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GEORGIA AND TAXES.
,r ■ Calling lor an immediate retrenchment in the cost of gov
ernment, Senator Charles D. Redwine, president of the State
Senate, in an able address at the Auditoruim last evening point
ed out the faults of the present tax system and simultaneously
presented the fifteen mill tax amendment as a substitute to his
hearers.
Senator Redwine conclusively proved to his audience that
Georgia is solvent. Assets in hand are far in excess of the state’s
indebtedness, he showed.
Starting three years ago with seven millions of dollars in
debt, Georgia, today, does not owe a dollar! Who did it? How
was it done? These questions are of vital concern to every
citizen of the state. There is but one honest answer to each of
them—Gene Talmadge. In addition + o being entirely out of
debt, Georgia has on hand today in cash, the tidy sum of over
three millions of dollars. Could this condition of financial sta
blity been brought about by a wasteful or extravagant execu
tive? Certainly not.
The state of Georgia owns one piece of property, valued at
twenty millions of dollars, a ribbon of steel rails that wind their
way from Atlanta to Chattanooga. Georgia owns other valu
able properties worth far more than her railroad, yet, her bond
-5d indebtedness amounts to only four millions of dollars.
Is there another state in the Union that can make as credit
able a showing? With all of this, is there any other state in the
United States where the average citizen has been the beneficiary
of a reduction of his cost of living as he has in Georgia ?
Call it by whatsoever name you may choose, political power,
dictatorship, or what not, this bald fact stands out—the reduc
tion in taxes have been such, and the Legislature has made
possible for such further adjustments by the people, that, Geor
gia today, guarantees the lowest tax rate of any state in the
Union. It’s great to be a Georgian!
That the citizens of Savannah and Chatham county are in
tensely interested in the question of taxation was fully evi
denced by the number and character of those attending the
meeting at the auditorium last night. The treatment of the
archaic and broken down system of ad valorem taxation existing
in Georgia, the necessity for change looking toward a readjust
ment of the burden that it be more equitably distributed, and,
compulsory reduction in cost of government was never better
handled.
When this now antiquated system was first made into law in
1877, practically land was the only form of wealth, the land
owner the only man with wealth to tax, cost of government was
not excessive, consequently the owner of real estate bore the
cost of his government uncomplainingly. In that time and day,
little was known or thought of intangibles.
The proposed fifteen mill overall amendment to the State
Constitution simply means that the taxing authorities of the
state, counties and cities will be strictly limited in the amount
of taxes they may impose, not only on this class of property, but
on all classes and must therefore practice that retrenchment and
economy in the carrying on of government that the successful
busiess man enforces in the private affairs of life. It means the
much needed reformation of the present tax system of the state.
In the state of Indiana where a limited tax law was passed,
the real estate burden was reduced and there was a reduction
in the cost of running the state of twenty millions of dollars.
A great deal has been said and written relative to the ef
fect of the limitation upon the school system of the state. As
was pointed out, they seem to be pinning their hopes entirely
upon the ad valorem tax system. As this system has almost en
tirely broken down their hope is indeed a forlorn one. In this
time and day, the masses are going to demand schools—good
schools. They are interested in those charged with the educa
tion of their children, in their just and prompt compensation.
They will stand for no system, archaic, antiquated, or limited, old
system or new, that would in the slightest impair or would fail
to continually improve the school facilities of the state.
The time has passed when self-serving and self-seeking
politicians should seek to defeat the only opportunity the people
have had, and, as one speaker tartly said, the only one they
will have in the next forty years, to obtain reformation in the
tax system of Georgia.
Wake up citizens of Savannah and Chatham County! Reg
ister, that you may vote! Wake up school teachers Realize this,
you are paid by the taxpayers—you get your pay regularly when
taxes are paid. The present system has miserably failed as wit
ness the long list of delinquent taxpayers. The Fifteen Mill
Overall Limitation Law may not be better, it certainly cannot
be worse than the present law. Register and vote.
i Facto graphs
! ' Lightning sometimes leaves prints
of the bodies of persons it strikes.
Many cases have been recorded where
actual Images of trees, ships and
other objects appear to be photo
graph on the person’s body, but
scientists declare that the marks left
by the passage of a bolt of lightning
through a person’s body are caused
by the resultant burns. It is purely
accident that these scars or burns
definitely resemble objects.
