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PAGE TWO Footed By;,Money THUBSDAT, AOGOST I, 1W5 **‘**‘** **»*«* / / f- P^Iiticians Put Half Le^l^iva ApproiN’iatipiis In Bill and De ceive Taxpayers With Con cealed Expenditures. Columbia, these dispatches, 23.—Many times in le the legislatures Distillery For.. S. C. Is talked THree North Carolina Men Dis-| cuss AfCota- mission. No Appli^tiori Filed. ■—1 Columbia, July 3^,—i^tate tax com- ! mission officials disclosed today- that T 1 on rru nr i. a group of North Carolinians hadi Washington, July 29.— The Wash-i . ... . .... . . I WHArS THE MA' YQURCPLD; By Frank Howard Rkhards^ M. D., F. A. CTT: 4r-fc Ejg. Richardson will answer questions of Ihe Chronicle readers by mail if accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Address him at. Black Mountaih, 1^. C. ^ MARRIAGE As J chat with friends, especially have been in session'and laboring -toiington picutre is s^Hl^one of a group before it a pro^sal to estab-j young friends, and as I read and. bring forth an approprlat^n bill, itjof tired, steaming disgruntled lish a liquor distillei^ in South Caro-1try*to interpret the minds of cu)<<^nt has been told how the politicians fool niembers of corfgress t^ing away, atllina for “large scale operations." j writers, I find myself running con- the people about the spending ofthC, a task which they woul'd prefer to Commissioner F. C. Robinson, in! ?f that seems'folks who can get more money of the taxpayers. ^ -postpone until winter, but which they , „ ‘l'“te unjustified by the facts. This “kick” out of-a new affair than they The scheme is. simple - and it istate tackling because the n^ity of revenue admimstra-j.^ ^^e state of mind that holds it asj^P of their old romance. touch that, the writers and the young folks like' to think can haiH>en but once. In fact, I fancy that many mid dle-aged married folks rather look down, with mingled pity and contempt. worked "constantly. It is to keep the! thehi have become convinced thatNbeir | said three men from Moijnt Airy, total of the big appropriation bill j own poHticAl fortunes and those\of N. C.,'outlined the plan to, members down to around $7,000,000 and then^heir party are in large measure dV]of the commission today and inquired j appropriate many millions more in ^pendent upon thefr doing what the other bills. Then in the primaries, the ^olon running for re-election points with pride to the fact that- the appropri ation bill he helped pas.s totall^ only $7,000,000 which is maybe $347 less than the,,one passed at the prveious session. ' The statement about the big bill’s total is the truth, but the pointing with pride is as false as the wig on a bald man’s head, because it deceives the taxpayer into believing that $7,- 000,000 is all that was appropriated by the legislature. Now, that last, long session of the legislature enacted an appropriation bill with a total of $7,434,926-^nd the same legislature, in other acts it en acted brought the total appropriations of the session to more than $11,500,000 or over one-half more than the to£al of the big appropriation bill and out in the open. Of-course, the |)oliticians in talking about thist say the increase was for smiling gentleman in the White House . \ , K», told them h.s to fco done rettuUt.on, wly-W to distiller an axiom thait, whereas it nnay be QueeUima and Anawers highly; moral, and most desirable'^ in Dr. Richardson: I read with interest a worldly, «elf-calculating way for j your article on The Child Who Does to details of the law and commis- ^ married, it would really | Not Sleep. I have four children, the be rather a pleasant and delightful I youngest four weeks old, the oldest tehn ies but did not file a formal applicar permit. ^' fort to put through the president’ll He saidh he did nol^ learn tjheir names. The North said,, told him Like good soldiers, the members ofi \ congress are maldng a desperate ef-Uion for is^ “must” program, even though this In volves starting with a blank sheet of paper to draft, what many consider, the'most important and far-reaching tax bill since the Hawley-Smooth tar iff act of 1929, and to do that in the shortest time possible. The ways and means committee of the house of representatives,' with .whom all tax legislation must origi nate, is bending to its task with all the good '’'^>11 muster, under the chairmah^ip of that hard-working wheelhorse. Representative Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina. Collabor- atng as far as possible with the house committee is Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, chairman of the sena^ finance committee, through whose hands the bill must