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,HE rUNTCllJ rHROMf'f.E TLINTON. S. i.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5. 1931
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IMeasant IMaces
fa-tion to
Rural Manhattan
This city has not lost a!) its niral
atmosphere. Durinjf peimit.s When he was hanily more then a ■'-it i'
were is.sued for goats, hor.se-shoeing.' hoy my friend .lim !>.neux. one of the he.nt him off. This made
smoke-houses, well water and cartingic<r.tu:s of the Ameneen ^tizine. a.id -> he d d run and was
was sec'-etary to th«'* • governor ot After holding office for only.
} They'went 'n to the governor’s pri- amldt^n and no hope. jo fugitive from Saul, lie 'vo- ‘.ghtirg:
vale room, and the young official ten- Nobody under f.fiy should be'in toojt ir ugh the wildei ne-*''. ' phi'- Jed by
^ dered his re.signat-. in. The givtmor pleasant a place. , ; enemies and wiki beasts, fne green
was amazed. Rchert 'l,'pdeera''f. the writer of pasture- and still water.' were all in
1 “V, hat’s the matt<‘r?” he exclaimed, business arJcIes, u’tcred a nr foun-.i; his mind.
T < bought you were sitting prett,y.” husine.ss truth a hen ho coun.'* led: jjg nover did reath an entirely
“I arn.” sa.d the young man. “That’s “Never compla.n about your trou- >)Iea^ant place. Kven when he liecame.
just the trouble.’’ j bles. They are responsible for the problems, dis-
“Hut I don’t understand.’’ greater part of your income. . ^ ^ , , , , t> . i.-
• . . 'appointments and hard work. But his
“V\’f*]l riovernor vf)ii knew tb's of- most an / one * an bold a job i . . . ,
vxiii. ^■over^or.,>ou anew en.s oi . . ' i soul gave birth to .song' t.nat
f’ce that I hold is a m.ghty pleasant -^huh presenus no dii.,icult < j. hence ,
pl-ice, I’m twenty-.'even years old. and pa.-’ salarie.'. Men a: among tlje .;nes, of all the ag. ^
are
ade him mad. very pleasant place indeed. I’m the top are paid for their willingness
as elected. afraid of it.’’., to accept responsibility; for the prob-
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Health Commisijioner Wynne, who ‘^"uth ( arol.na.
lie
was
months he asked for an interview wi.h and
afrai<l he would settle that they tacdile and the diffi.-ul-
become too contented. ^ ‘
listed the a* <),*«• in .his annual report. There was a brilliant young chap i the governor.
fJ.so said that more than Id,(100 per-[ in the state administration who at the
son.s were bitten by dogs la.st year. H<' age of twenty-six held the office of :
]»re<licts a dogless city, and says that a.ssistant comptroller. He had not in-
the dogs w'Tll 1h* delighted ami willing ,.an for the comptrolleriship,
to go. He points but that no <ioe en-
Afraid that, without hard problems to, ^xing David wrote: "The Lord is mj
BOND FLOWER
SHOP
•Whdt’s on your mind?’’ asked .Jim. tackle and stern duties to-epnpuer, he I shall not want. He maketh!
“I am going to resign.
“Why?”
‘T’ll tell you presently.’’
FLOWERS FOR AI L OCCASIONS
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would get flabby and soft. Afraid that D) li'e down in green pastures; He 157 Mail. S».
at forty he would wake up to find l^'adeth me beside the still w’aters.’’ i _j..^
himsidf a lazy office holder With no* But when David wrote that he was SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLK
joys being shut up in an .ipartmcnl
aJI day excejit when he is taken mit
for an airing on a thre'-fiot .cash
with his head in a muzzle.
Dr. Wynne’s predi •ti.ui, unfortu
nately. coming just a the “• ()()’’ o"
New York’s dogdom is luM'.g ginni.ni 1
for a show, urouscil ;nc ire of dog fii,”-
ciers. One of the c.nthii-i; i.its dccl in !
positively that ino'. of the dog.; hci<-
are “pi rfectly happy."
.'speak for-your'clf, I-.do.
.Apple .‘sauce j
•A taxi iiriver, arrested an 1 hailed
into court, was asked why he had de-
lilMTately wn'cked a man's box of
api les by running h:.s call into. it..'I'h<-
tabman .its la'c I that the man, sup-,
jxiSMlIy uriemployt (I. was his lanllord.'
ami that he was foriu-d to pay him' $7.0
He dixln’t like it, htf said, ,Xo he
thought h«'’d even things up by ex
posing hiin as a fake.
The court, inve.stigating, fmind the
cabman’s st uy tiue. Case dismissed.]
