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Page Eight THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, July 9, 1953 “County taxes slashed by 20 per cent.” That was the big headline I read in the Aiken Standard and Re view recently. And that’s news, real news, joyful tidings, heart warming information. Let me quote: The Aiken County Legislative delegation announced yesterday af ternoon that county taxes have been reduced 20 per cent for the next fiscal year Senator John Henry Williams, spokesman for the group which in cludes Representatives Frampton Toole, Jr, and Edward Cushman,J said the delegation met with Coun ty Auditor David Alexander and after studying the anticipated reve nue from sources other than taxes, decided to reduce the county tax from 60 mills to 48 mills. Ordinary county tax was reduced from 13 mills to 5 mffis, county bond tax was reduced from four to three mills, school bonds from 10 to 7 mills, and school operation tax remained at 33 mills. - The county is in fine condition and will continue to operate on a sound financial basis’, Senator Wil liams said. The reduction in taxes was made possible by all-round prosperity in the county and state, he said. For the past four years the county revenue from sources other than taxes has been on the incline. In 1950 the estimated receipts from liquor, wine, beer, fines, service officer, insurance licenses, gasoline taxes and fees were $245,000; in 1951 it was $293,000; in 1952, $326,- 372.49; anrd the estimated income this year is $498,800. base opinions? I don’t mean horse back opinions! this issue is now be fore the court; let us study the Con stitution and the expressions of the learned jurists over the years. Since the court, in recent years, has differed from the decisions of earlier days; and because the court frankly admits that the application of the Constitution to the case at bar isn’t clear, in spite of earlier decisions on the same point, it would be interesting to challenge the validity of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments which were adopted and ratified unlawfully. Both amendments were proposed while Southern states were not en joying their full Sovereign rights, so a question properly arises wheth er those amendments conform to due process of law. In good temper and graciously let us publish the truth to our fellow citizens of the United States. If this be a time to re-open estab lished legal traditions, and to con sider them afresh, let us accept the challenge and re-open the whole matter. We gain nothing by weak ness. Since the whole matter has been a campaign against the South, let the South meet the issues ag gressively, resourcefully, submit ting its case to the judgment of our fellow Americans with whom we have fought in Cuba, Europe, and Asia—five wars, side-by-side as Americans. It so happens that in 1873 the Su preme Court of the United States rejected the suggestion that, under the 14th amendment, the National Government should now be the source of all those rights of a fun damental character which belong to citizens, the Court saying that the Amendment did not disclose “any purpose to destroy the main features of the general system.” And the Court held that a State is not prevented from abridging the privileges of State citizenship. An authority says that “The privi lege of a child to attend the public schools is one springing froni the State, and not of the Nation.’’ So The decision to reduce county I let’s meet them in the Courts in the property taxes was reached after public forum. considering the above revenue and the revenue that would be paj^ on al county property, Senator Wil liams said. Auditor Alexander said this w’as a ‘tremendous’ reduction of taxes in Aiken county, and all officials Senator Burnet Maybank, reply ing to criticism of Southern indus trial progress, said recently in the Senate: "Sen. Burnet R. Maybank said today the South's tremendous industrial expansion is due largely at the Aiken county court house j to the ‘economic statesmanship’ of expressed delight in the cuts. * | its industrialists. The Aiken county delegation is! Maybank called no names. But setting a good example for the fed eral and. state lawmakers, to. follow;’, tlje county official said. his speech was regarded as a reply to a recent series of speeches by Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) on According to the.senator. one milHthe industrial deeW of New Eng- j brings in approximately $15,000 in land. 1 taxes, therefore the 12 mills reduc- We occasionally hear comments tion means about $180,000 will re- about ‘mature economy’, Maybank main in county taxpayers’ pockets: said, ‘but it strikes me that these next year.’ regions frequently have perplexing If any other county has that sort j problems, which suggest that their of cfieenuK news I shaTl.Tb gl&d Tb 1 maturity" is^IirTehliTy'S" imatiliou proclaim it far and wide.’ of approaching old age, or weari- * * * ness, or of becoming worn out.’ A symposium on the Federal Con- ‘Can it be that such regions are stitution might be interesting as paying the penalty of failure or in-, well as informative. The Supreme ability to translate their scientific Court of the United States has in- progress into lower prices for the vited the information on the rele- buyers of their products? Is it per- vancy, or application of the Consti tution to the school cases pending in that court. haps possible that in their zeal to promote expensive soci%l welfare schemes they have stifled industrial South Carolina has counsel to initiative by running up the costs of submit a brief, but why shouldn't doing business?’ many of us study the Constitution and all the decisions of the Su preme Court bearing directly or re motely on the issue so that our peo ple may have facts on which . to If so,’ Maybank said, ‘it is hardly for them to point a finger of scorn, and to shout ‘unfair’ at those re gions where business foresight has permitted technological progress. Stop-shop at the sign of Coke and Food Hot-weather meals perk right up with ice-cold Coke. 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