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-THE ALMA RECORD-
Tlnn-.,1.,V. Juno 221022
THE ALMA RECORD
HANCOCK & GKOSSKOTF. rublwhrri
Published Kvery Thursday Afternoon
II. i. HANCOCK. K.I.Ut
ADVEKTISINC KATES
Tor advertihing rate iipily for M-lutlulo. Nuticr t.f thurrh nd 1'xltfo ioclal r.d en.
trUitimrnU whore mlmUsion in charKl, nvulnr lulvt-rtUinir rate. Ohituary notice. 125
wrortU fnv, ov r Out. one evnt r w.nl. All ol.ititury jnu-try, one cent ier word. ClaU
otl adt, on ! t r rd i-arli L-ui with a minimum jirke of IIP cent, each in advanco;
atani ar-ett-.
TKKS13 SUIlSritH'TION
Oni covr, on yr f l.r0
f)nm crvT i months 76c
The Kceonl i entered at the i-os-t..f lice at
nail an M-emid-tlas matter.
OFrKICJAI, l'AI'KK OF THE CITY OF ALMA. MICHIGAN
THE NEW LINCOLN MEMORIAL
On Memorial Day the new Lincoln monument was formally
dedicated in Washington. A vast assemblage of people attended
the dedicatory exercises and a whole nation looked on and listened
in by the aid of the modern movies and radio. The speech of ire
sentation was made by Chief Justice Taft who headed the cvm
mission appointed in 1910 to study out the plan for this memorial,
subject to approval. The speech of acceptance was made by Pres
ident Harding. Dr. Robert Moton, head of the splendid school
lor colored people at Tuskegee. Alabama, spoke for the emanci
pated negroes who were freed from the chains of slavery by
Abraham Lincoln, and Robert Lincoln, son of the martyred presi
dent was a guest of honor.
In his speech of presentation. Justice Taft said, 'This country
has waited for 57 years for a suitable memorial to the nation's
tavior and its greatest leader. It is especially significant that
this monument is located upon the banks of the Potomac, the
boundary between the two sections which had engaged in civil
war but which are now re-united in brotherly love. In all the bit
terness of that conflict, no word fell from his lips, tried as he was,
of hatred, malice or unforgiveness ; here is a shrine at which all
can worship."
President Harding paid Lincoln a fine tribute when he said,
"In every moment of peril, whenever the clouds gather, then; is
the image of Lincoln to rivet our hopes and renew our faith." And
indeed this fact is perhaps the greatest monument that could ever
be erected to any hero. For in the time of extreme peril, this
leader of the people never for one moment lost faith in the coun
try which he served, nor allowed criticism and ridicule to swerve
him from the path 'which his judgment told him to be the right
path.
The Lincoln Memorial is built in the style of a classic Greek
temple of the simple but beautiful Doric order and is built on a
foundation of 122 great concrete piles or legs which go down to
solid rock. The grounds around the Memorial are filled in and
terraced to form an artificial hill which makes a line base for the
building. It is 1!) feet long. 120 feet wide and 100 feet high.
Thirty-six columns representing the number of states in Lincoln's
nay, surround it, each column made up of eleven drums or blocks,
each weighing about 22 tons. The building is constructed of
White Colorado Yule marble, the steps and platforms are of pink
Massachusetts granite. The interior of the structure forms an
open hall 70 feet long and 00 feet high and wide, in the center of
which stands a eoosal statute of Lincoln seated in a massive
in a characteristic pose. Above and back of the statue is the in
scription, "In this temple, as in the hearts of the people for whom
he saved the Union, the memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined
forever."
The country has waited for fifty-seven years for a suitable
memorial to the great man who saved the Union. Rut now that
it is finally completed, representing as it does according to the
words of Chief Justice Taft, "The supreme effort of the American
people," we may all well feel that this wait has been fully justified,
for it has culminated at last in a colossal memorial which is a
fitting one for so colossal a figure. The original poem which fol
lows, read upon the occasion of the Dedication by Edwin Mark
ham, the American poet, brings out in a fitting way, the qualities
of the man thus honored by a grateful, united nation.
