Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1924, Page 3

HAYWARD ATTACKS SMITH AND BUTLER Declared Responsible for Two Hardest Blows Ever Struck at Dry Law. COMFORT TO BOOTLEGGERS Prosecutor Says if Prohibition Goes Saloons Return. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 19.—Gov. pnd Dr. Nicholas Murray President of Columbia Unive )vvu:hl were declared by United States Attorney William Hayward, to be re- jsponsible for “the two hardest blows ‘ever struck at respect for law.” Speaking from the pulpit of the Junes Methodist Episcopal Church, in Brooklyn, the federal official char- acterized the governor as a man who had behind him twenty-fiv erd as champion of and asserted that “the bootlegzers had taken gre heart,” at Dr. But- r's utterances against the eighteenth 1mendment and the Volstead act and 1S recent ration before the Missouri Soe in New York that he prohibition law was not enforce- tble. mith Butler, the saloon,” Comfort for Bootlegrers. Assailing Dr. Butler for his speech n Columbus, Ohio. in January, 192 n which the collee head also attack- d prohibition, he said it had consti- uted “condonation of we and en- ouragement of crimin: which was ‘as heartening to the bootleggers towa onishing to most ¢ world.” “This the speech,” said Mr. Havward, "and the repeal of t Mullan-Gage law (the New York state act) wers the two harde ever struck at resy for law.” It was encour the fede torney went on. that Dr. Butler “had axecuted o st-fuce on the fund mental iss nd that “he no long ©On the contrary, he Columbia presi has the proposition the ultimately be repe or that he and Dr. ¢ in this matter, he part company ‘or he puts all the 1 and none on come ' “to law must obeved ter we added with empha that he he Butler join in urging persons to obe respect the prohibition law, Mr. ward tourned to Gov. 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Va—Wash. fo Boston— Wik Wash.—Wash_to RED BALL TR 19¢ passengers: | Tax Rates No - By THEODOR I Whenever some merited Justice is (0 be refused discriminatingly to Washingtonians and whenever some palpable injustice is to be put over to the injury of the impotent Washing- tonian the habit is forming among a little group of our legislators of soothing conscience and of suggest- ing a justifying pretext for slurring and hurtful discrimination against the Capital community by imputing to the Washingtonian a phenomenally low tax rate, conspicuous undertax- ation and a mendicancy which holds a beggar's hat constantly under Uncle Sam’s nose, This undertaxation indictment based upon the following assumptions: 1. That the District's definite fixed tax rate on realty and tangible per- nalty is $1.20. * 2. That the tax rate is on its face almost inconceivably low. lower than that of any other city, large or small, in_the United States ate laws directing ssessments for tax-levy pur-| re obeyed or enforced, and the tax rate is consequently a reasonably reliable standard of measur- ing comparative tax burden: That, measured by the tax rate standard the Washingtonian is gro: 1y undertaxed; and is so deserving of drastic punishment a that he may without scruple nivd any of the equitics or decencie of fair play to which he would other- [ wise be entitled. The Capital's Reply. Washington replies: 1. That the District hax finite legal regular tax rate, fixed by lnv\.‘ ar $1.20 or any other figure. That | under the law its tax rate varies from | year to year in accordance with the approprintions for Capital mainte- | nance and upbuilding made by Con- mress. That if Congr had last year appropriated for the District $36,000, 000, the total of D. C. bureaus’ esti-| mates of the amount necessary to meet | dequately the Capital's municipal needs, instead of appropriating (let | us say) approximately ten or twelve [ millions “of dollars less than the |original estimate, the District tax rate would have been automatically | increased; that Washington welcomes | an_increased tax rate if made in ac- | cordance with the act of 1822, the result of providing adequate propriations for n ting neglec and accumulated n 1s of the war| me, atisfying current needs of intenance and for enabling the Washington of today to contribute its part toward great permanent im- provements to be completed in the fu- | ture; that Washington protests, how- | ever, against destruetion of wise |and fair sliding scale ta under | the law of 1922 and the itutior fixed and arbitrary tax in its fixed as to figure of rate with- nd intelligent con- ashington protes ainst the double injury of reproach | Congress of a low tax rate, when solely responsible against f Washington for that ile and hurt- | ful leg ngress to punish | the Distr a low tax rate for | which it is not in any degree respon- sible 2, That Washington's temporary tax rate of $120, which