anaheim-gazette 1924-03-06

Anaheim Gazette ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY Henry Kuchel, Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR ... $1.50 SIX MONTHS ... $1.00 THREE MONTHS ... $1.50 Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter INHERITANCE TAXES It looks as if Congress, while reducing income taxes in the new revenue bill, will raise inheritance taxes. This is not necessarily inconsistent. There are less valid objections to high income taxes. The latter, taken out of current income are evaded by large capitalists by passing them on to the consumer or by putting their capital into tax-exempt securities. They have a depressing effect on current business conditions. They put a damper on business enterprise. Economists and financiers therefore have almost unanimously urged the lowering of the present war rates on incomes. Progressive inheritance taxes, with a pretty high maximum rate, are free form most of these objections. They let the money-maker have the fun of playing for big stakes and pilling up millions, and do not cut into them extensively until the owner has passed from the stage. That is easier on the builder of the fortune, and easier, too, on the heirs, however the latter may resent it. They are losing only money they have not earned themselves, and the bigger the slice taken by the government, the more sure they are to have plenty left for their legitimacy. $2,000 as part of an oil company jackpot of $25,000, Mr. Lane $50,000 a year upon his retirement from the Wilson cabinet, and George Creel—the Democratic super-press agent, $5,000 for his influence with Secretary Josephus Daniels. Most of the things Mr. Bryan says he wouldn't say at all if he would wait long enough before talking. MORE CALIFORNIA COUNTIES QUARTINED FOR CATTLE DISEASE Most recent reports regarding the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in California show that in the past three days it has spread to a number of additional farms, making a total of 23 which are now infected. There are on these farms 2530 cattle, 6204 hogs, 2 sheep and 4 goats. The Secretary of Agriculture has issued another order quarantining 6 additional Sonoma, Marin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and San Joaquin. Although the plague exists in only four of the nine counties now under quarantine, restrictions have been placed on adjoining counties to provide buffer areas as protection to the territory outside. The State of California has placed restrictions on the shipment of livestock from a number of counties in addition to the nine mentioned in the order of the Secretary. The Government has sent a special car tracer from St. Louis to California to trace all shipments of livestock which have been made recently to and from the area now under quarantine. By this means it is hoped to find and watch animals which might possibly spread the disease. Strenuous efforts are being made by the Federal and State authorities to quickly destroy diseased and ex- form most of these objections. They let the money-maker have the fun of playing for big stakes and pilling up millions, and do not cut into them extensively until the owner has passed from the stage. That is easier on the builder of the fortune, and easier, too, on the heirs, however the latter may resent it. They are losing only money they have not earned themselves, and the bigger slice taken by the government, the more sure they are to have plenty left for their legitimate needs. This method has the additional merit of breaking up immense fortunes thereby preventing the virtual entailing of estates and passing them on with all the power they represent, to heirs who may not use them so wisely as did the creators. It is manifestly bad public policy that such a fortune as that of Rockefeller or Ford should pass on intact, to be increased generation after generation, resulting in genuine plutocracy. In enacting such tax legislation, Congress is trying to get around the chief difficulty met heretofore—the avoidance of inheritance taxes by giving away an estate to the heirs before the owner's death. The present remedy is to impose a tax on "gifts," with reasonable restrictions. Something of the kind is obviously needed, as part of a workable inheritance tax policy. It is only fair, too, in levying the federal inheritance tax, to allow credit for the payment of similar taxes to the state. "PREDATORY PLUTOCRATS" Just after William Jennings Bryan, from his Florida villa, gave out a statement saying that the Teapot Dome revelations showed the close tie between predatory plutocracy and Republicanism, Mr. Doheny, the Democratic Midas, testified that he paid Mr. McAdoo $250,000, Mr. Gregory SAVE OUR CITY BEAUTIFUL A movement has been begun to save the great beauty of the City of Washington, D. C., famous as the most beautiful of all the large cities of America, but none the less assailed by those who would subordinate everything to the demands of commercialism. As a matter of fact, one of the city's largest commercial assets is its beauty, but it is hard to get a part of the population to see that fact. The work has been undertaken by Frederick A. Delano, as president of the American Civic Association and he is trying to enlist all the country in his cooperative movement to preserve for the capital city its original design of symmetrical unity and beauty. L'Enfant, the French city planner, at the behest of the wisest of men, George Washington, more than 125 years ago, made a