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tflpinioii BY HARRY J. GREEN I'KHR'H. urn v jYlv risS SOLDIERS’ BONUS LAW ACT authorizing the state of become indebted in the amount of twenty-two million dol lars, and providing for the issue and sale of bonds of said state in evidence thereof, to procure funds for and pay a bonus to per sons who served in the military •r naval service of the United States at any time between the i'ixth day of April, nineteen hun dred seventeen, and the eleventh day of November, nineteen hun dred eighteen, or their .successors in interest, providing for a board administer such payments, pro viding for an additional bonus for persons under disability, providing for the imposition, levy and collec tion of a direct annual tax sufficient le pay the principal and interest on said bonds, providing penalties ier the violation of the provisions •f this act, providing for applica tion of any surplus to the retire ment of the indebtedness herein created, and providing for sub mission of this act to the people to he voted upon at the general elec tion to be held in the year nine teen hundred 'twenty-two. Be it enacted by the General Assem bly of the State of Iowa: Section 1. The state of lowa is hereby authorized to become indebt ed in the amount of twentv-two mil lion dollars, ($22,000,000.00 > and in evidence thereof there shall be issued and sold negotiable coupon bonds of said state, as hereinafter provided, and the proceeds thereof shall be paid into the treasury of the state to be expended for the payment k>! a bonus to the persons defined in -ection four (4) of this act or for the benefit of such persons, as pre scribed by section eight (8) of this act, and for expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this act. Section 2. The treasurer of the <-tate is hereby directed to cause to be prepared negotiable coupon bonds of this state in the amount of twenty-two million dollars, ($22,000,- 000.00) such bonds to bear interest at the rate of not to exceed five per cent per annum, which interest, shall be paid semiannually. Such I bonds shall be issued so that .said indebtedness shall be payable m twenty equal annual installments, the f last of which shall be within twenty years from date of issue. Said bonds shall be signed by the gover-j :or, under the great seal of j>aid s:ate, attested by the secretary of, state and countersigned by the* treasurer of state, and the full faith,' c iedit and resources of the state of, he p!e<igert for the pay ment thereof. The interest coupons; attached to said bonds -hall bear the | lithographed facsimile signatures of said officials. The treasurer of .state -hall sell said bonds to obtain funds to carry out the provisions of this act, ami to make the payments here inafter provided. Such bonds shall be sold at not less than the par value thereof .and accrued interest thereon o the highest and must responsible bidder after advertising for a period of twenty consecutive days, Sundays excepted, in at least two dtailv newspapers printed in the city of Des Moines. Advertisements of sale shall recite that the aea surer of state, in his discretion, may reject any or all bids received and, in such event, he shall readvertise for bids in the form and manner above described as many times as in his judgment may be necessary to effect a satisfactory sale. Section 3. The proceeds of such bonds so paid into the treasury of state shall constitute a bonus fund ami shall be distributed to the per sons entitled thereto, as hereinafter prescribed. Said twenty-two million dollars ($22,000,000) is hereby ap propriated out of said bonus fund for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act. Section 4. Every person, male or female, including army, navy, and marine corps, nurses who served in •the military or naval service of the United States at any time between April 0, 1917, and November 11, 1918, and who at the time of enter ing into such service was a resident of the state of lowa, and who was honorably separated or discharged from such service, or who is still in active service, or has been re:ired, or has been furloughed to a reserve, shall be entitled to receive from the proceeds of such bonds a- a bonus, the sum of fifty cents (.50 > for each day that such person was in active service, such bonus not to exceed a total sum of three hundred and fifty dollars ($350.00). No person shall be entitled to such payment or al lowance whose only service was in the students army training corps or who received from another state a bonus or gratuity of a like nature provided for by hhis act. or who being in such service, received civil ian pay for civilian work. No per son shall be entitled to such payment or allowance who being in the mili tary or naval service of the United States, subsequent to April 6. 