The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 10, 1929, Page 2

5 ssp : ee gpa PAGE TWO THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1929 Nation’s Motor Vehicle Taxes Increase Faster Than Registrations. NEW YORK IS FIRST | STATE 10 SURPASS ~ 0000 CAR MARK Six Other Commonwealths Go High in Million, With Cali- fornia Close Second | PENNSYLVANIA FEES LEAD, Florida Assesses Highest Indi- vidual Charge, Illinois Is Lowest in Fees Washington, April 10.—State motor | vehicle taxes increased twice as much | as motor vehicle registrations in 1928 and the average per-vehicle tax for the country increased 6 per cent in 1928 over 1927, according to the an-} nual survey of the American Auto- mobile association made public here. The total increase of motor vehicle registration for the United States in 1928 was 6.9 per cent, while the in- crease in the total amount of special car taxes—exclusive of personal prop- erty—for the 48 states and the Dis- trict of Columbia was 13 per cent. “The facts disclosed by our annual motor vehicle registration and taxa- tion map reveal to a greater extent than ever before the heavy proportion of taxes that the motorists are bear- ing,” declared Thos. P. Henry, pres- ident of the A. A. A. “Car owners of the nation have always been ready to’ stand for taxation for road-building, ~but there has been a deplorable ten- dency toward taxing the motorists for various other public improve- ments and, in many instances, there has been rank discrimination.” Officials of the national motoring body pointed out that the retirement of the federal government from the taxing field early in 1928, through the repeal of the war excise tax, was an important step in the campaign for fair taxation of car owners. Following is a summary of other facts brought out in the annual tax review: First: The average pre-vehicle tax levy for the entire country was $25.24 in_ 1928, as compared with $23.78 in 1927, an increase of 6 per cent in a period of 12 months. The per-vehicle tax has increased 295 per cent since 3919, when it stood at $8.55. Second: Special taxes collected from car owners by the states reached @ new high peak last year, with a to- tal of $624,325,670, as compared with $552,629,828 in 1927, an increase of $71,695,842. Third: The state's revenue from the gasoline tax increased 26 per cent in 1928, the total being $319,906.417 as compared with $254,109,262 the pre- vious year. While seven states reported 1928 registrations of over more than 1,000,000 motor vehicles, a common- wealth passed the 2,000,000 mark for the first time, when New York re- ported total registration of 2,051,469. The six other states in the million class were: California, 1,812,807; Pennsylvania, 1,653,813; Ohio, 1.649-, 699; Tlinois, 1,598,205; Michigan, 1,251,221 and Texas, 1,207,441. Massa- chusetts, as in 1927, continued to maintain eighth place on the list, ‘with 885,301 registrations. In state fees, drivers’ license and gasoline taxes, the highest five were: Pennsylvania, $49,622,603; California, $39,141,663; Michigan, — $37,011,427; Ohio," $36,724,956 and Texas, $35,- 995,267. California led In the amounts col- lected’from the gas tax, with $29,909,- 709, while other leading states were: Ohio, $24,884,698; Pennsylvania, $22,- 508,826; Michigan, $18,334,840 and ‘Texas, $18,285,187. The five states with the highest Per-vehicle tax were: Florida, $45.86; | Weather Report 4 ‘Temperature at'7 a. m. Highest yesterday . Lowest last night .. Precipitation to 7 a. m. Highest wind velocity | SIDE GLAN “I'm going to take my vacation as soon as possible, ‘cause = don't feel so sure of my job.” CES - - - - By George Clark | Oregon, $43.70; Arkansas, $43.60; Georgia, $38.60 and Virginia, $38.54. Illinois, with $9.71, had the lowest per-vehicle tax levy. DEBATING SEASON AT VARSITY TO END Team to Meet Mayville Teach- ers’ Squad at Larimore in Final Clash of Term Grand Forks, N. D., April 10.