Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 10 February 1927 — Page 4

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DECATUR ’ DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller -..Pres, and Gen. Mgr. A R. Holthouse -Sec’y & Bub. Mgr. Dick D. Heller. Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies $ -02 One week, by carrier.... - .10 One year, by carrier —x 5.00 One month, by mail .35 Three months, by mall 1-00 Six months, by mail 1-75 Dne year, by mall ——3. o u (One year, at office— 3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those cones.) Advertising Rates: Made known by Application. Scheerer, Inc., 35 East Welker Drive. Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, yew York. The groundhog got peeved at all the jokes cracked the past week and gave us a little taste of what he has predicted all the time. Did you buy a*licket for the annual banquet of the Decatur Industrial Association'.' its a very important occasion if you but knew it and you ought to be there. Lets get together next .Monday night and decide to put a lot of I>*l’ and energy into this community during the year. Thats the stull that counts and its contagious. If a few men will plan and push things along, the first thing you know every body's doing it and we are going good. If the people of Decatur want a real country club they certainly have the opportunity of getting it. Mr. Schulte declared last evening that be proposed to finish the club and the grounds just as promised and if sup ported will continue to improve the grounds until they are the finest to be found any where. “Peaches'' Browning and her mam ma dear have sailed fur Bermuda, just trying to put in the time until Jm|ge Sbeger renders his decision on die divorce suit recently tried before him. In the meantime "Peaches” must struggle along as best she can or. S3UO a week which is rather difficult with the extravagant mother tagging her around. Now tiiat the English Channel am) the litte strip between the Los Angeles mainland ami Wriggley Island have been conquer.;! by Um expert swimmers, its about time some one offered a couple of dollars to the one who first swims the Pacific or At lantic. Lets quit fooling about this swimming business and Wn over something worth while. Hannah Holmes, aged seventy, got a divorce from her husband, James Holmes, the same three score and ten, at Fort Wayne the other day, on the grounds that instead of acting like a man of that age he wanted to lie romantic. Jim would make a good "example” for some patent medicine, with such a recomendation back of him. The Cann bill to abolish the public service commission has gone to third reading in the state senate and unless something is done to head it off by offering an acceptable substitute, there is considerable danger of it passing. Just what the results would be if that happens we ard not certain but it might be a (angle that would not after all be as pleasant as many now seem to think. Reilly and Goldstiue are back, from Michigan City and their trial is set for the 21st. These are the two men who a few months ago held up Chief Meichi, Sheriff Baker and Deputy Hower ami were captured after a thrilling chase by Fort Wayne officials and" volunteers from this city. The men have a bad record ami committed a serious crime here. They should ami will receive justice, nothing more or less. taaaanwrernrti hsiurr:Tile Fort Wayne News-Sentinel which has been borrowing so much needless worry because of the lucent dry speeph of McAdoo now lias something of their own to cause distress.

Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University in a speech u day or two ago practically declared his intention of accepting the wet leadership of the republican party. He urges that the question be met by making it an issue In the next campaign. He has a lot of support from sources of considerable strength, so please smoke that in your pipe. President Coolidge, It is said, has let it be known in the usual round about way in which news of this importance leaks from the white house, that he will veto the McNary-Haugen bill if it comes to him in its present form. Os course it could be changed but it seems that is all arranged too and those who insist on the bill in its present form will not change their determined minds, in tbe meantime, only the farmers who have been “upagainst it" for several years will be tiio chief sufferers with everybody else feeling the roar-back. Havfe you renewed your subscription to the Dally Democrat? Our campaign will close soon and we will regret it If it is necessary to stop a single paper. If you don’t want the paper longer, we will appreciate it if you will let us know and if you da want it we will also appreciate it if you will say so by sending in your remittance. The Democrat was founded seventy years ago next Sunday as a weekly newspaper and the daily is now well on Its twenty-fifth year. Oi course we want your continued support and as we have frequently stat ed will do every thing we can t< merit it. England and one or two other Euro peau nations have rejected ( the reset' vations as adopted by the United rotates senate regarding entrance in the World Court. With a lot of blah blah in the form of propositions so as not to offend too much they have declined our proposition, which is just what was expected by those who made the reservations and what is perhaps desired by a majority of the citizens of this country. We believe the United States could have lone much good and perhaps have profited by joining the league of nations when proposed, but v.f doubt the advisability of such a thing now when the nations oVer there are mixed up in all kinds of tangles. So thats that. o ■ * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY 4 a 4 h From the Daily Democrat File 4 h Twenty Years Ago This Day. 4 February 10. 11)07 was Sunday.

