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Repeal Of Food-
Tax Is Opposed.
By Prof. Ford
Professor Says Abolition
Would Affect Financing
Of Education, Welfare
Cites Rise Of Relief
Government Bureau Man
Advises Tax Reduction
If ChangeIs Made ;
By STUART LOW
The proposed amendment to the
Michigan constitution, which will be
voted upon Nov. 3, advocating the
repeal of the retail sales tax on food
and the abolition of the general prop-
erty tax would seriously affect the
financing of education and welfare
relief in the state, Prof. Robert S.
Ford, of the Bureau of Government,
declared yesterday.
Because the tax receipts from the
sale of food amounted to 28 per cent,
or $13,000,000 of the $46,500,000 col-
lected from the sales tax during the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, Pro-
fessor Ford believes that the exemp-
tion on food sales would substantially
reduce the funds available- for edu-
cation and welfare relief.t
Already Ten Major Exemptions;
An increase in the appropriations
for education and relief was only
made possible this year by the in-
creased, receipts from the sales tax,
he added. The Emergency Relief
Commission has estimated that $15,-
000,000 will be necessary annually for
relief rather than the $9,000,000 now
appropriated because the federal
government no longer gives direct re-
lief.
"As there are already ten major ex-
emptions under the sales tax, the
adoption of the amendment would
create many more difficulties for the
State Board of Taxation in defining,
what constitutes a sale of food. If
any change is to be made in the sales1
tax, it would be more advisable to,
reduce the rate of the tax rather
than to adopt a measure which would;
disturb the administrative machin-
ery at this time," he stated.
Income Tax May Be Levied i
According to Professor Ford
Amendment No. 4 which proposes to
abolish the general property tax after
Dec. 31, 1937 will destroy "the chiefj
financial support of local govern-
ment." The levy on property, which
amounted to $113,500,000 in 1935 ex-r
cluding the payment of back taxes,
will be entirely eliminated.-
The amendment provides that an
income tax may be levied but does not
Dr. Blakeman Recalls S. C. A. W ork
In Days Before Michigan Had Union
IDclMw-ak Awaiting
I{(4)ly I( ( allenge
Campus leaders of the University
Young Republican Club remained j
the challenge in an effort to learn if1
the "chauvinistic" followers of Gov-
ernor Landon "are not motivated by
reasons other than intelligent ones."
The subject for the debate, dis-
closed in a letter to The Daily last
week, is: "Resolved., That President
Roosevelt Should Be Reelected Rather
Than Alf M. Landon Elected Presi-
dent of The United States."
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PIANOS
By ROBERT MITCHELL and recently the Oriental students
For many years the largest, most have developed a group known as the
prominent society on te caipus, the Eastern Faiths. All of these are now
Student Christian Association at one correlated by the University Council
time took the place of the Union and on Religion."
League on the campus, Dr. Edward L. R'TigionC
Blakeman, University Counselor of "This function of the S.C.A.," r.
Religion recalled yesterday in an in- Bk n beevs s e assoc on
terview. of facuty and students in wholesome
"iung the middle and latter parts discussion and study of personal and
of the last century," Dr. Blakeman social religion, including forums, con-
said, "the activities of the S.C.A. were
of a. wide variety and all-campus na-
ture. The Union and the League did
not exist at that time, and the S.C.A.
was the organization that carried on
their activities. These were such
things as large religious meetings and
campus rallies, as well as many social
events. Besides this, it sent out mis-
sionaries and carried on such proj-
ects as the 'Frosh Bible,' roomingTq
schedules, coaching classes before ex-
ams, lecture schedules, and even
sponsored extension teams for
preaching missions to surrounding
cities."
Though at first mainly a discus-
sion group, it rapidly took on its
larger, more varied activities, and in
a few years was at the height of its
prestige of the campus. Newberry I
Hall, now rented to the University,
was its first home. Funds were so-
licited, and Lane Hall was built. Al-
though the Y.M.C.A. aided in that
project, the property was given to the
older society, and its headquarters
and public meetings have been in this
building since.
The last phase of its history, Dr.
Blakeman added, has been marked by
the growth of parallel organizations
on the campus. "In 1925 the Catholic
students erected their own St. Mary's
chapel. A few years later the Jewish
students set up the Hillel Foundation,
specify that such a tax is required.
According to estimates made in the
Bureau of Government, $40,000,000 is
the most that could be expected from
an income tax on individuals and cor-
porations. This amount would fluc-
tuate according to business conditions
and would still leave a considerable MUSI
shortage of funds, Professor Ford as-
serted. BOB STEINL E and
The only other alternative for fi-
nancing local government would be
increased grants-in-aid from the
state, he said. This would tend great-
ly to undermine local responsibility
because the success of municipal of---_
ficials would be determined by the
results of their lobbying activities in
Lansing in the effort to receive more
aid for their particular locality.
Professor Ford stated that forcing
the adoption of such a procedure
would do a great deal to shatter local
government morale.
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ferences, lectures, devotional groups, more or less mute yesterday when
and social affairs having moral sig- questioned concerning the week-old
nificance. Adult .and student leaders challenge of the - Rooseveltians,"
have lately been studying its history campus Democratic organization, to
and that of similar organizations to debate on the respective merits of the
determine for it a program and pur- presidential candidates.
pose of renewed vitality and activity No definite answer to ithe challenge
which wil] tend toward areestablish- { has been sent yet. but it is expected
ment of its old-time place on the that developments will come to a
campus." head soon. The "Roosevltians" sent
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