Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1932, Page 13

YORKTOWN FETE . WORK IS PRAISED S. Otis Bland and Stanley D. ‘+ Embick Lauded for Cele- o+ bration Efforts. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. ;| NEWPORT NEWS, March 14—Rep- ‘Fesentative S. Otis Bland and Gen. Stanley D. Embick of Fort Monroe were congratulated on their work for the Yorktown Sesquicentennial in a Taxes Have Not Been is is the last of dve dally articles Tling what Eve Btates are doing to help telling the taxpayers BY MALCOLM CUTTING. SACRAMENTO, Calif, March 14 (N.AN.A.)—A most significant feature of the drive for tax relief, perhaps its most hopeful aspect, is organization of taxpayers in State and local associa- ticns to curb reckless expenditure and recover for the people some right of resolution ad-pted Saturday night by the Thomas Nelson, Jr., Chapter, Sons ©f the American Revoiution, in a re- crt of a committee named to report | ‘on proper reccgnition of the services of these two agencies, without whose Wwork the success of the Yorktown Ses- fuicentennial could not have been the success it was. | Gov. John Garland Pollard, Dr. J. A. | C. Chandler of William and Mary, and Dr. W. A. R. Goodwin of Williamsburg ‘were also mentioned in this connection for their part in the celebration. ‘The chapter's committee on the ques- | tion of an adequate Navy was reported | to be making progress ‘Wise, once a candi e for Congress, Epoke in favor of either an adequate | Navy or of scrapping our naval de- | fenses entirely. The assistant historian of the na- tional colonial monument at Yorktown, in a letter read at the meeting, re- quested copies of all the papers read at the meetings of the chapter on the | Yorktown campaign, last year, for the |20 files of the office of the Park Service at | Yorktown, where the nucleus of a his- | forical museum has already been | formed. The historical paper for the program Jdast night was read by W. B. Colonna | ©f the Newport News bar, on “Wash- hgton's First Administration,” as one a series on Washington’s life and ervices, presented at the monthly Toeetings. The Thomas Nelson, Jr., Chapter has several members in distant Btates of the Union. ‘The chapter has been invited to take in the 151st celebration of the 81 surrender at Yorktown, next Oc- ®ober, by Willlam M. Robinson, the superintendent of the National Park 8ervice work at Yorktown. self-government in the matter of un- warranted and confiscatory taxation. In this series on acomplishments in tax reduction the records of Minnesota, Indiana, Jowa and North Carolina have been presented. They led in reduction last year and in Minnesota and Indiana the savings were due in large measure to State taxpayers' associations. In the Far West taxpayers are or- ganized in State groups, and these in turn have united in an annual regional council. California, Arizona, New Mex- ico, Nevada, Utah and Montana, each with its State association, are members of the Western States Taxpayers’ Con- Prominent if not preeminent among Western organizations is the California Taxpayers’ Association. While Cali- fornia is not in that select group which actually reduced taxes last year, its| taxpayers’ association has been largely instrumental the last six years in effect- ing savings that might operate a less pulous State. These are estimated at $25,000,000 a year. Costs Increased Rapidly. How the cost of government mounted in California, in comparison with in- crease in population and wealth, can be told with a few figures. From 1911 to 1930 the cost of State government increased from $15,000,000 to $120,000,000, 715 per cent; county government, $39,000,000 to $292,000,000, 645 per cent; city government, not in- cluding special assessments, $44,000,000 to_$290,000,000, 559 per cent. During this period increase in pop- ulation was 133 per, cent and that of usetned valuation of property 291 per cent. Faced with this situation, taxpayers representing various interests six years Japan’s population is increasing st; the rate of nearly 1,000,000 a year. | Your Car Seems ago incorporated the California Tax- payers’ Association. Its purpose was to bring through nonpartisan and n THE EVENING Savings for Taxpayers California Citizens’ Groups Force Economies; W hile Cut, Rising Costs Have Been Sharply Reduced. political means the greatest possible economies consistent with efficiency in collecting and spending public money. Since that day, through this associa- | tion. not only "have many economies been effected in State and local gov- ernment, but a new tax consciousness |pervades the people. Taxpayers who {befm were almost resigned to increas- |ing costs of government now are in- | sisting that public expenditures be | radically reduced and that tax charges be cut down substantially. | Organized on a State-wide basis, the association is governed by directors who | represent all taxpaying groups It | maintains organization, research and | information departments, and a tax | counselor. An educational commission, |composed of prominent educators and |laymen, assists in forming educational | policies. Branches Keep Autonomy. ‘Though local branches are formed | only on request of the taxpayers con- | cerned, 17 county divisions and 10 city units have been organized. Each local | group elects its own directors, and the chairman and secret | bers of the Advisory Committee of the | SMII'.e tl;‘-ssocllthm. n the research department, with its technical experts, are centered all fact- finding activities. It analyzes adminis- | trative problems of State and local gov- ernment, aids in preparing budgets and suggests economies. Before 1927 there was no uniform budget requirement for counties. Spon- sored