measures congressional willingness to appro- priate and not Washington's willing- ness to pay. while it is in the class | of ratex which are low and need to | be counterbalanced by high standards | of assessment, is not inconceivably or indefensibly 1 . economists argues seriously and vig- orously that the tax rate on realty | should not, to produce the best re sults, exce 1 per cent on absolute! Al | funl valuation. The sreat state of Ohio enacted a law which forbade the | levy In the state of more than 1 per| cent on the full value of realty. The | $1.20 rate, though not adequate under the law of 1922 to produce the needed appropriations for the Capital's main- fenance and development, and there- fore not approved by = Washingto- nians, is vindicated in the abstract by the political economists referred to | and by the Ohio Legislature, and is | adopted in the concrete in the prac- | tice of some cities, so that the rate is | not the smallest among Ameri 8| cities, | Tax Rate and Tax Burden. | 3. Thus in respect to the $1.20 tax rate which is attacked it appears (a) that the rate is not fixed by law, but is temporary and easily and auto- matically changeable annually by | Congress in fixing District appropria tions; (b) that Congress, not the Dis- trict, is solely responsible for the at- tacked rate, and could have inereased it, the District cheerfully assenting, by making more adequate appropria- tions for Capital maintenance and up- building; and (c» that the $1.20 tax rate is not the smallest among Amer- jean cities. Some cities have a smaller city tax rate and a few cities have a Smailer tax rate, city, county and state rate combined. But if the $1 rate were actually the xmallest in the United States that fact would have little weight In the mensurement of comparative tax bur- dens. Tor there is mno relinble relation between tax rate alone and tax bur- den: the state laws directing fall Value nssessments for tax-levying purposes are neither obeyed nor en- forced; and the tax rate alone or combined with the false reports of relntions between true and axsesved Value i utterly worthless and thor- oughly misleading as a yardstick for the measurement of comparative tax burdens. 4. Since the tax rate is worthless as a standard of measurement of comparative tax burdens, the District cannot be convicted of undertaxation by tax-rate evidence; nor ‘when com- is full- | | | with | place, out deliberate sideration: that W b Congre: the Jow t A school of | taken into account and the varying conditions of environment of the ax- sesxors in the different citiex are con- sidered can the District be convicted of undertaxation on any other evi- dence. Why Our Assessment Standard Is High To offset its~ comparatively low tax rate the District has a com- paratively high standard of assess- ment, among the very highest in the country. ‘Washington’s standard of nssess- ment is higher than in most other citiex: (1) Becnuse the temptation to and the opportunities for discrimination and personal or political favoritixm through underassessments are lack- ing. The taxed have not in the D trict any control over the appoint- ment or the retention in office of the assessor. The situation is far dif- ferent in the average American city. ‘Washington contends that asses- sors in many other cities, politically elected or appointed, confessedly in- ject into their assessments the fac- tor of politicalgand personal favorit- ism and that a certain percentage of underassessment, especially in regard to_business property, is there inevi- table and expected. In Washington, where the assessor is not elected or appointed by the taxpayers and is not responsible to them or to any faction among them, underassessments on_political grounds are eliminated and underassessments through per- sonal favoritism are reduced to a minimum or are lacking altogether. The tendency of the situation here is toward comparative overassess- ment instead of underassessment, since Congress, to whom the assessor is held responsible, has, in successive years, through some of its repre- sentatives, been constantly prodding him to higher and higher assess- ments of different classes of prop- erty, now of unimproved lands, in accordance with single-tax prin- ciples, and now of business property which, in accordance with the habit elsewhere, has been assumed to be underassessed. (2) In some wtates there is com- petition fn underassessment between cities and counmties, ench maneuver- Of Actual Tax Burdens | ployment | are not comparatively underassex: | more parative tax-assessment standards are 1 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. MONDAY, MAY 19, 1924. Measure E W. NOYES. Ing not to pay t00 much as compared with the ofher when the state ta rate, for example, comes to be a plied to the nassexsed property