The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 7, 1925, Page 4

g PAGE FOUR ; The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Establishea 18 Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck, ag second class mail matter. George D. Mann President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable In Advance Daily by carrier, per year...... : Daily by mail, per year (in Bisn Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) : Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota Member Audit Bureau of Cire marek) Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the uge for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news of spontaneous origin published here in. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Forelgn Representatives G CHICAGO Tower Bldg. PAYNE NEW YORK LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY DETROIT. Kresge Bldg BURNS AND SMITH Fifth Ave. Bldg. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) What Taxes Do In an article discu consin, The Nation's summary ing the tax policies of Wis Business has this interesting “It was the fir: hensive state income tax. in 1911. Then public utilities, tained by the stat to the municipalities located, except. in the entire proceeds go into the state treas ury. The r from per cent to 5 per cent of gross receipts, Life Wis. in- ate to adopt a compre- That was back is the usual tax on 15 per cent is re per cent distributes? 65 per cent to the the properties are se of railroads, where there where and where counties, telephone company pi of which the state retains 15 per cent. insurance companies incorporated in consin pay 3 cent of their gros: come within the state. On coal there an occupational tax of 1% cents a ton for bituminous and 2 cents for all anthracite that passes over docks he grain elevator pays one-half a mill per bushel on wheat and flax, and one-quar ter of a mill on all other grain handled. “Income taxes, ranging from 1 per cent to 6 per cent on individuals ana corpora- tions, are apportioned 40 per cent to the state, 50 per cent to the municipality, and 10 per cent to the county. Naturally, the cities think it unfair to take 40 per cent of the tax they pay and spread it over the state. “And there have been surtaxes for sol- diers’ bonus, and soldiers’ educational bonus, and now a teachers’ retirement fund of 1 per cent additional income tax. Many of the states issue!’ bonds for the soldiers’ bonus. Wisconsin paid from taxes, mostly on incomes. “An inheritance tax, which was also enacted in 1903, has, from time to time, been changed, but always in the direction of increasing the rates. In 1921 the taxes were almost doubled. In 1903 the total re- ceipts were negligible—$14,320—as against $3,000,000 for 1924. The inheritance tax ranges from 2 per cent on the first $25,000 of taxable inheritance to a 40 per cent max- imum on amounts in excess of $500,000, vary- ing with remoteness of relationship. And of these taxes, 742 per cent goes to the county treasurer, 924 per cent to the state as a whole. Many individuals quit the state on account of what they considered un- reasonable inheritance taxes. One, who died shortly after moving, left an estate of $15,- 000,000. Had the tax been lower the state might have profited from this estate.” per \ Florida adopted a liberal tax policy and every- one knows the result. There has been a tremend ous business revival in that state and with increased business and new wealth, the state does not have to worry about tax income. There is sufficient to carry on some of the most extensive public work ever attempted in any state in the union. Business enterprises will not select a residence where the tax is confiscatory. Some industries in Wisconsin found it more profitable to abandon their factories in that state and build elsewhere. Michigan, recently defeated an income tax by 4 popular vote of five to one. The rapidity with which its automebdile and other industries have grown creating billions of taxable wealth attests to the value of a conservative taxing policy. North Dakota can well learn a lesson from Flori- da, Michigan and other states in the matter of tax- ation. The trouble in this state as well as in Wis consin is that the conception of property has been socialistic on the part of those who have foisted new fangled tax burdens upon the people. The time has come to rewrite our tax laws with a view to attracting industries and capital, to fa- cilitate the Gevelopment of latent resources. Excesssive taxation means merely leas employ- ment, less wealth to tax and less development. Florida, Michigan and Oregon are states which prove the wisdom of conservative taxation. Reducing the Labor Bill Arthur Evans, special correspondent of the Chi- cago Tribune, on a tour through the west, writing from Aberdeen, S. D., finds that the farmer is doing most of his own work and resorting to hired help only iz so far as it is absolutely necessary. He estimates that the great crop of the west will be garnered with a smaller percentage of overhead than has been the case in the past. “Farmers in the last few years,” he says, “hav? been reducing 'their labor bill wherever possible. mostly by putting more of their back into the