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i A ^•A.yX 5^ ;-/ ■7”' / P /- 4 THE CLPITON CHBPNICLE. CLIRTOK. 8. a ■1 / /CHlUitfitt ^l^onirU 1 ErtabBdi«d 1900 ■V THPESPAT^ APKCL 8, 1937 To ilie Editor an<] the cutter off c'ross- WILSON W. HARRIS. Editor and' Publiaher Publiahed Every Thursday liy THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): * One Year $1.60; Six Months 76 cents) Three Months 60 cents Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the l^oet Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all times-i^pTeciate wiy suggestions and kindly ad vice. Th^niFonicirwiH publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonsrmous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. • CI.INTON, S. C.. THURSDAY. APRIL 8. 1987 THE STATE SUFFERS ^ South Carolinians pay a higher per centage of taxes to individual income than any other state in the union. Y’ou immediately ask, why The ques tion, xemains unanswered and is re ferred to the general ajwmbly ami the tax powers that be. > ■; South Carolinians pay 2G.o 'p0i* cent as compared with North Carolina’s 11.2 per cent, and Georgia’s 15.7 per cent. Here are some striking compari- eon^: 12.94 11.OC T 24 Of' United .States Virginia .North ('arolina Texas '' Massachusetl.s Kentucky . TenneS'Ci* New Voik * Alabama l.mii.srana . Ce(irgi:i Mississippi SOUTH UAKOLlNA Occasionally one hears legislative halts, talk abo dustries and inva*stor.s the state. At Chamber and similar meetings, y^ome eWthusi- astic member i.s freqipntly proclaim ing, the^ neetl of goit^-after-new-en- terprises and working to induce now capital and labor y/to come into the community, all of ^w’hich is a laudable ambitnon, tliough a most difficult task. Hut how' ^e we going to inter est weifl|hV pjf^r.Hons from the East or elsewhtHe U) become ^itizens of our state when they kee oUr inequitabl tax scale to/individual income in co I)ari.son wi/th other states. ".New capital—new re.sidents an(Uin vestors are going where they know thev won’t 1h* “soaked.” Anodicr Old Laadpuirk a Victim of / Flkmca ' : , ' Editor The Chronicle: ^ Just a ierrr da;^ ago what wm mrliarly known as the “Old 1^11 House,” was destroyed by fire. /This home is 10 miles Northeast of Clinr ton on the old Buncombe roM which was in the long agp a promi nent highway along which ^ere locat ed many prominent plan^tione and hospitable homes many ox which have 'suffered in the recent years from the ' ravages of flames home of more than ence was for yeary the possession-of the iMe Mr. John>F, Bell and h|a g(K>d wife, Aunt Ell ^11 and is yet in p^s- session of the/members of the Bell family. ^^ere was Ahe scene of real happi ness as thMe two good people began thjcir yoimg married life and reared their children to manhood and wom anhood/ and worked together as one to pr^ide for their childrens’ weH farey Here has. been the happy home for/the children and the favorite place fo/ the family reunion for many .farm ties/ 'he rank and/file of American p^ le are payii^ special sales, taxes idejr other names. Politicians fear a tax-conscib'us population. For ' this reason they maneuver to collect taxes indirectly^ as far as they can. Hiey do no choose to let the average house wife know that she is paying a spec ial sales tax on sugar; they say that this tax is'paid"fof her, Ibut do not permit the dealer to say that he is passing it on to his customers. The humblest persons in South* Carolina dows^n the Leroy Springs gym om, of a smaller tjrpe, suffered most, more than 200 of the ^ panes being broken. The skylights of the main building were likewise broken. Auto mobile^ on the streets were riddled with hailstones and hundreds of own ers now have their tops demolished nisi-f pairing/can be completed. / Forturtately, the storm was accom panied by practically no wind. With the terrific force at whdeh It was moving a wind would. doubtless have wrecked and lifted residences and other buildings. The storm wa|,l|(ige- ly local, having an estimated s radius m- 1-1 Citizens of this sectio]^ had never only three miles, experienced ^such a storm before. |' Field day exercises in progress at Some of the* oldest inhabitants sMd | the college were broken up by the Ih^ had rwd about such hail but jdownpour of frozen crystals and con- never before with their own eyes had i siderable eiccitement and confusion home for the young people of the eighties and ninetie.s to meet for the popular pastime of the square