TINS NORTH PLATTE SBMI-WEEKLY TRTBUNE.
FEDERAL TAXES
DROP A BILLION
Huge Decrease Shown By An
nual Report of Interna!
Revenue Bureau.
COST OF COLLECTION HIGHER
Nearly Seven Million Expended for
Administration of Prohibition
Act $130,000 Used for Child
Labor Law.
Washington, D. C. The annual ro
port of tlio Huron ti of Ititurnal Itovoiitio
Miowh (hat government Inx receipts
during the llst-al year U2L decreased
nearly a .billion dollars as eoinpnrod
with lit Ht year, while the cost of col
lection Increased .12 ounts for each
,?100.
Collections during the past flHral
year totalled HW.",0(X)l7iW iiKiiliiHt
SMOT.fiSO.'jril for the llscal year
ended Juno HO, 11)120, a decrease of
SW12,r7),4W or 1fi per cent.
Tho cent of. administering the In
ternal revenue law for the year, the
report hiiIiL wan $10.i!0:i,7KV 'or 87
rents for each $100 collected upilnst
n.ri eenlH last year. However, the re
port added. Included In the expendi
tures were $0,)I,-107 for the admin
istration of the prohibition and nar
cotic laws and tflHO.OOO for the en
forcement of tlic child labor tax law,
which deducted from the total, leaves
S.'i:i,17'V.I01 an equivalent of 72 centfj
for each $100 In taxes collected.
Income and profits taxes aggregated
$3,228,137,07:1 compared with $3,or0,
(KU),003 in 1020, and miscellaneous col
lections totalled $1,300,803,091 against
$1,41)0.0 14.2-18 In 11)20.
Principal decreases were:
Alcoholic liquors, $r7,2 17,720 : to
bacco manufacturers, $40,580,909; ex
cise taxes, $38,538,121 ; corporation
capital stock, $11,401,707, and stump
taxes, $11,870,813.
These decreases, the report said,
were offset by Increases on estate tax,
SW07,097; transportation and tele
graph, $12,101,320, and admission and
dues, $13,072,003.
Collections under the psunlty pro
visions of the prohibit ion act totaled
$2,152,387. Receipts from distilled
hplrlts, nclmlng wines, aggregated $82,
508,005, compared with $97,005,275 In
3020, while fermented liquors produced
$25,303,000 against $41,005,874.
During 1021 there were produced
from materials other than fruit, 80,
305,058 taxable gallons of distilled
plrlts, a decrease of 13,250,133 gal
lons from 1020, while 3f,993,154 gal
lons wero removed from bond, an In
crease of 0,772,245 over 1920.
China May Withdraw.
Washington, D. C The far eastern
negotiations, complicated by a dis
agreement over the meaning of the
four general principles, adopted, havo
become the live Issue of the armament
conference. How acuto the diverg
ence of view over application of tho
four principles might become are prob
lematical, but the Chlneso seomed to
regard -It as a fundamental obstacle to
u complete agreement regarding China.
Somo Chinese say there would be noth
ing left for them hut withdrawal from
tho conference should an Interpreta
tion advanced In Hrltlsh quarters re
oelve full approval of the powers.
Sinn Fein Blocks Peace.
London. -What Is feared - to bo the
lust sceno In the effort to bring peace
to Ireland was enacted 'when Prime
Minister Lloyd (Jeorge and Sir James
!rnlg mot In the former's olllclal res
idence, whore the Imperial premier
told tho head of the northern govern
ment (hut Shut Fein Ireland had not
consented to own allegiance to the
king, a prerequisite to Ulster's agree,
tuent to enter an all-Ireland parlia
ment. Following the conference Sir
James returned to Belfast, to report
to tho parliament the cause of the
virtual breakdown of Irish negotia
tions. ,
History Director for American Legion.
Top.okn, Kus. Miss Ivy Ann Fuller
of Manhattan, Kus,, has accepted a
position us director of the historical
section of the American Legion, u
newly created otllce.
Buys Omahan's Painting.