1917, refused on conscientious, political or other grounds to subject himself to military discipline or to render un qualified service. The husband or wife, child or children, mother, father, sisters or brothers, in the or der named and none other, of any person as defined in this section, who died while in the service or who has deceased before receiving the benefits of this act, shall be paid the sum that such deceased persons would be entitled to herunder if such de ceased person had lived. Section 5. Before receiving any sum under the provisions of this act, the -applicant shall file with the clerk of the district court of the jtA Wi county in which he or she resides or resided at the time of induction into -ervice, or with the adjutant general, application therefor on forms proviu “>’ the adjutant general, such ap plications to be so filed on or befure December 31, 1924; provided, that when such application is filed with i „ c * of the dis.rict court it shan be the duty of said clerk to transmit said application to the ad jutant general forthwith. Such ap plication ,shall state facts sufficient to establish the status of such ap plicant within a class as defined in section four (4) of this act, and shall be duly verified. •Section 6. Who ever knowingly makes a false statement, oral or written, relating to a materia] fact in supporting a claim under the provisions of this act, shall be pun ished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or be im prisoned for not more than one year, or both, and shall forfeit all bene fits he or she might have been entitled to under this act. Section 7. There is hereby created a board to be known as the “Bonus Board" to consist of the state audi tor, the state treasurer, the adjut ant general and the adjutant of the lowa Department of the American Legion. It shall be the duty of said board to examine into such applica tions and make any other examina tion necessary to establish facts, and approve or disapprove the same. Whenever any such application is approved by said board, j*i shall he the duty of the adjutant general Lo prepare a voucher and transmit the same to the state auditor; said audi tor shall issue a warrant for the amount stated therein, and the stale treasurer shall pay such warrant out of said bonus fund. No assignment of any right or claim to benefits hereunder made prior 'to the issuance of the state auditor’s warrant herein provided for, shall be valid, and any transfer or attempt to transfer tany such right or claim or any part thereof by any beneficiary prior to the issuance of such warrant 'and the acquiring or attempting to acquire by any other person of any interest in or title to such claim prior to the issuance of such warrant, shall be a misdemeanor and punishable as such. Section 8. After the payment of all tipproved claims and expenses of administration of the board herein created, ail funds remaining in the hands of the bonus board, after De cember 31, 1924, not in excess of two million dollars, $2,000,000.00) shall constitute an additional bonus to be administered by the >bonus board for the amelioration of the condition of residents of this state within the classes as defined in sec tion four (4) of this act, who are suffering from disability. All funds remaining in the hands of the bonus board after December 81, 1924, in excess of the two million dollars ($2,000,000.00) disability fund, shall be applied to the payment of the debt herein created. Section 9. The bonus board is hereby empowered to employ such assistants and to incur stifch ! flthc** expenses as may be necessary for the administration and carrying out of the provisions of this act and the funds necessary for such administra tion and carrying out of the pro visions of this act shall he expended from said bonus fund; such assistants as said board may determine shall give bond in suah amount as may be fixed by said board, and shall, whenever practicable be persons within the classes as defined in sec tion four (4) of this act. Section 10. All payments and al lowances made under this act shall be exempt from all taxation, and from levy and sale on execution, and all bonds issued, hereunder shall be exempt from taxation. Section 11. To provide for the payment of the principal of said bonds so issued and sold and the .nterest thereon as the same become due and mature, there is hereby im posed and levid upon all the taxable property within the state of lowa, in addition 'to all other taxes, a dir ect annual tax for each of the years; said bonds are outstanding, sufficient! in amount to produce the sum of one million one hundred thousand 1 dollars ($1,100,000.00) each year for l twenty years for the payment of principal of said bonds and sufficient j in amount to produce such additional sums as may be needed to pay the interest on such bonds. The trea surer of state shall annually certify to the executive council, prior to the time for the levy of general state taxe.