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■ at rrm join w. ■ f. DAVTP. «t tha post offlc* at Baruw*U, 8. aa tfond-clAAi roAttf. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: On« Year »1.M Six Month* SO Three Months — —- *W) (Strictly la AJtama.) THURSDAY, MAY 27TH, 19377 “More Common Sense." Under the Above caption, The News and Courier comments as follows on the recent increase of 16 cents a gal lon in the whiskey tax: "The increase of the whiskey tax from eighty to ninety-six cents, in ^Jhe Dorchester Eagle’s opinion, will *make bootlegging more Attractive. . .... If a majority of the people must have hard liquor, the best method for control purposes would be to let them have it at the cheapest possible price.’ That is sound reasoning. The Eagle is not denying that whiskey is a proper object of taxation, as soda pop is, but should not be taxed more than the legitimaU traffic will bear. One would not a (firm that the legisla ture would encourage moonshiners and bootleggers, but those manufac turers and traders are surely the friends of the poor man who drinks. A politiaian not the friends of the poor man should get out of politics. All men. rich and poor, should be taught that fooling with liquor is dangerous and may kill. Men who cannot be taught are he!pleee creatures/' We have it on good authority that the kacreaee w not to be pa seed on to by the wholesalers. and our further sues te that there has been no the retail petro since the be pr*ed too Your Tax Bill New York, May 21.—The tax col lector is perhaps the most imposing figure on the American scene today. Everybody talks about him; no one wants to see him; yet everybody meets him daily many time*. His total yaarly bill it estimated by the Twentieth Century Fund—a non political institution proclaiming no pet economic theory—at $12,600,000,- 000.00, the highest fib history. How much of it do you pay? It all depends on who you are and where you live. If you are the average person—this is virtually impossible because the average person is not believed! to ex ist—your annual bill is $100 for your local, State and federal government. You may never see a tax collecter, average man’s tax bill down by pay ing nuarly half of the federal tax bill before the war, now bring in only $400,000,000 a year, about 7 per cent. How much of each of these taxes you paydepends on whether you are a fanner, a salaried worker, a mer chant, a corporation official; it de pends on the amount of your income; it depends on the State and the com munity, in which you live. The 20th Century Fund experts es timated, for example, that under cer tain conditions that might be consid ered average, a New York farmer with a $2,000 income would pay more tax than an Illinois farmer with the same income. His federal tax would be $26 compared with the Illinoian’s $32, his State tax would be $44 com pared with the Illinoian’s $58, but his but that is your bill just the same. local tax would be $126 compared with You pay it in the prices of the food;the Illinoian’s $98. you eat, the cigarettes you smoke, the movies you see and the rent you pay. Of the $100, the biggest share goes to the federal government, which gets $6,600,000,000 of the tax collector's total. Local government gets the next biggest share, $4,500,000,000. The States take least, $2,600,000,000. The money goes to 175,000 different units of government, from the school board in your home town to the fed eral treasury in Washington. It comes from many sources, rang ing from your pay check to the house you live in. That boose with the lot it stands on, was responsible for the biggest slice of the whole tax pie, the Twen tieth Century Fund’s research ported after a two-year study. tte almost solely ea property tames, sad their bill la oae- third of the total. It ran » department; K pay* it lasUlb year sewers, R I te IP per mi their When all your taxes are rolled into one, the resulting $12,600,000,000 is estimated by the Institute of Distri bution—a research and propaganda organization financed by chain stores —to be greater than the nation’s food bill (set by the institute at $11,600,- 000,000 a year), its rent bill (set by the institute at $10,000,000,000 a year) or its clothing bill (set by the institute at $6,000,000,000 a year.) Approaching the problem from a different angle, the institute says $1 of every $4 earned by 75 per cent of the people is spent for taxes. It traces the tax burden of the aver age man from the cradle to the grave, beginning with soap for the baby’s akin to the post-mortem levy on hie estate. The figures are: For soap and tooth cleansers. 