—The debate scason at the University of North Dakota will be brought to a close Thursday wher. 2 co-ed team from here will meet a Mayville State Teacher's college co-ed squad before the high school assembly at Lari- more. Bonnie Mathyson, Larimore, and Ethel Schlasinger, Streeter, will represent the university. according to Prof. William Schrier, debate coach. North Dakota will defend the af- firmative of the question, “Resolved: That the tendene:’ for married wom- en to engage in gainful occupation is to be deplored,” the subject for ae- bate which has been argued all year by the freshman squad. The varsity team ended its season Monday night. It met the strong Lawrence college squad from Apple- ton, Wis., on the question, “Resolved: That a substitute for the jury system should be adopted.” Lloyd Blume, Billings, Mont., and Theodore Kellogg, Shafer, N. D., represented the uni- versity, and the clash also marked the final appearance of Blume as a Nodak debater. He has been a mem- ter of the squad for three years, and for the past two seasons was a mem- ber of the two-man team which toured the midclewest. Kellogg will return next year. \ AT THE MOVIES ———e ELTINGE THEATRE William Haines, gravitating be- tween a college campus, as the scion of aristocracy, and the prize ring, as a@ middleweight champion, plays an exciting and romantic dual role in “The Duke Steps Out,” filmization of Lucian Cary’s famous Saturday Evening Post novel, which comes to the Eltinge for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. On the campus he's a debonair <¢ I ° student from a famous family, care- fully hiding his other identity as “Duke” Wellington, the fighter. The result is a blend of college and prize fight drama that offers many a thrill, a deal of clever comedy, and a pretty love story to bind. it all together. Joan Crawford is the heroine. Haines, as the fighter going to college to please his sweetheart, en- gages in a fight on the campus and another in a cafe, to save the girl from ruffians and then, in the end, there is a spectacular fight sequence staged in the famous Hollywood sta- dium. There, before a great audience, Haines and Jack Roper, famous heavyweight contender, stage one of the fastest screen battles in the his- ; tory of the celluloid drama. | CAPITOL THEATRE Frank R. Capra, who directed the Columbia talking picture, “The Younger Generation,” at the Capitol, adapted for the screen from the fa- mous play “It Is to Laugh,” by Fannie Hurst, has seen to it that none of the author's sympathetic story has been lost. In fact, he has added many human touches that develop the dif- ferent gharacterizations with a deft- ness ghd understanding that. prove him a master psychologist. The action of the play deals with {an East Side family. The mother Jana father are of the old school, j Simple folk, without any great aspi- rations. Their son and daughter have ideas and ideals of their own. It is a conflict of youth and old age. The son, a shrewd business man, wins ; Wealth and ti%y for social position. His sister holds a childhood love [affair most precious, and elects to stand by her sweetheart when he gets jinto trouble, in spite of the fact that jher brother forbade her to sce him. Because of her action, the girl is turned from her brother's home. Then, on her wedding night, her husband is sent to prison. What fol- lows converts Miss Hurst's sympa- thetic play into a fascinating, pulsat- ing talking screen drama. TO FEEL GOOD ON ARISING! It is glorious to awake with a live- ly, healthy, energetic body. It is mis- erable to drag a stiff, aching, weary body from a restless, sleepless bed. Mr. August Strandell of Sister Bay, Wis., knows. He wrote: “I took Foley Pills diuretic and before long I threw away my crutches, freed of my trou- ble. A returning twinge sends me back to Foley Pills diuretic and then my troubles clear up at once.” Satis-. faction guaranteed. Sold everywhere. —Adv. tation Er} BRBBRBSBSRRRseese8sses gees Hl u | OUT OUR WAY ME. iTS NEIGH GoRS THANKS .MR. KEARNEY, FER BRINGIN 1T FROM Tr SPRESS OFFICE FER ALL THAFTA DO 1S GO | ROUND AN’ SELL'EM TO TH REAL MAGIC LANTRUN FER NOTHIN’ ANONYMOUS LETTER ATTACKING BYERLY IGNORED BY SHAFER Governor Never Pays Least Heed to’ Unsigned Scur- rilous Complaints Governor George F. Shafer doesn’t think much of persons who write anonymous letters. And when he does think of them his reactions are not complimentary. The governor made that plain in discussing a letter which he received from McLean county, asking that he discharge W. E. Byerly as state land commissioner. 