The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 14, 1929, Page 14

PESTS MNS AE EY Rp UE LY ONE oceania tenga teers en Editor's Note: Interrupted communication having been re- sumed, Rodney Dutcher herewith continues his series on South America. Dutcher, Washington, correspondent for The Tribune and NEA Service, accompanied President-elect Hoover's party. oe By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) t (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) Lima, Peru, (By Mail)—There is good reason to believe that the steady increase of our volume of trade with Peru and other South American na- tions, in proportion to that of Eng- land and Germany, will continue in- definitely. President-elect Hoover's tour has done much to promote our markets below the equator. The government of Peru, under the dictatorship of President Augusto Legui, has long been definitely com- mitted to a policy of friendly rela- tions with the United States. The $100.000,000 loan which Leguia re- cently made in New York is bound to stimulate trade relations already fav- orable. Present lines of progressive develop- ment in Peru are especially of a na- ture to call for an increase of the lines of imports where our manufacturers dominate. Important and expensive new highway programs will create a bigger market for American automo- biles and trucks, of which there are already 12,000 or more in the country. Irrigation of large tracts and other industrial development is sure to de- mand larger shipments of American agricultural, manufacturing and min- ing machinery—now the most import- ant class among Peruvian imports. U. S. Autos Lead Throughout Latin America the American automobile is the big sign- Post of “Americanization,” present or prospective. Our motor car compan- ies simply haven't any foreign com- petition. On the west coast, at least, British and French cars are compar- ative rarities. American cars are built higher from the ground and are more durable, which fits them for rough work in the Peruvian moun- tains. The government uses Ameri- can trucks exclusively. Railroad constructions is no longer being pushed as compared with high- way construction, under supervision of Americans. By 1934 the Leguia TRIBUNE'S PAGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND FEATURES _- administration expects to have com- pleted a 50,000 kilometer highway system at a cost of about $50,000,000. Thanks largely to taxes of all sorts and description, which go to keep up the government’s big highway, paving, irrigation, sanitation and other pub- lic works programs, Peru is an expens- ive place to live. For those who de- mand imported goods this is especially true, for customs receipts are the most important item of the natibnal revenues, Gas 40 Cents a Gallon A Dodge automobile, for instance, costs nearly twice as much as in the United States, owing to freight rates, a 25 per cent import tax and other levies. Gasoline comes to about 40 cents a gallon, including the tax. which is used for road building. There are numerous special taxes. The government has a match mon- opoly and puts.a 70 per cent tax on matches, with a $20 fine for anyone who uses anything but the official brand. Every box legally sold in Peru bears an_ inscription announcing that the buyer is helping to finance a special irrigation project which will throw fertile lands open to 100,000 home owners. Nevertheless, matches are bootlegged all over Peru. And the tax of 4 cents a liter im- posed on beer goes to provide free lunches for the school children. British Boys Stay In a previous story it was said that American economic influence now dominated in Peru. But one of the most interesting facts noted by your correspondent in Lima was that most of the large American business firms, such as W. R. Grace & Co. and All- America Cables, were manned almost entirely by British rather than Amer- ican youths. One large American au- tomobile agency here has two’ sales- men and both are British. ‘The explanation appears to be that young men in England are willing to come to these South American coun- tries on five-year contracts whereas ours are not. Also, it is said, they come cheaper. American youths al- ways plan to return to the states af- ter a year or two; British boys speak forever of England as “home,” but seldom desire to return there to live. Hence the permanent British colony almost invariably outnumbers the American colony in South American cities. HOPELESS 10 DODGE INCOME TAX EVEN IF IN FLOATER CLASS | Uncle Sam Has Ways to Check Up Through Employers; Sin- gle Men’s Basis $1500 | If you are a newcomer to Bismarck, | Con't kid Uncle Sam by assuming he can't find you and thus you can es- | cape paying an income tax. Relieve | yourself speedily of that delusion. As the law stands, all single persons who have earned $1,500 or more last year have to pay. All married per- sons who have earned $3,500 or more also are liable for the tax. All must| file income returns and pay the tax before March 15. Moving into a new place is no way | to escape the tax. The government has devised a system of checking up! on those folks who move about the country working for different em- ployers and has thoughtfully provided @ jail and fine as penalty for any who are so thoughtless as to overlook the matter of filing returns. Residents whose names are listed on the tax rolls of the county are easily checked up if they fail to file income tax returns but the new- comers who are not so listed are a little more difficult to check on, ac- to B. E. Hitchcock, deputy collector in the Bismarck office. Under law, all companies or in- them during the year with the in- come tax department. to if he was married and his income was less than $3,500. All others are expected to do right by their Uncle Sam. No one would is to know about the provisions for exemption, and so forth, provided for different expenses and losses but if they ask at the income tax office in the federal builidng, their questions will be explained. Just to show that he means what he says, Uncle Sam has a small clause inserted in income taxes reading: “Penalty for wilful failure to make and file a return on time shall be not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, and, in addition, 25 per cent of the amount of the tax. —____—. -@ | Atthe Movies. Qe CAPITOL THEATRE The seven-league leap from the South Seas of “Aloma” to the Tibe- tan temples of “The Devil Dancer,” hidden high in the Himalayas, may seem quite a feat. Even with a pause at a “Cabaret” on the way. But to Gilda Gray, the “Pearl of Poland,” such world-girdling journeys are all in the day’s work. And, to tell the truth, they required no more travel than is necessary to reach the United Artists lot from the Paramount studios. “The Devil Dancer,” which comes to the Capitol Theatre tonight, is only the third picture in which Gilda Gray has appeared. It is her first Samuel Goldwyn picture for release through United Artists. It is the jump that follows tthe hop, skip. And it includes her in that select company boasting Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge, Gloria Swanson, Corinne Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and other most luminous lights of filmdom, It was Gilda, herself, delving into jmany sources in search of a locale for her picture, whose imagination was arrested by the unknown vast- They are sent to Washington, not only from Bismarck but from every of the United States. There fecords are all checked, and re- ports of employers regarding any one individual are grouped, giving the de- 1928. would be put to- nesses of Tibet, and its mystery- swatched capital, Lhassa, “the for- bidden city” of the age. At the time Gilda didn’t know about the Devil Worshippers of the Tibetan lama- series, or monasteries, nor about the vestal virgins of the East, who are confined to the temples. ELTINGE THEATRE and forwarded !theatre patrons who have already @ Bismarck income tax office, |S¢en this unusual screen play. Je then b> expected to file income tax Poorly paid All the. interest attached to a car- ble features of a hard, six-inch plank for weniences, & seat and other incon is to be found in “The Barker.” This special production stars Mil- artist with ton Sills as the Ballyhoo the Colonel Gowdy Shows.. expect them to understand all there j THE GUMPS—IOBJECT! I OBJECT! aa ALL 1 KNOW IS ; : : HEN — You ADMIT THAT ONLY TWO. 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