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Show fAUTOISTS ARE FIGHTING TAX Oppose Plans Being Made for Raising Soldier Bonus Funds That the particular tax program fixed by the house ways and moans r committee to provide soldier bonus funds is not going to be railroaded through congress as promptly as some of its proponents desire is Indicated by the faet that already four huge organizations or-ganizations have declared their emphatic em-phatic "ppositlon to It and ire w proceeding to resist it with every O.unce of strength and Influence at their command. These are the American Am-erican Perm Bureau federation, .he National Grange, the American Auto-moMIe Auto-moMIe association and the National Automobile Chamber f Commerce. According to American Automobile Association officials, this formidable array of opposition will be augmented by three other big national organizations organiza-tions Some of these organizations have announced opposition to the program .11 Its entirety while others will confine con-fine their efforts to defeating the pru-posed pru-posed two additional forms 'f texe-3 texe-3 n to b( put on the motor car ;lio A. A. A., motorists last year paid fn automobile taxes approximately jf 000.000, which, officials of the or- inlzatlon assert, r presents excessive ' unfair taxation. The additional OX program, if carried out. would add to this sum (120 000.000 annually loi .-n uncertain number of years and vMuld tend to cripple a great Amerlc in industry as well as depri'. e o(intles small business enterprises of (ho uso of an invaluable commercial utility. Officials of the National Orange tato that almost flftj per cent of this Special taxation would fall on the farmers far-mers of the country who are already at the bottom of the income ladder in respect to prices they receive for their produces. National Automobile Chamber of Commerce officials state thai any uiore tax on the automobile would be the proverbial last straw for the industry in-dustry in that it would seriously affect the further sales of automobiles, believing be-lieving that the array of various lakes a,-prospective purchaser would face would frighten him out of buying. ny further crippling ot the automobile automo-bile industry would, it is pointed out, m&n additional unemployment. Blghway building would also be serlousl retarded, according to the y A, A. A., for the reason that those persons who alreadj own cars would balk at all proposed b cal taxation for this purpose, and a three-year slump in road building now would require vast sums of money later and ten years of time fo this important work to regain its present equilibrium. All Interests feel that they should be heard before the senate finance and j house ways and means committees i take any definite action upon so drastic dras-tic a measure. Hearings. Chairman' Fordnsy told representatives of the) X'atlonal Automobile Chamber of' Commerce and the A. A. A. after announcement an-nouncement of the program could not be had. On this point the four named organization Intend to take Issue with r v those in charge of the propram, elaim- X, ng that the plan wei develop p Y tically over night and thai everj leg- 1 islatlve and technical expedient It ing employed to railroad It through) cor ress. According to President George C. Diehl of the A. A. A., "it is the most f high-handeu procedure the motorists ' of the country have ever faced and I will not be tolerated If ten million sub stantial American citizens can prevent ABANDONED ROADBED !to BECOME HIGHWAY SPOKANE. Wash. Abandonment by tie ;r.i' Northern railroad of It Roaaiand branch, north front North-Iport. North-Iport. will lead to tho construction of an excellent highway between the Canadian Can-adian border and Nelson. B. C, and open the country in southern British Columbia, to motorists. ' Tho Gre;it Northern has asked and iieelye.l uertiilssi.-ii from tli- Inter-Htute Inter-Htute t'ommorce conimi-Mion to abandon aban-don the line front Northport to the l border, a distance of nine miles An application for permission to abandon the nine inilos of track between the border and Hossland U now pendinc before the Canadian railroad board. After the rails and ties have been ' removed front the brunch lino, the 1 roadbed will be turned over to j roadbed will bo turned over to the Washington and British Columbia rot-high rot-high way purposeB. The right ot way includs a bridge over the Columbia river at Northport. It wilT be converted con-verted into a wagon bridge, replacing iiio ferry now in use. At the present time the Columbia cannot tin erossett between Wenatchoe itnd the Canadian line, except on ferries. oo |