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, $ Thursday, October 24, 1957' ./ THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Ekvea WASHINGTON AND "SMALL BUSINESS” It wlU b« Interesting to see what happens at the public hear* togs on tax revisions by the House Committee on Ways and Means, called by Chairman Jere Cooper (D., Tenn.) for January 7th. Taxes are getting te be a lot Ilka the fa-f remark on weather, to the extent that eve ryboiy, talks abont them, bnt no-J body does any thing abontl them. • • • Currently, a| Senate Com- c.W. Harder mittee la holding hearings around the nation on the Impact of present tax rates on the health and growth of small business. Such sessions are almost'tanta mount to inquiring of a conven tion of bishops what their atti tude is in regard to sin. O 0 o Obviously, there Is a need for some tax relief for small busi ness, if small business Is to grow, or even compete. . • * —' s When hearings were held on the amendment to the bill ex tending present corporate taxes Introduced by Sen. Fulbright, there was ample testimony to the damage that unrealistic taxing policies is doing to small, inde pendent business. George Burg er, vice president of the National Federation of Independent Busi ness, presented the case very strongly based on nationwide vot ing by the organization’s mem bership. o*o Tet, this amendment was de feated la the Senate 52 to U despite the fact that during the last election, the platforms of both major parties pledged tax relief to small business. * * * And it is difficult to establish that government is so pinched ® t BoiIbm, iW C W 11 SON H A M 1) I k for Money it cannot permit small business to withhold enough prof its to finance expansion. * * * The facts are that ever since IMS, government bureaucracy has grown at a steady pace, la IMS there were 2,S55,7M federal clvlllaa employees drawing down pay touting W,176,414,SO*. By last year this had swelled to a tout of 2,663,314 drawing a total pay of 911,673.632,606. * o * Thus, an almost doubling of the federal civilian payroll in eight years is not a situation that presents encouragement. * * * Sen. Harry Byrd (D., Va.) has often sUted that U reduce Uxes, government expenditures must first bo reduced. The administra tion has taken stand a balanced budget should come first. * * * Probably both viewpoints are right * o * But It Is also obvious that un less the axe Is swung hard on federal bureancracy, nothing will ever happen. * * * A business that keeps borrow ing money in order to hire more and more people is not destined for a happy future. * * * And a government which keeps sapping the vigor of free enter- prise in order U keep hiring more people Is following equally disastrous course. 0*0 This, this constant and con sistent inquiry into the harm unrealistic tax [ cies is doing to small Independent enterprise gets to be almost ridiculous. * 0 0 There Is a time for Ulk and there Is a time for action. There has already been sufficient Ulk. Now Is the time fer action. The doctor who keeps talking to his patient about his growing can cer, but never ordering surgery, soon has a dead patient. FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Oietnson College Information Specialist EAT TURKEY Even we poor folks can eat tur key often now, for jt is one of the cheapest meats. Yes, cheaper than weiners or bologna, as our- turkey specialist, Charlie Risher, points out Our growers have dorie a fine job of improving their breeding and feeding, and are now making tur key meat cheaper and more ef ficiently than in years past. But as good as they are, they can’t make anything on ’em at prices that have prevailed for some time now. Just cutting the slices a little thicker or eating it a little oftener can help the turkey situation a lot. The use of turkey meat has in creased a lot in recent years, since we passed from the old grasshop per stage to the meaty stall-fed bird. But it hasn’t been enough to take the expanded production. The Look how the Irish potatoes, for instance, have changed. They used to leave the farm in barrals, then sacks, and now as finished prod ucts in some cases. I have a friend in Maine who is a large potato grower. He sells his entire crop now as French fries. And his move when others don’t. Processed pota toes like chips, French fries, can ned, and so on has increased 900 per cent since 1940. It is traditional that the produc er of raw products doesn’t usually fare so well. Processing charges are added to finished products and passed on. So the better we can prepare a product for the kitchen the better chance w f e have of mak ing the most out of it. The price of the raw product usually varied greatly. But that for processing and packing it is rather fixed and sure. So, if you only get the raw turkey Interest, of the country p , rodu ? pnM - yo " T m ,or a lo * tried to get together and rnnkh oi°‘ I T ,!!1 “"VT’ 5 _ . reasonable reduction in production' 1 knou ,‘ ha ' be 'amed out in line with prospective demands. «> But th« more of the In South Carolina our growers cut 3 per cent under last year’s turkey production. But most other areas increased theirs, giving us a 5 per cent -increase in turkeys this year over 1956. So it looks like a long hard winter for the turkey grower, but a good one for the rest of us. For our dol lars will likely continue to buy a lot of turkey for some time to come. Thinjc of it, once a holiday treat, now the cheapest meat! And we are told it is a high energy, non fattening meat, too. PROCESSED FOOD Fewer and fewer foods go from the farm direct to the kichen now There are all sorts of processing. />re-packaging, chilling, freezing, cooking, etc., of foods now before they reach the kitchen. preparing and processing we. can done on the farm and in local es tablishments the better. For those added values and payrolls help the whole community, including the farmer. * * * THIS INSECT HELPED Back