At one time the common variety of
house cat was held in reverence by
residents of the delta of the Nile. It
is believed that their worship of their
ancestor of the common alley cat
was due to the part played by cats
in destroying field mice that threat
ened all the grain in the delta.
• • •
There is a county in the United
States with an area almost as large
as the combined areas of Massachu
setts and Maryland. It is San Ber
nardino county in California, having
an area of 20,174 square miles.
• • •
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PRESIDENTIAL
CLOSEUPS
Democrats, in 1928, accused Re
publicans of carrying on a “whisper
ing campaign” against their candid
ate for president, Gov. Alfred E.
Smith and many people believe that
that manner of campaign was some
thing new under the political sun.
But it wasn’t new. The campaign
of 1908 was “a whispering cam
paign," according to the then Repub
lican candidate for president, Judge
Wiliam Howard Taft, who declared,
publicly, that it was being conducted
in the interest of Bryan by no less
a personage than Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor.
ONE MINUTE PULPIT
And above all things have fer
vent charity among yourselves: for
charity shall cover the multitude
of sins—l Peter 4:8.
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TREASURY PLAN FOR BROADENING INCOME LEVY IS DISCLOSED
-WORLD AT A GLANCE—
SPEEDY G. O. P. MEET
If Eastern Leaders Agree on Support
WITH NO SHARP FIGHTS
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
“HOW MANY DAYS will the
Republican national convention in
Cleveland last?” we are asked.
That is impossible to answer.
The first day—June 9 —will be
given over to organization. The
keynote speech will not be made
till night—in order to catch the
audience.
A platform will have to be writ
ten. The most difficult planks to
compose will be those over farm
Then there will be the nomina
aid, labor and relief,
tions.
This writer has expressed his
belief that there will not be much
of a fight. He believes the Hines-
Mills group from New York, the
Reed group from Pennsylvania and
the Ohio group will agree quitely
to swing their support to the man
with the most delegates. That man
will be Governor Alfred M. Landon
of Kansas.
They may as quickly decide on
Representative James W. Wads
worth of New York for the vice
presidential nomination.
This writer also has said that
the big industrialists have been in
favor of Senator Arthur H, Van
denberg of Michigan. But they are
equally certain to accept Governor
Landon if he comes to the conven
tion with a large number of votes.
If this reasoning is correct, the
convention should be ended within
four days.
The belief prevails there will
not be much fighting on the floor.
• « •
KNOX’S SHOWING
Colonel Frank Knox’s showing in
Illinois against Senator William
E. Borah dismays many who had
counted on him. The margin was
too narrow for a candidate in his
own state.
In fact, Presid it Roosevelt, who
polled half a mi n more votes on
the Democratic i that Knox and
Borah combined on ttie Republi
can side, proved th* real surprise
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in Illinois. The Republicans are
viewing this (in private) with a
great deal of gloom.
* • *
CALLING ’EM OFF
Republican strategists evidently
are eager to disown the duPonts,
Raskobs, Sloans of the Liberty
League group.
It does not seem possible that
one group of industrialists could
become involved in so many kick
back organizations, through donat
ing money. That seems to be the
private opinion of many on the G.
O. P. side.
Every person who believes he
can organize some anti-New Deal
organization evidently has been
able to get money from the Liberty
league backers. And what occurs?
The organizers go about their bus
iness so crudely that their enter
prises soon react against not only
their backers but the Republicans.
And a Democratic majority in the
senate brings out the sordid de
tails to the last iota.
It is in vain the Republicans
point out that until a few years
ago John J. Raskob and Jouett
Shouse were of the Democratic
high command. For, today, they
are very much against the New
Deal Democratic high command.
Money chieftains are being
warned by Republican leaders a
gainst financing minor vendetti a
gainst President Roosevelt. The
money is needed for the “big
push”. Millions will be requested
by leaders in the big doubtful
states.
WAS DADDY JEALOUS?
NEW LONDON, Conn., (TP)—
Little 11-year-old Janice Monroe
and her father were fishing in
Niantic River. Alice was using a
light rod. Her line was baited for
small sunfish.
