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The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-26
UNCLE SANS LOSS OUR GAIN

The Farm Mortgage Bankers association is out with a state
ment that the late William Rockefeller, brother of John D, owned
over forty-three millions in public bonds that were free from in
come tax, hence the million dollars or more he might have paid
on income tax was shifted to somebody else.
What is the Farm Mortgage Bankers association? Let's
answer that in order to understand the viewpoint. Farm mort
gage bankers loan money on farm mortgages at 6 per cent plus
], 2 and 8 per cent commission and then sell their mortgage loans
to investors. Such an investment would net less than 8 per cent
per annum to a man as rich as William Rockefeller because he
would be in the So per cent surtax class. The farm mortgage
bankers have lost all such customers for their mortgages as Mr..
Rockefeller.
But these men bought freely of mortgage loans when there
was no surtax. There were plenty of tax free public bonds then.
1t was not tax free securities but the surtax that drove these rich
men out of farm mortgage investments.
Rockefeller is claimed to have saved himself a million dollars
a year in surtaxes by investing in tax free public bonds, hence,
the farm mortgage bankers say, his tax was shifted to the poor
man. But was it?
He bought school bonds, state road bonds, city hall bonds,
county bridge bonds, federal government war bonds. Every tax
free bond yielding a low rate of interest because it was free from
income tax. The farm mortgage bankers admit that some of
his bonds yielding as low as 3H per cent and most of them only
a per cent. Now he might have bought farm mortgages yielding
6 per cent. Manifestly he gave up a possible one-third of his
interest income to avoid the surtax. The federal government
lost its surtax but some school district built a school house with
ROckerfellers money at an interest cost much lower than it's tax
payers would have had to pay had school bonds not been tax free.
The federal government lost a surtax but the farm owner and
the home owner taxpayer in the school district gained by getting
cheap money.
The figures given before the house committee by expert bond
staisticans showed that the low rate of interest on bonds saved
to the land taxpayers in counties, cities, districts and states be-
cause their bonds are tax free is greater than the surtax the
federal government loses when rich men buy tax free stuff. If
the federal government wants to collect surtaxes from men like
Rockefeller congress should reduce the surtax rate to a figure
that they can afford to pay before they rush into low rate public
bonds. Until congress does that tax payers in our school dis
trlcts and our counties will gain what the federal government
loses from men like the Rockefelers.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-26
CHIROPRACTORS
MEET IN BUTTE
NEXT Session

Delegates present Tuesday at the
annual convention of the Montana
CiirOpractic association selected
Butte as the meeting place of the
association in 1924.
All officers were elected to sue
coed themselves the coming year.
They are: DIR. ]. E. Daniels, Boze-
man, president; DR.. j. T. James, Kali
ispell, vice-president; DR.. L. F.
Downs, Billings, secretary-treasurer
and DR.. P. T. Barnes, Missoula,
chairman of the board of directors.
Tuesday all delegates present at
the convention were entertained as
guests of the Bozeman chiropractors
to a picnic lunch in the Gallatin can
yon, followed by an afternoon along
the river and a banquet at Karst's
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-26
HOLD TEACHERS A
IN BOHEMIAN NEXT WEEK

Teachers examinations will be Civ
en- in Bohemian Oct. 4, s, and 6,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday of
next week, according to an announce
ment made by Lucille Quaw, county
superintendent of schools. The ex-
aminations will be held in the Y. M.
&c. A., Thursday and Friday and in
the court rooms Saturday
All teachers teaching on permits
or whose certificates expire before
next June, are required to Write in
these examinations, according to Su-
perintendent Quaw. Teachers who
have credits to apply on examina
tons must present aiem at the time
of the examination.
Missoula and Bozeman summer
credits in subiests granted PRIOR tc
CONTINUED on Page y
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-26
ROTARY LEARNS
OF CONVENTION
Review of International Meeting in
st. Louis in Spring Presented By
]. A. Woodland, Delegate From
BOzeman.

