The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 23, 1921, Page 6

THE SEATTLE STAR MONDAY, MAY 23, 1921. Newspaper En terprive Assn. and United | The Se attle Star (ox: We've cor By Berton Braley fe to the end of the rainbow ‘Professor Budlong =| Puts Tanlac to Tes la, > Seattle’s Taxes Low---In Some mace tt sur ¥ . le never a pot © a fo the guerdon we drea f gaining 4 Respects 4 er : “ae ° rhe gold wan the gold of dream! a Official tax figures for 1919, the latest available for all se Z Se 4 cities, shows that while taxes are higher in Seattle, Tacoma Put shall _we then complain 5 and other Washington cities on homes and other real estate, wre aaah at Sarena: On : and on personal property, they are lower in this state on other why, we've faced the work and viru ; forms of wealth. We've tallowed the veiteaine viciogm a For example, in New York they have a state income tax. ira a aR i a There is none here. Naturally, to the extent that the income Fe SN No pot of gold we find tax produced public revenues, to that extent homes and real thing but plaster a cellis’ Ot ee oud or castes send estate and personal property are relieved. The same is true in Jot uv us play hooky be —Sitpbin Bagr nyse, Mas Wile Wisconsin, and in other states. (And thie maybe what the fabio meant In these states, and in Oregon, and in California, and in Mies Pomc chessce Peril nearly every state, except Washington, intangible property, || “ERS ae, | Gaderer re eee extort 3 such as bank deposits, stocks, bonds, mortgages, are taxed. Not — ae Pile i, (7% at the same rate as real estate, but taxed nevertheless. Again, ecor Bu Tt Nyy Wy) / oe there is, a source of revenue for governmental purposes that AR ERNE Hy Mi, iy y, as makes the burden on home owners easier—and when the bur- den is lifted from home owners, it is also lifted from home renters. So, you see when it is asserted that Seattle pays higher taxes than other cities, it is not altogether true. It pays higher taxes on real estate and personal property, but it pays the lowest tax possible—nothing—on incomes, and on “intangibles.” While the man who owns a $2,500 home is taxed, and taxed wig the man who owns $2,500 in the bank isn’t taxed at . MrT ff bill) may udement Lazo TODAY'S QUESTION Do you generally put your best n the nen LEGISLATIVE DEFORMITY I am trying to find whether hat mut The man who barely makes a living and is buying a little Meet aE sca Will ee home on the installment plan is taxed plenty. The man who SY ar ae oa makes $50,000 a year, but has no real estate investments, escapes taxes. age Just bear these facts in mind when you consider the tax question. They are fundamental facts. Just now the home owner, or the home renter, is the goat in Washington’s tax system. And because he is the goat, the state itself-is the goat among other states, and Seattle is the goat among other cities. Our tax rate on property is too high, and always will be too high, in comparison with other cities, if we let other sources SER, 1624 11th ave ° My to one or Judging | Renton BURTIS from resulta, I think not AT THE TODDLE BALL | A stop, a stop, a threatened Mop, | Another step, be nd forty-five acquires the gait etering one-year-old hance the breath of scandal now of revenue escape altogether. That means that building here || s ‘arn to \nfant pratt, is retarded. It means that manufacturers do not care to come | Wh testhing ring or rattlol Cartoons Magaaine. here if they know that at the very outset the very land they must have and the building they must erect will have to bear a burden that is greater than elsewhere. Don’t yousee where this leads? hess building and less fac- tories, less work! Less work, less income for everybody! Our tax system is where the ball of prosperity must begin to roll. If it cannot get its impetus there, it cannot get very far. As matters stand now, we are trying to compete with other cities and states, but refuse to give ourselves the same advan- tages they have by a modern and up-to-date tax system. Letters to the! -Editor— QUOTES DR. LAPP | ‘ON “EPIDEMICS” ] Editor The Star ON INSTALLMENT PLAN Mra. Biggine—Ob, dear! I am get ting stouter every day Rigg Yes. When I married I little realized that I waa getting a) wife on the installment plan.— Detroit | Free Proms. When In Seattle, cat at Boidt'a— Advertisement | AUTOMOBILES AT YOUR QWN PRICE | $25.00 a Day Off Until Sold | Big Turnover Necessary Reduced Daily $25.00 Each Until Sold A reduction so rapid that it will be necessary for you to watch the car you want carefully or it will be snapped up by some one else, unknown to you. BY DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON The old poem of “Darius Green and His Flying Machine,” J. T. Trowbridge entertained us lon, By way of com- < ago was not only a kind of epitome " ‘i . of the history of aerial navigation fro i Ment on your editorial of May 14 ea rom Icarus and Daedalos to one gen @welling on the altruism of the peo-|* ». but It was also an accurate statement of the real peril of the BID