Show GOOD ROADS DANGEROUS paradoxical as it may seem one of at the greatest menaces to the motorist Is the broad straight smooth highway said W T palmer traffic expert in addressing a brake school of automobile fleet operators and service station owners recently nearly all drivers are careful on oil bad roads said mr palmer but when the average moto motorist rist gets out on a fine wide smooth highway lie ho relaxes his caution and increases his speed the newspaper and insurance statistics tell the rest ot of the story the height of carefulness both in fit mental attitude and in car condition are required on the wonderful roads throughout the country almost twice as many people are killed on fine state highways as at intersections curves railroad crossings or any other of the so called danger spots all needlessly and all through careless driving or earless carless neglect As the speed of our traffic has gone up the mechanical condition of millions of our cars has gone steadily down tor for the past three depression years according to the Aine american rIcan automobile association there are cars now operating on oil our roads with brakes steering gears tires dres and lights in a serious and dangerous condition of wear or disrepair thousands of valuable lives thousands of automobiles millions of dollars and innumerable hours of grief and suffering would be saved in this country annually it if every motorist would adopt this simple inexpensive rule never go on a paved highway with worn or out ot of adjustment brakes steering gear tires or lights and once there 1 let caution be doubled instead of I 1 relaxed the opponents declare that even t f it were a sound principle ot of de rn to exempt private educational institutions it would be a roost most difficult and delicate problem requiring expert state accountants to distinguish annually the profit from the nonprofit schools since all of them charge tuition they point to those states which have opened the door wide to tax exemption they show by such reports as the following that states are arc complaining bitterly tor for their past in this respect the exemption of local realty from taxation stated the pennsylvania tax commission in 1927 constitutes one of the serious problems of the state the value of taxed and exempted real property in that state in 1925 was respectively and the report of the Masu commission of corporation and taxation tor for 1925 states unquestionably tion ably this exemption practice has developed to such a proportion that it may soon become of serious sellous moment to the commonwealth the tha value ot of taxes and exempted exempt ed rehl real property in massachusetts in 1925 was respectively ft and the report of the tax commission of new york contained this alarming apprehension As pointed out in 1922 it Is the insidious character of exemption which is most observable the tha value of taxed and untaxed real property in this state in 1925 was respectively and the louisiana tax commission stated in 1922 and also in 1925 that one halt half of tile the property ot of that state escaped taxation and gave as the first of three reasons for that fact the exemptions allowed in its state constitution william A hough of indiana stated before the national tax A association 19 so that tax exempted property is one of the three great problems that must be solved the growth of tax exempted property is becoming a threatening menace I 1 think in all the states of the union the value of taxed d and exempted real proper property t y in III this state in 1925 was respectively an and d the tax report of michigan for 1925 states one ot of the chief obstacles to bring about justice and equality in michigan Is the exemption of so much property f from rom taxation the opponents declare that the proposed amendment to the california constitution Is alarming in all its implications it is an ele mental principle or of taxation they say that as the burden of government is released from one kind of property it is added to another that our public schools are second to none and it if there be a a class of citizens apart from others who insist upon their childrens getting a special edum education tion they should be expected to pay tor for it the tha opponents further point out that though a general property tax has disappeared in many parts of the world as a chief ra revenue it Is held by tax experts to be a fair and just tax for local means of revenue the property both real and personal 0 of private and so called nonprofit educational institutions tut ions belong in that class ex |