A review of the Rotary Interna-
tional convention at st. Louis last
summer, was the feature of the end
of-the-month evening meeting of the
Bozeman Rotary club Tuesday even
ing. The review was given bv ]. A.
Woodward, delegate from the local
club to the session.
He told members that the out.
standing figure at the convention
was the appearance on the fourth
day of Warren G. Harding and his
wife. He said the couple we're given
an ovation which lasted for several
minutes.
What impressed me most at the
time, ard this was true of every Ro-
tartan in the convention" said Mr.
Woodland twas the sincerity and
f~riendliness of the man, his simple
ity and devotion"
Throughout the business of the
convention "The Boys" was the mair
topic. This was the great activity
of the organization during the year
and the work accomplished was only
. starter for greater good in ths
future Zone speaker wanted this ae
tivitv cOntinued indefinitely said
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-26

Mr.. Woodward. "He wanted to have
annual conventions of Rotary boys,
where the youths from all parts of
the world could assemble and get ac-
quainted and thereby learn the points
of view, habits and customs of the
others"
The speaker reviewed the pro-
ceedings of the convention from the
opening session with the huge and
fine pageant, through the different
business sessions with extracts from
the addresses of the many gifted
speakers, and references 70 the many
social features following the business
sessions.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-26
ALONZO B. SWIM DEAD
AFTER LONG ILLNESS

Alonzo B. Swim, died at the home
of his son, Clarence B. Swim, Sol
Sixth avenue south, last Monday
night after a prolonged illness The
body was shipped from the West fun
eral parlors to Genoa, Neb., for
burial.
Mr.. Swim was born in Scott county,
Iowa, February 2, 1864. He has
lived in Bozeman for the past Il
months.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-26

camp at seven o'clock in the even
ing.
At a special session Monday, held
at the Bozeman hotel, the state
chiropractors discussed ways and
means for the advancement Of their
profession stressing particularly
the questions of advertising and ia
tional donations.
Before adjourning they prepared a.
resolution, expressing appreciation
for their reception in BOzeman and
for the way they had been entertain
ed while guests in the city.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-09-26

on planting wheat when they can grow other things?
The need of America today is more sound and correct infor-
nation on these subjects and less reliance placed on demagog poll
ticians who go about the country telling people they can cure the
ills of wheat growing, and all others who have complaints against
the operation of economic laws through the alchemy of legislation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-03-07
A Search for Egyptian Relics
Brings Hardships and Failures

After three weeks work on this dis
tressing site, the professor announced
that he had managed to trace through
the mud the outline of the palace
walls, once the feature of the city,
and that the work here might now be
regarded as finished.
HE was then conducted to desc
late spot on the desert and until the
day on which he fled back to England
he was kept to the monotonous task
of experimenting gang OF natives
whose sole business it was to dig
very large hole in the sand, day after
day and week after week
at is, however, sometimes the for
tune of the excavator to make dis
covery which almost rivals in drama
tic interest the tales of his youth.
Such an experience fell to the lot OF
Emil Brugsch Pasha when he was
lowered into an ancient tomb and
found himself face to face with a
score of the pharaohs of Egypt, each
lying in his coffin; or again, when
Nj. de Morgan discovered the great
mass of royal jewels in one OF the
pyramids at Dachour. But such
finds can be counted on the fingers
and more often an excavation is a
fruitless drudgery.
Moreover, the life of the digger is
not a pleasant one. One lives In a
bare little hut constructed of mud and
rooted with cornstalks or corrugated
iron and if by chance there happens
to be rain storm one may watch the
frail building gently subside in a
LIQUID stream onto ones bed and
books. For seven days in the week
ones work continues and it is only to
the real enthusiast that that work is
not monotonous and tiresome."
However, the discovery of King
Tutenkhamen's tomb and its remark
able contents is apt to add zest and
interest to further exploration and
study in Egypt. More than 40 impor-
tant tombs have now been uncovered
in the Valley of the Kings and it is
supposed that there are at least two
more yet undiscovered. These may,
if found, rival the wonders of the
present excavation or they may mere-
w contain bits of valueless rubbish
rejected by ancient despoilers as has
been the case in so many OF the
earlier discoveries.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-03-07

