The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, April 07, 1955, Image 12
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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COMMENTS
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MEN AND THINGS
You are not interested in such
dull subjecs as taxation, are you?
It is serious, you know; and quite
burdensome. We Americana
seem to think that every time
someone has a bright idea the
Congress, or our Legslature
should pass a law end then put
on a tax.
Glancing over an advertise
ment recently I was surprised by
these two items: Federal taxes,
Social Security, Property tax,
and other State and Local taxes
$54,953,000. In addition, Excise
taxes amounting to $5.83 a share.
This company paid its common
stockhoders $1.35 a share. There
you have it; paid in taxes $5.83
a share; paid stockholders $1.35
a share
How would you like to do
business on that basis? Inciden
tally that was not the heaviest
taxpayer in the
by any means
If we could bring in 500 more
enterprises would not the State,
school apd local taxes repay
whatever reduction might in
duce them to come? Would not
the payroll of 500 more enter,
prises raise the economic level it
our State? Would not the wages
flow into the channels of busi
ness?
• • •
Swashbucklers may serve a
useful purpose, sometimes; they
may focus attention on a con
dition or a problem; they may
glamorize it and make it com-
peling in its impact on our minds
or our consciences
Sober-minded men are not
swashbucklers; in fact, sober-
minded men would rather en
dure the evils they know about
rather than run risks they know
not of. You recall that Shakes-
United States, 1 peare discussed that in Hamlet,
as I recall—that never-to-be-for-
I do not know who of our pco- gotten “to be or not to be,” and
pie pays the most to the Federal, so on.
State and local governments, but In a day of conservative think-
I cited last week the case of one | ing and acting one does not
taxpayer, a South Carolina Cor- “stick out his neck.” This, of
poration, which paid about six' course, is not a conservatve age;
and a half million dollars last this is the glorious era of “go-
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getters.” Go-getters are those
who venture out into the deep
and then haul in the great
draught of fishes, while the tim
'd souls stay on the beach and
fear that their feet may get wet.
I’ve been wondering if the
States must glamorize their rghts
by disregarding Federal man
dates. Ireland refused to bow
to England and England finally
had the sound judgment to rec
ognize a condition that she could
not maintain. Of course so many
of us have our fingers in the pie
that we are not willing to stop
eating pie just for the sake of a
principle.
Automation—a new word, or
at least just becoming popular.
Automation is old stuff. I recall
attending a conference of very
able men, called together one
night by the late Bishop Finley.
It was called to discuss the evils
of “technological unemploy-
ment.” That was the same as
the so-called, or immediate evils,
of automation
Is this an evil? The farmer
I with a tractor is doing more
j work than sixmen. So five are
i cut of work. Many years ago
Ben M. Sawyer, then Chief High
way Commissiiner, told me that
he had employed several hun
dred men at a dollar a day to do
i ordinary ditching and loading
dirt. Work was scarce and fifty
cents a day was average pay. j
The men were glad to get a dol
lar a day; it meant bread and
meat when everything was cheap
and money as scarce as manna
in the wilderness on the Sabbath.
But the law forbade this; to the
Highway Department bought
machines, each doing the wirk of
20 men. What happened to fif
teen or sixteen men?
Far back, in the Middle Ages,
the monks were the newspaper
men, journalists and publishers.
The monks wrote the news, as it
was gathered by them from visi
tor!. How large a paper was
that? And how often was it sent
out?
If we assume that a monk
would write five of these letters
s day and that the monk re
ceived twenty-five cents a day
you observe that the letter was
about the equivalent of one col
umn in your county paper, and
that the news was necessarily
confined to rumors and gossip,
for the most part. Today even
the county paper carries news
from all over the world; and one
issue of your county paper is
larger than all the letters from
the Monastery in a whole year!
And for just two or three dollars
for fifty-two issues!
Now what is the result? More
people get jobs on the newspa
pers of the United States every
year than were engaged in writ
ing those letters from the dawn
of the Christian era to this very
day.
Suppose you had to pay for a
hand-made car, what would it
cost? Machinery supplants men
for a time, ’but so reduces the
unit cost that more people can.
buy the product. Finally several
times as many men are employed
as were formerly employed at
that kind of job.
This technological progress is
at the root of modern progress,
prosperity and good living.
There is a reducton in the
force, for a time, but in a few
years the old story of progress
is repeated.
Suppose we did not have type-
settng machines? Supposed great
paper were set by hand. And
suppose the papers were printed
by a Washington hand press!!
Suppose you went from room
to room and looked for a lamp
in each room, as well as a lantern
to take to the bam, instead of
touching a switch for all the
rooms, the yard and the bam!!
