South Bend News-Times, Volume 36, Number 306, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 2 November 1919 — Page 7

THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES

SUNDAY, NOTTMm-:U 2. 1919.

G. 0. P. Sets Up Howl Over

Goodrich-Hays Tax Measure

FAIL TO FINIS

(Copyright 119. Nows-Times Bureau.) IN'DIANAI'OUS. Nov. 1. Kre 1 Sirn, chairman of the tax board, is at the point of a physical collapso

Joyed th labor of convicts on Its minln property. rjirtivrs Complain Th wail of th farmers Ls well expressed by Jonas Johnson of Ma

rion county who complains that ho

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w,,rKinS ov,vr xn aaminiHinuion ' has a pieco of property which ho the tax law. The republican Mate has valued at $22.000 and which 1 organization Is hopin? nß-uinst hope nonr a.sssel at $103.000.

that there will be a reversal of popu

lar opinion. Carl Mote, the "ofücial explainer" of the tax law ruin jriven up trying to explain It and the republican party from Hvansville to South Rend Ij split ajnder over the provisions of the Goclrlch-IIays in ras re. T"Vi tan' n n r, A 1 n T n I 1 1 m

with the ptrpntlon of those who

had a part In the enactment of this new tax law who are today willing to defend Its operation and the most of thoso persons who helped place It on the statute books are without faith In It. The failure of tho law and tho disastrous effects it has had on the republican party are the two greatest features f Indiana politic today. It ls Kenorally conceded that this law will, Jn iplte of Jh desperat efforts mado in lti behalf, wreck tho republican party of Indiana unless that party admits Its failure and endeavors, soon to amend -or repeal It. Opposo Iav. Opposition to the atato tax law as it now stands is not confined to any one particular claas of tax payers. It ls opposod: 1. Ry the republican officials of towns and cities who have found that It is curtailing their funds with which they sought to carry out their .lection promises. 2. By republican county officials who have bexm compelled under the mandates of tho tax board to boost valuations to a point where they recognize that they are beyond all reaBOtl. 3. Ry republican citizens who realize that the school systems of the scate are being" crippled horribly by its operation. 1. Ry republican bankers who are contesting It in tho courts on tho grounds that it is unfair and dis

criminatory.

Uy republican business men

.vho find that under its terms they

win te taxea ror iryincr 10 Keep in

i?ck the goods that their patrons

want. G. R republican utility owners who find that the tax board has assessed somo utilities at their true cash values and others, notably one in which Governor Goodrich is interested, at far less than the value on which it is baslnff its rates. 7. Uy farmers who find that owins to the several boosts which the state tax board has ordered in valuations, thoy will be compelled to pay taxes on a valuation much greater than they could possibly obtain tor their properties. 8. By municipalities who find that the tax board has the power to Mop all improvements In their neighborhood and has not the time nor the ability to determine whether or not proposed Improvements are

necessary.

In Had Fix.

Republican ofllcLals of towns and cities who went into ofTlco pledged to certain Improvements in their bailiwicks find that the- tax board will not permit them to sell bonds with which to obtain the money necessary to carry out those Improvements. They are imploring tho tax board to listen to their pleas on the grounds that they have little chance of political success In the future if they are not allowed to fulfill their obligations to the voters who elected them. Republican assessors and auditors

who received direct orders to In- ' crea.se assessments after they had i Kdemnly assured a dubious bunch of j tax-payers that the "limit" had been -reached are howling with dismay at j the tax board for adding more to ' the assessment. For example, the tax ! board's horizontal increase of the ' property values in "Woodruff place, 1 Indianapolis, after the otHcials had I assessed at the full cah value, has brought about the loss of a large number of republican votes in that ! territory. The tax board has boen beseird ! by committees on behalf of the .schools whose levies have been fixed utfleient money to keep the schools in operation during the full terms they have been running. There is now a prospect that the schools of dozens of cities in Indiana will have to close long before the year's work is completed, and there ls now an organisation seeking an interview with the governor for the pur- . IKse of asking relief. Hankers in Court. ; Republican bankers have gone into court with their complaints and , are poing to spend some money for the purpose of finding out whether they must split their profits with! tho staee or pay a reuo nable tax on their hoi. lings nnd allow their stockholders to have what the banktarn. Their cases will be brought to trial oon. Republican business men who find thnt they will be taxed for the full value of all the stock they have on hand March 1, and not allowed nny credit for the money they Nnrowed with which to lay in this stock are vowing that nrer again will they be caught with a heavy stock at taxpaying time. ; Republican utility owners who have found that the tax board fix-.u their taxation values at practica!l the some figures as the pu'-dic service commission tix-l th-ir valuations for rate making pur;, os.-s nre ur.abV to s-- any proper reason why the Washington W.Um. Light A: l'ow r Company '.muld ! valued for taxing purpo. s at i:.v.M'0 Mild for rate t:vik!v.g pur-

