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Clinton, S. C, Thursday, October 19, 1950
Number 42
A Regular Chronicle Feature
Increasing Tax Load Gets
Warning From Babson
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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
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Some day
you may be
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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
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