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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-05-17

ment fund surtax.
8. 1t repeals the mill tax the same
as the Dahl bill.
4. 1t then puts one big surtax on
incomes above $4,000 to get from in
comes $1,000 900 for the teachers re-
tirement fund and 1851 900 to re-
place the repealed mill taxes
Governors Bill.
l. Repeats mill taxes the same as
Dahl and Severson bills, and in addi-
ton repeats the levy of $4,000 for
free high schools, 100000 for graded
schools, and the levy of $4,000 for
interest payments on certificates of
indebtedness. It thus wipes out the
entire state tax and relieves all gem
eral property from about 1873 mills
of tax on the assessed valuation
2. Places the burden now borne
by property of $6,11O,O89.92 (the
amount last year, upon incomes in
the following manner:
(a) Raises rates on individual
incomes from present law Of one
to six per cent to one-half to ten
income as is now taxed to in
dividuals.
(b) Separates dividends re-
ceived from corporations whose
income or any part has been as
sessed and taxes the mat separate
schedule Of rates from one to five
per cent.
(c) Raises rates on corpora
tions to range from two to seven
per cent instead of two to six
per cent as in present law.
Cd Repeats, the teachers re-
| tirement fund surtax which is
one-sixth of normal tax. This
makes the corporation rate prac-
tically the same as now.
(e) Repeats s11z per cent of
the personal property Offset
(f) Changes divisions of in
come taxes from 1919 to the state,
20To to the county, and 1919 to the
localities under the present law
to the following distribution:
5000 not exceeding in any
one year $3,8O0,0OO to the
state.
33-1/3@o not exceeding in
one year 100000 to the
county, The excess Of the
above 1885,, if any, above
the sum indicated, is divided
as follows: One-half not ex-
eeeding SSo0,O0O in any year to
the general fund; balance
shall be apportioned to coun-
ties on the basis of assessed
| valuation
S6-2/396 to the locality.
Payments to the state are
not subject to Offset but the
S6-2/3@o payment to the To-
eafity may be Offset to the ex-
tent Of 500.
(g) Uses the states share of
income taxes, 63-1/3% to take the
| place Of the state tax repealed in
~; to put 100000 into the
teachers retirement fund; to aid
rural schools, and the balance, if
any, to be divided as indi-
Gated YIN (f).
8. Repeats the entire income tax
law contained in Chapter Z, Statutes,
and enacts a new law in it's place
q. Changes the administration Of
the income tax law as follows:
(a) Provides for commission
of one man instead Of three
as now.
(b) Reduces the number of in
come assessors from 40 to 10
! and the districts in the same
! proportion.
(c) Makes the states share of
income tax payable in two install
ments: One of 5000 at the time of
filing the return, which shall not
be later than March 10, and the
/ second of 33-1/3%o on or before
July tst following,
I'D The above payments in in
stallments< to the state must be
made to the tax commissioner and
assessor of incomes payable to
the state treasurer. Failure to
pay within the period shall make
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-05-17
Germany Consents to
International Body
(By Associated Press Leased wire)

Nby AssocIaJed PreSS Leased WlreJ
Berlin The allied replies to the
PREPARATIONS offer Of May IL have en-
gendered in official and Reichstag cir
cles belief that the only path now
open to Germany may we'll be the dis
patch of brief formal note to the
creditor powers suggesting that mas
much as the Reichstag is apparently
unable to make concrete and precise
proposals, she unreservedly consents
to permit a commission of interna-
tional economists to determine her
obligations.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-05-17
Charge Policeman
With Manslaughter
fBy Associated Press Leased wirel

Hibbing, Minn.-Cbarges Of second
degree manslaughter have been brought
against William Gardner, Hibbing
patrolman, who last week fatally shot
George Krebich, miner, Gardner will
be given preliminary hearing next
Wednesday in municipal court here.
Gardner shot and killed Krebich
when the latter, according to the
patIolman's defense, resisted arrest for
speeding in his motor car,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-05-17

the taxpayer subject to interest
at the rate of 1870.
(e) The tax commissioner and
assessor of incomes must each
give bond
(f) Any taxpayer paying his
entire tax at the time of making
return to the tax commissioner
or assessor Of incomes to be turn
ed over to the state treasurer.
3. Repeal laws giving tax commits
sion and assessors Of incomes super
vision over the administration of the
property tax and over appeals from
equalizations by the county board,
and provides that such appeals be
aaade. TO the courts.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-05-17
Senator WatsOn's
Widow is Dead
(By Associated Press Leased wire)

