Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1932, Page 10

A—10 e i iri k i R —— THE EVENING STAR., WA III\(I PON, 1 S MONDAY, ) ARCH T, CHICAGO FINANGES BRING TAX STRIKE, Complex Series of Events Puts City in Aimost Hope- less Money Muddle. ity face to face wit }it1 did Chicago ed in a series of Yaree " stories. Whicn CHICAGO, March 7 (#).—The story of this city of 3.000.000 persons its treasuries empty. far be- hind in their pay, its to pay taxes- 2% story “hat invariably brings up the question “How did Chicago ever let itself gd tn_such shape The answer is that the tax and fir cial muddle is a_product of many y end many problems. It was a slow- growing malady and Chicago did not B seriousness until general 1 economic conditions furnished the impetus for sudden chaotic condi- tione that could no longer be ignored. - Problem Too Complex. Chicagoan wiil blame cians,” or “millionaires who are hiding their wealth.” or * lords who refuse o pay Actually the problem is too comple: result from any one cause. The system of assessing property and ing taxes in Cook County, which is Chicago and a score of suburbs, has long been attacked as unworkable and inefficient. The people lost faith in that system Hayden The aver: “crocked Bell, ttorney for the county aid the em was “impx sible * * * could not have been operated by_honest men." Melvin A. Traylor, president of the First National Bamk. told the State Legislature he did not believe it hu- manly possible for the machinery, which included 5 assessars and 400 taxjng units, to levy a proper tax. do not believe I could do it.” he said *“I do not believe you could.” 300,000 Storm Tax Board. Complaints under that system grew steadily until some 300,000 property owners stormed the offices of the Board of Review after the quadrennial assessment had been made in 1927 The State Supreme Court ruled that there were “gross inequalities” in the Jevy and a reassessment was ordered. Because of various court actions and political moves, it was almost a year before the reassessment was started and it was April, 1930, before it was com- pleted. The 1927 taxes had been col- lected on time in 1928, but there was no reverue from taxes in 1929 The money to run the local govern- ments—the city, the county, the school board, the sanitary district, the park boards—came during this period from the sale of tax anticipation warrants. At first the banks and other large finan- cial institutions were ready buyers of this interest-bearing paper, but the market eventually became glutted. There is now outstanding almost $240.- 000.000 in warrants and the governing bodies have found it futile to offer more. When the 1928 bills had finally been mailed out. and, not many months later, 5 followed in their wake, began to “strike.” The rike” is best shown by xes still due for 1928, Sor 1929, $82,110,689. 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The District Bar Association en’s Bar Association and local sentatives of the American ciation and the American Law are co-operating in the dinner. COMMUNITY PLAY SERIES TO CONCLUDE THIS WEEK Last of Program Wom- of Preliminary Contest? Scheduled Tomorrow and Thursday Nights The last of a series of contests pre- liminary to the finals of th play tournment under the auspices of the * Community Center Department March 15 will be held in the East W ington Community Center tomorrow night and Thursday night, it was an- nounced today. e The program tomorrow night will b opened with the presentation of * Stoker” by the Pierce Hall Pla which was postponed from last Thu day's preliminaries because of illnes one of the players. Other grou scheduled to appear tomorrow incl the Park View “The Who Cume Back Montgor Players in “No Sabe”; the Drama S tion of the Woman's Club of Chevy Chase in “One Little Kiss,” and the East Washington Community Players in “Fog." 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