dance i and other social affairs. Here was] a pleasant place for the young swains j which an the surface'are not seen. But' don’t fool youi^ielf — they are there. We should rebel and rise up against such continued raids, Representative Hartley o| New Jer sey, an'a.stute student of the tax fsted dn--* recent addresA that all goo^ls bear showing the amount of laxes includ in the retail sales prigeli of what eat, wea/and use; -Such a law \^uld doubtle;;/ serve' a double good/pur- ;)ose—^ would open thc^ people^ eyes of - the country roundajbout to date, and wtiuld help put a checlyto the j tlu‘mselve.s up for an evening of wasteful and in ulahy in- courtship. Here was a delightful stfmc(‘s useless spending spree now place for the kith and kin of the Bell \wf\K carried on in this cmintry until family to go on one of those old-time \JL has reached incalculab^ size. ' | week-end visits. But here, also has- “Vou pay more for t^es than you ^ heen the scene of sorrow and sad- (lo for food or rent, And twice as; noss for in one day tht“ hand of death iTUieh as you speniy for clothing,” I (.jainied two of the young daughters Hanley .said. “ThaU^ true, whetheri(,f this home.. " you pay an incony^ tax-and a real! 'phe remaining memlH-rs of this e.->tnte tax or uou The. earnings of i and in who.se -possession this three months—o^^our year’jj work, fai*m remains, are, .Mrs. Mary Bell or about 25 evnf out of every dollar, Arthur and Mrs. Sara Bell Davidson you earn, is wl^t you pay to be govi | of this city and Mrs. Uma Bell Uope- they seen such a sight. Local concerns were soon busy working to( repair roof damages and replacing window*. Throughout the city the effects of jthe disturbance are stdl] quite notice was experienced ubsided. until after it had are paying indirect taxes, but, fortu- his fine oldj^nately for the politicians, they are century oTexist- unaware of it. . , Politicians have'been extravagant |and it will probably require sev- in th^ir spendings, they have beenieral weeks before the work of re-) vvasteful.. They have striven to keep the records from the public. Let an average citizen inquire about salaries and. wages paid by federal agencies and he will discover that these things are none of his business. He is en titled to an accounting, but let him try to get it. If the public had ac- ce.ss to these records, there would be peril for politicians who were looking aftei\their own. There has been mys- tei'y -about much of the spending by Ink, pinta and qnmrta. CSco Paste, Ma- cilage. Rubber Bands, Adding Ma chine Paper. Everythiaii '*tw»ded to CHRONICLE PUBLlffilNG CO. , — Phone 74 0i> ufiiliims/\ f ears where they, could talk Of hap- federal “emergency” agencies. The -daysr Here was- a popular [funds are .public property, hut the spending of them, it seems, is a pri vate matter.—The News and Courier 10 Years Ago ■ Items of Interest From The Chronick April 7, 1927 HAIL STORM*HITS CLINTON Brings .35,000 Damages To the Com munity. Nothing hike It Seen Here Before. ■ -iUUh^ 3-moving-parts ROLLATOR* MECHANISM -T-:— groining into If Commerce pWt , THE DUKE FUND Trustees of the Duke Er^ownxyit have 'just made idieir annual di.stri- Itution of $lKlH,4i>0.30 to o/ hospitals uml 14 orphanages in thy Carolinas. I'lie 11)3(5 appropriation/brought to ajiproxiiinalely 11111,500,(^)0 the sum] ■ allotted to these beiuf iciai ies since 1 .establishment of the/endowment by i 'x^he' late philanthropist, .lames B. l^Hike. 'X’hen the fund Was set uji in 1!)24 to aid hospitals in 4,he Carolinas there were 48 such jns/rtutions. This num ber husNiuil-ased to 123 and the av erage of fnH* p/tient.s frorp 500 dailv;^=i. to '2^().56. Tljiis/great gift to aid the^ sick I.has residfod in bl•inging‘'^xcel- lent hospital-facilities in ivach of the needy. Without dhis substantial en- d<nviii*ent ftid, hundreds of hospitals in rtTcnt years would have dieen com-H polled ^to /Cease operation. I The dwtribution to (mphanages is A mattcM- of jiileitodr to this commu- .^nity since the Thoniwell orphanage is a participat'ing institution in this iiivision. During, the past year 0,0(50 orphans were cared for by thd 44 institutions. 