THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1925.
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Van Camp's pork and beans, per can
Pink salmon, 3 cans for
Red River seed potatoes, bushel
Sardines in tomato sauce, 2 cans . .
Sardines in mustard, 2 cans
Fancy head lettuce, 3 for
Bled, size prunes, 3 lbs. for . . .
Green beans, per lb
Gallon loganberries
Gallon apples
Sliced pineapple, 3 large cans for
Linit starch, very special 4 for
Puritan malt, hop flavored . . . .
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ASSESSORS LIST
MONEY; INTANG
IBLES NOW TAXED
State Tax Commissioner Urges Coun
ty and Precinct Assessors to Tell
Owners of Low Levy.
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Where Your Dollar Receives Its Full Value in Bargains
Sam Gi venter, Manager Telephone No. 239
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TUTD USE rOH AIRPLANES
Washington, April 20. The de
partment of agriculture is consider
ing acquisition of a fleet of airplanes
for use is its field work if experi
ments now being conducted prove
successful. The airplane already has
been found useful in obtaining in
formation on cotton crop conditions
and crop reporters assert that it al
lows them to cover more territory
and pet better information than au
tomobiles permit.
L. L. Janus, crop statistician of
Louisiana, has found on several
trips over his territory that from
heights of 500 and 1,000 feet he was
ablse to get accurate knowledge of
the crops and negotiations are being
conducted with the army air service
to permit Frank Parker, statistician
for North Carolina, to cover the
field of that state with an airplane.
Charles E. Gage of the Washington
corps of crop reporters, also has been
successful In obtaining aerial photo
graphs of cotton fields with special
Instruments of the department.
FEELING SOME BETTER
Yesterday afternoon, F. W. Schlie
fert, one of the well known residents
of the vicinity of Louisville, was In
the city and while here was a caller
at the Journal office and gave the
members of the editorial force a very
pleasant social call as well as advanc
ing his subscription to the Bemi
weekly edition. Mr. Schliefert Is
feeling much improved in health af
ter a long period of illness as he was
confined to his home the greater part
of the time from last December up to
the last two weeks. He has been
taking treatment and feels that it
Las been most beneficial.
SHERIFF LIKES THE JOURNAL
The Journal has just received a
letter from Sheriff Peter Clarence of
Cedar county, in which Mr. Clarence
orders the Journal continued to his
address. Mr. Clarence has been a
very, successful law enforcer in Cedar
county and states that he still longs
to hear the news from the old home,
as he was born and reared in the
vicinity of Union and keeps in close
touch with the doings in the old
home and over Cass county. He and
has family reside at Hartington, the
county seat of Cedar county and en
joy life very much in the new home
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Fhoce us the news!
"No man should hesitate to re
port for taxation all of hi? cash
on hand or his other intangible prop
Itery." say State Tax CommissOner T.
E. Williams In a statement to county
and precinct assessors. "As the tax is
only 2.5 mills on the dollar for cash
I you can see that it a man has $5,000
i in money his tax would only be
j $12.50. If the $5,000 were in any
other knid of intangibles it would be
taxed at 5 mils on the dollar and his
tax would only be $2o. Certainly
every citizen can afford to be and
should be honest In reporting his in
frangible property.
. "It is Incumbent upon you, as an
assessor, to inform every tax-payer,
j whom you assess, of the low rate on
jthis kind of property. You can very
'easily and truthfully say to him that
jfor every $1,000 he has in money his
tax will be $2.50 and that it will be
Deiier ior mm io iisl n voiuniaruy,
for the penalties for failure to list
this property are very severe.
"Corporations are compelled to list
their property and cannot avoid do
ing so. But the siate must depend
on you assessors to get the Individual
tax payers, and the unincorporated
companies' tax payers to report their
intangibles. If we all do our share
in helping to make this law a success
the results will be as in Kentucky
where the increase in intangibles,
and resulting increased tax' revenues
therefrom, made quite a decrease in
the taxes on farms and other tangible
property.
"The tax applicable to intangibles
was changed by tlx legislature just
adjourned. Intangibles are now di
vided into two classes.
