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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1918-04-05

ty is undervalued by the assessor he
claims he has not been fairly treat
ed. So it becomes very important for
the assessor to be careful and value
all property at it's true and full value
and then assess it at it's proper per-
centage Of true and full value. other
wise he will hear many complaints
I and he justly should.
If taxpayer is undervalued he
pays less of the taxes than he should,
and, as consequence the man whose
property is valued as it should be
pays more taxes than he should. He
practically pays part Of the taxes Of
the man who is undervalued, so it
depends upon the assessors whether
the taxpayers pay their proper pro-
portion Of the taxes.
If the assessments are all fairly
made it then depends entirely upon
the voters whether their taxes are
high or low according to the amounts
they Or their representatives vote to
spend.
Taxes may not seem to have much
to do with the loyalty of our citizens
but when we consider that taxes edu-
cate our youth, build our roads and
take care of our public institutions,
we can see they have a good deal to
do with present and future genera
lions being able to give better serv
ice to their country and to make
better nation.
Out of every hundred dollars of
taxes paid by the taxpayers of Stew
ems county this year
S8.16 will go to the state.
40.34 will go to education.
1865 will go to the road and
bridge fund.
11.86 will go to the county.
1929 will go to the cities and
villages.
2.7O will go to townships.
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and for every dollar the county viii
pay the state in taxes this year the
county got back from the state trea-
sury in the fiscal year ending Au-
gust 1, 1917, $1.13 for roads, schools.
etc. All of which shows that more
than all the amount of the taxes paid
by this county is spent in the county,
and that the main portion of it goes
to education and roads and bridges.
Mr.. Hale told the assessors that
one of the difficulties they would en-
counter in their work would be as
sessing property now classed as
money and credits" which consists
of promissory notes, bonds, book ac-
counts, money on deposit in banks,
stocks of foreign corporations, ETC.,
because Of it's not being possible for
the assessor to see the same, but that
they were expected to follow the law
strictly and if any citizen refused to
make sworn statement as to
money and credits" to levy an arbi-
trary assessment against him.
The tax on money and credits"
has been fixed by law at three mills
on the dollar Of value and being so
much lower than the rate on all 9TH
er classes Of property the tax COM
mission expects every person to make
report on the same. If he makes
no sworn report stating that he eth
or has, or has not any money and
credits the law requires the assessor
to make an arbitrary assessment
against him and add fifty per cent
thereto as penalty for not making
a sworn report.
The meeting Of the assessors was
in session for some hours and all the
different phases of the tax laws were
gone into by the tax commissioner
and discussions of considerable inter-
est were carried on.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1918-04-05
BARBARITY AND BONE-HEADEDNESS

Cardinal Annette archbishop of Paris, cabled the
following statment regarding the bombardment Paris
by the Germans
ION Good Friday, at the hour itself of the death
of Lord Jesus Christ, whilst members of flock
assembled in the churches to commemorate that
great mystery, the Germans began to lombard Paris
after interruption of several days big shell fell
upon of churches and the roof collapsed crush
ing numerous Christians who had for divine
ice.
eve have found at least IS dead and 80 wounded,
of whom the majority and children. Such
crime, committed under such conditions such day
and such hour brings the reprobation of
conscience. In deep sorrow have the duty of
echong this reprobaon and of appealing to the justice
of God as we implore his mercy for the victims"
There is absolutely military advantage to the
Germans in bombardng Paris with their wonder gum
and the other hand it will but result in renewed
determination by Frenchmen to give up until the
is Germany made the mistake in bonn
harding London thus sodifed the British people
in support of the Besides uniting her enemies
Germany also serving notice the neutral nations
what to expect in Germany should win. Germanys
barbarc acts only confirm the opinion that the German
military autocracy has place in civilized world and
must be destroyed
Loyalty the big issue in many elections this year
and will continue to be. New Ulm has given
evidence tah the loyal elements there the majority
by electing the loyal candidate for mayor.
At a special meeting In washington 500 leading
hotel from all parts of the country pledged them
selves abolish absolutely the of wheat products in
their hotels until the next harvest in order that thorugh
their savings and their example shipments of wheat
the Allies may proceed without Interruption From
Washington the has spread and is being taken
up by hotel men all the country.
The banks are facing serious problem in the fin
ancing of the Third Liberty Loan Most of the pur-
chasers of the loan will be who ordinarily keep their
money working and for that reason do not have the
ready cash with which to buy bonds and will have to
borrow at the banks and is the patriotic duty of
citizen to assist the banks in every possible Every
dollar not in daily should be deposit in the banks
where be made to do the work Of several dollars
and dollar deposit should be left there if
possible If does not have the cash, bonds should
be purchased in accordance with the government install
ment plan should not be asked for those
which vital to production In this PROPOSE
ton, in everything else, learning that
all in the boat and that the interests of each
the interest of all, and only by team work win.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1918-04-05