job ““at by increasing thelr machines. Today one machinery on the sidings. This year one harvester company had the biggest season in ten years Aberdeen and Watertown. see a tremendous machinery expansion on the farms throughout the northwest, which will release more labor for industries an! reduce costs to the farmer.” at other production Sixty Years Ago How young this country really is comes vividly to ming in reading a column tn an eastern new. paper headed “Sixty Years Ago.” The item reads as follows under a St. Paul date line “A correspondent with Gen. Sully writes that the expedition has reached Fort Rice on the upper Missouri, Gen, Sully is endeavor ing to make a treaty and the Indians are flocking in in large numbers to hold a coun cil with him. The old warriors are for peace, but the young men are for a vigorous prose cution of the war,” The late Senator Power of Helena, Mont, was with Sully and this expedition brought him to this country along with other men who took a leaa.ng part in the winning of the west Increased Facilities Sistar Boniface and her congratulated upon the progress maut in St. Alexins Hospital, Announcement made in these col umns Thursday ef a nurses’ home to be erected at a cost of $150,000 which will inctease the training school facilities of this most institution. It will be one of the most modern institutions of its kind in the Northwest and a distinct tribute to the executive ability of the order which directs the St. Alexius Hospital property With the of this home, accommoda tions both as to dormitory and to class rooms for the nurses’ training school will be increased. sociates are to he was valuable completion Marked Development agricultural progress in diversified ar comparison shows to what.extent the dairy business has increased in the last Since 1914 there has been a decided gain in the pounds of milk and cream produced on Burleigh county farms. But there is room for more farmers. total acreage in farms of 499.243 there 288,748 under cultivation, ‘This merely brings home the need of securing more settlers for land that an produce as good crops and as fine stock as any of the eastern Lind that ig selling around $300 and $400 an acre. The potential wealth of the fertile acres of this county is indicated by the statistics gathered by County Auditor Frank Johnson. They are worthy of earnest study and analysis of all those interested in the future development of this county. Burleigh steady statistics reflect farming. A ten county's a - decade, Out of are only Why Not Name Streets Continued complaints reach The because of the paucity of street numbers and street naming in Bismarck. Confusion, delay and actual loss of ‘business to merchants are caused because neither the business or resident streets are prop- erly marked or the houses generally numbered. The Capital City always has a large number of transients which makeg it especially necessary that the streets be named and residences have numbers Agitation along this line has been frequent but nothing to date has been accomplished. It is @ small matter of city business to ‘be so long de layed. > Editorial Comment Unprofitable Art (Asbury Park Press) For a man of his eminence and success, Victor Herbert left a surprisingly small estate, less than $100,000. Appraisal of the assets sets the figure at much less than was expected. The low value put upon the copyrights of his musical works is it self surprising. The composer's miscellaneous works from 1898 to 1919 are valued at only $2,500. Three famous pieces, “The Madcap Duchess,” “Sweethearts” and “Watoma,” are appraised together at $500. Hi various contributions to the “Follies" and other musical shows, nearly all pouplar at the time, are regarded as without value. The royalties from “A Kiss in the Dark” and “Orange Blossoms” will not amount to much. “The Dream Girl” thas been more successful, but the royalties are not expected to surpass $3,500. Compared with the rewards of the humble and untaught composer, Irving Berlin, this is nothing. It suffers in comparison with the profits of any one of a dozen or more American song writers, most of whom are guiltless of either literary knowlecge or musical training, but whose work happens to catch the popular fancy. It is jazz that gets the money, rather than talented and scholarly work, ‘based on enduring principles. Frightened by a Name (New York Wor’) Not many years ago the cry of “tainted mone” was heard when a tiny fraction of the Rockefeller millions was offered as a gift to a college or church. Excited moralists protested that contamination would pass with the donation to any institution It was a favorite theme for popular discussion Little has been heard of it lately. But now in Wisconsin the issue fg raised again in lightly changed form. The board of regents of the state university accepted a contribution from the Rockefeller foundation. At the annual conven- tion of the State Federation of Labor the secretary of the Socialist party, a Mé!waukee assemblyman named Coleman, has demanded that the regents ‘be censored for receiving the gift, for, as he puts himself on record in a formal’ resolution, tree thought and truth are denied by the acceptance of such gifts by a university supported