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The nonpartisan leader., 1921-06-27


national pools and marketing associations be
by the farmers.
TAXAIIONn lieu of both sales and excess profits tax,
passage Of the Keller bills recently introduced congress-
bills based this principle modified form Keller that
federal income shall distinguish between
the latter than the that
from labor or brain including farming will substantially
less than income from ren Stocks bonds interest,"
Keller also Of cent the value of land held by
$4,000 value after the buildings
ing and maintaining fertility has been ubtracted This will tax
will bring the government billion dollars year from interests
of this kind conndd the only that not be handed
down to
LABOR-To solve the unemployment problem, which deprves
millions of families of purchase farm products things
made from material produced the FARMS should
make to stimulate building activity The country is short
million homes according recent Statistics Why should not idle
building the houseess solving
problems at once?
"How do you like that, said visitor,
industry agriculture
The nonpartisan leader., 1921-06-27

then the argument is good now that, since
wages have been reduced, rates must cor
respondingly come down.
It will not be enough for few lines
to grant reductions in few rates, which
has been done in some cases in the effort
to get business which the high rates have
barred. The question is one for the inter-
state commerce commission to take up at
once, and reduction must be officially
ordered, to. cover all lines and all kinds of
traffic. If the commission hasn't power
to order the railroads to put into effect
economies in operation to supplement the
wage reduction, then congress should
grant the necessary authority without
delay The rate reduction which the COM
mission should order ought to take into
consideration the reduction in prices of
everything, as we'll as the wage reduction
Of railroad workers.
ALL businesses, including farming,
~ must carry fire insurance. 1t is a
L "A necessity, and it is one of the ne
The nonpartisan leader., 1921-06-27
Drawn expressly for the Leader by John M. Baer

teering has always rampant Your fire insurance
nearly twice what they should be- This has bee
condition. not only the and since proeerng became
The nonpartisan leader., 1921-06-27

agreement to limit ornaments to basis
of POLICE PROTECTION ONLY. In
few years the United States would get it's
money back by~savings on army and navy
and other war preparations, and the
world would be given assurance that CIV
ilization will not be wiped out by mans
insanity in the near future. This policy
would also encourage foreign good feeling
and trade, which we are in desperate need
of to restore good business and agricul-
tural conditions.
AGRICULTURE - Adoption of the
plan Of Carl Vrooman, former assistant
secretary of agriculture, for spending the
$50,0O0,000 profits of the United States
Grain corporation, which functioned for
the government during the war, in devel-
oping foreign markets for agricultural
products, including the extending of
credit to foreign buyers, etc. Extension
of the federal land bank system to cover
personal as we'll as real estate loans and
otherwise making the land banks of more
general benefit to agriculture. Financial
and other aid hY CONGRESS- to encourage
The nonpartisan leader., 1921-06-27

eral. Roughly, fire losses p;
nies average only half of tt
collected by the companies.
miums that do not go to pay
cessive commissions, wastef
tiOn and huge dividends. 7
The Bozeman courier., 1921-11-16
HARDING WRITES A LETTER.

81 WISH" writes President Harding
in letter addressed to the baby in
Norristown who has just been christ
ened in his honor, 81 could hope to
remain as long as you may, for the
world is going to be an extremely
interesting place during the time you
are entitled to stay in it,"
The world would be a far happier
and more peaceful place, too if the
heads of governments generally could
boast little of Mr.. Harding's good
nature. The president appears to lose
no opportunity to keep in touch with
the crowd and he isn't ashamed to
make it plain that he likes to let his
actions be ruled by warm-heartednes:
and common sense. In the end they
might do wonders and even repair
some Of the enormous damage done
by scientific reasoning and the philos,
Ophy of diplomats.
The Bozeman courier., 1921-11-16
AMERICA A LEADER OF
NATIONS.