Snnta Fe, N. M. Dr. William Mayo
of Rochester, Mnn., has purchased a
painting on exhibition at the New
Mexico Arf museum here, entitled
"tJnIJuro Mountains Late Afternoon,"
by Robert F. Ullhcr of Omaha, Neb.
- Booze Agents are Busy.
Pittsburg, Kan. Prohibition agents,
In nil iintl-llquof drive the last 10 days,
IntvQ destroyed 8,000 gallons of wine.
40 gallons of whiskey, 2,000 gallons of
home brew and 1,000 gallons of corn
jniitth. 'Five stills also were seized.
Lloyd George May Sail Soon,
London. Prime Minister Lloyd
fleorge, It Is announced, hopes now In
bu able to sail for the United States
before Christinas. One report says
lie has a hooking t sail on the
Aqtiilanla, December 3,
Woman Directs Bandits,
Oakland, Cab A gang, which the
police Hitld was directed by a woman,
overpowered nnd hound two night
watchmen nt tho Whltthorne & Swan
department store, blew open two safes
and escaped with $20,000.
RECALL STANDS BY RULING
Ousted Governor and Two Other Stato
Officials Leave Office. No
Fraud In tho
Election.
Illsmark, N. D. The North Dakota
supreme court denied the application
of live taxpayers for a writ prohibit
ing the state canvassing board from
canvassing the vote cast nt tho recall
election, October 28. Inauguration
of It. A. Xestos, Svelnjorn Johnson and
John A. Kltchln, elected governor, at
torney general and commissioner of
agriculture and labor, respectively,
has already taken place.
The last full day of the udnilnlstrn
tlon of Governor Lynn J. Kra.ler, At
torney Ceneral William Lemke and J.
N'. 1 lagan, commissioner of agriculture
and labor, (lie recalled olllclals, was
iicconipnnlr-L,by excltoment not unllk"
a legislative session.
After hearing argument on the tax
payers' petition In the suit of tax
payers to break the present bond
sale contract, the supreme court re
tired (deliberate on tho recall nul
lification. -
Ityns iinnounce'il that tho "majori
ty of the court had denied tho appll
cailon" without accompanying opin
ions. Justice Robinson said inter all
0vo Judges wero ngulmu granting the
Injunction. Hu also asserted that the
allegations of wholesale fraud In oh'
talnlug slgnors to tin- recall petitions
were not considered true.
The" industrial commission, com
posed of the three recalled olllclals
who relinquish olllce soon, signed, It
v,uh announced, a conticat with Spitz-1
or, Itnrlck 0 Co. of Toledo, O., for
sale of all the remaining authorize:!
state bond Issues. This contract, it
was stated, replaced the present con
tract which has resulted In a Inwsul.
In the supremo court, and provides
that all bonds not yet Issued be sild
at par.
Piece Blame for Riots.
London. Dispatches to tho London
press from Iielfast place the blamo for
the rioting there, according to the
sympathy of tho respective news
papers. Accounts of tho disorders
suggest that tho aggression was re
ciprocal and due to the ever-existing
rancor between .the nationalists and
orangemoru. During the rioting of the
past week at Uolfnst moro than 30
persons have been killed and nearly
100 wounded.
Tryo to Lower Record.
Mlneoln, N. Y. Hert Acostn, test
pilot who won the Pulitzer, made an
unsuccessful attempt to establish a
new speed record for nlrplalnes when
ho took a racer built for the United
States navy, over a courso of one
kilometer nt Curtlss Field.
The big machine covered ono lap
at 197.8 miles an hour.
Tho world's record which Acostn
attempted to lower was made by Hadl
I.ecolnte, In Franco last September.
It way approximately 200.5 miles an
hour.
Present Foch With Medal. .
Washington, 1). C. School children
of Amorlcan, represented by 1,500
pupils of Washington's public schools,
added their portion to the nation's
homage of Marshal Foch, presenting to
him a gold medal and a plodge to send
funds to France for the construction
of two schools for French children.1
It Is proposed to raise $250,000 and
to name ono of the schools the Wash
Ington-Lafeyette and tho other tho
Focli-I'orshlng.