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debating whether it .m;I,! n-.t Icheaper for tlu-n i" th- h.r.g run to gir t'.overnor t;c.Mlri:h a part ( f theit stock, as did the Globe Mining company whkh later en-

Mr. Johnson has made a public offer to the state tax board to pay a ten percent commission to anyone who will sell this property at two-thirds of Its assessed valuation. Republican municipal authorities who find th'ro ls a need of the purchase of municipal equipment, or the rebuilding of municipal buildings add their objections to the new tax law whenever they are confronted with the necessity of obtaining tho permission of the state tax board to :-.-ll bonds. They say that the tax board cannot possibly investigate their needs and act Intelligently on their petitions. They say that the tendency of the board is to refuso all petitions for bond issues and that they, instead of the tax bo.ird, are the best judges of whether the Improvements ar needed, and also the best judges of what political efTect the refusal of their petitions will brinp about. niurr rails. For a time after Its enactment the republican organization In the state tried valiantly to assure its followers that the tax law was the best ever enacted. In that effort they went to the extent of assuring taxpayers that the law would save them money. Now, since they have .awakened to the fact that it costs more money to operate the government than it used to cost and that they cannot have special Departments such eis tho highway commission engaging In orgies of spending without Increasing taxes, their wordt are coming back to haunt them. Tred .Sims is broken in health trying to reconcile the tax law to the needs of the republican party. His associates on the board are driven to a point of distraction. Carl Mote, whom the governor "loaned" to the state organization for the purpose of defending the tax law has found that no one will accept his defenses either as logical or truthful and that the republican papers of the state will not print them. All in all, the tax law promises to be the sunken road that will destroy the republican organization.

BRIDE OF THREE WEEKS " FILES DIVORCE SUIT

Special to The News-Times: GOSHEN". Ind., Nov. 1 A bride of but three weeks, Eva I. Render has filed suit 'for divorce here. Fhe says that soon after she married she found for the first time that her husband was afflicted with an incurable ailment. Another discovery she made, she says. Is that her husband had been convicted of a crime and imprisoned.

HOOKS! HOOKS! ROOKS! 1,000 of them to be sold the first ten days of November. The Book Shop. Advt. 763 5-3.

T. B. II. Court 41 will give a card party and dance at Eeylcr hall. Tuesday, Nov. 4. Advt. 7711-4.

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Road From South Bend to Goshen Will Not Be Completed Till Next Fall.

Special to The New .-Times ; GOSHEN. Ind.. Nov. 1. Not until next spring will the all-paved route from Goshen to South IJend the Lincoln highway be open to general traffic. Tho Northern Construction company, of Elkhart (GeorK C- Herkey), and Lawrence W. Seaman, of Goshen, having the contract to pave the new road across Hauo township, a distance of three miles, expected to complete the improvement, this fall, but delays In shipment? of material and scarcity of labor have Interfered. One mile of concrete pavement has been laid. The remaining two miles will not be finished until May or June of 1920. This three-mile stretch Is an entirely new route on the north side of the New York Central rlKht-of-vay. Avoid Crosinjrs. It connects with the Lincoln Highway out of Elkhart city and when completed It will be possible to drive fmn Goshen to South Bend on brlrk or concrete pavement with but ono crossing of the New York Central railroad at Main street In Elkhart. Hy taking the Indiana a v. route through Elkhart all New York Central railroads will be eliminated, as there is a subway at Oakland and Indiana avenues. Tho seven-mile stretch of Lincoln Highway pavement being constructed from the end of the brick read southeast of Benton to the ElkhattNoble county line will not be finished by the Kieth-Illley Construction company of Goshen until the fall of 1920. On ) mile of concrete pavement on this route had been laid. Completion of this stretch, together with the Baugo township road, will bring about the paving of the Lincoln Highway across Elkhart county.

FORMER TOWN MARSHAL CARED FOR BY SISTER

Special to The News-Times: GOSHEN. Ind.. Nov- 1. George V. Flowers, former town marshal of Llgonier, who had been confined in the Elkhart county Jail here for several days r.s an insane patient, was today given into the custody of his sister, Mrs. May Shellenberger. in the belief that it will not be necessary to send him to Longcllff asylum. A commission adjudged Flowers insane. It was found that he was suffering from despondency brought on by generally poor health and Injuries received in an accident at South Bend.

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