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Page Six The Capital Journal. Salem. Oreeoi Tuesday, October 4 REVISION OF TAXES IS HASTY Penrose and Smoot Ad-; Way Is But Tempo rary in Effect. By A. 0. Hayward i revenue tax system on Incomes, In heritances, general sales and land values. Seek to Force Out Vast Holders The sales tax has grown in con gressional favor rapidly during re- Icent months. It Is held in abey I ance now for imposition in the event a soldier cash bonus, with its $1,500,000,000 demands, is au thorized by congress at the next session. Once it is adopted as a (part of the tax system it will re- I main permanently, is the general mit Revision Under, Prediction. After payment of the soldier nonus us revenues win uv used for ordinary expenses of the 1 government. The land values tax has not so many advocates at the present Wuhlnrtnn Oct. 4. Taxat on "me, nut u is coming more mu svstems and nlans are the chief more to the front in all tax discus ini. of n.ni dirnKinn In ron-'slons, especially when western gress these days. mn participate. They are advo- The whole subject of taxation eating it for the double purpose has been thrown open by the ad-1 of freeing themselves from the missions of Senators Penrose and many small taxes and to force mo Smoot that the present tax revls-j nopollstic land owners to pay huge Ion is only temporary, being rush- taxes, or to throw their holdings ed now for the purpose of reliev- on the market. Vast estates are Ing the country from some obnoxl-' held In idleness, they contend, by ous business from the worst of Its the great lumber companies, by stifling tax burdens. They an-, the oil and other mining com nounce that soon a general revls- panles, and by the hydro-electric ion of the taxation system of the' water power companies, all wait country must be undertaken and a ing for future developments of the more scientific plan of taxation country lor exploitation oy mo substituted for the eatch-revenue owners. scheme now in operation. I These vast tracts of unimproved All tax theorists of house and lands are taxed but little by the senate agree that there shall be no states, and this has aroused resent- abandonment of the general plan merit by the state tax pavers, It Is of Imposing taxes on Incomes and said, who claim that they must on Inheritances. These taxes seem pay the taxes on their develop eertaln to stay, but. the systems ments for the benefit of the rich under which they shall he Imposed landowners, who can afford to wnlt the Oregon and the rates will be the subject i until Improvements march up to for debate In congress until a plan j their property, when they will better than that now in operation reap a wonderful harvest on their is adopted. I investment. Stiff federal taxes on Representatives of new schools such land values will have the Of thought iu tax matters are aria- effect, it Is believed, of forcing Ing in congress. For the moat part some, of these vast holdings from Dallas, Or., Oct. 4. Some weeks they present old systems of taxa- their owners and, through their, .g0 a number of people living Just tlon clothed In new details. Sen-1 development In small holdings, en- weM. 0f Monmouth petitioned the New Organist At Oregon Theatre . , . J, : . .. WHIM - . M .aBHHfa. Si were granted citizenship by the usual hearing in the court, but two soldier boys did not have to go to the trouble of the other ap plicants and appeared in court only presenting their witnesses and showing their mJJtiary record, and after taking the oath of alle giance were declared citizens. They were Herman P. Van Well, a Holander, ana Arthur K. Long, an Englishman, who served in the army during the period of the war The grand jury drawn for the court term was as follows: H. R. Underbill of Independence; A. W. Vernon of Independence; S. H. Crowley of Rickreall; Charles C. Campbell of Rickreall; L. N. Bil yeu of Dallas route 2; Bert Clan field of Amity route 2; Brank