"Class A includes all kinds of
money whether in the bank or else
where, saving accounts, checks and
drafts or any other form of money.
This is all taxed at 2.5 mills on the
dollar.
"Class B includes all other kinds
of intangible property, such as ac
counts receivable, notes (other than
notes secured by mortgage on Ne
braska real estate) corporate shares
of stock, etc. This is all taxed at 5
mills on the dollar.
"It is the purpose and expectation
of the change in the taxation of in
tangibles to low mill levies, that a
much larger proportion of this kind
of property in the state will be re
turned for taxation. But it is real
ly up to you precinct aird county
assessors to see that thi3 kind of
property gets on the assessment
rolls."
The state tax commissioner says
a law similar to the Nebraska sta
tute taxing intangibles has worked
successfully in Iowa. Kentucky,
Maryland Minnesota, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, Virginia and the Dis
trict of Columbia. Kansas had adopt
ed a 2 mill tax on money and cred
its which went into effect last March.
The tax in other states ranges from 3
to 5 mill3.
In Kentucky intangibles are sub
ject to a general property tax of 5
mills. In' that state in 1916 intan
gibles totaled $83,000,000 for taxa
tion. In 1924 the total listed was
$686,000,000. In 1917 in Kentucky
farm lands paid 42.40 per cent of the
taxes. In 1924, 29. Oft per cent, while
town Jots dropped in the samfJ period
from 34.92 per cent to 18.63 per cent.
Intangible property in Kentucky in
1917 paid 7.45 per cent and in 1924
had increased to 24. G5 per cent. This
did not include bank deposits which
in that period increased in percentage
from 1.21 to 3.95 per cent and otner
intangible personality from 13.96 to
21.70 per cent.
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TEN DAY LAW
MAKES POOR
WED RECORD
Record For 1924 Shows 4.234 Nup
tial Knots Tied in Nebraska
12,416 Married in 1922.
INVITE FORMER PREMIER
TO MAZE ADDRESS
New York, April 21. On a mis
sion to bring the religious organiza
tions of the new and old worlds into
closer and more practical working
relations for peace. Dr. Henry A. At
kinson is en route to Europe for a
six months' tour. He is chief execu
tive officer of the World Alliance for
International Friendship, Lniversal
Christian Conference oh Life and
Work, and also of the Church Peace
union. While abroad he will extend
his contracts to reach not only the
Christian churches but also the other
leading religions of the world, in
preparation for the international
peace congress of the world's re
ligions, which will be held in Geneva,
Switzerland, during August, 1928.
Dr. Atkinson said that on reaching
London he will can on Ramsay Mac
Donald, and personally convey to the
former prime minister an invitation
to deliver the principal address at
the tenth annual meeting of the
American branch of the World Alli
ance, which will be held in Detroit,
November 10, 11 and 12. He will
then visit the various national coun
cils of the World Alliance in Europe,
Egypt and Asia Minor in connection
with the Universal Christian confer
ence, meeting In Stockholm the lat
ter part of August.
1926 LICENSE TAGS TO
BE WHITE ON RED BACKS
Lincoln. On May 4 bids will be
opened by the state finance depart
ment for the manufacture of 350,000
pairs of automobile license plates for
1926. This will be 10,000 more than
are available for distribution this
year.
Last year the plates cost 14.35
cents per pair. Following past cus
tom, plates will be shipped direct
from the factory to the county treas
urers for sale in their respective
counties.
A change in the color of plates and
the style of lettering is made each
year. The 1926 tags will be of white
leters on a red background.
' The bottom of the down grade in
the number of marriages in Nebras
ka was probably reached in 1924
when only 4,234 nuptial knots were
tied, or less than half the number in
1923, and one-third the number in
1922, according to a tabulation is
sued by Miss Hattie M. Summers,
chief of the bureau of vital statis
tics, department of public welfare.
The recent legislature discussed
the dearth of marriages and attrib
uted the cause to the law of 1923
which requires a ten days' waiting
period for a marriage license to issue
and also requires an affidavit from
the contracting parties that they are
free from social diseases. The law
makers repealed the ten days- wait
ing period but retained the health
affidavit. Which of these two fea
tures of the 1923 law caused couples
to flee to other states to marry was a
disputed point in the legislature.
