Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 144, 28 April 1914 — Page 4

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THE JtlCTJMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1914

The Richmond Palladium

Published Cray Evening Except Sunday, hf Palladium Printing Co. Maaonie Building. Ninth and North A Stroota, R. G. Leeds. Editor. E. H. Harris, Mgr.

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Scientific Taxation. If the state assembly were to pass a law compelling every male person twenty-one years or over to wear nothing but red neck-ties the citizens of Hoosierdom would rise in bloody rebellion before a fortnight. But the state legisla

ture passes one tax measure after another quite as absurd, and equally as despotic, and infinitely more extravagant and costly with never a whimper from the good citizens of the commonwealth. The reason for this anomalous fact is, of course, that everybody can understand the necktie question but very few understand the tax question. Taxes are recondite and known to professionals only, and tax documents are couched, as are all legal documents, in stiff and un-under-standable language which shoots over the heads of the crowd. If the present methods of levying and handling taxes could be made as plain to everybody as the rights of a man to wear what neck-tie he pleased, Mexico's little squabble would by comparison fad away into inocuousness. A tax is the amount which every person is compelled by law to pay toward the public expense. We say "every person" because every person is a taxpayer. Whether one owns property or not and whether he goes annually to the treasurer's office he pays taxes just the same. They are drawn from him by his landlord who adds his tax expense to rentals, by employers who deduct it from wages, or by merchants who add it to prices. One may accept it as a settled principle that everybody who works, rents, buys and sells pays taxes: some pay directly and others indirectly. Just now one of the great political questions before the country is as to whether taxation should be made still more indirect or whether it should be made still more direct. Land owner, factory owner, merchant, employe, producer, consumer, all these form a circle around which money circulates. At what point shall the state inject its

tax assessment through which to siphon off the necessary funds into the public treasuries? That is the question. But it is not a question which must be settled before cities can put in a system of taxation more or less scientific. Even, with our present hoary and obsolete methods there is still room for vast improvement. - We can improve by adopting scientific methods of determining the amount needed. How did Richmond know how much money she would need for her expenses in 1914? She knew only by guess. Each city official guessed how much his department would need and then council on top

of these made one grand guess and passed an

appropriation ordinance. By installing a scientific budget system this government by guess will be eliminated. Then every official will know how much he will need;

he can specify just what he will need the money for and the city can go ahead with its buying as confidently as can the woman who goes shopping with a fixed amount in her purse and a definite purpose in her head. We can work out a more scientific method of assessment. Tax assessors are too often a flock of lame ducks who work for two dollars a day and have about as much of an idea of their duties as a school boy would. Two of them will march down the south side of the street assessing at one half and the other two will solemnly march up the north side of the same street assessing at two-thirds. What demands the most

i accurate and expert business judgment of any j function of local government usually receives the

least. Beyond a scientific assessment we might as easily have a scientific method of apportionment. As stated above our present method is a very exciting system of guessing. When we come to install the budget system in Richmond we shall be able to apportion to each department just what it needs and no more, and we can say to the head of that department, "Here is the money, you can do so much with it, if you don't do it we shall want to know the reason, and you cannot borrow

(from the funds of any other department without

the most infallible reason, nor can any other department steal from yours." And along with that we can have a scientific method of recording the city's funds so that each department will know just how fast to spend, so that the mayor will be able to locate the city financially at any given moment, and so that every citizen will be able to know where every dollar of his money has gone. A new taxing system is one of Indiana's crying needs. The only way we can get it is a new constitution. Therefore, boost for a constitutional convention.

FRANCHISE LEAGUE

Chivalry did not Buffer In Chicago when women voters for the first time went In vast numbers to register. Instead the men who served as election officials and party workers and who registered as voters showed the poling place has a more chivalrous atmosphere than the street car. Women who for years have hung on straps and forced their way through clouds of smoke In the filthy vestibules of street cars, were amazed when the same men stopped smoking when they entered the poling places, removed their hats and showed the courtesies that are considered typical of the drawing room. The rule of courtesy was almost universal. The great majority of the men seemed eager to prove that the new voters were welcome to participate in the settlement of public questions and the management of public affairs. Judge Lindsay, of Denver, says: "The influence of women in politics has been helpful, uplifting and inspiring. The net results have been good "in every state in the Union where it has been In operation. The big worth while battles won against the powers of privilege, have been due in large measures to the women voter. Within much less time than is generally believed the women will share with the men in every state In the Union the rights of real citizenship. It means an end to the reign of privilege and the coming of the reign of justice." The Ottoman government has decided to admit women to the universities. In enlightened Ottoman circles the new measure is regarded as an appropriate means for regenerating

I the world of Islams and placing it on i a level with the civilization of the

west.

I MASONIC CALENDAR I

, Tuesday. April 28 Richmond Lodge No. 196, F. ft A. M, called meeting; work in Master Mason Degree, commencing at 7 o'clock. Refreshments. Wednesday, April 29 Webb Lodge No. 24, P. A A. M., called meeting, work in Fellowcraft Degree, commencing at 7 o'clock. Saturday, May 2 Loyal Chapter No. 49, O. E. S., stated meeting.

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Miss Rosella Collett, of Richmond, was calling on friends here Sunday.

i The Ladles' Aid society of the ! M. E. church, will hold their monthly birthday party at the home of Mrs. i Harry Means, Wednesday, j Milly Brumfleld, who suffered a ' stroke of apaplexy on the streets of Richmond, Saturday, is improving. He is still at the Reid Memorial hospital.

LOVING PARENTS HEARTY PRAISE

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Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Jones and sons, of Chicago, spent the week-end with Mr. Jones' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Jones, east of town. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Burris, of Webster, spent Sunday with Perry Shadle and family, south of town. Mr. and Mrs. Clem Jones, of New Paris, spent Sunday with Mrs. Maggie Stauffer and family, south of town. Commencement exercises will he held Tuesday evening at the M. B. church, the Rev. Mr. Todd, of Bloomington, delivering the class address. On Wednesday evening at the K. of P. temple, will be held the alumni banquet. Mrs. Kirkwood, of Cambridge City, spent Monday with Mrs. Margaret West. Mr. and Mrs. Lafayette Jackson and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Erk at Richmond. Tony Walker and wife spent Sunday with Chet Davis and family. Walter McConaha and wife of Richmond, attended the baccalaureate Iddress Sunday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Gaar Jackson are the proud parents of a baby boy. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Myrick, Mr.

and Mrs. Edward King and family, of Richmond, were the guests Sunday, of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ahl.

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