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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, December 3, 1953
'Padlock Editor'
Blasts Bureaucracy
Charleston, Nov. 20—Mrs. Mary
D Cain, editor of a small, weekly
newspaper in Summit, Miss, said
here yesterday that her personal
defiance of U. S. Social Security tax
laws was a part of a crusade "to
awaken the people of the United
States from a lethargic sleep while
"there is still time.”
She said that to combat high
taxes, a mounting public debt and
various relics of New Dealism,
which deprive the states “of police,
power and money,” the country
weds the spirit which created the
Boston Tea Party.
"They dumped the' tea,” she said,
"only as a signal that they had hadj
txough.”
Mrs. Cain spoke here twice. AU
midday she addressed the Charles- j
ten Kiwanis club in the Francis
Marion hotel, and at night she ad-!
dressed the Industrial Manage
ment club at the YMCA.
Mrs. Cain’s denunciation of fed-
rial policies bristled with rage and
epigrammatic phrases. At one time,
she referred to former President 1
Truman as “that little stinker—L
believe he is a Baptist and I re-'
girt that."
She said that the people of the
ted States now are the victims
and subjects of l,8p0 federal bu^'
fr«us and 88 federal corporations,
ch are "draining us dry.’’
We've got to stop,” she said,
■“■we've got to destroy the bureaus
ard sell these corporations to pn-
enterprise so they will become
taxpayers instead of tax drainers.
W» must fight to restore to high
places men who will understand
ihe Constitution and who will hold
fht :r trust sacred.” i
Referring frequently to the Con-
sl.-’ution and such early patriots
.*■ Patrick Henry, she said she
wanted to see restoration “of those
girnrantees in the Bill of Rights;
which give the citizen the right to
rarn and keep what is earned.”
As recently as 1900, she said, the
American tax load was $3.88 per
racuta and the public debt was
$15. Now, she said, the per capita,
lax is $477 and the per capita debt !
$2,000.
' We got into a mess nobody can
deny during the seven years that
bitle stinker sat in the White
Hf'use.’'
She said the 16th (income tax)!
Amendment was written into the'
Constitution because the "people
and legislators were gullible” after
t* mg told such a tax would never
ixceed 2 or 3 per cent.
"What would they have thought,”*
.she asked, “if they had dreamed the
day would come when people in
higher brackets would pay 94 per
rent of income as tax? The 16th
■Ainendement is destroying basic in
dividual freedoms. Until we had it, 1
this country got along beautifully. |
If has killed the indviidual incen-|
five which gave those fools in high
places $275 millions to squander.;
Our people do not understand that
progressive graduated taxation is
pink No. 2 in the Karl Marx doc-j
trine, which says take according
lr. ability to pay and give accord-'
mg to need.”
She cited numerous statistics to
prove that the states are receiv-
Mr.g steadily diminishing shares of ;
■counting federal taxes for use 1
within states.
"We have got to bring the police
pi.Tver and the money back into the
hands of the states,” she asserted.
Discussing her own conflict with
ar.fnts of the U. S. Bureau of Inter-1
Revenue following her refusal
1r pay Social Security taxes on her
PIANOS
Laurens County
Agriculture Program
By County Agent C. B. Cannon
Situation: Laurens county popu
lation is 46,974, with 3091 farms,
averaging 100.4 acres, average val
ue per farm of land and buildings
$6,998, and average farm income of
$1386.16, as given in the 1950 agri
cultural census.
Important trends or changes tak
ing place in the agriculture and
farm and home life of the county.
(1) Labor shortage due to favor
able industrial wages; (2) more crop
land to grass land use; (3) Increas
ing yields per acre of small grain,
hay crops, cotton and pepper in
Laurens county; (4) Noted expan
sion in the production of beef, poul
try and milk; (5) Increasing use of
modern • labor-saving machinery
and equipment of the farm and in
the homes; (6) More efficient use
of fertilizers, lime, soil building and
soil conserving crops, the taking of
1951 earnings as a self-employed
person, Mrs. Cain attacked both
Social Security and unemployment
compensation.
She said Social Security is a
"monstrous thing, anything but so
cial, anthing but secure."
“Every dime of the reserve has
been squandered,” she said. “It is
invested in U. S. bonds which the
taxpayers will have to honor; it
means we have to pay twice.
"I told them I objected to buying
their brand of insurance, because
it they could tell me what brand of
insurance to buy they can also tell
me what brand of shoes to buy.
I am standing on my eternal free
dom as an individual.”
