The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, March 28, 1924 Page: 1 of 4
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FHERE IS NOTHING TOO GOOD EOR OUR FRIENDS'
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HAY CITY. TEXAS,
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FAYING
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The Bank Check
BANKING
■
BY MAIL
In
Frequently it is inconvenient to call in person.
such cases we remind our readers that Banking by
mail is one of the well established methods of doing
business with us.
By this method our safety, service and facilities are
money.
offered to all depositors irrespective of where they
It is a receipt against a paid account.
ago
may reside.
th<*
Bay City Bank & Trust Company
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
here
Fir^t National Bank
A National
Habit
J MB
Mill k I' T
American business would lu* slowed up
tional habit of paying by check.
In American nearly everyone pays by
with
.hung
If you have not ns yet opened
check.
checking account, we cordially invite
a
r
I
you to use our facilitiea.
0. P. MOORE DRY GOODS CO.
w| MOK H. T. r. I. I’lltlGRAM
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and MILLINERY
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Sport clothes are now taking the lead in
April
In the history of
a hi limit
lour
These clothes are featured in
this season.
canton, marigold crepe, roshanara and bro-
had no
Mrs
ended satin crepe in all the popular colors.
Mr
We also have that new coat or cape in just the shade
Schools
f*
have all kinds in all shades, Just the latest creations
Don’t fail to call and see them.
for the new season.
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naught to
will follow
G.
fVuutlk
It is u check on your expenses,—for you
can sec where your money was used.
It is more convenient to pay your ac-
counts with a check than with actual
This Bank furnishes neat and conven-
ient check books for its depositors’ use.
• jetted hy th.
Msrvh Mt M|.»l«w»r,
Meet Ing.
for layin
with th.
grand
All tnemhers urged
STORY OF SAM 1101 STON
RE VIU.S It I I I* IX SIGHT
INTO HI H AX < U A K At II If
IM OMi -TAX
I AS|ER
Joining Mcre.k’a Store
W. j. WILLIAMS, Proprietor
Army
new <
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FIRST CLAM FI.IMHING
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In
IX
I Announces the Presentation of
Subject, “Th
William Carey
Ingram.
'Boyhood
Ven mans
Rugged Hero of Texas lllstorj tinned
Threats of Death to Address Au-
dience at Austin In |s;,i,.
J we are told. It i.
‘Dissatisfaction
administration of
of Ven-
pictur»‘
showing
■ and
He
“introduced '
Ions time ho
a ad-
tlmt
come
My reply
Austin
The Young I’r.
World
in
Trans-
fers of
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LEGION AIXH.IARA
TO HOLD
Has reached an important point in our
financial development. Finnacial writers
everywhere predict even greater develop-
ment for the Bank check.
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immeasurably w<?ro it not for our na-
cou rage me IH
tax nyaUin.
economies aa
0. P. Moore Dry Goods Company
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you are longing for to finish out your spring wardrobe
But, listen! Have you purchased your new hat? We
»c«" Is
Franc*
This chasm baa been
IM.
To that fair-haired youth may a pit-
fall hr.
Ha. too. must crows th* twilight dim
Good friend, 1 am building this bridge
for him."
• Texas Highway Bulletin
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Cattle will be killed hy electricity I
hy the Cudahy Packing Compsny. of I
Omaha. Nebraska. Thia will replac.l
the]
Hy. Ruyclcy, President; Geo. R. Burke, Vice President;
P. R. Hamill, Cashier; Dr. A. S. Morton and A. J. Harty
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caus.d every eye ...........
as Captain Swisher pushing I
to th* front. the tears run I
arthy cheek and his!
®| cause of the true straight course It
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FIRST STATE BANK
I'll Hill
t l.l II
R. A n A W S
Phone rtt
for I
Home : other minor Improvements suggested
in the report. will. It is believed,
administration of the
luw,'' and "will go far to eliminate
tile principal causes of lite irritation
which has been felt by the taxpayers
generally."
To He Held al First HaffM • h*r**»|
Kunde*
■ J' of the best amateur
teams In the field we have evr had
Hell-
Signal
cable to
AA I I II RAI'IIH* AND
roll.X AHU’s OX MRFfX
An old man. going a lone highway
Came at the evening, cold and gray.
To a chasm rant and d*ep and wtd* 1
The old man crossed in the twilight I
dim.
The Millen stream
him
Hut he turned when safe on the other <
aide
And bull! a bridge to span the tide i
Old man." said a fellow pilgrim near.!
You are wasting vour atrength with
building here.
You nevr again will pass thia way;
You’ve crossed the chasm deep and
wide.
