The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 21, 1932, Page 7

ae { . 4 eo & a “ SENATE HEARINGS + ON'TAX BILL CLOSE Proposal to Put Levy on Checks Vigorously Attacked at | Final Session Washington, April 21—()—After taking testimony against the treas- ury-proposed two-cent tax on checks, the senate finance committee Thurs- day closed hearings on the billion dol- Jar tax bill. Secretary Mills has estimated the check tax would yield about $95,000,- 000 but its opponents asserted it would harm business, the farmer, be unfair to those issuing small checks, and would yield less revenue. Clyde L, King, Pennsylvania secre- tary of revenue, protested against the retroactive provisions for revaluation of estates to allow for shrinkage, which he said would cost the states $150,000,000. . Other witnesses objected to stock transfer and realty taxes, and provi- sions covering mine depletion allow- ances. Smoot summoned the committee to meet Monday in executive sessiqn for actual work on the multitude of Tates necessary to bring about a bil- lion in new revenue for the nation’s shrinking treasury. He and Senator Harrison of Mississippi, ranking Dem- .ocrat of the committee, predicted the bill will be ready for the senate by May 1. Two weeks of hearings have brought severe protests from the in- dustries selected by the house for taxation and counter proposals for a general sales tax. Encouraged by this, Senator Reed (Rep. Pa.), an- nounced he would press it for a favorable action by the committee and that he believed he would win. But Smoot, though long a propo- nent of the sales tax, decided it would be “a waste of time.” Primary Cost County 44% Cents a Vote ‘The March 15 presidential primary election cost Burleigh county $4,080 or slightly more than 44% cents for each vote cast, according to figures com- piled by A. C. Isaminger, county au- itor. Burleigh residents cast 9,174 votes on the capital removal question. This probably is the most accurate total of ballots cast in the county. Items included in the expense list were payment of election board offi- cials, rental of polling places, fees for posting notices, ballots and supplies, People’s Forum . Editor's Note—The Telbune w: comes letters on sul terent. Letters dealing with co troversial religious eubjests, which Watch offend goed teeny Ge @ ai Dlay' will ber returned “to the re Fyriters. All letters ‘a wish tow ign the pseudon: en ai m own name ben Editor, Tribune: The topic of talk and writing now- adays among the farmers and busi- ness men in town, township, county and state is on too high taxes and interest, especially on farm land and Property, and that taxes and interest must be reduced, or farmers will go broke one by one and lose their farms. The farmers, as a whole, and espe- cially in North Dakota, are the mos: country at present, The farmer is noc without fault either, that his condi- tion is so deplorable. The farmers are “the tillers of the soil” and they raise the food to feed, and the cloth- ing material to clothe the inhabitants of this great country. Take the man and his plow and cultivation out of this country, and America with all its gold, silver and wealth would crumble in ruins. People must have food or they cannot exist. The farmer is the man that pays taxes on all four sec- tions of government operation, and maintenance expenses of township, county, state and federal government. All other industries have a way where- by they can figure their taxes on the cost of their product which they seli to the public, but the farmer has no way, under the present laws, to escape his assessed taxes on his farm and Property. He must either pay or lose his home and farm, for a small sum of past due unpaid taxes, regardless lof whether he has lived on that farm five or 50 years; regardless of wheth- er he had the misfortune of losing his crop by hail, drought, grasshopper, or unreasonably low prices on his farm product. If he is unable to raise the money he loses his farm and he and his family are turned out on the Toad. Had the farmers been as much in- terested in their rights at the polls ‘on election day in the past, as they were interested in raising a larger and larger food supply, and had elected their men to the offices of township. county, state and to the legislature and congress, to see that laws were passed to protect agriculture, accord- ing to other industries, they would be today the most honorable and well- to-do group of people in this world. and publication of legal notices pre- ceding the election and the abstract of the total vote, which is to be pub- lished soon. Transient Arrested For Stealing Watch Ed Johnson, 18-year-old transient from Toledo, Ohio, Thursday is in the city jail after stealing a watch, and Police Chief Chris J. Martineson is wondering how best to handle the; youth's case. Johnson admitted having stolen the watch and a pocketbook containing a small amount of money from the overalls of a workman at a local creamery plant Thursday forenoon. The manager of the creamery caught the youth before he could make his getaway and the stolen ar- ticles were recovered. Martineson said it was possible he would order the youth out of town and not place charges against him, She’s Voted Favorite In closing let me refer the reader to only one law (there are more of then: that are wrong) and if this law is not soon repealed and made ineffective every farmer in the state of North Dakota must lose his farm because of inability to pay taxes. I will illus- trate: Five farmers are paying taxes of $200 each a year, total $1,000. No. 1 cannot pay his taxes. The state forecloses, gets the land and also the rental crop off the land but does not pay taxes on this land. So the $200 falls on the four remaining farmers to pay, making their amounts $250 each. No. 2 loses his land as did No. 1, now three farmers pay the taxes formerly paid by five, amounting to $333.33 each. No. 3 loses and the two remaining pay $500 each and at last the one remaining has to pay $1,000, because taxes must be paid and are financially mistreated