general plan for the then new national capital, which succeeding generations have recognized as complete and artistically perfect. Unfortunately, he did not realize the possibilities of growth then latent in all of our important cities, and his plans do not include the newer, more recently, added parts of Washington. These it is that are menaced by an PRICES ARE LOWER — LAND IS BETTER IN Belden Addition A place you will be satisfied to build your own home. A place you and your family will be contented to live. Excellent transportation—only 15 minutes from Los Angeles! Wonderful view of the mountains! Dry, healthy, even temperature! No low lots; all perfectly drained; some with full beam PRICES ARE LOWER — LAND IS BETTER IN Belden Addition A place you will be satisfied to build your own home. A place you and your family will be contented to live. 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SMITH Incorporated 304-5-6 Union Bank Building Eighth and Hill St. Phone 822-271 ANAHELM GAZETTE unesthetic spirit in congress. Under the influence of real estate speculators there is on foot a movement to permit this band of dealers in suburban and city property to ruin the general plan of Washington by cutting its outlying land into small lots with such laying out of streets as suits their financial designs and has no relation to the fine general design of the great originator. These would be destroyers of what ought in time, if carried out completely, to be the most beautiful capital city in the world, are cutting down forests, filling up valleys, and leveling hills in order to make more land for their speculative purposes. The commission of fine arts, which was appointed by Roosevelt and of which Charles Moore is the chairman, and which has been functioning through the succeeding administrations, has power to control the types of buildings to be erected on the streets in the federal city, and also can direct the development of parks, but has nothing to say as to street extensions. It is to accomplish this sort of control that the American Civic association is forming committees in the principal cities of the country, committees whose members obligate themselves to write to their representatives at Washington when necessary to urge them to act to preserve the beauty and symmetry of our national capital. It is another instance of the fact that eternal vigilance is the price of beauty in a world where the average mortal plodding up the long, long road rarely lifts his head to note what is fair and lovely. The matter has a local application, for it is necessary for those who appreciate the beauty of trees and other growing things to watch that our own city shall not suffer in her great beauty. It is not always that a municipal government realizes the effect of tree destruction, and the necessity of all citizens joining in this co-operative movement is imperative. GUARANTEED Hemstitching and Pleoting Attachment. Fits any sewing machine. $2.50 prepaid or C.O.D. Circulars free. LaFlesh Hemstitching Co., Dept. 2, Sedalia, Mo. HIRING "INFLUENCE" The public generally believes, and the Freeman Journal shares in that belief, that such men as McAdoo, Gregory and Lane, were employed by the oil interests more because of the political influence than because of their legal ability. Other lawyers just as good and better could have been secured for half the salaries paid these gentlemen; but other lawyers lacked the main qualification—political influence. 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Phone 166 OPPORTUNITY Is now knocking at the gates of Anaheim. Let’s let him in. We give our unqualified endorsement to the Industrial Campaign now in progress, success of which means increased population, wealth and business. LET’S GO! B. F. SPENCER Sun Proof Paints 166 W. Center St. Wall Paper Art Goods Wall Paper Nationwide Ownership A Quarterly Mailing of Dividend Checks to the 270,000 Stockholders of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. NATIONWIDE in the scope of its service, the Bell System nationwide also in the distribution of its securities. In street car, at church, atatre, at grocery store countou rub elbows with its ownThey differ as widely in occupation and in wealth as the more than 14,000,000 common characteristic—thrift. Other forms of thrift have very properly attracted the savings of thousands of Americans, but none of them more truly illustrates an investment democracy and none more directly serves the public. Two hundred and seventy thousand people have made Other forms of thrift have very properly attracted the savings of thousands of Americans, but none of them more truly illustrates an investment democracy and none more directly serves the public. Two hundred and seventy thousand people have made common property of their savings in order to maintain this great national public utility. Their dollars serve them and serve the nation. Bell System Policy • One System Universal Service And All Directed Towards Better Service The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company ERS FAIL of the farmers' difficulties are of farm products, department of Agriculture per cent on to high taxes costs of farm labor; 10 per cent to high freight rates; 10 per cent to high interest rates; 6 per cent to reckless expenditures during the boom period, and 4 per cent to too much credit. Whether it's a silly giggle or a cackle depends upon whether she's a chicken or an old hen. 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