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The nonpartisan leader., 1919-02-10

to be public asset and not public liability
at all.
Fees charged for the services Of public officials,
fines assessed in court and accounted for to the
public funds, licenses and tariffs all forms of
taxation well as taxes personal property, cor
porat1on earnings, incomes or inheritances.
NEEDLESS AND
DECEPTIVE TAXES
There is old maxim and very Infamous one,
that very wise way to collect public revenue is
to do it in such way that the people will pay the
tax without knowing that they are being taxed
In the effort to do this tax has been assessed
against express wagon. The expressman must
add the tax to his charges, and woman paying
for the carrying of her trunk to the station helps
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-02-10
BY WALTER THOMAS MILLS

HE word economic means good
housekeeping. AS applied to
the government of a country
it has reference to the collect
ing and expenditure of the pub
lie revenues.
Good housekeeping as ap-
piled to a private home means
the securing of the largest rev.
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-02-10

essential to their building, equipment and oper
alton, from the earnings of the enterprises them
selves. It is also held by such students that pub
lie activities which do not, not ought not to
be income producing, should be provided for with
public funds secured by the levyng Of taxes of
some sort.
Debts incurred in the building and equipping of
income producing enterprises should have placed
against them the public ledger credits the
value of these buildings and equipments and these
debts paid out Of the earnings Of the enterprise.
The debts created in connection with government
activities which are not income producing should
stand as claim against funds to be obtained by
taxes
In New Zealand and in all other countries
where there are large public debts incurred in
the building and equipment of state-owned
enterprises, if the value of the property of
these enterprises be deducted from such debts,
it is always true that the balance falls to the
public credit and under any rational system
of bookkeeping the undertaking is at once
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-02-10
AGAIN NEW
ZEALAND LEADS

" There are many persons who justify
tariffs, fees, fines and licenses, for
purposes of protection or as means
of punishment, but all admit they are
unfair and unjust and would be alto
gether unnecessary under a just and
rational system of taxation so far as
the purpose Of revenue getting is
concerned.
New Zealand was the first country
in the world to recognize the wisdom
of a tax against values created by
the community and not by the indi-
: vidual as the proper subject for tax.
alton.
This nrnnosal WAS nada hu q MOI,
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made. They further contend that as there are
vast values which being created all the
time by the publics own activity, that such
values ought to be appropriated for public pur-
poses before any tax shall be levied against
the current earnings or the accumulated earn
ings of any Individual
The place where all values socially created are
found finally to make their appearance is in un-
improved ground values
It is not the improvements vacant lot, for
there improvements, which give it value
It is the existence of the improvements on sur
rounding lots and the presence and the needs of the
people who might have occasion to the lot
which give it value. Such values are not the indi-
vidual creation of the absent owner; such values
are the joint creation of the community. There is
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-02-10

The ninth of series of ten articles by Mr..
Mills, well-known writer and lecturer, author of
DEMOCRACY OR DESPOTISM," on "New Zea-
land Before the War"
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-02-10

ehomHe
down wthey angefum
laws hnpd shomtx
/ the eimpo and the Lahore
sawokhe
boom sand
i 0 the esmahbe
i o uefnm
North Dakota Likewise the bringing
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enue for home purposes with the least possible
burden on the industrial and commercial employ
ments of the family unit and the expenditure of
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-02-10
THE PAYING AND
THE BEING PAID

Public enterprises are of two gen.
eral classes: Public undertakings
which are themselves income -produc-
ing, such as railways, warehouses,
elevators and flour mills. Then there
are the public undertakings, such as
schools, prisons, hospitals and the
common defense. Such public activi-
ties involve large expenditures, but
yield no revenue.
It is coming to be agreed among
all students Of national economy that
producing government under
takings should provide the revenues
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-02-10
irst Principles in State Housekeeping

New Zealand Leads the Way Tightening Tax Burden Industry
Publicly Owned Than SelESupporing
Evening star., 1919-05-10
L. P. RODMAN BUYS
HOME IN CHEVY CHASE
Other Real Estate Sales Are Re.
ported by Firm Of Boss &
Phelps, Inc.

