Arizona State Miner, 1919-10-24

articles remaining on hand at the inventory period, and so deter determine - mine determine their exact cost. In others, because of conservative account accounting - ing accounting methods, flat percentages have been deducted after deter determining - mining determining inventory values. Others use a fixed average, based upon costs of prior years, or fail to in include - clude include all merchandise to which they have title in their inventory. All of these methods, which have the effect of reducing tax liabil liability, - ity, liability, are contrary to the regula regulations - tions regulations of the Bureau and are illus illustrative - trative illustrative of numerous irregularities which have been found. A warning issued by the Bu Bureau - reau Bureau advises taxpayers who have tried such methods to file correct returns without notice and with without - out without investigation. Let's Stop Quibbling. From present indication Wick Wickenburg's - enburg's Wickenburg's recent efforts to provide a new school for this district are liable to be hindered and work of construction, which would be a source of activity and profit to the community, may be indefi indefinitely - nitely indefinitely postponed. It is barely possible that the report that ap appeared - peared appeared in a previous issue to the effect that a protest was to be filed against the erection on the old school site may be a mistake. There is a growing sentiment, in view of this matter, which has now cropped out, to cease all op opposition - position opposition and let the school trus trustees - tees trustees go ahead with the work so vital to the futnre welfare of this community. The only real profit to be derived from hind hindrance - rance hindrance and further delay will ac accrue - crue accrue to the bankers in the shape of interest, by giving them, like it is with the road bonds - a lon longer - ger longer use of that money. Wickenburg School Principal Machan, is the right man in the right place. Scholars all love and respect him and he is as deeply interested in the school and its pupils as though it were his own private enterprise. Congress is framing a high old jinks in shape of a masquerade ball in that camp on Saturday, Nov. Ist. There will be Aguila girls, Congress cowboys and Sal Salome - ome Salome school marms along with Wickenburg wraiths that ought to set the country wigwagging from Skull Valley to Peoria. Organized capital is gradually becoming more and more shackled to rightfully keep it under proper restraint. It has been compelled to make itself responsible. Under a law of collective bargaining or organized - ganized organized labor should be forced to do the same. State Engineer Maddock, it is claimed, is discriminating against Cochise county in the matter of road work and truck equipment. Looks like a public official, even tho influenced by republican pre preferences, - ferences, preferences, would realize that dis discriminations - criminations discriminations such as charged will surely, sooner or later react and probably inure a federal revoka revokation - tion revokation of highway improvement in districts where the engineer has clashed with local authorities.

Every time you stick a Thrift or War Savings Stamp on your card, you are mailing money to yourself. Indulgence for a few sins of omission and commission are at attributed - tributed attributed this week to the fact that the inky-pressman-type-set inky-pressman-type-setting-editor - ting-editor inky-pressman-type-setting-editor was busy moving in an effort to save rent. Somebody is gettisg the use of four millions in money derived from road bonds, that is costing the taxpayers $185,000 a year. Cowboys and sheepmen with their families are coming in to make this their usual habitat. Our little story on road matters has found response, and all good citizens are requested by the sec secretary - retary secretary of the Phoenix chamber of commerce, to send in every everything - thing everything relating to road matters their condition and improvement, that you know anc' can suggest. Have you paid up your sub subscription. - scription. subscription. A red or blue pencil mark encircling your name is a warning to pay up. The Arizona Highway Dept, is open for suggestions and advice on roadways, travel and practical methods for improving it from time to time. Garages along the Wickenburg-Prescott and Wick Wickenburg-Parker - enburg-Parker Wickenburg-Parker routes can "pull trade" this way by dropping a postal card once a week to the department which will publicise and post the same for benefit of the traveling public. Tomorrow (Saturday) evening there will be a Roosevelt Memor Memorial - ial Memorial dance at Baxter's hall, the proceeds of which are to swell the memorial fund to erect a big park and mausoleum at Oyster Bay in honor of the dead soldier and ex-president. Are you a subscriber to the State Miner? If not. Why not£ A petition should be circulated at once for signers to pledge fi financial - nancial financial assistance in the drilling of a hole in search of oil. The Home Oil company has a dozen or more sections of oil land that could be hypothecated to the signers as security for their fin financial - ancial financial pledges. If only artesian water were encountered it would justify the expense, from a stand standpoint - point standpoint of remuneration. Therfe is to be a Roosevelt Me Memorial - morial Memorial dance at Baxter's hall on tomorrow night, to which are to be added features of intrinsic value designed to make the oc occasion - casion occasion enjoyable and memorable. "Bucky" Lambert and the Prin Principal, - cipal, Principal, are lining up some original ideas that are real live ones, tho they be in honor of the dead. It is a worthy cause in honor of a progressive American even tho you may be of a different politi political - cal political faith.