Why build you thia bridge at evening,
tide"”
Th* builder lifted hi* old gray head |
'Good friend, in th* path I have
come,” he said.
There followrth after m* todav
A youth whose feet must pass thia i
Aa
governor
hl* hand,
hint
'Thank God. Jim. I'm not guilty.“I
Swisher voted for Houston
F'arl* Vaughn
Willie I
llamboo
lating.’’
mary of
Yeantan*
on
i Adams of
to Clialrnmn
I star fences of Oxford College, la on*
ot those who wields both blade* dex-
i. ------y |ft «ABh„
of Vengeance,"
knother being Courtenay Foote. hla
opponent in one particularly thrill-
tug duel fought In th<- former s room
at a tavern The powerful dramatic
clash** an<l the wonderfully sweet
love story of “ Ashes of Vengeance"
are staged in setting* of incompar-
able splendor, tt massive set* hav-
ing been constructed for the produc-
tion In addition
named, the cast
Beery. Josephine
Francisc
men Phillip*
players, beside* four thousand extras
'Ashe* of Vengeance"
rooted hy Frank Moyd
to the principals
include* Wallace
Crowell, Hetty
Andre de Heranger. Car-
and 11 other favorite
platform. ""'I
and. grasping
het up beside I
rated Cobler."
». •imr
Head:
• C V
her," T.
“TIi* AVorhl Vision.”
' The Great Sermon."
Pack; Beginning
Hell;
• Th* I
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Mrs.
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............... i Th* old ship Idscovery. which car
•••••••••••••••• I ried Captain Scott on the expedition!
“ •‘which ended in h- res, hlng m
South Pole, Is now being fitted for
an expedition Into th* Far South to
investigate means to save the whal-
ing industry which is being ireat-
" J extermination of the
whale* east of the Falkland Island! the present sytem of clubbing
and South Hebrides 1 animals orer tlx head
•l
There will be a call meeting
3 at “;S® p m for Initiation, and
our district deputy grand matron
will be present
to attend.
Following the Initiation the regu-
lar monthly open house will l<* ob-
served In cl<ih rooms
Rose William*.
Worthy Matron
Williamson, Secretary
For the first tint
the screen, actor* equipped with imth
polgnards and rapiers are seen In
dueling scenes in the Joseph M
Schenck production. Ashe*
geance." a First National
starring Norms Talmadge,
at the Grand Theater Monday
TtH sday
"Ashe* of Venge;
tcticgl romance of
turbulent |»erlod of
hi* ambitious moth
Medici, v
Infinite r
Norma T
Hat'd In
by Mons
Military
hls-
1 he
and
r. Catherine de
i produced with
accuracy The
Ige company was inl-
ie of the (oitn weapons
of the National
of Brussels. eBl-
Tearls. erstwhile
Th'i American legion Auxiliary
will hold a market In the Taylor
building April 5, lieginnlng at 10
a m. Coffee, pl* and cake and hot
hamburgers will be served Phone
your orders for «pe< lul < akes to the
secretary, Mr* .l"hn ll< yn<>lds.
Bay City was th* first unit to send
| < beer money Io the *tck s«>id>ers at
tlio lulx'iculoHi* hospital at Kerr-
ville. Twas. Tli* proceeds from this
*ale will be used to supply this cheer
money each month. tf
The government cable ship,
wood, with which the
Corps will lay the
Alaska, has started from Heattie for
London on the first MOO mile* of a
ll.imo-mile journey. In Ixmdon the
cable will he loated on the Imat readv
The Iteillwood Is equipped
flym-PBot.” a mechanical
steering instrument which show* In-
stantly the slightest movement of the
ship's head off the course At ||00«)
a mile, the cost of laying the cable.
Is estimated the new equipment
I be paid for t*n time* over be-
flell
Land." Berlc
Vivi Httph.n*.
Vivian Curtis
I Carey’s Work."
J- «>,*•< I*i music
enue has
lamitou* to ih* b**t int*r**ts ot th*
(ountry «a a whole Many men re-
main in the employ of the bureaii
only long enough to acquire the ex-
periunce and training which the work
oners and then resign from the ser-
vice to enter the employment of tax-
payers at higher r« niuneratton. there
Io combat the procedure and system
which they themselve* hud helped
to M*t tip unit administer
“It Im sugg.sted. therefore, that
congress provide for a group of posi-
tion* with salaries more nearly equal
to those prevailing in private employ-
ment The tenure of office should
run tor a long period of year* to in
sure freedom from political Influ' n> *
and retention of men of Increasing
experience. It might lie advlHHltle to
go even further than at present In
debarring ocupants of the** preferred
poHitlons from engaging In Income
tax practice Irnfore the bureau for a
period of year* after they leave th*
bureau's employ
"I. In accordance with Heer.lary
Mellon's recent suggestion, there
should be creat'Ml a Board of Tat
Appeal* outside «>f the Bureau of In-
ternal Revenue that would (tear caaet
on appeal and make final determina-
A number of Bay City's last year
amateur* and a few other* ini'rest**!