in late August the cotton leaf caterpillar did a lot of good at places by completely defoliating cotton. At a few places it appeared too early and had to be poisoned. But in most cases the brood came just at the right time. They clean ed up every cotton leaf in whole townships and ev^n that little trash at the base of the bolls, too. County Agent Jackson told me they were worth a half million dollars cotton growers of Williams burg They had the most complete job 1 saw. - Those worms eat nothing but cotton. If there was a cockleburr ' Agent Ja i Vasily- wo . to the co LAURENS COUNTY e o, 9 "C O £ School Special School Ronds School Deficit Board Educ. 1656-57 Total 18 34 1 53 18 30 T 4 1 53- ) 18 38 V* 561 18 42 60 includes: ordinary county, 9 mills Tax Books Open Oct, 1 The tax books of Laurens County will open for pay ment of the following: taxes: Laurens No. 55 Laurens No. 56 Greenville No. 52 Ware Shoals 51 (County-wide bonds, 8 mills; hospital, 1 mill—total, 18 mills). V (Mauldin-Simpsonville-Fountain Inn Water District levy, 13 mills). Every male b^tween the ages of 21 and 60 years, who is not physically disabled is required to pay $1.00 poll tax. Tax books open October 1,1967, and will remain open without penalty through December 31, 1957. Taxes will be collected through April 15, 1958, wjth penalty added, and will go into execution April 15, 1958. The following penalties will be collected: January, 1 per cent; Feb ruary, 2 per cent; March, 3 per cent; and from April 1 to Aprtl 15, 7 per cent. SAM M. LEAMAN . county treasurer stalk, soybean or bunch at grass in the cotton field, it stayed there un touched. But not a leaf of cotton remained. i. Our insect man Nettles tells me this insect has to come each year from South or Central America. It can’t stand- the winters here. It flies here in the moth stage when prevailing winds are right. An early hurricane will often bring them soon enough to do damage to cotton before it is ready for defoli ating ~But-whenthey--hit-eot just at the right time, as they did on vast areas in the Low Country this year, they do the finest defoli ating job you ever saw. * • • BOYS ARE THAT WAY We really hated to go to Sunday school as kids. One reason was that they made us wear shoes. And most of the year they burned our feet, as we went gloriously un shod from the last heavy frost of spring until the first freeze of fall. With the men sitting out there under the trees talking, it was pun ishment when they called us kids in for Sunday school. Hie women folks and small children had al ready gone in. Another thnig that bothered me inside the church was the red" wasps. They were always there. Shut up all week, they were still flitting about, apparently trying to get out when we were in there. And even with windows open, they’d mess around on the top sash, hit the glass, and fall and swoop all around' us, keeping me uneasy all the fTme. Even in the winter there was no release from this. It was worse, for the warmth from the stove thawed the hibernating crea tures out a bit and they’d zoom crazily about and light on anything, including us! After going through the exercis es,^'responses, and singing, then we’d retire to our classes. We had no classrooms. Each group just took up a different place there in the church. With about eight teachers talking to different age groups at the same time, it was a sort of battle of voices. I can’t say I ever got much out of it. And I was always afraid the teacher would ask me a question, and oc casionally she did. However, I don’t recall ever answering one. It wasn’t always because I didn’t know it either. I was just scared to speak out. We had about 10 minutes be tween Sunday school and church proper. We sure enjoyed that, and it seemed short. The playing of the organ was again the signal to enter for othe service. The men were always the last to go ill. They straggled in during the first hymn; only the few who helped in the choir came in at the start. By the the men, too, were all in. Those who couldn’t get along without chewing tobacco sat by the win dows. Next week we ll finish this little excursion b a c k to the country church of 40 to 50 years ago. EVERYDAY COUNSELOR By Dr. Herbert Speagh The time to take out fire insur ance is before the house catches on fire. The longer I continue this col umn, the more requests come in for prayer and for help from those in trouble, and the more I am im pressed with the fact that so few strengthen themselves spiritually WEAK from aftor-effocts of COLDS-FLU 'VIRUS, SORE THROAT? for the emergencies that are bound to come. It is a human weakness to live right up to our resources The ma jority are only a few weeks from relief. If our income were stopped suddenly today, not many of us would be able to go long without help. Stop a minute and think about that. t *' 7 Few of us are prepared for those times when life seems to fall in. The same resources in the bank ers secure help, have been avail able for us, but we did’ not take the time to make them ours Sud denly there comes a great need, and we don’t know how to meet it. In the great stock market crash of 1929 hundreds were caught, sold out and ruined, because they did not have the m o n e y to protect themselves. Many a business has gone under because there was not capital en ough to carry over a lean period, or because no reserves had been set up against such a happening. The same thing happens to the little man. the wage earner. He spends up his income as fast as he makes it. He may go further, and spend beyond it by installment! buying He has laid up nothing; against the “rainy day ” Then he loses his job, .sickness or some oth er emergency comes and he is in serious trouble « » The only way to get ahead finan-| cially is to spend less than you Ho who has saved can Lake that we have become so self-cen-' tered that we v ‘have starved our! souls. 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