W. Crawford of Salem route 1. There being no particular work the grand Jury was dismissed subject to the call of the district attorney or the court. Many of the Jurors asked to be excused, deeming that their harvest needed them mora so than did the court, but thev were denied the privilege, owing to the fact that there is a large docket and every Juryman no doubt will be in service during the term. Mexico Puts Ban On Aliens No More Poor Emi grants from Europe Wanted; Must Have $500 to Enter. Mexico City, Oct. 1921 tales that enormous i A ihnro It is said that more recent arnv- monthg ag0 n, wa8 Bppo, als from Germany are actually go- Uce progecutor ing upon the land ana mat su.uc, n WQrkg flne prosperous colonies u. ..Tne tw0 oba go han(J I . . . - , ... tue in I'ouucio, auu 1 SCC lliat lh - 7. . .. r . . to it tney re guilty." Krauss was graduated fr01s law school and was aiimitj 1 bar while working as chief ot lice. Shortly afterward hp ZR-2 Disaster Held Accident Hull Eng., Oct. 4 -The catas- Pointed police prosecutor b, trophe to the giant airship ZR-2 over the Humber river on August 24,. in which more than forty per- Because sons, including sixteen Americans. tu.l. iWno wnq Hup to acci- ....... ItTtL LUUI ii, aiexico aireaay nas muimuuco ui Archduke Is In Qnandry, Vienna, Oct. 4 The fnm f--ltl A ri- i II II 1.' A nnnn .1 .........);.... (n 1 in Vori 1(1. iu in n nimniliirv Ma ... . . poor people the government wants r,xal..f.A i,v the coroner's jury at a few days aero after havinir no additions from foreign lands.! the resumed inquest nere lonay. me jugo-&iav ironuer and denmi For this reason a decision has been There is no evidence as to inc. ed to Austria. .,.,,....1 .....nil hn it iciirpr tip 'mi py-nr npp nos Tinith- reached that mmigrants from Eu- - . - verdict says. right to settle In Austria nor i, rupe mutit puaocas ivuu I iiiirn-S -l v .1 whiph ia htc ,.l... iLiitu. to ue uikiaii.cu iulij "in"."'. Hut ti' n p" ipt n np h t'SL pniintrv. tip is t1 ti rp pnm.i, This Is to Drevent an inrush of over the victims of the giant diri-ei t i live in either of the countru nnv.rtv.ti-lpkpn famllips which.1 gtble ZK-2, wrecKea August it, until ne is utscuvertu uy tne . . . ... i score lives, incluamg tnose oi six- it is sain mat tne arcnuuii' anH Qtil ntr tn tho WAAIfPl Of Tlia . ... .... . t i - . . . ! 0 teen Americans, was re.sumeu nere. parents, witti men- t-tsiti uauth QUiin iirnnllt i TTltm Oil I (1 a t pi V ontor L . : l.-..tnn. i .. e .. ubi,uui ""u'u ' . toaay. iters, ttre uvmi m a amdii titmiat into competition with Mexican L. CARLO S MEIER Recently of Pasaden, Cal., who will give a Wurlitzer concert, Wednesday at 8:00 P . M. , Dallas News Notes Battle of Suds Ends In a Clean Victory Tonkers, N. Y., Oct. 4 23 last Nan Patterson county court tor a new road dis trict, to be designated as road dis trict No. 25, and that the new road district was to be taken from districts Nos. 8, 12 and 20. The On .lulv court took the matter unner aa original vlsement and have decided that "Florodora" sextette beauty, who; tho district should be created. It ator Smoot and Representative, rich both state and nation. Bacharach. of New Jersey, are urg- Ing substitution of a general sales tax for the mulllliiile of small tax es now levied. They claim that a 1 per cent sales tax, avoiding many of the turnovers In Bales, Will produce Jl. 000, 000, 000. The tax can be adjusted easily to pro duce necessary revenue. To Work 0t Hew System Representative Oscar E. Keller, of Minnesota, leading a number of western representatives, Is press- According tthe story she told! will not be a recall. The county Ing for a land values tax. At a Acting City Judge Charles W. court has decided that it will be small rato, hut euslly adjustable. ' n. i c,piu a i-oi.t, .,,..,,,- ir i.v t,.Y i.f 170 nno It can be made to yield, he claims, Ler )'an(1lord, who lives in the1 for the general road district fund sufficient revenues to meet the gamo