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Evening star., 1934-01-26
ROOSEVELT is TOPIC
AT HARVARD DINNER
Arthur A. Ballantine, Fellow Glass.
mate, Among Speakers on
Club Program.
Nv ths Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 26-Fellow
graduates of Harvard discussed the ad-
ministration of Franklin D. Roosevelt
last night. The occasion was the an
nual dinner of the Harvard Club OF
New York. Before and after dinner
talk concerned chiefly Roosevelt, Har-
ward, '04"
Arthur A. Ballantine, fellow-class-
mate of the President and Undersecre-
tary of the Treasury in the Hoover
administration, was one of those who
spoke of Mr.. Roosevelt and his policies.
Said Ballantine:
There Tin Washington) I found
last March Franklin D. Roosevelt, a
familiar college friend. with voice
which had been persuasive and authorl-
tative in class meetings now IN
resonant tones carrying to the entire
Nation messages Of cheer and conf
dence
There I found pen which in COL
lege days had portrayed such outrages
as the blowing up of the old pump IN
the yard now flinging across the seas
messages to shape the destinies OF all
nations.
This vast authority the classmate
President bore simply and naturally.
Evening star., 1934-01-26
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. January 26.-The law Is
the law. and honesty in this instance
was penalized as a result.
In 1905 the late Reuben H. Donnel-
ley's brokerage business went into
bankruptcy and his large debts were
settled for. anywhere from 10 to 26
cents on the dollar
So far as the law went he owed not
a cent.
But his conscience would not let him
run away from his Indebtedness and in
1927 from the profits Of the printing
business he later established he paid
of every creditor. The 22-year-old
debts totaled $141,6s782, and he added
the interest, which amounted then to
$131, 1858 additional
So much for the honesty; now for
the law.
Donnelley, computing his income tax
for 1927, deducted the total Of $273,-
544.35 from his income for that year,
on the ground that it was a debt. But
the Government held he had been dis
Evening star., 1934-01-26

American politics, and the new out
burst Of crime in Texas, Kansas and
Minnesota.
Maude Adams has selected Rose
mary" as the second drama in her
series over WRC at $50. This is the
play in which she appeared in support
Of the famous actor, John Drew,
before the days of her own stardom::
Miss Adams will play the role OF
Dorothy in the presentation.
Evening star., 1934-01-26

MAJOR FEATURES AND PROGRAM NOTES.
Evening star., 1934-01-26
CHICAGO Broker Is. Penalized
For Paying 22-Year-Old Debts
Executors of Estate Must Remit Income
Tax on Money Giuen Creditors by
Bankrupt, Court Rules.

charged from bankruptcy and did not
owe anything consequently the Inter-
nal Revenue experts ruled his payments
were gifts and as such liable to income
tax. The tax claimed was $68, 8,439.3 "a.
Yesterday the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals handed down its final
TO the creditors were really gifts, al
though the legitimate object Is COM
mendable. We have endeavored, al
though unsuccessfully, to evolve a the
ory on which deduction might be predi-
Gated; none has been found"
So his children, executors OF the
estate, must pay $68,439 more for their
fathers honesty.
Evening star., 1934-01-26
GAME PRESERVERS
TO SEE ROOSEVELT
Plans to Be Given President
for Sportsmen to Meet
Commissioners.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A delegation carrying the plans of a
conference Of game commissioners and
sportsmen for preservation Of wild life
today had a White House appointment
to present them to President Roosevelt.
Accompanying the delegation will be
three members of the special Senate
Committee on Conservation of Wild
Lie Resources which called the con-
ference, Senators Walcott RepublicanD
Connecticut; Pittman CDemocrat), Ne
vada, and McNary (Republican), Ore
gon. Present also will be the Presi-
dents wild life committee, Thomas H.
Beck, Wilton, Conn; j. NJ Darling, Des
Moines. Iowa, and Prof. Aldo Leopold OF
the University of Wisconsin
Leasing Of Areas Urged.
The conference yesterday approved
the Senate committees recommends
tions Of bills to impose a Federal license
OF 81 on migratory bird hunters, to au-
thorize segregation of areas in national
forests as wild life sanctuaries and to
direct Government agencies to COOP
crate in a broad conservation program.
Also approved was a recommendation
for treaty with Mexico similar to the
existing migratory bird treaty with
Canada
The Presidential Committee recon-
mended leasing by the Federal Surplus
Relief Corporation Of submarginal agri-
Evening star., 1934-01-26
EMBASSY WOMEN AID
20 Dresses and Other Articles Given
D. c. Poor by French Group.

