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4 Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C Thursday, February 25, 1943 dhe (Clinton (Chrontrlf Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Months 50 cents Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. / I* CUNTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1943 Two 4nescapable Duties Stripped of all political camou flage, Congress faces two inescapable the presence of the grocer* and used i along with the correct amount of j money tb pay for the purchase. If, necessar^, stamps may be taken from; duties in formulating future tax poll- _ than one of the family’s books. cies ; ; / ! But tl^e important thing to remem- First, a tax law must be perfected t) er j s not to lose your book jf you which will provide a practical meth- j are to avoid trouble and inconven- od for millions of individuals who j ence Remember it is more valuable never paid taxes before, to pay tu an mo ney. taxi's on income as earned. ; » m - Second, the tax structure must not] destroy productive enterprise and BurCOUCrOCy Run Wild profit, therb, eliminating tax income, The besl brain 0( ^ country ia j needed to win this war. Domestic Meet the People.. (Bach weak 1b thU mac* will b* pr«Mnt«d a plctura and word portrait or aomoono whoa* nam* la bows.) Henry Morgenthaa Jr. •A baldish, 50-year-old gentleman fanner with a broad view of hie responsibilities serves capably as treasurer not only to his own, but to many other nations. As secretary of the treasury of the United States, and thus financial executor of lease-lend, Henry Mor- genthau Jr. Is, in fact, “treasurer to the de mocracies." •Secretary Morgenthau, in spite of the gi gantic task of raising enough money to finance our part in the war, regards as equally im portant the task of preserving our essentially cattailspc democratic sy. >. By way of do ing so, he has stabilized our dollar until it is now the strongest currency in the world. And he continues to advocate government economy and to work toward what is probably his chief goal—a balanced budget. eHe rises early (usually at 6:30), frequently walks the two miles to work, lunches in the” Treasury building, and often takes work home with him at night. He has been quoted as saying that the treasury is his whole life. And he gives his whole life to it for the government at its course. This will not be so difficult to do if politics can be eliminated from the formula. I worthwhile simplification of income TODAY... TOMORROW “ . re <h„t problems should be sidetracked as! By Don RobinSOfl far as possible—they are superficial! compared with the war. Bureaucracy has run wild in Wash-1 TAXES — Guesswork The Merchants' Hard Job ington. The simplest acts in family! Next to the Bible probably the u ■ ^ f , . . life have been made complicated is-: be st selling books in the country around the complications of income lous is too weak; there is no word !. m ^“L Weap - sues. Running a grocery or mer- EXv“^0^volumes nuSSS'tax.reports. But when we consid-jto express it. But to many of our siness, has we will continue to have to file a complicated report in order that the treasury department will know if the right amount has been de ducted from our pay. There may be no way to get dollars. A five or ten dollar bill has not impressed some of our earn ers, but when the unemotional cleri cal staff of the collector looks us over we are likely tp think of those dollars which flew away. The best part of it is that we shall clip their wings after this. Some of our legislators are think ing of the troubles of the income taxpayer. Senator John G. Dinkins, wishes the state to forego the income tax for one year as a measure of re lief; Representative Verner advocates raising the exemption limit by $200, letting single persons have an ex emption of $1,200; married persons from $1,800 to $2,000. There is a bit ®f confusion. Some would reduce or forgive taxes; others would add to the the expenditures in expanding relief, teachers’ pay and school transportation. That is fre quently a difficulty. Most legislators are agreed in principle, but WHAT should be the means of relief? Re lief to the taxpayer or larger pay ments to those supported by taxation whose income may be o^xt of line. Apparently both plans are being pre sented. When issues come before us; when good and earnest men differ widely, one may understand the confusion in the mind of a weak man who was called upon for the most momentous decision recorded in history. Throughout the ages his question has bobbed up like Banquo’s ghost. “What is truth”? He asked. The war is costing fabulous sums of money; in fact, the word “fabu- boy she gave. As I think of that mother she seems to typify mother hood’s contribution. I felt ashamed to think how little the war costs us who pay only in taxes or other paltry sacrifice. Deduct gasoline taxes paid in 1942 when you compute your Federal and State income taxes. If you have no record of expendi tures for gasoline, but can make an affidavit as to your mileage during the year, this will be accepted by both the Federal and State govern ments. For the State, make your calculations from March 14,1942, un til December 31, 1942; and for the Federal government make the calcu lations from January 1, 1942 to De cember 