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Show FRIIHY, FEBRUARY 2. THE BOX ELDER NEWS, JM enant covering that point or they would readily see the inconsistency of their T? SEMI-WEEKL- V8 PAfifc Yy4 Y WTO PAY AND FILE position. INCOME TAX BRIGHAM cuy.awi BEFORE MAD. FINANCIAL EXPERT money constantly Handling made us Financial Experts. has We'll be glad to give you the benefit of knowledge which it took us years to acquire regarding business transactions and investments. 4 ON SAVINGS 50N tSffc t ubll8hed every 8eml-Weekl- ACCOUNTS CERTIFICATES OFDEPOSIT per. Not only is the audience annoyed not to say often outraged, but the performer is incapable of doing his best under such nerve trying conditions. Snx Elder JJrtua Tues- day and Friday. V ELDER NEWS The safe and sensible rule to follow, tHE BOX COMPANY when attending recitals, meetings, or public gatherings is to refrain entirely VICTOR E. MADSEN, EDITOR. from making any kind of remarks when the audience is being entertained Entered at the Post Office at Brigham by someone else. City, Utah, as Second Class Matter. KILL THE GROUND SQUIRREL THOUGHTLESSNESS Undoubtedly the best time of the Complaint has been made by the to wage war on the ground squirfiremen of the apparent determination year rel is in the spring after the animals on the part of some people, to have have been hibernating through the their way no matter what the regulatA number of communities (Winter. ions may be as evidenced by the contheir Farm Bureau tinued practice of driving vehicles operating through s sucessful waged organizations, over the fire hose when it is streched in poisoning ground squirrels across a street while being used at a last year and noted the results during lire. The ordinance specifically prothe summer and harvest time. These vides that such an act is a misdemeanare thoroughly convert-- J 'communities or and is punishable by a fine so that ed to the practice and can present evithere is nothing to do but hale offendthe doubting Thomases who ers into court and read them the law. dence to hold to the notion that the ground Now this practice is undoubtedly is a necessary evil that must due to thoughtlessness for any man squirrel remain with us. A mighty wise thing must know, if he stopped to think a for all communities to do would be to moment, that to drive a heavy vehicle consult the county agent over a hose that is already strained frequently who is employed by the government under the terrific water pressure, and the county to give expert advise would'be detrimental to the hose and in all farm problems. Mr. Stewart fire hose is expensive and its .cost a sure cure for the ground squirrel must be bourne hv the taxpayers of the has and he is Just as anxious as any evil more wholesome community. A 1 in the country to rid the land farmer consideration of an public property by of this iesi. every one of us, would be a mighty good thing for after all it is ours and the man who wilfully destroys his own THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. property is xprse Than a fool. Frankly, we are for the League of Nations to Enforce Peace. All the . has been presented JUST A.SUGGESTION argument Wonder if the person who persists thus far in opposition to the project in whispering, moving about in his has not disturbed the notion that the seat or otherwise annoys his neighbor future peace of the world cannot be at a public gathering, meeting, con- maintained without a strong league of cert or entertainment of any other nations to see that it is maintained. character, ever stops to remember that All the speakers at the recent Peace his neighbor paid out his good money Conference held in Sait Lake CJty to see and hear what is going on. A emphatically declared that the people realization of the fact that a whisper of America have not the slightest need often annoys an entire audience, ought to fear that the establishment of a to impress those who are inclined tc league of nations will abrogate In any break tills rule of etiquette, of the in way our Monroe Doctrine nor in any dignity of It and assist them to over- way whatsoever get this country into come the habit. At a musical, for in- any entangling alliances, a condition stance, when delicate tones are pro- George Washington so earnestly counduced which a large audience will fail selled against. The gentlemen averto catch if there is the slightest dis- red that those who are so vigorusly opturbance of any kind, the entire effect posing the League of Nations, peace is ruined by even so much as a whis- - have not read the -- raft of the cov- cara-paign- , h MIL L FEED S - i Bran, Shorts, Rolled apd Chopped Barley in Abundance. We are prepared to buy your wheat You Can Afford to Eat Bread at These Prices Delivered at your door, at the following prices: 500 lb. lots Big J Patent, per cwt. In 500 lb. lots . - In Jensen Bros- - Milling . , . : . Peach Brand, per cwt. & Phone 105 Since his return from France, President Wilson has challenged the opponents of a league of nations to take their case before the American people for decision, himself declaring that he has no fear whatever of tlie result. U. S. Internal Revenue Bureau President Wilson also has declared Gives Warning That Severe that governments are not ruling the world today but the people are and Penalties Will Be