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Seattle Municipal News VOL. XViy.—No. 1. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, JANUARY 5, 1929 FIVE CENTS PER COPY Taxes Are Mounting In Nearly Every City Every, year Mr. C. E. Rightor of the Detroit Bureau of Governmental Research compiles for The National Municipal Review a statement of comparative municipal tax rates. He is not content to take the rates as published in. official gazettes, $26.56 per $1,000 in the case of New York, for example. These figures are inevitably misleading, because they are based on assessments that may vary greatly, not only from year to year in a single city but in accordance with the differing practice of several cities/. The legal basis of assessments in New York, as in most other cities in the nit-ed States, is 100 per cent of cash value, but there are cities where the legal basis is considerably less than that. In Seattle, for •example, and in Chicago until this year, it was 50 per cent. Everybody knows, too, that even where the legal basis is 100 per cent of true value the actual assessment seldom attains that standard, and is often far below it. The merit, of course, also the weakness, of Mr. Rightor's annual table is that it attempts to give the real tax burd*en based on true values. Comparative Rate Change A New Yorker looking over the figures for the cities of over 500,000 population will note at once that this city has jumped from eleventh place to fifth place in a single year. Last (Continued on Page Three) ADVERTISING DIRECTORY The Seattle Municipal News re. quests you to read the messages of its advertisers: Burglar and Fire Alarms Instantaneous Alarm Co. Page 4. First Mortgage Investments or Real Estate Loans Carey Winston at Continental Mortgage and Loan Co. Page 3. Western Optical Co. Oculists' Prescriptions and Eyeglass Repairing Page4. Printing, Briefs and Stationery White & Hitchcock Corp. Page 4. Title Insurance Washington Title Insurance Co. Page 3 Meeting, Tuesday Noon, January 8 A GENERAL DISCUSSION OF THE MERCER ISLAND BRIDGE PROBLEM LED BY R. R. Montell PROMINENT SEATTLE ENGINEER, WHO WILL TELL ADVANTAGES OF "Short Franchise and Low Toll" AND Don W. Stuver VICE-PRESIDENT PUGET SOUND BRIDGE AND DREDGING COMPANY, WHO WILL SPEAK ON "The Type and Need of the Mercer Island Bridge" CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BANQUET HALL The Public Is Invited NEWS NOTES NEW ELECTION CODE PROPOSED FOR CLEVELAND 13,000,000 ACRES GONE BACK TO WEEDS The Citizens' League of Cleveland is compiling a new election code for presentation to the Ohio legislature in January. Its princip?! features are: a. Permanent registration. This would make it unnecessary for the voter to register every year as at present, but only when he changes his place of residence. , b. Changes in precincts. A reduction in the number of precincts and a readjustment of precinct boundaries is needed;; but it should be accompanied by a simplified ballot form. c. Primaries. A simplication of the nominating system and a change in the date of the primary is generally demanded. d. Office group form of ballot. A single blanket ballot for candidates and issues, as in Massachusetts and California, on which the names of candidates and their party designations are grouped under the title of the. office to be filled. e. Watchers at the polls. At present only the political parties can have watchers at the polls, except in case of a .referendum. f. Recount of ballots. Under existing law the candidate is required to establish a prima facie case of (Continued on Page Three) Declaring that 13,000,000 acres of farm lands have reverted to idleness in recent years as the number of farmers has decreased from 4,000,000 to 3,000,000, Delos L. James, assistant agricultural manager of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, addressed the state development committee of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce recently. Mr. James said that although there are fewer farmers and fewer acres under cultivation, improved methods and implements have increased production by approximately 5 per cent. He emphasized the interdependence of business and agr&ulture, and expressed a belief that a high quality of farm produce is an important factor in the farm relief problem. THE SAN FRANCISCO VOTER'S BURDEN The voter in San Francisco was confronted on election day with 21 state propositions, 32 city charter amendments, and eight local bond proposals in addition to voting for presidential electors and five United States, local, and county offices —at total of 67 expressions of choice. The multiplicity of propositions, (Continued on Page Three) Cascade Tunnel Association Makes Much Progress As the New Year arrived the officers of the Cascade Tunnel Association looked back over the year 1928 with a satisfied feeling that it had been a year of accomplishment and with the determination that the