THE OREGON ' SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER "31; 1910.
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SECRETARY OF STATE
MAKES AUTOMOBILE
K STATEMENT FOR 16
'Receipts Show $146,232 Re
ceived From 46,006 Trans
- actions; Average $3,17.
SMALL CARS PREDOMINATE
AUTOMOBILES TO BE
K1SSELKAR ENTHUSIASTS ENJOY SNOW
EXEMPT FROM TAX AS
Movement Is On in California
to This End; is of Interest
to Owners and Dealers.
PAY TWICE FOR ROADS
DODGE BROTHERS ANNOUNCE CLOSED GAR
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PERSONAL
PROPERTY
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llt,OT.45 Will Be Tumsd Back to the
tnl Counties for Use on
the &oads.
A statement prepared by Ben W. OI
cott, secretary of state, of the different
transactions In the automobile depart
ment Tor the year 191fi, hows thi
i-mount and the varloux sources from
which the receipt are obtained.
Total receipts are nhown to be $146.
232, derived from 46.006 different trans
ductions, segregated an follow:
Number ltecelpta
Automobile resls-
tratlons Z3.
"MotorcyHe
"Chauffeur 4,or
$121, 214.00
10.104.0')
7.342.00
2.780.00
dealer 278
Uupl'cato motor ve
hicle piatex 389
Duplicate motorcy
cle plates O.'i
Duplicate dealers'
plate "
Duplicate h a u f-
, fur badges CI
Additional dealers'
0 plates 2o2
TratiHf'rt of motor
vehicles uml mo
torcycles 3.GI5
3S9. JO
2.o
61.00
630. CO
3.623.00
$146,232. JO
46.006
Email Cars Bala
The average fee rrcelved by the au
tomobile department for all transac
tions ia $3.17, while the average fee re
ceived for th rf'K Istratlon of automo
biles Is $3.57. Inasmuch as registra
tion fees for automobiles range from
.$3 for cars below 26 horsepower, to $ln
for cars above 40 horsepower, the fact
that the average fee Js but $3.57 shows
to what extent t" smaller cars pre-1
domintite. I
The following: statement shows the'
different Items constituting the entire
administration expense, which includes
number plate, clerical services, post
age, printing' and the stationery of the
automobile department, and the sum
of $118,987.45 that will be turned back
to the several counties for use upon
their roads.
Number plates, badges $10,440.98
Clerical services 8,6)1.86
1'ostage, expressage.
etc 8,466.11
Printing blanks, forms,
lists, etc 2,690 05
Stationery, supplies .. 917.05
Refunds 128.50
$28,244.55
-Balance on hand to be
returned to counties
for road purposes .$119,987.45
7.1
5 i
2.4
1.8
.6
.1
17.9-
82.1
Total receipts $146,232.00 100.0
Big-rest Day Trt.
Last Tuesday, according to Mr. Ol
cott. was the biggest day In the hia-tofy-of
the automobile department. On
account of the accumulation of mll
'.Incident to Sunday and Christmas, the
, clerical force was faced by over 1000
; letlira-en arriving at their desks Tues
; dajr morning.
Without exception, it is a rule of the
- offloe that license plates must oe
mailed to the motor vehlole owner upon
the day the application is received, pro
i vlding It Is in proper form. Tuesday
' was no exception to this rule and be
f fore the force left for their" evening
!rtea, registration had been made and
'license plates mailed to 830 motor ve
. hide owners, 66 chauffeurs and 12
'dealers.
t Women for Army Cooks.
i ;fondon, Dec. 30. (I. N. S.) Women
'from 17 to 35 are now eligible as army
cooks, and a school of training for the
'military cookery section of the Britisn
army has just been opened at Dart
ford. Already 1200 women have bee.i
sent to the front from this training
sphool.
vWhes -' writing or calling on
plre-mention Tbe Journal.
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New owners of the Kisselliar "All
How Rockefeller Got Into Oil Business
Told by Early Associate of the Magnate
Maurice Clark Relates How Modern Croesus Came to Engage in
the Work That Has Made Him America's Richest Man.
John D. Rockefeller, besides being
the richest man in America, is also the
most mysterious. Though the newspa
pers and magazines "play" his comings
and goings, few pe-ople know the in
side story of this noted Croesus, whom
the late John W. Gates once called
"the biggest little man and the littlest
big man" In the world.
How did Rockefeller get Into the oil
business? The answer Is here pre
sented in the words of a man who was
Intimately associated with Rockefeller
during his early days In Cleveland.