31, 1942. As to how many miles to the gallon—if computing by mileage—the normal average foi respective makes of cars will be ognized. SAY. "I SAW IT IN THE ICLE.” THANK YOU. ons for winning the war is food “"Fooct rrnjgTTiot^bnly be raised an become a problem so complicated prepared for the consumer, but it ^ a ^ merchant doesn’t know must be distributed fairly so he can w ^ ere s t an( j S( they are going get it. At the opening of 1942, there ou ^ 0 j business by the housands. In- were 603,000 food stores in the Unit- s t e ad of receiving cooperation from' ed States. At the end of the year government bureaus, everyone is there wre 570,000. Further su bstan- t ^ rea ^ ene( j w j^ 1 a $10,000 fine or ten tial drops in the number may be ex- y ears j n or both, as the pen- pected. j a ity for every failure to comply. Point rationing which goes into ef- j Government should take the Ameri- fect next week throughout the en- can people more into its confidence tire country, has as its prime purpose instead of holding a whip over their a proper distribution of scarce food, head the millions aon™ of | people the money Is f ^ l0ur tax mone y which are spent by (Mothers wouldn’t . With over 30,000,000 people obli-, the government for collecting and 1 money in the world as being worth gated to fill in a return and make auditing the tax, simplification as much as the sons of the home a payment to the Collector of In- should certainly be the goal of any who have responded to the nation’s ternal Revenue by March 15 the new t ax program. call. I’m tempted to tell you some- number of man hours which are now j if the tax rate increases at the thing. Recently I was in a great being spent on tax arithmetic would ra te it has recently, perhaps the probably be enough to build thous- simplest way would be to turn our ands of bombers. entire income over to the govern- Personally, I think it might be eas- ment and let them figure out how j thought she was a Cuban and ad- ier to build bombers than to figure [much to pay back to us. [dressed her in Spanish, “Es Ud. Cu- the least of it regard all the bus station. I saw a mother sitting in quiet dignity that expressed the deep resignation of a mother. I out the right answer to what anyone actually owes Uncle Sam. * For a with a war ration book issued for i The people are heart and soul for bomber is built according to exact each member of each household.' winning the war on the battlefront. While this book now covers designat- | Boys from every community, and ed canned foods, it may safely be millions of homes, are there. Their expected in the near future to apply parents, relatives and friends are to many additional commodities we proud of what these young men are eat, wear and use. I accomplishing and want to see them This means that retail stores never returned safely home in the shortest before faced such problems as time possible. today. Securing goods for distri-i The people are also strong for but ion requires expert knowledge, winning the production and distri- foresight and understanding of laws button problems on the home front and rationing restrictions hereto- to back up the whole war effort. But fore unheard of in this nation. It how are we to raise the necessary is a most difficult job that lies ahead, food the farmers ask, when so large one that will require the whole- a proportion of our labor is gone? hearted cooperation of consumer and The people now have their eyes open merchant. This acute food distribu- to waste and confusion and politics- tion problem must be met if our as-usual on the home front, whole industrial and military efforts The situation has become fantas- are to succeed. ‘ tib and it is high time that thousands The marvel is that merchants have of bureaucrats who never raised a been able to adjust themselves as chicken, a hog, a cow, a bushel of well as they have, to these new con- corn or a bale of cotton and who nev- ditions., No branch of business or er produced an article by manual industry has cooperated more closely labor, and who never maintained a with the government in its anti-in- payroll, or sold a yard of goods, or flation plans than have the mer- made a success in business, be re chants. placed by men who know something When industries building battle-'of the actual problems of produc- ships and planes and cannon are in tion and distribution, the spotlight and getting the flags Our supreme need at the top in DEDUCTIONS — Avenge The special form for incomes of specifications, with accurate blue j 3 000 a year ^ a real step prints to go by, but an income tax is invented as we go along—a sort of medley of legal confusion, hearsay and imagination. toward simplification, but many peo pie find that they lose money by using the simplified form. I be lieve that this form allows for av erage deductions of slightly under bana, Senora”? “No, Senor, Meji- cana. Ni hijo as soldado aca, tan lejos de ni pueblo.” I repeat, “Are you a Cuban, Madam?” “No, Sir; I’m a Mexican. My son is a soldier here, so far from our community. 