In baseball met Wednesday night and
started th* organisation for another
season The old diamond in West
Knd will be ready for practice In a
few day*, and everyone who d'alre*
to try for the team come out for prac-
tice the first of next week A wnrk
ing organisation for the club will be;
perfected aa qnk'kiy aa a sufficient ,
number of men com* out With a.
wealth ><f new material and nearly all
of the nld-ttmera still here. Bay Cltv
should put one of the best amateur
(Literary Digest I
AV'ith scrupulous care and with
considerable aasistunce from lawyers
on* of our large oil companies made
out its Income tax return only to
find that the government officials
were unable to cross-check it and
wanted to investigate all the tlgun-s
Whereupon, "to save time the com-
pany volunteered to send the neces-
sary records to Washington along
with a corps ot its accountants.
Twenty men went to Washington and
stayed there two months with a dally
hotel bill ot around 1300, including
meals. Total cost to the company,
about *20.000 tor expenses, with sal-
aries and loss ot service thrown in
tor good measure." To the Wall
Street Journal tells the story, calling
attention at the same time to tax
rulings entailing upon taxpayers
extra bookkeeping costing thousands
ot dollars Things like these have
recently brought from newspaper
writers expressions ot complete dis-
wlth the whole income
Such an authority
Prof. T. 8
Vale wrote a while ago I
Green of the House Ways and Means
Committee saying thut the income
tax wttli its “complexity piled on
complexity" is ‘ becoming a thing for
scorn and contempt “ The New
Huv<n Journal-Courier has come to
the conclusion that the income tax
while eminently fair in theory, has
demonstrated Its unworkaldllty in
practice. It seems to the New York
Journal of Commerce that a system
ot taxation so loose, involved ami
ambiguous as by its own terms to
invite official corruption and pro-!
mote the establishment of unofficial
liaison* between specialists' and its
administrators is not susceptible of
improvement If the Income tax
principle itself Is hostile to industry,
trade and personal security, and will
fall again by Its own oppressive
weight." Similarly, the Boston News
I Bureau fids that “the system of in-
Spring Styles ||j^
I Dresses, Suits, Coats
heard on all sides, and complaints
are not without justification. Cases
of arbitrary and unreasonable as
sessments are by no means rare, a
situation often due to immature juilg
nient or lack of adequate knowledge
on the part of the government ofH
cial agent BuslnesH firms are some
times confronted with assessments
thut are many time* the tax a* finally
determined; l>ut the final determina-
tion of the tax often takes years, and
in the meantime the threatened tax
makes impossible husiuess exten-
sions and improvements which are
necessary or desirable. Such proce
duns frequently entail heavy costs
to the taxpayer for legal and audit-
ing services and in time and effort
expended in reviews ami hearing*
"I'urthermore. it should also he
noted that there is a very direct amt
important relation between admini*
trative procedure amt the success of
collecting taxes at the high rate* now
in force The higher the rate of the
■tx. the greater are the temptation*I
to evasions and avoidance, legal ami
otherwise, and the more difficult be-
come the problems of administration
In connection therewith.”
To bring about a more efficient ail
ministration of the federal tax law*,
i number of suggestions are made, of
which the more important are
"1 It is highly essential that
Bureau of Internal Revenue lie aide'
to secure and maintain a larger num-1
her of high-gradt-, mature and com-
petent men than It lias at present.
The policy of paying small salnrie*
In the Bureau lias proved not only
detrimental to the taxpayers' Inter
cats but also costly to the govern-
ment. At the present time there are
too many immature relatively under
paid m*n engaged in making ass< ss-
ments; men who lack the training
and sobriety of Judgment Io do full
Justice to either the government or
the taxpayer
The constant turnover of post
tions in the Buruiu of Internal llev-
been nothing sliort of en
to th* beat
is a whole
the
not a
come,
among
('apt .
cinto
tion. I
conservatives in persuading the ex-
tremists to waive their personal feel-
ing for the benefit of the city Cap-
tain Swisher was the lust to yield a
grudging consent
The day and the speaker came.
