The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 11, 1916, Page 13

' | RECIPE EXCHANGE (We wish to conduct a recipe ex- thange section, and for this depart- Ment we wish all our readers to seng us accurate copies of their be recipes, that they may be printed for the - advantage of others. Every - Woman has some recipe which she is sure is pleasing and which gives her- gelf, her family and her friends pleasure. Send that one in and let all the women use it so that the circle . pleasure will be greater. The Leader will print-the two best recipes received each week and will pay 50 fnex;ts each to those wWho send them Here is_a recipe for salad dressing which is inexpensive, easy and quick to make. ! 3 SALAD DRESSING 1 tablespoon fiour blespoon' sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1 % cup milk : et das i Mix the first five ingredients to- pether, beat the .egg and add, stir in. milk, add vinegar slowly and stir. Cook in double boiler till thick. Cool, dilute with sweet or sodr cream or whipped cream and serve on salads. MACARONI SALAD 1 cup macaroni 3% cup grated cheese ] 4 large sweet cucumber pickles k the macaroni in boiling salted water for % hour; drain and cut in | 8D pieces, add grated cheese and ' pickles cut fine.. Mix with salad dres- { 8ing and serve cold. ; i MERCHANTS WILL HELP : I HAVE heard many- business men in different towns say that they will vote for all the League candidates, so I think we have _| clear sailing.—ANDREW. REISS. 0 al the N. P. y keeping u e interest. Their fabricatiorlgn grepwell - understood.—R. H. ANDREWS. S S B ALL VOTERS FOR FRAZIER | ~ALL * VOTERS, farmers or ] ‘otherwise “will' yote for Frazier in the fall. Hurrah for Frazier from this precinct. Solid for the -League. By tonight about all ‘“will have signed the petitions, then I will send them in. Could ~we have Frazier to speak in our : |’ county sometime during the sum- = I'mer, at say Egeland or Bisbee?: | ~W.-H. DEARDORFF. ; 0= - genson, Stal New Schedule Causes Great Hullabaloo; - Stutsman County’s Taxers to Ignore Part MARCK, May 8.— Reports counties show that the annual assess- ment work of the assessors, now under way, is being conducted with great difficulty. If scientific taxation is the “art’ of plucking the most feathers 4 B o By Staff Correspondent _from the goose with the least squawk- ing on the part of the goose,” as has been said, the present tax taking is far from scientific. In fact it is be- ing accompanied with the most kick- ing than "any assessment work in North Dakota has brought forth in a decade: = The reason for this awkward situ- ation is the new personal property schedule, containing 95 items of tax- able property and untold possibilities of grief for.assessors, county auditors, county boards of equalization. and state officials. It is particularly un- pleasant for the latter, for it is the te rd of equalization, consist- ing of office holders at Bismarck, that is responsible for the new tax scheme. April and May are the months designated under the law for the various assessors to make their an- nual call on property owners. Their work should therefore be over half over, but it isn’t in many instances, according . to reports from various parts of the state brought to Bis- marck. The 95-item schedule, which replaces the old 28-item plan, makes the assessor give three or four times as much time to each taxpayer as he formerly did, and much of this is taken up with arguments of the tax- payers, who don’t like the new scheme and are freely expressing themselves on that point to the assessors, besides writing letters to the newspapers and state officials denouncing the . handi- work of the state board. % ASSESSORS AGREE TO IGNORE THE LAW One of the most important develop- ments-took place in Stutsman county, where the assessors of the county held a”meeting and flat-footedly decided to ignore the new assessment sched-. ule in several respects, law or no law. Of course this puts in jeopardy the entire assessment of the county. The assessors have decided tc ‘ignore Several features of the new schedule and ' this is grounds for the proper authorities to order a reassessment’at t expense: to the taxpayers. But the: assessors figured they would rather risk that than attempt to en- force the new plan literally. ‘They denounced it as foolish and unjust.:: The meeting was held at Jamesfown and the assessors of the county. agreed not to assess dogs of any kind or fencing and to leave ocut stock un- “der six months old. The schedule of the state board of equalization spe- cifically requires