Union Organizers Barred.
Walsenburg, Colo. International or
ganizers of the United Mine Worker
of America were ordered to keep out
of all coal camps In Huerfano county
while martial law Is In effect. The
order applies not only to mines of tho
Colorado Fuel and Iron company, af
fected by the strike against reduction
In wages, but also to all other mines
In the county.
Prisoners to Try Hunger Strike.
Cork. Seventeen prisoners In the
Waterford Jail have begun a hunger
strike, owing to the refusal of the
government to grant them Increased
time for recreation.
The Cork corporation, at ft special
meeting, adopted a resolution urging
the dail elreann cabinet to suspend
peace negotiations until the question
of prisoners Is adjusted.
Price of Gasoline Raised.
Now York.--The Standard Oil com
panies of New York and Now Jersey
announced another advance of 1 cent
a gallon In wholesale price of gasoline.
The price In New York now Is
cents a gallon.
Want Rail Administration Figure.
Washington, D. C The director
general of the railroad administration
Is requested, In a resolution adopted
by the senate to furnish a blanket
statement of Its tlnat.clal affairs from
Its Inception to December 1.
Tunnel Out of Prison.
Dublin. It Is reported a number of
political prisoners, the majority of
whom are supposed to havo been
transferred trom npiKo island near
Cork, have csenpod front the Kilkenny
Jail by tunnelling.
Measure Is Referred to Treasury,
Washington, D. C. The anti-medical
beer bill passed by congress recently,
came Into tho hnndR of President
Harding nnd was referred to tlte
treasury department for recommenda-
tlon.
Belgium's "Rovers" Work for Their K t,.,.
(Prepared by thn Nntlonnl Geographic So
ciety, Washington. D. C.)
No country Injured by the World
wnr set about more earnestly to
achieve reconstruction than Belgium,
the one which suffered most cruelly
and dramatically from the conflict.
Though the damage done to the coun
try through property destroyed, pil
lage and financial exactions by the
Oermans reached the tremendous sum
of 30 billions of francs according to
the estimnte of the nclglum Comlte
Central Industrie!, the people, with
characteristic industry and thrift, took
up the heavy task of resuscitating tnelr
country's Industrial life as soon ns the
armistice had been signed. By the
beginning of 1920 they had made such
great strides that, with the exception
of tlte steel and glass Industries, pro
duction avernged three-quarters or
more of pre-war production; the coal
outwit had even reached 04 per cent
and the refined sugar output 100 per
cent.
But tho post-war rcnctlon which
struck the United States nnd other
countries In 1920 affected Belgium,
too; nnd since tho spring of that yenr
Belgium hns hud Its share of depres
sion, closed and part-time factories
and unemployment. The drought
which nffected many parts of the
northern hemisphere hns been felt In
Belgium, with the result that harv
ests nra less and food prices higher.
Where the price Index of living costs
was 100 In 1914 It was 477 In Octo
ber, 1020, and had reached only -to
384 In August, 1021. But the ndverse
economic forces In operation since
early in 1920 hnve caused suffering
even In countrlos not Involved In the
World war; and to understand that
Belgium, In spite of present trials, Is
In a fair way to outstrip the other
war-torn countries In the return to
normal, It Is dnly nccessnry to consid
er conditions In tho llttlo kingdom be
fore the war broke In upon It.
Its Population" Is Dense.
The Belgium of today hns nn nrca
less than one-fourth as great as Mis
sissippi, and yet It has four times
tho population of that state. Twenty-
J.wo and n half countries like Bel
gium would bo required to make n
jiiite like Texas, and If Texas were
as densely populnted as Belgium It
would havo as many people ns the
United States and Germany together
now possess. If tho entire United
States bad as ninny people to the
square mile as Belgium that Is, con
tinental United States, exclusive of
Alaska we would have more people
hero than there are In the entire world
today. You could concentrnto all the
people of the seven seas and of all
the continents hero and still have room
for enough moro to repopulate the
continent of Kurope ns It now stands.