Kind reader, think of the finest that you know,
to help else, a whom every of the
right kind desires to call his friend, of ideal fam
lily life who is ardent church-member without
any thinking OF him a "hypocrite," a
voted to seeing how much he could people
instead Of how much he could crap graft himself
think of this kind of of your acquaintance
and you will know the kind of against whom
Towney and the Boshevki the Partisan
League levelled their torrents of abuse-H c.
Hota1ing of Mapeton president of the Editor
ial Association In to inquiry, Hotang told
fellow-editor that the Reliance Publicity Service an
advertising agency in st. Paul which handling the
advertising for "The Farmer and Townleyism' was a.
responsible Townley and his coconspirators
attempting in to purchase, out
tmidate the loyal country of the state and nation
editors have been slow believe this by
they have been convinced, the writer
knows the last loyal editor who disposed to codde
the League is in opposition. One editor, Stein
hauser of the New U1m Review, who prominently
swallowed Townleyism whole has been expelled from the
State Editorial Association and the District
ISOLATION Void, Of the Alexandria Echo another Non
Partisan paper has been convicted publishing sediti
editorial association Two other editors the state
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1918-04-05

While all the European nations throwing into
this conflict little little less than the daily
income United States is throwing in scarcely
fourth counting the United States in, and the
powers associated with show daily income per
person of 10 cents the cost of the war,
while Germany and the powers associated with it
daily income the cost of the of only 5
per person. and given the determination to win
the willingness to make sacrifices for the country
welfare, certain to win that 10 is greater
than 5.
The war is costing the United States s1O,OOo,-
of five persons. Uncle Sam raise this amount Of
already levied unheard of degree, espe
caly upon the rich and the rich land it would be
unwise to increase them further Therefore it is
sary issue bonds and these bonds afford opportun
ity all to help the country and at the time help
himself by acquiring gilt-edged investment Since the
average family has income according to this tabula
ton of $19625 it that the family having that
income Whereabouts should take about $500 of the
bonds if the costs of the to be met and that the
amount to be taken should be greater less than $500
the financial ability is greater or less
the average family to do it's part in meeting the
cost of the will entail sacrifices, but it is only by
making those sacrifices that realize the ad-
vantages which a nation have over Germany.
The Liberty Loan committee after days of careful
determined what each persons fair allotment
of bonds is and this discussion is for the
explaining those alotments, which arrived by
different method but to bring home the responsibility
which each citizen has in helping carry financial
burden of the
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1918-04-05
A PROBLEM IN MATHEMATICS

Some has said that the outcome of the Civil
War only simple mathematical problem, and that
the North to win because it had greater re-
sources in men and wealth than the South had Wars
not settled easily that but the great fact
mains that other things being equal victory will to
the nation that throw the greatest weight i'll men
and wealth into the struggle Among the other things
which essential nothing is important than the
determination win and the willingness to make
fees to win.
the present great conflict, if the people of the
United States Entente Allies but have the de-
termination win and the willingness to make sacrifices
that the German people have (and should have
more) then there can be only outcome-the crush
ing defeat of Germany.
the United States has only begun to tap its
resources smallest kind of way and the people
have hardly begun to make sacrifices as witness the
following tabuation of the daily cost of the war
Ito in he rinrsc
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1918-04-05
Business Interests Scent Socialism in the Non Partisan
League