Houston was a I'ommunding figure
and he came to the front ot the stage,
calmly overlooking the crowd,
had der'lined to be
After what seemed a
spoke: “Fellow citizens. I wa
vised - very earnestly advised
It would be unsale for me to
here today to address you
was. "The citixen* of Austin have
demonstrated to the world that they
are not coward*, and I fear nothing
at the hand* of brave people "
“I was further informed that some
of your citizen* had sentenced m* to
death If I caine to your town among
them was mentioned Capt. lame* G.
Swisher Fellow citizens. Jim Swish-
er fought at my side at San Jacinto
He I* as brave a soldier as ever dr< w
breath and he la more than that he I
la an honest and just man Jim
Swisher. If you are In hearing of my
voice. I want to say to you. If you
think I have don* anything to de-
serve death, shoot "
H«- pulled open hl* vest and stood
as It expectant There wa* never a
more silent crowd <m earth Every
one was holding his breath. How
long this tension lasted could not tie I
measured, but a slight disturbance in I
the rear caus'd every rye to turn. |
There w
his way — —
ning down hl*
'■vv* fixed on Houston
hr nrarrd the |
reached out
swung S»lsl
The Austin Statesman is making a
most valuable contribution to Texas
history by its publication of u series
of reminiscences which have been
prepared by Capt. AV. C. Walsh, foi
many years commissioner of the
Texas general land office lu one ot
the latest of these articles by Cap-
tain Walsh is a sketch of the per-
sonal meetings between Sam Hous-
ton, then governor ot Texas. and
young Walsh. The same sketch tils"
contains a story of Sam Houston go-
ing to Austin in 1856 Io make a
speech in his campaign tor the state
governorship against Hardin II. Run-
nels, in spite of threats that had been
made that he would lie killed it he
attempted to speak al Austin
This is the Interesting way in
which Captain Walsh tells this inci-
dent :
While on the subject of General
Houston. I recall an incident which
allowed his knowledge of human
nature and his control ot listeners.
After his second election as presi-
dent, he came to Austin and was in-
augurated and, after a few days, left
and did not return This conduct on
his part added to the feeling against
him in this city anil the Colorado
valley. Some of our citizens, when
they realized that he did not intend
to return and had stat'd that Austin
was not a fit place for the capitol.
became violently excited an<r swore
that. If he came here again they
would kill him.
In 1856, when Houston made his
first race for governor agaisnt Har-
din It Hunnels, the qu'-ution arostt
as to his speaking at Austin Thu
most of the citizens, in fact nearly
all. were in favor of inviting him to
But a few irreconcllitibles.
whom the most active was
Janies (I. Swisher, a Sun Ju-,
veteran, opposed the projiosi-l
Several days were spent by the I
‘It. Is highly essential that
scheme <>f udmlnietrstlve dwentrali-1
z.itioii be adopted Iiec*ntrnlization i H*r*nKthen
would result in bringing locul agents
to tile taxpayer, and would make
avnilaldc substantially without cost
or delay such information aa is nec-
essary from time to time for the
uuditing of returns and the settle-
ment of cases
“4 Many ■oinplainta have arisen In
connection with the uniiublished an.I
secret ruling* of the Bureau of In-
ternal Revenue It Is urgently sub
niBted that all InterpretAtion* of the
tax law and all ruling* of sen* rat
Import, whether lu favor of or against |
the taxpayer< shall promptly be pule ‘
llshed Th* tAXpayer I* entitled t<
full knowledge "t 'lejiartmenial pro-
cedure and official in erpretalhm* oil
a statute which im>’ eftret lite lax-|
ahi* statu* "
These adminislratlv''
I come taxation is In graver danger to-
day than is generally appreciated,”
that with an expensive horde of tax
1 collectors and lnterpr« ter*' wh"
have lately been in the limelight be-
cause of the many millions they re-
funded us illegally collected, yet Jus-
tifying thetnselv's in the many more
milliims of linck taxes lately garner
ed —there is need In addition to aim
pllclty of statute u bettering of vision
and spirit in the human administra-
tion " And now. observes this paper,
comes the rejMirt of u taxation com-
mitt'e appointed by the Natlonnl In-
dustrial Conference Board which
“pile* up the evidences of Irritations
and losses to business from com-
plexity and IncoinjH’tency." demands
a congressional commission to Inves-
tigate tax abuse*. Insists on drastic
reforms In administration and more
comp*t< nt men. and ' ( alls for thor
ough simplificstlon of the tax ma-
chinery.''
Insufficient attention we read
this report, has lieen given to
prov.-ment of tax administration I
a vital matter:
with our present
the income tax Is
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Smith, Carey. The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, March 28, 1924, newspaper, March 28, 1924; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1365930/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.