-, the amount of money required to be raised to pay the principal and interest on such bonds maturing in | the ensuing year and said executive I council shall annually fix the rate ipercen.um necessary to be levied and assessed upon the valuation of the taxable pioperty within this state to produce funds sufficient to pay the principal of and interest upon such bonds as the same become pay able and such additional annual direct tax shall be levied, certified, assessed ami collected at the same time and in the same manner as are taxes for general state purposes. Section 12. If any clause, sen tence, paragraph, or part of this act shall for any reason be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder of the act, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment has been rendered. Section 13. This law, after legal publication, shall be submitted to the people of this state at the general election to be held in November, nine teen hundred twenty-two, and shall not take effect unless at such "'-ca tion it shall receive a majority of all votes cast for and against it. Separate ballots shall be provided for the electors which shall be in sub stantially the following form: (Notice to Voters: For an affirma tive vote upon any question sub mitted upon this ballot, mark a cross mark in the square after the word “Yes”. For a negative vote, make a DECOBAH PUBLIC OPINION, DECORAH, IOWA similar mark in the square following the word “No.") “Shall the follow ing public measure, being an act of the 39th General As sembly, be adopted and approved?” YKS NO (Here insert in full this law) Section 14. This act shall take effect immediately upon its adopt.on and approval at such election. Approved March 23, A. D. I!>2L I, Walter C. Ramsay, secret uy of state for the State of lowa, ami custod an of the Laws and Acts oi the General Assembly, do herc-hy cer.ify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a certain ena*. - ment of the Gene: a! Assembly known as Chapter 332, Acts of the Thirty ninth General Assembly, and was approved bv the Governor on March 23 A. D. 1921. I further cert fy tha* this publica tion is in compliance with Section 5, Article 7 of the Constitufion of lowa relative to the submission to the elec orate of the question of incur ring debts by the state. Given under my hand ami the of my office atf.xed this 27 day of June, A. D. 1922. (Seal) W. C. RAMSAY, 27-13 Secretary of State. Big lowa Truck Farm A contributor to the Waverly Inde pendent-Republican writes as fol lows: “The writer, whom we will call Bill, was up At St. Ansgar the other day and met his friend, Frank Sedeleck, a bug truck farmer there. And he is some farmer, I will say. He has out this year 140 acres of potatoes. 130 acres of onion, 130 acres of corn, eighty acres cabbage, sixty acres of soy beans, and they all look fine. “His com will average better than kneehigh, an 1 :s as clean as a floor. The potatoes art in blossom, and the best that I ever saw at this time of the year. Cabbage is in all stages, from some starting to head to just finishing planting the day I was there. The soy beans are fine, I would say, and the best of it all is ♦hat it i> hard to find a weed in the field anywhere. “The work is ail done with horse drawn machinery except the care of the onions, whim is done with hand cukivators. For anyone who has not seen crop- grown scientifically it will pay them to go a r ml many miles to stc such crop , and Mr. Sedaleclr !* always glad to sTTow "fils crops "To anyone. He called at the hotel for the writer at 6 o'clock in the morn ing and took him out and showed him all around. He ha« one of the finest sets of farm building.- that can be found anywhere and every thing is modern —fresh water system, rilo and all up to date building.-. “Mr. Sedeleck lives in town and goes out every day to the farm. He has forty acres of onions that will do to market by the last of July so as to get the early high price.'’ To Adopt “Child’’ of 45 Marshalltown, lowa—Adoption pa pers were deposited with Miss Fanny V. V-osbury, county recorder, by Christopher P. Hopkins, who desires to adopt Carrie Hopins Dearborn, age 45. The ca*e was -o unusual that the recorder was at a loss to know’ whether to enter the papers of record. The question of the adop tion of a pel-on who had passed the minority was raised and there was further cause for questioning the legalitj of the adoption, there beiag no one to “give the child away." The papers show “no lawful parents liv ing.’’ In cases wheie the one adopt ed is an orphan, the mayor may act in the capacity of guardian for the purpose of perfecting the transfer, but this privilege to the mayor cov ers person under j ge. o —Barker's Prescription is the me dicine for coughs, cold and sore throat. At all drug stores-. o Semaphores were invented by a Frenchman in 1794. MOTOR SUPPLY CO. Decorah, lowa >Ve suppose dollars count with you, same as with us. How does a genuine SEIBERLIN G CORD for your Ford for J 12.