Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1930, Page 3

SALES TAXATON MOVEMENT EROWS Governors Show Concerni Over Inequalities of | Other Forms. BY DAVID LAWREN(C SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 1.—| Business men of America who thought | they had heard the end of the sales tax | when Congress refused to accept it as A method of raising revenue may be surprised to learn that the movement | has taken hold in several States, and that a deep’impression was made on the | Conference of Governors by Govs. Con- ley of West Virginia and Hardman of | Georgia, who recited their experiences with this form of taxation. | Round-Table Discussion Held. A round-table discussion develced | the fact that all the 3overnors pres- | ent were concerned about the inequali- | ties of the tax burden, and some of them went so far as to argue that all | taxes on personal and real property ought to be removed and a sales tax levied by the States instead. Promphly there arose the"question of whether State Legislatures could really be de- pended upon to use the sales tax as a Teplacement or whether they would sim- ply consider it as an additional source of revenue. Gov. Christiansen of Min- nesota, Gov. Hammill of Iowa and Gov Weaver of Nebraska, all of whom are interested in the problem of equalizing | Are tax burden so that the farmer may | a2 his taxe reduced, pointed out $Bat the only certain way to replace Awsting taxes with the sales tax was Sp.:nend a State constitution so as to prohibit altogether or provide a maxi- mum for other taxes. | The significant thing brought out by | Gov. Hardman of Georgia was that fome of the business leaders in his State favored the tax and that the tables or returns showed how relative- Iy small were the individual amounts | taken from business taxed on gross sales at what he termed a negligible Tate. fB coincidence, Senator Smoot. of Ufah, chairman of the Senate finance committee, was at the Hotel Utah, where the sessions of the Governors' Conference are being held, and when this correspondent told him of the trend of the discussion on the sales tax, he remarked: Believes Sales Tax Inevitable. “I believe the sales tax is inevitable. It's one of the fairest forms of taxation we_have available to us.” The Utah Senator advocated it after the war and, of course, now that the Congress has gradually eliminated most | of the indirect taxes, the States are studying some of the methods the Fed- eral Government was able to lay aside. Certainly, as the cost of State gov- ernment increases, particularly school expense, the sales tax is going to be more and more studied. The fact that the governors of two States which late- 1y have tried sales taxes—Georgia and West Virginia—said kind words about it may be regarded as a sign that othar States will seek further information | from them. FRED M. TRYON DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS| Former Div;i:nTie( in Patent Office Had Record of 47 Years in Service. Pred M. Tryon, former chief of a division at the United States Patent Office, died at his home, 3301 Seventh street northeast, last night after an iliness of several months. Mr. Tryon, who would have been 77 years old July 24, had the distinction of being the oldest employe in point of service at the Patent Office at the time of his retirement in 1926. He had worked there for more than 47 years. A native of Batavia, N. Y., Mr. 'I‘r_vnn‘ studied science at Cornell University | and later was graduated in law from | the old Columbian College, now George | Washington University. He is survived by three sisters, Miss | Myrta A. Tyron and Miss Emma C.| Tryon, who made their home with him | here, and Miss Alice R. Tryon of Pas. | saic, N. J., and a brother, Charles J. | Tryon of Minneapolis. His wife, be- fore her marriage Miss Annie Weaver, died last October. Funeral services will be canducted at | the residence tomorrow morning at 10 oclock. Interment will be in Glenwood | Cemetery. Woman Heads Scala Theater. | MILAN, Italy, July 1 (#).—Signorina | Anita Coluombo, who was active in | preparation of the New York Phil~| harmonic Orchestra's concerts in Italy, has been named directress of the | famous | betterments by National, State and local Scala Theater, succeeding the || THE EVENING STAR, W/ In a radio speech to the Governors'| Conference at Salt Lake City. from his | study in the White House last night, | President Hoover said: “It_gives me great pleasure to greet this Twenty-second Annual Conference of Governors. I especially welcome the opportunity at this time to express my appreciation for the co-operation that the Governors and their associates in county and municipal affairs have given to me in organizing the expan- | slon of public works to alleviate the un- | employment which has resulted from the stock market crash of last No- vember, Request Brought Results. “The_request for such co-operation | which I issued to the Governors and mayors at the end of November last | met not only with immediate hearty assurances from almost all State offi- cials. but has been followed by action | productive of most important results. I feel that some report of the results of that co-operative effort is not only of interest but is due to your body “To organize definitely so as to pre- vent the activity in public works from receding like other activities in de- pression, and to speed them up in an- ticipation of future needs so as to al- leviate unemployment in such a time, is a new exveriment in our economic life of the first importance. and the success which has attended this effort, the en- larged understanding of its vital impor- tance, the new paths of organization which it has opened, represent an ad- vance in economic thought in gov- ernment and in service to our people “We have hitherto regarded great business depressions with their inevi- table train of unemployment and hard- ships as an inevitable fever which must | run its course, and in former times if public works were undertaken in allevi- | ation ot unemployment it has been in the sense of semi-charity. This time the Nation has realized it as a sound economic policy that prudent expedi- tion of construction could be to an im- | portant degree used as a balance wheel | to maintain security of employment, to | maintain consumption of goods, to con- | tribute thus to economic stability, and, above all, to relieve hardship. State Has Previously Retrenched. | “We have since the first of January | a full six months of organized effort | from which we can begin to appraise results. In all previous depressions, the volume of public works has dimin- ished, because the State and municipal | governments, feeling the effects of such | depression in taxes, in problems of | finance, and in the general psychology | of retrenchment, have