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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-27
A Golden Opportunity for Graft
washington Starr


In the consideration Of the proposal
&c make q house-to-house inquiry
throughout the country regarding the
payment Of income taxes, which has
been laid before the collectors Of in
ternal revenue by the Secretary of the
Treasury, one point is especially
borne in mind. That is the POSSIBLE
ity Of imposition upon the people by
unauthorized persons. It is quite
conceivable that with such q system
Of investigation under way grafters
would take advantage of the oppor-
tunity to impersonate agents of the
government to obtain information for
nefariouS purposes. or would even
attempt to collect money from the
uniformed and the credulous. Such
games are played constantly, and the
institution of door -to-door search
Tor delinquents would open rich field
for crooks and sWindlers.
While those who pay income taxes
regularly are we'll acquainted with the
procedure by the presentation Of re-
turns by the collectors of internal
revenue and their filling out and
filing with checks in quarterly pay
nlents, there are many who under
such system of inquiry as that pro-
posed would be likely to fall for the
suggestion that the procedure has
been changed and that the govern
ment is collecting its taxes directly,
and would hand over money to the
supposed solicitor"
Then there are those who do not
row pay income taxes because they
are not IN possession OF sufficient
revenue to make them subject to the
tax. They would be easy pickings for
pseudo agents, perhaps bearing badges
which are easily obtained-and de-
handing settlement under penalty of
prosecution. The game would not be
difficult for shrewd operatives. play
lEg upon the ignorance and fear of
ti,eir victims with the suggestion that
settlement on the spot would prevent
trouble.
The present system works we'll
enough as far as the great majority
OF people are concerned. those Of
small incomes who, as rule, conscien-
tiously file their returns and pay to
the last penny OF the computed tax.
With few exceptions the delinquencies
occur not in the lower brackets. which
embrace the largest number, but in
the higher brackets. where the In
comes are greater and the taxes cor
respondingly heavier. A house to-
house canvass would not reach these
delinquents, who make their returns
regularly but not altogether truth
fully and who take advantage Of self
computed deductions in abatement OF
their taxes.
II the purpose Of the Secretary's
suggestion Is simply to find out how
many people make returns and pay
taxes an individual canvass Of the
ertire country would undoubtedly
yield the answer. But 1t would cost
en- immense sum OF money, probably
q greater sum than could be secured
in the course Of several years through
taxation Of the now untaxed. A hun
dred thousand inquisitory agents
would at the least computation be
required to make such a survey In a
year. The pay roll Of such q body
Of door-bell ringers would make q
great hole in any volume Of additional
taxes thus gained, to say nothing Of
the sums collected by impersonators
and chiselers taking advantage of this
golden opportunity to reap . harvest
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others outside-have been going up
and down for weeks, as the agitation
proceeded. President Roosevelt -
basing his decision on q cost Of living
survey, as the law provides-said the
c,t would be reduced from Is to 10
per cent next July.
But agitation has continued and II
the president doesn't take q definite
stand In opposition, Congress Is likely
tn take more immediate step for re-
storation.
Organized labor has lobbied for the
employees, bat the restoration cause has
been helped along principally by the
agitation tor more money for veter-
ans, whose compensations also were
reduced In the economy act.
CTRCUsES AND CEMETERIES
Circuses and cemeteries recently
he'd their NRA code hearings.
Capt. Billy Schultz, world cham
pion lion tanner, urged q licensing
system which would prevent promot-
srs from taking performers and ami
mails out on the road on shoestring
and leaving them stranded after 60
ing broke.
The circus business was revealed to
be In q bad way. Only three rail-
road-traveling circuses and 81 motor
lied circuses went on the road last
year. Eleven railroad circuses and
81 other outfits were laid up.
Fiery battle broke out at tho oeme-
terry code hearing over alleged racket
ecring in memorial park lots sold for
speculation.
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FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST,
SCIENTIST

