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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Golden Egg Goose ' 



Should Squawk More 



Real Estate in Danger of Being Taxed 

 Out of Existence Says Chicago Man 



13 EAL estate in Illinois is in danger of being 

 -* *• taxed out of existence as a result of I ever 

 increasing governmental expenditures. The only 

 relief is through a division of the tax bijrden 

 with owners of other forms of wealth. By 

 creating a greater number of persons daxed 

 there will be a tendency to improved govern- 

 ment, because this great ^ body of taxpayers 

 , will have an immediate interest in the pub- 

 lic's servants. 



These are the high spots in a recent ad- 

 dress by Francis E. Manitrre, prominent Chi- 

 cago real estate man, before the Chicago Fire- 

 proof Building Association^ as reported in| the 

 Chicago Tribune. Mr. Manierre's talk wajs in 

 line with the policy of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association in its fight for a square ideal 

 in taxation for agriculture. His talk in part 

 follows: 



"What is the cause of high real estate 

 taxes? First, the state of Illinois is operating 

 under what is practically the equivalent of 

 a single tax levy; 80 peif cent of the Dotal 

 tax collected being produced by the ad valor- 

 em tax on real estate and the balance of 20 

 per cent by personal property tax which |s a 

 farce, impractical of application and confisca- 

 tory if collected to the letter of the law. 



Tax More Than Doubles 



"This real estate tax in Chicago has nore 

 than doubled in the last seven years and has 

 gone up at a rate of progression much faster 

 than the proportionate rate of increase in rei^tal 

 . returns. In other words, should the presjent 

 rate of increase in taxation be carried to the 

 nth degree, the tax item alone would take all 

 of the revenue of any building. 



"This ever increasing burden is due to the 

 ever increasing demands of the spending bodies 

 for widening functions of government. Otn- 

 crete roads, bathing beaches, parks, convention 

 halls, libraries, museums, zoos and other pub- 

 lic improvements, whether justified or not, 

 have to be paid for and maintained and ire 

 being paid for mostly by the tax on real »- 

 tate. Paternalistic legislation, such as the 

 granting of pensions and )|pnuses, also has to 

 I be paid for. The demands on the tax dol ar 

 i have increased tenfold for governmental cx- 

 I penses which a previous generation would have 

 I denied. 



Cause of Situation 



i "Again, we have been so prosperous in the 

 { last five or ten years that the average citizen 

 I has been too busy to take any interest in n>s 

 i government and as a consequence municiDal 

 j governments (and this I believe holds true all 

 over the country) have fallen into the control 

 I of low grade political factions which have de- 

 ' bauched themselves in one of the worst erjis 

 I of money spending and thievery the country 

 I has even known. Graft is registering now 

 , on the public mind and the tax dollar lis 

 I beginning to pinch the pay^r. I doubt veity 



I much if today we are receiving more than 50 

 cents on that dollar in the way of real seri - 

 lice from our public bodies. 



"How about the cure? It is perfectly ev - 

 ident that we will have to clean up our citjy 

 'government, put it on a businesslike basis by 

 consolidating the assessing and spending bodies, 

 establish store-keeping principles, eliminate dupl- 



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KEPT TRYING AND WON 

 Left to right are Joe Boyle and Joe 

 Bumgamer, the 1929 championship 4-H 

 demonstration team. The two Joes are 

 members of the Clear Creek Booster Club 

 of McNabb sponsored by the Marshall 

 Putnam County Farm Bureau. 



"In 1928 these boys prepared a demonstra- 

 tion that won third at the Aurora Fair," writes 

 R. J. Laible, farm adviser, "but they were de- 

 feated for the state championship at Springfield 

 where they won first in their district. 



"Determined to make their demonstration 

 the best that could be produced, they revamped 

 it and in 1929 drew first at Aurora and were 

 awarded the state championship at Springfield. 



"J. C. Spitler, judge at Springfield, stated 

 that their demonstration on the control of corn 

 diseases through selection was one of the most 

 completely worked out he had ever seen." 



Joe Boyle broadcast over KYW, Chicago, re- 

 cently on a national chain 4-H club program. 



licity of jobs and demand a day's work from 

 the city employe. 



