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Sends Open Letter j To General Assembly i f Hon. W. ireorord Moore, prominent Columbia citizen, haa addressed the following open letter to the legis- 1 lator? of South Carolina: "Gentlemen: ur the several recommondations before you for the accomplishment of equitable economic meas-( ures during the present legislative session, two In particular seem to mo] of the most direct and widespread interest and urgency, to wit: I Ml. The allowance of a deduction in South Carolina Income Tax Returns of Income taxes paid to the Fed-1 eral Government during the tax year reported: or, in other words, the rescinding of existing double taxation, heretofore of no great material Importance but now of so substantial and vital a nature as almost to constltute and interfenence with the national program by Its obvious injustice. "2. The allowance of a deduction in South Carolina Income Tax Returns of gasoline taxes, both Federal and state, paid by taxpayers during the tax year, which provision would have the effect of providing a deductible allowance in Federal returns' of such state taxes paid. "By far the <more important and ob- j x iously urgent of these proposed measures is the first, which, involving no' question of excises, presents a clear case of double taxation, or a tax on a tax, which tbo Federal government has always avoided and which even In Its present llfe-and-death needs it continues to avoid. "I believe that if this situation is not corrected in advance of the operation of the now and mouutainous provisions of the Federal Income tax laws, irreparable damage may be done to the morale of South Carolina taxpayers; and that in face of the emergency requirements of the national government, no step could be taken that would be more Just and more patriotic. "I therefore urge your vigorous support of the proposed measure indicated in paragraph 1 above, and your careful consideration of that indicated in paragraph 2 in connection with the state's financial ability also to include this equitable allowance." Columbia, Jan. 27, 1942 BaronDeKalb Scores With Nifty Booklet The pupila of the Baron DeKalb high school, commercial department, are to be congratulated upon a recent folder which has Just been Inaued to the members of the Camden Klwania club and carries on the cover a Klwania design, also the year "1942" j and the Klwania slogan "We Build." I The little book carries a complete roster of the Klwania club members, listing all officers and directors. A page Is devoted to "The Objects of : Kiwanis" while the membership roster Mats the name of each club memj her, his address, occupation, nlck, name, religious affiliation, favorite eport, name of nativo state, married ior single, avocation and phone number. | Then follows a page listing all committee assignments, a list of all Klwania clubs of the state, officers of the district lieutenant governors and officers of Kiwanls International. There is an added page which has l)H?-n left blank for notes. BOY SCOUTS' RANKS GROWING I -f|i ^p The ?bovc poster In colors, bow tela* displayed all over the country, announces Boy Scoot Week with the slogan "Strong For America." Boy Scoots everywhere fat the nation have taken on and are a seaming extra assignments from Uncle Sam to do their part In the defense of America. Boys It years of age and over who are not Scoots and who wish to share In winning the war by doing these "Good Toms" shoold get In touch with the nearest eftee of the Boy Scoots of America. I IMPORTANT PUBLIC NOTICE I United States Government Defense Industries need I the following right now: I SCRAP IRON, SCRAP TIN, SCRAP I METALS, RAGS, SCRAP TIRES, I SCRAP TUBES, OLD AUTO BATI TERIES. I Full Market Prices will lie Paid in accordance With the j < I 0PM Ruling by? CAMDEN IRON & METAL CO. I | I J | Telephone! 600 and 677 Camden, S. C. Weekly News Letter From Liberty Hill Liberty HtU. ? "<>, 3.*?A phone me* j sage on Sunday morning to A. C. J rureton announced the death thai ( morning of Her J B. Jone*. whose tteriou* illness was told In this coh j urnn last week. Mr. Jones, a retired B*pt tilmTulaler. was W yi&ars Old.1 4^id had been sick for several week*. . but became seriously 111 last week, j since Which time his daughter. Mrs. j A C\ Cureton, had been at his bed- j glde Funeral services and burial j was at (.'healer ou Monday at eleven . o'clock. Attending from here -were A. C. Cureton. John Helton Curelon, U. C. Jones. W.%K. Cunningham; Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Curelon. Jr., of Dil Ion: Miss Annie Mae Cureton. of Hishopville. The Kev. Mr. Jones was well known and highly esteemed here where he had many friends and relatives. and before his declining health, he occasionally visited here and preached In tho Presbyterian church to appreciative hearers. News has been received of the birth of a daughter to Ensign and Mrs. James W. Thompson, of Charleston. Ensign Thompson is a nephew of L. j> Thompson and Mrs. E. J. Cunningbam and Mrs. C. I). Cunningham, of , our village. Stephen McCrae, South Carolina University student, spent the week end with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. T. P. McCrae. W. D. McDowall and sisters, and Mrs. L. S. Proctor, of Camden, visited friends here Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. 