723 Fourth Street
Sunday service at 11:00 =. m.
Subject: GOD.
Sunday school at 9:45 q. m.
Wednesday evening testimonial
meeting at o'clock.
A reading room maintained in the
Hoskins Block, 2O0k 4th ST.. is open
daily from IL to p. M; Sunday
to p. m.
All are welcome to attend the
church services and to make use OF
the reading room.
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PAY CUT rs BIG ISSUE

PAY CUT rs BIG ISSUE
Big news breaks here almost daily.
Sometimes 1t may be important
enough to change the course Of his
tory. But you can be sure that
Washington's local newspapers will
devote their top headlines to an issue
which interests more citizens here
than any other, though it attracts
little attention outside.
Restoration Of the is per cent fed
cral salary cut is that issue. Govern
ment work is the city's one big in
dustry and the federal payroll Is all
important locally. Washington didn't
feel the depression until the pay cut
came along In the economy act.
Hopes Of the $4,000 federal en-
ployes in Washington-and $4,000
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three times day, and you should
continue it for two or three months.
A good way to take the dose is in
little water, sweetened and favored
with fruit juice. It does not upset
digestion or cause constipation. It
does not injure the teeth. It does
and should blacken the stools.
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SYNOPSIS

After three years il Europe,
lovely Stanley Paige, young society
girl, returns to New York. She
phones Perry Deverest, who had
been madly in love with her before
she was rushed abroad following
her fathers death. Stanley, how.
ever, WAS not 20 sure Of her heart
1t the time. Perry realizes, after
seeing Stanley again. that he ID
still in love with her but steels him.
self against con hitting himself
until his leve IL recipreeated.
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town, N. D., will be with us start.
ing with Monday evening. He will
speak in the English language.
Particulars, topics, etc, Of these
meetings are found elsewhere in this
paper.
A hearty welcome awaits you.
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Circulation
Member Of The Associated Press

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The Associated Press is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to 1t
or not otherwise credited in this
newspaper and also the local news OF
spontaneous origin published herein.
AL rights Of republication Of all other
matter herein are also reserved.
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stag line It . coming-out party at
tho Ritz. Daughter Of ono Of our
clients. She's fat and almost unbe-
lievably stupid-an utter waste Of
time and money!"
Stanley leaned her elbows on the
tea table and stared at him frank.
" in the fragile twilight. "You're
awfully attractive, Perry" she told
him gravely, "aren't You in love
with anyone?"
He grinned 1T her. IF you mean
anyone else-no."
II mean-isn't there someone"
"You mean is there someone who
has . claim on me. I'm trying to
tell you that there isn't. I hope
you're glad"
She met his eyes honestly. ''I
think am, Perry"
She thought suddenly that It was
like him to blush. One Of the incest
things about Perry was his utter
lack Of conceit. Looking at him
across the table, she realized he
had plenty Of reason to be pleased
with himself. But he wasn't. He
was just anxiously eager that you
should be pleased with him. And
you were.
After Perry left Stanley con-
tinued to think about him and
herself. But she failed to reach any
definite conclusions. Sometimes she
felt she had never been quite sure
about anything. Life had always
seemed to treat her in = rather
quietly disinterested, altogether
haphazard manner. She had been
born = daughter, when her father
had desired . son. Two years later,
when her mother had died @ . re-
suit Of bronchial pneumonia, he had
left her in charge Of her capable
Irish nurse and started on restless
wandering about the world, never
lingering long IN one place Or with
one woman.
He had seldom, II ever, thought
Of Stanley and never with any feel
ing Of responsibility. Occasionally
he had arranged to get back to
New York to sec her and he was
always . little bored and . little
touched and = little excited over
these encounters.
Then ono fall he had returned
from . year in the Orient, and had
been amazed and . little annoyed
and . little delighted to discover
hat Stanley had suddenly and
most Unexpectedly grown up.
She came into tho drawing room
to greet him, tall thin young per-
son with ridiculously long legs. shy
" serious young eyes, and IN mir
Of adolescent self-consciousness
that was ct once touchingly digni-
fled and oddly pathetic.
After . rather embarrassing half
hour. he had left her and gone to
Lorna Chase. He had felt Lorna
would know what to do. He had
said to her. over the cup Of tea,
she poured him in her charming
living room. Lorna, the Child Il
growing what's to b done
about it,"
Lorna had nodded redectively.
She was long and amber-colored
and once she had thought she might
be able to marry Stan Paige-but
now she knew that neither she nor
any other woman ever would.
Eyes - she would Be. Thirteen,
isn't she7"
I'm June. All arms and legs and
|eyes-but ! shouldn't wonder II she
turned into something rather beau
tiful when she finally gets straight.
sned out. In the meantime she's
getting too old to stay on with Just
Ellen and the servants"
eyes," Lorna had Agreed
thoughtfully. ~she II. What you
want for her now ID . school-a
good finishing school for the next
Ave years-then she'll come out
Good heavens-in i've years -
!He had Looked pathetically Started
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drinking a distillate Of old rubber
tires, but you probably wouldn't II
you knew 1t.
That's one Of the problems the
Federal Alcohol Control Admins
tration ponders In connection with
its hearings on labelling Of whisky.
The rubber tires won't hurt you.
The alcohol made out Of them is Just
as pure as alcohol from grain. The
question Is whether proper consumer
protection standards demand that
when rectifier mixes alcohol OF that
type with whisky the retailed bottle
should bear the words rubber tires"
Gasoline and coal tar also can be
made into alcohol. The FACA doesn't
think you'd drink that knowingly,
either. You'd prefer alcohol made
from grain, molasses, or even pota-
toes.
Rectifiers just don't see any sense
In such labelling. Rubber tire, gaso-
line and coal tar alcohol are much
cheaper than grain alcohol and the
rectifiers prefer cheap alcohol.
So long as the chemist can't tell
what the alcohol was made from,
they ask, what's the difference?
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PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
BY William Brady, M. d.