Income Tax as Remedy 



"The city of Baltimore, through its citizens' 

 committee, did this very thing and since the 

 installation of its business principles the tax- 

 payers have enjoyed a progressive decrease in 

 the rate of taxation. In back of the whole 

 picture we must have the support and inter- 

 est of the people, and in so far as only 10 per 

 cent of the people in the city of Chicago pay 

 direct taxes, we must have more direct tax- 

 payers in order to get this interest. We need 

 more squawks from the goose tnat lays the 

 golden egg. Indirect taxation does not regis- 

 ter at election time. 



"This leads us to the question of an income 

 tax. This, of course, is a highly controver- 

 sial subject and has its proponents mostly in 

 the real estate owners who feel that they are 

 paying more than their fair share of the cost 

 of the government. An income tax hill which 

 provided for a full deduclion for any ad va- 

 lorem fax "^from the income tax failed of pas- 

 sage in the last session of the legislature. It 

 was estimated that this tax would have brought 

 about half a million additional taxpayers into 

 the field. We need these additional taxpayers 

 to make for good government, to say nothing 



of equalizing the tax burden, for as m4tttn 

 stand at present real estate stands in jeopardy 

 of being taxed out of existence. 



Must Reach Other Sources 



"The reassessment as ordered by the state tax 

 commission has been fairly and efficiently con- 

 cluded, equalizing the real estate tax in Cook 

 County, but the tax question does not end 

 there. Other sources of revenue must be 

 reached, for it is perfectly apparent that one 

 form of wealth, owned by 8 to 10 per cent 

 of the population, cannot and shoul4 not con- 

 tinue indefinitely to pay the bills for the 

 other 90 per cent, who pay practically no 

 tax under our present state constitution." 



Marshall-Putnam 



Oil Co. To Cut Melon 



IVfORE than $12,000 will be distributed 

 -^'-*- among members of the Marshall-Putnam 

 Oil Company when that organization cuts a 

 melon in the near future. The board of di- 

 rectors already has authorized an eight per cent 

 patronage dividend. The dividend is paid out 

 of accumulations left after paying eight per 

 cent on preferred stock in the company. 



"This sum is considerably in excess of the 

 entire cost of maintaining the Marshall-Putnam 

 Farm Bureau for the entire year," says R. J. 

 Laible, farm adviser. "Undoubtedly a large 

 part of the success of this co-operative is trace- 

 able to the fact that a state-wide purchasing 

 agency has been provided which takes care of 

 the purchasing of petroleum products for the 

 21 farmer-owned supply companies now op- 

 erating in Illinois." 



The State Company will distribute in excess 

 of $20,000 to its 21 member units in the near 



future. 1 ji 



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Ladies Beat Men 



In the ladies auto driving contest held at 

 the district picnic. Sandwich, Miss Delores 

 Wheeler, Belvidere, Boone county, was first, 

 and Mrs. Alma Seville, of Leland, LaSalle 

 county, was second. The ladies had a higher 

 score than the men. Miss Wheeler scoring 288 

 out of a possible 300, and Mrs. Seville a score 

 of 275. 



Out of a possible score of 300 points the 

 high score of 268 was made by Alvin Anderson 

 of Newark, Kendall county in the men's driving 

 contest. The results are as follows: 



1st. Alvin Anderson, Newark, Kendall 



county . _ _ 268 



2nd. R. A. Baker, Ottawa, LaSalle county 267 

 3rd. Fay Anderson, Newark, Kendall 



county 266 



4th. Harold Luhman, Belvidere, Boone 



county 260 



5 th. Clarence Hughes, Newark, Kendall 



county 247 



6th. Dan Piatt, Morris, Grundy county... 240 

 7th. Victor Piffer, Newark, Kendall county 227 

 8th. Mr. Barshdorf, Morris, Grundy county 221 



"The contestants entered with the idea of 

 getting the most out of it from a practical 

 standpoint," writes M. E. Robert who was in \ 

 charge. "One contestant remarked at the , 

 close of the event, that if he did not get a l 

 cent in prize money, the questions alone were ' 

 well worth the effort." 



Rapidity of gain in a pig a an important 

 factor contributing to the firmness of the pork, 

 experiments have shown, 



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