dogs, fences. and stock under one year to be assessed and the instructions to assessors given out by the state tax -commission- ~ specifically requires that the state " board 's orders in this respect be - followed. The items that the Stutsman county assessors decided to omit are among. the new ones added to the . schedple this year. Dogs, fences and one year have never been - assessed before. The new schedule also adds ‘poultry, but the assessors decided to earry out orders on the Itry item. They refused to swal- low the “dogs” item, however, d - % i Stutswan farmers” pets are safe in county for another year at least, un- less somebody orders a reassessment on. acount of the law being ignored. Their decision on the “stock mxderméfi year” item was a compromise wi the new law. They decided to assess stock of six months and over and let the little pigs, calves and colts go free. Their-decision to ignore fences, one of the new items on the schedule, - was'a bold stroke and they may not: get away with it. ; _.So far:as could be learned the Stuts- man county assessors are the only ones to come out openly with the declaration that ing- ignore certain- items of the new schedule, but it is quietly whispered that assessors in ‘some of the other ° counties prefer winking at.the law to facing farmers with a demand that they put a value on dogs and other ; property for assessment. ! pefl this'is not at all comfortable-for Governor Hanna, State Auditor Jor- te Treasurer John' Steen, : AG Agricultural Commissioner Flint and Attorney General Linde, the members of the state board of equalization who approvd the new schedule. These office holders, most of whom have been in office several terms and know much about. politics, are all candidates for reelection to the jobs they have or for other positions, and they know this new' schedule is “bad medicine” for them. < : Another feature of the new schedule that is making trouble is the long list of “instructions” that goes ‘with it, gotten out by the state tax commis- sion. The schedule made by the state equalizers is so complex that it re- quires a long list of “don’ts” and “dos” to make it clear to assessors. The as- sessor has to carry the schedule in one hand and the “instructions” in the other when he calls on a farmer to value property, because it is impos- of the various items. At least this is what a number of assessors havd ' reported. g Country assessors are paid a fla fee per township for getting the as« sessments and this fee has not been raised, although the assessors’ woqrk has been doubled. Few assessol(‘; therefore, will make any money out their work this year. But the kicks of assessors are not inf it with the complaints going up fromx the taxpayers themselves. They don’t object so much to the extra taxes as ta the principle of assessing a farmerw or small city householder right Quwu to his last day-old pig and fountain pen, while no such systematic_efforf is being made to bring to light tha last cent’s worth of property valug held by the big taxpayers. It’s pretty small potatoes and few of ’em in a peck, most of the farmers arq saying. 3 e What do you think about it? EQUITABLE AUDIT CO.,Inc. % i Farmers Elevator Companies’ Home of Auditing and Systems for Accounting. Write for References. J. R. Kirk (()]Ugg;gmission Co. Inc.; 8 UL, MINN. SALES AGENCY AN]_) AUTHOBIZ.ED BEPRESEN'I‘éTIVE OF THE ; American Society of Equity CONSIGN YOUR LIVE STOCK TO US AND GET A SQUARE DEAL ANOTHER ASSOCIATION SEES BENEFIT IN SHIPPING LIVE STOCK . TO THEIR OWN SBELLING AGENCY an Manning, N. D., Feb. 8, 1916 J. R. Kirk Commission Co., So. St. Paul, Minn. Gentlemen: 3 Drafts received for ear of hogs shipped you Jan. 21st. through Dunn County Shipping Association, All members that had hogs in the shipment are awfully well pleased t] e g returns and the way you have handled the o ve several more cars to start from Dunn Center next week. ith such good returns as you secured us,-will mean more cooperation among the farmers at this end. ours for more cooperative business, A.J.BRETZLAFF, Shipping Manager. Your Terminal Elevator " Now Being Built | aen the above elevator is completed tha Equity Co-operative Exchange will be in position to STORE GRAIN, CLIP OATS, CLEAN GRAIN, SEPARATE GRAIN LOAN MONEY ON STORED GRAIN Plan your trip east this winter, se that y&uv will be in St. Paul December 5, 6, 7, and - help dedicate the new elevator, For shipping instructions or other informa- o e ; tion, address - S Equity Co-operative Exchange ', ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA PAGE THIRTEEN ©