Edward p Rodman has purchased
an attractive home in Chevy Chase
Nd, at the corner of Brookville road
and Primrose street, from Charles e.
Weidenhamer. The sale was mad"
through the real estate Arm Of Boss
& Phelps, Inc. The house Is detached
and contains nine rooms and bath.
The lot has a frontage of $50 feet
Several other sales are announced
by this firm Catherine r. Sheehy
bought 2723 18th street northwest
from Emile e. Boorman and will oc-
cupy the property as home This Is
a three-story. ten-room, colonial brick
house, heated with hot water. having
electric lights, fnlaid floors AMI large
porches.
The property at 1411 29th street
northwest was purchased py F'redeT
ick Fitchett and vas sold for an cs
tate. The improvements consist of u
two story. mi-detached frame house.
containing eight rooms and bath and
heated by hot water. The properly
is under rental and viii be held for
an investment.
Anna NJ. Watkins sold 2119 1st street
northwest to Annie Drescher. This
house is a three story. bay window
brick, containing ten rooms and bath.
Frederick w. Darling of Buffalo
\. Y, purchased sos Randolph street
northwest from Griffith Evans. This Is
a semi detached six-room house ha--
ing hot-water heat, electric lights.
oak floors, large porches and an at
tractive yard to paved alley. The
property will be occupied for home.
A semidetached house at 3341 18th
street northwest was sold for Clar-
ence c. kilby to Alcesta j. Melton.
This is large house, having front
and rear porches. After improvements
it will be occupied by Mrs. Melton for
a home.
Evening star., 1919-05-10
AID OF REALTORS
CUTS WAR COSTS
National Association Is to Hear
How the Work Was
Handled.

| Credit the realtors Of the United
States with sl.50o.OO0 on the books Of
the United States"
! Such an entry can be made by the
Treasury at any time, for in only one
department Of the government this
much is known to have been saved
by their expert advice and appraise-
ment OF property.
| Hundreds Of thousands of dollars
have been saved in other departments
| of the United States government dur
ing the war, but the United States
Housing Corporation. which. under
direction Of the Department Of Labor,
provided homes in overcrowded In
! dustrial centers for war workers. can
put it's finger on $1,500,000 saved, be-
! sides scattering sums Of salvage here
and there.
| Now a million or two is just as well
come to manufacturers. merchants.
| railroads and shipbulders as 1t is to
| the federal government. and REALTORS
are going to show big business men
! that the correct application of the
| principles of scientific real estate
! handling employed during the war for
the benefit Of Uncle Sam is Just as
essential to them. To that end the
whole subject Of appraisement, buy
! ing and conservation of real estate is
to be explained in detail when the
realtors gather in annual convention
| in Atlantic City the last week in
June.
James Carey Martien Of Baltimore.
{ head Of the appraisal committee of
| the National Association of Real Es-
| tate Boards, will lead this conference,
and some Of the men who spent their
own time and money for weeks and
months in appraising and buying land
for the United States during the war
| will toll just what they did, why they
did 1t and how much was saved in
| buying real estate aboveboard in the
open and for the government instead
Of in the old way by political pres
| tige and pull.
! Some Of the leaders in other lines of
| Neutrality-suspicious.. builders. con-
tractors and bankers, who are to ad-
dress the convention on other topics.
viii take part in this discussion and
will nnd ways of applying the lesson
| Of the war as it relates to real es-
tate to the after war problems Of COM
merce and industry.
Evening star., 1919-05-10
HEIRESS BRlDE-ELECT
MAY MISS QUARANTINE
Health Certificate May Protect
Fiancee Of Gov. Gen.
Harrison.

Elizabeth wrentmore. seventeen
year-old heiress Of Berkeley. Calf.
who IL on her way to Washington to
wed Francis Burton Harrison. gov
ernor general of the Philippines, is
not likely to be Quarantined here as
diphtheria carrier because she is re-
ported to have broken quarantine
rules in leaving CalifoI MIA.
Health Oficer William c. Fowler
told Gov. Harrison yesterday that,
under certain conditions. Miss Wrent-
moro and her mother could come to
Washington without fear of being
taken into custody by the health de-
partment.
The conditions are that they shall
present certificates issued by any
municipal health official since they
left California showing that cultures
have been taken and that they are
not carriers of the diphtheria germ
Gov. Harrison. who is In New YORK,
communicated with DR.. Fowler over
the telephone. He said his fiancee had
q culture taken before starting for
Washington from her homo In Ber-
kelley and that the report was mega
tive. 1t is presumed Miss Wrentmore
and her mother will be advised to
stop at some city on their way here
and have additional cultures taken.
Evening star., 1919-05-10
BUNGALOW PURCHASED
BY HENRY L|NF00T
Located at 18th and Farragut
Streets-Other Realty Deals by
Shannon G. Luchs.