Thompson, Ga. = Mrs. Thomas Z.
Watson, widow of the late United
States senator from Georgia, and the
first American woman to whom an APP
pointment in the Senate was ever of
fered, died last night from an attack
af ae1,ta diahataa
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-05-17
Minneapolis Defeats
Charter Amendments
by Associated Press Leased wire)

Minneapolis, MINI. The proposed
charter amendment to re-district the
city's wards was defeated and George
E. Leach, incumbent, and w. A. Camp
bell, were nominated for mayor at
yesterdays municipal primary election
according to virtually complete, I'M
official returns today.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-05-17
BULLETIN

(By Associated Press Leased Wire)
Benton, Ark.-Two bodies were
recovered from the fQod waters
near the Missouri Pacific railway
station at Hot Springs last night,
according to ]. w, Arnold, a lum-
herman of Benton who was there
when the torrents rushed down on
that city late yesterday.
Accompanied by two railroad
employees, Arnold arrived here
from Hot Springs early this morn
ing on railroad motor car. Ben
ton is 20 miles from Hot Springs.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-05-17
BERGER NOW IN BERLIN.

Berlih-Victor Berger has arrived
in Berlin on his way to Hamburg
where he will sit as one of the Ameri-
can delegates to the International So
cialist Congress, which opens next
week.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-05-17
RuL,TETIN

(By Associated Press Leased Wire)
Texarkana, Ark.-Unofficial adj
vices received here by the Two
States Telephone company from
Hot Springs state that the known
dead in the storm and fire last
night would be at least seventeen.
Water is running eleven feet on
Central avenue in places, it was
said.
Texarkana was threatened last
night when unusually high wind,
heavy rain and continuous light
ming held sway.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-05-17
Water Runs II Feet Deep.
in Principal Street III
Dead is Report.
NO DETAILS GIVEN
Telephone and Telegraph Serv-
ice is Cut Off as Torrent
Floods Offices of Plants.
BULLETIN.

(By Associated Press Leased Wirel
Colorado City, Texas - The
death list was increased to TWEEN
ty-one today by the finding of
four additional victims of the tor
nado which swept Mitchell coun-
ty early yesterday.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-05-17
RuLLETIN

(By Associated Press Leased Wire)
Ottumwa, Iowa - A telegram
from Charles G. Orr, owner Of
the Marquette hotel at Hot
Springs, Ark, to w. H. Heating
of Ottumwa, his. brother-in-law,
this morning, reports that all
guests of the hotel were saved
from the blaze which destroyed it.
The telegram reads:
awful fire and food. Mar
auette burned. All saved. Self
and wife WELL"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-05-17
Florida Puts Ban on
Corporal Punishment
lBy 1890 Pcs Leased vie,

by Associated Press Leased Wire)
Tallahassee, Fla.-Fnal passage Of
a bill to ban corporal punishment os
convicts inthis state was Effected to8
Cay when the senate by vote of -
to 10 refused 20 reconsider its action
Of yesterday in banning the whip.
The action of the senate meant a
bin requiring the state officials to elm
mate whipping from their calendar Of
prescribed punishment now goes 10 the
governor.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-05-17

Hot Springs, Ark. = Hot Springs
at noon today was endeavoring to ex-
tricate itself from debris and ruin
left by the food, fire and wind which
last night wrecked the business dis
trict of that city with damage to
property which is expected to run
into the millions.
Several persons are reported to
have been killed but thus far reports
of fatalities have not been verified.
It is not expected, however, that the
death list will exceed three or four
persons.
While the monetary loss is roughly
figured in the millions, no accurate
estimate is available at this hour.
The Marquette hotel is pile of
charred bricks and stones represent
ing loss in excess Of $250,O0O, The
only building left in the Marquette
block is the Citizens National bank.
The city is without street car, cleo
trio or gas service. All utility plants
including the telegraph Offices were
flooded and put out of commission.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-05-17
Wilm0t Turns Back
Strong Antioch Team
Kenosha County Nine Rallies II
Eighth To, Defeat the Strong Anti
och Outfit, 5 to 2.

