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Thursday, January 22, 1931
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AUGUSTA, GA.
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Would Tax Buses,
Trucks To Cover
Road Damage
Tax Commission, in Annual Report
Suggests Commercial Cars Pay
Bill—Would Take Property Tax
Out of Politics and Look In
to Surety Bonds all
Officials
Expenditures For School Purposes
List of Claims Approved by the County Superintendent of Edfu-
cation for the Month of November 1930
WILLINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2
CLAIM
DATE NO. PAYEE PURPOSE
11 1—75—Annie Lou Lankford, Salary —,
MT. CARMEL SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1
CLAIM
DATE NO. , PAYEE PURPOSE
11 8—77—D. J. McAllister, Transportation
11—25———D. J. McAllister, Transportation
(The State, January 16th.)
BORDEAUX SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 3
CLAIM
NO.
PAYEE
PURPOSE
DATE
11—18—86—Carolina Georgia Service Co., Fuel
McCORMICK SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 4
CLAIM
DATE NO. PAYEE PURPOSE
11— 4—70—W. E. Lake, Jr., Supt., Salary
11—15—81—Peoples Bank, Note
11—15—84—M. G. & J. J. Dorn, Repairs
11—is—85—Farmers Bank, McCormick, S. C., Note
11—22—88—Paramount Chemical Co., Fuel
11—22—91—Puritan Chemical Co., Supplies
11__25—93—Sullivan Hardware Co., Equipment
11—25—96—S. M. Price, Salary ^
11—29—97—Commissioners Public Works, Water a
BUFFALO SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 5
CLAIM
NO.
PAYEE
PURPOSE
DATE
11— 1—66—Howard Franklin, Salary
11— i—67—J. C. Talbert, Gas and Oil
11—21—99—Howard Franklin, Salary
11—29-100—J. C. Talbert, Gas and Oil and Rep.
BELLVUE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 6
DATE
CLAIM
NO.
PAYEE
PURPOSE
11—15—83—M. G. & J. J. Dorn, Tire and Tube
BOLD BRANCH SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 9
CLAIM'
DATE NO. PAYEE PURPOSE
11—11—80—J. G. Talbert, Gas and Oil
11—15—82—R. L. Faulkner, Gas and Oil
AMOUNT
____ $
101.00
AMOUNT
$
85.00
85.00
— - $
170.00
AMOUNT
$
10.75
AMOUNT
—- $
102.00
940.00
70.00
601.27
7.50
19.04
337.77
9.06
:hts
13.02
___ $ 2,099.66
AMOUNT
—- $
7.00
15.64
7.00
8.87
— $
38.50
AMOUNT
— $
30.00
44.00
— $
74.00
* ,
. AMOUNT
16.09
9.60
— *$
25.69.
Imposition of sufficient taxes on
passenger buses and freight ve
hicles using the highways of South
Carolina to cover the cost of re
pairing and replacing the roads
when destroyed, removal of the col
lection of taxes imposed upon gen
eral property from political influ
ences and the designation of some
state official to be charged with
the duty of requiring ample surety
bond from every public official in
the state handling public funds
are urged upon the 1931 general
assembly in the report and recom
mendations of the state tax com
mission.
“Both passenger and freight
trucks are using the highways of
the state for the purpose of carr
rying on a profitable business and
in our opinion the taxes now paid
by such carriers are not commen
surate with the benefit received,
nor the damage done to the roads,”
the recommendation prepared by
W. G. Query, chairman; Frank C.
Robinson and J. P. Derham, mem
bers, declares.
“Motor vehicle transportation is
in direct competition with railroad
transportation and the burden of
taxation on motor bus transporta
tion should be equalized with the
burden imposed upon railroad
transportation, bearing in mind
that the railroad companies have
constructed and maintained their
own road beds and tracks, on which
they are paying substantial taxes,
while their competitors, the motor
ery taxpayer to secure the money,
if possible, with which to pay the
taxes.”
