Evening Star Newspaper, June 6, 1937, Page 6

A—6 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D.. C, JUNE 6 of single persons of $1,000 or more and allow married couples an exemption 1937—PART ONE. FIGHT ON PARKING 3 METERS EXPECTED Organized Motorists Gird for Battle if Plan Passes Congress. A storm of protest over the pro- posal that the District rent por- tions of its streets as parking spaces for automobiles may break about the heads of the tax-worried Commis- sioners if Congress passes the park- ing meter plan as now drafted. This part of the District's pro- posed new revenue program is not mandatory and would leave the de- cision to the city heads. It merely empowers the Commissioners “in their discretion” to collect fees for park- | ing on the highways and to use park- ing meter gadgets for collection of | Tees. That a last-ditch fight will be| made by organized motorists to pre- vent adoption of the parking meters, if Congress grants the authority, was indicated yesterday when the Amer- ican Automobile Association turned | a new blast against the meters, call- ing them “‘coin-operated alarm clocks™ and lhe‘plan a “tragic aburdity.” Legal Study Possible, Since the plan is still before Con- | | Predicts Tax on Machine Power Three characteristic candid of Massachusetts, who yesterday predict the replacement of men by machines. believes such a taxr is a necessary sequel to the wa lawmaker co-authored. camera poses of Representative ed a tax on all machine power as a means of meeting The chairman of the House Labor Committee said he ge and hour bill which the New England % = = William P. Connery, Democrat, —A. P. Photos. cisions by the supreme courts of three States, Oklahoma, Florida ahd Ala- bama. The meters have a 2-to-1 count on their objectors in these cases gress, the Commissioners have not yet had occasion to act and before they reach a decision they may have their advisers make a study of the| legal aspects of renting space in the public streets. | The bill was drafted by District of- | ficials at the direction of the Tax| Subcommittee of the House District | Committee. While testifying before the tax group, one of the Commis- Floners suggested that Congress order | the installation of the meters, if Con- | gress wants them used. Adoption of the use of parking meters has been fought in cities from | coast to coast by the A. A, A, which | has contended the plan places just one | more burden on motor vehicle owners, | and has protested the scheme is illegal | if it is a revenue-raising plan based on police powers of regulation. | Nichols Backs Meter Plan. | Parking meters, however, are not | witho champions in the District. | Adoption of the plan is being urged in Congress by Representative Nichols of | Oklahoma, where the device first was instituted. Its adoption also is recom- mended by William A. Van Duzer, District traffic director, who believes it | would not only spread the use of the | fimited number of parking spaces in the downtown area, but also greatly reduce the mber of police needed to enforce time limits on parking. In the District tax group of the | House, the plan is suggested as a| means of providing a “cushion” of ad- ditional revenues which the Comxms-‘ sioners might provide if needed to bal- ance the 1938 budget. Van Duzer has | estimated the District might raise as| much as $500,000 to $600,000 fl'om‘ twidespread installation of the meters. | However, if they were installed at | first only in the area from Fifth to | streets and from Pennsyl- | vania to New York avenues, the rev- enue would be lowered. Van Duzer estimates about 2,000 would be needed for such an area. Spaces devoted to shipping entrances and free zones for | parking of taxicabs would not be | metered, Van Duzer said. Meters Cost $55 to $85. The meters range in price, as in- stalled, from $55 to $85. If a 3531 brand were used, 2,000 of them would gost the District $116,000. | Van Duzer has suggested that the | fee might be 5 cents. In some places this price would rent a parking space for one hour. But in other places | the time signals might be set for 15| or 30 minutes, depending on the loca- tion. Time needed to park for a brief | trip to a bank, for instance, might be 15 minutes, while for use of shoppe.rs} it more likely would be an hour. But these point are not yet settled. | It is calculated the meters would | eollect an average of 30 cents a day, | f in use from 9:30 am. to 4 pm. If | they were used 300 days out of a year on such a schedule they would gross | $180,000 a year, The parking meter i{s