people in our|®l THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1932 road to Devils Lake where bossy will get it after all. Then will say Billy and Jimmy and Frank et, al. “How ‘we wish we had cut it in four.” To the old tree, (the electorate of N. D.) whose life blood has been given to producing this apple, that an accidental gust of wind brought into the path of these naughty boys, it doesn’t make much difference who gets it, the boys or old bossy. It knows too well, from past experi- ence, that its only reward will be the demand for more and more apples for other naughty boys to squabble over, Meanwhile, it laughs up its sleeve, remembering that at best it is only a very green apple (you remember it was blown off the tree) and usually gives a pretty bad belly ache to the one who is successful enough to wrest it from the others or who, like old bossy, catches it on the rebound. Old anything in return? many Legionnaires are willing to sit down and write our representatives in congress immediately, Passage of the bonus measure. It will be the means of saving thousands and millions of people from going hungry and without clothes, only that, but it will be the real means of reviving business. Forget about the financiers’ debts and his troubles and put money into circula- tion where it will do some good. There are thousands of Legionnaires that are farmers. measure help them? I would like to have somebody tell me anything dif- ferent. Much more could be said along these lines, but space will not permit. depression or I wonder how urging the Not Would not the bonus In closing let me say this, no depression, if Editor, Tribune: I want to commend you for your Sensible attitude you took in regard to state politics, as expressed in your editorial about a week ago. has been too much bitter feeling in economy is to be practiced let it start from the right angle. Now, when fi- nancial help is needed by the average man and woman, let it be in the form of the soldiers’ bonus measure, instead of finance corporations, which also, in turn, require fancy-salaried people to carry out their program. Right is right and wrong is wrong. Let us stand for right. LUDWIG QUANRUD. LIKES TRIBUNE STAND Stanton, N. D., April 15, 1932. There have been forgotten long ago. able time, Very sincerely, Seek Sister of Man Bossy, tho, has a good stomach and may be able to digest it. Maybe some time in the dim and distant future a way will be found whereby politicians can be made to “put up or shut up.” If not, the old tree may get too weary of produc! pples any more and demand once and for all its just dues. In the meantime, we are glad that North Dakota has at least one edi- tor who is not afraid to tell things as they are—who is neither ultra- conservative nor ultra-radical; either of which is just as much of a menace to our fair state of North Dakota. A happy medium should be found somewhere. Maybe old bossy knows where to find it after all. A Reader of The Tribune. WANTS BONUS IN CASH Bismarck, N. Dak., April 13, 1932. Editor, Tribune: The letter written recently in the Forum by the party signing it A. Citizen, has sense in it, in more ways than one. As long as business has been in ex- istence and as smart or wise as busi- ness heads may be, they have never failed to hook the horse behind the cart instead of hooking the cart be- hind the horse, in putting through what they call economy programs. Buying power does not lie in the so-called high official. His buyin; power is like shipping merchandise by fast express and getting it through on slow freight schedule. Whoever could conscientiously sit down and figure out an economy program by cutting buying power in the form of trimming the salaries or rather wages of the lower-priced worker without considering the trimming of the high salaried man or woman? The high salaried worker is not willing to share any of the burden at all. We hear 80 much about depression and reme- dies for it. Well, if business had even as much sense as a little boy, it would go to the top of the hill and slide down. Things would be differ- ent and public opinion all around would be different. The bonus measure in congress now is on the same basis. To create a two-billion dollar corporation to fi- nance big money interests and totter- ing railroads is nothing. But to pass @ measure and make it law to pay to the ex-service man a recognized ob- ligation is called “uneconomical,” “de- structive” and “foolish” and what not. To make this two-billion dollar oor- poration look and sound good to the farmer, it is called a movement to aid agriculture. Did you ever stop to think how dumb these officials must think the farmer is? Can you tell me what kind of a farmer will benefit by this thing? Certainly I cannot. The people are paying these so- called lawmakers in Washington a required for operating the govern- ment. Consequently the tax ball ts growing larger every turn, under this law. s My opinion is this: If the state takes the land, and the land produces @ crop or income, that first incom: must be taken and the taxes paid and the remainder go‘ into the state fund. M. H. ORTMANN, IT'S A GREEN APPLE Kintyre, N. Dak., April 13, 1932. Editor, Tribune: Just a few comments on your edi- torial in Monday's issue of The Trib- une entitled “Again Walks the Ghost.” Students at the University of lina selected Kathryn Martin of Anderson, S. C., to reign as queen at the jool’s May day ivities. ‘The squabble over the governorship reminds me of the story in one of cur old school readers about the four little boys who fought about an apple that had accidentally rolled into their “Said Archie, ‘Ill have it, Said Richard ‘It’s mine.’ Said Willie, ‘I've got it, so there.’ Said Bobby ‘How foolish to squabble like this. Let's cut it and each have a share.’” In the squabble, however, it slip- ped out of the hands of all four and rolled down the hill where a “bossy was placidly chewing her cud.” She gave but a gulp and a swallow or two and the apple was seen never more. 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