by the peo- He sets a very low price on the honesty and sincerity of the regents and the teaching staff, he has a very inadequate idea of the good accomplished ‘by tunds of the Rockefeller foundation in many corners of the world, if he believes what he pro ple. fesses. T travels through cities and villages with cars of new Tribune office | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Busy Man’s Newspaper Next year is expected to| { | ROM L ALLY ATHE ve to some ch: one hundred dol- lars in memory of Bee? Cheek in the 1 I did not send flowers bee: I knew there would be more than could he taken care of. If pose sible [ should like the money to go to some poor young mother to help hi re for her child and keep it h her. Give my sincerest. sym- pathy to Dick keep some for yourself. I know how much you thought of Bee and how much you will miss her. 1 y Will you please ity in) Hollywood LESLIE. LETTER PERRIER TO RTON: My dear Sy You know I me to you when T was in great trouble. were so kind and that time that you saved my life also the life of my child. this time | am coming to you again, Tam not in great trouble now, Syd, but T have a very serious prob: lem’ to work out, and I don't know what todo. You have probably heard Leslie Prescott speak of Bee Sum- mers, and I suppose you have heard of her death, Mr. Summers and [have been very good friends ever since 1 came out here, as he was the first one to really encourage me in my cinema work. His wife in some way got it into ULA y CAR ‘once You pathetic at So ati wwnen Tae OLO CAAPEAD BEGINS 0 LOOK DOG EAREP, An, THEN Ts Dog DAYS head that her husband and I rin love with each other, or at least that we were more than ordi- narily interested. I don't know what. z aid or did that gave n, for I am certain. in Richard Sum- i a friend. I liked her ter than I did him, me here as Mr, Sum- mers wife, we have been v friends. The other died--she lived only ten days after the babp came—she called me into her room one afternoon and told me she wanted me to take the baby and bring it up. I didn't know what to seemed unfeeling to refi quest of a dying woma pecially as 1 love babies so much, and have heen saying all along that F would like to adopt one. However, I know that if I adopt Bee Summer's child, I am going to shake Hollywood to its center. Be- side all this, I do not know if I am prepared to have this bond between me and Dick Summers. Perhaps his wife was right about Dick, and she wanted to make it easy for us to dron into that intimacy which ends in marriage. But, Syd, I don't want to Dick Summers, or for that any other man. I'd love to have the baby, but I do not want Dick. What shall 1 do, mon ami? PAULA. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS Juggle Jump and the Twins had found two of Puff's lost butto! but there were still about a dozen | missing. “We can't go back with two but- tons,” said Juggle Jump. “Two but- | tons on Puff’s coat would last about as long as a shooting-cracker on the Fourth of July. It would be iike the Irishman’s freight train. ‘On again, off again, gone again, Finnigan.’ No; sir! It’s a case of all or none, my dears. Wi hall have to continue) our journey. bere: shall we go now?” asked | “Let me see,” said Juggle Jump “We might go to Squeejick Land which lies between Yum Yum Land and the sea,” “Oh, we've been there,” said Nan- cy. “It's a queer place, isn’t it! “Ver said Juggle Jump. people have frog feet, bird wings! and rabbit ea They are very smart and may at least he able to tell us where to look for Puff's lost‘ buttons, even if the buttons are not to be found there. Come, we'll start at once.” The Twins took Juggle Jump by the hand, or rather he took theirs, and of {they went to Squeejick Land! which lay between Yum Yum Land and the sea. “Give the pass-word!” said the gatekeeper. | “Raspberfries,” said Juggle Jump} quickly. | Juggle Jump and the Twins passed, and then they came to the second gate. “Answer a riddle,” sai dthe second gatekeeper. “What is as stubborn a mule and has to be knocked on head to make it fo?” said Juggle Jump quick- ‘The | y “You may pass to the third gate,”} said the second gatekeeper. So the travelers passed on to the third gate. “What is the capital of America?” asked the third gatekeeper. “Capital A,” said Juggle Jump. “Good,” said the third gatekeeper. “You may go in.” In they went, only to be met by some solemn looking Squeejick Land- ers who crowded around them so closely they could scarcely breathe. “Did you see any of Puff's pearl button?” asked Juggle Jump. “Who is Puff?” asked the leader. “I am the keeper of the Roval Um- brella and I'd like to know.” “He's the Fairy Queen's cook,” said Juggle Jump. “And one good question deserves another. “Will you tell me where you got that watch foh you are wearing?” “The king gave it: to me,” said the other proudly. “He gave it to me for a prize. He said that no one could kee pan umbrella, and I told him I had borrowed ten umbrellas sem] BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON || {him and kept every one.” “Well,” suid Juggle Jump, “all 1 is that your medal is one of Puff's pearl buttons. There are no lothers like them in the world. And if you are Keeper of the Royal Um- ‘brellas, you are not