collector fifty cents out of every 81 OF
income In forty-six years, he de-
clared. taxes would absorb the entire
net earnings of all individuals, firms
and corporations. Taxes in forty-one
states in 1919 were 50 per cent higher
than those of 1912. In 1920 they in
creased Fl per cent over the preced-
ing year, and in 1921 II per cent in
crease was shown. In 1917 our taxes
amounted TO S5.97 per 500 Of income;
in 1921 this amount has risen to $14.32
out of every 500.
Taxation is heavy and increasing
burden upon everybody, for every
body, directly or Indirectly, pays
taxes. 1t is consuming wealth that is.
vitality needed for business expansion
and development. Federal, state and
local taxation has mounted up to a
staggering grand total that should
arouse not only widespread apprehen-
sion and protestation, but alarm.
Farmers have never been SO acutely
conscious as they are now of the de-
moraEzing, CALLING weight Of this i'm
personal monster upon their backs.
Having grown well-night intolerable,
it is compelling people to think, and
to seek relief.
Reforms in taxation are inevitable
They are already budding, and some
have attained considerable promising
growth in various communities A
few local successes, growing out of
new or modified systems of taxation
which self-interest and concentrated
thought are sure to devise, would
eventually solve the whole problem Of
taxation, so far as it is humanity
solvable. Meantime the obligation as
we'll as the opportunity of taxpayers
is to fight pork" legislative appro-
priations, and public extravaganza
The Breeders Gazette.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-03-07
Forests and Floods.


Forests are necessary at the head
waters of streams The trees break
the force of the rain and the forest
floor, acting as a large sponge, abb
serbs rainfall and prevents run-off
and floods. The spring uprisings of
the Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri
rivers are due largely to the lack OF
forests at their headwaters. Many
floods which occur in the United
States occur because we have cut
down large areas OF trees which form
erly protected the sources of streams
and rivers.
A grave danger that threatens the
middle western farmer is that some
time in the future the greater part OF
the vegetation and forest cover on the
water sheds of that section may en-
tirely disappear Such condition
would cause floods after every heavy
rain. The available supplies of rain
water which are needed for the thirsty
crops would be wasted as flood
waters. These floods would cause
great damage in the valleys through
which they rushed. The freshets
would be followed by periods of water
famine. The streams would then be
SO low that they could not supply the
normal demands. Towns and cities
that depended on streams for their
water supplies would be handicapped
severely. In a thousand way a def1-
cient water supply due to forest de-
pletion would cause hardships and
suffering. School Book Of Forestry,
by G. L. Pack.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-03-07
Things Are Pretty Bad
When They Get This Bad.

Inc Mall say
can alleged booze car arrived here
Sunday, presumably from Madison.
All would have gone smoothly If the
reported middle man or selling agent
and local parties who received the
goods had not made a getaway with
out reimbursing the two men IN
charge of the car, it is said. The two
men made quite fuss about 1t, ana
were so outspoken that many could
make a rough guess at the cause OF
their visit They stayed over night at
the American hotel and their display
of guns frightened Landlord Jesse out
of a good nights sleep. They resum-
ed their search Monday morning, and
left about ten o'clock"
In the Herald's honest and candid
opinion law violation, open and flag
rant, along moonshine making, rum
running and peddling, is serious right
in Grant county. Organized horse or
auto stealing, store robbing, thug
gerry, ETC., would not be tolerated for
a day. Weak-spined public sentiment
puts up with people making spirits
and selling for profit. Hailed into
court when occasionally caught, the
sentence is equally lenient
Liberal as one may be in regard to
a personal right to take drink lib
eral thought should not include and
place a mantle over those manufac-
turing and selling poisonous COM
pounds for profit.
District Attorney Clementson, an
honest liberal who is not afraid to call
a spade a spade and to enforce the
law, says public morality is at low
ebb Organized crime for the purpose
of making money by means OF the
moonshine business, will never be
stamped out unless virile public
sentiment develops. This sentiment
must be strong enough to encourage
and assist local officers in doing their
duty
The last phase, armed runners sell
ing potent liquor, is in line with the
traffic among boys and young men,
If the Volstead act and the 18th
amendment do not protect these it is
worse than nothing and ought to be
discarded.
This is a condition-nOt a theory
People of Grant county can do moth
ing toward passing prohibition laws
but enforcement is local matter and
requires local interest, stamina and
integrity. Mr.. Citizen where do YOU
stand?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-03-07