year 1929 will bring a reward in the shape of a definite step toward the building of the great tunnel. League members will remember that on April 3rd, Mr. Otway Pardee reviewed the progress of the tunnel at that time declaring his belief that if Seattle would be a city of a million it must necessarily establish a greater hinterland. (See the News of April 7th, 1928, for a summary of his address.) The president of the League at this time appointed a committee on the Cascade Tunnel. Evening Meeting of October 15th When Autumn arrived the Tunnel Association began to hold its regular Monday noon meetings at the Chamber of Commerce. To supplement this, on the evening of October 15th, a t t h e Rhododendron Apartment Hotel another meeting was fceld, where the history of the project and steps of accomplishments were reviewed, and many guests including members and prospective members of the State Legislature were present. At this meeting it was decided that governmental aid, state and national, would be desirable to bring to successful culmination the very good work that had been thus far carried on entirely by individual initiative. (For a report on this meeting see News of Oct. 20, 1928.) State Wide Meeting Nov. 24th At Everett, on Saturday, November 24th, members of the Association and persons interested in this gigantic project from all parts of Washington and many from Oregon, Idaho, and other neighboring states met in convention to elect officers, adopt resolutions and plan the work of the coming year. It was thus planned to hold a meeting at Tacoma, January 12th, to discuss means of aiding an appropriation for a survey which is to be asked of the coming legislature. This convention elected nine trustees for a three year term. Frank Spinning and Frank R. Potter of Sumner; Rufus Woods, Wenatchee; Joseph A. St. Peter, state senator, and Attorney Lloyd L. Black of Everett; J. G. Henry, Sky- komish; John P. Hartman and Judge Austin E. Griffiths of Seattle, and S. A. Perkins of Tacoma. Professor Lieb's Address One of the features of this convention was a very interesting ad- (Continued on Page Two)
Object Description
Title | Seattle Municipal News, v. 19, no. 1, Jan. 5, 1929 |
Catalog Title | Seattle Municipal News |
Identifier | spl_mn_198039_19_01 |
Subjects |
King County (Wash.)--Politics and Government--Periodicals Seattle (Wash.)--Politics and Government--Periodicals |
Creator | Municipal League of Seattle |
Date | 1929-01-05 |
Decade | 192u |
Year | 1929 |
Publisher | Municipal League of Seattle |
Volume | 19 |
Issue | 1 |
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Language | eng |
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Catalog Title | Page 1 |
Date | 1929-01-05 |
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Year | 1929 |
Volume | 19 |
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Transcript | Seattle Municipal News VOL. XViy.—No. 1. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, JANUARY 5, 1929 FIVE CENTS PER COPY Taxes Are Mounting In Nearly Every City Every, year Mr. C. E. Rightor of the Detroit Bureau of Governmental Research compiles for The National Municipal Review a statement of comparative municipal tax rates. He is not content to take the rates as published in. official gazettes, $26.56 per $1,000 in the case of New York, for example. These figures are inevitably misleading, because they are based on assessments that may vary greatly, not only from year to year in a single city but in accordance with the differing practice of several cities/. The legal basis of assessments in New York, as in most other cities in the nit-ed States, is 100 per cent of cash value, but there are cities where the legal basis is considerably less than that. In Seattle, for •example, and in Chicago until this year, it was 50 per cent. Everybody knows, too, that even where the legal basis is 100 per cent of true value the actual assessment seldom attains that standard, and is often far below it. The merit, of course, also the weakness, of Mr. Rightor's annual table is that it attempts to give the real tax burd*en based on true values. Comparative Rate Change A New Yorker looking over the figures for the cities of over 500,000 population will note at once that this city has jumped from eleventh place to fifth place in a single year. Last (Continued on Page Three) ADVERTISING DIRECTORY The Seattle Municipal News re. quests you to read the messages of its advertisers: Burglar and Fire Alarms Instantaneous Alarm Co. Page 4. First Mortgage Investments or Real Estate Loans Carey Winston at Continental Mortgage and Loan Co. Page 3. Western Optical Co. Oculists' Prescriptions and Eyeglass Repairing Page4. Printing, Briefs and Stationery White & Hitchcock Corp. Page 4. Title Insurance Washington Title Insurance Co. Page 3 Meeting, Tuesday Noon, January 8 A GENERAL DISCUSSION OF THE MERCER ISLAND BRIDGE PROBLEM LED BY R. R. Montell PROMINENT SEATTLE