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Uncle Sam Misses the PointIt isn't often that we have opportunity to get fun out
of the government's income tax but even in the grim-mest situation there may be elements of humor.
For example, the internal revenue bureau rends out tonewspapers a complete explanation of the income taxlaw and, contained in it, is a paragraph which the gov-ernment presents under the delightful title ‘'lncomeTax in a Nutshell.” Here is what the aforesaid nutshellcontains:
WHO? Single persons who had net incomeof $1,500 or more or gross income of $5,000 ormore and married couples who had net incomeof $3,500 or more or gross income of $5,000 ormore must file returns.
"WHEN? The filing period ends March 16,1931.
‘ WHERE? Collector of internal revenue forthe district in which the person lives or has hisprincipal place of business.
‘HOW? Instructions on Forms 1040 A and1040; also the law and regulations.
“WHAT? One and one-half per cent normaltax on the first $4,000 in excess of the personalexemption and credits. Three per cent normaltax on the next $4,000. Five per cent normal taxon the balance of net Income. Surtax on netincome in excess of slo,ooo.'’
Item No. 4, under the heading of “How” may meetwith the approval of the government but it will be of
little use to the man wr ho is paying the tax, for, like as
not, his problem of “How” will be entirely different.What he would like to know is where he is going to,
get the money to pay the tax. This is true every year, :for even to those fortunate persons who make enough;to warrant them in paying a tax, the government's levy
always comes as something of a painful surprise. And ivery often they have to scrape around and sometimesborrow to meet the bill which Uncle Sam presents to
them. jThe ‘‘How'' which Uncle Sam offers may meet his pur-
poses but to the man footing the bill and contemplating
the money he has spent, forms 1040 and 1040 A look like
a rather grim joke.He is likely t£L feel that Uncle Sam has missed the 1
point.I
Satisfaction for the Law-AbidingAction by a New York jury in convicting lames A.
Connolly, St. Paul broker, will meet with the aDproval of,every law-abiding citizen.
The Minnesotan was fined $25,000 and sentenced to 10;years in prison for using the mails in the sale of stolensecurities. The prosecutors showed that he had mar- jketed $75,000 in bonds taken in mid-western bank rob- (beries and had refused to repurchase them when their;origin became known.
Boiled dowui to plain terms, Connolly was accused ancl!convicted of being a "fence” for a class of criminals
which has overrun these midwestern and northwestern istates for several years. North Dakota and Bismarck jknow how they work.
Back of the men who hold the guns in the "stickup”
of a bank, there is another and more cold-blooded crim-
inal. He is the man who, under the guise of a broker!
or financier, enables the lesser crooks to dispose of their jloot at a profit.
It is not a large profit, to be sure, for the man who
deals in "hot” securities knows the risk he may I e tak- Jing and charges accordingly. f
If it were not for such men, bank robbery would lose;much of its lure, for a bond without a market Is just
another piece of paper to the bandit. With an un-scrupulous broker available to help him, it becomes anincentive to continued robbery.
There are few? businesses in which it pays to begin at
the top, but it looks as though the crushing of crime is
one of them.Catch the “fences’* and the brains of criminal organ- I
tzations, jail the “man higher up,” and there will be little Jtrouble in dealing w'ith the small fry which remain.
An Unconvincing ExcuseAmong one of the minor matters now before congress;
is a bill relating to the bag limit on wild game.
Hearings were held on it and all sides of the question
were discussed.One of the most surprising disclosures was made by
Paul H. Redington, chief of the bureau of biological sur- ;vey, w'ho said his department has authority to abolish ;the baiting of ponds and lakes with grain as a lure to!ducks but will not do so because members of duck- jshooting clubs contend such action would destroy the;value of their lands.
Without baiting to bring the ducks within gunshot,
Mr. Redington is quoted as saying, members of the gun-
clubs "would be on a par with the millions of farm boys 1and ordinary citizens who once in a while go out hunt- •ing and earn what they get by tramping and rowing.”