.Now there’s one less apple seller o!i t
the sidewalks of .New A’ork. !
Little \Nhite Lies
Little scholastic white lies are daily
being pour* d into guards’ ears, but
few rah-rah lioys get past, they say.
One youngster elaimed he was here
on vacation fioiii Wivsiiington State
college. Skeptual iloormen asked him
where it was located.
"In .S«-attle, of course," the hoy an-
sweriHi, blushing nervously,
“A’ah! Yah! it’s in Pullman, Wuslj,’’
the> *atkled. “Thri>w him out." So
they threw h in out.
Exen M 'I'alking Bi^
And then there's lh<* poultly .show''
at Madison S^juare (Jarden. The en.
tire ha'ement looks and soun<ls like a
giant jxiultry farm, what with cuck-j
ling, crowing, nuacking ami .so on. I
.Any city ilweller who thinks that}
New YorkiMs sneer at edible ftiwl
should call at the'^gaixlen. .Aside from
the Iviiinyard varieties there are lur-,
keys, preasants, peaem ks ami ducks,
not to mention .Mehitable, th»> robot
chicken that actually lays a wooden
egg upon re»|uest of almost anyone.]
.Shttw officials say that she^ 44h*
only talking'*hen in ca|)tivity. tlie niir-'
aide la ing accomplished by a ph mo-
graph Con ealed in.-.ide her covering j
o! 1 ne te ithei '.
U hat Culture
‘real sell.liars" w ill !
Only
in thi- m.i II rel’ereiK-e room of
New A ork p.iMic ! bi.iry. .That
If a'lowed
t h(
<loes
U.it. - jU'lude coT.ejre.-It.iy .s, howi'Vei', .so
it \o.i wca.' tho e klas'y, kollcg ate
klothcs and a h g knot in ymir lie, it's
u i‘o .< t I t:y to t ia-li tile gate.
1 he mar. h of ultiire has so taxed
the llpiaiv's laiulities that a ix'gula-
tioii ha> gore into eff,- t imnishing
«-(dl« <:e ami h gh -.h iol students to li-
brai ( s uf th. :i own s. h mis.
The die.tor vays that d,tt:ir.,17H,
pel- iis til, n I tile lihiaiy last year,
an .'K reaf .if JJ pt-r cent over Itt;*'.*,
II.s.. ,li‘i(l V .Icaie- welt- issiuri for
h> me uf. .1 p. r cent more tliaii in
I'.tJl*.
'!« frer ITirth
.Sa-pt’de.i .11 .1 |i.. of one of .New
' 1 .“WI t k- aper-, tile Daily,
.New liii K. :',g. a huge ghi’oe. slowly'
tura.iig. i
It repii cl”, tfi, caitli, ami com-1
jiKtes a lev o'', or; c\ ‘l y lit mimites.
.S> t ;i h' t 1, ;;i II de .ii c.ird the si.los
of h. • lorn ai'c tli.igra ii-’. wiather.
a" i vv ml ve!.i,
ty statis-
the stars
pit tli( t oll'-
fics. (lver''tad are thartetl
in tht ir ct uiM'-.
U lien g;./ ng at this man-made jior-
tion of the uri'vciv,. in action, there
ctinies to one the eera- fiuding that he
has been transplanted to another jilan-1
cl, ami is staring down, iiyiinotizcd
into endless sjiace.
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Our recent advertisement. “I.et Us Ivonomiz.e” ha brought foi.h niu. h comment and c iiimen lation from
tlie press ami the piildic. Its timely appearance enable I it to sound a welcomed nott* df economy whit h has
re-echoed throughout the state. It has likewise cau.si I many calls for further enligh'.t .•'.merit and raised the
inevitable question which we herein a'k WHKRK .AKK WL HK.-\DKD?
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The aii.swcr i.s iiol cutirrly clear or (‘a.'^y to .sec. There are .so many la.\-colleetinjf agencies and .so many ramifications of state
and local goverfiment that it is difficult for the layman to know just what we are doing as a state, or where we ARE headed.
While this advertisement cannot answer the (|uestion adetjuately, possibly the ftdlowing data will he interesting if not fully en
lightening.
The.se figures are fr(>m a recent amioimeemeiit of the S. U, Tax Uommission.
1914
INCREASE
1929
Rroperty Taxes
A.s.sessed values $;I07,17H.882.I)0
State (G mills)
(’ounty
School
1.84.3.073.29
2.0.'>9,094.81
1.990..V23.4.')