1t is true that the business interests both big and
little of the Northwest opposed to the Non-parsan
League and fear it. This opposition based
the Leagues record in North Dakota where only
existence of holdover State Senate not elected the
League, prevented North Dakota from going whole hog
into the experiment of Socialistc State government.
The League attempted to adopt constitution for
vote of the people proposed to the limit of
Indebtedness that might be incurred by State or any
political division thereof 1t proposed to exempt
improvements from taxation and to authorize the
of by State banks State ownership
of flour mills, terminal elevators, railroads packing
houses and to allow the State to engage in any all
forms of business and industry proposed that three
bona de farmers should be elected to the Supreme
of the State proposed State socialism on scale never
before attempted in this country attempted
anywhere except quite recently by Lenne Trotzky
in Russia.
Objection has been offered ALSO by the business in
terests against the plan of chain cooperate stores
and banks proposed by the League leaders
more than have been subscribed by the
ers who have voice in the enterprises
no share Of the dividends and control of funds
but who have the privilege of trading
COST plus 10 cent for cash. League is opposed
also because it's leaders avowed Socialists in fav
or of applying the most radical theories to the
government of the States in which they
From why the League is Opposed" by W. H. Hunter in
the American Review Of Reviews for April, 1918.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1918-04-05

who supporting the Non-Partsan League, re-
fused membership in the Editorial Association before
the League entered this state account of the
airy and blackmailing methods of their publications
When such editors embraced and praised by Town
ley while at the time he is out to destroy in
timdate loyal editor in the state is wonder
that the country has patience at all with his
lip-oyalty. Editors know few things, and prob
ably familiar anyone with the Biblical fact that
even Judas handy with the kiss
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
FOREST FIRES MENACE DILUTE
Mena Residents Feared Property Loss
 but Were Reassured by Late News.

News of the great forest fires which threatened Duluth, Minn., caused some uneasiness to Mir. and Mrs. A. J. Parent of Mena, former residents of the northern city, and who have property interests there. Their fears were allayed upon receipt of message advising against worry, as tine fires had not reached their property. A Duluth dispatch stated:
 The entire country north of Lake Superior between Duluth and Two Harbors is in flames. Fires are rag ing on the outskirts of this city, men, acing property so seriously that the home guards and 4th Regiment have been called out. Many settlers have been burned out and every farm in the district threatened. A fire is rag ing at Cass Lake, where several lives are reported lost.
 The fires south of here are sweep ing as far as Spooner. The flames have not entered Duluth yet, but home guard forces and volunteers in motor cars hve gone to surrounding districts to assist residents in escap- ing from the fire zone.
 Brookstone, a village of 600 per sons north of Cloquet, practically was destroyed.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
LAKES DAUGHTER DEAD
Was in Washington When Stricken by
 Bronchial Pneumonia.

Miss Gussie Mcdonald received a telephone message from the home of Judge J. s. Lake this morning, an- nouncing the death of their daughter, Miss Mary, at Washington.
 The death message followed letter from her Friday, saying that she was not at all well and was suffering from very bad cold. The telegram an- nouncing her death stated that she died of bronchial pneumonia, and the remains would be shipped home at once.
 Miss Lake is an only daughter and was attending college at the time of her death. Her two brothers are on the battle front in France, leaving the parents at home alone.
 Miss Mcdonald left Saturday for DeQueen, where she will attend the funeral.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
WANT REAL WORK
 NOT PORCH MINING
Development of Mineral Possibilities in Mena's Manganese Field the Cry ing Need-Rocking Chair Miners
 Are Not Substantial Help.
(By Robert M. Berry.)

There has been more or less talk in manganese circles in Mena about the amount of porch mining being done.
 While it's true that there are a number of rocking chair miners talk ing out manganese nightly in hotel Hobbies, and on the cool side of the porch, these men are not the men that will make Mena's field, and they should not receive the same consider ation as do the real prospector or hard rock man.
 Attention is called to this condi- tion with the sole desire that no one, either home resident or stranger, be misled.
 What the Mena field needs today is real development work and not hot air assertions regarding the worth of claims.
 In other words: Prove what you've got, or shut up. A few blistered Taln.s shown by some of the porch mining fraternity would do more to get them into the wood graces of the best posted among the public than all the wind they can expend on words.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
MENA IS UNIQUE
 AS MINING CAMP
Without Saloons, Gambling and Other Vices Which Have Made Other Mine Centers Notorious, the Manganese
 City Has Distinctive Record.
(By Robert NJ. Berry.)

