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I- » • I >, \ s Thursday, February 28, 1952 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Pace Fir* Columbia Banker Blasfs Floor — Tax As Unfair Says He Doesn't See - How Merchant Keeps His Mind As Country's Principal Tax Collector. Charleston, Feb. 25. — “If Charleston is to go ahead and pros per and succeed—hs a matter of fact, if any part of our country is to do so, we must do something about getting back into the straight and narrow way.” That was a statement made by B. M. Edwards, of Columbia, presi dent of the South Carolina Nation al Bank, in an address to the an nual meeting of the Charleston Re tail Merchants association last night. Mr. Edwards said that he did not see how a merchant could hold to gether and keep his mind at the present time. “They tax you every time they see you, and if they don’t see you, they tax you anyway, and in every form and manner possible. I think one of the most unfair taxes is the one levied by the State of South Carolina, the floor tax, and I am hoping that something will be done about it. “In addition to taxing you, they have made you the principal tax collectors in the country for un employment compensation, old age benefits, withholding taxes, sales taxes and excise taxes, and others. How on earth you can possibly have the time to do it all and keep up with the transactions and make all the reports required ol you, for which you receive no compen sation, I do not understand. “You need not look for help and relief out o f Washington a s long as those who are now in control remain in control. You need not expect, and you certainly must not have any hope that somebody else is doing the job for us. If we have a housecleaning we are going to have to do it ourselves, and I beg of you to follow the admoni tion of our greet governor, James F. Byrnes, a distinguished son of Charleston, and hereafter vote for the man and not for the party and I hope this doesn’t sound like poli tics. “There was a time when the peo ple in America would fight a war about taxes. They started one up in Boston about a small tax on tea, and then there was a time when we would start, a War over states rights; our folks here in Charles ton did that. Did you ever stop to think how many wars we would have going on right now if we would start one about states rights or about taxes. I tell you, it is up to us if we are ever gbing to do anything about correcting the sit uation. Mr. Edwards went on to say that every time a baby is bom in this country and draws its first breath it is $1,700 in debt. “That’s bad enough, but even worse, if the baby lives to be 75 years old and pays the government $1,700 every year, he will never get out of debt, be-, cause the government we have in Washington today is spending ev ery cent that it can possibly take in by taxes and otherwise in addi tion is piling up huge deficits. We will never get out of debt, but in stead, regardless of how much tax es we pay, we are getting further and further into debt. “I am taking the liberty of quot ing the outstanding man in South Carolina today—in fact one of the national and international figures of the world, our Governor James F. Byrnes. There may be some who think that Jimmy Byrnes is a re cent convert to his present doc trine and preaching, but I know that is not the case,” he said. Mr. Edwards said that in 1944 he was urged by som^' national figures in Washington to help in the Democratic presidential campaign. He said that he didn’t like and was not in favor of things going on in Washington at the time and since the pressure was severe he called in Mr. Byrnes and told him the situation and asked him what to do. Mr. Edwards said that Mr. Byrnes said, “B. M., there is a pres sure group in this country consist ing of a small number of men who are to a large degree dictating the policies and are in control of the administration of this government of ours. What these men believe, or at least what they want and are seeking to accomplish is so far dif ferent from anything in the world that you and I believe in, that there isn’t the slightest hope of a compromise.” “I regret to tell you that al though one or two of these men have died in the meantime, the ma jority of them are still exercising just as much or more influence and power today than they were in 1944. We are never going to have anything that will turn us back toward normalcy and reason until that situation is changed,” Mr. Ed wards said. Earlier in the address Mr. Ed wards said that Charleston, the same as other port cities, suffer ed a loss of considerable business during the period after the turn of the century, but he continued, Charleston has always prospered to a reasonable degree and trade is now coming back. . l.l» II .M. II Mil Subscribe To Tbo Chronicle— "Th« Paper Everybody Reads" As Washington Sees It... THE NATIONAL SCENE OFFICE SUPPLIES Complete line, all the little Items needed for the office. CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. 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Washington, Feb. 26. — Because President Truman made the re mark at a recent press conference that presidential primaries were “eyewash” and because this col umn last week asserted that in fact that’s all they really were, there has been some criticism not only of the President, but of this col umn a? a result. !k - But as A1 Smith used to say, “Let’s look at the record.” The Democratic nominee for president will be selected by 616 votes, a ma jority of the delegates at the Dem ocratic national convention. The Republican candidate will be named by 603 votes, majority of the delegates to the GOP national convention, both to be held in Chi cago next July. What are these conventions? How are delegates selected? The constitution makes no provisions for political conventions and they are not regulated by any federal law. Their decisions have, in fact, no legal standing for they repre sent only political sentiments of the two .major parties. * t t This year there will be 1,230 del egates. to the Democratic conven tion and 1,205 to the Republican convention. In 32 of the 48 states, delegates are selected by party conventions or by political execu tive committees, on the basis of state law, party rules or customs and national party convention rules. These 32 states include: Ala bama, Arizorvd/'-Arkansas, Colora do, Connecticut, Delaware, Geor gia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mich igan, Mississippi, Missouri, Mon tana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South-Carolina, Ten nessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Vir ginia, Washington and Wyoming. Only sixteen states give voters a direct voice in the choice of dele gates .to the national convention. They are: California, Florida, Illi nois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hamp shire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Da kota, West Virginia and Wisconsin. But out of the total 48 states, only three states, California, Ohio and Oregon, require delegates elected by the voters, to be pledged to the candidates favored by the voters of those states. In other words, in 45 states, the elected or selected delegates are on their own when they get to the national con vention and may vote for whomso ever they please save for the whip hand of the party leaders and the influence tiiey may have over their delegation. * * * These are the facts upon which President Truman, himself a mas ter politician, based his statement that the average presidential pri mary is “eyewash,” but that he favored a system of nation-wide presidential primaries in which the people themselves voted for the delegates to the national conven tion or for the candidate himself. For Instance in seven states—New Hampshire, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Florida, South Da kota and New Jersey, the state law says the delegates “may” b€ pledged to specific candidates, but this is not mandatory and both in structed and uninstructed delegates may -be elected from these states. It will be seen that New Hamp shire, which is now in the lime light and in which President Tru man has agreed to enter against Senator Estes Kefauver, is in this list. Six states — Nebraska, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Mary land and West Virginia merely provide for election of “unpledged” delegates. In eight states, Nebraska, Illinois, Maryland, New Hampshire, Oregon, Pennsylvania, West Vir ginia and Florida, voters are per mitted to vote for the candidates directly as well as for convention delegates. But in only one state, Oregon, are the delegates required to vote for the Presidential candi date receiving the largest vote in the state primary. So it'readily will be seen that the average voter has litle to say about whom he will vote for in the presidential election in November. And, as a matter of fact, the voters have less to say about the presi dential electors who finally cast their vote in the electoral college for the presidential candidate. Local JHA's Attend Meeting Members of the local Junior Homemakers association accom panied by their sponsor, Mrs. Roily Bannister, recently attended a meeting erf eight chapters of Lau rens and Greenwood counties at Gray Court-Owings high school to discuss forming a bi-oounty organi zation. Points of tjie program were dis cussed and Officers were elected. Miss Barbara Whitmire of this city was chosen reporter. Others from here who attended were Linda Adair, Marie Davis and Ruby Meadors. 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