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Page Eight THE CUNTON CHRONICLE Thursday, July 23,4953 taxes, from 44 mills in 1*951 to 42 mills. If I could tell such a story about every county and city I should quickly become the most popular man on the air. I’m willing to tell the good news; we need a lot more of it. That should be a sustaining in fluence as we strive to endure .the heat. Of course I’m bound to admit that the boll weevil is havirvg a hard time. Someone remarked that the I Arc you Afraid of a contagion? farmer is staggering out of the tor- Probably so and rightly so, but sup- iid weather, .tut one step behind tie pose there were a good contagion, l etreat of the ^weevil. The Aiken county legislative dele-: gation made a twenty per cent re duction taxes, as I gladly pro claimed recently; then my eye fell on an announcement of a happy Recently I read in a leading mag azine two widely separated para graphs which are worm quoting: • It is absurd to permit govern- event in Charleston. Here is thejment to use tax money to finance storv as told by The News & Cou-j projects that dnVe out of operation ... I (businesses which, unmolested,would rier: The two mill reduction 'in city!produce tax revenue school taxes voted Monday by the Charleston County Legislative dele gation is the first such tax reduc tion in five years. The delegation has set a levy of 38 mills—36 mills for operations and two mils for bond retirement—for the 1953-54 fiscal year. The operations levy is the same as last year’s but the bond levy was reduced from four to two mills. This was made possible because of allocation of state funds to District 20 of $8.75 per pupil. Also, the dele gation cut $53,895 from the school The economic system whicfc has built up our national strength is based on the right of the individual to earn a living and make as much money as his talents or his capacity- will bring and then to conserve these savings as % capital and hire them out so as to earn interest or dividends. Ownership in our free enterprise and private enterprise is the most effective way of saying, l I do not be lieve in socialism or paternalism of any kind’. 500,000 men and worn- board’s requested budget for theien, most of them work for a liv ing, own General Motors; 250,000 own General Electric;- and more than 1,000,000 own the American Telephone and Telegraph company. These-eitizens and others like them, have put their own capital, their savings, into American industries. This kind of capitalism assures ex pansion of free enterprise. It means work for all who wish to work. It brings good wages, and good times, good hbuses and good clothes. The trend toward the • subordina tion of the individual and his en terprises to the State is world-wide. Only a few short months ago, at a meeting of the UN General Assem bly’s Economic and Financial com mittee, a vote was taken on the adoption of a proposal reaffirming ! rights of Member States to nation alize wealth and resources without mentioning the protection of the rights of investors and owners. The proposal was characteristic of the kind of socialistic thinking that emphasizes rights ^without, responsi- ■ Another budget slice brought the; b'ilifies and seems to declare that athletic program ligure from $9,- ‘ property rights are not desirable 400 to $6,000. This amount will be I human rights. In the balloting the divided equally between—the high (United States suffered • a total Tie- school of Charleston and Burke high feat. It cast the one vote on behalf school, of free enterprise.” The delegation approved a pay in- Then Mrs. Annie King, in her crease of 8 1-3 per cent for admin- good paper, The Aiken Standard istiative officers, principals, and and Review, says editorially: year, to bring it into line with es timated income. Various groups had expressed fears earlier that the schools might have to sacrifice medical, athletic and cafeteria programs under bud get adjustments. All these pro grams have been retained, howev er, while still reducing the tax. This was done through small cuts in allotments to various school ac tivities, and a revision in anticipated income figures. The delegation es timated income from tax levy at $810,000 where the school board had expected $800,000, and income from tuition at $14,000. instead of the $7,500 listed in the board’s budget. $44,000. The Board of Trustees of District 20 had requested a total budget of mated income at $1,752,645. A requested $12,260 for cafeteria equipment was refused by the dele gation, with the explanation that the lunch room program should be operated with federal aid provided for that purpose. their assistants, secretaries, janitors and maids. But a similar raise for nurses, doctors and dentists was re fused. The medical allotment now stands at $20,852. Teachers salar ies will receive state aid amount ing to $862,213. The teachers re- ‘The popular radio-TV program called ‘Columbus Town Meeting’ re cently featured a .debate on gov ernment in the electric power busi ness. A Senator defended dhis form .of socialism, arguing that we need greatly expanded power productino; ceived a 10 per cent increase from that much of the investment goes the state, and the delegation ap-Sfor such purposes as soil conserva- proved $24,160 designated ‘frozen supplement for 1952-53’.” And I see in The State the follow ing from Newberry: "County taxes can be cut one mill here, the Newberry delegation, coun ty auditM - , treasurer and superin tendent of education decidea at their a: nual meeting. Under the new levy 9.5 mills go for county operating expenses, five mills for bonds and interest, and one mill for the county hospital. The special school levy r is 24.5 mills, and one mill each is levied for school bonds and the cOtihty board of education. The new cut repre sents a continuing downward trend in taxes for Newberry county. A few years ago the total levy was (}0 mills.” I was about to overlook a reduc tion of two mills in Columbia s city Su w tcrib« To Tho Chronicle “The Paper Everybody Reads” WE DO ALL KINDS OF PRINTING —EXCEPT BAD CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. tion, and that the government pow er projects are self-liquidating. He was answered by Edwin Ven- nard of the Middle West company. Here, in part, is what Mr. Vennard had to say: ‘The power companies have about doubled their capacities since the beginning of World War II. I don’t think the government needs to get in the power business in order to assure a power supply “Secondly, I think that the people who want to put the government in the power business are using the soil conservation program as a means detrimental to the American public. For example, the water can be con served on the soil through reforesta tion and contour plowing, and the like, a great deal It-ss expensively than by building heso big comoi- nation dams ’ He then stated tint the socialized power projects, like TVA, are not self-liquidating ana are a draiapup- on all the taxpayers, and added: When the federal government goes in the power business, it exempts itself from paying federal taxes. If the government in the power busi ness would put itself on equal terms .... that is, take off the sub sidy on money—then the power projects would have to double their rates to break even . . . .’ Private, tax-paying enterprise can and will provide all the power we require. So-called ‘cheap’ govern ment poyer is made only by tax exemption and tax subsidies.” Restores Appetite! ‘My name is Ancil Smiddy, Route 1. Habersham, Tennessee. Loss of appetite seemed to be the reason I felt so tired, weak and listless most of the time. 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