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' / • • L.. K.;, - £ 7-:r:. EAGE FOUR PUBLISHED RVEBY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING 00. WILSON W. HARRIS Editor and Publisher Entered at the Clinton Post Office as matter of Second Class. . , Terms of Subscription: One year .... .... ..1. — $1.50 Six months .... "• .75 Three months ..r - ..*, .60 Payable in advance reade Foreign Advertising Representative THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION \i The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of it’s subscribers and readers—the publisher will'at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. Make all remittances to V THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. Clinton. S. C. CLINTON, ». C., JULY 9.J925 8 PAGES SENATOR STEWART ON OUR UN JUST TAX SYSTEM State Senator Roach Stewart of Lancaster, recognized as one of the boldest, most independent and out spoken members of the General As sembly, was invited to York last week by the Business Men’s Club ofS^that city to deliver an address on South Carolina’s tax problem. The York- ville Enquirer rendered real public service by publishing a full report of the speech which was enthusiastically cib]y sets forth the rottenness of our tax system, The Chronicle is reproduc ing it below: , ** “There is no problem on which the future depends as much as upon tax es,” he declared. The appropriations life paying his state, county, muniei pal, income, license, and luxury tax- r | ion*, es—‘and then when he comes to die feel that his wife and children were going to be deprived of additional money because he died.’ “Discussing the sales or nuisance tax, the Lancaster senator declared: ‘The state will not recover from the damage done by the sales tax in five years.’ He knows of a million dollar mill whose owners wanted to locate it in South Carolina, but after they learned of this state’s sales tax, they located it in Texas. The same thing happened to another mill of a half a million dollar capital which was locat ed also in Texas. Senator Stewart desires South Carolina to have more industries, for, with the boll weevil making it all but impossible to pro duce cotton* in this state, it must have industries to give employment to our people who can consume the diversi fied products of our fai l.:a. The state cannot develop on agriculture alone. Thfe sales tax will not develop the state. The sales tax on cosmetics is an illustration. It drives business out of the state. Senator Stewart said that the. druggists made a mistake when they agreed to absorb a 4 per cent luxury tajc on cosmetics, for the 'next legislature will see that they have absorbed the 4 per cent tax and next year the lawmakers will double it and let "them absorb' that. The same thing will apply to the cotton mills. If they absorb the sales tax to^get business, then next year it will be increased. Wisconsin had a sales tax and it drove the manufacturers out of the state. North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama have no sales tax. Industries will go to those states. They do not come here. “Ther^ will be neither progress nor political peace until the tax problem is settled, and settleifTtght, said'Sena- tor Stewart.- He declared that, if 7 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. 8, C. r'- r THURSDAY, JULY 4,1425 behind with their subscript- .HolidayToll Goes\ % Higher oq Monday Cal Coolidge Is now taking his vaca tion. The rest of us are ready for ours, but who’s going to furnish the cash? Some people have a mania for writ ing their names in places of public resort. Those who feel a desire to 16ave a record of their presence in the world, should accomplish it by doing some useful thing that people will remember. Gee McGee, paragrapher of the An derson Daily Mail, had this item in his column yesterday: “When a mer chant gets through paying taxes and clerk hire and rent and light and water bills and absorbing the acc6unts of deadbeats, he’s exactly in the same fix I used to be when the precher would take dinner at our house and leave no part of the chicken for me except the neck.” received. Since the indictment so for- day in the year a man drank as if the grain crop will be short an made by the legislature were $2,700,- 000 in 1917, but this year they jumped to-$17,600,000. In the senator’s opin ion, as well as that of a vast army of his fellow-citizens, this tremendous sum is extravagantly expended and wili-continue-to bp $o long as the state has*'65 bureaus and commissions to spend mor^cy. He suggested that if South Carolina would abolish all these agencies and employ three competent business men at $25,000 year each, they could and would save the state not less than a million and a half dol lar a year by applying business meth'Kls to the state’s business. - “^Ie added that as a member of the senate, he has always favored first rai^pg the money needed for the state’s business and then spending it, but the legislature this year first ap propriate^ the money and then under took to raise it. Every fair-minded man is willing that the state should maintain colleges, schools, the asylum and the penitentiary, but these insti tutions ought to be operated economi cally.. "One of the first things necessary is revaluation of the property of the state, said the Lancaster legislator. He knows of a piece of property in Charleston returned for $5,000, while a parcel of property of equal value is returned in Lancaster at $900. He pointed out that only about one man in fifty fails to commit perjury in returning his property for taxation. ‘You do it and I do it.’ There is a block of property in Lancaster which he feels sure would sell for $15,000, if offered for sale, yet it is returned for $7,200—‘and it is no worse there than it is elsewhere all over the state.’ He told of a piece of property which was bought for $5,000 and had $19,000 spent on its remodeling, bpt it is re turned for taxation at $560. While the assessed valuation of all property in Lancaster county is <$5.2<jo,000, sev eral years ago one mill in the'county was priced at $10,000,000. The as sessed valuation of all property in the state five years ago was $448,000,000; now it is $420,000,000.* ’If it keeps on, in a few years it will be wiped out. A loss of $28,000,000 in five years. Is it that way in Yoi;k? It'should all be returned alike, whether it be 5 per cent, 50 per cent or 100 per cent of real values,’ he said. “ ‘The small farmers are paying more taxes than any other class. Large farmers are not paying in pro portion to what they are worth. ThO heaviest taxpayers are the banks. Every stockholder in a bank knows what he has to pay—42 per cent on the capital stock and surplus-, The merchants know, the manufacturers know what they have to pay. It is said that farmers ought to be taken care of in the matter of taxes, because farming is so precarious’—and then Senator Stewart went on to cite the number of bank failures in South Carolina in 1923, 1924 and 1925, com menting that banking is also a pre carious business. Then he called at tention to the large number of mer cantile failures and said that mer chandising is sometimes precarious, too. He pointed out that the mills have made but little money during the past few years. “The only fair basis for taxation is property, Senator Stewart continued two bottles of soft drinks, his wife two, and child one, Stlch a man would pay more taxes than a landowner would pay on 5,000 acres of land. ‘It is not fair to tax the mill worker for his soft drinks. It is about his only luxury and he is entitled to as much consideration as is the man who wears broadcloth.’ ! * A ^ “ ‘If North Carolina has a sales tax, and so has Georgia and Alabama, and if you will abolish Sears and Roebuck, then I’ll vote for a sales tax,’ said the senator.” ♦♦*♦+♦♦♦♦♦+♦♦♦♦♦++♦♦*++♦** ♦ ♦ Try this on yaur piano: “I believe in the stuff I am handing out, in the firm I am working for; and in my ability to get results. I believe that honest stuff can be passed out to honest men by honest people by hon est methods. I believe in working, not in weeping; in boosting, not knocking; and in the pleasure of my job. I believe that a man gets what he goes after, that one deed done to day is worth two deeds tomorrow.” Chicago, July 6—The toll of holi day fatalties throughout the country moiinted today to the 250 mark with automobile accidents and drownings at the head of the list, wVthout Boston cabaret tragedy, in which 43 persons perished. •. Although the Fourth of July passed with remarkably few deaths from fireworks and explosions, the abnor mal traffic |n suburban areas led to an unusually long list of dead and in jured. More than 400 were injured in the states which reported (he heavest death tolls. Illinois reported 57 dead and moto than 100 injured. Other state totals-follows: Massa chusetts, 49;, New York, 26; Indiana, 13; Ohio, 29; Missouri, two; Connecti cut, eight; Rhode Island, six; New Jersey, three; Pennsylvania, six; Ver mont, two; Minnesota, eight; Iowa, four; California, ten; Colorado, three; North Carolina, two. We Have 50—TWO PHONES—54 For Your Convenience . % I i During the hot weather you need not walk—TALK—use your phone for the best food values in town. i % ♦ +*++♦++♦♦+♦♦+++♦+*++*•{++++ ♦ FARM DEMONSTRATION + NEWS ♦ C. L. Vaughan. County Agent J + *** - ♦ ++++++*++**+++*+*+*+*+*+*+ CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank all of our friends for their kindnesses in our bur moth er’s illness and death. May G&d’s richest blessings rest on each of you. Mrs. Si P. McCrackin. Mrs. J. F. Workman. . Miss Ruth Bonds. , J. H. and E. W. Bonds. Just lift the receiver; ask for either of our numbers, and we will promptly give you the best for the least LITTLE 8 DENSON 50—TNyo Phones—54 How to Overcome the Corn Failure The old crop of corn in Laurensr county is a failure for this year, looks : En Passant; W. W. H. ♦ W. W. R. + ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦***^**♦***♦**♦**♦*♦ A pint of whiskey has gotten many a man into a peck of trouble.' No matter how mad a-man may get at his wife, he always admires her judgement in having married him. * We have known a promising young man to fail to make good because he fajled to keep his promises. it is advisable to plant corn*in the middle of the rows between now and the 15th of July. The be^t variety for planting late in the season is the Mexican June. This variety will ma ture before frost in the Piedmont sec tion, that is, if we have a reasonable late frost. In planting^this corn in the middle, it