lors parlors advertise near and 2.75 beer and the patrons add the kick if they desire - from the hip pocket. No longer is the plate, automo automobile, - bile, automobile, or bank account a sure sign of prosperity. The private cel cellar, - lar, cellar, in the 400 districts of Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Long Beach, is now the true evidence, and the key to those cellars is the one beyond price possession of the lucky owner. This picture of actual conditions in the new down to date Los Angeles is not over drawn, but is actual fact briefly told. An intimate friend in the Se Secret-Service, - cret-Service, Secret-Service, told me. that never in his twenty odd years service in Los Angeles, was the city so overrun with grafters of high and low degree, and high fliers of the Wallingford and Blackie Daw variety. Despite these openly flagrant conditions, the outside world, is told, via Chief of Police, and the Ministerial Unions, that Los An Angeles - geles Angeles is the only truly, and only clean, moral, not to say Holy City in this land of sunshine and cli climate. - mate. climate. There is no disputing the fact that it is a great and grow growing - ing growing metropolis, but like all big cities, it has its shady, not to say vicious side. While I was in Los Angeles, three gambling (?) joints were raided, bond money paid in as fines, and police given newspapaper credit for making a cleanup. The initiated under understood - stood understood the "setup" game, and the reform (?) mayor is hailed as a wonder; and he is in the gen gentle - tle gentle art of side-stepping, and keep keeping - ing keeping his word to the "workers" on the inside and quieting the suspicions of the "goody-goods, " who are on the outside. Mayor Snyder is even wiser with a clean shave, than he was when known from Shasta to San Diego, and the Sierras to the sea, as "Pink Whiskers. If you do not believe this statement, ask "Champ" Vance. More anon. Evasion of Revenue Liability A special drive to locate mer merchants - chants merchants and manufacturers who have followed erroneous methods in making their inventories for the taxable years 1917 and 1918 - such methods tending to reduce tax liability - is about to be made by the Bureau of International Revenue. Voluntary disclosures before investigations of failure to make proper return and payment, the policy of the Bureau will be to forego penalties except where there is intentional evasion of the tax. Where discovery is made by Government officers heavy penalties will apply. In some cases inventories have been found to have been taken on the basis of average costs, tho it was possible to indentify the

There were but one or two of our Wickenburg residents who visited the Prescott Fair this year, which is no surprise, see seeing - ing seeing it was so poorly advertised. The heavy overhead expense of importing a Los Angeles machine made cowboy outfit ate up all the advertising fund possibly and failed to draw. A 5 and 10 cent show in all the theatres was a poor innovation to say the least, for drawing gate receipts in this state which has always boasted of the real, genuine range made, Indian fighting, soldier cowboys. How About It, Mr. Corpora Corporation - tion Corporation Commissioner? H. B. Watson, Editor State Miner: As a stockholder in the Blue Monster Copper Company of Ari Arizona - zona Arizona I wish to ask your opinion of said company; what you think of it; if its any good or ever will be; said stock ain't listed yet. I paid 50c a share for mine. I re receive - ceive receive your paper pretty regularly I enjoy reading same. Hoping to hear from you, please give me your candid opinion and oblige. Yours Respectfully, J. T. S., North Billerica, Mass. How To Attract and Inspire Mining Investors. The State Miner's mission in this field is to give publicity to efforts of local endeavor in min mining - ing mining and industrial enterprises. It makes nor exacts any fixed price for this work, but stipulates that "stories" of mining discoveries and development must be truth truthful - ful truthful and not misleading. All stock ventures are encouraged so long as we know the funds therefrom are spent in honest development of this state's resources and the corporation laws of Arizona are complied with. Our endeavors at all times will be to encourage the investors whose money is be being - ing being used to develop the resources of this section and to inspire oth others - ers others to come in and help. Every week brings inquiries about cer certain - tain certain properties, which are truth truthfully - fully truthfully answered and if the man management - agement management is carrying out a fixed policy of development, even tho it be but a prospect, our assist assistance - ance assistance is on tap in any capacity that long experience has fitted us for, for the asking. We don't believe in indiscriminate boosting of ventures that have no merit to the ultimate discomffiture of the investors who get no returns on their money and whose repetition of disaster only serves to give the country "a black eye." All operators are invited to send in copies of their reports which will gladly be given prominence and reaches the stockholders by sim simply - ply simply mailing them a marked copy of the paper containing it.

By John C. Wray Randsburg Oct. 20 - Special to the State Miner. Despite the fact that I have lived the life of a Bohemian for above forty years, three weeks in the metropolis of the South Southland, - land, Southland, to wit.: Los Angeles, has convinced me that the desert is good enough for me, as a per permanent - manent permanent residence. Forty years residence in Los Angeles as newspaper man, peace officer, International Revenue Collector and Bohemian, qualifies me to speak of the old town, and four years residence on the des desert - ert desert warrants me in drawing a word picture of the new Los Angeles as I found it during three weeks of wandering, in search of old land-marks and fa familiar - miliar familiar faces. Few and far be between - tween between are the land-marks, but alas the familiar faces, were with few exceptions, missing. In the old days, a man was judged by his true value, and his worth was not figured in dollars and cents. His word was his bond and so long as he lived up to it, he stood ace high. Today every man is figured on a cent per cent basis, and the credit of the man who endorses his note of hand, be it for $5.00 or SI,OOO. Commercialism rules the whole works, from the banker down the line to the Senegasbian who blacks your boots in the wash room in the hotel and care takes the toilets, which now cost 5c per, under patented lock and key. Prohibition which is presumed to regulate thirst and banish crime is working in the opposite direction, if the police court rec records - ords records as made since July Ist are to be depended upon. Whiskey at from $7.00 to SIO.OO per quart, can be had for the asking and essence of Jamaica Ginger is bringing in a harvest of dollars to the druggists. In one thirst parlor on Spring Street the back bar is decorated with a double festoon of empty Jamaica ginger bottles hung on strings the full length of the bar. These empties are picked up un under - der under the tables aud in the toilets after the contents have been added to the 2.75 beer to give it a kick. A druggist friend east of Main st. assured me that on Saturdays he sells from 3 to 5 gallons of essence of ginger, and ! most of the stuff in 4 ounce bot bottles, - tles, bottles, at ten cents per ounce. The family liquor stores which under the old order, closed at nine o'clock week days, and all day Sunday, now keep open until 11 p. m. and are open all day Sun-. day, 2.75 beer and a full line of bladder and kidney destroyers being the stock in trade. Cheap restaurants and high and low degree soda and ice cream par parlors -