It must follow from this that such
a vast population, living within such
narrow confines 7,570,000 souls with
in nn area of 11,373 squnre miles
must be a frugnl people, accustomed
to self-denial, skilled In the art of
economical living, and masters of the
science of Intensive Industry; yet with
all this density or population, with
all the exactions of forced economy,
they are a people who had so ordered
Mtelr relations with one nnother nnd
,vlth their government thnt happiness
and contentment seemed to dwell with
them as with but few other peoples,
and this In spite of diverse descent
und diverse tongues.
Two Distinct Peoples.
Within Belgium's small territory
smaller In area than Massachusetts
and Connecticut there nro nearly
three million Flemings who ennnot
talk with their compatriot Walloons,
and about us many Walloons who can
not hold converse with their country
men Flemings. In their habits of mind
and their methods of gaining a live
lihood tho two peoples differ as widely
as the English and tho French, and
In their speech they are as different
a the Germans and the Scandinavi
ans; and yet there Is a tie that has
bound them together for generations,
with never' n fratricidal war In their
modern history. That tie Is the bond
of religion, for they nil subscribe to
the doctrines of the Church of Rome
with n heartiness that makes them one
of the best-loved peoples of tho Holy
See.
Their tongues ure Flemish and
French, nnd only 10 per cent of the
people can speak both. The Flemish
influence never crossed the Mouse riv
er toward the east, und the Walloon
Influence reached but a short distance
towurd the west from that beautiful
valley. The line of demarcation be
tween the two peoples Is rnther sharp
ly marked.
There Is a physical difference be
tween the Walloons fit eastern Bel
glum and the Flemings of western
Belgium, Just ns there Is. a difference
of tongue and stock. The Walloons
are of stouter build and greater stat
ure, and ure dark where the Flemings
are fair, thus bespeaking the com
mingling of Spanish blood. On the
other bund the Flemings are the more
Industrious of the two peoples, nnd
their women ure said to be uble to pre
pare the best meals out of the fewest
things of almost any race In the world
Living was cheap In pre-war Bel
glum. The people had thoroughly
mnstered the art of intensive farming,
and the land, before the great war
descended upon the country with Its
heel of Iron, blossomed with the milk
and honey of plenty. Being contlg
uous to the North sea fishing grounds,
It has always possessed a liberal sup
ply of fish, which Is a staple article
of diet with tho people.
If living was cheap In Belgium It
was no cheaper than conditions called
for, because wages certainly were low,
Many lace-workers, making the ex
quisite laces that bear tho Belgium
mark, worked from the rising to the
setting of the sun for five dollars u
week. It Is said that the nverage wage
of all the breadwinners of the country
approximated only $105 a year.
Tho children work after they are
twelve, und all hands In a working
man's family must keep busy in order
that no mouth shall go hungry. Even
at this It requires, even In normal
times, the utmost frugality to make the
buckle of Income meet the tongue of
outgo. So must the Belgian house
wife be an excellent munnger. The
Belgian wage-earning classes eat but
little animal food, and most of that
Is fish.
All Are Early at Work.
Tho day begins early for everybody
In Belgium, nnd particularly with tlte
wnge-enrncrs. More than half of Bel
gium's population lives outside the
towns, nnd they are up at their work
before the gray dawn Is dispersed by
the rising sun, and on clear mornings
the lights of hundreds of cottages
may be seen vying with the stars ns
they twinkle forth their message of
households bestirring.
In the towns nnd cities the people
nro downtown almost ns early as their
neighbors across the English Chan
nel are at breakfast. They get their
t-Idday meal around noon, and they
go home for It, since remarkably low
tramway fares make this possible So
It Is that, Instead of a mug of milk
nnd a sandwich at some quick lunch,
many a Belgian burgher shuts up shop
at 12, goes home to his largest meal
of the day, eats It leisurely, and re
turns downtown by 2 o'clock.
The Belgian government has always
felt a keen Interest In the welfare of
the wage-earner and the mnn of stunll
ttffnlrs. nnd has made It possible for
them to buy homes on easy terms
The national savings bank Is cmpow
ercd to make loans to householders
for buying or building homes, und to
Insure their lives, so that In tho event
of death the family will not lose Its
equity In the place, and can use tlio
Insurance to wipe ore tlte debt.
