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1 / 1 * t ♦ THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Clean Newspaper, Complete j^lewsy and Reliable CltrDnirlf If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume LI Clinton, S. C, Thursday, October 19, 1950 Number 42 A Regular Chronicle Feature Increasing Tax Load Gets Warning From Babson ' Wm* % I Babson Park, Mass., Oct. 18—It iSj amazing that so many millions of people in this “land of the free” have so little idea or concern as to what is done with their hard-earned cash after paying it to the government in taxes. The American peple have acquir ed a repuation for having made de mocracy work as neither it nor any other system of government / has thus far worked in the history of the world. Yet, few of our citizens really know much about how the govern ment spends or what benefits the people actually receive - *•* w * BmbM * from this vast sum of money. We all should know where our tax dollars are going and whether they are being wisely spent. Our children ¥ Should know more about money mat ters, especially as they concern Con gressmen as they make appeals for re-election. If more Congressmen had a better understanding of the value of a dollar and a better appre ciation of true social welfare, it would not be easy for bureaucratic parasites to waste our money. The Tax Load In view of the coming elections, I will confine myself here to feder al ta»es and expenses, though much of what I mention might just as well be applied to state and local govern ment taxes and expenses. Federal taxes have been increasing since the early part of the present century. Naturally, the national growth cre ated the need for expanding our gov ernment expenditures; but unfortun ately, as government grew bigger, in-* dividual and corporate incentive and initiative have been steadily under mined. This has been the fault of our Congressmen. A review of our federal tax struc ture would reveal -an number of taxes, still in effect, which were enacted as “temporary” meas ures, throughout the past 50 years. The most recent examples are the obnoxious excise taxes placed on the statute books early in World War II. Our Congressmen haw added to the tax burden slowly so as to attract a minimum of unfavorable public at tention. No wthey try to sell the idea that all these increases were neces sary steps in the process of our com ing of age as a nation. This is not true. Time To Be Alert Now the bureaucrats are asking for more billions of dollars and al ready are framing laws which will make it possible for Uncle Sam to help himself to a much larger share of your income and mine. In these days of inflated values, it costs a great deal to carry on a military cam paign even in an area as limited as Korea. Thus, I suppose we must be designed to this demand for more taxes. Let us not however, be so car ried away by the tension of the times that we surrender any more of our hard won liberties and rights to the bureaucrats. Let us make our Congresanen responsible to us in fact as they are in theory. Indifference was chiefly responsi ble for our getting into the jam in which we now find ourselves as far as taxes are concerned. We were too ready to agree to the imposition of additional tax burdens in years past because we were high-pressured or cajoled into thinking there was no other course open to us. Business men, who knew better, contended themselves with merely denouncing our tax policies, and their protests were largely ignored. I hope we will all be more realistic about taxes in the future and that we will make our voices heard and our wills felt in the coming election. If we fail to do this, we shall certainly lost more than our dollars in the critical times ahead. I do not approve of handing over much of the country’s cash to sup port certain groups or classes of the people at the expense of all the peo ple. That is undemocratic. It is also financially dangerous, especially when we need all our money for productive things. I am not against moderate farm supports for basic farm products, but I am opposed to the indiscriminate use of tax dol lars which tends to make dairy or potato farmers a favored class. A foolhardy farm support pro gram might not break the country financially, in the years ahead, but eventually it could lead to the en slavement of the farmers themselves. Neir and higher taxes we shall pro bably have. They need not be much higher if each of ui will take the time to impress upon those who are now up for election the acute need for drastic cuts in nonessential fed eral spending. New Severe Fashions Softened By Detailing The sheath silhouette, the shorter lengths, the free use of braiding, cord and velvet, the abundance of plum tones, plaids and tweeds and wool ens of many textures all predict