310 chflldren of the tdtal representing Thornwell’s [Kipulatioh, Thi.s annual aid to ttur institution is of great assistance in helping meet its operating expenses, and it could not be given to a more de.serving or needy institution dinlicated to the edring for orphan boys and girls.. The Duke Endowment is of inesti mable value to the hospitals and or- phanagw participating in its funds. It is a noble phiianthropy»v«w^wMi'»hedf'' by a man with a big heart and deep ly interested in caring for the sick , and children deprived of parents’] jguuiance^ erned. _ Continuiuf^ his discussion of tax ation derivt/l thmugh so-called hid den taxes,/Mr. Hartley said: “The/e was a time when most of thy revenue for government was /aised by the threct mxmne— tax/whieh our people understood because they could see it and fee)!' it/fiut today our taxes are sugar- oated and hidden fn'various busi- less transactions, leaving most of us unconscious of the assessment. . “The trend in taxation has been haseef apparently on the theory that when ‘ignorance i.s bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.’ Taxat^n has be come the art <of so picking the goo.se as to secure the greatest amount of feathers with the least amount of squawking. “I have seen! several sales tax bills ilefeated on the ground that such a tax 4vould he unfair to the masses in the lower income 'brackets. And yet today we land and Mr. John H. Bell of Ren- no. Mr. Jim Bell, the oldest meml)er of this family died a few years ago in his adopted state of Arkansas a s()Uix;o of sadness that this Att unprecedenttKl hail storm struck' Clinton Ust Friday afternoon, April | 1st, shortly after 4 o’clock, damaging | roofs, breaking window panes and j riddling automobile tops. It is .safely j estimated that damages in the city will aggregate .$35,000 to $40,000. The disturbance was preceded by a continuou.s, roar that caused consider- old\home is gone and its passing is 'stncer€ly“Teg'rette51 Tiy hunibers of the citizens herehbaut and Jacks township who have reached the half century mark.- It is a severe loss that so many of the ancestral homes are being destroye<l and erasing from the map all reminders of the old South. To many of our young people this means nothing, ibut T*!) the older ones of us, itrls a real loss. An Old Friend. able excitement. It began with a rajri With the Press such a tax on almo.st everything we buy, lU'cessiUies as well as luxuries, the only difference be ing that it is a hidden tax and hardly one in a thousand realizes he’s paid it. “Isit’s take a look at some of these taxes. You get out of bed in the _ morning |4x>ni l)etween ■Vi idieets ,taxe<l at 4 ce’nts a pound. You go into the bathroom ..andi turn on the ekH/tric light 'taxed at 3 per cent of your bill. You brush your teeth with a dentifrice taxed at 5 per cent. The soap you use has a 5 per cent tax on it. ’’^hcn yon dress. On your hos- ■I -iery, shirt, shoea and clothes you pay a tax of approximately 20 I>er cent. On a $35 suit, there is^a tax of $6.86. 4 “You sit down to eat, and once again the tax 'collector is ar^ un- inviteil guest. There aiv 58 taxes on bread, 38 taxes on meat, 32 taxes on canned food. 45 taxes on sugar, 1% cents on a quart of milk. Tell It 'U l^wla. “We want a government of LAWS and not MEN.” So said the. President in his radio address. We DO want a governmenl of.^jjj L.AWS and not of MEN in the Unit-f(’, ed States, and must have, and will have,'if vve are to preserve our fun damental democracy. ^ In the meantime, Mr. Roosevelt should get this , word over to his friend, Mr. Lew i.s. The latter, seems to have another ojHnion, He is championing a govern ment of MEN and not of LAWS. He is the" head of a union whp.se activities have been outlawing law.— The Charlotte Observer. ‘‘You drive 4^<Hir .car to work, an^ I wondt*r if you realize you are \taxed 345 times. Yesj there are 27 taxes on the puixrhase of a car, 177 taxes on its upkeep and 201 taxes on the oil and gas you use. \ -“There ar« 146'taxe»»«»-4rag» and medicine.s>^amounting to one- >cost.| ia t^: Your insur- xed at 15 tp^ J.- OUR HIDDEN TAXES We heard a gentleman remark y*3- ’terday that “since 1 own no property, the tax problem doe-s not affect me.” He i.s an honest, upright citizen, who, like most of us, labors for-his living, 4)110 he is. dead wrong. TJiere are millions of people in thisj cc untry uiiiler the same delusiOnTthatri they are not paying taxes. They‘have been fooled by the'politicians and horities who levy taxes, not reali ing that they ace lieing, taxed on tu^y everything in sight. / The consumer is the man who must foot hill and with ’inflation now here, a^prices for eWything rising, will pW more apd more for iwhat byys. The id^ a grelfct many peo- have that/the few