pertaining hygiene
diagnosis treatment will be answered by Dr. Brady stamped
envelope enclosed Letters should brief written
Ink No reply made queries conforming instructions
Address Dr.. William Brady, In Of this
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LOUISIANA QUIZ NO PICNIC

The famous battle Of New Or
leans" WAS no picnic, says Senator.
Tom Connally Of Texas, chairman
Of the committee which investi-
gated the Huey Long election Of
Senator Overton. Reporting to
the Senate and describing the Bit
terness Of Louisiana political
factionalism 1t the hearings, Con-
nally says:
"That resulted In this commit.
teo being harassed and annoyed
during It's proceedings BY bowling
groups. When one witness would
testify favorably TO one faction,
half the audience would give
great yell"
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ZION Ev. LUTHERAN CHURCH
(Synodical Conference)
419 Fourth Street

J. v. Richert, Pastor
Septuagesima Sunday, Jan. %:
$3.50 a. m.-Sunday school with all
classes. Miss Verna Brelje, SUPERB
intendent.
1O:45-Morning worship (English)s
Mrs. f. Peters, organist.
6:45 p. m.-Bible class in charge q
the Walther League.
1880 p. m.-Slide -lecture: 1.-THE Life
Of St. Paul"
All welcome.
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! send the American people my
governments and my own most cor
dial greeting. hoping that Cuba may
soon achieve an order Of reason and
justice.-Col Carlos Mendieta, new
president Of Cuba.
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It's an insult to the orchestra. Won.
der child! And howl - Bernardo
Molinari, San Francisco orchestra
director. when Ruth Silenczynski, g.
year-old piano prodigy continued
through several encores.
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air. OF course the paper bag must
be held closely over nose and mouth.
Copyright 1884, John F. Ollie Co..
The NewDeal
IN ~
Washington

Highball? Rubber Tire or Coal Tar?
-. Fur Flew in Louisiana Quiz /.
Federal Pay Cut II Big Issue h
Capital Cemetery and Circus
Codes.
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Law must be stable. and yet it can
not stand stiu.-Dean Roscoe Pound
OF the Harvard Law School.
Eradicate poverty by getting rid Of
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Editorial Comment