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1927.

Farm Bureau In Tangle Over Taxation Figures • — ■ ' Two Measures Introduced In Legislature By Federation, Aimed At State Tax Board To Lighten Tax Burden On Rea! Estate, Clash On Some Paints; Utility Lobby Working Night And Day; Cann Bill Goes On Its Way Tq Third Reading, Unmolested.

By Walter A. Sltetid (Written for the Dally Democrat) Indianapolis, Ind. Feb. 10—The Indiana farm bureau federation has gotten itself, into a tangled skein of taxation figures in the two measures fostered in the Seventy-fifth general assembly by the farmer bloc, both aimed at the state tax Isiard and both aimed to lighten the tax burden on real estate. The first bill known as the LindleySi ake-Johuson bill passed the Senate the other day by a vote of 37 to 11. This measure provides that all proiierty, real and personal, shall be assessed on a basis of twenty per cent of its annual normal net iucomed, but no property shall be assessed at more lhau two per cent of its fair cash value. In another bill in the house known as the Murder-Truwbridge bill, provisions are diametrically opposed to the-Lindley bill. The measure provides that the valuation and assessment of a public utility for taxation purposes shall not be less than a valuation for rate making purposes as fixed by the public service commission. Take a concrete example. A utility under the Murder bill, assessed for rate making purposes at $15,000,000 must lie assessed for taxation at that figure. Under the Lindley bill this same utility at $18,000,000 valuation would be taxed at twenty per.eent of its normal annual net income which in the case of utilities is fixed al 7 per cent. Seven per cent of $18,000,000 would be $1.11*0,000 as a normal annual net in come and twenty per cent .of this for taxation would be $232X100 upoif which this utility would be taxed. At the widest stretch of taxation under the provisions of the Lindley bill the 518,000,000 utility could not be assessed at more than two percent of Its valuation which would be $360,000. So under one measure the utility would be assessed fur taxation al $l»,ooo,wo and under the other the same utility would be assessed at uot more than $360,000. The Mui den bill according to observers of public utility shows a further discrepancy. The state tax board as sesses utilities on their physicial valuation. while the public service commission under the iaw in fixing a valuation for raie making nitt-t lake into consideration besides the physical valuation about tw< nty yer cent extra vul nation known as intangibles, going value ut the like. So under the Morden measuic the utility would ne paving taxes in addition to its fair physical valuation, a tax on its intangibles and going or book valuation. Members of the farm bloc were scratching their heads Wedne. day on just how to reconcile tbe two men sic es and hoped to arrive /d .some so ution by amehdiuent. The faim tax bills have created a furore among students of taxation an I are proving tlte most vital topic of discussion among the legislators. Even the utility remedial legislation measures have been thrust into the background for the time by tbe tax measures, so revolutionary in character. In the vote on the Lindley measure in the Senate, the Democratic minoiity voted solidyly with the farm bloc with the exception of Senator Perkins of South Bend. It was predicted that the farm salons would attempt to include the Murden bill under the provisions of the Lindely bill in .some way when the measure comes up for second reading in the House. In a caucus Tuesday night the farmabor bloc in the legislature agreed to join fortes on the primary measures to defeat the repeal of the primary and if possible to strengthen rather than weaken its provisions. The utility lobby which has been working night and day, teeth and toenail in an effort to gain a foothold soine where to defeat the Cann measure which provides for abolishment, of the public service commission increased their lobby and resourcetfulness. Wednesday when to the surprise of even the most sanguine of the Cann bill supporters the measure was passed to third reading in the senate without a dissenting voice. The members of the senate were set and tense icady far a bitter debate and when the bill was handed down and no one offered to touch in with amendment or motion that was an audible sigh of relief and then an <mlburst, of laughter in the senate chamber as the bill went on its way to third reading unmoiesl--1 ed. The first sign of opposition by the utility interests came when the senate convened Wednesday and Seua-