A spirited rally in the eighth inning
during which they scored four runs,
the Wilmot baseball nine came from
behind to defeat the strong Antioch
Seam by score of 3 70 9, at Wilmot
Sunday afternoon before big crowd
Of fans. Antioch is reputed to be one of
She strongest teams around this county
this year, as it has already defeated
burlington and Silverlake. This makes
the Wilmot victory a notable one.
Next Sunday the State Liners will be
the visitors at Wilmot. The score of
Sundays game:
Antioch .....,...t. 200 600 01o 8
Wilmot. .010 00C 040--5
Batteries for Antioch: Davidson and
Kingsley. Wilmot: Edgar and Hege-
man.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-05-17
BULLETIN

st. Louis, Mo. - Henry M. Bak-
err, director of disaster relief for
the southwestern division of the
American Red Cross today was
en- route to the food and fire
stricken Arkansas city to take
charge of relief work,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-05-17

Dublin-The last band Of Repubn-
cans operating in county Wicklow, was
captured today after fierce engage
nent. The leader named PIunkett was
shot dead. Two machine guns were
taken.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-03-21
A JUNIOR COLLEGE

Redwood Falls is just beginning to do lit
tie thinking more or less, over the Junior Col
lege and the opportunities such an institution
would bring to this community. Duluth is also
apparently doing some thinking along the same
line and the following comment from a Duluth
editor is interesting and timely:
1.-THE campaign for junior college IN Du-
luth.. in which the Kiwanis club has taken the
leadership received impetus yesterday
when it was explained to the approval OF a large
ly attended joint meeting of the Rotary, kiwanis
and Lions clubs.
"As explained by James A. Starkweather,
assistant superintendent of schools, it commends
itself to every thinking citizen.
"A junior college would give Duluth young
people chance to get the first two years of COL
lege work at home which is good whether or not
thew 90 farther than that. 1t would relieve the
increasing pressure on the colleges and univer-
sites which are so packed that they are too
crowded, and are hard to get into and stay in
There is need for Junior college, and there
is an increasing demand for it. That means that
Duluth is going to get it. Whether it comes as
branch of the state university at state expense,
or as an adjunct to the local high schools at local
expense, it will come if work enough is done for
it."
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-03-21

came a mining engineer and achieved
fame as an administrator. Today he
is Secretary of Commerce.
Wallace-Born and grew up on IA
farm. Paid his own through the
Iowa agricultural college. Became a
dairy expert and was offered a pro-
fessorship in the college. Today he
is Secretary of Agriculture.
Weeks-Born on farm and milk
ing cows was his first job. From the
farm he went to the Annapolis Naval
Academy, finished his course includ
ing the customary battleship duty.
Retired and went into business in
Boston. Today he is Secretary of
War.
Davis-The son of laborer. was
working as a puddler's assistant i'm a
steel mill at the age of H. He was
puddler himself at the age of 16 and
worked at that hard life until he was
26. Went into business for himself
Known to this day as "Puddler Jim"
and still carries his union card. He is
Secretary of Labor.
Daugherty-Left fatherless at the
age of and forced TO become a wage
Garner early in life. Was an errand
boy in grocery store at IL. Later
became clerk in the store. Supported
himself while he studied law and
helped his family at the same time.
Today he is Attorney General of the
United States.
Fall-Born of poor parents, he was
toiler in southern cotton mill at
the age of IL. Later worked on a
farm and paid his own way through a
law school, Today he is Secretary of
the Interior.
Work-Had an uphill start as do
most poor boys. Became country
physician and toiled hard. Became
nationally known for his skill. Is
now Postmaster General of the United
States, a position offered him because
of his ability as an executive and adj
ministrator proved in numerous posi-.
tions of responsibility that had come
to him.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-03-21
WEDNESDAY, MARCH Fl, 1928