Her father, Floyd Monroe, was
casting with special bass equip
ment. Alice caught a thiriten
pound bass —one of the best
catches in years.
You’re T elling
Me?
By WILLIAM RITT
American sports teach us unsel
fishness ,says a noted educator. Oh,
yeah? Did you ever see a player
who didn’t want to win?
When a parent tells you how
welcome the new baby is you do
not know whether he is thinking
of additional income tax exemp
tion or additional federal relief.
• * •
The reformer’s motto is “Live and
let live—the way I live.”
♦ » »
Statesmen would not need to
work so hard during political
' campaigns if they could only re
member not to forget the voters
they promised to remember last
election day.
• • •
Definition frz: super luxury liner:
a boat so big ki cannot possibly make
a profit.
• • •
Now that the diamond season
is already a week old we may
scon expect weather good enough
in which to play baseball.
A GOOD COLLEGE JOKE
“You in the back of the room,
what was the date of the signing
of the Magna Carta?”
“I dunno.”
“You don’t, eh? Well, let’s try
something else. Who was Bonny
Prince Charley?”
“I dunno.’’
“Well, then, can you tell me
what the Tennis Court Oath was?”
“I dunno.”
“You don’t! I assigned this stuff
last Friday. What were you doing
last night?”
“I was out drinking beer with
some friends."
“You were! What audacity to
stand there and tell me a thing
like that! How do you ever expect
to pass this course?”
“Wai, I don’t, mister. You see,
I just come in to fix the radiator."
WIFE PRESER VERS
A flannel cloth dipped in salt and
whiting is effectiv x in cleaning
knife handles, glasses and crockery.
-WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
SMALL WAGE EARNER HIT
By Reducing Exemption Amounts
IN PROPOSED TAX PLAN
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Staff Press Writer
WASHINGTON, April 24—The
treasury department’s office of re
search and statistics has on hand
the draft of a plan to “broaden the
income tax base”, as fiscal experts
express it.
It is not a bill, ready to be in
troduced in congress. It is. how
ever, the raw material for one.
I happened to have seen it.
It will not get out of the treas
ury department’s statistical office
ahead of election day. That is a
certainty. Nevertheless, it hints at
what the statistical folk have sim
mering in the back of their heads,
with a view to the next congres
sional session—AFTEß election, if
their side wins it.
♦ • •
EXEMPTION CUTS
The tentative scheme is to reduce
the unmarried man’s income tax
exemption to SSOO and the married
man’s exemption to SI,OOO.
That is to say, the bachelor will
be taxed on everything he makes
above $500; the benedict on every
thing above SI,OOO. A great many
additional details are involved
scarcely anything is more com
plicated than income taxation) but
that is the nub of the program.
I offer this information as a bit
of news, and, I think, exclusive
news, rather than as a columnist’s
reflections It seems to me it
should be interesting to a sizable
proportion of the citizenry.
• » •
HUGE RESERVOIR
There is no question that a tax
on all families above the SI,OOO
mark (not to mention the SSOO
bachelors) would bring a lot of
money into Uncle Sam’s treasury.
A treasury statistical wizard es
timated to me that approximately
87 per cent of the country’s in
comes are below $2,500.
NOT-In the News
iLAUGHS IN “STORE TEETH’’
COPYRIGHT, CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION
By WORTH CHENEY
Most of us strive for that position
in life whsn we will be in comfort
able circumstances or wealthy. As
you probably know ,it takes some peo
ple an entire lifetime to attain eith
er goal, while the vast majority of
such aspiring souls never do realize
their ambitions.
But there are a rare few to whom
making a fortune is no trick at all.
They seem to have the incredible
ability of becoming rich overnight.
They have no trouble making money;
their difficulty is in keeping it.
Perhaps you have heard of those
fortunate, or unfortunate, individuals
Wall Street has known several men
who have gone from poverty to
wealth, back to poverty and reinrn
ing to wealth again in a comparative
ly few yers. But we doubt if the rc
ord of any Wall Street can match
that of George Blnks, British finan
cier.
Binks originally was a htoel owner.
Profiting considerably in that ven
ture. he became associated with some
other men in a nitrate concern. The
returns from the investment were
enormous: in one deal Binks cleared
a cold million dollars.