will be a good idea to use about 100 to 150 pounds of fertilizer to the acre of corn, then as soon as the old corn is ripe enough it should be har vested for roughness and then the unused fertilizer can be gradually turned from the old corn row to the young corn. It will be better to do this than to prepare stubble for corn, but the stubble could also be planted in corn. The 6 66 is a prescription for Malaria, Chills and Dengue or Bilious It kilk the germs. Dr. E. Mood Smith Dr. Felder Smith OPTOMETRISTS MODERN SERVICE SPECIALISTS Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted 1 15 West Main Street Phone 101! CLINTON. S. C. Another good way to judge a man is by the phonograph records he buys. All that goes up is bound to come down—except taxes. You don’t have tb hav£ a hunter’s license when going hunting for trou ble. ■* There is no accounting for tastes. One girl has. her hair bobbed, and another wears a wig. * All men are lazy, observes a Texas philosopher, but some men give in to it more than others. The trouble with this bootleg beoze, says a man’ who has tried it, ir that you have to be drunk before you can drink the stuff. If women keep on getting so inde pendent; pretty soon they may de cline to support their husbands. The automobile speeders-should not drive so fast that when they stop, it will be necessary to make their exit through the windshield. Philosophers tell us to-avoid anxious thought, and the slow pay debtors have decided to abide by that princi ple. It is claimed that there are too many white collar men, but they are at least ornamental when-they get out on fashion parade at the summer re sorts. * Many people have consented to ac cept monkeys as ancestors, but no monkeys so far as known hive recog nized human beings as their descend ants. Weevil Situation In the lower part of Laurens coun ty the weevils are bad in sections. Infestation is running from one per cent to fifty per cent, but the farmers in that section are getting ready to put up a good fight just as soon as the weevils do serious damage in their fields. If you expect to control the weevils it will be Important to use the-latest improved dusting machines and also good brands of calcium arsenate. Some of the calcium arsenate being put on the market is not worth using at any price because it will choke up your dusting machine and you cannot g!et distribution even and under con trol. It is very important to be sure you have the right material when you buy. The weevils are practically through coming out of hibernation at the pres ent time, but even being dry, they are getting a few squares in most every field. If we have rain any time in the near future you had better watch infestation to see how much damage they are doing. , SWIM IN LAKE THOMAS Will get any Piano we sell during July and August under our special arrangement. Uprights $295.00 up Players $450.00 up O’Daniel Clinton, S. C. ill ON THE HIGHWAY WHAT DO P. S. JEANS DO? SWIM IN LAKE THOMAS In this day of road building every citizen would like to be on a real paved highway. Paved highways are scarce and many of pur people will never have the opportunity of having a paved highway pass their 4T' ' < , : door. ' ' ; *4 It’s a fine thing for the govern ment to make all these little Savings, but not necessary to save any more of the red tape. All women are beautiful. If you don’t believe it, read the wedding write-ups on the society page. ( * Many of us-do not know •what to Although the state law provides thati^ 0 ourselves when on vacation, the state income tax shall be one-tl\ird , ar, yy a y can go down to the of \the federal income tax, last year it, pos ^ an( ^ as K if TJhe Chronicle s- l 5 i. • . > / ’• . took $10.55 more to pay his state in come tax-than his federal income tax. In the senate he favored repeal of the state inheritance tax, thinking that it v No one'knows when the end of tlje world will come, but it’s safe to bet is not right for a man to go through t it will catch a great many newspaper has come in yet. \ r WOMANLY AILS Kentucky Lady Got Well After Taking CardiL M got down in health—suffering ‘ • :h from womanly troubles whicl caused me much pain and worry,” says Mrs. Rhoda Canary, of R. F. D. 6, Owensboro, Ky. ‘‘My stepmother had taken I Cardin when she . was in my same conditioa, so 1 got to inquiring around among my friends about u and found several women who tirere taking it at that time. “They au told me how good it was, sol told myhusband to get me a bottle to try. That night he came home with a bottle of Cardui... ”1 had a... which left me in a very serious condition. 1 had been in bed eight weeks and was unable rein b to move fn bedi without help. "By the time 1 had taken half a bottle (of Cardui), my strength be* P i to come back. 1 could sR up bed. ”1 finished up that bottle and by that time 1 was able to walk, across the floor, ni continued faking Cardui for several mouths and r got well.” At all drug stores. c-n / one £ Highway of Success ■A Get a good bank account in a big strong bank like this one and then add to it as the days go by. Your success in the business world will be assured. - * 1 \ * - ' 9 v Add Thrift, Economy, Perseverance, and the Great Highway of Success will be yours. o. * r' ( it OUR SERVICE MAKES FRIENDS” “CLINTON’S STRONGEST BANK”