also pass. These arolinians, Robinson were considering setting up a distilte^ in Charleston, Greenville or Georgetown county which would use a considerable quan tity of (South Carolina l<m country cane in the manufacture of liquor. They pointed out, he added,"that the sugar content of the cane was ^high that it would be well suited to l^or manufacture and «dded that a gr^ portion of the state’s grape and peacn output also would be used state of affairs if without any tram mels of cottscience or of public opin ion it were posaibte for follU to change mates oocaeionally. Now t^is assumption ’ seems to be taken for granted quite generally among those who debi^ the question of marriage j "as whether pro or con. Jeron^ K. Jerome, that prince of homely philosophers, takes H for granted that the first fine raptures of the recently married cannot hope to last. Happy are those, he says in effect, who can use the sky-rocket of romantic love to Jight the homely, comfortable hearth fire of domestic affection which is to warm them for jihe rest of their days,-Htnd perhaps J. Fraser Lyon, gneeral counsel to j them from the need of other sky- the commission, said he had written to the internal revenue department at Washington for its distillery regula tions and requirements as a “guide” in drafting rules for liquor manufac- Persorolly, I have a hunch that most .succMsful marriages retain per manently quite a bit of the romantic six years. AH of theha are nervous or “jumpy” bsdbies. They wake or jump at the slightest noise, as a rule. I^y ?' They are perfect in avcry o^r way, — handsome, " well-developMMl and healthy. __ Answer: I am so glad that, as you imply, they take after their mother, instead of after their father’s side of the house. As to their one defect, this “jumpiness” that you speak of, I real ly think that this bothers you consid erably more than it does them. In oth er words, it really'doesn’t do them any particular harm, as I take it that they do not stay awake, or qven ac tually awaken, all the time. ness, in other particulars. If Twitee . in|your place; I shpuld try to be philo- / ^qphical about this one trait, and/ rejoice that it is the only thing you have to worry about. I ^should aay, judging from my own experience aa a ' paoent, you are decidedly to be ^ e<ivied.:!i .. - W A NT S POUND — A ladies white i^ld ring. Owner apply at The Chronicle office and make identification.^ Ic- FOR SALE—Fat fryers, at my house, 127 Noi^ Broad street. William Bailey. Ip FOR RENT3-room unfurnished apartment with private bath; iink in kitchen. Apply to Mrs. R. J. Cope land, Ctentenniid street. Ip *■ J ' ■■■■ I !■— LET me pasture your cattle, mules or- ''horses. Kenty of grass until frosC J. Hamp Stone. 8-l-2c POUND—Tnwk tire and rim." Owner can get same by ktentifying and paying for cost of this ji^v. J. Hamp Stone. - * le MAN WANTED for Rawleigh ^ute of 800^ families. Good profit^ for hastier. We train and help yom Write today. Rawleigh Co., Dept. SCH-27-^ SA2, Richmond, Va. 8-29-5p X STEADY WORK—GOOD PAY Reliable man wanted to call on fann ers in 'Laurens County. No experience „ , or capital needed. Write today. Mc- Some babies are just naturally that Ness. Co., Dept. T, Freeport, HI. , Ipa way,—'the slightest noise seems to penetrate their consciousness suffi ciently to make them start and even apparently wake up. Yet this does not seem to imply any harmful nervous- Tlie PiJMta MagaxiBe, 8 ■ for 11.00. New. JAMES W. CALDWELL idBtlia the ^c■hool^ but $-S.),()0() was the (.x|)erience<l and best balanced politi- cost of thal long ^H'ssion of the legus- the two houses of con- lature alone, including the suppremen- fcary. pay camouflaged as expenses for mi'mbers. and the cost of clerks, pages one would have two gentlemen are among the most!turing in South Carolina and in order to av^id adoption of conflicting or overlapping provisions. and all the rest. ( In addition to $2,372,000 provided for schools in the appropriation act, the slate education system has been officially estimated to cost $3^959,000 from other sources. .Special taxes were relied upon to rai.‘*i' "most of the sum.. These, with pxi- Iiective revenue from each, were: The 3-mill constitutional levy-^on-prop- dreamed of trying to draw up a meas ure of such vital importance in such a short time. School of Taxation The bill that ^finally results from these committee deliberations will probably not conform in many re- .spt*cts, to Mr. Roosevelt’s skeleton out line. Both Senator Hai^rison and Chaiiu. Town Is Named For Chevrolet income -..4Axea--faE]jimiLJ^uughtmJtre.sJirB-W,(U:nQugl) Pbl- .