Henry Linfoot has purchased one
of the bungalows recently erected at
18th and Farragut streets by Shannon
and Luchs for $9,250. Several more
of this style of bungalows are being
erected by this firm in the same To-
cality.
Several other sales are announced
by this firm. 1892 Ingleside Terrace
was sold for David A. Baer to Henry
J. Hauckabae for $3.50.
4 six-room house at 1853 Holmead
avenue was sold for an out-of-town
client at a consideration OF $4.950.
This is one Of several houses built
by Harry Wardman a few years ago.
Mrs. Anne A. Rapuzzi has purchased
the house and will occupy 1t as q
home.
c. Boone Sadler sold 1907 r street
a a consideration Of $1,000 to Walter
l.. Kelley.
G. d. Hollis purchased sixroom
house containing hot-water heat.
hardwood floors. located at 712 I
street northeast. for $4,000. The prop
erty was sold for A. j. Banks.
921 Westminster street was sold
for s4.5o0 for Mrs. S. r. Beasley to
Robert h. Blount.
Evening star., 1919-05-10
BUILDING PERMITS.

Permits for new buildings other
than private garages have been issued
during the week:
B. NJ. Conradis. storage. 221 Rhode
| Island avenue northwest; S1,500
T. A. Jameson, eight brick dwell
ings, 1600-1614 Potomac avenue south
east: $2.400.
Foxhall Heights Company, frame
dwelling, 1411 44th street northwest;
5000.
r. H. Bailey. public garage. 1856 Ce-
dar street northwest: $4,000.
6. S. Seek, three brick dwellings,
6929-3133 9th street northwest;
$4,000.
Joseph L. Topper. ten frame dwell
ings. sol 46th street and 4612-16-20-
4-2S-32-36-4 Hunt place north
cast; $4,000.
c. E. Green, public garage, 2101 14th
street northwest; $4,000.
Evening star., 1919-05-10
PLAN FOR SELECTING
RIFLE TEAM APPROVED

Approval has been given by the
Commissioners to a plan for select
ing the rifle team which Is to repre-
sent the District in the national
matches this year. The plan, which
was submitted by w. r. Stokes, in
structor in rife practice in the Dis
trict high schools. calls for an open
try-out on the District National Guard
rife range, to be held on the last two
Saturdays of June. The preliminaries
will be conducted under the direction
of Brig. Gen. Simms, commanding
general of the District Guard. Six
teen men will be chosen for the Dis
trict team
Evening star., 1919-05-10
Auto Drivers Permit Revoked.

The Commissioners have revoked
another permit in accordance with
their policy TO prohibit the driving
of motor vehicles by any persons
whose records indicate that they are
menace to public safety. The holder
of the permit revoked today is James
Lewis Taylor of 1147 18th street
northwest
Evening star., 1919-05-10
PLEDGES $4,000 TO LOAN.
Talmud Torah Committee Will
Continue Drive.

The victory liberty loan committee
Of the Congregation of the Talmud
Torah. 467-69 Z street southwest. re-
ported that up to yesterday subscrip-
tfons to the loan had been received ag-
gregating $4,000. The committee is
making a final drive today to inCreas Sc
this total materially. The committee is
Evening star., 1919-05-10
Held for Grand Jury.

Elias NJ. Nesbitt. colored, conduct
ing an auto repair shop in an alley
way between 21st and 22d and K and
l. streets northwest. charged with the
larceny Of an automobile the prop
erty of Samuel H. Mumford, 1928 Yer
mont avenue northwest, was held for
the action of the grand jury in the
United States branch of the Police
Court.
Evening star., 1919-05-10

Braisted. surgeon general of the Navy.
This house, which contains eleven
rooms and three baths, was formerly
occupied as a residence by Senator
Cummings of Iowa. Admiral Braisted
gave as part payment for the pur-
chase of this house his home at 215S
California street The sale was made
by John F. Maury.
Evening star., 1919-05-10

composed of Abe Fox. 6o2 AZ street
southwest. chairman, and S. Pekofsky-
Evening star., 1919-05-10
-OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY
Or By Appointment

Wonderful n side
Well kept grounds baths heat eeee lights
Ready for Immediate Terms be rangds Iot
SoxI47 eet.
Evening star., 1919-05-10
Member Of Nurses Board.