" HOU canst not prove the Nan,eless,o my
= Nor canst thou prove the world thou NOV
est in;
Thou canst not prove that thou art body alone,
Nor canst thou prove that thou art spirit alone
Nor canst thou prove that thou art both in one;
Thou canst not prove that thou art immortal, no.
Nor yet that thou art mortal-nay. my son.
Thou canst not prove that 1, who speak with thee,
Am not myself in converse with thyseH
For nothing worthy can be proven
Nor yet disproven wherefore, be thou wise
Cleave ever to the SUMMER side Of doubt,
And cling to faith beyond the forms OF 1aitn
She reels not at the storm of warning words;
She brightens at the clash Of Eyes" and mo;
She sees the best that glimmers through the
worst;
She feels that the sun is hid for the night;
She spies the summer through the winters bud;
She tastes the fruit before the blossom falls;
She hears the lark within the songless eggs;
She finds the fountain where they walled
"Mirage" -Tennyson.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-03-21
TEN DOLLARS A WEEK


Recently there came before New Jersey
Judge couple in domestic difficulties, because
the husband only provided ten dollars per week
for the wife to run the household, consisting OF
three people The Judges. decision was sudden
and just-he proclaimed that the wife should turn
this magnificent sum of ten weekly dollars over
to the husband who, with it, should provide all
the necessaries of life. We can't imagine any
more fun than seeing that poor man wander
'lonely as a cloud" up and down market places
trying to provide shoes and soap and prunes and
potatoes and "undies" and covers" and all the in
betweens and coal, in return for little x that
will shrink appallingly in value the farther ne
goes. Neither can imagine any better object
lesson for man who is so constituencies as to
expect and exact the impossible from his wife
just because she happens to be his wife. Friend
husband is due for bitter awakening, and ne
has it coming!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-03-21
CHILD WELFARE AND ECONOMY

IT was with great disappointment amounting
almost to disgust sthat thinking people of
Minnesota read last week of the introduction
in the Minnesota Senate of bill to do away
with all County Child Welfare Boards. That
this bill was introduced by three Senators who
are counted strong leaders, and who have in the
past done work that gives them claim to some
little craftsmanship of real sort, only increases
that sense of disappointment. The bill has been
introduced as a matter of alleged economy and to
those unacquainted with the work done by We'll
fare Boards it may, at first thought, seem reas-
enable.
This bill would render practically useless the
Child Bureau Of the Board of Control, since with
out. these County Boards the representatives Of
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-03-21
No Chance For
the Poor Boy

Eugene V. Debs broke into print
the other day and said again as he
has said probably hundred times
and more that there is no chance in
America for the poor boy. He said
that unless boy had graft or a
pull that he could make use of he
might as well not try.
Isn't it unfortunate that boys
should start with advice such as that
as damper to ambition?
Nearly every man in America to-
day who amounts to anything in the
big places as well as in the ordinary
fields of activity started as boy.
Here's sample list, including the
president of the United States and
members of his cabinet:
Harding-Born on a farm, had to
earn his own way through school.
Finally got job sweeping out a print
ing office. Stuck to the business UNI
til he became owner of the pape?
The Marion (Ohio) Star. From there
he went to the governors chair, the
United States senate and to the pres
idency.
Coolidge-Born on farm roust-
ABOUT Ill a otoiS, thSh StSA N
! Worked and paid his own way thru
school and college. Studied law. Be.
came governor of Massachusetts and
then vice-president of the United
States.
Denby-Born of poor parents
Worked in his youth as sailor be.
fore the mast, the hardest kind CT
work. Entered the navy as thirc
class gunner's mate. Studied night:
and learned law. Began practice a
the bottom of the ladder. Reached {
commanding place in his profession
Now Secretary of the Navy.
Hooyer-An orphan at the age o
six. At fourteen laborer on al
Oregon farm. Worked at whatever h
could lay his hands on in order to &c
through Stanford University. Be
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-03-21
PUBLIC OPINION AND PROHIBITION
(By William Allen Whitley