Daniel O. Schurmer, Maurice Clark
and Samuel Andrews were born in the
vicinity of Malmesbury, Wiltshire,
England. Schurmer came to America
about 60 years ago. Clark followed a
few years later, and In 1857 Andrews
arrived.
Clark was Rockefeller's first asso
ciate in a business venture. Almost
without exception, he referred to Rock
efeller as "John," Schurmer as "Dan,"
and Andrews as "Sam."
"Dan," he said, "left Malmesburg
when Sam and I were boys, and went to
Cleveland, In America. I followed him
a few years later, and In 1857 Sam
came. When he arrived we got him
employment as a day laborer in a lard
oil refinery. Being a bright and In
dustrious fellow, Sam made himself
valuable in the lard oil establishment,
and became an expert in the practical
end of the business.
Then a Bookkeeper.
"Meanwhile I had become well ac
quainted with the produce commission
men of northern Ohio, and had saved a
little money. Among others I got to
LOS ANGELES
SAN DIEGO
Year" models, formed a party and
know quite well was Mr. Rockefeller,
who had the reputation of being a
young bookkeeper of more than ordi
nary ability and reliability. We final
ly went Into business together under
t,he firm name of Clark & Rockefeller.
We had to work hard from the begin
ning, and at no time until after we got
Into the oil business did we have any
thing like an easy time. I put in what
1 had and John got $2000, but we were
poor all the time.
"While I looked after consignments
and disposed of them to customers,
John looked after accounts and collec-
tions. Occasionally, when I was very
busy, he would come out on the floor
of the warehouse, help some and hear
me swear some. But our relations
were always pleasant. At that, 1
thought he was too exact. He was t
methodical to an extreme, careful as
to details and exacting as to fraction.
If there was a cent due us, he wanted
it. If there was a cent due a custom
er, he wanted the customer to have it.
Into tbe Oil Business.
"Through coming to see me, Sam
got acquainted with John. When Sam
became convinced that he could suc
cessfully and profitably refine petro
leum, he came to me and asked me to
go in with him and start a email re
finery. I told him there was no
chance; that John and I together did
not have more than $250 we could
spare out of our business.
"Somr time, afterward he came to
the warehouse one morning and talketl
oil to. John and me. I started to shut
him off. but when he said 'Mr. Rocke
feller thinks well of it,' I Impulsively
Branch.
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OAKLAND
went for a trip in west side hills.
replled, "Well, If John will go in. I
will.'
"After a moment of reflection, I did
not regret that answer. I knew he had
presented the possibilities of the busi
ness to John, and I had a lot of confi
dence in John's judgment and ability
to get the enterprise going. That was
what led to the organization of the
firm of Clark, Rockefeller & Co., and
the little wooden refinery In Kings
bury Run, which eventually expanded
into the dominating interest In the
Standard Oil company.
"John had an abiding, faith In two
things the Baptist creed and oil. If
I had believed in oil as he did, I don't
think I would care about that or any
other creed. He had the right ideas
about the oil business. The volume of
trade was v-hat we always regarded aaJ
or paramount importance, and after
familiarizing himself with the various
Interests affecting Itv he sought to con
trol the production on the theory that
by controlling the production, the con
sumption could also be controlled.
"Once in the oil business, he devoted
all his energy and ability to It, with
the result that he extracted from it
( about all that one man could."
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IS AT LAST STAYED,
SAYS ANNUAL REPORT
Progress Is Accomplished by
Interesting Half Million
School Children in Work,
Washington, Dec. 30. (I. N. S.)
The marked decrease in the number
of wild birds, continuous for mitny
years, has at last been halted, T. Gil
bert Pearson states in his annual re
port as secretary of the National As-
: sociation of Audubon societies.
j That more than 500,000 American
- school children have beer) formed into
clubs to protect and increase tbe num
' ber of feathered songsters Is as
j cribed as the main reason for the
happy condition of the songbird tribes.
Three million Illustrated pamphlets
giving life histories of different
i American birds have been distributed
this year.
"If this association had never en
gaged in any line of conservation ef
fort other than its work with chil
dren, its influence for good would still
i have been monumental,' the report
I states. "Beginning with the school
year of 1910-11. when we enrolled
' 10,595 children in bird study classes
in the southern states, this organized
' effort has spread with astonishing
rapidity to every state In the Union.
' "Each year has seen a marked ln
' crease over the previous year, both in
numbers of clubs formed and the
number of children enrolled. The past
year 9901 such junior . groups were
formed, with a total paid membership
of 205,196. This is an increase of
more than 53.000 over the number en
rolled the year before. Since the in
ception of this phase of our work six
years ago, a total of 28.522 Junior
Audubon bird clubs have been formed
and 672, 081 children as regular mem
bers have been Instructed in the prin
ciples of the Audubon societies.