When the Norn Mother saw the whirlwind hour
(jreateninjr ard darkening as it hurried on,
.She left the Heaven of Heroes and came down
To make a man to meet the movtal need.
She tock the tried clay of the common road
('lay warm yet with the genial heat of Earth
Hashed through it all a strain of phophecy;
Tempered the heap with thrill of human tears;
Then mixed a laughter with the serious stuff.
Into the shape she breathed a flame to light
That tender, tragic, ever-changing face;
And laid on him a sir.se of the mystic powers,
Moving all hushed behind th? mortal veil.
Here was a man to hold against the world.
A man to match the mountains and the sea.
The color of the ground was in him, the red earth;
The smack and tang of elemental things;
The rectitude and patience of the cliff;
The gocd-will of the rain that loves all leaves:
The friendly welcome of the wayside- well;
The courage of the hird that dares the sea;
The gladness of the wind that shakes the coin;
The pity of the snow that hides all scars;
The secrecy of streams that make their way
Under the mountain to the rifted rock;
The tolerance ami equity of light
That gives as freely to the shrinking flower
As to the great oak fk-ring to the wind
To the grave's low hill as to Matterhorn
That shoulders out the sky. Sprung from the West,
He drank the valorous youth of a new world.
The strength of virgin forests hraced his mind,
The hush of : pacious prairies stilled his soul.
His words were oaks in acorns; and his thoughts
Were roots that firmly gripped the granite truth.
Up from log cahin to the capitol,
One fire was on his spirit, one resolve
To send the keen ax to the root of wrong,
( tearing a free way for the feet of God,
The eyes of conscience- testirg every stroke,
To make his deed the measure of man.
He built the rail pile as he huilt the State,
Pouring his splendid strength through every blow;
'I he grip that swung the ax in Illinois
Was on the pen that set a people free.
So came the Captain with the mighty heart;
And when the judgment thunders split the house,
Wrenching the rafters from their ancient- rest,
He held the ridgepole up, and ? piked again
The rafters of the Horn", He held his place
Held the long purpose like a growing tree
Held on through blame and faltered not at praise,
And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down
As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs,
(Joes down with a great shout upon the hills,
And leaves a lonesome place against the sky.
Some people are not led astray by temptation,
blindly.
Virtue lias its own reward,
to find it.
Patience is a virtue until it
at Alma, Cratiot County, Michigan
K.LINOU !. HANCOCK, AfinocUte KJitor
WII.V I'AIU IN ADVANCE
Om ropy, throw month:! loc
Out ido of State. .ne year 12.00
Alma, Miihiyaji. for transiuise ion through th
They follow
but it often requires a microscope
is carried beyond bounds.
Where Your
Taxes Go
How Uncle Sam Spends
Your Money in Conduct
ing Your Business ,
By EDWARD G. LOWRY
Author "Woahlnirton Cloa-Up." "Hanka and
Financial System," etc. Contributor pol'tiral
and innomic Article to Leading rrrtcxtic-u'a
and a Writer of Ilet-oirriizcd Authority on ths
National Oovf rnmcnt'i UuAinroa liettoJa.
Cop r rig tit, Wi-kttrn Newspaper Union
xxvir.
THIS WAS YOUR MONEY
Consider for a moment, if you will,
some further figure. This is your
money I uni talking about.
lr every liscal year from 1S0O to
lS'.t.'k inclusive, then? was a surplus of
receipts over expenditures. I Muing
this period of L'S jears the surplus of
receipts over expenditures totaled SI,
ir.Hi.'jtf.ol.'UI. Tor the lisenl years ISO 1 to 1K, in
clusive, the expenditures exceeded tin
receipts in the aggregate of SL's.'i.OL'j,
W.. Tor the liscal years I'.hmi to
VM, inclusive, the surplus of receipts
over expenditures aggregated S.".l,
or.Udo.Ol. For 3!r. the expenditures
exceeded thu receipts by S7S"v
lor the years HMO to 1!U I, inclus
ive, the receipts exceeded the expendi
tures by ?Ht,(rjl,-i.'j7. Fur I'.U.j
the expenditures exceeded the receipts
by :i:, 1 ss,; :.:, 5. For IHIC. the. re
ceipts exceeded the expenditures by
$5r,171,.r).":!..V., ami for l'.ilT there was
a deficit of Sl".,7- Ii 1.7!?.