America has never been on firmer
ground as a republic, as a leader of
nations, as a conserver of its own re-
sources of people and principles, than
today. Our republic is occupying an
advanced POSITIONS farther along
the road of democratic government
and the realization of democracy's
ideals than any other country has
since the world began.
There are excitable natures among
our citizenship. There are malcon-
tents, irresponsibles, downright mis-
chiefmakers. They create considera-
BILE hubbub, but that is the extent OF
their power to do real harm. The
great mass Of citizenship is sound
sensible and immovable from the bul
warks of that exalted human liberty
which the American constitution anC
American genius for self-control have
made possible for this nation to en-,
Joy.
The Bozeman courier., 1921-11-16
THE NECESSITY FOR
LOWER TAXES.

COngress-in all its dilatory glory
came in for some spicy remarks
from Elliott C. McDougal, president
of the Marine Trust company, of Buff
falo, and president of the state bank
division of the A. B. A, in addressing
the latter in Los Angeles. Govern
ment expenditures simply must be
reduced before lower taxes-so neces-
sary to a prosperous resumption of
business-can take place. He de-
nounced those congressman who are
depending on delay and camouflage
to obscure the main issue, and ex-
posed the folly of the decision to take
up revision of the tariff before dis
cussing the taxation problem, Mr..
McDougal points out the clear duty
of congress in the following tranch-
ant words:
While congress delays, business
( perishes. Unless congress acts at
once many men who otherwise would
work will be idle this winter. Women
and children will be cold and hungry
Unemployment conferences will be
futile. Until taxation be fixed nc
+ good business man dare plan for the
future Even when fixed, no banker
who is fit to be trusted with othel
peoples money dare risk that none.
! by lending it to business men 81
heavily taxed that they cannot pros
per. If business men cannot borrow
Z they cannot pay wages and must clos
their shops and warehouses. or, at tn
very best, do less business and EN-
: pIOy fewer men, and pay them lowe
e wages.
Now, when we are least able I
bear it, when business cannot reviy
under it. it is the time to reduce tas
alton. Every months delay mean
more, perhaps much more, than
+" months prolongation Of business d
2 preston, and many additional and e
tirely unnecessary business failures
The Bozeman courier., 1921-11-16
THE BOOMERANG.

1t has been a common contention
that to exempt governmental securi-
ties from taxation has been to the
advantage Of the government because
it has made it possible to obtain cap
ital at a less cost than otherwise
would be the case.
This contention is not denied. 1t
worked no serious hardship to busi-
ness enterprise or to the taxpayer
prior to the imposition Of high rates
of taxation upon income, but under
the changed fiscal policy of the fed
eral government it is constituting
what Secretary of the Treasury Mel
Ion correctly terms "an economic evil
of the first magnitude"
It has been estimated that the saw
ing to the government in the cost of
capital has been offset by the loss of
S600,000,000 a year in taxes from
sources Of large income. 1t has di-
vided the investing public into two
classes, those of large incomes who
pay no taxes in proportion as they
hold taX-exempt securities, and those
whose income is not large enough
to be affected by the tax on taxable
securities. 1t is only from the form
er class which has a substantial sur
plus of income over expenditures
available for investment that any
substantial volume of new money car
be expected for business enterprise.
The requirements of federal reve.
nue. are fixed and if a class exempts
itself by the nature of it's Investment
then either the individual or business
enterprise must make up in direct
what such class would be otherwis,
obliged to pay, which means tha+
those who do not benefit by exemp
tion must pay an unfair proportiOl
The Bozeman courier., 1921-11-16

