The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, July 23, 1953, Image 16
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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
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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.”
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