Say, Berry, this town of Mena is the only one of it's kind known to the world"
 The speaker was an old-time pros- pector, promoter, operator and mine boomer, who has had acquaintance with every mining town of conse- quence from the Klondike to the Rio Grande, the last forty years or more.
 "This is the first mining camp I ever struck where man couldn't get drink or find a game of stud. Why, l don't believe there's pair of bones in the burg, and, say, I'll bet you if a man mentioned faro, half the folks here would think he was talking about some new kind of breakfast food"
 The old-timer's lament is undoubt- edly true Mena as a mining camp holds the unique record of having no saloons, no gambling houses, no dance halls, nor any of the other forms of evil that helped make up much of the history of other mining centers. Manganese from Mena will be one source of mineral wealth that will be untainted Or, to put it in another form, Mena is to be the cleanest min ing camp known to history. There are men here who, having lived in the other kind. are going to see to it that 1 the city's record isn't besmirched.
 Whisky peddlers, card sharps, dance hall habitues and their kind will find no welcome on Mena's door mat. The claim jumper, the six shooter artist and the gent with the salted mine, will find little encourage ment in Mena's manganese field.
 The practices of the "good old days" when no mining town was complete without gambling house next door to a grocery, and when a saloon keeper could be leading citi- zen, are not for Mena. Bootleggers are about as welcome as the smallpox, and deck of cards is something not to be seen in public.
 Old-time forms of revelry and dis sipation are certainly lacking in the quest for manganese in the Mena field.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
EDGAR LUMPKIN GIVES LIFE.
Former Polk County Boy Was Killed
 on Battle Fields of France.

Another Polk county soldier boy has made the supreme sacrifice, dying up on the battle fields of France that lib- erty might still live.
 Mir. and Mrs. s. L. Brooks, on the Southside, received letter from W. R. Lumpkin of Mover, Ok, telling them that he had received a telegram from Washington stating that his son, Edgar Lumpkin. had been killed some where in France.
 Edgar Lumpkin was reared by Mir. and Mrs. Brooks, who teok him into their home when an infant, after the death of his mother, sister of Mrs. Brooks, and they lived for many years near Potter. He was volunteer and entered service from Heavener, Ok, resigning his position as fireman on the Kansas City Southern railroad about the list of June, and had been in France but a short time.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
NEW PRICES ON COTTON SEED
Analysis of Oil Content of Seed From
 65 Counties Cause Changes.

A nevhprice has been made on cot ton seed. Polk county, being in Zone 4, is affected only slightly. An official statement from the state food admin istration explains the situation as follows:
 After receiving analysis of cotton seen selected by County Food Admin istrators in e5 counties of the state an important change in the eottor seed market was announced Sunday night by State Food Administrator Hamp Williams, which becomes eff fective Monday, October n, as fol lows:
 Authorized price of cotton seed ir Zone 1, carlots, $70 per ton; Zones and 3, $69 Zones 4 and 5, SGT Wag. on lots $3 less in each instance. State Chemist Manglesdorf, under whose personal supervision these analyses were made, certified the result to Mir Williams, who issued the following statement:
 'I desire producers to clearly un derstand that if they are not satisfied with these new values, which were de. termined by careful analyses of seed selected by county food administrat- ors from the different zones, that they are not compelled to sell theil seed at these prices, but may hold their seed two weeks, when results oi new analysis to be made will be an nounced."
 | The basis for the price is that pro posed by delegation of prominent farmers and agricultural experts 1T conference with officials of the United States Food Administration, who aft CT studying the situation, recommend ed that prices on cotton seed be fig ured on a sliding scale, according to oil contained, with S71 per ton in car lots for seed containing Al gallons of oil.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
SELECTS BIRDS FOR CONTEST.
Mena Fowls Will Participate in Lay ing Tests at U. of A., Fayetteville.