huildlng, wanted the use of to provide proper and adequate Foyernnieni needs, and worrisome the washtuhs for his familv. and construction and maintenance of tUXatlon Call be Im ., ,M.,m . i,,t, 1 . I . I . nrmia l... nnhlln mnila anil nrnimplR in the gralitjoa Miss ratierson, sue says, I county, rne oroer ror tne special levy waa signed on the 30th of choked her, Right then It started, Miss Pat was tried on a charge ot murder ing Caesar Young some twenty odd years ago, was doing her own washing In a small apartment here. Indiscriminate Bone away with. nu. . i. . . i'" , congress, wliOjpu,1Kl her 1)u.ck over the tub and .w nm mmuj ctiHnges in tax takes in a number of square miles in what is known as Copper Hol low near Antioch school. Polk county is to have another special election, M this time, it systems declare that, with the changing sentiment In the coun try as to taxation methods, there will cone some combination scheme of a maim tax and a land value tax that will wipe out the present system of hodge-podge taxes and base a federal Internal terson told Judge Boole, and when the argument was over the former "Florodora" girl had command of the washtub and Immediate vicin ity, while Mr. Feleh lodged a com plaint of assault against bis tan-ant. September and presented to the county clerk yesterday, directing him to call an election on Novem ber 8, 1921, asking the people to vote the $70,000 increase (or road purposes. Just recently a friendly suit was Instituted in Polk rounty by U. S. Grant demanding that the county return excessive taxes collected ii. the sum of $13.92, as the amount exceeded the 6 per cent limitation. The court decided upon hearing the case that the money should be refunded. The county court sign etl an order yesterday demanding Joslah Wills, county superintend ent, to refund the excessive taxes out of the high school tuition fund, claiming that the excessive ta.i levy of 2G,000 made by the court in December, 1920, as a part of the budget increasing on the tax able property of the plaintiff in the tract situation in road districts Nos. 3, 45, and 58 for the purpose of educating high school pupils le sitling in the county and not in anv high school district, is the fund from which the refund should be paid and if the high school su perintendent does comply with the request the court declares Ita In tention to proceed by a mandamus. The circuit court began its ses sion yesterday morning, at which time several petitioners were granted certificates of naturaliza tion. David B. Reimer, a Rus sian; Frank Scott Mahood, a Cana dian by naturalization but an American by birth, and Richard L. Relmann, a subject of Germany, T1,q .n..npr a n Ti nil tl Port hrt li'il1 n.l f 1 u t fit rinmelonft. JtTld that at dealt fully at the previous hear- housework has to De penormed ing witn an tormai eviuence. men- the lormer arcuuucnesa. tifications and similar matters,! .iMmwMeaaasmM and it was now the duty of the jury to find whether in its opinion the circumstances of the' appalling disaster Indicated any degree of criminal negligence or culpability, and if so, to what degree. Cupid Appears to Be Part Of Curriculum waee earners Chicago, Oct. 4. Dan Timid he' A number of colonization of archer fame, is being aided and schemes will be affected by this abetted by our higher education, ! new requirement that newcomers if statistics compiled by the Unl- must have $500. There are plans verslty of Chicago are a just cri-jou foot to bring into Mexico great terion. For ' nnmhra of immigrants from Rtis- More than 11 per cent of the sia, Germany, Australia, Italy and men graduates of the TTnlvuraftv nthpr pnnntrips in the manner in of Chicago marry or become en- which hordes were shipped to the gaged within the first year after United States in fonner years. r i . nisit T Al their graduation. Of the 165 men Rot Mpxiro Is not like the Unl- "OllCe Onid IS A1SO graduated from the university a ted States. It does not