"These bird clubs have held public
bird exhibitions, given various enter
tainments, established bird sanctua
ries, fed birds in winter, built and
erected multitudes of bird boxes, post
ed notices of bird and game laws,
libraries of bird books, conducted bird
walks, worked for state and national
legislation, organized scores of Junior
Audubon clubs and carried forward
many other Audubon activities."
Navy Yard Men May
Build Floating Crane
Vallejo, CaL, Dec. 80. (P. N. 8.)
Because no private company has put
in a bid for the work, the Mare Island
navy-yard men may themselves con-
struct here the floating crane for
which congress at the last session ap
propriated $(00,000.
The navy-yard's estimate of $200,000
will b cent to Washington. , The rest
of the appropriation wilt be used to
purchase machinery, much of which, is
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RUCTION OF BIRDS
Snrsrostlon Alonj Ban XJLas, Ksds In
This Stats, Ear Mat VTltn Ltl
Attention, Tls Bald.
In connection with the discussion
of an Increased automobile registra
tion fee, to provide additional revenue
for road construction and maintenance,
it is Interesting to note that In Cali
fornia a movement has been started to
exempt automobiles from the personal
property tajt altogether.
Taxes Exceed
la the golden state, as In Oregon,
the motor car owner Is subjected to
pay the regulation state registration
fee, and In addition must pay city and
county taxes, which In most cases
equal ard often exceed the registration
fee.
.Fart of the personal property tax
goes into county roads and city street
tunas, it is contended that the motor
owner is thus compelled to pay twice
for road work, a procedure to which
no other class of citizen is subjected.
The California. board of equalization
has called the attention of Governor
Johnson to this double taxation sys
tem, in its annual rrport as follows:
"From the reports made to this
board it appears that for the assess
ment year 1916 there were 127 051
motor vehicles assessed on the county
rolls, at a total assessed value oC$32.
949,924, or an average of $259 for each
motor vehicle. It Is probable that an
assessment for at least an equal
amount also appears on the rolls of
the several municipalities.
"Under the new motor vehlclo
license law, passed In 1915. all of these
machines are required to pay the
slate an annual license tax graded ac
cording to the power and ranging
from $8.S0 to $25. It would seem that
this class of property. In a measure,
is bearing a tax disproportionate to
other classes of property assessed.
"If the incoming legislature is to
submit to the people any constitu
tional provisions revising the existing
law relating to what property is sub
ject to assessment, we suggest that
it embody a provision exempting auto
vehicles from local taxation."
To Avoid Xocal Taxation.
Using the board of equalization's
recommendation, as an entering wedge,
the automobile bodies of California
are lining up their legal forces to pre
pare a bill' to be introduced in the leg
islature whereby the motor car will be
exempt from local taxation. With
more than 200,000 motor car owners
In the state backlne the "DroDosed
measure it is very probable that the
legislature will give it serious con-
Slderation.
A suggestion to exempt motor
vehicles from the personal property
tax has already been made in this
state, but has not been given any
serious attention. In his address be
fore the recent convention of county
judges and commissioners. Governor
Wlthycombe, in advocating an ln-
crease In the automobile registration
fee for road revenue, pointed out tho
advisability of exempting motor
vehicles from personal property tax.
The suggestion wa not well received
by the convention, as was naturally
to be expected, and In subsequent dis
cussions it was clearly shown that the
county governments would protest
against a loss of revenue from thin
source. Moreover to bring about such
an achievement would require an
amendment of the assessment laws.
Subject Xa Twilight Lanl.
"While it is "a generally accepted
principle to raise revenuo for roads
through a motor registration fee the
whole subject lies in the twilight lard
between licensing and taxation. Be-
tween these two terms, license and After detention for 24 days Mr. Kins
tax. is a vast stretch of debatable was liberated on receipt of documents
ground, over which the constitutional from Massachusetts certifying that no
lawyer delights to wander. In a prl- : criminal proceedings had ever been in
mary sense a tax is levied for the I stltuted against him. i
purpose of raising revenue and a 11-
cense fee is Imposed to cover the cost
of regulation. In the case of motor
licenses there is. included, by common
consent, the cost of repairing the de-
struction of roads caused by the lm-
pact of the motor vehicle. By some
authorities it Is held that a license fee
Becomes a lax wnen imposed mamiy
lor me purposes or revenue.
Supreme Court Opinion.