What a pity It would be to have such a calamity occur jto those so-called “sportsmen” who prefer operation
of a slaughter house for God's birds of the air to anhon3st hunt.
Sportsmen. Faugh.
We Should Be InterestedCall for the fifth annual observance of narcotic educa-
tion week from February 21 to 28 probably will go un-noticed. This Is a busy world and the use of narcoticsis so far removed from the thoughts of most normal
persons that we will see in it little to interest us.Accurate statistics on the number of drug addicts In
the United States are not available. The last tbing the
“dope fiend” does is make his weakness public. He hides
hi*secret as a mother cherishes her child and only until
he is too far gone to save does the public learn of his
affliction. Even then, it leal-ns largely because of the
victim’s physical appearance or because of some overt
act, performed while under the influence of drugs
The optimistic estimators place the number of
1 drug addicts in this country at about 100.003. The more1 pessimistic place it at over 500,000. Probably it Is some-
where inbet ween.But even one Is too many. For to that one his afflic-
tion almost inevitably means the loss of position, home,1 love, happiness and eventually of life itself, for dope
' fiends don’t live long.Multiply this condition by as many dope addicts as
there may be and v.e have in our midst an appallinglylarge number of people who, taken in the mass, con-
[ stitutc a cancer in the breast of society. They have been
j pulled down themselves —and what is worse they arejconstantly pulling others with them.
J It was only a few days ago that this and other news-papers carried the story of the death of a once-famous
| motion picture actress. She became a victim of drugs
j and her efforts to light free of its clutching embracei failed.I To the millions who once admired her this untimely
i end should serve as a warning. To those engaged in; stamping this damnable traffic it should be an
i inspiration to fight still harder.For, after all, the drug traffic Is one in which the
! real articles sold arc honor, blood, tears, happiness and !
J life itself. i
Nations and HumansWhen Johnnie Jones speaks ill of Willie Smith, the
back alley is usually the scene of the next act Fistic;j battles have always been popular. In fact, small boys!j have a habit of objecting to a verbal apology, l: spoils
! the show.When one government makes a remark that isn’t ac-!
cepiable to another the same thing is likely to happen,!with the high seas as the stage. Time was when «ne!
nation would have put cotton in its ears and shouldered
1 its guns if another one wanted to apologize fur somechance remark. But fortunately that is ending. Now
that the art of courtesy is being practiced the art ofjwar Isn't so powerful.
The United States has made a formal apology to Italy;for statements uttered by Major General Smealey D.,Butler regarding Premier Mussolini. Mussolini, being
very human, objected to some remarks of the United
States marine corps officer. The United States, having
;a sense of justice and fitness which demanded that itdo the chivalrous thing, sent deep regrets.
It never reflects on a nation, any more than it does;
on a man. to do the right thing. A noble gesture is;never lost. Italy and America will be better friends, inall probability, because the United States government ;
wasn't afraid to make atonement for the carelessness!of one of its representatives.
It is true that this is the first instance, so far as the 1state department has been able to ascertain, where it *has been necessary for us to apologize to another na- jtion for statements made by a ranking officer.
It is unfortunate that the condition arose which made ;
such an action necessary. But it is no blot on our,escutcheon that we made atonement for it. Only a small jpersonality or nation will refuse to be gracious and admit jits error.
You can't fool the American people unless you’re theircandidate.
The answers to questions printedhere each day are specimens pickedfrom the mass of inquiries handled byour great information bureau main-tained in Washington. D. C. Thisvaluable service is for the free use ofthe public. Ask any question of factyoii may want to know and you willget an immediate reply. Write plain-ly, enclose two cents In coin orstamps for return postage, and' ad-dress the Bismarck Tribune Informa-tion Bureau, Frederic J. H&skin, Di-rector, Washington, D. C.
