Show I 0 CANT CAN'T ESCAPE IT By EA BA Service WASHINGTON Aug 1 1 IBy and the Dl District ot Of are experiencing au an Influx of ot motorists from Vir- Vir Vii Vir Virginia ginia lOch as has never before place 1 me ne nc reason reon Is 13 Virginia birginia nas a gasolIne i fa tax taz of or 3 conta on 3 gallon of fuel bought there So the Uio motorists here bere for lor their heir gas wh It taxed H But not DOt ll for tor long Beginning January 1 i r and the 1110 I of o colled colledA A cent 3 lIno tax vax At Al tU t It will bo be cheaper than tha burlo in Virginia 1 t- t tHORE MORE MORK COMING III I addition several tho ot-tho of tho tate stil without gasoline taxes have bees contemplating adoption of such a measure The governor of at MichIgan vetoed a cent 2 tax tu bill atI I passed by the legislature and an 11 lib i o chief executive of Arizona did not permit the bill Increasing that states state's tax from 1 to 3 cents to 0 g through as law lan These states how how- howe however e eer er arc are expected to turn the ta- ta tables ta tables bles bies probably by next year J In MaS Massachusetts reports hex hex- Ill ell the law Imposing a 2 cent 2 cent 2 ent tax ass as passed by the legislature and d by the governor But Dut A popular referendum will bo held In Ia 1925 1 w which therefore automatically suspends suspends the tile collection of the tax until the people have express d their will upon unon It Ohio also aha considered a Ii gasoline ta tat hut but at the tile Ia last t minute it ws s decided to have a special commit commit- committee committee committee tee hOok further Into the situatIon In that state Minnesota has passed a law providing for tor an to make gasoline tm- tm Uon thon Je leal al And Oregon has called upon Its neighboring states ot of ashIngton Idaho and for or uniformity In their gasoline ta Las measures 1 C OTHER Dt Despite thus this additional taxation however ho there thero has ben little lr if any of ot a reduction of other j I forms of motor duties In In only two of or the 36 states which have so fa tar enacted motor foci tuel taxes ell points out have there thero been the elimInation elimination or even reduction ot or other forms torms of special levies leles In California rl- rl used moto motor vehicles must mut henceforth pay an annual flat regis regis- registration registration I fee tee of at 3 00 while in Utah there has bas been a 50 per cent re- re re reduction In the fees tes t for r passenger tars l-ars l and the tho same for tor tru s of ot one half and three three fourths I ton capacities I On the other hand band of the 17 states adopting adopting- gasoline taxes this year year and the eight others others Ing ing Ine the rate of ot their existing taxes taxes seven o 0 bom actually made In- In Increases increases In Increases creases of one kind or In some or all of their annual registration registration tion fee fees This was true with regard to trucks of the tho larger capacities |