tor Edward O'Rourke (Rep Allen and Noble) Qffered a motion to limit debate in the senate to five minutes and three minutes for the author of the bill to close. Senator Cun and a half dozen other senators were immediately on their feet and Senator Cann's motion to table theMJ'Rourke motion was carried by a heavy majority. Two oilier utility measures were moved up a notch iu the legislative hopper, The Moorhead bill, the principal feature of which is the election of the cuinnilssione’s and the Harlan measure which provides the commission may investigate promotion and attorney fees el' utilities when applying for a rate, both were sent to engrossment. Senator Cann wisely moved that his measure be made a special order of business next Tuesday Feb. 15. and liis motion was carried. According to proponents of the measure the galleries and floor of tbe senate will be packed to capacity when tlte debate ou the measure opens. It is understood lhat Senator Cann threatened Senator James J. Nejdl (Rep Lake) majority lioor leadei, with an investigation resolution unless his measure was allowed to go to third reading. This may be the reason the utility senators "laid off'. They may have had word f: m Nejdl to concentrate their attack when the measure came up for final passage. Just what sort of investigation Cann threatened could not be learned. . —o INCOME TAX REPORTS DUE Blanks Must Be Filed Before March 15; Collector Coming To Decatur Notices have been pasted in Federal building; and other prominent places reminding al! citizens that the Federal income tax reports are due and should be sent to the collector of internal revenue, Indianapolis uot later yian March 15. A deputy collector of internal revenue will be in Decatur, at the Decatur Industrial rooms, Februray 15 to February 18, to aid in making out the tax i eturns. A heavy penalty can be imposed for failure to make the tax return, ami all persons with an income above a certain mininmum must fill out a blank whether they' have to pay a lax or not. The penalty for failure t« return the tax re-urn is a fine of not mere than SIO,OOO, or imprisonment for not more than one year or both and a 25 percent additional tax. i , u Compulsory Bible Reading In Public Schools Defeated Indianapolis, Ind.. Feb. 10—-(United Press)- -Compulsory bible beading in public schools was eliminated from further legislative consideration late Monday when the senate defeated the Ijeonard bill by a vote of 26-21. Working until late In the afternoon, the senate passed two bills and a resolution, and defeated one measure/ while the ho-use in rapid, fire order passed six bills and relegated two indefinite postponement. Passage of the Werner bill for an optional plan of pensions for the blind was tlie outsanding event in the house. The vote was 53-37. Other Bills that passed the house Like Smiling Away Troubles Serious Condition Caused bv Nervousness, (iasrriiis. Sluggish Liver Relieved by Tanlac. Mrs. Minnie O. » Somers, 300 W. Gil- A , belt Street. Muncie, : x Ind., mother of * A children, recently ’ said: “About 10 BajwWfr W—vears ago my health WE began to slip 1 lie- tfe- JP' caine so weak that ’ >, housework utterly ~ exhausted me. Life ' was drudgery. “I wassonervous I couldn't steep. Headaches and other aches and pains almost drove me mad. I had to force food into my stomach and i was always tormented by sharp gastric pains. Something had to be done! • “A friend told me about Tanlac and I began taking it. This wonder tonic cleaned out my system, toned up my liver. I eat everything without, a sign of trouble, sleep like a child. I feel much stronger, better. Thanks toTanlac.” Tanlac, nature's own remedy mads from roots, harks and herbs, is sold by your druggist. ’4O million bottles sold, 1— - — I — - ■ -K ■■ ■ —- .-.W*

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To Hire County Agent Anderson. Ind., Feb. 10,-( United ■ Press) —County authorities again look-, ed for a county agricultural agent fol'lowing aeti-m ut the county council| in appropiiating f’l the office I | wb ich ha* twice been tboilalied. |

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