need and . . . I year ago in June, according to the could not receive even a small part POllCe JrrOSeCUtOr : statistics which were compiled by of what was once the annual in- . . I1 the class of 1920. twenty-one sue- flow into the United States of men1 Cleveland, 0 Oct. 4. Edward :. cumbed to the diminutive Dan's and women who carried with them G- Krauss of East Cleveland, darts ere a twelvemonth had omnl i,ti,nv. .nn.fii.. suburb, occupies perhaps an un-h; el&rsed. .J i , J. , usual position. He holds the dual Truly, youth learns mora thnn o x..a i roles of chief of police and police ' . ouinc uai'i ciici irii,ci uatc iv ana ionc in tlin woll-imni ..u. 1L. a ... Droseeutor , . . " gumeu i. ii a iUKAjcau guvcmmein lu ; its new policy. Arrivals who have KORITE Scientifically Water Proof KORITE REDUCES SHOE BILLS ONE-HALF ASK YOUR DEALER R. W: Cook is the first Bend man to be notified thit his ap plication for a loan under the world war veteran aid bill has been accepted. LEFT In at on WFF.1VFQr.AV TUTTDCF-AV which to buy your cotton goods, bedding, draperies, ginghams and wash materials a saving. You w il! have to pay more elsewhere, no matter where you shop. Prices 'oNou goods air going up right along they will he no cheaper. TORCHON LACES 'Good heavy 1, inches wide Torchon I .an-s. lin n finish, special, yard 4c Torchon I .aces in narrow widths, siecial, yard 2V2c OUTING FLANNEL :28-inch White Outing l' lannel, special, yard i2y2c 36-inch Colored Online Flannel, special, yard 19c I HOSIERY Heavy Cotton Hose for , Children, black and white pair 15c HOUSE DRESSES You will not be disappointed here, the assortment is bijr, and the dresses are pretty, suitable for home or street wear (iinprhams, Crepes, Voiles and Percales. Specially priced from $1.00 Up t0 $2.98 Women's Cotton Hose in black, white and brown, flpeciaJ, pair 15c jWomw's Cotton Fleec Hose, srxwial, pair 25c Women's Cotton - ribbed Veata, a pedal 25c 35c Women's Cotton Union Suits, apeciaJ 39c Blankets, Comforters Bed Pillows Cooler nights are now upon iu and more bedding will be necess.try to in sure sufficient warmth. They are ex cellent good grades $1.85, tl,IX75 $2.98, $3.50, $3.75, $3.95, $4.75. $4. IS. Sinnn. u.i ' $6.98, $8.95, io.OO; ' ' Woolnan Blankets. . n.nui ailtj cozy, tan and gray, size 66x84, seal, Fancv colnrrvl Is 11 1-a i.i.,,.i ni .. i . lhese are very nice and dainty, spc- $3.50 OTHER BLANKETS AT $1.85, $1.95, $2.75, S3. 75, $3.95, $4.48, $4.75. And On Up to $1Q.00 BED PILLOWS 2Vfe-pound fancy tick Pillows, filled with choice featiu-is. Special, each 98c BED SPREADS Special ,UaJity' fuU ize crocht Sprtads. $1.59 TURKISH TOWELS Plain Turkish Bath Tow. els, special, each 19c HUCK TOWELS Good grade Huck Towels special, each i2y2c REMNANTS AU tho Mi mn an I i th.t i . . - j 'wjuuiea in me store are gatAerM m our downstairs store and marked at VERY LOW fiBMNANT PRICES Genuine DEVONSHIRE CLOTH Mill Ends Special. . r vsrd 29c IXma UaUi Fl wr Good Quality S'0-in. SHIRTINGS Mill Ends Special, per yard 23c Capital Journal EarMii, Price $5.00 per year by carrier. Capital Journal Bargain Price SJ.OO per rw by raai, JOURNAl, WANT ADR JOLRNAL WANT Ana Piv come tor the purpose of forming the "farming colonies" have prov ed to be nothing more than groups ot wage earners, with no thought of engaging in agriculture. These have scattered to various cities and have become competitors of Day Mexican workers at a time when work ha sbeen scarce in Mexico. j One party of six hundred German Day i farming colonists dW not proceed J farther than Mexico City. Num- ,'bers of the "farmers" came to Mex-' Y I ico with the intention of seeking work at Tampico, having heard. F. N. WOODRY Livestock, Merchandise, Real Estate AUCTIONEER Phone 511 for Sale Dates Salem, Oregon HOOSIER SAVES MILES OF STEPS ' . FLANNELETTE Heavy Fleece, only two pattern Special per yard 19c Daily Start Hours 8 A.M. to 6 P. M. 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