2 When he received the letter the ex- ecutive Isoked it over closely to see if the writer had indicated his iden- tity. There was no signature.6n the letter and no return address on the envelope. The letter was written on plain paper. His inspection over, the |] governor tossed the letter into the vaste basket. “I get quite a few anonymous let- ters,” Governor Shafer said. “If I never got any it would be enough. If & person writing a letter doesn’t think enough of it to sign his name I feel that it isn’t wortir the time and at- tention of the man who receives it. I throw all such correspondence into the waste basket.” Most of the anonymous communi- cations received by the governor call his attention to alleged lapses.of state employes or to various..things con- nected with -the . state. povernment. Some contain suggestions for changes in policy on various matters and some seek to call the governor's attention to things which the writers feel he may have overlooked. The letter attacking Byerly alleged and that his language, on occasion, was impolite, to put it mildly. Byerly said the charge wasn’t worth comment. His principal occupation, with regard to farm loans, he said, has been to reduce, the amounts which the county appraisal boards recom- mend, and he proposes to keep on making reductions where he feels they are necessary to protect the state's in- terest. If he should miss some, he said, no one will be as sorry as he will. “There are about 7,000 land loans in this department and 700,000 people in the ctate,” he said. “This is the people’s money. Ifa man is going to be square and live up to his.oath in this job he-must see to it*fhat there is ample security _ for. every dollar loaned. That is what I am trying to fe and I am going to keep on try- Because of the reference in the let- ter to Byerly’s alleged proclivities for profanity, the land commissioner feels that he could, guess the author of the letter without taking too many guesses. “A few people have tried to bulldoze me into raising the amount of their. loans or of granting loans which had been rejected,” he explained. “In some cases they have attempted to carry their point by bluster and cursing. I got a little hot under the collar and gave them some of their own medi- cine. They deserved it, and I am not sorry. Under the same circumstances I would do the same thing again.” The number of bad loans in the de- partment’s files is particularly large in some counties, and McLean is one of these. For that reason Byerly has kept a close scrutiny on logn applica- tions from McLean county and, unless | ing. the application is for a reloan‘or the Property offered as security is known to be worth the full amount stated, he has ordered investigation of the application before taking final action. As a result, he said, some loans have been materially reduced in amount and others have been rejected alto- gether. CAN SELL OIL STOCK Permission to sell 50,000: shares of common stock, par value $1, has been granted by the state securities com- mission to the Dakotana. Oil com- pany, of Westhope.... The. company Plans to use the proceeds of the stock sale in developing leases in the Kevin- Sunburst field in Montana. By Williams PERFUME, AN tT GTA Mi GAWSH! A MAGIC LANTERN FER JEST SELUN! Two HUNDERD: AN’ FIFTH BOTTLES O° PUFFUME ‘ROUND 'MONG TH NEIGHBORS , WAL-WAL ~ EEL SwarR! THIS HAS HAPPENED Their evening is spoiled wi PAMELA JUDSON, daughter of Mildred’s employer, phones her to return to duty. escorts who had sold her a car. snubs Mildred and tries to lure Stephen away from her by pre- tending she wants to buy another car. Then she meets HUCK CONNOR, who becomes infatu- ated with her, and she amuses herself by playing with both men. When Stephen favors Mildred the manager asks her to be care- ful or Pamela will have her dis- charged. But this may not be so casy as her brother, HAROLD, is in love wtih Mildred. He is a weakling and Mildred permits him to call to keep him from Huck’s gambling crowd. However, he sus- pects that she cares more for Stephen than for him and refuses to stay one evening when he calls. As the weeks pass Mildred real- izes that Harold is becoming hopelessly involved with Hu gamblers and that Pamela is win- ning Stephen. * * * NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XIV * It came to Mildred asa distinct shock ‘that Harold was looking like a ghost. .She'd been too greatly pre- occupied with her own troubles to no- tice the change in him before it be- came pronounced. - But one day he stopped at her desk as usual and started his unending Plea for a date and Mildred saw that thehand he put over the sheet .of paper in her typewriter to make her stop working was decidedly unsteady. She looked up at him then in swift alarm. His face ‘confirmed her fear that something was wrong with him. There were shadows around his sunken eyes and his skin was devoid of color. But it was the haunted, desperate expression of his eyes that startled her. * “Harold,” she cried, and then ‘has- tily lowered her voice. “What is the matter?” Harold was surprised, taken off his guard. “Noth—ing,” he stuttered. “What