Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-10-03
AUTOMOB|LfSTS
T0TEST NEWACT
Contend Double Taxation
Under Statute.
J WHAT OTHERS THINK ABOUT IT
Administration Leaders Believe Asso-
citation Won't Be Able to Get Away
With Its Attempt to Block
Operation of Law.
Special Columbus Correspondent.

Columbus, Ohio.
"NHE administration leaders here
profess to believe confidently
that the Ohio State Automobile
association won't be able to get
away with its attempt to block by
court procedure the operation of the
new law levying a horsepower tax
upon automobiles, beginning next
January. The administration believes,
in other words, that the courts will
refuse the request of the automobile
people to declare the law null and
void on the ground that it amounts to
double taxation. But at the same time
the powers that be are not going to
take any chances, and the department
Of the attorney general already has
begun to burn the midnight oil in an
exhaustive study of the ins and outs
of automobiling.
On the other hand, the officers of the
State Automobile association are
going right ahead with their plans to
bring to test every phase Of the new
auto law. While they will base their
Principal attack on the contention that
the law is in every sense tax instead
of mere license fee, and thus mean
second tax upon machines, it is un-
derstood they will have other argu-
ments to advance. The suit will be
filed probably within few days. The
difference between the present law
and the new Warnes law, which be-
comes effective in January, is this:
The present law compels auto owners
to pay an annual registration fee of
SO for electric machines and $5 for
gasoline machines. The new law
would base the assessment annually
upon the power of the machine. The
lowest powered auto would have to
pay Sc annually and the highest SIS.
The tax would be graduated between
these limits for the intermediate ma
chimes.
The legal committee of the State
Automobile association has advised all
auto owners not to apply for 1914 Ii.
censes until the dispute shall have
been settled in the courts.
Put Moose on Ballots.
Had it not been for the watchfulness
of Charles Allen of Marion, president
OF the state liquor license committee
the ballots used in the November cleo
tion in Ohio might contain no catchy
moose head emblem In fact, the
sample ballots sent out by the secre
tary of state to the various county
boards of election show the Progress,
sive party column minus the belliger
ent head of the moose and with the
name Progressive" only to distin
guish it. When Mr.. Allen noted the
omission, he hied himself at once tC
the office of the secretary of state and
there discovered that the Progressive
party committee inadvertently had
failed to certify the emblem to the
head election officials. But now the
trouble has been righted. the former
official ballots will be recalled. and the
new ones will show the moose.
Seek School Teachers Aid.
Albeit there are mighty few person:
in the state of Ohio who are willing
to lift hand in behalf of a better re
muneration for the underpaid Ohio
school teacher, there are few who dS
not hasten to enlist the teachers ai(
and sympathy whenever something
big and important is to be done
There's a fine instance of this in tn,
attitude of state officials and other!
who are promoting the expected cele
bration on Oct. of Fire Prevention
Day. The very first people the pro
moters of the movement turn to ar,
the teachers. "If the teachers will
help us, we will make success of thi
movement" the press agents of tn,
movement say. And then they go oil
and instruct the teachers to have spe
cial exercises and special lesson
teaching fire prevention. But what
the teachers were TO demand specia
pay for extra work! They would b,
therein doing naught but emulatinl
the example of members of other pro
fessions, most OF whom as it is do ia
less work for much greater pay.
Sandles' Unique Action.
Everybody who cared to visited tn
state fair grounds on a pass Sunda.
as the special guest of the state agr!
cultural commission. The commits
siopers hired band as an additiona
inducement to secure the crowds. Th
purpose of this unusual generosity wa
to prove to the people of the capita
that the state board is not responsible
for the swarms of flies which hav
been infesting the North Side, In tn
vicinity of the fair grounds. Th
Warns Housewives.
Overanxious housewives who hav
sought to aid In the preservation O
their canned fruits and vegetables b
using large amounts of "preservativ