Tho Commissioners have appointed
Miss Alice Prentiss, a member of the
nurses examining board Of the Dis
trict, to succeed Miss Helen Gardner,
resigned. Miss Prentiss was proposed
for the position by the Graduate
Evening star., 1919-05-10

Bradley Hills
Washington's Most
Picturesque Suburb
Evening star., 1919-05-10


home In ChaseG
Bndnewboutely eight
large
Lot SoxI32 to alley. Price, S1475o
Evening star., 1919-05-10
HANDSOME HOME SOLD
TO ADMIRAL BREASTED

Thsshandsome detached corner resi-
dence at 1901 seth street, Chevy
Chase. has been purchased by Admiral
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Continued on page two)
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-05-31
Thousands Flock To Great
Indianapolis Speedway For
First Post War Sweepstakes

and Europe was on hand at the brick
oval early today. The race was to start
at 10 o'clock at the sound Of gun
fired by W. S. Gilbert, Detroit, assist
ant starter. The participants trailing
five abreast behind the pace car and
gradually gaining speed were to leap
ahead on the real grind when L. c. Pat
tcrson, Chicago, fired a bomb at the
end of the first lap. Captain Eddie
Rickenbaekers erstwhile racer, are %
American fliers on the western front,
sat in the referees box.
Betting favored Dario Resta, in q
Sunbeam car, winner Of the 1916 sweep
stakes. Ralph DePalma, in Packard,
was not far behind, however, and many
Of track veterans chose him as a win
uer The Ballot team Of four was an
unknown quantity, inesmuch as the cars
were constructed BY Frcnchman Of
that name especially for this race.
Rene Thomas, winner Of the 1914 race,
headed the team. None Of the favoritcs
were receiving great odds, because the
talent was considered rather evenly di-
vided. and m9ny of the entries have
long list of victories to their credit
Confidence of the wagers was placed
in the drivers rather than the cars, be-
cause the track has comparatively short
and flat turns and requires the utmosi
skill, combined with disregard OF
safety. Here DePalma was again fav-
ored, in view of his ability as a driver.
Jules Goux, victor in the 1913 race, did.
MT want any confidence misplaced in
his car, 50 he took II apart ana vrnll..
ined every piece Of metal, every fibre,
with magnifying glass and then sus-
pended the metal parts on a string and
struck them with a sounding iron to
make sure that they rang true.
Tho sweepstakes is the sole major
event on the international racing ealen-
dar for the year and this fact served
as drawing card. The French Grand
Prix, which divided honors with Indian.
apolis in this game, prior to the war
i
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-05-31

every dollar expended. IF its good
enough for Judge Bushey,' they say,
'lt's good enough for u.s.
'Al are agreed that $50 miles of
improved market roads will be of tre-
mendOuz benefit TO Marion county,
and all seem to understand that when
the first unit Of $50 miles is completed
that the work win 90 right on, on other
roads, with the paving plants that the
county will then own.
"When it is explained that the vot-
ing Of the bonds will not add a dollar
to any man taxes for the first four
years, and that after that, for the ten
year period until the bonds are all paid
off, the man who is assessed at $1,000
would not have to pay over dollar
a year as his share Of the bonds, oppo.
sition vanishes into thin air, and when
1 say to them, ~'let's make it unani.
nous, they do.
"The gray haired men and women
are usually the first to get up on their
feet when a straw vote is called for, as
they want the bonds to carry so that
the roads may be built and they can
get some use out Of them while they
are yet alive.
"I find the business men all over
the county to be strongly in favor Of
the market road bonds, and why should
Mt they be, since the good roads will
promote development and bring in
thousands Of new settlers from less
favored localities, who will add to the
wealth and prosperity of the towns as
well as the rural districts. Intensive
agriculture and horticulture will keep
pace with the building Of the trunk
and market roads, and that confbina-
tion is gong TO bring to Marion coun-
ty within the next few years a pros.
perity greater far than she has ever
known before, even in her palmiest
days.
s'F'or these and other reasons too
numerous 70 enumerate, if / were a
betting man, would stake every dol.
lar / have or ever hope to ows, on
Marion county voting herself out OF
the mud and into prosperity on the Sd
! (Contfnuad m na0a twol
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-05-31