For every sensational discovery
such as that of King Tutenkhamen' S
tomb there have been dozens OF fruit
less excavations in the mud and sands
and rocks of the Nile valley. Men
have spent years and fortunes IN ex-
ploration and never found more than
a mummified cat or rified tomb. Dis
ease contracted under the boiling sun
Of Egyptian deserts has taken the
lives of some of the worlds greatest
scientists and students.
Arthur Weigall, recently inspector
general of antiquities under the Egyp-
tian government and now with Lord
Carnavon's party at Luxor, tells of
some typical cases:
There came to the camp OF a GER
tain professor, who was engaged in
excavating the ruins of an ancient
Egyptian city a young and faultlessly
attired Englishman, whose thirst for
dramatic adventure had led him to Of
fer his services as an unpaid assistant
digger. This immaculate person had
read many an account of the wonders
which the spade of the excavator
could reveal and he firmly believed
that it was only necessary to set a
IlAO
ground to open the way to the treas
uries of the pharaohs.
Gold, silver and precious stones
cleaned before him in his magma
ton as he hurried along subterran-
can passages to the vaults of the long
dead kings. He expected to slide
upon the seat of his well-made
breeches down the staircase of the
ruined palace which he had entered
by way of the skylight and to find
himself, at the bottom, in the pres
ence of the bejeweled dead.
I'm the intervals between such eX-
periences he was of the opinion that
little quiet gazelle shooting would
agreeably fill in the swiftly passing
hours and at the end of the seasons
work he pictured himself returning to
the bosom of his family with such a
tale to tell that every ear would be
opened to him.
"On his arrival at the camp he was
conducted to the site of his future
labors and his Mortified gaze was di-
rected over a large area of mud pie,
knee deep, in which a few bedraggled
natives slushed their way downward.
q
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-03-07

some important discoveries but he
had little money to pay the hire Of
native diggers. His progress was
painfully slow.
Here Lord Carnarvon came upon
the scene. Possessed of $4,000 acres
or more of rich British soil, with all
the money he needed and some he
didn't need with no vocation and
lifetime to spend as he wished, he
stopped in Egypt on one of his time
killing travels 16 years ago.
He met Carter. He had everything
Carter lacked and Carter seemed to
have for him what he lacked, fas
cinating purpose in life. Carnarvons
money plus Carter's faith, knowledge
and persistence! 1t seemed auspic-
lous of great things from the first.
So the work went on, year after
year. Carter stayed in Egypt the year
round. The lord and his lady spent
only the cool season there, but re-
turned every year to watch and en-
courage Carter in his efforts
This for 16 long and disappointing
years, with only relatively unim-
portant finds to reward their efforts
and expenditures.
Just how Carter happened to hit
the right spot and uncover the door
of the most complete and unchanged
tomb of pharaoh, no one knows. His
workers had moved more than 200,-
600 tons of earth and rock in the
search. They had dug at random, now
here, now there. But Carter insisted
that the records already found indi-
Gated that there was at least one more
pharaoh buried in the valley and on
Nov. 5, 1922, he found that for which
he had been searching.
He stopped excavating and cabled
to Lord Carnarvon, then in England
to come Immediately Together they
opened the great tomb which has
proved such treasure chest of Egyp-
tian relics. Newspapers sent their
most talented correspondents from
every corner of the world and SCENT
lists and tourists gathered in flocks'
The world turned its attention to the
last resting place of king viii reign
ed more than 5000 years ago.
So the poor American artist who
had little but never wavering per-
sistence has become world figure
and America claims him and lauds
his name.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-03-07
American Claim to Treasures
Based on Carter's Life Work