ri ANSAS has made pronlDition prohloit,
but only after forty years struggle.
In that struggle prohibition won not
as much by putting people in Jail by putting
them in frame of mind. This frame OF mind
which enveloped only the minority who flinched
under the economic waste of the saloon now in
cludes a vast majority. The frame of mind has
become public sentiment. 1t functions automati-
cally 1t is more terrible than jails. 1t is mex
orable. But it is only Kansas frame of mind.
Witness the sad case of Representative Man.
ary of the Kansas legislature. His story is this
He got publicly and nosily drunk in political
hotel hundred such DRINKS make spectaces
of themselves at state capitals in the country
and nothing comes Of it. But something happens
in Kansas. Namely, an arrest by an humble mo-
tor cop and night in Jail with police court
fine in the morning. So far the situation is not
seriously abnormal
1t might develop in any state Though to
arrest well known local statesman of major
ity party merely for being drunk and dressed up
is not common occurrence Generally infu-
ence stops it. But in Kansas public opinion
stepped in. No one dared to use his influence
Respect of the law has been deeply ingraned in
the Kansas heart. 1t held back influence that
might have helped the offender. So he paid his
fine, and the newspaper printed the story. He'll
hounds, you will say. No, they dared not face
public sentiment and withhold the story.
That afternoon impeachment papers
being drawn. Mr.. Manary would have been dis
missed from the legislature. Public sentiment
again. Representatives had grown up on that
public sentiment. He knew that no political
power could duck it, He knew that he was done
for in Kansas politics.
So he went to his room and shot himself to
death.
1t was not remorse not getting drunk that
drove him to suicide. 1t was the realization that
being public man and getting drunk, the senti-
ment of his friends and neighbors made it i'm
possible to DO forward in his career.
He preferred death to shame.
Now, this sentiment wwould not be found in
Albany, in Boston, nor in Trenton. Probably
Pennsylvania would not put the scarlet letter on
legislator for getting drunk.
Yet until public sentiment does condemn the
public men who get drunk, prohibition never will
prohibit 1t is to this Kansas degree of ruthless
ness that the matter must come must aban-
don prohibition. This is hard sentence. But
there can be parole. Public men will not
change their ways, until the public changes it's
attitude toward public men. Bootleggers in con-
gress will thrive until the people back home
stop it. Not with law, but with sentiment which
will drag man out of his job when he offends
that sentiment.
Only by looking at the distance which Kan
sas has covered in forty years can we see where
we are going as a nation. These lines are not
written to boast of Kansas, heaven forbid, but
point moral and adorn pitiful tale.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-03-21

An exchange remarks that the man who can
make out an incometax return with the same
cheerfullness with which he rises to sing The
Star Spangled Banner, has acquired some of the
fundamentals of patriotism The exchange is
not exactly fair;-a part of the cheerfulness in
the first case may be because the song mentioned
is usually the closing number-and there amt
no such animal" as "closing number" in income
taxes!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-03-21

You get sensible government bulletin
on almost any subject except the business of
curbing government ravagance.-Eric Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-03-21

Canon Lyttelton of Eaton wonders if par
ents realize "how large proportion of boys are
a little mad between the ages of fourteen and
seventeen" We know of one youngster of that
age who is more than little mad on some oc-
casions when his idea and parental authority
go crisscross. He's about five feet six of the
"maddest mad' one would ask to see! All non
sense aside, however, we don't believe the gentle
man is right in his premise Boys are not
mad except in the same sense that every hui
man being seems at times little mad to every
other human being. The head of Eaton probably
seem little mad to the fellow who hauled his
coal, lawyers seem little unbalanced at times
to ministers, or ministers to doctors, or doctors
to editors and editors to the world at large all
the time. 1t isn't matter of temporary insan-
ity on the part of those about us; it is just our
own failure to get the other persons viewpoint
If Canon Lyttleton could successfully put himself
back into the same mental attitude Of his four
teen-to-seventeen years, he would realize that
boys are not any more given to madness than the
rest Of US who go off haf-cocked upon occasion
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-03-21

Evidently those bank robbers at Wabasso
have children going to Sunday School; they
left fifty five dollars in pennies
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-03-21

The United States went to war for the prin
cple and now she can't even get the interest
New York American.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-03-21

Allowing woman driver the right OF way Is
chivary-to say nothing of prudence.-Wai
Street Journal
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-03-21

The Detroit News states that at would seem
now that Europe has tried everything but going
over Niagara in barrel"