Editorials printed below show the
trend OF thought by other editors.
They. are published without regard
to whether they agree or disagree
with The Tribune's policies.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-27

birth control Of money. That's the
thing that's being overlooked Rev.
Charles Z. Coushlin Of Detroit.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-27
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
Tribune Washington Correspondent

Washington, Jan. 27.-You may be
Evening star., 1934-09-12

formerly was in charge Of the Federal
unit, has left the P. W. A. to become
United States district engineer for
the Washington area.
The work of the inspections and the
accounting divisions, it was said. is
being greatly expanded as the task
of the P. w. A. is largely taken up
now with supervising construction
work in projects under way throughout
the country. Several hundred en-
ployes formerly employed in divisions
which investigated applications for
loans have been absorbed in these two
large units.
The P. w. A. housing division has
been forced to move into larger quar-
ters in the Interior Building because
the work of this division is expanding
rapidly. The records division of the
merged projects unit has been trans
ferred to the division of statistics and
economics.
Secretary Ickes said the p. W. A.
has been terribly cramped" for quar-
ters, and he will absorb a number
of Offices on his floor for his own use.
The work imposed on the Secretarys
office, he explained. Is greater than
ever before experienced in the In
terror Department.
Evening star., 1934-09-12

many Frenchmen pray to God every
night that Germany will get 80 per
cent of the Saar votes on January 49,
IF the Nazis stage rising, what
Frenchman will want to shed his
blood for the Germans of the Saar?"
one Frenchman said tersely. adding
that If troops have to be called they
will certainly be French, because the
French troops are the nearest.
/ think 1t is safe to say, however,
that this is not the prevailing opinion
in the French government, which, like
every other French government, is
highly legalitarian and perfectly con-
sciouS of the dangers arising from
allowing any breach in the precise
conditions of the Versailles Treaty.
Besides, it is the opinion of the League
government and the opinion of French
Foreign Minister Barthou, as express
sed in his memorandum to the Coun-
Gil, that the League has a definite
responsibility to the voter for the
status quo.
IF we had not existed there would
have been no status quo," one Saar
official said.
The danger to Hitler lies, however,
only secondarily in the determination
of the League to carry out the condi-
tions of the plebiscite and retain the
powers granted to it by the treaty.
The first danger lies in the attitude
of the German voters themselves. En-
thusiasm for Hitler is countered by
an equally intense hatred and, besides
these, there are other cooler heads
who are asking themselves just what
the people of the Saar stand to win
or lose by union with Germany.
Hitler stands to win coal mines
which he does not want and for which
there is no gold to pay. He also
stands to win, incorporated within the
Reich, a very important heavy indus
try which can supply, among other
things, munitions.
But the Saar people are asking
themselves quietly, Shall We ex-
change our good francs, covered to
80 per cent with gold, for marks which
have no gold coverage at all? BY
what method of taxation can the
Reich raise money to meet these gold
debts, which President Knox of the
League Commission does not intend
to allow being waved lightly aside, as
President Schacht has
waved aside the debts of the Reich?"
These cold economic facts, the in
opposition of many Saar-
landers to what they term NaI "hea-
thendom." and Socialist opposition are
the greatest menace to Hitler in the
Saar.
(Copyright 1894 by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1934-09-12
CLERKS WILL STAY
IN P.W.A. CHANGES
Officials Deny Many Will Go
Following Current Re-
organization.

Public works officials deny any
wholesale dismissal of employees will
follow the reorganization taking place
within the administrative force.
The shifting of various divisions in
new quarters in the Interior Depart
ment and the consolidation of at
least two important divisions had led
to rumors that the Washington forces
would be largely depleted. Officials
said yesterday, however, at the most
only few employees in various divi-
sions might lose their jobs.
Two project divisions, one required
to handle Federal grants and the
other non-Federal grants and loans,
are now being merged into a single
division, with Fred Schnepfe in charge.
Maj. Robert Crawford, U. S. A, who
Evening star., 1934-09-12
Large Anti.Reich Vote in Sam
Would Be Heavy Blou to Hitler
No OPreuiOus German Government " WOuld
Hare Suffered Defeat in PIebiscite
and Whole Nation KNOWS 1t.