the inven- tion of Carl C. Magee, newspaper editor, who played a part in une earthing the Tea Pot Dome oil scan- dal. He heads a company in Okla- homa City which manufactures the device. Since use of this device started, other companies have pro- duced other types of timing and fee- collecting gadgets, and the campaign for their use has been carried from city to city. Parking Spaces Marked. Where the devices are to be used parking spaces are marked along the | curbs of pu streets. They would | be about 20 feet long here. The meters are affixed to standards near | the curb. The motorist parks his car | in a vacant spot, drops a nickel in the slot and a flag is raised to show the space is ‘rented.” The flag stays raised until the clock ticks off the paid-for time and then it drops. The | observant policeman then can stroll down the block and ticket cars parked where the flags are down. “I believe the number o” policemen peeded to enforce parking restric- tions would be but one-fourth to one- third of the number now needed,” Van Duzer states. The fight against the meters has been taken to the courts in some Jurisdictions and there have been de- ' NEW LOW-C Only the Alabama court threw out the meter programs | The Oklahoma Supreme Court | stated parking meter ordinances, on | their face, appeared to be bona fide | exercise of the police power. It stated | there was no showing that the meters | were installed on streets where traf- | fic was not sufficiently heavy to jus- | tify any parking regulation, or lhnli the city was making an unjustified profit and was resorting to their use for the purpose of raising revenue and not regulation. This decision was filed in March of this year. The Florida Supreme Court, last | December, in upholding the validity of a parking meter ordinance in Miami, said it was not dealing with the right to travel but with the power of a municipality to regulate parking D. C. Taxes (Continued From First Page.) of the Collins measure, or to be exact, about $2,000,000 a year. The Commissioners and the Tax Subcommittee, however, admit the credit to be allowed on income tax payment for intangible tax payment will make a decided difference in the original $2,000,000 estimate, but on the wrong side of the ledger. In fact, the $2,000,000 credit from the intang- ible tax —the collections in 1936 | amounted to $2,100,000—would vir- | tually wipe out the income from the income tax. Since “teeth” are to be | | put into the intangible tax law, the ! | Commissioners predict a net gain of | | at least $£1,000,000 from the operation | of both of these taxes. There's a Yield, At Any Rate. and that the only question WaS| A anrate the income tax plan is 18 months before complete benefits | from the estate and inheritance tax | are fully realized by the District, since those who will be affected by this| legislation have that length of time in which to settle up. And it will be an- | | other year before the District begins to realize on the income tax, since the tax subcommittee knocked out & pro- posal of the Commissioners to make it retroactive on 1936 income. The | | initial tax on income will be based on | 1937 earnings and the tax paid next year. | ‘The business privilege tax, however, will be levied this year, on the basls | | of 1936 gross receipts, although only | one-half of the amount collectible, will be demanded by the District Nevertheless, since all the estimated Tevenue from the new tax program | Wwill not be available in the first half | of the new fiscal year, the ‘subcom- | mittee proposes to sponsor legislation permitting the Commissioners to bor- row funds from the Federal Treasury of $2,500 with $40Q additional for each dependent. Plans had been made to have the full committee pass on the subcom- mittee'’s tax program at a special meeting Tuesday, but it is likely this arrangement will be scrapped be- cause of the absence of Chairman Norton from the city. She is not ex- pected to return before the end of the week and indicated when she left sev- eral days ago that she wanted to be present when the committee acted on the tax increase program. Here are the final tax bill recom- mendations of the Commisioners, with estimates on the revenue they will yield: Income tax, $2,000,000. Strengthening the intangible tax law, additional $1,000.000. Motor vehicle weight tax, $1,500,000. | Inheritance and estates tax, $300,- 000. Increase from 15 to 2 per cent on the present tax on insurance pre- mium receipts, an additional $200,000. | Business privilege tax, $3,000,000. Altogether this program would yield an estimated $8,500,000 in additional revenue. From this, however, must be subtracted the $1,500,000° antici- pated revenue from the motor ve- hicle weight tax which would go into the special mwsoline tax fund to sup- port the highway department and cer- tain activities of the departmeht of vehicles gnd traffic rather than to | offset the deficit. William and Mary Alumni Vote} To Curtdail Enrolling of Co-eds By the Assoclated Press. the Governor give preference mj WILLIAMSBURG, Va, June 5.