“Enormous amounts of public
funds have been lost for the rea
son that surety bonds were not re
quired in amounts equal to funds
collected annnually by certain of
ficials who have been found short
in their accounts,” the commission
says.
“Some state official should be
definitely charged with the duty of
requiring surety bonds, ample in
amopnt, from every public official
in the state handling pu»Hc funds.
If this step had been taken years
ag;o the taxpayers in some of the
counties would not have had im
posed upon them additional taxes
because of the loss of public funds,
which could and should have been
safeguarded.”
All public accounts, the commis
sion contends, and not merely
some of the counties’ moneys and
state funds, should be safeguarded
when deposited in banks, by the
posting of collateral sufficient to
protect the state.
Insufficient time is given the
boards of assessors to the task of
assessing property, the commis
sioners declare. “We repeat recom
mendations which have been made
heretofore that sufficient time and
ample pay be given to assess all
property after a complete listing
has been secured. .
#
This complete listing of all prop
erty in the state is considered one
of the most important items in the
corrective measures of the. state’s
tax system.
“Even if sufficient machinery is
at hand for an orderly assessment
and equalization o£ property, with
out intelligent and complete infor
mation, it is impossible for any
board of assessors to reach fair
conclusions as to property values.”
The report tells of the litigation
carried on the first nine months of
1930 by J. Fraser Lyon, general
counsel, and representatives of the
attorney general’s office.
It reviews the decline in revenues
Dorn And Morrah On
Important Committee;
MORRAH ON WAYS AND MEANS
AND DORN ON SENATE FIN
ANCE COMMITTEE
vehicle operators, are using the j f 0 r the past year, attributing the
WIDEMAN SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 11
CLAIM
DATE NO. PAYEE PURPOSE AMOUNT
11__ l_68—Mrs. Avis T. Britt, Salary $ 112.70
. MILWAY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 13
claim .:
DATE NO. PAYEE PURPOSE AMOUNT
11— 1—64—Neil Steifel, Treas., Transportation ■_ $ 30.00
11—29—98—Neil Steifel, Treas., Transportation 30.00
TOTAL. $ 60.00
ROBINSON SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 14
CLAIM
DATE NO. PAYEE PURPOSE ‘ AMOUNT
11—22—92—Mary Abrams, Salary $ 103.46
DORNVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 15
CLAIM
DATE NO. PAYEE PURPOSE AMOUNT
11— 7—72—Zella D. Abercrombie, Salary L- $ 100.00
BETHANY SCHOOL DISTRICT NQ. 16
CLAIM
DATE NO. PAYEE PURPOSE AMOUNT
11— 1—63—E. L. Hollingsworth, Transportation $ 48.00
11— 7—73—Mary F. Remsen, Salary 100.00
TOTAL $ 148.00
LYON SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 17
CLAIM •' '
DATE NO. PAYEE PURPOSE AMOUNT
11—11—79—E. L. Hollingsworth, Transportation $ 8.00
11—22—90—Kathleen McKinney, Salary 102.00
TOTAL, $ 110.00
VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 19
CLAIM
DATE NO. PAYEE PURPOSE AMOUNT
11—11—78—I. C. Reams, Transportation $ 40.00
11—22—87—Mrs. Joe W. Hipp, Salary 110.00
TOTAL $ 150.00
WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 25
CLAIM
DATE NO. PAYEE PURPOSE ' AMOUNT
11— 4—69—W. McDaniel, Transportation $ 40.00
11— 4—71—L. V. Mayer, Salary 166.66
11— 8—74—Leacock Sporting Goods Co., Equipment 74.10
11— 8—76—B. F. Parks, Salary : 40.00
11—22—89—Paramount Chemical Co., Fuel 70.46
11—25—94—Fred Bradshaw, Salary 60.93
highways constructed and main
tained by the taxpayers of the
state.