8. H. Cunningham and daughter. MIbb Adella, were guests of Mrs. George Cunningham, of Florence, on Wednesday. Miss Mary Cunningham accompanied them on the trip. L P. Thompson of the SanteeCooper project, spent Sunday at home with his family. Mrs. T. P. McCrae. popular music teacher of the Heath Springs school, has been confined to her home for several days by illness. It seems by the action of the South Carolina representatives last week that they have done according to the mandate of the voters in the last election. Wonder what the senate will do? The second cold wave of the winter Is with us. ' The mercury stood-about 16 Monday morning. Fine Meeting Is Held At Bethune An enthusiastic civilian defense meeting was held in the auditorium of the high school at Bethune last Thursday afternoon. Mayor B. W. Brannoa presided at the meeting and was assisted by Mrs. Douglas Mays, who is chairman of the Bethune enrollment office. Colonel E. C. VonTresckow. who s director of the Kershaw county civilian registration unit of the county defense coucil, was one of tho speakers and emphasized the necessity of all men. women and children enrolling and participating in war defense activities. Colonel VonTresckow went on to explain the various phases of the civilian defense program and his address was greeted with much interest. Mrs. VonTresckow. who was also present at the meeting, spoke at length upon the activities of the American Red Cross, particularly as it embraces the Kershaw county chapter. The anti-hoarding order of the United States Treasury brought in more than *24.000,000 in gold coin, gold certificates, and bullion. COMMENTS on men ano things (By Spectator) Colo L Bleats*. long a stormy figure j in the political life of South Carolina ! parsed a%?ay on January JfO. Tiro*; la! a great healer and has healed roost I of the *ouudrf; ;th** bitter and in-' tense factionalism provoked by Mr. ' Ulease. ami what was called (Mease- j Ism. South Carolina has produced i Thy?*? Bjcir who. since the i'lvti-Wsfr^ virtually douiiuated the political' scene?-Wade llaroptou, Ben Tillman i and Cole Illease. Hampton redeemed I the state from radicals and carpet- 1 baggers; Tillman made the small tar-' mer poIincSTiy conscious and demt-* naut; Illease aroused the cotton mill j operatives and made them a heavy ! influence in elections. Mr. Blease was a political tighter j who believed in attacking the other] side with all the weapons he had. . He was a magnetic figure and swayed I the crowds. His political victories were due to his personal appeal and the power of a vigorous and compelling ktylelwhk*^ moved the masses. Mr. illease never rode on anybody's band-wagon, but drove his own wag on. He wes a picturesque figure and a dramatic one in our state life. Notwithstanding all the energy of his vituperation Mr. illease was a man of warm heart and generous sympathy. Toward the close of his eventful life he enjoyed the regard and esteem of bis old foes, all of whom mellowed with age and found a fellowship in mutual good will. The general assembly has before it a bill to allow quarterly fiayments of income taxes, as well as a bill to create a freight rate bureau. Botb of these measures are highly desirable. By all means measures should be adopted to allow deductions from state income taxes the income taxes paid the Federal Government, and the gasoline taxes paid to the state. Many states have such an arrangement and It should be given to us. As a matter of fact, failure to give credit to us when other states allow this credit would seem to indicate that our representatives are not alert to our needs and rights; I know It is a case of In- 1 difference. This has continued year after year, virtually unchallenged, yet it would be so easy and simple to correct a manifest unfairness. SurelySouth Carolinians are entitled to ev- ' ery consideration and deduction ac- ' corded the citizens of other states. The National Cotton Council of American has been In annual session In Jackson, Mississippi. This great organization is composed of all the cotton Interests, from producers to spinners. Its magnificient effort to popularize cotton goods and to create new uses for cotton is largely responsible for the heavy domestic consumption, which has maintained the price. Out of a crop of eleven million bales our domestic consumption rose to more than ten million bales?an all-time high. / Spectator has sent some notes of his trip through the country to Jackson, Mississippi. Here they are: Man will make his home in strauge places. Down in steep valleys of Tennessee are homes. You wonder how they ever get out. Well, miles after miles, up, up, up, down, down and on and on stretch the miles of rolling land, but more people live in the fissures of rock in Tennessee than use this rolling land, you Just can't account for people and their taste. Coming from Marshall, North Carolina, to New Port, Tennessee, ono develops a "crick" In the neck from constant twisting and turning, have come the length of South Carolina. across North Carolina, clean through Tennessee, and now the length of Mississippi. Memphis is in the corner of three states?Tennessee, Mississippi and across the river is Arkansas. This country from Memphis to Jackson, Miss., must be the Great i Western Reserve I studied about as a boy?reserved for the next'genera- * tion for this generation is not using much of It I spent the night here, coming thru the mountains and hills of South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee. Here I am at the very extreme of Tennessee, on the bank of the Wolf River and looking across the island to the great Mississippi river. Memphis is on a high bluff, but does not operate on that Idea. It is the greatest cotton center, unless New Orleans be ahead of it. I always enjoy coming to Memphis. Coming from Harrlman here yesterday I thought Tennessee