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THE CLPITON CHBPNICLE. CLIRTOK. 8. a
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THPESPAT^ APKCL 8, 1937
To ilie Editor
an<] the cutter off c'ross-
WILSON W. HARRIS. Editor and' Publiaher
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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^:
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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
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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. ,
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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
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groining into
If Commerce
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, 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
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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^
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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-
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IHE ALE IHREE CIASS
“I’M STEPPING OUT IN A HO BEAUTIFUL NASH
-AND IT COST ME ONLY A FEW DOLLARS MORE*
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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.
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