Q. Which member of the Wash-ington family is helping to furnishthe replica of Mount Vernon inParis? R. M.
A. Miss Anne Madison Washing-ton. great-great-great niece of thefirst president of the United States,is at present in Paris, where she issupervising the furnishing and dec-orations of the replica of MountVernon which is being erected inParis for the International Colonialand Overseas Exposition to be heldfrom May 1 to October 31, 1931.
Q. When was the first radio pro-gram received in the United Statesfrom Italy? J. R.
A. The National Broadcastingcompany says that the Tirst Interna-tional program ever broadcast fromItaly to the United States was stagedon January 1, 1931, when PremierBenito Mussolini, speaking from Fa-scist headquarters in Rome, sent hisNew Year’s greetings to Americahrough coast-to-coast networks. Thiswas the first program ever heard inthis country originating on the Ital-ian mainland. Twice before, how-ever, listeners had heard programsfrom Italian waters—from the yachtof Senatore Guglielmo Marconi, thefather of radio, anchored off thecoast of the peninsula.
Q. What book of John Fox's waspublished shortly after his death?S. J. B.
A. John Fox, Junior, died in 1919.The year following, his bonk calledErskine Dale was published.
Q. How far inland is Canberra,the new capital of Australia? J. L.
A. It is seventy miles inland, butis connected with a land-locked bayby a railroad.
Q. How many students can WestPoint and Annapolis take? W. C. K.
A. The authorized strength of theUnited States Military Academy at
West Point. New York, is 1374 cadets,
and four Filipinos. The authorized
Editorial CommentKditoriiils printed l>elow show the trend r>f tlmushtby ot)i<*r editors. They arc published without regardto whether they agree or disagree with The Trib-
une's policies.
Careful, Governor!• Duluth Herald'
Governor Olson announces that he will have anexamination made of the expenditures of the Great lLakes--St. Lawrence Tidewater association from the be-;ginning down to date.
That is perfectly legitimate. No doubt the associationwill welcome the examination, and no doubt it will beable to account satisfactorily for every dollar receivedfrom this and other states to be used to carry on thefight to put through the St. Lawrence project.
But Governor Olson also announces that after theexamination is over he will ask the legislature not toappropriate any more money for this purpose.
And that, at this time, wT ould be a tragic folly and astupid mistake.
If there had been no fight for it, the St. Lawrenceproject would not be where it is, with the two govern-ments cn the point of planning joint construction ofthe work. If this and other states had not financedthe fighting organization, the fight for it would havebeen impossible.
The fight is by no means over.When the governments agree on a plan, the project
must be put through congress, and that means anotherstruggle.
To abandon the effort now, with success almost withinreach, would be to make the money already spent purewaste.
The governor does net say why he proposes this, butwhatever his reason, his plan would betray a very vitalinterest which is not the interest of Duluth only, but ofevery shipper in Minnesota and every citizen of the state.
The Capitol Removal(Valley City Times-Rccordi
The Jamestown boosters have filed petitions contain-ing the names of something over 23,000 signers askingfor removal of the capitol from Bismarck to Jamestown,and the Jamestown men appeared at Bismarck yesterdayarguing for delay in construction until the matter Issettled, the one thing the Jamestown people are askingfor particularly was to have the emergency clausestricken out of the bill.
The state affairs committee, of which L. L. Twichellis chairman, promised fo take the matter under advise-ment, and while we do not know anything about it fromany contact with Mr. Twichell or any member of hiscommittee, we are going to predict that the committeewill refuse to do this. No doubt the intention of thecommittee will be to try and get the legislature to ratifythe emergency clause so that operations for the buildingof a new capitol can start at once. The Jamestownpeople will probably fight that by compelling a specialelection through court action and much delay and badfeeling is going to come through such action.