Fnun M'd to 3'.17, inclusive, the re
ceipts exceeded the expenditures fi-r
each jear with the exception of ivil,
is:."., v.n, is: 17, iv. s, is'.c.t, i!io.i, p.mis,
VM ltl." and i:17. The totul amount
by which the expenditures exceeded
the receipts for these 11 years jut
named, is J?H:?,75'i,7M.7(. For tin ."1?
liscal years, ln'.d to r.)17, inclusive,
the receipts exceeded the expenditures
in 41 years, the toial of such excess
for that peri-mi being .?-,.",.)1,f.:?,ls.n;.
For theeal years 1MV. to Ittlo, the
revenues were raised through an in
direct system of taxation. J'.egiuning
with the fiscal j ear ending June .".',
lOl't, the receipts from direct method-;
of taxation pave usually grown each
liscal year, as will be seen by the fol
lowing table:
imn 4'orpiration
1 11 1 Cot iir;itioTi tax
M2-t'iirionitl.iii tax
lfUl-Corporation t;ix
1314 -Corporate n '.
l:H Corporation ji.e ,
V."l,7s'"i ;i7
::.:.k;o;.;v
iso tax.
nit? tax
.If
3 4 Iti l:i.lual in
line tax..
;,l v,
Y.l Kniei irenry rrv 11:0 JL
ItuJ Corporation incomo tax ",: 1 ".":; .77
1 :!. Indh i.lual Iivom tax.. C.'-K.I'iL' y
:!;-KniorKeiioy revenue M..,7v:;' ,;$
Corporation ii.coi.Tc tax .r.t'..'f.0,C7.:.
ll'J'J-Inilni.lual incuv tax.. ;:.: n ! :i
1 rl 7 IanereTicy tv vei;' it- ;i".::'7.:".'.:'A
3 ;1 7 Corporation income, tax 17!', vs7.s..j
!17 Individual Ineom.t tax.. lv-,l"S,SkM
Income ar.l excess roi-
its tax S.SCS.Syj.iM'S
1913 Income and exccs:s prof
Its tax :.'S,0c,7V2.70
The number of corporations mak
ing, income tax returns showing tax
able income, aggregated .r.L'.4PS in the
calendar year liM,V, and that number
increased to 2!"J,U7?l for the calendar
year Kil7. The numl cr of individuals
making personal iinome tax returns
aggregated ;?.",7,oIS fir the calendar
year 11)1. 'J, and that number Increased
to :?,17'',Vo for the calendar year 1'.17.
For the liscal jei.r I'M) the total
ordinary receipts aggregated SO :,,." v.
4'.t.S4, of which S!t ,7 11. :',;;.'.." umo
from customs duties, PI.'JIL.','! l.'?..V.)
came from internal levenue, and the
balance was received from the sale of
public lands and other miscellaneous
items; whereas, for the liscal year
ending June ."H, lt10, the total re
ceipts from customs amounted to
4rj7,S!7..'?Li, while the Internal revenue,
including income tuxes and corpora
tion and excess profits taxes, amounted
to :i,s:v. . c.t ,o 1 ir.u.j.
o you will see that until 1010 the
money you paid toward the support
of the government was slipped away
from you so easily that you hardly
knew anything about it. You did nt
know that you we're paying taxes to
the national government.
Indirect taxation is tho most se
duttlve form of raiIng public rev
enue?. You never came in contact with
the federal government except when you
bought a postage stamp. Uut now you
know it every time you buy a drink at
n soda fountain, or a bottle of medi
cine, or sand a telegram, or make a
long-distance telephone call, or per
form any one ef a score of other nor
mal activities of daily life. Some
thing must be put in the kitty for the
povernment. Its annual rakeoff runs
into the billions. You pay it and the
government spends it.