In IG Years
38 1-10 per cent
l."> (i-10 per cent
32G 8-10 per cent
404 2-10 per cent
l*roperty Taxes
Asse.ssed valijes $426,369,133.00
State (5 mills)
t-ounty
School
2,131,795.67
8J89.660.96 ‘
10,788,980.42
Total
$r).892.691..6.6
Total
$21,710,437.05
Rich Mmi (PtMir Mun)
A Wall street financier who con
tributed to esliiiilish a foial de
pot for the uncmployixJ wanted to .see •
how it was functiPning. j
He left his limousine at home and;
nude the trip in a taxi. He had the i
driver stop across the strec't, got out,!
walked over and entered the oldj
church in which the depot wa.s lov, at-
ed. The cabman watched him In aston-'
ishment, then jumped from hi.s cab ]
and followed him through the door. !
“Hey! Don't give thi.s guy anything
to eat!” he shouted to attendants in-i
aide: “He's got money. He took a cab!
down here!”
Tlu' plight of North (’arolina, our sister state, offers some consolation, hut it makes us wonder if we too are headed in the
same direction, (iov, (larduei', in his recent message to tlu' N. U. la'gislaturi*. made the startling disclosure that the cost of gov-
ermnciit in .Noi'th ('arolina ha-^ increased from $23.5(11),(1(1(1 in 1918 to $l()0.()()(),0()l) in 1930, The cost of education, he stated, has in-
crc'ased from $5.500,()()() in 11)1.'’ to $28.()()(),000 in 1930, and the st;ile honded (ieht in the same period from $8,000,000 to $170,000,-
000. While the fignrt's are not availahleas to the honded dcdit of South (’arolma. it is logical to iinestion whether in pr.iporlion to
size and ri'soni’ces, oiir state is not aho*ady facing as .-ei'idus a problem.
100%
TOTAL TAXES PAID $3,750.94600
41%
SCHOOL 11.518.621.95
27% COUNTY'! 1.013.410.31
Dividing the CoHon
12% C1TY|14()4.49S96
In seeking to find just where onr greatest prob
lems lie, it is intt‘resting to note the division of the
cotton mill tax dollar as shown in the accomi)anying
chart. This chart, or any other chart now available,
must needs present an incomplete picture. It is inter
esting to note, however, that not all of the taxes,
school and county, are shown, and iHuventages of these
tWv) agencies should actually he larger than .shown, hut
the chart does verify in a way the figures from the
Tax Uommission ipioted above.
The chart is based 011 tax information gathered
din rlly from the mills, and does not cover all of the
mil 118 mills have reiK)rted and are included in the
'uwith 4,.535,821 of a possible 5.400,()()() spindles.
1 dal of property taxes paid by the mills in 1929
ic 118 mills was $3.7.50,946.00,
reixi
The
hv 1
was thrived fmm the 5 mills state tax: $8.789,()(i0.96. or 40',
taxes,
tures $16
thai
the
i lese proi)ortions are further proven by the fact
of $21,710,437.05 of pi‘oiH*rty taxes collected by
. .x Uommission in 1929, $2,131,795.67, or 9 8-10',
from iDunty taxes; and $10J88.980.42 or 50 2-10', from school
I'he total revenue of the Department of Education for 1930 is quoted in their reiKirt as $17,528,090.84, and total expendi-
: 16.187,318.74.
It is not intended that this presentatiim shall challenge any specific class of taxes, r.r cast any reflection upon any department
of 6ur government. It is an unhia.scd pre.sentation of facts, anil search after truth.
Certainly the figfures presented indicate that as citi
zens we should earnestly seek to curb every evidence of
extravagance and inefficiency, and endeavor to finance
government on a basis that is in keeping with the pres
ent resources and earning capacity of our people. Politi
cal extravagances for government today should not be
passed on to bankrupt future generations.
SINGERS TO MEET
The South Laurens Singing conven
tion will meet with Calvary Bapti«<t
church, Clinton Mill, Sunday aher-
■oon, at 2 o'clock. A9 singers and the
pi^lic are cordially invited.
H. Y. Abram.s, Pres.
TTON Manufacturers association
y SOUTH Carouna
It will he .‘<ciMi that while a.s.'^es.smeiit.s have inerea.sed iu ratio to the development and growth of the .state, state taxes have
aetually reduced eoniparativi'ly. A\ the same time county and school taxes have grown out of all proportion and have involved our
eommonwealth iu a wild orgy of spending. uue(|ualled iu the state’s history. At that, however, the picture is not complete. Only
pniperty taxes are shown. Large revenues from other sources, and for other purjioses, .such as-indireet taxes, income taxes, license
fees, and other classes. ai‘e not shown at all. The school jiroiHU’tion shown is not even complete for a portion of the state taxes goes
to the Department of Education amt to institutions of higher learuttig, as does a {mrlion of other forms of Uixes volleeted.
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