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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
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Caret taa. Necth Caret taa aad
ether State* He alaa did some week
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Fll II YEAH Fin EIEIIY
IASMME FtCMClmSSe^HEAl
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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