of both. There ix no such competition in Washington, where n fixed standard is in intent uniformly applied. (2) The assessorship here is stable, not fluctuating with municipal elec- tions. Too many assessors elsewhere are chosen for political reasons and not for any essing qualifications. Our assessor hax been here many years and has developed into a valu- ation expert, trained in the xchool of experience, Intelligent, honest, efi- cient, (4) The wystem of asxessment which our assessor hax developed in Waxhington ix scientific, tending to- ward uniformity, accuracy and equity of assessment. It contrasts with the haphazard ments, lacking uni- formity, th e prevalent in the United States Our assessor's odically as to aceurac: son with sales price proved by the cens the congressional in 1915 and by ex-Representative Evans when making minority report from the joint surplus committee Proof That D, C. Assessments High. The conditions which have been noted strongly suggest that Wash- ington’s standard _of assessment ought to be higher than that of most other American cities. What indica- tions are there that it is so in fact Realty Assessments. The fact of is underassess- ments in many r cities, ob- | viously and concededly richer in tax- | bl realty than Washington, is dem- | onstrated by @ comparison of the cen- sus figures of valuation, Comparisons between nd other eities in ed valuation of realty for pur- poses of taxation 1d always be coupled with the understanding that the large industrial establishments which elsewhere contribute most heavily to the city’s wealth and tax- able property are here in m ure non-e nt save in the forr the government departments and me- chanical establishments. These loca industries, however, are not included in the taxable properties, for the gov- ernment’s holdings are exempt from assessment. Hence. when Washini- | ton is compared in this respect with | al centers as Buf alo, Cincinnati, Seattle and Minne- | apolis, the local total of assessed val- uation, representing an almost ex- | clusively non-industrial mm stands against the total of ci where are scores, even hundreds, mills and shops and factorics, produc ing enormous values and givi to great numbers the taxed fraction of W higher total than an ’ ystem, tested peri- ¢ by compari- . is that ap- wthorities, by Joint committes Washington gard to the assessment valuations £ht to 100 per cent basi riports of rela valu 193170 TR a0 Seattle ...l ; to_imagine of Washinzton ix not and that other cities | d | when its real property was rated | (1921) on the 100 per cent baxix ax | worth 7,452,904 more than that of the of Buffale, with it | mreat industrial esxtablishments and its population 69,204 larger than that | of Washington, There w cen 26 per taxed fracti overnssessed , according to the 1 Washingtonians, about tof them Golored people the vast majority of them employed or very sm emplovers, with parative lack of extensi and ¢ industrial plants, with minim even minor millionaires and a maxi- mum of clerks, working men and| Small tradesmen and transient non- t payers These 4 ‘Washin tonians are credited with owninge | of taxable real estate by $7.452,994 than the 30677 (69,204 more than in Washington) who own the whole of t}, at. h. populous ind prosperous city of Buftalo, with | levators, its mills, its steel plants, its lake commerce, its mani- fold ‘manufactures and its retail bus, s es lishments. Does any | pne fn’the World believe this 1o e a | faet? The same lesson is taught. how- | ever the scope of comparison is| broadened in its application to Amer- | ican cit Undervaluing assessors in these cities say that all of Cin- cinnati is worth SITS 265509 less than the taxed fraction of Wi ton: that Minneapolix ix worth $14. lexs: that Seattle is worth 21N I81.249 less; that New Orleans is worth $370,731.251 less, or very much less than half of the taxed fraction of Washingt ; and that all the citiex in Texas (seven in number. including | Houston, Dallax EI Paxo and Galves. | ton) are worth combined nine mil- | lions less than the taxed fraction of | Washington, Personalty 1920 pec | | | Assessments. The following table compares as- sessments of personal property in 1921 in a few cities, all brought to 100 per cent basis: Washington Ruffalo ... | Boston : Los Angelos San Francisco The_ assessors of these e sa that the personalty of Washington i worth $34,000,000 more than the com- bined personalty of Buffalo, Cincin- nati and Seattle. Combined Realty nnd Personalty As- sessments. In per capita assessed valuation of real and personal property combined (Census bulletin 1921) Washington ($2,362.19) exceeds every large city in the United States, including New | York, Chicago and Philadelphia. ‘Washington. $2.303.19 New Orleans $1.244.77 New York.... 137533 Minneapolis. St. Lonis.... Teialo Cincinnati Denver. 