The repeal of the probationary pe
riod does not become effective until
July 1, but the county judge of
Douglas county and those In a few
other counties, Lancaster not includ
ed, have announced that they will
waive the few months and issue
marriage licenses upon application.
The law as it was passed by the
legialaturq of 1923 was in effect only
five months during that year, yet it
cut the number of marriages in 1923
to 9,148, whereas there had been
12,416 in 1922. Adding 2,706 mar
riages of Nebraskans who went to
adjoining ptates in 1923 to be mar
ried the number of marriages in
1923 was 11,854, or a little less
than the number the preceding year.
In 1924, with the law in "effect
during the entire year, only 4,234
marriages were performed in Ne
braska. If the marriage law caused
this decrease the record for 1925
ma3' show poorly for the act repeal
ing the ten days' notice will be in
force only half the calendar year.
Divorces have also fallen off in
Nebraska in the past three years,
but this record is faulty in that the
report for 1924 ehows only divorces
granted while tbe previous record
shows the number of divorce suits
filed. Thus the divorce record shows
3,680 proceedings filed in 1922, 2,
077 in 1923 and only 1S91. in 1924.
In 1923 a few licenses issued were
not used by the applicants but it is
assumed in most instances they went
to an adjoining state and obtained
a new license. The record for 1923
shows the number for 1924 the num
ber of marriages performed.
In 1924, 848 marriages were per
formed in Douglas county, and in
1923, 1,941 marriage licenses were
issued in that county. Lancaster is
second with 718 marriage licenses
issued in 1923 and 327 marriages
in 1924. Sarpy county reported 22
marriages in 1924 and 312 marriage
licenses issued in 1923. Hall county
reported 109 marriages in 1924 and
247 marriage- licenses in 1923.
As a result of the falling off of
marriages in 1924 Douglas county
reported nearly as many divorces as
marriages. There were 848 mar
riages and 833 divorces. Lancaster
county reported 211 divorces and
327 marriages. In 1923 there were
718 marriages and 230 divorces in
Lancaster.
BUTTER PRODUCERS
URGE INCREASE IN
TARIFF ON IMPORTS
Foreign Producers Able to Sell Prod
uct Here Lower Than U. S.
Men Can Afford To.
Washington, April 21. Represen
tatives of American butter produc
ers appeared today before the tariff
"commission to urge an increase in
the tariff on butter imports, which
they termed the soundest plan yet
devised for government aid to one
branch of the farming industry.
Asserting that foreign butter pro
ducers are able to seel their product
in this country at a price lower than
the American producer can afford,
they argued for an advance in the
duty from 8 to 12 cents a pound un
der the flexible provisions of the
tariff act to assure the American
farmer that he would get a fair
profit on one of his increasingly im
portant products. The effect of an
increased tariff on butter, they con
tended, would tend toward general
farm prosperity.
While the butter producers ad
mitted that their chief competition
at present comes from Denmark,
they declare their greatest concern
was the growing competition of but
ter producers of New Zealand, Aus
tralia, Argentina and other coun
tries in the southern hemisphere
which are in the midst of their best
butter producing season at the time
of the worst season for the Ameri
can farmer, enabling them to sell
their butter here at their lowest
price when the American producer
is paying the maximum in the man
ufacture of his.
Theodore Macklin, professor in
the University of- Wisconsin who
spent three months last year in New
Zealand studying dairying methods
declared his investigations had con
vinced him that butteT producers in
that country, are ahead of Ameri
cans in use of modern producing
methods.
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MEN'S CLUB BAN
QUET UST NIGHT
Large Number in Attendance and
Very 'Interesting Time Enjoyed
by All of the Members.
The Men's club of the Christian
church last evening Btaged another
of the most enjoyable and delightful
banquets at the church building at
8th and Locust street, and whien was
attended by some seventy-two of the
men of the ommunity.
The ladies of the church had ar
ranged the tables most attractively
with spring flowers, lilacs and bleed
ing hearts making a feature of the
decorative plan.