of socialism, industrial, commercial
and financial. They went into it de-
liberately, temperately and legally at
the polls, with nobody but themselves
to blame if they failed, as the New
York Herald said at the time, and
with nobody to take the credit away
from them if they succeeded.
The people of North Dakota hav-
ing voted themselves into the pro-
gram of socialism, labored at it dill
gently and patiently. They put some
of their best intelligence into it and
made large sacrifices for it. In
every way they gave it the chance to
win if it were in the scheme itself,
backed by hard-working and merit
orious public. to win.
But it failed. 1t failed to satisfy
the people Of North Dakota as sig
nally as it failed to satisfy those
outside the state. It failed to de-
serve to live as political institution
So the people of North Dakota
themselves now begin to go out of the
program for socialism of their own
will as they went into it, with calm
deliberation and by legal process al
the ballot box.
North Dakota, desocializing because
after the best test it could get the
snoIeez pue 4s9uoQ UMo 81! HeM 0q,
scheme could not be made to work ou
introducers tried to work it out, is ;
refreshing example of plain American
sense.-New York Herald.
The Bozeman courier., 1921-11-16
FOOLISH WIVES OF HISTORY.
''BIuebeard's Last Wife. "


Bluebeard, who lived in the long
ago before Henry Ford discovered
the rattle had penchant for doing
away with his versus by means of
a sword.
Bluebeard was born and reared in
Kentucky, his beard having been in
spired by the far famed bluegrass of
the homeland. His first wife lost
her reason, then her head, others fol-
lowed in rapid sequence until the
last one, who by the way was no
body's Hamlet.
Bluebeard was wont to journey to
the nearby city from his abbatOir and
on starting one day he cautionad his
wife thus: SIN that closet are a
number of secrets which have kept
from the world 10 these man an
nuns; l do not want you to go nOsey-
ing around in there. If after l re-
turn find that you have looked into
that closet, shall cut your head off
and throw it in your face"
Bluebeard knew not the frailties
that are feminine. He should have
been wiser with ten wives carrying
the scandal into him every day, but
he was not. So he blew cityward.
Hardly had his hand touched the
throttle of his Chinese Mercedes char
lot, when Mrs. Bluebeard began
shopping.
She grabbed her husbands Sunday
trousers, fished out his keys and
within an instant was at the keyhole
of the prohibited door. In another
instant she was looking inside.
Vermouth, Scotch, Creme de Ninth,
gin and assorted bottles of hootch
of other species were piled high, and
as she started to slam the door, Blue
beard burst open another portal anC
confronted her. He had forgotten his
muffler and returned for it.
When he got through with his final
wife, muffler would have been sur
plus habiliment for her and thus an
other foolish wife had gone.
Shortly after that Bluebeard, him
self worn and tired, selected a bottle
of what he thought was pure gin anC
died in agony from ginger ale pois-
oning.
The Bozeman courier., 1921-11-16
MEASUREMENTS OF FACT.

Some misconstructions of the trans
pOrtation act are constantly repeated
by men who should know better, often
maliciously to create prejudice for
political effect. The conference of
western governors recently offended
in this particular, though governors
should keep informed on federal law.
The standard return on railroad
investment is often described as a
guaranteed profit, the impression con-
veyed being that any deficit is to be
made good out of the public treasury.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion is required to fix rates which in
its Judgment will yield the fixed re-
turn under efficient, economical man.
agement, but if it's judgment should
prove at fault and the actual return
should fall short, the railroad is "out
and injured TO the amount of the
shortage. Ire commission aimed to
allow 6 per cent under the rate in
crease effective August &c, 1920 but
in the first eight months of 1921 the
railroads earned only 2.6 per cent
The government will not make good
the difference between 2.6 and pei
cent, for it has guaranteed nothing.
There are also frequent reference!
to earnings on watered stock. The
commission does not base it's calcu
lations on the stocks and bonds o.
the railroads, but on its own valus
tion of the property actually used fo
railroad purposes. In deciding on tn
advance last year, it adopted a valu
alton Of two billion dollars less thai
that made by the railroads, thu
squeezing out the water. Talk abou
watered stock is "old stuff"
One Of the tricks of those who SUI
port a bad case by appeals to prejl
dice is to pretend that old abuses Ion
since abolished still prevail and
presume on popular ignorance b
nnisrepresenting the law. The tv
examples given should put everyboC
on his guard against any other stat
ments emanating from the san
, source.
The Bozeman courier., 1921-11-16
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of taxes, and a class which is better
able to pay at the same rates of tax
alton and able to pay reasonably
higher rates may become immune
from any tax upon income by invest
ment in tax exempt government Sc
curities to evade the higher rates Of
surtax upon income.
Such exemption under the present
fiscal policy increases the cost Of
capital to business enterprise, which
cost is a part of the cost Of produc-
tion and which necessarily increases
the rate or price for what is pro-
duced in service or goods.
The cost of capital restricts or pro-
notes production and if its cost is en-
hanced by excessive taxation, due
either to the cost of government or
inequitable distribution, then the rate
or price for service or goods is cor
respOndingly greater to the extent
that the volume of production fails to
meet the demand. Therefore, while
the people may appear to gain from a
less cost of capital to the federal gov
ernment, this gain is substantially
offset by the economic loss to the
taxpaying individual and to business
enterprise.
The Bozeman courier., 1921-11-16
the burdens of taxation.

