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Tas* Six THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, February 8, 1951 But because he is so persuasive and appealing let no one confuse his sua vity with lack of force. He may prove as Senator Tillman used to say: "Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re”— Easy in manner but strong in action. As to the proposed Sales Tax: the more I think of it the more I agree with everybody, both those for it and those against it. It is bad to think too much about both sides of any question. The proper course is to think clearly and then to act. If you spend much time on both sides you will paralyze your mind and do noth ing. Let’s see how it works: the poor man will be taxed: All the orators tell us that. The poor man seems to pay the taxes on cigarettes and soft drinks (and, sometimes, on some not so “soft”). And, in the language of the street, as amended, it is a shark of a tax, not a whale, since whales are not so bad; whereas sharks are vicious and tear one to pieces. (If I can just “get by" Mr. Alex Salley with that. But he doesn’t know any thing about sharks, except literary and historical figures.) And the poor man's wife and daughters meet the Federal sharks on cosmetics and oth er things, down to baby oil. And the Call 74 FOR OFFICE SUPPLIES poor man, wife, son and daughter, pay a tax, a series of federal and state taxes on gasoline, even more ferocious than those sharks I refer red to. I have no doubt the legislators will consider the poor man and “temper the wind to the shorn •lamb,” as.CL. j. C. irin |: ftc Shakespeare must have said And J* 10 ” supplies that expresses it well, too, for the Qf ROW CottOfl poor man is shorn beyond all per- r __ r 1QC1 adventure, and needs to have the, rOi 1I wind held down to a gentle breeze or a mild zephr. New York, Feb. 2—Robert Jack- Now a tax of three per cent on $20 s A on - executive vice president of the a week is only sixty cents. That may i American Cotton Manufacturers In- , seem very small, and it is small, pit-' stitut *- Predicts the tightest raw cot- 'ifully small, but we have some of our| tin £U PP-y in almost a century next i fellow citizens, men and women, who summer. I have not an extra sixty cents a week.! Hc ^ he C ^ rr ^ U ’ If you don’t know that you don’t Suest 1 will be only 2,200,000 bales 1 He told the annual dinner meet- know conditions. That is not a con-! elusive argument against the sales the Association of Cotton Tex- tax, though it suggests that we pro-! ^J^anAs of New \ork last ceed with due “circumspections.” 'That is a good word—“circumspec- 1 tion”: It means looking all around, to see from every side, i The man and woman who will really pay the sales tax is not the Goodyear Tires and Tubes BATTERIES AND ACCESSORIES McMillan Service Station Sinclair Products Phone No. 2 lovg give the World’s Best Loved Box- N—< L'f •W*.- A c~. . 0 The Fdinouj WHITMAN S SAMPLER in I pound and 2 pound sizes Special Heart Boxes and other Whitman s Assortments attractively wrapped for Valentine's Day McGEE’S DRUG STORE C linton, S. C. Phone No. 1 night that “the only factor that is sure to bail us out of this extremely delicate position is the production of a real cotton crop next year. The cotton farmer must be given assur ance that the production of 16,000,- . . „ .000 bales which the government is poor man, or woman, but the man ie ^ uest j n g of will not ^ a i low _ jor woman who spends liberally, in eC j t() depress his price structure to • the upper brackets. Some men have unreasonable levels.’’ advocated a sales tax on the ground; , , ! that many people pay almost no tax- 1 He w arned the cotton merchants es, though they send children to 1 the surest way to throw the school and receive all the hundred "‘^try into a tailspin was to “start land one other public services. So far *‘ abbin « these meagre supplies out as that is concerned, many a man I of Proportion to requirements.” will pay three dollars or five dollars And sai d the same considera- a week—$156 or $260 a year-in or- tl0ns must a PP ] y t0 actlons b y an y der to cause others to pay fifty cents agency, a week, or less. i So far as the tax is concerned, we New OldsiTlobileS have many thousands of men and p . women of ample spending power iNOW D€inQ jnOWn who contribute almost nothing to the fa Timmerman's state, the schools, the counties or the 9 towns ‘ Our counUes and towns and schools * The 1951 Oldsmobile is now on dis- (in part) are supported by taxes on pl*y * Timmerman Motor Company land and buildings. JVhat measure of 0 * c ^y- relief will be given to land and home ^ wide \ ariety of co*or choices and owners I do not know Whatever they upholstery options are availrt>le to buy will have a sales tax added. the buyer of a 1951 Oldsmctoile. Thlr- Several months ago 1 had a very pleasant conversation with Senator Jefferies, about taxes in general, and he faces the problem with courage and frankness. As I recall, he re garded some measure of relief for property-holder/ as equitable, in view of the new exactions that a sales tax would involve. We are fortunate to have many; sound, level-headed men in the leg- is.ature. Many of those gentlemen know that a dollar is a dolar. whe ther the purchasing power be $102 for electric current, or 32 cents for j something else And Governor Byrnes is a man of wisdom, as well as graciousness and tact There are so many good men in the General Assembly that I haven't space to name all of them, from my old friend, the Warrior from Barnwell.! or the suave Senator from Beaufort, or the mild-manneed but able Sen ator from Lee; my old comrade, the Senator from Newberry; or my own Clarendon Senator. I could name 1 many others; 1 have already mention ed my fiend from Colleton. 1 think we have had some very sound men in our pikilic life And now my friend of many years. Solomon Blatt. is speaker again. By the way we have had many able spekers. even if I do' not go back beyond the days of chiv alrous James B. Gibson and come on down. One day when 1 was speaking my appreciation of the gentlemen in pub lic life here. Federal, State, county and city, some'one asked if I were becoming soft and repentant, per haps feeling sick. No; I have always j found our officials very fine gentle men. Governor Byrnes is our glamor ous figure; everybody is for him. I teen body colors ranging from con ventional black to brilliant chariot red or soft cascade green may be se lected in the series “86” or A 98” line. The two-tone paint combinations may be ordered at slight extra cost. Upholstery Is tailored in nylon or leather, with foam rubber seats in the “98” models. Floor covering in most 6f the 1951 models is a rubber compound whose crinkled surface simulates woven carpet. Seven new body colors are avail able in the 1951 line. They are cas cade green, empire maroon, Oswego blue, dove gray. Algiers blue, shoal green and sand beige. Ten variaitions in the two-tone effect are avaialble. The Holiday "98” coupe and the “88” series cars use light gray che vron weave nylon for upholstery. Chevron weave nylon and dark gray broadcloth are used in the door pan els, with headlining in light gray. The Holiday “98” deluxe sedan has diamond-weave light gray nylon on the upper seat backs and dark gray striped nylon pile cord on the lower seat backs and cushions. Genuine leather contrasts with striped light gray nylon in the seats of the H>1- iday “96” deluxe coupe. Leather is used on the upper seat backs and dnr the front and base of the cushions. A choice of four color options for leather, red, dark green, dark blue or black is offered. 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