But scarcely a year later, after sud
den and unavoidable loses, Binks was
flat broke. It was only through the
aid of friends that he was saved
from bankruptcy.
He carried on, this time putting his
money in a tin company. The com
cem prospered and within three
years he was a millionaire once more
With the profits from that he bought
an Australian gold mine and he grew
steadily richer. Then the gold vein
petered out, and Binks found himself
broke once more!
Although past 50, he started out
once more, this time in his first love,
the hotel business. Again the touch
of his hand was one of a Midas, and
his wealth increased. But it wasn’t
long before he met reverses and his
business failed.
That was his last venture; he died
a short time later—absolutely penni
less!
DALE H. says he saw this sign
on the bulletin board of a small town
church:
“The quarterly meetings of the
deacons will henceforth be held
Obviously, if all these small fry
are to be caught (from SSOO or
$1,000) and $2,500, the gross yield
will be enormous. It will come in in
nickels, dimes, ’‘simoleonsf, and
an occasional “V” or “sawbuck",
but it will be a handsome total.
It isn’t a “soak the rich” con
cept, anyway.
♦ ♦ *
HOW IT WORKS
Theoretically an income tax
seems to be fair; it appears to put
the load upon the shoulders which
are best able to carry it.
Unluckily it doesn’t work out
that way in practice.
As I previously have related, I
paid my income tax in the same
year that J. P. Morgan did not pay
one—in this county (he did in Eng
land).
* • •
MOST EVIDENT TAX
In one respect, however, income
taxation has undeniable merit.
Os all levies, it is the most evi
dent and offensive; those who are
taxed know it, are resentful, and
ask how their money is being
spent—or wasted .
Governmental authority conse
quently is afraid of it.
It is a last resource, but a des
perately pressed government sees
no hope except to resort to it.
It will not resort to it until after
election, however,
♦ ♦ ♦
BUSINESS CAUTIOUS
I talked, the other day, with a
very big man in the meat packing
industry.
“Business,” he said, “is pretty
good, but how do we dare to ex
pand, with the possibility of a
whole change in the social system
confronting us?
“Maybe changes will benefit the
future; but what about our stock
holders now?”
every six weeks instead of semi
annually, as formerly.”
A BETTER one still, to our way
of thinking, is this:
"DO YOU KNOW WHAT HELL
IS?”
‘‘Come and hear our new pastor
Sunday night.”
Contract
Bridge
BOTH TO BLAME
SINGULAR coincidents in bridge
are numerous. Here is one that
occurred the other evening. With
in an hour, sitting in the same pos
ition at the table, the same part
ner and I were guilty of similar
faults, costing us one game and
one smal Islam, after his opening
bid of 1-No-Trump, made on two
very similar hands. I regret that
the more expensive! error was
more my mistake than my part
ner's.
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tween an opening bid of 1-Spade
and 1-No Trump. Either would
have been correct. He chose 1-No
Trump. 1 made my weak take-out
call of 2-Spades. We were not. vul
nerable. Had he bid either 3-Spadas
or 3-No Trumps 1 would have gone
My New York’
By;
James>AsweU;
NEW YORK, April 24.—Potpourri:
Paul Draper, the only one of the
hoofing marvels whose dancing high
brow critics say has an “intelligent”
implication. . . . But that sort of
verbal hair-splitting is over my head.
. . . He’s a nimble fellow, with elo
quent fast feet. . . . George Tapps,
Draper and Ray Bolger are the danc
ing tops in this opinion, Astaire a
runner-up. . . . My vote for the
slickest headwaiter in town: Area! at
the Rockefeller Center Rainbow
Room. ...
Bedlam: Broadway in the Forties
at 3 a.m. when the taxi dance halls
let out. . . . But hackmen are
gloomy because fast buses will whisk
fans to the Polo Grounds and the
World series this summer at a nickel
a head. . . . There are still five top
hatted drivers clinging to the horse
and-buggy era in front of the Plaza
hotel. ... A world-wanderer, re
turning after 20 years, spoke to one
of these silvered coachmen the other
day, lightly: “Hello! Are you going
to live forever?” . . . The retort
came sadly: “Sometimes 1 think I
already have.” . . .