Indianapolis, May s1.-(United Press
-Thirty.three auto stars--domesti and
foreigrs-were to encircle the Indianapo.
lis speedway 250times today in the five
hundred milo Liberty Sweepstakes.
Fifty thousand dollars in prizc money
is the goal, the winner to receive SEQ.
900.
More than eighty thousand auto fans
from every state In the union, here to
witness the spectacle, crowded hotels in
indianapolis and surrounding town and
even the housing facilities Of private
homes were taxed to accommodate them
Thousands slept in their automobiles on
the streets and at the speedway and
other hundreds awakened today in pull.
man ears parked in the grounds.
The greatest racing talent in America
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-05-31
Market Road Bonds Will
Carry Throughout County
By 3 to I Vote Is Claim

s'The Marion county market road
bonds win carry by a three TO one
vote, said "JimH Stewart this morn
ing in answer to q question put to him
by a Journal reporter. "What makes
you think so, Mr.. Stewartfn ~ have
SO many reasons for thinking so that
il would take up too much space in
your paper TO enumerate them, but here
are q few Of themi
81 have held ten meetings at as
many different towns in the county,
and have taken straw votes at all of
them. At these meetings probably
1000 votes all told have been cast for
the bonds, and not a single vote
against them. Now, / am not fool
enough to believe that that means
that the vote for the bonds next Tues
day will be unanimous, but hold
that these straw votes do show an
overwhelming sentiment in favor Of
market roads and Of Judge Bushey s
half bonds-half cash plan Of con-
structing them within the next five
years.
"Now and then / find few farm
ers who are strongly prejudieed against
the word bonds, but when it is ex-
planned that Marion eounty's market
road bonds are serial and not refund
able bonds, and must be paid off with
in fourteen years, and that the owner
of the automobile pays almost the en-.
tire bill, they usually come round and
vote for the bonds.
81 find a strong vote getter TO be
the fact that while Salem pays about
one third of the bonds, not dollar Of
the money is TO be spent within the
corporate limits Of this city. The av.
erage farmer thinks it would be poor
business TO overlook a gift from Sa
lem Of nearly three hundred thousand
dollars to be expended on the market
roads Of the county.
"The fact that Judge Bushey is the
author of the plan that is to be voted
on June Sd is partly responsible fol
the landslide that is now taking place
in favor Of the bonds. | find that the
/ farmers almost to a man have conf
dence in Judge Bushey's good judg
ment and integrity, and in his ability
to get a dollars worth Of work foi
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-05-31
REMARKABLE RECORD
HUNG Up BY flGN
SIX Covers 5000 Niles h Al
Kinds Of Weather With
out Repairs

Only six nkght under shelter and
never in the repair shop is the wonilsr-
fal record Of the Elgin Six driven BY v.
D. Smith during sixteen months sf
strenuous work for Uncle Ham.
Lee L. Gilbert distributor Of me KI-
gin for the state OF Oregon reports tkis
remarkable instance Of Elgin perrprn-
aRee.
Mr.. Smith left Chicago driving an n
gin Six in December 1917. M. smith
says the Thermometer registered sfx
degrees below zero on the day he left
and that blizzard followed him 10 The
Gulf All the way to Kentucky tha
eround was covered with snow ranging
in depth from few inches TO several
feet.
In spite Of the deep snow driftsin the
north and miles Of deep mud in the
south, he made the trip to Gnlfport..
Mississippi, in eleven days
For 5000 miles his dependable lngiH
carried Mr.. Smith on his mission for the
Government, which was the instaIlation
Of plumbing and heating systems In tho
aviation camps Of the southwest.
From the time Mr.. Smith left Chicago
in December 1917, until he returned On
April 10. 1919, with the ear in good con
dition, the motor remained untoasnss,.
The original castings remained on tke
rear wheels.
The unusual showing of durability re-
minded Mr. Gilbert Of the famous NJ
oin War Scout which established =
world record by making the trip from
Chicago 70 Los Angeles and return vita
hood clutch and transmission Officially
sealed--a trip over six thousand miles
long under every conceivable eondiiien
Of roads and weather with no ADJUST
ments TO the mechanism Of the ear.