*i<>—a Cord mind you. the best »e know of—strike you? "sf Penny Wise and Pound Foolish CA LUMET The Economy BAKING POWDER (g§§§ggg§ MADE BY A T*U«t Calumet V CONTENT* tlB. 4 BAKING NOW*** y BEST BY TEST The World's Greatest Baking Powder ILLEGIMATE CHILD Law Says It Has Bight to Share in Father’s Estate. Des Moines, lowa, —The last chap ter of a story of suffering that reads like a novel by Eugene Sue was written Friday, when the lowa su preme court affirmed the right of an illegitimate child lo share in the fa rther's estate. The suit was brought against W. E. Rathbone and S. E. Lathrop, ex ecutors of the will of George W. Hastings, and the Christian Home Orphange of Council Bluffs, lowa, by George D. Hastings. Hastings sued to establish his right to participate in the estate of his father, who died Feb. 17, 1918, leaving $70,000. The will gave $3,000 each to four nieces and nephews, and ordered that the remainder be donated to the Christian Home Orphange of Council Bluffs. The deceased was never married. George Hastings, who claimed to be his son, w'as born at Ackley, lowa, Nov. 6, 1879. According to court records his mother at the time of his birth, w’as a married woman who had been deserted by her husband, from whom she subsequently obtain ed a divorce. Prior to the birth of the child legal proceedings were in stiluted at which the father admit ted the paternity of the child. The mother died, and the child, under the stigma of illegitimacy, wandered about the community pass ing under various names. Describing the life of the son, Jus lice F. F. Faville, who wrote the su preme court decision, said: “Among his intimates he bore the soubriquet of “Yankee George.” The story of his life reads like the tale of “The Wandering Jew\” The curse seems to have been upon him.” "It is one of the reproaches of common law,” Justice Fayville con tinued, “which has shocked the leg islative and judicial conscience of the civilized world, that the illegiti mate child has no inheritable blood. This is only a legal fiction. This state has shorn that idea of its rea son. It is a rule in this state that an illegitimate child whose paternity has been established during the life of the father can inherit.” The supreme court admitted the right of Hastings to his share of his father’s estate, and modified the pro vision of the lower court and or dered that one half of the costs of the litigation be assessed against the estate of the deceased Hastings and one half against the Christian Home Orphanage. All the cost of the su preme court action was assessed against the orphanage. Buried The Wrong Boy Sioux City, lowa—A mix up in the burial of the bodies of two Ameri can soldiers, who were killed in ac tion overseas has been cleared up here. Corp. Archie C. Reddon, of Sioux Don’t think because you can get a big can of Baking Powder for little money that you are saving anything. There’s Only One Way to Save on Bake - Day —lt costs only a fraction of a cent for each baking. —You use less because it con tains more than the ordi nary leavening strength. City, and Private Louis E. O’Dell of Brooklyn, N. Y. lost their lives in the Champaign sector and their bodies were buried in France, side by side. A body, supposedly that of Keddon was sent here and buried with full military honors. When the grave.- 2803 USE Big Seale Industry Has Made America Rich AMERICA is the richest country in the world because of its great natural resources, and because it has utilized large scale organiza tions to develop them. It has done big things in a big way. Other nations have had more workmen, cheaper labor, more densely settled areas, yet America has outstripped them all. Why? Because of “Big Industry” vast, centralized organization. The measure of this big-scale organization is ser vice. The big unit is constructive —far-seeing — resourceful —permanent. It can be depended upon to provide essential commodities in limes of stress. A big organization should be judged by the service it renders. The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) is a big organization, built squarely upon service. It has grown and prospered because of the need for its service. It is doubtful if a smaller organization could give tne service rendered by this Company. Because of i‘3 size end efficiency, the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) can manufa9ture on an eco nomical scale. From one natural resource it pro duces hundreds of useful products at a minimum cost, thus enabling the Company to sell each of its Jong line of products at a lower price than would otherwise be possible. Because of its thorough distribution service, re sulting from its great volume of business, it is possible for the man living in the remote corners of the 10 Middle Western States served to get such petroleum products as he needs with facility almost equal to that of the man living in the city. The forecast for 1922 is for a heavier demand for petroleum products than this nation has ever known. The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) has keyed its entire organization to meet this demand. Regardless of the emergencies which may arise, the Company believes that its organization will be able to meet the situation. Standard 910 s. Michigan Ave., Chicago i j,;. / : j* .% . .. <§w registration bureau sought to remove the body of O’Dell from the cemetery in France, it was discovered tihat their identification tag- had become interchanged and that it was O’DeH’s body that was buried here. Corporal Redden will be buried here Tuesday. Oil Company (Indiana) isniy it * 4 V