by the association, a law was enacted that year not only requiring a uniform system of county budgets, but | giving taxpayers right to a hearing in | preparing such budgets. | since, the association has made more than 40 budget studies in counties, citles and school districts, and has assisted 1;1 reducing these budgets many mil- ons. In each biennial period it has worked with State officials on the State budget, and has suggested economies saving millions. Aside from budget studies, it has made upward of 100 special sur- :‘eys used by budget-making authori- es. Beginning in 1926 the association |1aunched & continuous attack against a special assessment evil by which property of home owners was being tary become mem- | '\_/ STAR, WASHINGTON, Limiting wedxn'; 1|n-nm”l "ents '3‘55 A it} cent of the property value, and llvf:: home owners power to halt any spe- cial assessment proceeding by majority protest. school code. An early recommendation was cen- tralized purchase of school supplies, through tg:e county superintendent’s of- fice, for all elementary schools outside of chartered cities. This proposal was en- acted into law in 1927 and has reduced the cost of school supplies 10 to 40 per cent. In the 1931 Legislature this W wis supplemented by a measure permitting county superintendents to establish central maintenance and repair depart- ments for rural schools. | ot greater moment was a law passed in 1931, sponsored by the association, |and providing majer changes in the school bonding statwte. It reduced the | maximum term fof school bonds from 40 to 25 years, maximum interest rate from 6 to 5 per cent and required that premium and interest be applied to re- payment of bonds. A reduction of 15 years in the term of a 5 per cent serial bond will have 3715 cents in_interest payments for each | taxpayers in redmcing the financing cost of school improvements. | Taxes Still Hold to Level Despite these substantial _savings California has not yet found the way to actual tax reduction. But an active | taxpayers' assoclation, with a fine rec- |ord of achievement and an aroused public sentiment, is steadily leading the people toward the promised land. Last year the Legislature created a tax research bureau Wwith an appropri- ation of $90,000 for two years to report recommendations of economy to the | 1933 Legislature. The California Tax- | payers' Assoclation is conducting this year an exhaustive study of State gov- ernment, with the same purpose in view. Perhaps another year will find Cali- fornia among the tax reducers. To the organized taxpayers, in that happy event, will be the glory and the praise. (Copyright, 1932, by the North American Newspaper Alllance, Inc.) e S — Air Lines Get Premiums, PARIS, March 14 (#).—The Chamber of Deputies has voted 60,000,000 francs (about $2,400,000) as premiums for air malil lines operated by the Generale Aerpostale Co. in South America and elsewhere. The concern has been in financial straits for some time. dollar. That means millions saved to| D. €, STATE SOCIALISTS Other Measures Placed in Virginia Platform. svgx!-égmneh £0 The Star. MOND, Va., March 14—State ialists, in closing their convention here yesterday, adopted a platform calling for the abolition of the poll z:m gx: ;:emxgtlon of $2500 in taxes y_ for their and equipment, “34-hour weeg"ml! law, unemployment insurance and old age | pension and the adoption of the initi- | ative referendum and recall. | Herman R. Ansell, Richmond attor- | ney, was elected chairman of the party in Virginia, and the following were named as the Executive Committee: R. L. Johnson of Chesterfield, J. C. Davis of Norfolk, Samuel Wilmer of Fentress, David C. George of Hopewell, W. F. Billings of Hopewell R. H. Plause of Berkley, Mrs. Emma Ansell of Richmond and Miss Brown Lee Jones of Richmond. First Meeting March 27. The Executive Committee will hold |1ts first meeting in Norfolk March 27 when plans will be outlined for the national and municipal campaigns. David C. 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Labor party and several Socialist may- ors and ex-mayors of the United States. Speakers who addressed the conven- tion included William A. Goode, Mary- land committeeman; Amicus Most of West Virginia, J. C. Davis of Norfolk and Herman R. Ansell of Richmond. Australia to Meet Obligations. MELBOURNE, Australia, March 14 (#)—Prime Minister J. A. Lyons said the action of the state administra- tion would not vent operation of the new federal law compelling it to meet its outside obligations. ANDERSON BACKED TO SUCCEED SLEMP |3 | Ninth Distriot Virginia Republio- ans Instruct Delegates for Hoover and Curtis. By the Associated Press. BRISTOL, Va., March 14.—Republi- cans of the ninth Virginia district, at & spirited convention here s nominated Roland Chase of Clintwood for Congress and instructed their dele- gates to the National lican Con- vention at Chicago to for the re- nomiwetion of President Hoover and Vice President Curtls, They also urged the election of Henry Anderson of Richmond as Republican national committeeman, to succeed C. Bascom Slemp. Only the instruction for Col. Ander- son for national committeeman pro- voked a controversy on the floor, and the Jone opposition speaker was Rev. A. J. Wolfe of Wise County, who & tacked Anderson’s record on prohibi- tion and asserted he was a Repre- sentative of the wet sentiment of this country. Only six votes were recorded against the Anderson instruction, The convention adopted a resolution “commending the many good things” done for the district by Slemp, and a threatened fight focusing around the A—13 national committeeman was kept from the floor. 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