“The loss of business on the part
of the railroads has decreased the
gross receipts and net income tax
es paid by them to the state and
will lessen the value of all their
property because of smaller earn
ing power, which will affect every
tax unit in which railroad proper
ty is located.”
Advocating discounts for advance
payment of taxes in October and
November and a substantial change
in the present laws governing the
collection of taxes, the commission,
seeks to remedy th^evil which
leaves a large amount of back
taxes on the books of the coun
ties each year.
“Thousands of property taxpay
ers in the state have not been able
to pay taxes promptly for the past
few years,” the commission says,
“but an investigation of the tax
rolls of the counties will disclose
the fact thaft thousands of taxpay
ers able to pay have not been re
quired to pay the taxes charged
because the officials charged with
the duty of collecting such taxes
have not enforced the collections.
“Recently our attention was call
ed to the fact that a taxpayer own
ing large properties had not paid
his property taxes for a period of
eight years, yet during the eight
year period had been doing a busi
ness on which an income tax was
paid. The failure to pay property
taxes imposed in a great many
cases is not due to inability to se
cure funds with which to pay taxes
but is chargeable directly to the
failure of the proper officials to
enforce the payment thereof.
“The accumulation or pyramid
ing of unpaid property taxes in a
few years will amount to as much
as the value of the property and
thus, in a great many cases, the
state and each sub-division of the
state government imposing taxes
loses by such procedure. We rec
ommend that the laws governing
the collection and or payment of
property taxes be changed by pro
viding for the payment of such
taxes during the month of October
at a discount of 2 per cent; during
the month of November at a dis
count of 1 per cent; during the
drop for the 1929 figures to , the
business depression that started in
the autumn of 1929 and gained
more force in the spring and sum
mer of 1930.
“We did not feel that decreased
tax collections have be6n due to
^ *
lack of proper administration of
the several lavfe on the part of this
department, as we find, upon
careful inquiry that tax collections
by the United States government,
as well as every state from which
we have .secured information, were
less than for 1929.”
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and one-fourth ounce of
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Better Milk
Cows Needed
The House Ways and Means coim-
'mittce elected as its chairman
Nevi T Ie Bennett of Marlboro county
at the balloting last Wednesday.
Bennett, one of the younger
members of the Hou$e, is a lawyer
and farmer of Bennettrville. He
told the committee that he believed
in strict economy and “relieving
the people of the tax burden” as
much as possible.
The Ways and Means committee
handles appropriation measures.
The important Ways and Means
committee which will draw up the
appropriation bill was named as
follows:
Melvin J. Ashley, Abbeville; R.
A. Babb, Laurens; James Belk,
Kershaw; Neville Bennett, Marl
boro; J. A. Boykin, Darlington;
W. R. Bradford, York; J. I. Can
non, Berkeley; L. H. Cary, Green
ville; George W. Chitty, Chester;
H. K. Cooke, Horry; L. C. Davis,
Georgetown; J. E. Edens, Richland;
B. R. Gantt, Aiken; Frank Hamp
ton, Jr., Richland; E. J. Jenkins,
Charleston; L. M. Jones, Claren
don; Arthur Kibler, Newberry;
Randolph C. Lee, Dorchester; W.
READ THIS YOU PESSIMISTS*
AND BUY A DOJXAR FOR 30 CTS*
(The Augusta Chronicle.)'
Of all the things.that have been
written in regard to the current
depression in this country and the
world, none have quite come up ta
the statement addressed to Ameri
can business men by Herbert N.
Casson, editor of the Efficiency
Magazine of London, and which
is sent to the New York Times by
William Matthew Sullivan. It is
so highly regarded by the Times
that it is printed in full and we
believe that if it were printed in
every daily and weekly paper in
the United States it would do more
to dissipate the gloom than, any
thing we have ever had.
Just read what Mr. Casson
to say:
“You are depressed. You think
you are crippled. You are afraid
of the future. You are full of
fears.
“You have half the gold of the
world and half of the machinery
and most of the automobiles and
all the skyscrapers.