‘ichopl'purposes. $ij<'.»3,0d0: "school cor-1 iHcians to know just how far it is safe poiati'on license taxes, $120,000; (>5 Lsolated Village' In Kentucky Named After First Car Seen On Its Streets. jier cent of liquor eXCtse lax, $7H0,000; There are plenty of instances in which an automobile has ilieen named after a town; imt-whtm a town is mun- ; ,ed after an automobile — well, that’s <).■> per cent of beer and wim' levies,.to go lieer and wime ])ermit fee.'+. to go, and that,.in their judgment, i^mews. - not as far as the president would Ijkej least, sb thought a tourist who,! $2('i(Mt00: $2:1,000. ,Th remainder, approximately $170, OfH) wiis to be obtained by refinancing a liktv, amount in state notes fvoming line (lariiTg th<' year and for whose, re tirement fiimbi had beeniiet asitle.- (bowling over a* fine sti'etch of new A regular senool of instruction in jhighway a few miles from Harlan, Ky.,' the fundafoiental principles of taxation found himself in a small coal-mining' has been set uji in the offices of the| settlement and noted a modest frame 1 ways and m<‘ans. committee. The pro-!building hearing the sign: “Post Of-! fessor;^ are tyOven Tt. Tarker, chief of: flee-—Chevrolet, Ky.’’ i .staff of the _Congressionul joint com-j Scenting a story, he explored thej mittee on international revenue' tax-, place, which did not take Ibng, and 'Ihe 1935 leglslalure alsp »uthorltMj^{_jjg^^ and Herman OUphant, general 'then sought out the postniastex, Who the expenditure of more than $1.59,000 iconn.sel to the secretai$ of the treas-j obligingly gave him the facts, during 1935-30 in addition to items injury. Neither of those ifcntlemen is aj Up to a frw years ago, his inform- the body of the appropriation act ami: po^tician. Both of them are masters ant explained, the Blue Diamond Coal WEEK-END VALUES at R5 K # QUALITY FDDD SHOPS CORN FLAKES Kellogg’s 2 Pkgs. passed a supplementary 1934-35 mon ey measure carrying total appropri- of facts and figures, and Mr. Parker j company, which is now the town of in particular is a thorough student of;Chevrolet, was inaccessible except on; ations of $1S7,98.7 and authorizing a the whole subject of taxation. If their 1 mule-back. vThough only five miles advice is followed, the chances are [from Harlan, it might as well have; that the tax bill, when it comes out, | been 5,000 so far a.i automobiles were will be workable and practical. concerned. Mountaineers came in on FTstale taxes, taken out of a dead fooCor aboard their long-eared mounts man’s property before it is, dLstribut- to report “another auto stuck, trying ed to bis heirs, will unquestionably be to ,get up here.” ' " - < - $234,000 disbursement for-state school bus aid saiil to have been appropri ated previously. ^ .Miscellaneous exfwnditures approv ed for li>35-30 included $70,000 for ■the state constabulary, to be paid from liquor., revenue; $37,000 for county j There is doubt, however, 'health wfrk, in a* separate little ap- propriatf^ act; $20,000 for rural elec trification with a provision that it be repaid; payments forITliermanent set tlement witb the Catawba Indians-if about the practicability of Mr. Roose velt’s proposal for inheritance taxes, to be paid by the heirs, after already Then the town grew large enough- to need a post office. The subject of a name came upTand it was agreed that the place'Would be named after the taxe<l estates have been distributed, first car seen on its streets. And that The technical advisers of Congress are an agreement is reached; $800 to move of the opnion that-any such plan would the monument to the women of the Confederacy; and; lesser sums for commissions. ■ Approximately ^.58,100 of these amounts was chargeablel^directly to ithe general fund from which sta’te ap propriations are drawn. The nfain ap propriation act itself was trimmed $27,-584 by vetoes of GovernorvJohn ston, which the house upheld. The original act, filed at the secretary of .state’s office, fails to bear the gover nor’s signature, but became tew with out it. •Acts authorizing state institutions and agencies to borrow considerable sums from the fe<leral government for construction and jH*rmanent improve ment and to repay them from their special revenues also were passed^ dur ing the 1935 session but contained no ’specific figures for the most part. Doctor Writes of _ WHO’S Relief from HAY FEVEiS DISCOMFORT ^ Dr. Hitchcock, Rrtired Medical Inspec tor of the New York City Dcpi. of • Health, wrote in November, 1931: , "Dr. Fugate’s Prescription for hay ' fever was taken by my wife, who had been a sufferer for 25 years. ^ "The relief was prompt. For the first time she did not experience an^ of the discomfort for which hay fever is noted, i 1 will be