says that II the majority vote for
Germany, the Saar must be delivered
to Germany. The treaty leaves it
to the League of Nations Council to
determine by a majority vote what
to do with the Saar after the plebis-
cite, only instructing the Council to
take account of the expressed wishes
Of the population.
If a large minority vote against
Hitler, that minority will protest Wig
ororously against being delivered over
to Germany. The Council may decide,
therefore, to divide the Saar or to
attach all sorts of conditions to the
German administration.
The Germans are not in the League
Of Nations and, despite the Treaty
Of Versailles, both Hitler and his
minister of propaganda, Paul Joseph
Goebbels, have repeatedly given notice
in public speeches-Goebbels most
specifically in an address at Zwei-
brucken-that they will not accept
any compromise.
German Invasion Foreseen.
If Germany gets majority Of the
votes, however small, there is a pos
sibility that on the day following the
plebiscite, thousands upon thousands
of Germans will swarm across the
border, armed or unarmed, to cele-
brate the victory and perhaps con-
front the League of Nations govern
ment with a very serious situation.
1t is even possible-and many students
of the situation speculate seriously
with this poSsibility-that Hitler will
prefer a demonstration put down by
violence; will prefer, in other words,
action to accept the dictate Of force
rather than yield ignominiously to
anything less than complete victory.
These speculations have gained
credence as result of raids by the
League government on the Offices of
the German front which revealed
documents proving that several thou
sand Saarlanders between the ages of
Is and % have been sent into Ger
many for special training for the
"Saar fight" in camps of voluntary
work service-in other words, that
something comparable to Austria's
Nazi legion exists for the Saar.
The danger of action, which would
doubtless be termed. as it was in
Austria, "a spontaneous rising against
tyranny" is greater in the Saar be-
cause this is mining country where
vast stores of explosives are available.
is known to many miners, and there
is not the slightest question but that
the Nazi movement has youths of
such fantastic devotion to the cause
that they are prepared for anything,
including the certain sacrifice of their
own lives. 1t Is for this reason that
Evening star., 1934-09-12
Five Communists Shot.

PORTO ALEGRE. Brazil, septem-
Der IL R.-Five alleged Communists
were shot and five others arrested
yesterday after police, attempting to
enter q meeting, we're fred on.
Evening star., 1934-09-12

This Is the last OF three dis
patches by Dorothy Thompson, tOtte
of Sinclair LetUts and noted foreign
correspondent, Uho has Just COM
pleted a surrey OF the SdGr plebts-
cite situation tollowtno her eTpul-
sion from Germany because OF
"Slur" upon Hitler.
Evening star., 1934-09-12
Robin Pie Brings Fine.

PRINCETON, Wis. September IL
P).-The cost to Peter Refakes Of a
pie made OF robins was $50 and court
costs.
A game warden testified he found
Evening star., 1934-09-12
Lindberghs in Wichita.

WICHITA, Kans., September IL (P.
COL and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh
flew in here late yesterday and went
to hotel for an overnight stop.
Evening star., 1934-09-12
him shooting the birds and q justice Of
the peace did the rest.

Like U. S. Shoe Polish.
Spain and Norway are the principal
purchasers Of American shoe polishes.
Evening star., 1934-09-12

1HE strain of championship golf puts
tremendous tax upon your energy" says
Miss Helen Hicks. II often find that I'm
absolutely exhausted at the finish. But I
can always restore my energy quickly with
a Camel. For you get delightful lift
with Camel. And it's lift that enjoy
often, as 1 find can smoke Camels con-
stantly without a sign of tangled nerves"
Every role in life has its strain. Every
day has its many moments of uncertainty
Evening star., 1934-09-12

TENNIS STAR. Ellsworth Vines,
Jr, tennis champion, says:
"Camels have a refreshing
way of bringing my energy
up to a higher level. They
seem to restore my pep and
take away that tired feeling"