Uut all that part of the party is
about over. now. The oysters have
been eaten and put in the bill. They
must be paid for. It is pe rfectly clear
that in the future by far the greater
part of the? revenu" required for con
ducting the public business must come
from direct taxes. It is also clear
that the ordinary expenses for run
ning the government will in future
probably exceed four billion dollars a
year. That is a lot of money to take
out of your pfckets, and mine. Hadn't
we better see w hat Is done w ith it, and
whether we can save any of it? Con
press, which is very far-sighted, and
able, when Its own skin is concerned,
to distinguish a hawk from a hand
saw at a very Rreut distance, is be
ginning to take "notice.
Brahmins Avoid Friday.
Amongst the rrahmins of India no
business Is ecr begun on a Friday.
. When a fellow fights for the rigid
he Ciftcn irets licked by the worst.
When duty calls most of us are
hard of hcarinjr.
Free advice is seldom worth its
cost. m
...... x.
Five Minute Chats
on Our Presidents
By JAMES MORGAN
! :
(Cyj jri'-ht. 19:0, by Jaraea ilorgin.)
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
i t
1857-5-Cept. 15, William Howard
Taft born in Cincinnati.
1878 Graduated at Yale.
1837-00 Judge of the Superior
Court.
1800-2 Solicitor General of the
United States.
1802-100D United States circuit
Judge.
1900-04 Commissioner In and
governor of the Philip
pines. 100-1-8 Secretary of war.
1009 Irnuurated twenty-sixth
president, aged fifty-one.
:0
WIIl'N Roosevelt and Taft rode'
up Pennsylvania avenue m
March 4, VM), it was the lirst time
since Jackson ami Van I'uren had
passed tin t way side by side, more'
than 70 years before, that a re-tiring
prev-ident would not have preferred an
other se;t mate and successor than the
one whom the fortunes of politics
had thrust upon him.
Koosevi h alone j rVrted Ids success
or. Naturally, eweryeho n.umoel that we
were to have a lleosevelt admin
istration by another name, and It was
expected in the eampalgn that the
e-preident would imt go farther
away from the White House than
Myster Hay. lie tead, be plunged into
the depths of Africa.
The fate of William Howard Taft
would be p.tlie-lir if be hinwlf bad
not met it and borne ir with a smll.
He was abler, more upright, more
independent than some far more suc
eesstul presidents. Hat by bent and
training ho wa a judge, and the
William Howard Taft.
White II'.-uc is no place for a Judj'P.
As lawgiver and frovorner of
.Alanila, Taft h id won the eonfuh nee
of hi-; oriental Mib.iects, and rather
than desert his post, lu fore his tak
was Jinihed, lie siwrifieed the eb-arest
ambition of his life-. In a year and
a half Koo ( i!r bad 1dm in bis cab
inet as secretary of Avar and soon
had him in his eye for tlic presidency.
lloo-evelt h;id tlie weakness eif his
strencrth. lie tiioimht b' was strnnt:
enouidi to ir,n!;e a president. Hut
real presidents are born, not made.
Th" nionii nt r.ooevolt was ixano,
the standpatters. the reactionary
force.-;, emerged from their seven ami
oiu'-half years In thf eyclone eellar.
The rnement tlie io i t ical bronclio felt
the tenderfoot en its back, it bucked,
and threw Taft from the seat of loader
ship. The next tiling the rank and
tile of Ilepublicans knew, the party
was pi ir pir.cr lack Into the old rut
from which IteoM'vell had jerked It
who':i lirst ho la!d upon it Ids master
ful hand.
Hut the people refustxl to po back.
Kisht months after Taft's Inaugura
tion, the election ef VM) sounded a
clear warning of the disaster that
oYcrwhrlmed the party in the congres
sional election of 1010. and which all
bur elestroyed it in the presidential
election ef 1012.
Aceordir.u' to a story that was told
of Taft, a curious Ft ranker asked a
pate-keeper at the Union station In
Worhlnirton where be would stand the
best ehanco of see-Inp the presi
dent In the few spare1 hours that he
had between trains. 'IMpht where
you are," was the reply, "lle-'s al
ways cither taking a train or pettltiir
off r.f one."