ON YOUR CAR ple of the medical profession, let me fying iness. Darius, a shrewd, secretive Yankee lad, endeavored te Bide will be received and posted on each car; anyone oan bid Bay I love to attribute unselfishness |My. He had any amount by placing a deposit to cover the“bid. When the with whie | | | where such tribute is due. However, A carriage-cover for tail and wings price works down to the highest bid the car will be considered if we may get a premise from the A ple f harness, and straps and strings: sold Statement of Dr. J. A. Lapp, of Chi And a big, strong box, in which he locks ‘The following care will be placed on es under this plan, and Gago, editor of Modern Medicine, Th 4a hundred other things | w positively remain until sold, even tho they bring only $25.00: Mhade before the Seattle Rotary club.| He completed his { mn just before the Fourth of July, and he in-| APPERSON SEVEN.PASSENGER TOURING; mechanically ex Our conclusion cannot fully support | tended to astonish the assembled folk of hi re client; excellent finish, good cord tire equipment, five wire wheels ¢ your editorial Dr: Lapp is reported said “Full grown epidemics, which did The Regular price, $1,850 | TOMORROW'S PRICE $1,775.00 r he een dr n privately on th as having Not exist until the fear of them was se teria taco, coe ps0 bella j STUDEBAKER SPECIAL SIX TOURING. This cat bas been instilled into the public conscious lg tee ang tye et aa" nea | privately owned and used under the most favorable conditions Mess by those who posed as saviors of on sm te b m 6 chap fm the moon; Almost new cord tires; bumpers front and rear. the country, developed in this cou saat & race ‘Ith their ol’ balloon ar price, $1,475.00 try last year. Two eminent But it did not turn out as he hoped; an he picked himself up out | an physicians last year sc ad deEE: We beard tad Mine kee a ke saad TOMORROW'S PRICE $1,400.00 ently urged the fear of these iding in the barn, and their question, “Say, D’rius, how do you like| Bw en ty mace ere | THIS IS A UNIQUE PLAN ey on oni aly aaah apllana 5 and Seen ed | @ high standard of salesmanship, and we believe will attract a sume that by working for a referen Wal, I like flyin’ well enough,” robe Bes se vs ned 6 ate con dum on Senate 180 the drugging He 4, “but the’ ain't sich a thunderin’ aight . . | a. RERDOe hot doe — ey 4 Professionals expect to decrease their 0: in ‘t when ye come to light | 7 des ven "Suan a0 seer ess unt ey may have to tr - be " ee - = R yee — bs — have toturn! To this day alighting the dangerous part of flying. The next | some other occupation 2 | improvements ii of the air should be in devising arrange. | < s M. D. PARKHL | ments fe | 1e 00 otor 0. SS 1120 Ninth Av In ot coming down has ita discomforts War : . a dizzy flight kagea come down ff} 1024 East Pike St. Phone East 100 MARKIED COUPLES jwith a hard, sicke thud, to th ider debts and profiteer AT NAVY YARD? Jing and scandals « sort Whe ar is or It has always been #0, and prob will be so. F That is war : s ’ nm employed | the tin f discomfort and peri 1 Europe at yard, and v in the barn-yard amid the wreck of th nical ip | devices of flight. Flying is fun, but alighting is uncomfortable . 4 number k means pleasant is that of flying; but it will be better for us when we reach the bottom and know that we are there se with the| or the em | Try This on Your Wise Friend Apples bought at 3 for 2 cents were sold at 2 for What was the percentage of gain? 20 and 16 | It Be? A pair of weak glasses now to remedy a minor eye trouble OR A pair of “strong glasses” LATER ON to remedy an eye trouble that has become serious thru neglect, which will cause you to wear glasses continually? MORTGAGES Buy Title-Insured Mortgages couple and r ployment of Able to fill th for the sake} their country | $0 well in tirne of need that your paper will investigate this situation 2 WHO KNOWS. 3 cents. Answer to Saturday's From one end of the coun try to the other come reports that there is a renewed and Increasing demand for good first mortgages on improved properties as investments. Mortgages as investments are resuming former well deserved popularity, and one reason undoubtedly is that John B. Stanchfield, noted lawyer, was the son of a country doctor of Elmira, N. Y. their He tried 11 kinds of work and title insurance has done away gave up © i Inepiees ny sermon Come in and have us ex with all uncertainty about the whieh was “Failure,” he title to the land cures the mortgage WASHINGTON TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY Under State Supervision amine which se free of charge your eyes tomorrow left home, went to Cambridge, work ed his way thru Harvard law school, and was admitted to the New York bar. He is now called the greatest trial lawyer in the United Stati “In the final “the man who finds out what Wants to do and then does it if he starves, win.” Since 1890 we have served satisfactorily over 60,000 peo: ple who needed glasse Seattle Optical Co. 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