the burdens of taxation.
The state treasurer of Oregon has
made his office earn 100000 more
the past year than the office ever
earned before.
The state treasurer Of California,
without increased cost to the people
has made his office earn more and
increased state efficiency.
Such men are obnoxious to the ma
chine that lives on public revenues
and helps swell every form of expen-
ditures and public taxes.
When all public officials become
the servants Of the people instead Of
mere machine co-operators taxes viii
come down one-half.
The Bozeman courier., 1921-11-16
BUSINESS VERSUS
POLITICALISTS.

In state and local government the
taxpayers and business men and wom-
en- of the country appreciate better
administration.
Creating places for political hench-
men, increasing salaries as a mere
favor to someone who needs the mon
ey is playing out.
Two western state officials have not
had salaries in their departments in
the past seven years.
They are making their departments
earn more money for the public
treasury and to that extent reducing
The Bozeman courier., 1921-11-16

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Santhuisen of
Manhattan, were shopping in Boze-
man IN Monday.
The Bozeman courier., 1921-11-16

Among smart furs there are coats
that maintain their style supremacy
without going to great lengths. One
of these shorter models, which may
be made of mink, squirrel. sealskin
or other fashionable skins is shown
here. 1t meets all the requirements
Of the new season.
The Bozeman courier., 1921-11-16
NORTH DAKOTA RECALLS
ITSELF.

It was the people of North Dakota
who went into statewide program
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-04
Albania Will
 Have American
 School System

Paris Aug 4-An American school system will be tab1ished in Albania if the recommendation of Bishop Ed gar Blake of Chicago, who has just returned here from an official visit to Albania are adopted by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal church. pr. Blake is the Methodist Episcopal bishop for South ern Europe.
 "I know of no country in Europe where the opportunities are greater for Christian work than in Albania, g he said- "A country of 100000 people, intensely nationalistic and with great native intelligence, only four per cent actually have attended schools of any kind. With an initial expenditure of S1OO,000 and S40,0O0 yearly for five years wonders could be accomplished for the country. Amer ica is the only country Albania trusts. Hence her appeal ito us.'
 Bishop Blake was accompanied by Professor E. E. Jones, Dean of the School of Education of Northwestern University and was received by all the Albanian ministers and regents. The latter requested Bishop Blake to undertake the establishmnt of col lege of higher education similar to Roberts College in Constantinople, a vocational school and an American educational advisor to be attached to the government Dean Jones is re- maining in Albania all summer to survey the situation and his report will be represented to the Autumn meeting of the Board of Foreign Mis- sions.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-04
In The Theatres
POId'S.