rich pay the n of th'^tax load is altogether/ wrong and misleading. The great pro portion of taxes ire paid by 1^ mass- as of laboring people. Wheii'’^added iaxM are levied oif^erchandiae,,the eoDMunari are the o^ who 4re pen- alSiMd'iiy beiil:^ force^^to pay fm eat, wearl^ osa. Tax-N ipuiour biggest inte^l proWem third of their ance premium 20 per cent. “Meantime, your wife’/ ics, perfumes, furs and, j^els-^if she is fortunate cn9mg;h to pos sess them—are all10 per cent. When you get home at night and sit dbwn to a friendly rublxm of cprttract, you have paid a 10 cem^ax on the cards you use. Other examples could be re- latejKad infinitum. Yes, Revenues Are Higher Washington and Columbia both re port that revenues have increased, but they are discreet; they do not re mind that taxation is much higher than it was several years ago. It i.s forecast in Wiishington tl\at federal rtwenues foV the fiscal year 1937/tvill ho mOiv than $5,796,000,000 (govern ment is spending more than that). This great fund is deriyed from all ^orts . of taxes and licejnie fees. it is because thr ptKiple of the United States ar^/taxed on virtually everything in yiighi that revenues have >incTeas^. Federal revenues in a year of/^5,796,000,000 represent a per capita of $46, or $230 for a fam- jly of five. Revenues for state, county and local purposes greatly swell this Jfnpost upon the average family. Gov ernment has only what it obtains from t)>e people and the less well-to- do pay more in proportion than the well-to-do. The greater the revenues, the greater the demand upon the which was soon converted into a ter rific hail storm unlike anything ever .seen in this section. Hail stones, easily the size of hen eggs, and many even* larger, fell' in a downpour and gave even the oldest inhabitants in the community something to talk about. The storm lasted for/a few minutes, after which there wCs a letup, only to be followed by a .second storm which proved even more di.sastrous than the first. At its conclusion, great piles of hail and trash had complete- 4y-eoveml the ground, maing it nec- essany for ,,the city strt‘et forces to immediately begin removing the de bris. The greatest damage was u» resi dential roofs, automobile tops, wind shields,, and window panes. Several store rooms in the business stH^tion sufferwl broken windows, while the damage at Smith’s Bharmacy kmifcthe )j>eland-Stoim comi)any were unu.s- ually heavy, due to the crashing of the overhead skylights, which let in; a downpour of hail and rain. St’hool | buildings, chuirhcs, and the orphan-1 age and college sufferd considerable damages. Many of the lovely memo rial windows in the churches were badly bioken and defaced by the ice pellets. Ajt the college, the damage vTas unusually heavy. The windows of the administration building on'Yhe north an^west sides were completely ruined, most of them, having huge holes left to tell the tale. The win- PRATHER-SIMPSON FURNITURE COMPANY i X ^ 14 nSSWEUIOBEOIITOr IHE ALE IHREE CIASS “I’M STEPPING OUT IN A HO BEAUTIFUL NASH -AND IT COST ME ONLY A FEW DOLLARS MORE* '■r- x^Why not label or stamp each and JbudgeU ui debt etanding rtioni. l^w the hlddei|[' evt*ry article sold in such manner as to fully acquaint the purchaser with the amount of the tax he has paid in making that purchase. For example: On the price tag Of $35 suit of clothes 1 previously mentioned, there would be clearly marked $6.86 in taxes. —, “The price tag on a five dollaj; pair of shoes would inforfn the buyer thgt 98 cents of the price -represented the 44 different taxes on that particular necessity. *11 sincerely believe that when our people realize t^t *he who dances must pay the'piper,’ they will ~1be much more concerned abotit^leged philanthropyJl’_, BCRIPTO AMUmtic PmcQ is ths ItejnlM iM tlM world. Qst sM at thA Ckffiiada PabUdOaf Co PROBLEM OF AIR SAFETY Aircraft fatalities, numbering more than fifty in four months, stimnlates American inventive geniua to provide greater safe ty in the air. The safest plan to follow in ^choomng. a funeral dircevor ia to select oMe who has served many others satiafactorily. Oar cUenta testify that we have served theai efficiently ; and fairly. Each family deektes ap> on the price It wiH pay. / D t lRlBE/r [D ■ • . -.f ^' "‘ON) 9A- T THAN ONE OF THOSE SMAUER CARSI i: X: ms// R.LSmM|( SMilHllO MO CittiMC tiB$t...ClHMCiMf te tUs btelir. SHnrtar nu! .<' When R. I. 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