Richard Dix, they tell me, holds
all records in cinemaland for play
ing opposite young women who later
become stars. ... A partial list:
Esther Ralston, Bebe Daniels, Nancy
Carroll, June Collyer, Irene Dunne,
Elizabeth Allen and Margot Grahame
. . This has been a season remark
able for the paucity of new name
comedians rising in theaters and
night clubs. . . . Benny Field’s not
able doings at the Hollywood I m
aware of—but he, after all, is an old
timer. . . .
• • ♦
Add Broadway double lives. Claudia
Morgan, an actress of increasingly
appreciated talents, has important
roles in two plays, riming simultane
ously. . . . She appears in the first
and third acts of “□©‘•Respondent
Unknown” —a delectable comedy, by
the way, which should be on your
list cf plays to see during your sum
mer visit here —and she appears in
the second act of “Call It a Day, ’
another deserving hit. . . .
“Reno in the Fall,” a picture just
announced by Universal, will make
good double billing with “Paris in
Spring” . . • Vernon . Duke, who
whites catch popular tunes, uses his
real name for serious music he does
for the “Ballet Russe”. . . . He. is
Vladimir Dukelsky. . . . Incidently
the girls of the Russian troupe, which
is having its best seasen in New
York after a $1,000,000 tour, eat
nothing but liquids all day long—and
then gorge after each performance.
. Traveling, they go for choco
late bars and soft drinks. ...
• * •
Chorines from half a dozen shows
and clubs are to be found along
Broadway any early a.m. after work
ing hours playing those bagatelle
games and nickel-to-see-the-crane
clutch gadets. . . . Nifty: Paul Fre
man’s contribution to the walls of
“21” the eatery—a portrait of a beau
tiful girl with the caption, ‘‘Free.
White and 21” . . . Few know that
the late Howard Thurston, the magi
cian.., studied to become a medical
missionary. . . • But he ran away
from home at 14i to be a magician,
and the fever was* not to be cured.
Notation: For the first time in my
years in Manhattan I saw a Chinese
barking in Times Square the other
night in behalf of a tourists’ tour by
bus of Chinatown. Most of the other
whooper-uppers are Greeks and
Italians.
All Os Us
By MARSHAL MASLIN
IF I LIVE TO BE A HUNDRED
I’VE THOUGHT it all out ... I
know just what I’m going to say to
the newspaper boys when I’m a hun
dred years old.
“Boys,” I’ll say to the young fel
lows, “you see before you a perfect
example of what can be done if a
man sets his heart on it and lives
according to a set program.
“I owe my age, my physi
cal sprightliness, my mental alert
ness to the fact that I always ate
what was good for me and never in
dulged my appetite. »
“I am alive in this exciting year of
1995 because I never worried, never
fussed about the little irritations of
life, never allowed the ephemeral
insects of human conduct to upset
my calm spirit.
“I am living today because I have
always had eight hours of sleep a
night, always took my morning and
evening exercises, never ate too much,
always took a cold bath every morn
ing. was moderate in all things.
“Boys, you see me here today be
cause I never lost my temper when
life went wrong . iJo matter what
happened, I kept my sweet disposi
tion unsmutched by bitterness and
melancholy.
“I owe my longevity—my vivacity,
if you wish a better word—to my
strong will, to my life-long absent
tion from cigarettes, coffee and chew
ing tobacco.
“In closing, gentlemen, I wish to
assure you that any of you, if you
follow my program, will also be able
to enjoy a century of serene ex
istence ”
• * *
The newspaper boys will take care
ful notes and print everything I say
in the paper—because I will be a
hundred years old . . . And none of
my friends will be around to testify
that the only scrap of truth in the
interview will be my statement that
—I never chewed tobacco.
MR. COBURN GAINS
The condition of Garvin J. Cobum
whi is very ill with pneumonia at the
Central of Georgia hospital, was re
ported today as showing some im
provemen. Mr. Coburn is an employe
of the Savannah Sugar Refinery.
4-Spades. He bid only 2-No Trumps
on a very powerful hand. When I
went 3-Spades he let the call die.
As he had an optional opening bid
of 1-Spade, both of us thought
Insert Cut
afterwards that he should have
either bid game at no trumps or
spades.
In playing the hand there were
lost one diamond trick and two
club tricks, giving us game.