That’s what grandpa and grand
ma did.
a a a
Well now here's a pretty kettle
of fish After a concern has paid
its 1954 taxes, according to law,
shall Congress in 1955 increase
those 1954 taxes? I quote a great
National daily:
“By now we are all pretty
much inured to the Govern
ment’s sorry practice of chang
ing its tax rules against us in
mid-stream. But we have not
yet come up against the still
worse practice of changing today
the rules by which we paid our
taxes yesterday!
It’s bad enough to figure one
January that in the current year
you can, say, deduct $600 for
each dependent and then find
the following September that
Congress has reduced this to
$500, making you have to dig up
the extra tax money. That sort
of thing has happened in the
past with tax laws and probably
will again.
But suppose that Congress
should not only change the de
pendency rules for the current
after you had already paid your
year but for the year before also,
taxes. Would you think It either
just, or honorable, for the Gov
ernment to demand now that
you pay extra taxes on your 1954
income because the Government
in 1955 changed the 1954 rules?
Yet, in effect; that Is what Sec
retary of Treasury Humphrey
is asking Congress to do with
some of the tax provisions cover
ing 1954 income. And Congress
considering it good politics, is
disposed to go along.
Two particular provisions in
the tax law in 1954 are involved.
One says that a company would
not be taxed on income, such as
advance rental payments until
the income was actually earned.
The other permits a company to
set up non-taxed reserves to take
care of estimated expenses fall
ing due in later years.
The Treasury has decided that
these are bad privisons. They
cost the Treasury more taxes
than it figured on in 1954. It
wants them repealed.
More, it wants them repealed
not only for the present and the
future but it wants Congress to
repeal them now, in 1955, for the
taxes levied last year, 1954. It
wants to make every company
that computed its 1954 taxes on
these rules recompute its taxes
on the changed rules and pay the
differencei
Now whether these are such
‘loophoes’ as the Treasury claims
is a debatable matter; what the
Treasury loses one year it should
collect another because a tax
credit taken once is a credit that
cannot be claimed later. Yet be
that as it may — if Congress
thinks they should be repealed,
let them be repealed.
But what is this business of in
creasing 1954 taxes in 1955? If
Congress this year is going to
change the tax rates for 1954,
why not for 1953 or 1952 or any
year? If Congress can do it to
business, why not to you?
There is a prohibition in ourj
Constitution against ex post fac
to laws, which perhaps the Su
preme Court will remember if
Congress forgets. But it is not
the Consttution alone that argues
against this way of law making.
The Government owes a moral
obligation to its citizens that its
tax laws shall, for the duration
of their term, be fixed so that
every citizen shall know what
his obligation is. If the Govern
ment is to be capricious and de
cide tomorrow on yestrday’s tax
es no man will ever know where
he stands and the affairs of every
man will be reduced to confus-
Clemson Issues
Bulletin On
Pork Handling
A revised edition of Bulletin
77, Pork for Carolim Farmers,
is now being distributed by the
Clemson Extension Service. It
was prepared by A. L. DuRant,
leader, Clemson Livestock Ex
tension Work, Florence and R.
F. Wheeler, associate professor
of animal husbandry, Clemson.
Topics dealing with slaughter
ing of hogs and curing of meats
discussed in the circular include
the most desirable weight bogs,
best killing temperature, killing
and bleeding, scalding and clean
ing, dressing, cutting and trim
ming, curing, smoking and dry
ing, and ripening and aging
hams. The circular also contains
directions for canning pork, for
making sausage, scrapple, head
cheese, and pickled pigs' feet,
and for rendering lard and mak
ing soap.
The authors suggest that farm,
ers on family-sized farms learn
the art of slaughtering the hogs
they grow for needed pork,
lard, and pork products. They
pointed out that the constantly
increasing difference between
the value of livestock on the
farm and the retail price of meat
when purchased makes raising
hogs for the family’s meat of
greater importance than ever be
fore. It also emphasizes the im
portance of using proper meth
ods of conserving the meat by
curing, canning, and freezing.
“Pork is the most popular and
generally used of all kind of
meat on the farm.” the authors
state. "It tastes good to most peo
ple in both the fresh and the
cured state. Hogs can be produc-
lon.
Dr. Fred E. Holcombe
OPTOMETRIST
Offices at
200 Sooth Broad St
Phone «B8
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more diverse
lUone than
other meet afinpalt. The Else el
the oarcam Andr tty earn, with
which a large varied of attrac
tive products am ha pmand
and ooneerved from it make pork
suitable for the farm faqdly.
However, freeh pork is a highly
perishable product, Hie hogs
should be slaughtered, the car
casses chilled and cut, and the
meat nad its products handled
and conserved to that the maxi
mum namfcer ot food
result from
antaelt" they
Copies of the circular are avail
able at the offices of county
afenta andat the demaon Pub-
licationa Department
Cof Population
In This State
Jumps 25,000
Columbia.—The growing num
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