ENGINEER, WHO WILL TELL ADVANTAGES OF "Short Franchise and Low Toll" AND Don W. Stuver VICE-PRESIDENT PUGET SOUND BRIDGE AND DREDGING COMPANY, WHO WILL SPEAK ON "The Type and Need of the Mercer Island Bridge" CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BANQUET HALL The Public Is Invited NEWS NOTES NEW ELECTION CODE PROPOSED FOR CLEVELAND 13,000,000 ACRES GONE BACK TO WEEDS The Citizens' League of Cleveland is compiling a new election code for presentation to the Ohio legislature in January. Its princip?! features are: a. Permanent registration. This would make it unnecessary for the voter to register every year as at present, but only when he changes his place of residence. , b. Changes in precincts. A reduction in the number of precincts and a readjustment of precinct boundaries is needed;; but it should be accompanied by a simplified ballot form. c. Primaries. A simplication of the nominating system and a change in the date of the primary is generally demanded. d. Office group form of ballot. A single blanket ballot for candidates and issues, as in Massachusetts and California, on which the names of candidates and their party designations are grouped under the title of the. office to be filled. e. Watchers at the polls. At present only the political parties can have watchers at the polls, except in case of a .referendum. f. Recount of ballots. Under existing law the candidate is required to establish a prima facie case of (Continued on Page Three) Declaring that 13,000,000 acres of farm lands have reverted to idleness in recent years as the number of farmers has decreased from 4,000,000 to 3,000,000, Delos L. James, assistant agricultural manager of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, addressed the state development committee of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce recently. Mr. James said that although there are fewer farmers and fewer acres under cultivation, improved methods and implements have increased production by approximately 5 per cent. He emphasized the interdependence of business and agr&ulture, and expressed a belief that a high quality of farm produce is an important factor in the farm relief problem. THE SAN FRANCISCO VOTER'S BURDEN The voter in San Francisco was confronted on election day with 21 state propositions, 32 city charter amendments, and eight local bond proposals in addition to voting for presidential electors and five United States, local, and county offices —at total of 67 expressions of choice. The multiplicity of propositions, (Continued on Page Three) Cascade Tunnel Association Makes Much Progress As the New Year arrived the officers of the Cascade Tunnel Association looked back over the year 1928 with a satisfied feeling that it had been a year of accomplishment and with the determination that the year 1929 will bring a reward in the shape of a definite step toward the building of the great tunnel. League members will remember that on April 3rd, Mr. Otway Pardee reviewed the progress of the tunnel at that time declaring his belief that if Seattle would be a city of a million it must necessarily establish a greater hinterland. (See the News of April 7th, 1928, for a summary of his address.) The president of the League at this time appointed a committee on the Cascade Tunnel. Evening Meeting of October 15th When Autumn arrived the Tunnel Association began to hold its regular Monday noon meetings at the Chamber of Commerce. To supplement this, on the evening of October 15th, a t t h e Rhododendron Apartment Hotel another meeting was fceld, where the history of the project and steps of accomplishments were reviewed, and many guests including members and prospective members of the State Legislature were present. At this meeting it was decided that governmental aid, state and national, would be desirable to bring to successful culmination the very good work that had been thus far carried on entirely by individual initiative. (For a report on this meeting see News of Oct. 20, 1928.) State Wide Meeting Nov. 24th At Everett, on Saturday, November 24th, members of the Association and persons interested in this gigantic project from all parts of Washington and many from Oregon, Idaho, and other neighboring states met in convention to elect officers, adopt resolutions and plan the work of the coming year. It was thus planned to hold a meeting at Tacoma, January 12th, to discuss means of aiding an appropriation for a survey which is to be asked of the coming legislature. This convention elected nine trustees for a three year term. Frank Spinning and Frank R. Potter of Sumner; Rufus Woods, Wenatchee; Joseph A. St. Peter, state senator, and Attorney Lloyd L. Black of Everett; J. G. Henry, Sky- komish; John P. Hartman and Judge Austin E. Griffiths of Seattle, and S. A. Perkins of Tacoma. Professor Lieb's Address One of the features of this convention was a very interesting ad- (Continued on Page Two) |