pleased to inform aU hay fever ' aufferen who come to mv attention of your most excellent remeay.” ” - Edufim F. Hitchcock, M. D. ■ Two years later Dr. Hitchcock wrote dut he is still preKribing Dr. Fugate’s Prescription to his patients^dfiictea with either hay fever or bronchial ^thma. If you suffer from bay fev*r or hron- chud asthma symptoms, try the prescrip- tioa which hm brought relief to thou sands df'kufferers. is ju.st what was done. Chevrolet now ha.s 80^ residents. be extremely difficult to work out and I There are some 60 cars in i^wn. And, to adn>inister equitably. as might be expected, fully half of It can be .set down as certain* that!thfrm are CbevroleU. ■ individual income taxes will be in-j ci’eased under the new bill. All in-|| -ak/xfi MAAfann comes down to $100,000 a year and ITlCdlllU^ probably on very much lower inco'mes. 'The more the committee studies the propo.sal for increasing corporation I 1 i!| 1 0 0 Here Saturday 0 taxes in proportion to capitfelization, Announcement is made that local | in the more the feeling grows that it | Union No. 2182, United Textile Work--^ 11 probably would not be good politics to Lrs of America, Clinton Cotton Mills, impose a tax on mere bigness. | ^.jjj jhold ah open rally meeting Adjournment "Ifs" |on SaturtteTy afternoon at 4 p. m., oy Whether this congress will remain I Puckett Springs near the city in session until it has enacted the pro posed new tax law is still an open question. The prevailing desire is to jfet the bill out of committee and have it publi.shed, so that it can be wide ly discussed while congress takes its much-needed vacation before finally acting upon it. Out of town speakers invited and who have accepted invitations to'speak at this time are Ben E. Adams, mem- j her of the state legislatui-e, Richland 1 county; H. C. Godfrey, Spartanburg,| president S. C. Federation of Textile Workers; and John W. Nates of Greenville, president S. C. Federation Perhaps the controlling factor which'of Labor. The, committee arrangrihg" H will determine whether congress ad-ithe open air meeting states that a' journs around the" middle ~5f August j number of visitoffr and delegates from or sticks around until the tax bill is other unions are expected, and ex passed, will be the activity of the ad vocates of the bonus payment to vet erans, the Black thirty-hour-week la bor law and the greenback inflation pi*oposal for the relief of mortgaged farms. If these muster too much of a show of strength,V congress may ad journ in spite of orders from the White House, at least until the weath er gets cooler. Cotton Mute Here tends to the public an invitation to bei present. Game and Fish Barbecue Friday The local chapter of the South Car olina Game and Fish associaiton gave a barecue supper to its members on Friday evening at John T. Young’s spring, near here. The group enjoyed [barbecued hash, kid, and mutton and 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 vStlll Arc Idle i all that goes with it. PRK.5CP. IPT IQNat Sold Und«r a MONIY BACK GUARA^taS.- BMinrS PHABliACT' I Lonnie S. McMillian, president of dia Cotton Mills, closed for!^^® chapter, made an announcement relative to the meeting of the state association in Dillon early next month and called for volunteers to attend the meeting as representatives of the CHntoh chapter. Several members in- Colonjal or Bordoii*8 MILK, small cans, 6 for 19c STOKELViB _ KRAUT, NoirZVz can . lOe FANCY RICE, 5 lbs. CAMAY ' SOAP, 3 for \..,. 13c Kraft’s Miracle Whip DRESSING pt. 21c qt 35 TELLAM'S Peanut Butter, 10c LIBBY'S ' Corned Beef, 2 for ... LIBBY'S ROAST BEEF ... 15c HILAN - TEAj'VzIb. carton .... 21c 0 The several weeks past pending reorgani za^n! ptens filed with the federal court, remained idle this week with no announcement as to when it will re sume operation. The Clinton Cotton Mills, operating 1^^®y ffo on a curtailed schedule, ®ne day test week and one day this week. If To« Dost Rmi THE CHRONICLE Tmr Dmt G«C tbs NEWS J ■ *■ The group heard talks from Sam Evans, of Bennettsville, and Sidney A. Lee, .Laurens county game warden. Mr. Evans invited the members to the meeting in Dillon and assured them they, would bave a pleasant stay.- pound WHITE HOUSE Apple Jelly, 14 oz. jar .. 10c Phillips Early'June ~ PEAS, 3 cans .T. . . . . 25c PHILLIPS VEGETABLE SOUP,No.2^/2can .... 10c Phillips Black-Eyed_ ~ . PEAS, 151/2 oz. can .. 6^2C Blue Ribbon MALT 3 Lb. Can 59c PHILLIPS V I Kraft’s Philadelphia Pork - Beans, No 2V2 can1k I Cream Cheese, 3 pkgs.. 25c Ice Cold KO-NUT ^ Sc Lovely JelL assted, pkg. 5c Grape Nut Flakes, 2 |^ 19c CHIPSO, 2 boxes WESSON OIL, pint 1 0 0 ! 0 0 0 0 0 0 I 0 0 0 0 0 0 \