The women Of the French embassy
have made more than 40 dresses and
a large quantity of hand-worked articles
for iayettes for distribution to Wash
inrton's needy mothers and children
through the District chapter, American
MANY of the layette articles were sent
tn the Instructive Visiting Nurse So
cjety for distribution to emergency
Gases. and the small dresses were turned
over To the Parent-Teacher Association
to eive to children who have been kept
from school by lack Of proper clothing.
Evening star., 1934-01-26

Senator Nye Of North Dakota, will
speak over WMAL tonight at 1890,
on The Need for Reform in the
N. r. A."
The earthquake in India, which
caused 10000 deaths, will be drama
tized as a feature of the March OF
Time program, on WJSV at $3.50
Other sketches will depict the decline
of Tammany Hall as a jor force In
Evening star., 1934-01-26
TREASURE HUNT TONIGHT
Money and Other Prizes Will Be
Hidden in Y. M. G. A. Pool.

A treasure hunt" for money and
other prizes hidden at the bottom OF
the Central Y. NJ. c. A. swimming pool
will be one Of the novelties Of splash
party tonight under auspices Of the Y.
M c. A. Swimming Club.
Members Of the Y. M. C. A. and their
families and friends have been invited
to participate in the mixed bathing
event-second Of its kind to be staged
in the mems pool Of the "Y' at its
Eighteenth and G street headquarters.
The party will begin at 10:15 pm and
will continue until midnight.
A special attraction will be a fancy
diving exhibition by Y. M. c. A. and
Western High School swimming experts.
Evening star., 1934-01-26

Paul Whiteman. Ted Weems and
Jack Denny, will join in celebrating
the opening Of a new night club in
New York by Buddy Rogers. which
WMAL will broadcast from 1880 to
1890.
The Importance OF Ratifying the
Federal Child Labor Amendment Will
be discussed by Senator Wagner of
New York. i'll a special broadcast over
WMAL at 7:45.
Evening star., 1934-01-26
Desert Water Planned.

Water holes will be established along
a proposed route across the deserts in
Sonora, Mexico, If plans Of cattle men
are carried out
The Nome nugget., 1934-09-05
Y. A. A. PARITY EEIAYED IN RETuRN TO FamRssKs

1T have never been more cord- ially treated in any country, ev en in the South, which is my home. than in Alaska was the statement of Harllee Branch. sec iond assistant postmaster general, before. he left Nome this morn ing to return to FairbsnKs with Pilot Joe Crossbn Of the PaeTifc Alaska Always
 Lyman s. Peck, general man ager of that company, and R. Thach: president of the Par American Aifways, of which the Pacific Alaska is a branch, cons- pleted the party which left for the interior today
 MT. Branch went on to say. I've had a very nice trip up here, and have learned a Tot about the coun- try from coming to Alaska. You can't get conception of the terr- itory without actually making the
The Nome nugget., 1934-09-05

trip.'
 When they reach Fairbanks, Mr. Peck will stay there for q while and Mr Thach and MT. Branch will go to Seward where they in- tend to board the s. s. Aleutlan to go to Seattle.
 The party drove to Safety to take off for Fairbanks, but were unable to make the flight this morning. due to unfavorabIe wea- ther conditions.
The Nome nugget., 1934-09-05

The funeral of Peter Jufnson. |old-timer who was found dead in his bed on-sSeptembeF 3, toek place this afternon at two o'clock from the Federated Church. AT. arrangements for burial of Joseph zubriezky, who died last Satur- day afternoon will be simple service at the cemetary.
The Nome nugget., 1934-09-05

Mrs. Lars Rynning and her son Jack are taking short vacation L,N Jig board I the s s. Arthur ! Baldwin of iht Arctic Tran si CT Company when she went north few days ago Mrs. Ky ming will return with the Bald win when she comes back to Nome.
The Nome nugget., 1934-09-05

Baron P. VI. de Tlsedaader was found dea1 ttis morning at his home at Fort DayIs ty Charles E. Jones. Apparently death came at a very early hour today. The un- expected demise was pronounced by the physician who attended the body to be due to heart troub- le.
 At present very little is known of Baron Friedlander's life. NJ burial arrangements have as yet been made.
The Nome nugget., 1934-09-05