Will America get any Of the archie
illogical treasures being carried from
the tomb of King Tutenkhamen?
An American discovered them. An
Englishman financed the operations.
The Egyptian government owns the
hills in which they were found.
Time was when the rule of finder
is keeper prevailed among the ruins
of ancient Egypt. But that was long
ago. Later the Egyptian government
allowed excavators to explore with
the understanding that half of their
findings should go into the Cairo mu-
scum. Now the excavator must de-
pend entirely on the generosity of
government officials for, under the
strict construction of the law, all
such relics belong to Egypt.
In most cases, however, the authori-
ties have not been parsimonious in
such matters and the museums in
countries of the men who have made
important discoveries have usually
shared in the relics.
Basing their hope on this precedent
American museums believe that some
of the invaluable antiquities just I'M
earthed may find their way to this
country for the actual discoverer of
this pharaoh's tomb was Howard Car
ter, an American.
OF course, Lord Carnarvon, an Eng
lishman, has been the financial god
father of the expedition But it is
Carter who has gone out in his shirt
sleeves year after year to superintend
the gangs Of perspiring natives who
labored with shovels and baskets I'M
der parching Egyptian sun. 1t was
Carter who furnished the courage and
faith during long, fruitless searches.
1t was Carter who swore there were
yet untouched tombs in the Valleys
of the Kings when older and wiser
Psychologists were convinced the val
ley had been fully explored.
Howard Carter was a poor Ameri-
can artist 33 years ago when he first
went to Egypt For years he made a
meager living by sketching the finds
of early excavators. 1t awoke in him
a profound interest in the story of
the first civilization and the work
of unravelling that history from the
buried tombs and temples built thou
sands Of years before. He determined
to make it his life work
But Carter was poor. He made
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-03-07
"Big Tim" Indicts Us.

At this writing big Tim" Murphy,
Chicago labor car, is a convict at
Leavenworth. big Tim, convicted
crook and supposed assassin typifies
the bad state of affairs in this coun-
try. When cynicism, crookedness,
disrespect for law, the doctrine of
get it no matter how" take the place
of good citizenship and personal up
rightness-we produce Big Tins"
Murphy is no more dangerous to the
state than the do-nOthing good citizen
whose weak spine and fat-headed lack
of interest allows conditions to drift
from bad to worse.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-03-07
ADDING COMMISSIONS
(Ga1esyille Republican)

Get ready for a few more state
boards and commissions. Two bills
have been introduced into the legisla-
ture, one providing for board to SUI
pervise and another to license black
smiths, also requiring a supervising
board. A former legislature provided
for. the inspection of bee singers,
stings, etc.
"By all means let us have a few
more boards and commissions. Too
many things remain open for the pub
lie to do without inspection and SUI
pervision Let's have inspectors for
cutting cordwood, saving ice, sewing
buttons on our overalls, picking
huckleberries, skinning bullheads,
setting mouse traps and playing It'd
dledywinks, pingpong and one-old-
cat.
We are very short on commissions.
This freedom is dangerous to the state
and nation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-03-07
SEEMING Out the Carp.

A doctor owning a lake so acres in
extent thought he would get rid Of the
carp and stock it with game fish,
First he drew it down to a five-foot
level and seined it. Later he siphon-
ed the water all out of the lake ex-
cept a small running stream and a
few detached pools, which he dyna-
mited and later poisoned with bichlo-
ride of mercury The carp burrowed
in the mud until the poison shower
was over and as soon as the water
came back they got busy. A year
later he seined out a thousand pounds
and gave up the fight.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-03-07
THE BLOOMBERG AMENDMENT
(BlanchardVille BIade.)

What will we do, Mr.. Hunter, if the
Bloomberg amendment to the state
hunting laws is passed The bill
would require a hunter to procure a
license in every county in which he
shot game Will we have to carry a
map and a compass along with us
when we go hunting rabbits and
ducks to make sure we are in the
right county? Or, shall we get a Ii
cense for each county in the state and
be on the safe side We do not need
to worry. however, for we do not
think the Bloomberg amendment will
pass We have at least that much
faith in our law-making body.
A good newspaper is a commidity
institution, as influential, possibly, as
the church or the school
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-03-07

Instead of a Farmer-LabOr party
the Herald thinks very pertinent
need exists for a farmer-business
mems party. Farmers are independ-
ert proprietors Of an enterprise just
as business men conduct an enter
prise. They deal with business men
end their interests are largely identi-
cal