—|alumni and alumnae of the college | William and Mary alumni voted to- |in filling vacancies on the Board of | day a1 their annual meeting here to | Visitors. request the Board of Visitors of the The recommendation at first called | college to curtall the enrollment of | for appointing visitors from a list women students. submitted by the managers of the ‘The session, one of the warmest in | Alumni Association, but former Sena- years, witnessed a lengthy aiscussion | tor G. Walter Mapp of Accomac and regarding the steady increase in wom- | Judge Frank Armistead of Williams- en and decline in number of men stu- | PUrR led the fight which resulted in dents at William and Mary. The resolution, recommended by the Board of Managers of the Alumni Association and introduced by Miss Cornelia Adair of Richmond, wa: passed without a dissenting vote. It requested the Board of Visitors at an early date to limit enroliment |on a basis of 60 men and 40 women. H. Lester Hooker, member of the State Corporation Commission of Richmond, urged that the coilege cur- | riculum be changed, eliminating sew- ing, cooking and secretarial science in order to attract “he-men.” No action was taken on proposals that the college now “hew to the line” in compelling applicants for ad- mission to be in the upper part of | their classes and that an effort be | made to “sell the college” to men of Virginia and the South. Another recommendation of the Board of Managers adopted was that THOMPSON BROS. Anacostia, D. C. WE RECOMMEND NORGE | deleting this proposal from the recom- | mendation as passed. The alumni adopted unanimously a motion by Gardiner Tyler, Richmond attorney, requesting the General Assembly to pass & law specifying that | & majority of the members of the Board of Visitors be appointed from | alumni of the college. | Dr. Sidney B. Hall, State superin- tendent of public instruction and | member of the Class of '16, was elected president of the association for the coming year. Malcolm Bridges of Richmond was named vice president. Dr. John | Todd of Newport News was elected a member of the Athletic Committee, | and James Jenkins, Washington, N. C., | was named to the Board of Managers for a three-year term. | | ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO BELIEVE! Watches, wns, Cameras. , Musleal Instraments, ete. 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Citing au- thorities, the court said: “Undoubtedly, a city may not ‘make | gain under an illegal exercise of the | police power,’ but it is well settled | that a license fee may be of sufficient | amount to include the expense of | issuing the license and the cost of necessary inspection or police sur- veillance connected with the busi- | ness or calling licensed, and all the | incidental expenses that are likely to be imposed upon the public in conse- | quence of the business licensed. ‘The courts will not seek to avoid an ordi- nance by nice calculations of the ex- pense of enforcing police regulations, | but will promptly arrest any clear | abuse of the power.’ Property Claim Made. The Alabama case included a claim that the owner of premises before which a parking meter had been es- | tablished was being deprived of the | full exercise of free access to his property by reason of the use of the| space for parking for a fee. | In a digest it made of this deci- sion, in January of this year, the . A. A. said the court ruled the meter ordinance of Birmingham il- ¥egal on three grounds: 1. That the original deed of dedi- cation of land for streets specified that these were to be devoted to the use of the public in general and that the conversion of them into city-| operated parking lots was in contra- | ventlon of the terms of the original deeds. 2. That property owners or lease- holders had certain inherent rights pertaining to streets adjacent to their properties, particularly those of m-} gress and egress and that the renting of parking space was contrary to the | “due process” clause of the Constitu- | tion. 3. 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