the casual, accented with the elegant, for the fast-approaching fashion season of Fall-and-Winter 1950. Sheath Dresses Choose Fall ’50’s suit of sleek sheen gabardine. It will be deep plum in; tone, styled with a slim, slim skirt re lieved for walking bypl eats placed low or a buttoned slit. It will have a longline jacket (26-inches) with sleeves that melt into the shoulders; a long, narrow rever collar or French i imported horseshoe neckline and gently padded arched hips. Choose your first dress of Fall. This year, it’s the color “black.” It’s a wallpaper-snug sheath of wool crepe, relieved by a pleated flounce around • the hemline; femininely lovely with I its scooped-out neckline, its un- 1 mounted sleeves and exciting touch-, es of self-color braid or velvet. Choose your all-important coat. The “Pyramid” that surrounds you;! close at the shoulders, voluminous ly full with a surprisingly slender look down to your seven-eighths or full-length hemline. This Autumn it gives rich brown and deep-bodied wool a new importance. Choose your furs. Select the “little pieces”; the muffs and the stoles and the capes that lend such great ele gance to your every costume. Or make yours one of the shorter length, narrow-in-line coats of heavenly mid-night blue Persian Lamb with sleeves that pushdp to reveal dram atic up-to-the-elbow-and then some crushed gloves, with a lining in burnt orange contrast to the blue of your coat. Evening Separates Choose your gala occasion apparel with an eye to the “separates”. Take, for instance, a clan plaid pure wool floorlength skirt (in a clan that com plements your escort’s dinner jacket or trousers) with a linen blouse that carries out one of the brilliant color» in the plaid of your skirt. Choose your country-time clothes and include sweaters that are desig ned as blouses and dyed-to-match the banker’s grey or vintage tones of your flannel arrow-narrow skirt. Choose leisure-time wear, again with an eye to the “separates.” Dr. Felder Smith Optometrist Laurens, S. C. 126 EAST MAIN STREET South Side Public Square HOURS POR EYE EXAMINATIONS: t:M to 5:3t Wednesdays 9:00 to 12:30 Phone 794 for Appointment DR. L B. MARION NATUROPATH Jacobs Bldg.—Room 215 Phone 97 uauusya&ms^Msannmw Gray Funeral Home Clinton. 8. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ...and... EMBALMERS AMBULANCE SERVICE Phones 41 and 309-J L. RUSSELL GRAY and V. PARKS ADAIR. Gen. Mgra Gmral Mils Double Automatic Teastor A handsome addition to any dining table I Exclusive doublt automatic iher- mosut assures evenly hmwned toast slice after slice. $22 95 Steom Ironing Attachment ' General Milb Tru-Heat Irbif Slips on the Tru-Heat Iron for steam ironing without sprinkling...ptcMing without dampened doth*. $0.00 A gift that banishes Ironing Day blues t Tru-Heat Iron's modem tapered heel lets you iron in any direction—without bunching or whnklini. ft 3.0! Some day you may be real mad at us We wish we had time to sit down with everybody in this town and tell 'em personally about the many kinds of mod ern, inexpensive insurance which most people should carry nowadays. You—for instance—may be pretty sore at us some day if you have a fire, a windstorm, burglary or a boiler explosion, or if you are sued for dam ages, or lose a diamond ring or a fur coat or a suitcase full of clothes, or sustain some other serious loss against which we could have insured you if we had tried to sell you. We can't be out selling everybody in town »11 the time, so won't you help us sell you what you need. Ask us to survey your insurance policies soon and to tell you of any gaps. ^ • tloMfotal %-trai wm . . . 8 great truck engines—each “Job- Rated’’ U POWER I for PLUS power. ECONOMY: . . . priced with the lowest. “Job- Rated” for dependability and long life. BIGGER PAYLOADS: . . . carry more without overloading axles or springs because of . - - ■ WEIGHT “Job-Rated TION. IT DISTRIBU- J America Fore • INSURANCE CROUP CLINTON REALTY & INSURANCE CO. B. Hubert Boyd, Agent J EASIER HANDLING: . . • sharper turning! Parks in tight places. “Job-Rated” maneuver ability! 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Yon get more load space. Dodge offers you the biggest body of any of the threeieading i^ton pick-ups! You get 44.16 cu. ft. capacity at “water level” in solid, all-steel con struction—with seasoned hardwood floor and steel skid strips. Yoo c» tun iu less space! Extra-easy handling! You can turn your Dodge “Job-Rated” ^-ton pick-up in a short, 38-foot circle. Thanks to cross-steering, wider front tread and shorter wheelbase you can maneuver quickly, park on a dime, back easily into narrow spaces. And for easier driving you have steering column gearthift and smooth Synchro-Shift transmission. w piuccd unilt tlte imt COOPER MOTOR COMPANY West Main St. Clinton, S. C. Phone No. 515