Ne~AAN . " ID " AAt FRAtttAke%A( AA& A"y
 ing Tests at U. of A., Fayetteville.
 Two Mena breeders of fine poultry will be represented at the egg laying contests which will start at the State Univesrity at Fayetteville November 1. NJ. J. Greiner of Golden Rule farm will have pen of Barred Rocks and Dr. F. c. Mullins will show a quintet of White Leghorns.
 il. B. Lansden of Little Rock, rep resenting the bureau of extension of poultry husbaniry, was in Mena Mon day to select the layers from the Greiner and Mullins fiocks. The birds selected by the expert are all 1918 bullets.
 In speaking of the great possibili- ties of Polk county as poultry coun- try, Mir. Lansden called attention to the importance of culling out unprof- itable fowls and on this point said
 "A flock of growing bullets nearly always contain a considerable propor- tion of birds that are very much un- der size, or in other ways are poorly developed. These should be cuiled out as soon as they are noticed as con spicuously backward They will never make profit and the sooner they ars eaten, the less will be the loss or their account. Even when foraging ii good it does not pay to keep them. | is much better to let the good thrift! bullets have all the feed.
 "Cull the hens that are sick, veal lacking vigor, inactive, poor eaters molted or started to mott; with small puckered, dry vents; with small shriveled, hard and dull-colored comb with thick or course, stiff pelvi bones. and full, hard, small abdomen In breeds with yellow skins an, shanks, the discarded should als, show yellow or medium shanks an, yellow beaks and vents.
 This expert says "save the hem that are healthy, strong, vigorous alert, active; good eaters, non-molt ing or just beginning to mott in Sep tember or October; with large, mois vents, with large bright red combs thin pliable pelvic bones well sprea apart. Wide spread between pelvi bones and rear end of keel and larg soft, pliable abdomen In breeds wit yellow skins and shanixs the hen saved should also show pale or whit shanks, and pale or white beaks an vents.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
WANTS TO INVADE GERMANY.
Mena Soldier Would Go Into Hunland
 and Treat Elm Rough.

In letter to his parents in Mena, Mir. and Mrs. c. P. Michael, Harlowe Michael, member Of the 4, E. F. in France, has expressed some definite ideas regarding the method of edu- eating Heinies. His words should be read with interest by the stay-at- homes who are advocating peace. The young soldier writes:
 We ought to go over into their country and tear everything down and not leave one single thing standing, just to let them know that they will always be subjects to the rest of the peoples of the earth. Not one should be left, for they are not fit to live on the globe. They are too mean and despicable. The Tanks are sure giy- ing them hell, all right, and that is what they need. They now believe they have bit oE more than they can swallow. They try to make excuses Of all kinds now that they are under the cloud Of defeat.n
 Regarding hia location on the vest
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
Bl.AMING Ir oN THE FLU.

 It's the fashion of the day, Yo19i hear everybody say For it's just the human way
 Eve got the flu. If it happens that they sneeze, Or if their airpipes wheeze- Or if it's only ileas
 They've got the flu.
 CHORUS. It's in the air-it's everywhere All over this broad nation; Is bear. it's a snare
 And perhaps ps--lmaglnation
 Second Convulsion: If you're feeling pretty blue, If you girls at outs with you, If your creditors want to sue
 You blame the flu. Now ain't it just a fad You don't really feel so bad, That you're living you are glad
 Just damn the flu.
 (Repeat Chorusl.
 Third Attack. What if your head does ache There's no need alarm to take It may be due to pies and cake
 Not to the flu. What if you have a cough, You're not going to shuffie of. Things might be worse-don't
 scoff-
 In spite of flu.
 (Repeat Chorusl.
 Final Relapse. What if you sometimes choke, It's no sign you're going to croak Get a nlumber-that's no joke To fix your fla. And so l say, come out of it. This dope may cheer you up a bit And lead you not to care a whit
 For Spanish flu.
 --Exchange.