She said w'hen her plant was pad
locked she “got up from a sick bed
and sawed the padlock off.”
"I -mailed it back to them," she
said. “I told them I was returning
a piyce of government properly
which was slightly the worse for
wear.”
Of unemployment compensation,
she said, "It is a scheme to let the
employee take a free vacation at
the boss’ expense. It is bitterly un
fair. Compulsion should be re
moved. If I want to arrange and
provide for my own security I
should be permitted to do it."
She paid her respects to ending;
racial segregation by federal act
or court decision.
"Will we sit quietly and let the
Supreme Court tell us what to do?”
she asked. “If they can tell us to
permit Negroes in public schools
they can tell us next to have Ne
gro teachers for white children.
"Let the states stand up and
prove they'll have no part in this.
The Negro should be proud of his
race: it had come further than any
race in history since they were
brought here as slaves. But I want
no mongrelization. Let us help Ne
groes to help themselves. And let
us remember they can do far more
for themselves than they have been
accustomed to doing.”
CREDITORS' NOTICE
All persons having claims against
the estate of Wilson Lee Turner, de
ceased, are hereby notified to file
the same duly verified, with the un
dersigned, and those indebted to
said estate will please make pay
ment likewise.
LEILA PATTERSON
TURNER,
Administratrix,
Clinton, S. C.
Nov. 14, 1953 3c-w-Dec. 3
soil samples, and in the use of rec
ommended insecticides and fungi
cides in the control of insects, di
seases and rodents: (7) Expansion
of rural telephone service; and (8)
More home beautififeation of yards,
buildings and conveniences in the
homes.
Organization: For greater effic
iency in meeting farm problems,
the Laurens County Agricultural
Committee is composed of 39 farm
ers and 48 farm women serving vol
untarily with their time, and bear
ing the cost of their transportation,
representing 11 communities and 37
neighborhoods, advises with the
county and home demonstration
agents on farm and home problems.
Also there are eight persons rep
resenting various agencies on the
committee. The County Agricultu
ral Committee has sub-committees
on 4-H club work; Home Beauti
fication and Improvement; Health
and Nutrition; Dairying; Beef and
Hogs; Poultry; Commercial Peach;
Forestry; Crops and Soil Building;
and Balanced Farm awards.
There are 29 4-H clubs (white) of
which 14 are boys with 330 mem
bers and 15 girls with 450 members.
There are also 10 Negro clubs with
304 members.
^There are 11 communities with
376 members which is also the
21 Home Demonstration clubs of
County Council of Farm Women,
and a 4-H County Council with
780 members.
Problem: Important problems af
fecting the welfare of Laurens
county farm people are:
(1) Farm commodities sold not on
parity with what he buys; (2)
Wages paid labor by industry great
er than farm can afford for farm
labor; (3) Farm commodities not
sold on grade as to quality; (4)
Maintaining soil building for eco
nomical production of crops; (5)
Not having sufficient grazing for
livestock; Better balancing of farm
income with livestock and cash
crops; (6) Getting more rural boys
and girls in 4-H club work; (7) More
individual farm planning on the
farm with small number of county
agents.
Objectives of the long-time farm
and home program.
Suggested by the Laurens County
Agricultural Committee are: (1) An
increased enrollment of 4-H clubs;
(2) Average production of a bale j Increase enrollment in home dem-
of cotton per acre! (3) Average pro-1 onstration clubs; (9) More farm
duction increase of corn and small nomes and farm buildings; (10)
grain; (4) Increased acreage to im- More convenience in the home for
proved permanent pasture: (5) Ru- better family living; (11) Have soil
ral electric telephone and runing tested and soil building practices on
water to every farm home; (6) Dis-, all farms.
place scrub bulls; (7) plant trees ~~
(pine) on land suited for such; (8) Su v *crib# To Tho Chroniclo
Dr. L. B. Marion
NATUROPATH
Residence Phone 939
205 Elm Ave.
NOTICE FOR PAYMENT OF
1953 CITY TAXES
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Notice is hereby given that Town Taxes for the Town
of Clinton are due and collectible from October 15th to
December 31st for the year 1953. The tax books are now
open at the office of the Town Clerk and Treasurer and
i
will remain open up to and through December 31.
A penalty of ten (10%) shall be added if said taxes
are not paid on or before January 1, J1954.
The levy for current fiscal year is 53 mills; 15 mills
for current operating expenses, and 38 mills for interest
and sinking funds on various bond issues outstanding.
A
W. B. OWENS, City Clerk and Treasurer
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