The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-04
TAX PROBLEMS
GET ATTENTION
Woman's Club Delegates at CHI
cage Conference Consider
Legislative Makeup.

Declaring that the excess profit
tax was removed because there
seemed to be no way to keep the
taxation burden from being passed
On to the public, instead OF hitting
the moneyed people. Congressman
, Ira C. Copley OF Aurora, member
Of the ways and means committee
~ the house Of representatives, ex-
plained the minutest details of the
taxation problem as it was cOnsid-
ered before its cancellation, to the
members OF Woman's clubs of the
state gathered at the Legislative
forum in the Congress hotel, Chi
cago. Yesterday There were sew
eral hundred women in attendance.
eouing from various parts OF the
state to familfarize thems elves on
the various questions of the state
and national interests and espe-
cialiy on the questions Of import to
come up again before the consti
tutional convention at the adjourn
ed session which opened in Spring
field yesterday.
Mrs. w. J. Sweeney, president OF
the Fourteenth district and former
president of the local club, was in
attendance and remained for the
state board meeting, being held at
the Drake hotel today.
Congressman Copley gave these
two principals with which taxation
was based: that any tax was just
so long as it hit the other fellow.
and that an unjust tax is made just
when the burden is shifted to some
body else. The tax on business
earnings" said the congressman,
was the chief cause for the high
cost of living. 1t destroyed the in
itiative in young men, who could
not venture into business and
make a success of it. and the cause
of the springing up Of so many
chain stores"
The principal topic discussed
yesterday-and it was discussed
pro and con-was the question OF
representation on which the con-
vention has not yet agreed. For
mer Judge Charles S. Cutting spoke
in behalf of the Cook county dele
gates, who maintain that the state
is made up of people and not of
area and that repres eptation should
be based on population. Judge E.
]. Davis discussed the subject from
the downstate standpoint in place
of Judge Lewis A. Jarman OF Rush
vile, who was unable to attend.
The question was touched upon By
most of the speakers during the
course of the day.
Judge Harry Olson, chief justice
Of the municipal court of Chicago,
spoke on the judiciary article to be
1 presented before the convention.
He plead for the need of more
judges, stating that Chicago was
entitled to four judges, instead of
the one it now has. Also that there
should be one court, with divisions
provided for various cases. Judgs
Olson touched on machine politics.
and claimed that the honest man
downstate works with the honest
man from Chicago and the crook
with the crook the same.
Prof. Walter Dodd, who was a
member OF the committee which
compiled data for the convention,
was another speaker, who recon-
mended that every woman secure
copy of the 81 propositions tenn
porarily adopted and study the
others as they are announced. A
NJ. Sheldon, president of the ILL
nois educational committee, made Il
plea for the cooperation of the club
women in making the school sys-
TEN what it should be, and Mrs.
Catherine Waugh Mccullough was
another speaker.
Mrs. Thomas G. Winter of Mime
apolis, Mimi, president of the Gen
eral Federation OF Woman's Clubs,
VINO was a guest at the meeting,
who was recently a member of the
ADVISORY committee at the peace
conference, spoke, bringing out the
advancement made by the confer
ence toward the ideal goal THE
test comes after the conference,
!. said Mrs. Winter. Then starts the
steady push toward the right end.
remember that whatever the con-
ference did not do, no other one
aver did do so much. Don't feel
mat it has failed. Now we must
give faith, hope and charity and a
long. long patience"
: Miss Grace Dixon, chairman of
me state legislative committee, had
arranged the conference, one of
several being held in the state.
mrs. Edward S. Bailey of Chicago
president of the state federation,
was special guest on the plat
form Various state officers and
natlonal board members were pres
emf, as the state board opened q
meeting this morning when it will
pan for the 1922 convention, and
me national board opens a four-day
meeting In Chicago. The state
meeting may be held in Springfield,
out the place has not been set.
Last evening there was a dinner
IN the ballroom of the Drake hotel
at which the state board, of which
drs' Sweeney is a member, was
= hostess to the national board mem
oers. There were some one hun
areo honored guests and delegates