Another artist of note comes to Polls in person today for three days Claire Whitney, one of Americas most beautiful screen stars, will head Polfs supreme vaudeville bill. She will support the distinguished Broadway com met1ian. Robert Emmett Keane, in a miniature play, entitled 'NThe Cosby Sex" It is a burlesque on the Mrs Grundy type of woman and gives Miss Whitney and Mr. Keane excellent opportunities for the display of their extraordinary ajbili- ties.
 The added vaudeville attraction will be Sandy Shaw. the Scotch cone- dian Billy <tSweede'' Hall and Jenny Colburn will present -HiIda,'' a. genu- inc character laugh-provoker. Bar ton and Hall in singing and talking, and Herbert and Dare in an acrobatic novelty offering will complete the bill.
 Friday night an exceptional anna teur bill will be provided. This inno- vation has become tremendously popular because of the high quality of the amateur and seni-professiona offerings. Next Monday Tuesday and Wednesday, the great Frisco comes to Po1is. Frisco is the Srea- tor of jazz dancing.
 The feature picture offering open ing today at Polls is Whats a Wife Worth,'' a photodrana that will be thoroughly enjoyed by both the mar ried and the single.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-04
Thirty Get
 Silver Medals

p1,-noutb. Mass, Aug. 4-Ihlr- : ivy Polish. French, Italian ana TOT ;I tnguese boys and girls recelveu veT medals from the hands or FS ;6ant Harding here today, as W.l- nars in the fifth annual contest TOT TOT ayce1lence in the reading Of Engn5ll conducted by the New Bedford fve- Io oG.r +Sendard The medals are pre- sanfa6 each year to children or non EnrIish speaking percentage III La4 Dublic and parochial schools ol cH city for facility in reading ana UT deTstanaing the English language
 Faced with a population more than % 1er cent of which represents lor- eisnNhorn whites, the Evening stan dsrd determined in 1917 as mater of Dublic policy to initiate Iedu!nS contests for children of the Ioreisl horn Not only as an 1ncenuVe to the closer study Of the lansuase VI the country by it's future cl.1zeLs pu. as an aid to the creation or common non i'd calls the competition ioF --7 proved their value.
 Polish, French, Greek, Portuguese I+a1;an Syrian, German, Swedish, Spanish, Hebrew and Russian chll- dren and youngsters of 21 other na- tionalities which find a refuge In New Bedford, have been contestants in former competitions A Chinese how won a medal one year
 On one side of the medals, which are examples of the finst art of the silyersmith, engraved above the name of the winner is Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear. on the reverse is depicted family read ing the newspaper.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-04
When A Girl
 MOrries
By ANN LESLIE.

(Continued>
 'fDo I deserve to hear this?" I You deserve all the credit for walk ing me. I'd like to confess if you've the patience to listen."
 eff you're sure you've changed'- I began uneasily.
 q know itI" said Tom with con- viction- ''I vaguely knew when Igave little Daisy Condon a good job be- cause she was a friend of yours. It was an expression of my grateful friendship for you. I made myself hand her bigger salary than she'd have demanded. And when I saw that she was unhappy and lonesome. I set out to give her the sort of good time she craved and didn't get be- cause the people she knew hadn't the means to afford it. I'm doing the de- cent thing by young Daisy as a tribute to you"
 Thank you, Tom,'' I replied hum bly, T apologize for letting the city and it's cynicisn get me so that l doubted your motives
 You're sure now?" he asked.
 Yes" I said, Since he had asked me if I was sure of him rather than of Daisy. And I forgot the evening when she, at least, had had avoided me.
 That's good. Great You nusn't ever doubt me againI" came from a satisfied and complacent Tom. And now I want to make a dinner date I want to have you and Jimmie and MT. Haldane and that wonderful Miss Warren down to my place for one ot Mrs. Hills bang-up home dinners some time this week. I think that way of entertaining will please the old gentleman"
 We've never had a meal at your own home" I murmured-actuaIly thinking aloud.
 Tom didn't seem to sense the 1n. guaredness of that, nor it's implica tions. for he replied with self-reve1a tion which somehow left me puzzled
 "1m not much of homebody Probably wouldn't have you there now-if I weren't so dead anxious tc get in right with that fine old gentle man of the fine old school"
 Gro Be Continued.)