It is a known fact that anybody circulating a petitioncan get all kinds of signatures—partciularly from thosewho do not bear the burdens of taxation but are voters—and perhaps that is a good argument for having aproperty qualification for voting. Most of our heavybond issues, or matters pertaining to the spending oflarge sums of money for which the taxpayer has to pay,are settled by those who are over 21 and entitled toa vote but do not pay a dollar's worth of tax—but theyvote and vote according to the way they arc approached—and their vote counts just as heavy as the vote of theman or woman who pays a big tax. So it has been notrouble for Jamestown to get signatures—but It is goingto be much harder to get votes, because when the elec-tion is called there will be a campaign of education puton showing the foolishness of removal that will changethe opinion of many of those who signed those petitions.
We attended a press meeting at Fargo yesterday, andtalked with a number of slate editors, and while noneof these have yet taken any particular interest in thisquestion we found that most of them regarded removalas unfair to Bismarck and entirely uncalled for andthat they were not going to support any removal pro-position.
We fpund little sentiment in Fargo for a change.Many signatures were obtained in that city just as wehave said—people giving it no thought, but there Is nosentiment at all strong for removal. From the north-west end of the state, particularly, we found that editorswere not favorable to removal, so that if the matter doescome to a vote, and it seems highly probable at thistime, we do not look Tor any change in capitol location.
A special election is going to cost the taxpayers a lotof money, the Jamestown people a lot of headaches, andwhen the smoke of ballots has blown away the newbuilding will be put up on Capitol Hill where the con-stitution put it at the time the public buildings werelocated and at which time Jamestown Secured the secondlargest in the state—the insane asylum. Why give themanother?
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THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1931
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Answers &Questions
strength oi the United States NavalAcademy at Annapolis, Maryland, is2743.
Who planned the seal of Virginia?L. W.
A. The design of the seal of thestate of Virginia was proposed byGeorge Withe. It consists of a fe-male figure representing Virtue, herfoot resting upon a figure represent-ing Tyranny. The motto—S:e Sem-per Tyrannis—describes this allegor-ical representation.
Q. Does the heat of the sun pro-duce sunburn? I. W.
A. It is not the heat of the sun butthe ultra-violet rays which producesunburn.
Q. What percentage of churchmembership comes from Sundayschools? E. M. K.
A. It is estimated that at least 70per cent is recruited from the Sundayschool.
Q. How was cooking done in theold brick oven which had no fireunder it? M. L. H.
A. The old-fashioned outside ovenhad a domed chamber built of brickjmd heated by means of light woodand sticks burned inside. When thebricks were well heated the ashes andembers were raked out and the floorswept and the food to be cooked in-troduced by a flat, wooden shovelwith a long handle and the door wasthen closed.
Q. Piease give the dimensions ofthe clock on the Houses of Parlia-ment. E. T. R.
A. The dimensions of the clock onthe Houses of Parliament are as fol- Jlows: Four dials, each 23 feet square; |figures two feet; minute hand 14 feet.The famous bell Big Ben weighs 13’.2tons.
Q. Where did Hannibal cross theAlps with some elephants? O. W. C.
A. Dorothy Giles in The RoadThrough Spain says: "This meant 1that we must reach the frontier at \Le Perthus and cross the pass—the isame by which Hannibal brought his!army and his 20 elephants on that!amazing march on Rome ” i
Q. Of what w ood should chessmen jbe made? W. C. D.
A. The Forest Products Labors-;tory says that the best chessmen areprobably made from genuine box-!wood. This wood is imported in rel- 1atively small quantities because of its tscarcity and high price. It probably !
can be readily had. however, in thesmall sizes required for chessmen.West Indian boxwood should also besuitable for chessmefi. This wood ismuch more common and is consider-ably lower in price. Among Ameri-can species holly is probably bestsuited for chessmen. This wood islight colored, rather heavy, and quitehard. It carves well and takes asmooth finish.
I Q. How many kinds of equipmentare used by a telephone company?N. E. B.
A. About 110.000 dissimilar partsare produced and assembled.
» Q. What country has a flag mostnearly like ours? P. L.
