parcel put a return address on the envelope (and the proper place is ; the upper left-hand corner, not the | back), says the postmaster general,| ithe dead letter office could be clos- ‘ed and a vast amount of money, time and energy saved. More than 99 per- jcent of dead letters contain no clue to the sender on the envelope. “Mistakes are bound to occur, but | investigation of claims and com- plaints divulges that in the vast ma- jority of cases it is the mailer rath+ er than the postal clerk who makes { | {for you to cooperate with us and help reduce that appalling dead letter revenue. It can be done by: “Let us take for example the rail- road corporations. How are we g0- ing to place a correct value upon their property? They operate through several states. We have the road bed and the rails here all the time, but that would not be of much value if it was not for the trains that move our sovernmen over them. These are here today | end in another state tomorrow. So GREENS WORTH in order to get as near to the cor- a rect valuation of the corporation's} $40 PER ACRE | property in this state we try to find Y > the valuation of the whole system AS FOOD CRO and pro rate to this state the amount —— which the mileage of the road in| Thousands of acres of cultivated North Dakota bears to the mileage land in the Northwest produce desir- of the whole system. able food material which is not ased| “That is fair enough. But how to/although it has a value of $40 an’ ons, botanist Agricultural ward step, be it ever so small, I ‘shall have done something of bene- fit and endeavored at least to cor- rect an evil which is not only threat ening our own », but which is threatening the foundation of ory find the correct valuation of the whole system is another question. This is 4 very technical and intricate problem and I could not give yout all the details now. But we use a combination of several systems. “One of these is to take the earn- ings, that the roads report, and capi- the college. “Almost eve! knows the value veyetables which are needed so much during the long win- he explained. To fill this need | for vegetables the housewife buys yone talize it. That is, the roads report. cans of spinach and similar gr that they have earned a certain! foods. A quart can of spinach amount of money during the year) 25 or 30 cents. Yet the tender stems and leaves of the common wild mus-! tard yn be wu in the same way and the product is almost indistinguishable, “Our grandmothers as net profit. This is then taken and figured at say five per cent earnings of the total value of the corporation, and thus we find the capitalization of the corporation. That is only one system used. spring ‘gr “This system, as you will note, young tops of such plant taxes the corporation upon its earn-! quarters, dock, milkweed, ing power. If it earns a good profit and wild lettuce. The Ind it pays a larger taxi If it earns lit- the common milkweed in thr prized the lambs- pokeweed ns used “Many a housewife of tod dandelion leaves, but a gre iety of plants which require less 1 bor in preparation grow neglected in the fields. A couple years ago our family had been enjoying the mus- and lambsquarters in a field ‘which was not being cultivated. We were sorry to give up this excellent lustration is to raise this one ques- tion: How much taxes would the farmers or local business people pay if they were taxed according to their earnings? The farmers and the bus- iness people are not taxed upon their earning power but upon an arbi- trary value placed upon their pro- perty. It has the same valuation whether the farmer loses or earns dish and tried canning by the three money. It is my opinion that it is, hour process. The result was entire- these several inequalities which has, !y satisfactory and we enjoyed many made taxes so unpopular amongst allj Meals of this fresh vegetable the the people. nevt. winter.” “Equalization of taxes is the one; These two species are more gen- big problem in North Dakota, and ctally available than any others, and that is the one big task which I have in favorable weather can be used igned to myself as tax commis- until after flowering has begun in sioner. I shall try to work out a June. Often when the tops are cut solution whereby each citizen in the off new tender branches will appear. state will pay taxes according to the Mr. Stevens experimented with a éatning ability of his business or few others and found tumbling mus- his farm. I believe that every citizen tatd (young stems just before flow- of our state will agree that that is ering) apparently equal to the com- the fairest that can be hoped for. “It is a big undertaking, but 1) am going to ¢pproach it with all the| + earnestness and determination which I have, knowing that for every for- “Why! He’s Nothing But Skin and Bones” “Marry Him? Never” “Quit kidding me, Agnes; when I get ready to lanu a man he’s got to be a real man with plenty of 00d healthy flesh on his bones.” ‘Ot course, I dance with Ed; He's a good enough fellow and [ st. feel sorry for him, but no kinny, hollow cheeked, spindle ihanked lath is going to sail the voyage of life with me.” Champion is better Cheer. up, Ed — things aren't as 7 bad as they look to you right now. because of its gas-tight, Many hundreds of skinny, gaunt,! two- construction, which allows it to be taken apart for cleaning. emaciated men looked even worse: than you do till someone told them! about McCoy’s Cod Liver Oil Com- pound Tablets (the new way to take Cod Liver Oil) and how it Champion X for Fords 60c. Blue would put pounds of good firm, Boxferall. cars, 75¢. Mi re, flesh on their bones in just Seteceiee Lasoo Chere fom weeks pont, 2 Soublerribbed Sore. Nothing like these health creat- hipaa ‘producing tablets for , underweight men, as thou- sande can testify. Start to take them today—60 tablets—60 cents at afl Grugeists—or any rea) druggist anywhere in North or South Amer- fen. : “Ada listen; If they don't put 5 -‘piends of good flesh on you in 30 eS get your money back—that's # _ enough, but be sure—very thet you get MoCoy's Cod Liv- Mil Compound Tabdlete-the orig- if “end genuine. (adv) ate sale by Cowan's Drug Store, gen Drug Store, Lenhart’s Drug (Champion Spark Plug Co. Toledo, Ohio \ d by the housewife, collected from the’ tle or no profit it pays a small tax.