do you mean?” “The way you look!” Mildred ex- eninge. “Has anything happened to you?” Harold had regained his poise. | “Nothing has happened to me,” he said doggedly, “except that I’m in a fever over you, as always. If you've any desire to help me let’s have din- ner together tonight and...” Mildred put a hand on his arm in an entreating gesture. “You'd better see a doctor,” she said pleadingly. “You look terrible.” Harold covered her hand with one of his own. “You're all the medicine I need,” he declared. “If you'd give me a chance to tell you how I need you, Mildred.” “Please, Harold. People are look- “Let''em look. Unless you're afraid Stephen Armitage might happen along and get an eyeful,” he said caustically. fi “Don’t be absurd,” Mildred retorted —too hiro “Still thrilling to that poor animal cracker’s love song, are you?” Harold pressed; made unpleasant with “his biting jealousy. “Well, from all the observation posts I’ve occupied, it looks like he’s picked a balcony close oe to the dear old home sweet home for his love scenes. Nothing but a Johnny after all, Halling @ girl like Pam.” * * “You're her brother,” Mildred re- minded him sharply. “All the better to know her,” Harold asserted... “But I'm not criticizing Pam. She can't help it if her aura is golden and ... sticky. A man ought jp know better than to get caught in Mildred smiled wickedly. “But you spread the same lure in my way,” she Pointed out. “You'd buy what you want, too, if you could.” “Right! If you can't love me I'd (SHIPPERS FIG FREIGHT RATE JUMP ~ IN WEST OF STATE Larkin and Hendricks Before DEWEY GROVES mmerce Commission This Hiroid nad ik menieen Haat |. Cormmere ssio Mildred after that, and when she Week, Opposing Step herself brought the man’s name into — the conversation he was evasive. Mil- dred, absorbed in her own unhappi- ness, had not kept herself informed upon Huck’s activities in the hotel. She saw him frequently with Pa- mela, but, so far as she knew, Pa- mela never went out with him alone. They danced together in the hotel and Huck often dined with Pamela. If Harold chanced to be present he sat and glowered at Huck with hope- less venom, but Mildred knew nothing of that. Pamela knew that Harold had turned against Huck for some reason —he would not say why—but she made light of it, and of her brother's half-hearted orders to keep away from Connor. But Mildred was not thinking en- tirely of herself at the moment Harold’s expression revealed his hatred and his terror of Huck. Her mind, already half-filled with con- cern for the boy, instantly associated Huck with the change in him. But she was too sensible to let Harold know she had discovered even that much, “Perhaps you're right,” she sald in answer to his last remark. “No use inviting Old Man Gloom to come sit on your chest. Where shall we go for dinner?” “Let's drive’ up to Westchester,” Harold suggested happily. “The Bronx River Parkway is a regular stretch of fairyland now.” “I didn’t know you believed in fairies,” Mildred teased, watching him Closely. Already the strain had gone @ little from his young features and the sullen hatred from his sunken eyes. “You'd better run along now and let me finish my work,” she told him, cheered to know she had the power to make someone happier. “Be ready on the dot,” Harold said before he left. Mildred worked | fast, Argument on the proposal of North Dakota railroads to establish a higher level of freight rates west of the Mis- souri river than is effective in the Commerce ‘ashington, this week by representatives of the state rail- present case for shippers living west of the river. 800 and an imag- inary line from Max to the Canadian border, through Minot and Lansford. The railroads contend that operat- ing conditions and traffic density are worse in the western part of the state than east of the river and that higher rates are justified by this fact. Oppohents, as represented by the railroad board, deny these claims and contend that there is no justification for the division. They have compiled data showing that the revenue re- ceived by the railroads from each mile of line is larger in the western part of the state thar in the eastern. One reason for this is that the west- ern part of the state had fewer branch lines and a mile of railroad serves @ much larger territory there than in the eastern section. If the proposal of the railroads is approved it is estimated by the rail- Toad board that $2,000,000 a year would be added to the freight bill of western North Dakota, Bills Allowed by City Commission E compelling | ¢. > herself to put all thought of Harold and Huck out of her mind until she |. T. Grocery, relief ......... $ 4.88 was free to concentrate upon them | Commercial Service, ad- dress plate Walter Mullet, . Montana-Dakota Power current without interference. . Promptly when her day was done, she was ready to go with Harold. ‘There was just one thing she had to do—telephone to her mother. She Picked up the instrument on her desk and gave the number. “I’m going up to Westchester with Harold Judson,” she said when Con- nie answered her call. “Tell mother Til be home late maybe.” 