1 What does the war mean to this mother who came from Mexico to see her boy? And she speaks no all the sugar, all the gasoline, all the tires and all the taxes are just trif les to her, in comparison with the and citations for doing war work, it is only fair to speak a word in behalf of the merchants who are doing their level best to render an indispensible service to the public. The headaches behind the counters of local merchants are many today, and will increase. And they get noi medals for doing a most remarkable! merchandising job under trying con ditions, at the lowest turnover profit the world has ever seen. Flat Rock’s Municipal Affairs are Passing Through The Throes our new mayor has tore the town of flat rock all to pieces, he was in- .. . „ jected into offis only 3 weeks ago, had better guard them as carefully. and woulddent know the old as money. Acutally ration books place nQW _ it ha$ changed so he Guard Ration Book No. 2 When you get War Ration Book No. 2 this week for your family you military affairs is brains. The same qualifications are sorely needed to direct our complicated domestic af fairs NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE INSTRUCTIONS — Theft | jq per cent, but there are many What a long way through Most of us never see the Revenue! with incomes under $3,000 who I a „ s ^f an 8 e country! All the coffee, Act itself—and anyone who does get 1 would normally be entitled to de- a glimpse of it steers away from it ductions far exceeding that amount, as quickly as possible. Only a le- [ Perhaps one solution would be to gal authority or an accountancy ex- give tax-payers a choice on each pert could hope to get anything out possible* deduction of either report- of it—and even Supreme Court jus- ing it in detail or taking a small! tices find major difficulties in in-! percentage without accounting for j terpreting it. j it. Thus the government might con- j So we rely for our enlightenment tinue to permit proven deductions, on the brief instruction sheet sent U P 1° 15 per cent for charity, but out with income tax blanks plus hit- let any of us take 5 per cent for oreomulalon relieves promptly be^ or-miss hints we pick up from ex- I chanty without accounting for it at cause it goes right to the seat of the planatory books or conversations a ll- The same could hold true with trouble to help loosen and expel gerqj with 0 friends. We cross our fingers business expenses, medical deduc- laden phlegm, and aid nature to sootoe while we enter deductions we are, tions, tax deductions, etc. uncertain about, - hope we haven’t ■ Although this might not increase missed too many major ones which the accuracy of reports, it would 11 be rec- CHRON- =b DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE! SO FAR THIS YEAR THERE HAS BEEN O FATALITY from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in LAURENS COUNTY Let's Strive To Make 1943 a Safe Year On the Highways. This date last year, 9 Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On KEROSENE... 12 c per Gallon YARBOROUGH OIL COMPANY WEST mad: steeet laden phlegm, and aid nati and heal raw, tender inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulalon with the understanding you must like the we are expected to take, and final- prevent many a headache among waytt ^quickly allays the cough or you ly drop our report in the mail box i tax-payers, would lessen the temp-' ’ with the feeling, that no matter how tation to “invent” deductible ex- honest we have tried to be, we will Penses, and would undoubtedly' re soon be suspected of theft and drag-[suit in just as much revenue to the ged into court by revenue agents. [treasury. are more valuable than money be cause no matter how much cash you has turned off nearly everboddy and hired his kinfolks and the fellers are ready to spend, you can’t buy who worked to defeat his opponent rationed foods without point stamps. Since the first sugar stamps were isssued back in November many have been lost as indicated by reading the want advertisement columns of the newspapers. Information is that if you lose Book No. 2 it will be al most an impossibility to replace It, and if you are able to secure a dup licate, it will require considerable red tape and time. Therefore we are all warned to guard this little pass book with extra care. The new ration book will look our poleesman feels safe, his sec- ont wife is a first cuzzin pf the may or’s first wife, and his daddy was a half brother of the mayor’s grand- daddy on his mother's side, and his darter is going with the mayor’s third son with serious intentions. the sanniterry department was wiped out. the man'who had charge of this end of the town's business was turned off malis-aforethought. without notis, on the spur of the familiar to you. It is about the same: momen ^ after he had alreddy got up size and shape as the sugar-coffee | i n to his waggin to drive off for gar- book, and has been improved in its bage. the mayor simply told him to make-up and durability. Instructions: craw ; down an d he crawled; the mayor’s uncle took the job then and there at a advance in sallery of5$ per month, over what his preddy- for using the coupons appear on the back cover. Inside are four pages of red stamps and four pages of blue stamps, i cessor had received, twenty-four to the page, making ai total of ninety-six stamps of each I a B color. Blue stamps are to be used C1 ^ clerk was fired the very The SIMPUCITY — Goal new pay-as-you-go plan, j whereby income tax would be de- 1 ducted from. our pay just as the Victory