The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, July 09, 1953, Image 16
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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.
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