must be thousands of miles wide. At Jackson, Tennessee. I asked a man how the farmers made a living. He said "on hog and hominy." ' "But how?" I asked. "By eating what they make." But what puxtles me is that the farmers here have better homes than ours. I'm always being reminded as I read or travel that we South Carolinians have been fed chock full of bunk. Month after month the Manufacturers Record has published statements proving that we are not a favored state; on the contrary, we get the short end of everything. Until I came to this clty?Jackson. Mississippi?I did not even think it could be spoken of in the same breath aa Charleston or Columbia. Think of my astonishment at seeing a post office which makes Columbia and Charleston appear like a Bmall town, so far as the Federal building is concerned. And, mark you, we are supposed to enjoy so much favor in Washington! Well, COMMENT Continued these people must enjoy twice as much favor! .We South Carolininans are "in the bag." and because of it we get crumbs, but with such a fanfare of trumpets as makes it appear that we are the salt of the earth. Maybe so?but without savor. Well, here is Jackson, the capital of Mississippi; and the cleanest looking town I ever saw. It reminds me of a trip I made once in a British Sunbeam from Lille to Rotterdam. We visited Brusselif overnight and] gave Antwerp a liberal inspection, but Belgium and France look much alike, except for the sand dunes on the Belgian coast. When we crossed the line into Holland everything looked different, from cows, countryside, windmills to women. Almost at once we entered the little city of Breda, which looked spick and span as though it had been finished, washed ^ and occupied Just the day before. So with Jackson; it looks clean, fifteen or twenty high buildings are new; the; approach to the city from Memphis was a treat. I How do they support the fine ap-] pearance? Well, 111 Inquire. Somebody must have money or a long line of credit. w I think our legislature has made a ^ good start. The leadership In the house was certainly effective, for which much credit is due Speaker Blatt, Chairman Winchester Smith, Claude Taylor and others. Over on the senate side Mr. Jefferies has been capable, resourceful and steady in carrying out his program With such a really fine start, I believe the Legislature .could carry out the program I mentioned last week. Here' it is: General appropriation bill, without special deficiency bills. Tho billions required by the national government make it timely and desirable to retrench in state services. Authorize the use of any surplus as additional, but temporary, aid to the school districts, but only on condition that dollar for dollar the local district taxes shall be reduced. _ . Clear the road of obstacles to our development by regulating awards of punitive damages. Organised ness does not presume to aay what should be done; but let something be done by all means. Let the collective experience, wisdom and sagacity of ths legislature produce a bill which they Will enact Into law. * ~T Repeal the one mill state property tax and provide that all prop taxes shall be levied in the res pec counties on1 valuations determined each county for Itself, all taxpaj being treated equally. Ratify the amendment for Bien | Sessions, extending the terms of i I resentatives and senators to four six years respectively. Authorise the Budget Cornmin to act as a central purchasing or p determining agency for all state i vices, institutional and department i Provide for a state-wide traffic rate bureau. ( To amend the law so as to li deduction of Federal income tax | ments from taxable < income for si Income tax. I To amend the law so that gaao taxes paid may be deductible J taxable Income, whether for stat? Federal purposes. , Some of those matters are now fore the house; others are pendlflj both senate and house. We have many able men in our| lie service; they could easily ? *hat program into law. I am in Jackson attending the tional Cotton Council. 1 have seen the others from South Card but I am expecting: Wyndham Manning, from Sun Alex Oliphant, of Chester; J. ? Drake, of Anderson; H. Gordon 1 na, of Columbia; J. B. Caldwell Spartanburg; Edwin Malloy, of i raw; Earle Stall, of Greenville. 1 ert R. Coker, of Hartsville, is a J president of the council and Fred Symmes, . of Greenville, is chair of the committee on research. I Murphy, of Columbia, is also expec (as is W. M. Agnew, of Donalds. CARD OF THANKS Mrs. Ernest K. Gregory and < dren wish to thank their friendi kindnesses and sympathy shown' ing the illness and at the dead their husband and father. ' S' W* "^tHb /,?'. '* THUMBS UP FOR BONDS AND STAMPS! This war! poster, illustrating: how Americans can help the air forces to victory, is being: displayed in the windows of 500,000 of the Nation's retail stores where Defense Stamps?in denominations from 10 cents to $5?are being sold. This is one of a series of human-interest posters being prepared to remind the public of its part in the war effort. To relieve A ? T\ O Misery of lj U AJ U /T /T /I TABLET? OOO hos^DVOT. COUOH DROP? ' Try "Rub-My-TIsm**-# Wonderful STATE THEATKI KERSHAW, S. C. I FRIDAY, FEBRUARY <fl "THE PITTSBURGH Klfl Billy Conn?Jean Parker J SATURDAY, FEBRUARY! "ARIZONA CYCLONE* I Johnny MacJ Brown SATURDAY, FEBRUARll LATE ,SHQW-rl?'*B "BURMA CONVOT'l Charles Blckford - Ankara J MONDAY and TUESofl FEBRUARY 9?10' "SUN VALLEY SERENADE*! Sonja Heine?John P*J*mI WEDNESDAY, FEB* "TARGET FOR TONIC* Documentary ] THURSDAY, FEE 4 "GREAT CUNT j it Laurel and Htfdf I ADMISSION: 1 Hatlnea, ?0i gum