anxious to be {Keeper of the Cook's Buttons’ also, T hope.” By no means,” handing it over. That made three. Juggle Jump and the Twins thank- ed the Squeejick Landers and went out of the three gates and down the road to Yum Yum Land. (to Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) now said the other ? Go Swain’ ISHOSAY NOT! ZA TWS 1S DOG y York, Aug. 7. ulled a melting pot, but the always boiling over. The of humanity that pours in This city has n shores, from other | n cities and from the natural se of population is of a volume too great to-be held in the present city. And so as the brim runs over and families flow into the almost. over night. This spreading of the population creates many new fortunes. I know a man in Brooklyn ran a news stand near a subway sta- tion four years ago. He handle: chewing gum and candy bars as a sideline. ‘The community grew rap- idly and he rented a store in which he could carry a line of cigars and toys. He blished a circulating library. His wife and children helped, but even so he had to hire a cler He recently sold the store at a profit of $25,000. He invested the proceeds in starting similar stores in less 0: ulated sections which are just beg ning to grow. Out Long Island way there lived a shiftless fellow who barely kept a roof over the heads of his family. He lived in a tumble-down shack on a 15-acre plot near the water's edge. Much of his land was swamp. Mod- ern real estate dealers developed tho land around him and sold 20-foot front lots with bathing beach and dock privileges. One of them offered the old settler a fancy price for his property. He refused to sell, but he divided it up into lots and, profiting by the surrounding developments, was able to dispose of it at a total which made him a rich man. now owns a chaufteur to drive his big car. He is engaged in other real estate enter- prises which are rapidly making him a millionaire. These little tales prove that all of EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO IT ISN'T SO MUCH THS HEAT AS (IT EH apes H \T ISN'T SO MuUc THE HEAT AS IT es THE ARUMIDITY. THS (8 AWFUL, Me, TRUS surrounding | territory new communities spring up natural , He ie home and hires a FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1925 WILL HELP CHINA TO GAIN ORDER ESTER H. ROWELL ned Japan announces a desire to see extra-territorial rights abolished in China at the earliest possible mo- ment, but considers the effort now premature. So say we all of us. No nation wishes to maintain its own courts in a foreign country, and to assert for its citizens there rights which natives do not enjoy. America abolished extra-territoruli- ty in Japan as soon as it was as- sured that Japan had established courts and a judicial system to which free men used to institutions of jus- tice could properly resort. The world will do the same for China, and in it America, with or without Japan, should lead. But only on the same conditions. So long as the Chinese have courts to which they will not themselves willingly resort; so long as the honestly of Chinese business rests on the dishonesty of Chinese courts; ro that no one will do business with # man whom he might conceivably have to sue, so long will America take Chinese courts at the Chinese valuation. The Chinese have to live with them, or reform them, and thep have, by keeping out of court, learned to live with them. We do not have to make that choic When the Chinese establish hon- est courts, on a judicial system bas- ed on justice, we will submit our- selves to them. It is up to China. PLUMBING IS AMERICA’S STANDARD OF CULTURE The new Matson liner Malolo will have more private bathrooms than any other vessel in the world, even those much larger, like the Majestic and Leviathan. Thus, once more, America judges civilization by plumbing. Other ships may have more size, more speed, or more of other com- forts or luxuries, We will have more bathrooms. ‘On shore, European houses may have more beauty, more art, more dignity, more tradition and senti- ment, and be structurally built for the ages, instead of for one genera- tion. What care we? . Ours have more bathrooms. Our hotels may not have some of the graces of the best abroad. But they have a bath in every room. We map ourselves sometimes lack certain of the graces and finenesses of an older life. But we have a bath every day. It is a plumbing-made civilization. The plumber is our apostle of cul- ture. NO MORE AMENDMENTS ARE DESIRED NOW The National Educational Associa- tion proposes to continue the fight for the child labor amendment. Doubtless, except for educational purposes, that is now futile. We are in a period of reaction against reform, against federal en- croachments on the states, and against constitutional amendments of any sort, good or bad. That is a temporary state. It is a symptom of tired nerves and flab- by ‘consciences, such as always fol- lows the emotional exaltation of wer. Time and rest will cure it. Then the child labor amendment will or will not become a practical is- sue according as it is or is not then practically needed. It is up to the states. Uf they, or any important number of them, try to get advantage of each other by lax child labor laws. Congress will inevitablp be given ne right to pass uniform laws for all. Let the states act, now, or the na- tion will, later. the New York success stories are not centered in Wall street. Nor are they all concerned with hard work, energy and stick-to-itiveness of am- Ditious young man. Many of the fortunes made here are products of circumstance, of accident. One of Broadway's most popular comedians lives out at Forest Hills with his wife and two children, to all of whom he is very much devoted. However, husband and wife are not without, the little spats and tiffs which mark the usual routine of family life. Last week they had some differ- ence of opinion and waxed warm in their words. The comedian suddenly LAUGHTERIS A A serious, grouchy face does not indicate intelligence. One of the most solemn, grouchy looking ani- is the mule, Yet the mule has a small brain, wicked eye and wicked heels. Laughter is the sign of intelli- | gence. Man is the only animal that laughs. In addition to laughter being the sign of intelligence and a gioom chaser of the first rank, it is a health tonic. It lifts the lungs, revitalizes the nd shakes up the stomach, in digestion, t realized that he had barely time enough to catch the train to New York and get to the theater in timo for a matinee, so he rushed from the house in the midst of a quarrel. On reaching New York he tele- phoned his house and his little son answered. The comedian told him to call his mother to the phone. After a moment the boy announced that his mother was in the bathroom and that she said she couldn't and wouldn’t come to the phone. “Allright, sonny, deliver this mes- sage to your mother,” answered tho comedian. “Be sure to get it right. Tell her I don’t know why in hell I love her, but I do.” —JAMES W. DEAN. FABLES ON HEALTH HEALTH TONIC There are but few situations that cannot be handled better with cheer- fulness than with grouchiness. Folk resent a grouch, and it ix certain that being grouchy does not help the mind in thinking. A grouchy parent usually finds his children leaving home as soon as they can get away. A grouchy business partner may cast the office into gloom by one of his sour looks, but he cannot force better work by being grouchy. A grouchy sportsman finds it hard to get partnera in a game. Grouchiness does not pay. Don't be a grouch, mRTOM SIMS OR MRS. FISKE CAMPAIGNS AGAINST STEEL TRAP Chicago, Aug. 7.—)—The _ steel trap, to Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske, the actress, “is the most villainous instrument of arrest that was ever invented by the human mind,” and early this fall she will inaugurate ; campaign among women for its ex- tinct Breakfast bacon is good. But it always looks as if it needed ironing. If you packed a million trunks for a trip your wife would cram some- thing else in your pockets. They have made the Atlantic Ocean so dry even a rum ship burned. Worry iss great thing. It is about the only thing that can make most of us think. In Milwaukee, a woman hit a man with a bottle, but maybe she will say he looked like an umpire. ‘The world’s population is estimat- ed at almost two billion, none of which is exactly satisfied. While lightning only strikes once in the same place a bathing beach censor is thunderstruck all the time. August is about the month in which many a newlywed finds he is assistant head of the house. — e _ Falling in love is about like loaf- ing. If done properly neither leave very much time for business, When you slap a man on the back and he kicks you in the eye, you can see he-is all sunburned. Atlanta (Ga.) man reports a man drank some new cider and when he got home the keyhole was absent, It’s hard to hope a man with ex- pensive fishing tackle catches any ish. : eat chicken with your fingers. say you may need a hatchet, We You never see a bootlegger having a rummage sale on-old stuff. It takes dollars to convince the world you have any There are tribes) in. South Africa so remote from civilization they can't even run flivvers. BUTTER FROM FISH Nome, Alaska—The Indians of Alaska and British Columbia obtain their butter supply from a fat little tish called .the oolicha ions are caught in put’ in tubs and covered with hot stones. Oil from the fish rises to the top. It hardens quickly and the taste is almost iden- tical with that of butter. +—__._________-« A THOUGHT | -————@ ter joy than to hear , walk in truth— oe T have no that m; John Tit, 4. God © offers to ‘every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you pl never have both. The etiquette book says you may! (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)! Mrs. Fiske will visit many leading cities and will personally mect the women, not for the purpose of dis- couraging the wearing of furs, but with the object of outlawing the steel t in the fur industry. e steel trap. has no place -in civilization, and we hope to awaken e modern woman to the shame and horror and degradation of it. When women know how furs are obtained they will band themselves and refuse to purchase or wear furs procured by the steel trap.” The poor fish you turned down often turns up rich. LITTLE JOE >-—__—____________4 TS ALL RIGHT TO LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP, AG LONG AS NOU DONT HAPPER MING yy,