“You have the greatest home
market in the world and the larg
est corporations that the wbrid has
ever seen.
“You are ruled more by ideas
and less by tradition than any
other people in the world. You
M. Manning, Sumter; W. P. Ma-1 have usually done what yoa
son, Oconee; J. M. Moorer, Colle-
ton; W. U. Morrah, McCormick;
Howard McCravy, Spartanburg;
W. A. McElveen, Florence; W. C.
Parham, Dillon; F. F. Rainsford,
Edgefield; George M. Reid, Ander
son; Sam Rittenberg, Charleston;
Allen M. Sapp, Lancaster; Joseph
Smith, Orangeburg; W. B. Smith,
Greenville; W. C. Smith, Barnwell;
F. S. Sprett, Jr., York; J. M. Thom
as, Allendale; A. E. Kinsley, Spar
tanburg; R. O. Whitaker, Green
wood; R. J. Williams, Marion; S.
T. Williams, Aiken.
The Finance committee was
named as follows: •
S. M. Ward, Georgetown, chair
man; Taylor H. Duke, Manning; R.
M. Jeffries, Colleton; Grover C.
Welch, Camden; W.- C. Hambrick,
Cherokee; G. B. Greene, Anderson;
Sheppard K. Nash, Sumter; F. D.
West, Abbeville; William L. Ruey,
Bamberg; M. G. Anderson, Horry;
Sam C. Hodges, Greenwood; I. T.
Campbell, York; Broadus Thomp-
on, Oconee; Edgar A. Brown,
Barnwell; Fay A. Desport, Fair-
field; Henry R. Sims, Orangeburg;
J. J. Dorn, McCormick; R. M.
Cooper, Lee.
X
THE QUARTER BAKED IDEAS
The present low average of the
Nation’s dairy cows is a serious
handicap to consumers as well as
to oroducers of dairy products,
^ays the Bureau of Dairy Industry.
United States Department cf Agri
culture. Because of the low pro
duction per cow, many dairy farm
ers are working for a very low
wage and are actually feeding their
cows at a loss. With fewer cows
and a higher average production
per cow the net profits of the av
erage glairy farm could be greatly
increased. It is estimated that the
average yearly production per cow
of the 22,500,000 milk cows in the
United States is 4,600 pounds of
milk containing 180 pounds of but-
erfat.
Eyes examin
ed. Spectacles,
Eye Glasses,
TOTAL. x $ 451.15
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of McCormick.
Personally appeared before me, W. H. Parks, County Superintendent
of Education and made oath in due form of law that the above is a
true and correct account of the expenditures of the Superintendent of
Education’s office to date, 3rd day of January 1931.
W. H. PARKS,
* County Superintendent of Education,
j. O. PATTERSON, Notary Public for S. C. * s f
uid Artificial £yes fitted without
month of December at par, with an Drugs, Drops or Danger,
extension of time to pay any de- HENRY J. GODIN
linquent taxes during the month
of January, with a flat penalty of
10 per cent added, and February 1
require the issuance of execution;
returnable within 90 days. By this
Optometrist!
956 Broad Street Augusta. Ga.
The Dillon Herald comments as
follows in a sample of the “sug
gestions” which some “refprmers”
manage to get into print:
“Somebody is always starting
something to take the joy out of
life. A man over in McCormick
county proposes a law that would
prohibit the state highway depart
ment from issuing an automobile
icense to a man except upon proof
Tom the county treasurer that the
man had paid all taxes assessed
against him and also a statement
from the bank that the man owed
t no money.
“But just what would happen :£
he general assembly could be in
duced to pars such a law? The au
tomobile dealers would have .to go
thought you could do.
“How can it be possible that a
progressive nation of 120,000,000 >
people can-be wrecked by the spec
ulations of a little handful of fools
in Wall Street?
“The prices that were forced too*
high had to come down. .Today all
the prices are too low.
“There is now a golden oppor
tunity for every man who has eyes
to see it.