Word comes from their attend ing physician at Maynard Colum- bus Hospital that Fred Jones and William Kelner, both seriously in jured last week, are improyine greatly. Jones was hurt wh some dynamite exploded on r mining property on Spruce Cres and Kelner, an oiler on the NJ. s. Sierra, broke his leg when he fel; down the hatch of the boat at Teller.
The Nome nugget., 1934-09-05

The tugboat Genevieve of the Lomen Commercial Company madt a trip to Solomon yesterday, tow ing barge-load of freight fer that place.
The Nome nugget., 1934-09-05

Mrs. Ben Easley. who has beer in the hospital nearly month. is very much improved. according to. reports from the hospital.
The Nome nugget., 1934-09-05

Mrs Walt Nelson, Mrs. Don Lyle and Mrs. Hank Miller bro,t back memories of earlier days here and elsewhere when they don ned clothes dating as far back as 1898 and appeared in them on Front Street today.
The Nome nugget., 1934-09-05
LOCAL NEWS

E. E. Adams, who has been in the hospital for the past few months is now able to be out, and has ' covered from his illness.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-04-19
THE FINANCIAL GIANTS

Changes in government do not come
over night. Laws are not changed in
the twinkle of the eye and that is as
it should be, there must be reasons
for changes and the proposed changes
must be fairly well understood by a
large percentage of citizens or they
will not work out we'll. There must
be desire and big demand for the
new law if it is to be successful.
The need for changes on a large
scale has been creeping up on the
people for a number of years, caused
principally by the Capitalization of
wealth and power, the unemployment
situation, and high interest rates.
Many we'll meaning conservatives have
continued to vote old party labels,
hoping that their own individual
economy, honesty, and prudence would
be carried out by the political powers,
but those well meaning individuals
who have been reluctant and slow 70
change their habit of voting are
changing in huge numbers today.
They are the cautious type of people
and that is no discredit to them, but
they see that the program of the
greedy cannot go on unhampered and
so they strike out now for changes in
behalf of the masses.
The editor of The SiX-Town News,
j. V. BarstOw, who is brother of f.
w. BarstOw, Sandstone banker, is a
man who does not grab at straws. He
is cautious and wants to know where
he is going, and is an example of
thousands of voters in the state. His
newspaper is published at Browns
dale, down in Mower county, which
is in a conservative part of the state.
An editorial from his paper indicates
the change of the political thought
that is taking place. 1t follows:
1.-THE writer doesn't know just what
it all means any more when they talk
about the PARTIES That is, when
they try to explain the political align
ments as being either Republican or
Democrat or Farmer-LabOr, or what
not. Many years of observation has
convinced us that there is just one
what they want in our government
and that is the party of Financial
Giants The boys with the money
stick together regardless of who gets
the offices. If the bets are even they
divide their political party allegi-
ance equally. If danger looms they
throw their strength to the right side
regardless of party label. The only
man we can truthfully say sticks
faithfully to his party comes from
two classes of society, the farmer and
the middle class or white collar
worker. And they do this in spite of
the fact that they pay almost all the
tax collected in this country. And
the only reason they stick to the
straight ticket is, because of their
pride. There is neither rhyme nor
reason to their system of voting"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-04-19
FORGET CHEAP POLITICS
Brook Park, MINI.
Editor Askov American:

Am glad that some people are real
ly beginning to wake up and not be
afraid to put articles in the papers,
expressing their views and sometimes
referring to the statements of others.
Now our Last campaign when we were
victorious enough to elect President
Roosevelt reminded me of a speaker
Bryan. He told a story that ran this
way; but so people will understand
the story l must state that it was
supposed to be a sort of a debate:
The first speaker was opposed to free
silver but said very little to the main
point. When the other speaker took
the floor he said that his opponent
reminded him of the boy that went to
hunt the calves. He returned without
the calves and his folks asked him
where he went, and he said l went
away up to that big black oak tree
and there l just scattered out and he
said that was the way his opponent
had done. He just got to the main
issue and just scattered out. Now
that has been a long time ago and
now we are beginning to demand real
facts and let them come. We all
know the words of our Late Senator
LaFollette, aye shall know the truth
and the truth shall make We Free
l say hurrah, let the facts leak out
and the quicker the people find out
the facts the better. Now our Consti-
tuition says: Congress shall coin
money and regulate the value thereof.
l say let's begin in earnest. There
was another story told that same day
that fits in we'll here as all know that
Bryan was defeated and that speaker
also said they may win the election but
twill do them the least good of any
thing they ever did get and it has
proved, oh, how true. He said it
reminded him of the story of the old
niger and the possum. He said it
was a nice morning in the fall and
Mars Johnson had been out the night
before and got nice fat possum, he
had par-bOiled it and put it in the
oven to bake with lot of nice sweet
potatoes around it and he sat down in
the doorway to watch and keep it
from burning and of course the sun
was warm and he had been out Late
after the possum so just as the pos
sum was about done he fell asleep.
Another Lad. called Yellow Pete,
came along and came up to the
door and there was Mars John
son sound asleep; he peeks in, Lords
sake he smells possum, he steps over
Mars Johnson, opens the oven door
very quietly and sees that the pos
sum is all ready to eat, he grabs some
clothes, takes the pan, steps over
Mars johnson and goes around the
house and sits down to fine feed of
possum and sweet taters." After he
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-04-19
A GROSS SCHEME

Upon the recent visit Of Governor
Paul McNutt of Indiana, to Minnesota,
The Minneapolis Journal carried an
editorial on this self-styled liberal"
and his program in Indiana. The
Hoosier state has adopted a gross in
come tax-another name for the sales
tax-and specializing on what great
revenues that law may produce for
Indiana, and making comparisons
with Minnesota, The Journal added
that "Minnesota's step in that direc-
ton is a state income tax which
may bring in two million dollars and
help to that extent with local taxes"
The sponsors of the state income
tax in Minnesota have no apologies to
make for that act. 1t is a forward
step and a step in the right direction.
II the revenues from that law are
not yet as great as we would like to
have them, who, may we ask. are
the most responsible for working to
hold them down? Was it not the re-
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-04-19
COMMON SENSE PROGRAM

Ninety-nine per cent of the people,
and perhaps even a greater percent
age, desire to do something useful, to
make an honest living and have some
thing to occupy their time and in
terests.
Unemployment is expensive to the
state and nation, and worse than that,
it is demoralizing.
Owners of idle factories pay taxes,
interest and upkeep. They would be
only too glad to lease such factories
to the state. receive some income
therefrom instead of all outgo, so that
the state can give employment to
some of the unemployed, they to man
ufacture clothing for themselves and
other unemployed.
Unemployed have to be fed and
clothed somehow. Now it is a big ex-
pense to the state and nation, every
taxpayer feels it directly or indirectly
Would it not be well to eliminate
that expense as much as possible?
1t can be done by making use of the
idle factories, not to manufacture
goods to go out in the competing mar
kets against individual manufac-
turers, but to put the unemployed to
work to produce for themselves and
other unemplOyed-thus making for
more contentment and happiness.
That is one of the important planks
in the Farmer-Labor platform. It
does not sound very red" to us, but
sounds like good common horse sense.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-04-19
OH, HOW HE THUNDERED

The young county attorney of our
neighboring Chisago county, S. B. Wen
nerberg, was quite chesty at the Repub-
lican state convention in Minneapolis
and did a lot of talking. He is wor-
ried over the size of the Farmer
Labor campaign fund on which he
made fantastic estimates
Conservatives and reactiOnaries
getting their campaign funds from
the few are all up in the air and
can't understand why the hundreds
and thousands will pay their small
mites into the Farmer-LabOr fund.
Perplexed and bewildered young Wen
nerberg asked who gets this money?
Where does it go? What is it used
fOr?"
The old guard can't understand
that a political party can interest
the many. 1t is new, it is different,
and is a revelation to those who got
their campaign funds from the few
and legislated for the few.
Severely downing" the Farmer
Labor party and rising to great
heights, Mr.. Wennerberg said amongst
other things that respect for law has
become a mockery," and mind you.
he even added that departments of
state government have turned into
a great political machine so ruthless
that many men do not dare express
an opinion for fear that it will crush
them"
It's just terriblei Presume that
budding attorney was trembling when
he spoke for fear that armed guards
would stop him But perhaps he was
safe in knowing that the state con-
stabulary has not yet been estab-
lished.
In his statement of respect fol-
law" we are wondering if he re-
ferred to the tax evaders who are
now being brought to time.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-04-19
SAME DULL, STUPID STUFF
1.-THE Nationl