themselves fol- | lowed the general trend. In the great | depressions of 1908 and 1921, we wit- | nessed such a decrease in public works. | Had matters followed their previouss course, we should during the past six | months have undoubtedly seen a dimi- | nution in volume of employment public works over normal times. But | on this occasion we witness a large in- | crease. | “The Department of Commerce in- | forms me that the totals expended or | ontracted for in new public works and | governments in these last six months have not been less than $1,700,000,000 and that this exceeds even the boom year of 1929 by over $200,000,000, and the organized efforts to which you have contributed so much in creation will, I am confident, go still further in its ac- complishments. It takes time to plan public works, to legislate, to finance them, to assemble materials, to enter contracts o that the second half of the year promises even greater results —particularly is this true for our Fed- eral appropriagions, and our plans for roads, buildings, ships and other Fed- eral improvements are much enlarged in our fiscal year beginning today. We are a good-natured bunch of saps in this country. When the President is wrong we charge it to when the tariff is wrong_we laugh it off; when Congress is wrong we charge it to habit; when the Sen- ate is right we declare a na- tional holiday when the mar- ket drops 50 points we are supposed not to knowit's through manipulation; when a bank fails we let the guy go start another one; when a judge convicts a mur- derer that's cruelty; when enforce- ment officers can’t capture it fast enough to fill orders, that's good business. Everything is cock-eyed, so what's the use kidding ourselves. inexperience; late Engineer Scandian! 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TUESDAY, JULY 1. 1930. e SUBSTITUTE SEEN | FOR PROPERTY TAX overnors in Conference Dis- | csian = “Nor should T omit reference to the | cuss Feasibility of Ex effort of our utilities and our leading cise Duties. | business concerns to co-operate with | us in the increase of construction. They | have shown courageous faith in the | future and their expansion of employ- ment, which they have provided in construction and betterment works, ex- ceeds even the $200.000,000 of increase over 1929 accomplished by the public authorities. - “I am happy to say that this co- operation of efforts of all branches of the Government, State, local and Fed-'| tinuance of property taxes for the sup- eral, are still continuing. | port of State government and the sub- We have every need for continued |stitution of sales or other excise taxes serious effort. We are pioneering & new | was developed from the round table path for the future which shall add | discussion that followed an address by to the orderly progress of the Nation | Gov. William G. Conley of West Vire Every dollar of work we provide now | ginia. adds to the security of the home in | 4 this time of stress. It adds courage and | Hoover Sends Greetings. hope in time of adversity. Renewed | President Hoover told the Governors resolutions for even further effort in| “important resulis” have attended the every State and every community and | administration’s effort to expand pub- in_(he Federal Government will add |lic construction as a means of stabiliz- in early recovery. ing business and that the next six “The splendid endowment of our “even greater” things. country with fortitude, courage, bound- | se_assertions in an ad- less energy and resources, together with | dress of greeting to the conferance, unity of effort, is the guarantee of | spoken by radio last night from his recuperation. To that unity of action |study in the White House. your members have made notable con- | Congratulating and thanking tributions.” State executives for t | his request for increased building, he | said he had been informed by the Com- merce suc By the Associated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, July 1.—Prob- lems of State taxation, whicn occupied a large share of the opening day's ses- sions of the National Governors' Con- ferenge, held a prominent place on to- | day's Brogram. | the MAN'S BODY FOUND ON BANK OF RIVER| construcifon for the first six months of 1930 had been not less than $1,700,000. This figure, he added, exceeds “even the boom year of 1923 by over $200,- 000,000. Construction operations un- A0 | dertaken by public utilitles, he reported, reached a total of more than $200,- | 000,000, Victim of Bullets Brings Chic: Gang War Total to 42. 5 Gov. Hardman Speaks. ‘That the sales tax should be in lieu of a property tax, and not in addition an_ad valorem levy, was the posi- WILLARD By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. July ‘The body of a man, dead of bullet wounds, was found on the banks of the Des Plaines River today near Riverside. He was appar- ently an Italian, and police believe he was a gangster, making number 42 on the growing casualty list of the year's gang was. The man had been dead about 10 hours. His body was clad in dark trousers and a white shirt. He wore a grey cap and tennis shoes. Because of the tennis shoes and cap | the Riverside police suggested the vic- tim might be “Red” Bolton, notorious West Side saloonkeeper and gangster, who wears such garb in the Summer. [ | Four hundred thousand dollars have | been appropriated by the Straits Settle- | ments and Federated Malay States gov- ernments for the installation of a car- rier system of telephones connecting Penang, Ipoh. Kuala Lumpur and Sing- apore. delivered here wi 14 INITIAL PAY with ’cold cuts‘ GULDENS A sentiment for the ultimate discon- | | tion of Gov. L. G. Hardman >f Georgis | who sald a proposed constitution: amendment in his State would with- | draw the ad valorem tax from its pres- ent level of 5 mills to a minimum of 1 mill. Gov. Arthur J. Weaver of Nebraska told of a provision under the new con- stitution of that State, whereby in- tangible property was assessed at a low rate of 8 mills. This had resulted in the addition of some $150,000,000 worth of intangible property to the tax rolls, he said, and had increased the State's revenue by approximately $1,000,000, End of Land Tax Predicted. Gov. John H. Trumbull of Connecti- | cut predicted that eventually the idea of land taxes as such will be abandoned. While no business session was pro- vided for this afternoon. several Gov- ernors were to speak over the National ! Broadcasting Co.’s network from 1 to 2 pm. (M. §. T.). They included John Garland Pollard of Virginia, Louis L, Emmerson of Tllinois, Arthur J. Weaver of Nebraska and J. E. Erickson of Montan 1 In the recent month the Birmingham | Municipal Bank of Birmingham, Eng- |land, had a record %otal deposits of $2,725,000. 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