The ladies aid society of the
church prepared the banquet in their
accustomed pleasing manner and the
younger ladies of the Burean .and
Samaritan classes of the Sunday
school had charge of the serving
which was carried out very delight
fully. The men were seated at the tables
following the invocation by P. F.
Rhin and the members of the party
enjoyed very much the opportunity
of the get together meeting. While
the feast was being served the Miles
Altman orchestra gave a very de
lightful program of music and in
cluding two drum solos by Charles
Howard of Murray and who also re
sponded to an encore with a harp
solo that reflected the greatest credit
upon the young man.
The group singing of the men add
ed a pleasing note to the entertain
ment of the evening and in which all
members of the party joined very
heartily.
The address of welcome was given
by Herman Thomas, president of the
club, who extended the greetings of
the organization to the members and
the visitors as well. Mr. Thomas also
introduced the speaker of the even
ing, Rev. F. K. Hargrove of the North
Christian church of Omaha, one of
the ablest speakers of the church in
the state and who delighted the
audience with his forcible and elo
quent address. The text of the ad
dress was that of "Stand Firm in the
Faith." The first portion of the ad
dress was devoted to a few humorous
remarks and from which the speaker
took up the more serious discussion
of his subject. He took up what
constitutes a fully developed man,
the mental, physical and spiritual
parts that go toward making the per
fect man, taking step by step the
processes through which the man
was brought to his fullest perfection.
He commended the gatherings of the
men as an important part of their
being as man was naturally a social
able being and loved association with
his kind and these with the proper
spiritual atmosphere; made for the
betterment of man.
Mr. Irving Wiltse, one of the tal
ented vocalists of the city gave two
very much enjoj'ed vocal numbers
that were heartily received by his
auditors.
Mr. Gecrge Rogers, vice-president
of the club, who is soon to leave the
city to take up his educational work
at Lincoln was called upon and ex
pressed his regret at the sere-vance of
the pleasant ties formed here and th
splendid association that he had . n
joyed while a resident of this com
munity. Rev. Walter R. Robb announced
that the banquet to be held in May
would be the last of the season until
fall.
The banquet was closed by the
benediction by Rev. Hargrove and
the members of the party who had
enjoyed to the utmost the pleasant
occasion departed for their bonus.
MACHINISTS WIN
FROM THE BLACK
SMITHS LAST NITE
Had Hugliie Jenninps or Jol.n J.
McGraw been lingering in the vic in
ity of the I'lattsmouth baseball park
last evening they would have hr:d
the opportunity of picking off Form
promising recruits from ihe lit; up
of the Blacksmiths and Machinists
of the local Burlington t.hoi" in
their clash, as the game was one
snappy and full of lightning-like
plays.
The Machinists were the victors
in the battle by the score of 4 to 3,
but this does not half tell the tale
of fast fielding and strong slab work
on the part of the respective hurl
ers. It was a case of too much Hose
for the Blacksmiths, as the hurler
of the Machinists was there and over
in his mound work and was effective
at Ptages of the game when it was
needed. The three tallies of tbe
Blacksmiths were garnered in the
opening stanza and after that for
the remainder of the seven inring?
they were helpless against their op
ponents, who gradually came vp
with them and in a heart-breaking
seventh inning, Frank Koubek came
home with the needed run that
ppelled victorv for the tool handlers.
The Machinists had Utrb Klauschie
at the receiving end of their battery
and Wilhelm Weber, the big. bos--;,
was the keystone sacker and secured
ample revenge on his critics of the
previous game bj spearing federal
hot ones that added to the defeat of
his opponents.
For the Blacksmiths, Muinm and
Hutchison were the battery and
worked well in the entire seven. in
nings and the stick work of W. F.
Warga, the foreman of the Black
smiths, was a valuable asset to his
team and struck terror into the ether
6ide at several stages of the game.
Both teams made several double
plays that entertained the audience
with their speed and which assisted
in checking the score of the game
and holding it down to a big league
score.
The fine game staged by these two
departments has ppurred on the oth
er departments of tbe shops and
there will be more of the fames
staged in the near future as the
freight car department i nd the coach
shop are both organizing teams to
take on all comers.
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