“Dollars are now being sold for
30 cents. Practically every secur
ity in the United States is now be
ing sold at less than its value.
“The way to create a fortune is
to buy from pessimists. Pay your
money and take the risk. •
“Frick started his career by buy
ing coke ovens in the slump of
1873. Carnegie made " $300,000,000
by buying steel plants in the
slumps.
“Hundreds of fortunes have been
made by buying from pessimists.
Ye gods! what a chance there is at;
vhis moment! - \
“In five years from now mogt,
American business men will belong
to the T-Wish-I-Had-Club.*
“Then it will be too late to buy
a dollar for thirty cents. The op
portunities will be gone.
“When a horse balks, the balk:
is in his head, not in his legs. He
moves on when he thinks lie will.
“And when an American business;
man is depressed, the slump is in
his head. There is nothing seri
ous to prevent him from making
money if he thinks he Will.
“When fear rules the will, noth
ing can be done, but when a man
casts fear out of his mind* the
world becomes his oyster.
“To lose a bit of money is noth
ing, but to lose hope—dr lose nerve
and ambition—that is what makes,
men cripples.
“This silly depression has gone-
on long enough. Get rid of it. It
is inside of you. Rise and walk."
If after reading the above, any
one is bearish on America, if he
out of buslnacT and ninety per cent! thinks things have gone to the
of the projVo v ould have to go
back to walking. It wouM be a
quick way to reetore .v'omeritv in
South Carolina, but Ile'a'.K
doubts if the people n r an th^i
“bow wows” and business will not.,
come back, then we are sorry for
him. There is more sound sensei
and truth in what this mah Gas
con says than in a whole library
brand of prosperity. The neio it^jcf some advice we have read. He;
would rather live in the woodehed doesn’t cay also “throw away your
and suffer the pangs of hunger i hammer and get horn,” but he
than to give up the motor car. ime^ns just that anyway.
There is no doubting the fact that; x
the joy wagons have a powerful
hold on the people. And South
Carolina is not by itself.”
But proposals with just as much
economic merit have in years gone
by been made on the floor of the
house or senate in Columbia!
Here we have the proposal that
a man be refused a license tag for
his car until the has a clean finan
cial sheet with the other taxing
agencies. The license tag is one of
the state’s taxes. Also when the
owner of the car pays that tax, the
state puts him in position to op
erate his car with gasoline as fuel,
and collects a tax of six cents a
gallon thereon.—The State.
x
It is better to winter coniferous
reedlings by protecting them in the-
beds than by lifting and storing
them, say horticulturists of the U.
S. Department of Agriculture. Ini
late fall, mulch the beds lightly
with pine needles, leaves, or similar
material that is free from weed
seeds to guard against lifting or
heaving of the roots by freezing
and thawing. Protect the seed
lings from rabbits and mice dur
ing the winter. * Early spring is;
usually the best time for trans
planting. Some kinds of seedlings
may be large enough—from 3 to 6<
inches—to transplant the first sea-
You may laugh at your troubles ages. When the old mare got
method "some 'incentive ^will *be it’s not always wise to get gay balky ° Vender hwfbut tote’!
fered for the early payment of tax- ! l ' nem - bad business with an automobile.
es, thus relieving interest payments j X
on money borrowed in anticipation I A man # may have babies named
of tax collections, while 10
son, but slow-growing species such-
The old days had their advant- ‘ spruce and P ine ma y r «> uire
wo or more years in the seedbed.
X
Ask any man who has become
per after him, but he’s never really wealthy and he will tell you mak-
The biggest problem in this coun-
ry is to keep the times and the*
people both good.
x
__ , __ , , _ _ Now that science has made wat-
cent penalty added January 1 will great until there is a cigar given import- erproof matches, it is only a ques-
. , I, v. i t J j. « ,ance, but they all get that way af- tion of time until they get around:
be sufficiently heavy to induce ev- his name. ter they make it ^o milk ,y & u *™“**‘