The end of Berlin's most historic
newspaper, the VOSsische Zeitung,
"Tante Voss" as the public called it,
is a calamity and another proof of
the deadly injury that Hitlerism is
doing to the German press. For more
than 200 years the Vossische Zeitung
has exercised a great influence in
Germany, and upheld with marked
ability the best standards of taste,
dignity, and honest information.
Under the editorship of Georg Bern
hard, now refugee in Paris, the
newspaper brilliantly represented
sound tradition of liberal journalism.
One year has sufficed to destroy a
journal that any country should have
been proud to maintain at any cost.
But when the mouthpiece of the die
tatOr, the Volkische Beobachter, can
not obtain a larger circulation than
200 in all Germany, it is obviously
impossible for any worthwhile news
paper to achieve the support neces-
sary for its existence. All the nom
Nazi newspapers have lost circula-
ton tremendously. The newsdealers
report that, contrary to the old Ger
man custom, nobody buys more than
one daily now, because they all print
the same dull, stupid stuff ladled out
to them by the government. Never
was there a clearer example of what
the dead hand of censorship and gov
eminent control can do to a press.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-04-19

is he trying to mislead his readers?
Doesn't the editor Of the Tribune know
that the law establishing the bank
of North Dakota is accepted by all
factions as great institution for the
state. The hail insurance law has
saved the farmers of the state over
thirty millions of dollars and is now
considered by all factions one Of the
best laws ever enacted by the state
and there are other laws enacted by
these alleged socialists which are of
benefit to the people of the state.
If the editor of the Duluth News
Tribune cares anything for truth and
chooses to investigate the condition
in North Dakota, he will find that the
financial condition is far better than
in Minnesota. He will also find that
those fellows are still wise but not
sadder. They are still in the saddle
in North Dakota.
N. X NELSON.
Willow River, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-04-19

dictionaries in 1888 who wanted the
maximum rates to be no more than
five times the minimum? And fur
thermore they wanted that embodied
in the constitution SO it would be
very difficult to change.
In the 1881 session it was even
proposed by a prominent Republican,
Chas. E. Elmquist, attorney for the
Weyerhauser lumber interests and
former railroad and warehouse COM
missioner, that the maximum rates
be not more than thrice the mini
mum rates. With minimum rate
of one per cent would it not make
a pretty income tax to have max
imum rate of not more than three
per cent? Practically joke and q
farce.
The voters should not be disillu-
stoned by the talk of gross income
tax to take away all or practically
all real estate taxes. Receipts from
the net income tax go first to pay
off bonded Indebtedness in school dis
tricts, but there are still some town.
ship, village, city, county, and state
bonds to be paid, and they are all
like mortgages on real estate. While
State Highway bonds are to be paid,
interest and principle, out of auto IL
cense fees and gas taxes, and are
being paid that way, they are also
a lien on real estate.
chant, grocery, meat market, hard
ware, drug store, restaurant, or what
not-doing a considerable business on
a small margin would have con-
siderable tax to pay under the gross
income method and of course the cost
would be passed on to the consumer,
Just like in the case Of the sales tax.
The gross income tax may look
good on paper, perhaps it may appear
that the man with very modest in
come would, under that system, pay
less direct tax than is now the case.
But it is a sugar coated scheme to
have the masses pay the tax. There
is no man in the state of Minnesota
or the nation smart enough to figure
out a new system of taxation, en-
tirely turning away from other sys-
TENS, within year or two. and sud-
denly collecting through that new sys-
tenn proper amounts of money to each
of the thousands of school districts
in the state, all the townships, vii
lagos, cities, counties and the state
itself.
If folks with small incomes are
anxious to pay income taxes and the
clamor is great enough for it, it is
an easy matter to have the net in
come tax law amended so as to make
the exemptions lower. The single
person under the law is now exempt
$1,000 from taxation and the mar
ried person $4,000 with an additional
exemption of $3.50 for each dependent.
Sure. those exemptions can be changed
but to date we have not heard much
sentiment for it from those with
small incomes With the gross in
come tax enacted into law all would
pay and don't forget that there would
be some real estate and personal
property tax to pay also.
Gross income and sales taxes are
the pet schemes of the high income
and Inheritance taxpayers so as to
get more people to help them in their
distress