Enforced. those governments which fail to interpret the will of the people will be WOMEN WITHIN LAWS SCOPE; short lived. HOW THEY REPORT INCOME That states the case in a nutshell, and that the people are for a league to The Income Tax drive comes to a enforce peace in beyond question. Utah has spoken her feelings on this close on Saturday night, March 15. Ttie payments and returns due on matter in no uncertain (times. The date under the provisions of the that league is intended simply to back up Revenue Law must be In the hands new the peace pact and stand guard over the world to prevent the strong nat- of local Internal Revenue Collectors ions from absorbing the weaker nat- before their offices close that night The Income Tax is being collected to ions against their will. The proposmeet the war expenses. Every person ed league differs from The Hague shouted and tooted his horn on who tribunal in that the former will enis now palled upon to Armistice Day force peace while the latter is simply of the c&t of winshare liis a common meeting ground for nations contributewar. the ning to discuss their differences but it has The laggards and the dodgers will no power to enforce its decisions. face severe fines and Jail sentences. Without the league of nations, the The Internal Revenue Bureau anfruits of victory in this terrible world nounces that its officers will check us all up to see that every person who war will he lost. comes within the scope of the Income Tax law did his share. Whers to Pay and File. Residents of Montana, Idaho and C, Utah are required to make their returns and pay their taxes to William C. Whaley, Collector of Internal Revenue, Helena, Mont., or to any of his deputy collectors who are now .doing free advisory work on Income Tax. Tea and Club Rooms Opened for Payments sent by mail should be atto the returns and should be in tached American Women. the form of check, money order or draft. Cash payments by mail are sent at the taxpayer's risk of loss. Miss Charlotte Niven, Director of ItalIf you are unable to make your reian Work, Prepares for Influx of turn personally because of illness, abAmerican Woman Students. sence or incapacity an agent or legal representative may make your return. If there are any doubtful points as . Italy is now included in the war tw your items of income or allowable work of the American Y. W. C. A. touch at deductions you should Tret-i- n Miss Mabel Warner of Sallna, Kan., once with a Revenue officer or a bankand Chicago left Paris a few days ago er for advice. for Rome, where she will be Ift charge Women Pay. Tax. of a Hostess House for American girls Women are subject to all the reemployed there by the American Red quirements of the Income Tax. WhethCross, the Embassy and the new Tu- er single or married, a woman's income berculosis Commission. Miss Warner from all sources must be considered. If unmarried or If living apart from has been director of the Y. W. C. A.' her husband she must make her return Hostess House at Brest, France. for 1918 If her net Income was $1,000 Miss Warner will open a tea room or over. and club rooms where the American If married and living with her huswomen can gather for social times. band her income must be considered Rome Is harboring a refuge population with the husbandq In determining the of about 40,000 and accommodations liability for a return. Their Joint income, less the credits allowed by law. are difficult to. find. , ' The work in Rome was started as a Is subject to normal tax. The wifes separately in direct result of the appeal of Miss net Income is considered surtax that may be any computing Charlotte Niven, one of the National due. Husband and wife file Jointly, as Y. W. C. A. secretaries In Italy, who Is a rule. If the husband does not inspending a few months In France as clude his wife's income In his return advisor in the French work. the wife must file a separate return. Miss Nivens dreams of Y. W. C. A. Severe Penalties. work in Italy include the maintenance The new Revenue Law places severe n of a residence for women, penalties on a person who .fails to who, she feels, will come to Italy In make return on time, refuses to make great numbers after the war to study return or renders a fraudulent return. For failure to make return and pay music and art. tax on time a fine of not' more than I believe at this time such a project $1,000 Is named and 25 per cent of fire is particularly important because wo- tax due is added to the assessment men from other countries should be For refusing willfully to make return encouraged to come to Italy. to replace or for making a false or fraudulent rethe great numbers of German women turn there is a fine of not exceeding who flooded Italy in the past, many of $10,000 and imprisonment of not exceeding one year, of both. them paid agents of their governFarmers' Income Taxable. in Miss Niven said discussing ment,' Every farmer and ranchman who her plans. Miss Niven has asked the American had a fair or a good year in 1918 must heed the Income Tax this year. Ho Y. W. C, A. to aid the Italian Assooin must cons'defr all his income as taxtion in establishing a center, perhaps able. He Is entitled to deduct from at Genoa, with two American secre- his gross income ail amounts expended taries, .with physical and recreational in carrying on his farm. The cost of