In an opinion rendered In 1901 the
supreme court of Oregon laid down the
following rule: (
A statute, requiring a yearly payment
of $1.25 on every bicycle as a condi
tion precedent to its use on the public
roads and setting aside a certain pro
portion of each payment to create a
particular fund, is a statute providing
for a tax as distinguished from li
cense, since the sum required is mani
festly much larger than is necessary
for a cost of regulation and the law is
palpably designed to provide a j
revenue.
The opinion was handed down In the
case of Ellis vs. Frazler and is re
corded in Thirty-eighth, Oregon.
The state legislature passed a law,
which only applied to about 10 coun-
ties in 'the state, imposing a licento
fee of $1.25 on every bicycle operated
in those counties. The revenue derived
was to go to a fund for the construc
tion and maintenance of bicycle paths '
The law was decided unconstitu
tional, first, on the ground that a
statute imposing a tax on bicycles in
certain counties of the state only
which shall be used for the construe- '
tlon of bicycle paths contravenes a1
constitutional provision against spe-'
cial or local laws for laying out. open
ing or working on highways. Second,
the setting apart of four-fifths of a
tax Imposed upon bicycles as a fund
for the purpose of constructing and
maintaining bicycle paths shows that
it was primarily designed as a means
of raising revenue and the burden im
pressed must be treated as a tax and
not as a license. j
Question for Lawyers. j
It was further held that the Imposi
tion of a uniform tax upon bicycles
regardless of their value for the con
struction of bicycle paths violates a
constitutional provision requiring uni
form and equal rates of taxation and
the prescribing of regulations to se
cure a Just valuation for the taxation
of all property.
In addition to this It was held that
to impose "a tax of a specified amount,
on all. bicycles, whicn class of prop
erty is included in the terms of the
statute Imposing general taxes on per
sonal property, subjects such' property
to a burden from which other claasw
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constitutional requirement that all
taxation shall be equal and uniform."
Whether this case has any bearing
on the auto license discussion Is a
question that must be left to those
skilled In the verbiage of the law. It
uould be surprising if they agreed
either- way.
FATHER WINS A STEP
IN HIS INTERNATIONAL
CONTEST FOR CHILD
Custody of 9-Year-0ld Olga
Eills Awarded to Rev, Eills
by Japanese Court.
Toklo, Dec, 30. (I. N. S.) IJttle
Olga Eills, the 9-year-old American
girl whose "ownership" has been in
doubt since the Massachusetts courts
in 1912 gave the right of custody to
her mother, has now been legally re
stored to her father by a decision of
the Toklo appeal court. Unless Mrs.
Ellis should carry the case to the su
preme court, this ends a case which
,.. traveled from faphi!Ht In
Japan and has attracted international
attention
The case began In 1912, when Mr.
Ellis, then a Unitarian clergyman In
Boston, allowed his wife to be com
mitted to a hospital for the insane in
Massachusetts on the advice of a num
ber of physicians. Three weeks later
Mr9 EillB WBa reeMea and BOOn after
she brought a suit in the probate
court for the custody of her little
girl.
In view of Olga'a age at the time
four and a half years the Massachu
setts courts gave the custody of the
child to the mother "until further or
der," but the father, after a year's
experience of separation, was ho
wrought up that he bolted to Japan
with his daughter.
rather Zs Xdberated.
Attempts were made to extradite'
him on a charge of perjury and he Q
was arrested by the Tokio police The
charge of perjury, it was subsequently
learned, was sworn to by Mrs.' Ellis.
At the time Mr. Ellis rormany
called attention to the fact that his
wife's attorney, David L. Walsh, later
governor of Massachusetts, had been
' elected lieutenant-governor while the
case was in progress. The charge of
; perjury was made In the absence of
j any clause in the extradition treaty
between Japan and the united etates
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can all be removed, leaving a touring
covering the taking of a child by her
father.
Action vatfts to apa.
Mrs. Ellis next appealed to the
Boston press to enlist help, end th
result was that she arrived In Japan
early in 1915 under an assumed name.
She made an attempt to take Olga
away by stealth, but failed. Next sh
appeared at the father's house in Toklo
with her attorney and a bailiff bearing
a provisional order from the lower
court for the delivery of the child to
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her on the plea that the father 'w.:
planning to remove tier from ,Japan.
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tat Ions by the father. . f ..
In April lurl y.-Mr she brought a Suit '
against the father in the courts t
Toklo for restitution of the girl,'- The.
lower court gave a decision ' in''YaVf J
of the mother. The father .appealed ? ?
and the higher court has now awarded ;
the child to him. There the esse rests
unless It is carried to the supreme
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