Taxes were made exceedingly low
on smnll property owned by those
who tenant It.
Tho entire western portion of the
country resembles one vast market
garden. There are no fences marking
tho boundaries of the many small
tracts, but rather llttlo trenches thnt
sepnrato one farmer's place from the
others. Tens of thousnnds of acres
of the roughest kind of land have
beep converted Into splendid trucking
gardens by western Belgians. In 1839
there was a wild stretch of land west
of tho Scheldt river called the Pays
do Waes. uncultivated and unlnhnbl
ted. Tcduy It Is one of the most fertile
sections of this remarkable country,
supporting 500 people to the square
mile, with truck farming ns lw prln
clpal Industry.
The .
HGION
(Copy for ThU Department Supplied
the American Legion New service.)
MACNIDER, NEW LEGION HEAD .
'
Mason City (la.) Man Is Chosen Na
tional Commander of the Ameri
can Legion.
"We imiDt build this Legion of ours
so big and flue and strong, keep It so
clenn and straight and Amcrlcnn, that
when we ask for things for the ex
servlcc mnn, for the disabled man and
for those who are financially disabled
our communities will say. 'If the Le
gion Is for It, we are for It."
This was the first message of Han
ford MucNlder to members of the
American Legion, following his elec
tion ns national commander bf the or
ganization. Mr. MacNlder Is the
HANFORD MACNIDER.
Newly Elected National Commander
of the American Legion.
youngest nntlonnl commander the Le
gion has ever had. He Is thirty-four
years old.
"He Is a natural leader of men,"
say his friends, who have watched
him plug his way through Harvard
university nnd who later saw hlra
come out of the World war n lieuten
ant colonel with three citations nnd
several decorntlons.
Ills military recoi$ begins with his
sen-Ice on the McxC .border In 1010
as a first lieutenant mh the hecond
V ...
Iowa Infantry. When the United
States entered the World war he en
rolled nt the officers' training camp nt
Fort Snelllng nnd was sent to France
as a provisional second lieutenant In
the regular army. In Prance he was
with the Ninth Infantry of the Second
division. He was wounded at St.
Mlhlel.
Mr. MacNlder Is nn Investment
banker nt Mason City, In., where he
was born. He has been an active Le-
glonnnlre and has served as com'-
mander of the Iowa state department
of the Legion.
HEAD OF LEGION AUXILIARY
Mrs.
Lowell F. Hobart of Cincinnati
Is the New President of the
Women's Organization.
Mrs. Lowell F. Hobart of Cincinnati,
the first national president of the
American Legion Women's auxiliary,
Is one of those "war mothers" who
served In the great "second army."
When her son Joined tho colors and
was sent to Camp Zachary Taylor,
Kentuckv. she went with him. There
MRS. LOWELL F. HOBART,
New President of the American Legion
Women's Auxiliary.
she worked dally as a Tied Cross su
pervisor nnd at night she Instructed a
closs In Ited Cross work.
Today Mrs. Hobnrt Is nt the head
of one of the lnrgest organizations of
women In the world. The Legion aux
iliary has a membership of about 12.",
000, hnvlng grown from 11,000 In the
Inst year. The organisation Is com
posed of mothers. wlo, sisters and
l.lhlrcn of i-s-n'rvlce men.
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A Reformer Hawk.
Mart Palmer's hogs have quit eat
ing chickens. Recently Mr. Palmer
shot and slightly wounded n lnrge
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and turned It Into the hog lot. When one
of the chicken enters attacked It, the
hawk sunk Its talons deep Into Its
enemy's snout. The hog with loud
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same treatment nnd hnve since given
a wide berth to any creature wearing
fenthers. The hawk hns whipped
every cat and dog In the neighborhood
nnd Is boss of all he surveys. Smith
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An Orator's Impression.
"Do you think the public ought to
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ference?"
'Such a thing," replied Senator
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tried to listen to nil the speeches It
would go fast nsleep."
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