The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-02-24

pie on the farms judge as TO Whlcn
side is telling the truth. The fact
of the matter is that there are thous-
ands of farmers who only read the
Courier-News and the Nonpartisan
Leader that they do not know what is
going on or what their leaders are do
ing. These league papers are etern-
ally crying "let the truth be carried
to the people" and then they stifle the
truth by refusing to publish it. They
fear the result Of the publicity of their
own leaders activity in the state ad-
ministration.
Numerous inquiries have reached
the Bureau of Internal Revenue rela-
tive to the decision of United States
District Court of Connecticut in the
Brewster. case, in which it was held
that gains and profits realized from
the sale of capital assets is not tax
able income. The United States At
torney for Connecticut has been au-
thorized to perfect an appeal to the
supreme court of the United States
for review Of the decision. Since
congress under the provisions of the
income tax acts of 1913, 1916 and 1918.
has directed the taxation as income of
such gains and profits, the bureau will
continue to collect the tax thereon:
unless and until the supreme court
shall hold that provision of law to be
unconstitutional. The same question
is involved in the Eldorado and Ryer-
son cases which were argued in the
supreme court some weeks ago. A
decision in these cases undoubtedly
will settle the general question. In
view of the severe penalties provided
by law for false and fraudulent income
tax return, taxpayers are warned not
to omit from their returns for the year
120 such gains and profits.
The following dispatch from Yank-
ton, S. D., will give some idea of the
labor situation down there and will
perhaps be a guide for the farmers
of this state: Farmers of this section
are offering from $40 to $50 month
and keep, for help during the coming
seasons work, and they are having
no difficulty in finding men willing to
work for that according to the Yank-
ton county farm bureau office records.
limitations of approaching spring
have already come in the daily in
creasing number of calls from farm
ers for spring help. Farmers like to
get their men early so as to give
them a good trial before the work
season really opens. Then if the fell
low shows little aptitude and less in
clination for the work he can con-
tinue his travels and the farmer has
time enough to try another stranger.
Early calls for spring help also come
from the farmers who desire to get
their machinery and equipment in
shape for field work. Completion of
the ice harvest here this week has re-
leased several dozen laborers who will
probably prefer the lawer farm wages
than no work at all.
Mr.. Kramer, federal enforcement Of
ficer, and a very large number of his
assistants throughout the country
have been rendering faithful and etfi-
cient service under the circumstances
of the most trying character. This is
true here in North Dakota:
where prohibition during the past year
has been a complicated one, and only
by winter setting in has the nefarious
trade been temporarily halted. There
IS one point we would like to empha-
size, and that is those men who have
sained Office in the prohibition enforce
nent work through political manipu-
lation, ought to be pitchforked out,
There should be no difficulty in secur-
ng men of capable ability and integ-
rity to enforce the prohibition law.
Prohibition enforcement officers
should consider bootleggers, big or
small, and all others resisters OF the
aw, as being enemies, no more de-
serving of consideration than enemy
;roops in time of war. Men should
,e sent to this state at once to make
to cope with the whisky
trade during the coming sum-
ner, which promises to be large in
scope and better organized than it
vas during the past summer.
J. w. Brinton has finally succeeded
n gaining his hearts desire. For
many months he has been prancing |
around the state telling of all the
rimes his former comrades in arms, |
Iessrs. Lemke, Townley. Cathro
Waters and the rest of 'em have been
money, Disappointing
unds, doing all kinds of things that
hould put the whole bunch in the
,enitentiary, while he himself is
wearing halo that would put the
avs Of the rising sun out Of COM
mission. Mr.. Brinton has been ar
ested by Mr.. Cathro for perjury and
will now have an opportunity to spill
IL he knows, which in addition to that
which he has already gotten out of his
ystem, should make mighty interest
ng reading matter for the public. We
re inclined to think that Mr.. Cathro
nd his cohorts have taken hold of the
BUSINESS end of a. buzz-saw because we
hink he has the goods to deliver on
hose league leaders. Brinton is
Apply at being arrested and the other
elbows will be very unhappy when he
cts through telling all he knows
Arresting Brinton shows that the
unch are mighty poor politicians as
,ell as business men-or they would
OF stir up this hornets nest that this
rrest has done. Brinton is just as
ad as the rest of them because he
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