tax now is, could be a A Private Citixen Speaks His Mind Spectator Comments ;Qn Men and Things How will Uncle Sam collect all the individual income taxes from those who never paid before? Toward the very end of the year he tells us that we must pay heavily on all we had . , ,. . _ from January of 1942 until Decem- ratus is not functioning, so the X-Ray ' . f man told me. He called my trouble, ^•y°w many saveda part oiev lots of names that don’t appear ini ^ .. J nV p rnm p n *? if a man Webster's Unabridged, but I assumed “ ^ ,h that he knew what he was talklna ° r ,7^ n °‘ P L r0Vl f about, bull don’t. He mentioned the j unti L* 1 ! e , ,uU p ^ ue °!, off C K ? d lack of acid, but he was not taking may ^ot hav? «eTthe HntT^rte^ about the kind that makes 4-8-4. C^me^Wd “y. Well, the diet question came up for cemb t er 1 lst March 15 the first so the publick will plese be gov erned accordingly. I Might Have The High-Blood I haven’t been feeling so well for several weeks. My digestive appa- are to have your money back. CREOMULSiON For Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitif INSURANCE Fire - Tornado - Automo bile - Surety Bonds - All Forms of Property , Insurance. SOUND PROTECTION AT LOWEST COST. REAL ESTATE B. H. BOYD Clinton, S. C. discussion, as it always does when a quarterly installment should be in doctor doesn’t know what’s the mat- band - After that it will be nip and ter with you. Goat’s milk was men- f° keep up with the installments, tioned to me as a probable solution of my main ailment, t know goats. I have even associated with goats. Some man said the other day that the Japs smell like goats. That’s no way to talk about a goat. If a goat is a goat, he’s decent and honorable, except as to hi^ bdorif- erousness. Then the first installment of 1944 will find us pretty lean. The single, unencumbered man or woman owing $89 to the federal government on $1,000 will owe somthing to the state. The first quarter would require about $25 or so, for both. That will run about *10 a month. That doesn’t seem so bad. But some with pay ments several times larger may won- Knowing goats as to smell and de r whether the payments may be looks, I told the doctor that i didn’t ^ or ^ owed ^. 11 ^ et . us ,* bat , . tbe believe that I could possibly swalllow : oarers will look on us with a kind- JOHN DEERE TRACTORS and IMPLEMENTS THAT WORK 4 r I THERE'S A JOHN UgERE QUAUTY IMPLEMENT FOR EVERY FARMING PURPOSE J. R. CRAWFORD CLINTON. §. C. goat-milk, and if I did succeed in swallowing it, I was afraid that it ly eye. Uncle Sam may teach some of us for the immediate rationing of pro-r cessed foods, the red stamps will be used later for meat. A numeral on the face of each stamp indicates its point value. On each stamp also appears a letter of morning the mayor taken over, the mayor’s darter will run this job from now on with offis hours as followers: from monday to sadday, 9 a. m. to 2 p. m. all taxes must be paid prompt ly and no arguments will be put up the alphabet to designate the ration 38 ? be ^ a lady* If you want period in which the stamp may be to * uss W1 H 1 annyboddy, fuss with the used. You can use all the blue stamps marked A, B, and C during the first ration period, but these stamps can not be used after the end of the first period. Whenever you go to the store next week to buy rationed foods, you must present your coupon book. Anyone in the household may do the shop ping if he carries the books to the place where purchases are to be made. Stamps must be torn out in equilization board which was named by the former mayor. the mayor will try all miss-de meanor cases and receive half of the fines, he has removed the sign from over his offis which read—“mayor,” and put up another sign in its place which bears his own name as mayor, alLso citty attorney, delinquent tax collector, mayor protem, and ex- officio, which means, he says, ev- erthing else pertaining to the town. wouldn’t stay swallowed. I asked , 83v ® , t° respect the humble one him to suggest something that I con- 1 dollar bill and to think highly of five ddered fit to eat, and leave the goat! - question unsettled until I could give! ^ho*. my stummick a chance at more at tractive food. I never could under- I DOE TO A COLO stand why the food that is used as a diet is never the kind of food that you would eat if you could help yourself. . I am sick and tired of my present- menu, but until I find something that sounds better than goat milk, I am going along as I am and do the best' I can. Some fellow told me that my trouble was my nerves. He’s wrong. I haven’t got a single nerve: a man asked me the other day to endorse a note for him. I didn’t. have nerve enough to tell him I couldn’t do so. It could be the war; and taxes has had something to do with the situa tion. I think I’ll be better after Mc Nutt drafts labor to work on the farm! that'll be at least 50<r years from now. CASH For Your Car or Truck GOOD PRICES TIMMERMAN MOTOR CO. CUnton, S. C. Loans On Real Estate BUSINESS PROPERTY-HOMES Purchase—Refinancing--Repair8 Our Institution's Loan Policy Assures You of: No Delays! No Red Tape! Our convenient low cost monthly payment plan is arranged to fit your individual need, without working any hardship on you. 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