94.- 630,000 a year. Per medicine. ITS fee milk and a# life—“move Uses fee the rna predta foe the farmer." the inetr tuts stales. Fee meet. II rent taa on a 40 cent aa real Mar spread on the fund AM ed and shaped te the sect too. A Barber-Greens travel plant selected by the contractor for the purpose of mixing Che cement and soil. This was the moot expensive and time-consuming work of the en tire job. There were some changes required to adjust the machine to the handling of cement instead of liquid tar, but after these adjustments it proved entirely satisfactory. Another factor in the construction is the proper amount of moisture con tent in the soil. The soil can have moisture added to dampen it suffi ciently but there is no way to extract the moisture from the soil, therefore, Mr. Fuller, who is sole owner of the C. G. Fuller Construction Co., pur chased tarpaulins sufficient to cover a thousand feet or more in rainy weather. This proved a time and money saver, but even so there were times when work had to be entirely suspended. When rain threatened every man on the job had to heave to and spread the tarpaulins on the road- | bed immediately under constuction. The laying of the surface treatment | follows on the cement-stabilized base just as it does on the sandclay base. As noted before, this spread can be put on much earlier on this type base than on the old type base, which had to "cure” for a period of time before it was ready to take treatment. It ia also estimated by engineers that the saving will be considerable, not only in money but in time as well. Alva Darnold, superintendent for the Fuller Construction Co., was in charge of this first contract. He also had five foremen and 30 laborers the job with bias. Mr. Darnold I boon toasiacted with the comp*ay for years end has been la the < toon game thpangk several each vital changes la roedbutldtag. C. a FhOer, the owner, moeod la fcrnwall from OMo aosoral years ago iare that uaw baa laid ad aardbao-traaSed raada mi Caret taa. Necth Caret taa aad ether State* He alaa did some week n^kaa aaaasji K Mtm htm a MMp CmMMBl. O# ad the rheaga la read ad bee a war* been will •e 4a aaythiag iiasisfsir t>asaadl « ■ iMri tohammeroutacareei Fll II YEAH Fin EIEIIY IASMME FtCMClmSSe^HEAl % Tin thrill of (raduation . . - the long fisht upward toward Sueccaa. YES—IT TAKES ENERGY TO HAMMER OUT A CAREER! Today—CLAUSSEN'B BREAD Is "Alr-Condttionad"—adontillcal- ly coolod te dry. par*, washed air—then wrapped quickly at proper lemperatar*. CLAUS- SEN'S BREAD la aiwars razaa. If aa. tr We Are Offering very attractive prices in all our BEAUTY WORK Tested methods only are used in our shop. Nothing is left to chance. We use only the best. Far Ap9o.nlm.nt PHon. 43 Barnwell Beauty Shop m a 4 riertrw t new we b yards rhainaea working with Mrs. Laver were Mra H C. Creech. Big Fork. Mra Nick Croft. Hilda; ■rs. W P Morna. Morril; Miss Jane Meyer, Meyer’a Mill; Mrs Charlie Bown, Jr., Galilee; Miaa Elotse San ders. Oak Grove; Mtsa Virginia Hair, Long Branch; Mm. Walter Fowke, Boiling Springs; Mr*. James Bates, New Forest; Mrs. F. S. C. Finch, Elko; Mrs. Mary Maloney, Blackville; Mm. J. N. Folk, Pleasant Hill; Miss Belle Anderson, Dunbarton, and Miss Inez Creech, Kline. THE RADIO PROGRAM THAT'S DIFFERENT Hear true, exciting atorica about frontier daya, th* "Long Trail" and many othara. W1S Columbia Moa. W«d.. 12 to 12:15 p. m. C. F. Molair to the Far Aad 1ST awy pat. hot ft my they wtl OOOjm la IfBT. I per coat, ad the fed U gwveramewt a affffi _ The psyreN tax make* yotar baa sofftriaJ las collector, bast kts 1a this respect is picayune camp nth the fellow who fills your auto mobile st th* corner gasoline station. The gasoline tax is. in point of rev enue. the largest tax ia the country levied on a single article. It gives $200,000,000 to the federal govern ment, and between $600,000,000 and $700,000,000 to States and local gov ernmental units. And you pay it all to the filling station attendant as part of the price of gas. It remains for the motor vehicle registration tax, however, to reach the most persons in direct form. All the States have it. They collect $300,- 000,000 from it. It is paid by 15,- 000,000 to 20,000,000 of the thirty mil lion families in the United States. Your cocktails, highballs, Scotch and sodas account for 11 per cent, of the federal government’s taxes give Uncle Sam $60,000,000 yearly spend ing money, and the States get an- other $200,000,000. Cigars cigarettes and other forms of tobacco nick you and your fellow smokers for $550,000,000 in taxes a year; $500,000,000 federal and $50,- 000,000 State. The sales tax—on almost everything you buy—gets you in 22 States for a total of $400,000,000. The so-called "death taxes" levied on inheritances and on gifts intended to circumvent and the inhertance tax s» «ant to 1100.600,000 for theStat* sod $600,000,000 for the federal gov- •nd C, < > W We tW C. G. Fall Cos, mi Berwwell. was tW ceetract ea Frejart a tea aad a half-mi * i Ilea Jab south of Hampton, It the first contract ever awarded in tW world for a cement stabilised Wee. This new type base is th* latest dis covery of modern day road building. Experiments have been going on in the South Carolina State Highway De partment Testing Laboratory in Co lumbia as far hack as 1933, but the department did not let any road con tractors use it until it was developed. The mixture of cement with silt is ad verse to most known laws of engineer ing and the placing of the work in the hands of inexperienced and incompe tent road builders would have probab ly meant the waste of time and money. In a majority of the counties in this State the proper mixture of sand and clay can be had with very little expense, but in some sections, such as Hampton, the clay pits are so far from the road project that the hauling runs into too much expense. This new mixture, which will take from six to ten per cent, cement mixed with the regular soil in the roadbed, was designed to lower the cost of the foundation building. Another feature of the cement stabilized road base is that the setup does not have to "cure" for days and months as is the case of the sandclay and gravel bases here tofore used with the surface treated jobs. In the construction of this new type road bed the following precedure is used; TW untreated toil is tt scarified and then pulverised with a disc harrow until tW Knaps are small A mi tW material b that M mi UMt type »»•»> if ffffMif >i ooMMii tfl mayoe mi H la hUmptoo Road Stretch Ums New Cement B*oe Tea and a Half MO* Lank & bf BaraaeO Firm After CATTLE BMINC tgeeu pay liWruBy far btffb gvude ttvaatark lactnds ttesoSsrb la fmm m*rgm - THE RUZ : THEATRE BARNWELL. 8. C. MON.-TUES, MAY Jl-JUNB I FERDINAND CRAVAT. JOAN BLONDELL and ED. E. HORTON in "The King and the Chorus Girl MATINEE TUESDAY—4:00 P. M. WED., JUNE 2 — Bargain Dny MATINEE 10c—NITE 10c-15c WHEELER and WOOLSEY in ‘Mommy’s Boy' THURSDAY-FRIDAY, JUNE 3-4 JEAN HARLOW-ROBERT TAYLOR —IN— We Have Moved WE HAVE MOVED INTO NEW QUARTERS IN THE BUILDING FORMERLY OCCUPIED BY GEO. PEEPLES, OPPOSITE THE BAP TIST CHURCH, WHERE WE ARE BETTER PREPARED THAN EVER TO SERVE OUR MANY FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS. WE INVITE YOU TO VISIT US IN OUR NEW HOME AND, IN THE MEANTIME— “LET TED DO IT' ‘Personal Property’ I Plexico’s Dry Cleaners SAT, JUNE 5—MAT and NITE RICHARD ARLEEN in “It Happened Out West” ALSO SERIEL Barnwell, S. C. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ADVERTISE IN The People- Sentinel. LOOK at the date on the label of your paper and if your sub scription has expired, let us have a payment on your account