A. The flag of Liberia is identicalwith ours except for the fact that ithas a single star upon its field. Infact, our flag was taken as a modelfor theirs.
Today Is theAnniversary of
CONFEDERATE CONGRESSOn Feb. 4, 1861, delegates from all
the seceded states met at Montgom-ery. Ala., and framed a provisional
, government for the ‘'ConfederateStates of America.” Montgomerywas made the capital of the newslaveholding republic.
Jefferson Davis of Mississippi waselected president far six years withAlexander H. Stephens of Georiga asrice president. An interesting fact inconnection with Stephens is that heearlier denounced secession as “the
(height of madness, folly and wicked-i ness.”
In March. 1861, the Confederateistates adopted the “stars and bars”as their national flag and ratified a
jpermanent constitution. It differed• from that of the United States In ainumber of important points, four ofi which may be mentioned here:j 1. The president could not be re-elected.
2. He could veto any appropriation! and at the same time approve of anyi other appropriation in the same bill.! 3. All protective duties and pro-
tective bounties were prohibited.I 4. Slavery was nationalized, was(Protected and recognized in all newi territory which the Confederacy'might acquire.
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j spoiled. So I make as few as I can.—Ernest Lubitsch.
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The man who knows least about• women is the one who has had th*most love affairs, and the man who
By Williams
MEAT FOR CHILDRENSo many parents have a mistaken
idea that for some reason ™caVln°lgood for children. How often I haveheard mothers say when they navebrought their children to me for ex-amination that they do not under-stand why their child is sick becausethey almost never give him meat.
Children usually like meat fromearly babyhood, but are constantlytold by their parents that "meat is
i not good for little boys and girls.”Perhaps, in some cases, where thefamily has a limited income, themother thinks it is necessary to cutdown expenses by not allowing thechildren to have meat which, ofcourse, is more expensive thanmushes, bread and gravy, but I be-lieve that the trouble usually comesfrom the mother haring improper in-formation on the subject.
The growing child needs proteinfood even more than the adult, andmeat is one of the finest of all pro-teins.
There are two principal types ofchildren who will have enough trou-ble to be brought to the doctor foradvice. One is the fat-faced childwith the drooping mouth and phleg-matic disposition. This child usuallyhas adenoids and enlarged tonsils,
caused by using too much milk andcarbohydrate foods. This is the di-gestive type, and the child of thistype is able to digest fats, sugars andstarches, but develops various glandu-lar troubles and becomes overweight
; from the very fact that he can soj easily digest these kinds of foods.
The other type of child is the thinfaced one with poor digestion andsubject to nervousness, liver troubles,bad breath and constipation. The fat
J faced child should be given less of¦ the fattening foods, and proteins suchas meat, combined with greens, shouldjbe substituted. The thin faced childwill always be able to digest meat andother proteins better than fats andcarbohydrates and under a high pro-tein diet will have less stomach andliver disorders with a sweeter breathand more normal bowel movements.
Every child over three years of ageshould have at least one meat meala day, using one-fourth to a halfpound of lean meat, together withany of the cooked and raw non-starchy vegetables which he likesbest. Starches should be left out ofthis meal. At least one egg dailyshould also be used, and if the childdislikes eggs, in many cases it is wiseto substitute a small amount of meatin place of the egg which is usuallytaken at breakfast.
In nay private practice I have nev-er observed a child who could not
knows the most is the one who hashad but two teachers—his motherand his wife.—R. c. Sherriff.
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If a girl goes out into the worldand tries to ape men too much sheis bound to lose something intangibleand subtle which belongs naturally toher.—The Marquess of Zetland
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The greatest danger in Christianitylies not in unbelievers who attack itbut in believers who belittle it.—Rev.Harry Emerson Fosdick.
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As it is being practiced, divorce isstriking at the entire social structureof the world.—G. K. Chesterton.