Taft was the first president to draw
the present salary of ;?7.",Xn. Con
:res'; j-js-n adopted, two years be
fore h- ;uii' In, the custom of allow
ing S'.tHK) yearlv for the traveling
expenses of the president, and he be
came the preat presidential traveler,
makinp a record of K.o.'hk) miles In
four ye-ars, as be went about thH
country appealinp for a reversal eif
the verdict ai'ainst his administration.
In vain he strove- to turn back tlie tide1,
which only sported with him.
After bavin? elated him by 1,200,
000 plurality, the people parted with
Taft more in forrow than In anper.
They elid not question that he was a
::ood president, but that N a secondary
consid ration. A president must be
fir.t of all a I edit Iclnn and a leader.
Don't throw your money to Ihe
l-irds. It is bad for their dipestion.
I'ecjde who hit the hiph ppots often
find themrelve-s in the low onen.
Keep movinp, or the world will run
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Record Directory
roif KKADV UIU KUENCH
l'rrsliti'nt and Congrraa
Prr;lftcnt, Warren (I. Hardinir, Ohio, Salary
$75,000, with allowance for traveling ex
ju'Iimh i: to 125.000 extra, and $100,000
more for clerk hire antt White House ex
lM.me. -f2f.0.C0O 'n all. (Rutjeet to chanyei
Virf-l'n-sMi-iit. e'ulvin e'ooliiltfo, Mahk., salary
Jt'J.OuO. rrettiileiit tro tem of acnate, Al-Ix-it
It. e'urntiiiiig, Iowa.
S'piuker of 11us, I'ritltrick II. Cillett of
Mhsh. ; mlury $12,000. The 9C Senators and
4V KeiivMciitutiveH of 67th ctxKru rereiv
$7,r0D xnlury eueli. with milruKe extra at
iio cent 11 mill? eueh way, earh neHsion, fig
ured on ditanre Ix-tween their home and
Washington; also $125 extra for ktationery,
newsiminrn, etc. Vlach U also allowed
$3..V0 a year for clerk hire. Itatio of
representation, one number to each 211,817
population.
Pnrty Iavision in CTth Con(rrei: House 201
Kep.. 133 Dim., 1 Soc. Ser.at 69 Kep., 37
Pern.
(J. S. Senators Cbas K. Townsend, Truman
II. Newberry.
i:.-pr't.entative in Congress Jonepb W. Ford-
ncy.
Th Cabinet
Arrnnred In order f prenidential suceeaalon:
Set'y State. Charles K. HuirheH, N. Y. ;
'I'ren-urv, Andrew W. Mellon, I'a. ; War,
John W. Wi'eks, Muss.; Atty-Gen.. Harry
M. IiaiiK'herty, tJhio ; postmaster-Con., Will
It. J lavs, 1 ixl. ; See'y Navy, Kdwin Uenby,
Mich. ;' Interior, AM ert H. Tall. N. Mex. ;
Agriculture, Henry Wallace, Iowa: Com
meive, Herbert C Hoover, Calif.: Labor,
James J. P.-ivis, l'a. Sa'ary of each $12,000.
The Supreme Court
t'liier Ju tiee, William Howard Taft, sal
ary Clr.0. AsMteiate Justices, Kalary,
fH.nOO each: Jos McKen..a. Calif., (Kep.);
Oliver W. IMrnc. Mast., (Kep); Wm. U.
ln, Ohio, (I'.ep. : WillU VanDeventer,
Wyo., (Hep.); Mahlon Pitney, N. J.,
(Hp): James McHeynold.s, Tenn., (Dem.) ;
l.iiis I). Krandfw, Mass., (Dem.) ; John 11.
Clarke, Ohio. (Dem.)
Michigan Government
'liivcrnur, Alex. J. Gioe-be'- salary, 8S.000 .
