Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1922-02-23
LINTON GAVE
GOOD ADDRESS
ON WEDNESDAY
MEMBER OF STATE TAX COM
MISSION TELLS OF PROB
LENS OF THE BOARDS.
Scarf Spoke
On Washington

The Chamber of Commerce lunch
con at city hall Wednesday noon
again drew out over hundred bus
mess men of the city, who gave close
attention, not only to the fine dinner,
but also to the Washington's birth
day address by Attorney Kelly S.
Searl of ST. Johns, the address on the
problems of taxation given by the
Hon William S. Linton of the Board
of State Tax Commissioners, and the
talk on Fact" by Dr. Maynard
Pringle. Ralph B. Wagner was chair
man of the meeting.
DR.. Pringle was the first speaker,
and in his talk he urged that when
pessimists and knockers start that
the business men and others who are
interested in the city should just ask,
"Who told you so?" He predicted
that such a measure would stop ru-
mors.
This talk prompted Mr.. Wagner to
announce that there was another
bright prospect in Alma's industrial
life as Mr.. Maxwell with a pending
contract with the Paige Motor Com
pany of Detroit for 1S0 of his Max
we'll bodies, is closing arrangements
with the Western Carburetor Com
pany, and is moving his plant to that
factory from its present location at
the foot of State street. The an
nouncement was received with rounds
of applause, the business men realiz-
ing the value of the Maxwell body
that has been invented by the Alma
man, and the possibilities that it Of
fers.
c. V. Calkins announced that a
committee had been appointed at Mt.
Pleasant to meet with a committee
here Saturday relative TO golf
course between the two cities, which
are nearly twenty miles apart. 1t is
to be hoped that if the construction
Of golf course is decided upon it
can be built close to Alma, as it
would probably draw memberships
also from ST. Louis and Ithaca.
Mr.. Wagner then announced that
Judge Quinlin of Newberry would be
the speaker at the Chamber of Com
merce meeting next week Tuesday.
Judge Kelly S. Searl, as Gratiot
people still fondly call the former
Judge of this circuit, speaking on
Washington said that his life was
typical of that of the many strong
men of the early period Of the nation,
and that the greater number Of the
men who had aided Washington in
the formation of the government
were young men in their twenties and
thirties. He urged that the young
men of today devote more attention
TO the affairs of their government He
spoke of the apparent disregard for
law and order at the present time,
and urged that all laws be upheld, as
the violation Of even the local ordi-
nances serves to breed contempt for
all laws.
William S. Linton in opening his
address called attention to the big
problem Of levying taxes justly in all
sections of the state, and to the fact
that it is the duty Of every individual
to contribute his just share of the
running expenses of his govern
ment. He called attention to the
method of some years ago when sup
ervisors attempted to keep down
their respective assessment and how
the assessments varied in various
sections of the state from 80 TO 80
per cent of the cash value.
He then called attention to the pro-
vision in the constitution adopted in
1909, which provides for assessment
at true cash values and the work of
the State Board of Tax Commission
ers in securing such cash values in
all sections of the state, in the coun-
try, in the city, by the use of experts
in various lines.
He called attention to the assess
ments in Wayne county, which make
up Al per cent of the state tax, and
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