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These are certainly trying timesfor General Smedley Butler.
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The wife of the flying squadronhero is probably the only one whocan trump an ace and get awaywith it.
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“One good. tu:n deserves another"said the girfc. tj the window as sheflipped anotluV pancake.
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Men will get so tired of womenusing cosmetics, says a beauty expert,that they will turn In relief to milk-maids. But on cold winter mornings,even milkmaids handle cold cream.
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"I like to sleep in old houses withwind -creaking shutters," says a notedcolumnist. He may be brave, but like-ly he’s saying this for a blind.(Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.)
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WEDNESDAYSB IVATE
Continues consideration of inde-pendent offices appropriation bill.
Takes up conference report on in-terior appropriation bill.
Reconsiders nomination of threemembers of power commission.
Owen D. Young appears beforebanking committee investigatingbanking conditions.
HOUSEContinues debate on District of Co-
lumbia annual appropriation.Ways and means committee resumes.hearings on veterans compensation
payment plans.Banking and currency committee
considers bill to clarify state taxationof national banks.
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10:00—Weather report; opening grainmarkets.
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close: Bismarck Tribune news,weather, and St. Paul livestock.
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foley-gram
For coughs, genuine Foley Honeyand Tar Compound. Nationallyknown Cough Syrup. 55 years ahousehold remedy. Over 10C.000.000bottles sold. Quick and dependablefor coughs, croup (spasmodic), drytickling throat, nervous hacking,troublesome night coughs. Sedativeand comforting without opiates.Mildly laxative. Children tike it.Careful Mothers everywhere endorseit. Exactly suits Elderly Persons.Ask for Foley’s. Sold everywhere.—Advertisement.
HOPEWELL CLARKE DIESSt. Paul, Feb. 4.-M^V-Hopewell
Clarke, 77, noted for his contributionsto the development of mining innorthern Minnesota, died at his homehere after a long illness.
Flapper Fanny* Says:
Th ®Women
“to a weighty problem.
with benefit use kt least one meatmeal a day and in some cases I have
Dr. McCoy will gladly answerpersonal questions on health anddiet addressed to him, care of
The Tribune.Enclose a stamped addressed
envelope for reply.
put small children on an almost ex-clusive meat diet for a week or two inorder to cure them of the anemiawhich existed because of a diet too
low in protein.
QUESTIONS and answersOccupational Strain
Question: J. F. W. writes: “Ihavebeen a watch-making jeweler fornearly forty years and am still atmy trade, but have now somehow de-veloped a stiffening pain just abovethe middle of my shoulders. Cahscarcely lift my head or turn fromside to side. I had tuberculosis inthe second stage when 16 years old,
but overcame that trouble. I amwondering if that left me weak, andif a little hard work causes my trou-ble. Otherwise, lam hearty and hale,and weigh 190 pounds.”
Answer: You are no doubt strain-ing yourself by sitting in one positiontoo long. You may be able to over-come your trouble by taking exer-cises for your neck and upper back.This will strengthen the muscleswhich would allow you to stand thestrain of your daily work.
OnionsQuestion: R. A. D. writes: "I
would appreciate it if you would an-swer this in the paper. I am a bigonion eater. Everyone says that theyare not good for me. Kindly adviseif it is harmful to eat so many.”
Answer: Some people who are ac-customed to onions are able to eatthem without apparent harm, butthey have a tendency to produce ex-cessive gas. Even if they build youup physically, they tear you downsocially, and your best friends mayeven tell you about it.
Loss of HairQuestion: Mrs. K. P. asks: "Would
an operation for the removal of theappendix cause the hair to fall outin great lots?”
Answer: If your hair started com-ing out shortly after the operation,it must have been due to the surgi-cal shock or to the fever you had be-fore the operation. The hair will no ¦
doubt grow back again if you regulateyour diet so as to get plenty of siliconand other minerals out of which thebody manufactures hair.