Lit ut. Gov., Thomas Head, salary. $H00.00 ;
Secretary of State, Charles J. Deland, sal
ary, $2'.00.00; State Treas.. Frank E. Gor
man, salary, $2500.00 : Auditor Gen., Ora
mel II. Fuller, salary $2500.00; Attorney
Gen.. Mertin Wiley, aalnry $5000.00; Supt.
t f l'ublie Instruction, Thomas E. Johnson,
Knlary, $1(M)0.jO; State Highway Com.,
FraTik r lioers, na'.ary $75i;0.00 ; Senator
District. Aaron Ari.on, salary $800.00;
Representative of District, David tt. Iocke.
yftlaiy, $.i00.00 ; Supreme Court Judges, sal
ary $7(,0.00; .loeph II. Moore, Joseph H
Steerc, Howard Weist, Grant Fellows, John
W Stone, e;eu. M. Clark, John U. Lird.
Nel.xoti thai'.
County Officers
Circuit' .Tudv'e, Edward J. Moinet, salary
J.'l.'oO.OO ; Judre of Prolate, Jarnes ;.
Kress, salary, $2100.00; Sheriff, A. T. Wil
lert, salary, fees ; Clerk. I?ernie Cae, sbI
ftry. $15(10; Treas., Sidney K.vev, salary,
$1.'.0; Pros. Atty., Itomaine Clark, nalary,
$2200; Kevi-.tir of Deeds, t.'has. Heisler,
tn'nry, fees; Seh'x.I Cum., Howard I'otter,
v:ilary, $lfi0O; (Jirctiit Court ('orn.. Archie
MeCall, Wm. A. I'lihlke, fe's ; Iirain Com.,
Krv.-i I.ayeock, balnry $1500; Coroners, W.
K. LuUwiir, Dr. Hall. fee.
City (i.ive rnment
Mayor, Chas. li. Mun.hy, salary, $300.00:
t.'ity Commissioners, John C. Chick, Floyd
':!a-s, A. J. Archer, Philip Creaser, salary,
$200.00; City Manactr, Wm. E. Ileynolds,
salary $5000.00; t'ity Clerk, Franrid C.
llayward. salary $3000,00; City Trseaunr,
I). W. Adams, salary, $1800.00 ; City At
torney, Wm. A. Pahlk. salary. $1200.00;
Health Officer. Dr. John N. Day. nalary,
$1500.00 ; Chief o' Police, James K. Camp
hell, salary $1750.00; Supervisors, 1st ward,
Jes-n E. Fuller, 2nd ward, Nicholas E.
Saad, 3rd ward, Albert P. Cook, 4th ward,
Jacob D. Ilelman, salary, $3.00 ver day on
actual time.
We can do it if it is In thb print
in"; line. The Alma Iiecord. adver
tisement 10-3w
HOME BAKERY
The Rest Baked Goods
fresh every day
Meals and Lunches,
at all hours.
Try our dinner at r0c.
328 State Street
KUB-NO-MORE
WASHING POWDER
Ontv a mall amount nrnlcil tn lofrcr
llic hardest water. JuM pinth makr
tloh aliin4 Ci'v and ac hall oue
joap bill vn nah djy.
At Your Grocers
' Huh-No-Mor C.."2 f ort Wjne, laJUoa
B Alma Creamery Co'slA
i cr-
VI lJAlP.Y rOODS
Happy Child
hood 1
Somehow or other every- Y
body associates happy
youthhood with a bounti
ful supply of milk and a
rompinp outdoor life.
That's what our milk
makes you think of.
ALMACRFAMERrCq)
'Pasteurized Mvductsi
! :illtj
i'"Tif unmT.iritiiiii n miiiiiniiiiiiM ,, ,
35
Doc Keenc, one of the ."l clowns
Saturday,
Strand
Sunday and Monday
HARRY CAREY
66
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Cftf? -h
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UiKiuestionably the most tremendous Western
Production ever filmed.
Thursday and Friday
Corpot-Jitior '
QHjrvmounl h' - - - V j ' "x -,11 j ; 1 1
with the John Robinson Circus,
June 21,
theater
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off an l lcae you.