44645 Seattle. Analysis of taxable realt | commercial, non-industrial Washington | and in the great and rich commerc and industrial cities with which it compared will demonstrate to an abso- lute certainty the fact that if assessed under _the same standards of assess ment Washington realty (a fraction l!\n city lacking great industrial estab- lishments) is far less in value, for in- stance, than the realty of the much richer cities of Buffalo, Seattle, Cin- cinnati, New Orleans and Minneapoli instead of being as these figures di credited by the census authorities as- sert: $7,452,994 more valuable than Buffalo, more _valuable $178,268,809 than Cincinnati, $370,731,251 more val- uable than New Orleans, $143,222,962 more valuable than Minneapolis &nd $218,181,249 more valuable than Se- attle. Assess and Add National Realty. In these comparisons it is also to be remembered that Washington has many millions more of exempt property than any other city. 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TO GET SUNDAY PAPER AND HAVE A COMPORTABLE, LAZY READ IN BED 15 ABOUT TO MAKE A DART FOR IT WHEN HE SPIES MRS. GILWATER. COMING ACROSS STREET HASTILY WITHDRAWS AND CLOSES DOOR. COMPLETES MANEOUVRE St - CESSPULLY, BUT FINDS THAT HE WILL HAVE TD MAKE ANCHER TRIP TOR NOWS SECTION WHICH HAD timate of the full value of all Wash- ington. except District of Columbia properts and customary religious, ducational, ritable and legation jons, $1,020,827,859, a greater | valuation than that placed by the as- upon any othe city in the United States except New York, Chi- | Philadelphia and Boston. | high showing for Washington | e in xpite of the fact that as- le property in Washington di- minishes with every purchase or con- ion of private property for use, Other cities increaxe in size steadily, some, like Lox Angeles, Detroit and Baltimore, have made e traordinary inereases in size. In measuring per capitas it is to be remembered tant Washington's popu- Iation hax much larger percentaxe than other cities of the transient, 1. ng, temporary element, which swells {0 xovie extent the city's pop- ulatien, but which addx little to the city's tax list and tax revenns, and which unduly reduces the city's xhow- ing in per capita Sgures. (To be continue: SMITH’S MOTHER DIES. Death Comes Unexpectedly During Governor’s Absence. YORK, May 19.—Mrs Cath- meother of Gov. Smith, been ill for several weeks | died at 6:20 I;u‘li of her daughter, | NEW erine Smith, who with pneumonia, night the hom: in Brocklyn Smith when died. He was t Absecon, N. J, by tele- d left there immediately for | | | | 5 | Gov was not with his| mother | a sudden turn day afternoon had seemed to be worse y Earlier in te day sh improving. Mrs. Smith was born on the lower East Side seventy-two vears ago. She epent her girinood, married and reared her family there. Her hus- band, Alfred Emanuel Smith, died in governor was a boy widow continued to ! live in the neighborhood until 1902, when she crossed the bridge to live in Brooklyn, with her daughter Mary, the wife of John J. Glynn The suce of her son life was a source of the greatest de to Mrs. Smith. A deep bond ttachment existed between them. A w of thirteen. in_publie Mrs. R. L. Baugh of Savannah ac her own architect, building attrac- homes as well as selling them herself. FLY S a s = | tization. TAKING IN THE NEWSPAPER, DPENS D ARM OUT, AND EXPLORES DOOR MAT FOR PAPER, MRS, G. STOPS 10 CHAT WITH MRS, MPATIENTLY, PEERING TRROUGH CURTAIN, TOR THEM TD REMOVE THEMSELVES S JUST AS HE GETS FINGERS OR TRED PERLEY- WHO OUGHT TO HAVE MORE SENSE- CALLS A CHEERY 600D MORNING , DRAWING ALL- The Fun Shop Conducted by Maxson Foxhall Judell The Inquisitive Reporter. 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WAWTS SELVES THERE TOR ALL DAY, STEALT: LY OPENS DOOR., AND WRIGGLES DECLARE PROHIBITION BENEFIT TO INDUSTRY Business Men, Answering Ques- tionnajre Stand 93 Per Cent in Favor of Law. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, May 19.—The opinion that the prohibition amendment had been of benefit to industry was expressed by 93 per cent of a list of business men who replied to a questionnaire MS. GLOYA QiR _ o —_ ton, editor of the Commercial Buila- tin, who reported the result to the Uritarian Temperance Society at its annual meeting here * tod The other 7 per cent could see no good in_the amendment. Mr. Guild sought information from miscellaneous industrial concerns, coal producers, bankers. railroad executives, publishers, packers, ware- house proprictors mill owners, He received 146 replies from various parts of the country Moro severe punishment of vie- lators of the liquor s gen erally recommended and many of the answers urged deportation of alien bootleggers. 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