1.00 * * Ok Harold came up in time to hear the 3.75 last words. Mildred felt a little guilty over his exuberance. She had made up her mind to get-the truth about Huck Connor if she could and she was prepared to stay out late to do it. “Looks like the beginning of a happy evening,” Harold told her, “I was afraid you'd want me to take you home when the curfew rang.” “It all depends upon you,” Mildred 70.50 warned him. “Don’t make love to| Waterworks pay roll 111.60 me and I'll be a regular Cinderella, | Waterworks pay roll 228.15 Except.that I haven't a ball dress.” {French & Welch “Want to stop at your place and 30 change?” Harold asked. » 3.15 “I'd like to, if you don’t mind wait- | Marcovitz Grocery, jar .. 1.25 ing, but there aren’t any ball dresses | Tribune Co., advertising a1 in my wardrobe.” Quick Print Co., statements .. 6.50 “You don’t need fine feathers.” Harris & Woodmansee, su! “That's .a married man’s line,| Plies ........ 11.60 Harold.” N. W. Bell Co., service.... 40.64 “But I'd like to dress you in .. .” | Army and Navy Store, relief.. 2.50 “I know; it’s sweet of you,” Mildred | F. X. Wanner, sheriff's fees.. _ 1.60 interrupted. “Come on; you know | Harry A. Thompson, repairs.. 78.66 what’s ahead of you before you get | Wm. Dohn, relief . + 1400 to Westchester.” . “Policemen,” Harold groaned, “on every corner.” But in spite of the impediments to their progress they: both enjoyed the drive to Mildred’s home, and Harold only one ticket. “Wait down -here; I'll be just a minute,” Mildred said at the entrance to her dwelling. Her minute grew into 10, 15, and then Harold went up to remind her that heswas waiting. At first no one answered his ring at the door. He pressed the ‘button again, beginning to entertain-a.vague uneasiness, Pres- ently he heard some one fumbling with the double lock; then the door was thrown open and Connie stood there in the hall with a white, fright- ened face and shaking hands that she put out impulsively when she recognized : him. Corner Grocery, relief ........ 5.00 Bonny’s Cafe, relief .......... 20.55 Nici Ta say anything of the kind! But maybe I do think she would if “Then you believe Armitage loves her for herself alone?” Mildred made a sudden, broken i iste : led sedi Heche TEL Commissioner Ben ©. Larkin and | 4™. on erie Postal Tel. & Cable Co. Blue & White Cab Co. Capital Oafe, meals ... 5.00 Mrs. George Schubert,laundry 2.15 Montana Dakota Power 1.00 B, K. Skeels, supplies .... 34.52 BAD CHECKS ANNOY CAR LICENSE CHIEF: Graham Suggests Auto Owners Use Cashier's Paper or Send Money Order Trouble in cashing some of the per- sonal checks received at his office has caused W. 8, Graham, registrar of motor vehicles, to issue an appeal to we automobile - owning public for Ip. In too many cases, Graham said, the checks are not honored when pre- sented at the bank and it costs more than they are worth, in some cases, to collect them. It is necessary, if Correspondence fails to do the work, to send a special agent out to collect the money or to get back the tags which may have been issued on the assumption that the check was good. It often happens that the drawer of the check makes it good as soon as he learns that it has not been hon- “ ored at the bank, but Graham would like to reduce his bad checks problem to the minimum. He suggests that in most cases it is Telatively easy to obtain a postal money order or a bank draft and that this will remove the possibility of trouble, Most of the applications for auto- mobile licenses are filled out at banks in the smaller towns and in such cases it would be just as easy to ob- tain a cashier's check, Graham said. 100 GAMBLE STORES BY JUNE 4 1S GOAL | Last Year 30 Units Were Added to Chain Carrying Auto Supplies and Hardware a From one small store a few short years ago to 100 stores by June of 1929 has been the remarkable growth “Automobile su were handled at the »” said O. 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