|—l!eaves, young shoots and young That is fair. pods. They also used lambs-quarters! “But why I give you this one il-, and the young shoots of bulrushes. mon mustard, young stage was quite acceptable, he reports, though he decided to try cooking without salt the next time. leaves, did not prove as good. ' In cooking it usually Sow thistle to boil a few and cook in a second water. should be taken to collect only stems which break ea wilted leaves. the ground BURIED TUB OF BUTTER | May 27. cavating on his farm in Westmeath London, county, found pounds of butter at a depth, of 12) It was said to be well pre-| feet. served, AN-A<IN, require washing than the upper branches. | “Addressing letters plainly, leav- ing out nothing that will help the carrier make delivery; “Putting return address in upper left-hand corner; “Using strong cord and. stout pa- per.” Of the 21803,000 pieces of mail which went to the dead letter office last year, 100,000 letters were in.per- fectly blank envelopes. Cash remov- Russian thistle in at least alone, is desirable moments, then drain Care ed from dead letters amounted to $55,523 which was turned into the United States treasury because its owners could not be located owing to lack of return and other address- es. Postage stamps amounting to $12,165 were similarly found in un- deliverable and (unreturnable mail. WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1925 COUGH DROP ALMS London, May 27—In his parish magazine, the vicar of Colnbrook acknowledges the receipt of a box of cough drops, which was dropped into the church alms bag. Ritter and Miss Clara Nestos. Miss Lane and Miss Busdicker, grade school teachers, are completing their teaching careers with the ‘closing of school early in June and during the early summer are to-be married. A mock wedding ceremony provided a lot of amusement for the guests, as form’ school bridge. They showed no fight’ when’ cornered. . BAND ELECTS OFFICERS At the business meeting and elec- tion Monday evening following the rehearsal of the Mandan Municipal band, the following officers were The Philippine Islands now have Checks, drafts and money orders|elected for the season: Herman Le-|did other cleverly executed stunts.| 15,676 motor cars. amounting to $3,546,542 likewise| onhard, president; H. J. Tavis, sec-] The honor guests were each present- ph anime were found but they represented] rctary-treasuter; John Faust, chosenjed with a handsome gift. ELECTRIC COOKERY only so much paper because they) leader and G. P..Rugg and Carl Bur- oe 1S could not be cashed and have to be held a year for reclaiming, then to be destroyed, The revenue of the dead letter of- fice \is sufficient to keep that insti- tution functioning, but it is nearly enough to pay the annual bill for support OF the “Nixie,” as postal employees call a letter or parcel so improperly addressed that it cannot be delivered to the ad- dressee nor returned to the sender without special treatment. This special treatment, called directory. service, costs the taxpayer $1,740,000 a year, In New York City alone it costs $500 a day to look up addresses, mail yearly are given directory ser- vice. This simple. addition of a re- turn address would obviate it en- tirely post .offi¢ials say. MANDAN NEWS | HELD FOR ROBBERY Two men, giving ‘their names as Joe Davis, aged 46, and James Mur- ray, aged 40, are held in the county jail pending hearing on charges of highway robbery—captured by Chief of Police Wm, Barnes last night, an hour after they had held up Andrew Ferderer at 11 p.m. Both are believ: ed implicated in two store robberies Monday. Ferderer, an employe at the Rus- sell Miller Milling company, was en- route home late Monday night when two men accosted him as he neared the N. P. ‘railroad yards. One shoved a‘gun at his head, the other went through his clothes nothing. Neither af the men were masked and Ferderer was able to give a good description of them to Chief Barnes a few moments later after he had been told to “beat it.” Chief Barnes combed the railroad yards and finally located the pi in ily, and fresh un- Leaves growing near) more careful “A farmer ex- a tub containing 40 Electric tection and Stops Pain: Cool! Refreshing! Delicious! What's half so satisfying as ice cream in a crisp, crunchy, golden brown cone? It’s the nutritious and enjoyable way for ixty to relieve thiret, hunger and fatigue—a good early in the season. . buy an ice cream cone MANDAN, N..D. The In your ‘home should, be: first class for your pro- We Do Quality Work... B. K.SKEELS 408 BROADWAY, Wherever ice cream is sold you can get ice cream cones. This is national cone week— - PURITY DAIRY COMPANY the M. Rafferty house near the re- Wiring convenien¢e. not Approximately 200,000,000 pieces of; getting| J dick were elected directors to serve with the other officers. Almost a full attendance was present and the band has a good start for the season. The announcement of the first reg- ular summer concert season will be made soon. London boy of 17 has produced two successful plays. 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