training, to net as a training school for farm machinery, farm buildings and Italian women. In connection with it Improvements cannot be deducted. The her plan would include a Hostess House cost of li e stock, either for resale or for girls passing through the city or for breeding purposes, Is also regarded employed there Such a center would as investment. become eventually the center for all Overtime and Bonuses Taxed. Y. W. C. A. work in Italy, both Italian Salary and wage earners rmlst conand foreign. sider as taxable every item received In her formal appeal for help for the from employers and from other Unlone Christiana Delie Giovanl (the sources. Bonuses and overtime pay Italian name for Young Womens are to be reported as well as the reguChristian Association) Miss Niven. has lar payments. emphasized two facts, the poverty of Allowances for Losses. the Italian Association on the one hand Losses sustained in 1918 and not and the need and opportunity on the by insurance are deductible other for an American program in covered Items if Incurred in the taxpayers Italy at the present time. in any transaction Miss Nivens favorite way of illus- business undertaken for or artsing from profit the Italian trating the friendliness of woman to America is by telling the fire, storm, shipwreck or other casuor from theft story of the Italian mother who said alty she had taken down the picture of the Madonna which had hung for many years over her bed and was putting in SQUARE DEAL FOR EVERY its place one of President Wilson. income In our work in the Unlone we have Payer. lacked trained leadership as well as IX Cl "The Washington, the material resources to give such rights of all persons now filing training. We have' had no means to Income Tax returns are amply. buy modern equipment. Consequently we have not the visible results of protected by provisions for abatements, refunds and ap- American and British work. peals, says Commissioner DanFeeble as our work may be, it is iel C. Boper. not useless. Many girls in all parts of Every person can be sure of Italy have told us how much the s square deal No person is exUnlone meant in their lives. Italian pected to pay more than his girls are touchingly grateful for the share of tax. His share is desmallest efforts. They respond eagertermined solely by the amount ly to friendliness. and nature of his net income for "There is no other agency doing in 1D1&, as defined in the law. Italy what the Association Is trying to Abatement petitions are dealt do. with Refunds will Miss Niven has spent the past seven be madia in every case where too years In work with the Italian womuch tax is erroneously colmen, starting as director of a hostel, or lected. stuwomen for Italian hoarding home, The Income Tax la on (be dents at Florence. She is an Amerilevel all the way through. can- from New York, where she was one time head of the Chriatadora Set6 tlement House. r - - $4.60 - $4.50 - $4.85 - $4.75 Elevator Go. 07. A. OPENS IK IN ITALY 15 H OF ECONOMY. WE ARE ELIMINATING OUS GETTING RID OF THE USELESS. THE SUPERFLU THE THINGS THAT ARE MODERATE IN PRICE, YET ARS STRONG, SERVICEABLE AND USEFUL ARE BEING APPRE CIATED AS NEVER BEFORE. BELIEVING THIS FULLY, IT HAS BcEN OUR EARNEST ENDEAVOR TO PLACE ON OUR FLOOR3 ONLY THE PIECES THAT MEET SUCH CONDITIONS. WE KNOW A PIECE IS NOT, NECESSARILY CAUSE IT COSTS A LOT OF MONEY, BUT VALUABLE BE WE,' ALSO, KNOW FURNITURE VALUES SO WELL THAT WHENEVER A PIECE IS PLACED ON OUR FLOORS THAT 13 EXPENSIVE IN PRICE WE ARE SATISFIED, BEYOND BUESTION, THAT ITS DESIGN CONSTRUCTION AND FINISH JUSTIFY ITS PRICE IN EVERY PARTICULAR. STUDY SOME OF OUR DINING-ROOMSUITES WILL YOU? , BED-ROO- LIVING-ROO- OR NOT EACH THEN JUDGE, IF YOU WILL, WHETHER PiECE IS PRICED COMMENSURATE WITH ITS REAL WORTH. OUR SEVERAL LINES AWAIT YOUR CRITICAL INSPECTION non-Italia- tax open-mladedl- An American Y. W. C. A. secretary teaching South American gl who have been forced Into Industry during the war to become laundress TRY THE SCALL The scales to reveal the seldom fail truth, they i fair If of a gauge health. you are losing weight a are not feeling up to the mark, it is high time to place the loss and build up the powers of resistant a unique combination of tonic and nourishme having definite reconstructive properties , enricl the blood, restores weight and imparts vigor ai tone to the whole system, if you feel yourself lost ground, try Scott s Emulsion the Strength-Buil- d Scott a Bowse, Bloomfield, The Way to Meet Him. Sit In Ihe door wih your fighting clothes on and trouble will say Good morning and take to the woods. Constitution. Atlanta Power ok Gentleness. Kindness, pays. Boiled potatoes," says an authority on- - culinary matters, "are eVcr so much better If they are tently boiled." Ne Tort. Telegrtph. N. J. To Skin Beets. An easy- - way to skin a beet with' cc bleeding It and causing it to lose as soon is to put it in cold water as Is cooked. Then draw the hand gen down the beet and the skin will 4 bit without trouble. Optimistic Thought Reverence is ennobling and degrading only by the vulgar fel-k- e m THE GASH AUTO REPAIR SHOP AUTO REPAIRING, VULCANIZING AND HALF SOLING We carry the Gates naif Sole Tires. Will save you half the price of a new tire Shop Phone, 108 j. OIL AND G A S Re8ienca Pbne 351-North Main Street YOUNGQUIST BROS. ' Atk |