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Thursday, February 8, 1934 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH GAROLUVa « McCORMICK MESSI Published Every Established Jane EDMOND J. Editor a; Entered at the P< Cormick, S. C., the second class. { Extend Cotton Sign-Up Date PROGRESS OF CAMPAIGN IN STATE MOST SATISFACTORY —SAYS HAMILTON Your Income Tax FORMS FOR MAKING RETURNS Japan’s Happiest Girl SUBSCRIPTION — Strictly CasJ One Year Six Months THroo Month* Forms for filing returns of income for 1933 have been sent to persons who filed returns last year. Failure j to receive a form, however, does Clemson College, Feb. 3.—Though ! not relieve a taxpayer of his ©bli the sign-up camoaign for the cot- nation to file his return and pay ton acreage reduction has made ^ ax on time, on or before most gratifying progress through , March 15 if the return is made on January in this state, the extension ; calendar year basis, as is the of time to February 15 gives time i t ‘ ase with most individuals, for a closer checking of all growers | Forms may be obtained upon re- and for offering each one the op-1 Quest, written or personal, from lif mm * * ABRAHAM LINCOLN • - * . . -T' f Qn February 13. arm versary of the birth of Ab rati am Llhce’n, we are offered the natural and ap- pfopila-e occasion to pay homage to this great national hero. 1. ©thing that we might say or clo will add to the greatness of this noble leader. His character and his deeds are written indellibly in the records of our great country. Ours is the privilege to pay homage and perpetuate the memory of the man. Lincoln is aptly termed the sa viour of our nation. His was the great task of Molding together a nation that was divided against it self, friend . against friend and countryman against countryman. Animosities and differences have long ago been forgotten now and the entire nation can behold Lin coln in the true light of his ideals. This anniversary of his birthday is a fitting time to reconsecrat ourselves to the ideals which were his guiding pov/er to strong leader ship and undying fame. x portunity to sign the contract, and for working out necessary details, rays R. W. Hamilton, assistant to Director Long. “We have already under contract the offices of collectors of internal revenue and deputy collectors. Persons whose net income for 1933 was derived chiefly from salary or wages and was not in excess of r sufficient acreage to guarantee $5,000 should make their returns the success of the voluntary con- on f° rm 1040A, a single sheet. Per- 1 ■ trol program in this state”, Mr. Hamilton states, “blit now we can not only sign up more nearly IDO per cent of the growers but we can oroperly adjust any complication, that have arisen as to some con tracts’”. A demand for lowering the nini- sons whose net income was in ex cess of $5,000, or, regardless of amount, was derived from a busi ness, profession, rents or sale of properiy, are required to use a aiger form, 1040. Failure to use the proper form presents difficul ties to both the taxpayer and the TOKYO: . . . She is the happiest girl in Japan. Her name is Shigeko Kiyohara, 18 years old. She has been selected governess of the infant Crown Prince, an honor which as sures her high respect for the rest of her life. mum per acre poundage by farm- Bureau of Internal Revenue ers who wished to co-onerate but found themselves barred by ths 100 pound limit, was one cause of th-D decision that cotton reduction con tracts offered to the Secretary of Agriculture would be received up to and including February 15, 1934. j-ncreforc, it is emphasized that a taxpayer engaged in a business or profession from which he derived a net income of less than $5,000 is required to use the larger form. The return must be filed with Easy Pleasant Way To LOSE FAT How would you like to lose 15 pounds of fat in a month and at the same time increase your en ergy and improve your health? How would you like to lose yo’ 1 " double chin and your too promi nent abdomen and at the sam- Early Campaign Clean-Up Speeds Cotton Payments Prompt clean-up of the cotton adjustment campaign in order that contracts may be cleared for acceptance at the earliest possible date will speed up the delivery of first payment checks under the program, according to Cully A. Cobh, chief of the cotton section of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Checks cannot be sent to growers until the campaign is completed and the contracts are approved by local committees and accepted by the Secretary of Agriculture. Therefore the continued full co operation of growers and local committemen is urged by Mr. Cobb to help get the checks out on time.' “It is the plan of the adminis tration to have first rental pay ment checks reach growers in time to help finance planting costs on the 1934 crop”, said Mr. Cobb. “The first rental payments should help farmers handle their planting and other early costs in connection with the current crop. The second rental payments should reach the field in time to be a great-assist ance in meeting operation costs at picking time; while the ‘parity’ payments are scheduled to be in the hands of cotton growers next winter.” /iccuracy and completeness of farmers’ past production state ments, together with any needed evidence to support these state ments, will facilitate the work of the collector of internal revenue A ruling announced January 30 | for the district in which the tax- j time make your skin so clean an by the * Agricultural Adjustment payer has his legal residence or | clear that it will compel admire. Administration specifically reduces principal place of business on or, lien? the minimum lint production per before midnight of March 15, 1934J Get on the scales today and "cr acre requirement from 100 pounds;The tax must be paid in full at how much you weigh—then ge* a- to 75 pounds, thus making land the time of filing the return or in 85 cent bottle of Kruschen Salts which produced an average of over four equal installments, due on or which will last you four weeks 75 pounds of lint per acre luring before March 15, June 15, Septem- the base period eligible for inclu- ber 15 and December 15. sion in a contract, if other condi tions of eligibility have been ful filled. Cully A. Cobb, chief of the cot- Take one - half teaspocnful in a glass of hot wa^er every mominx and when you have finished tV contents of this first bottle weigh WHO MUST FILE RETURNS Returns are required of every yourself again, single person who for the year 1933 I After that you’ll want to walk ton section, expressed satisfaction had a gross income of $5,000 or around and say to your friends— with the manner in which the more or a net income of $1,000 or “One 85 cent bottle of Kruschen sign-up campaign was moving, more and of every husband and Salts is worth one hundred dollars “Field forces have been so busily i wife living together who for the any fat person’s money.” ant HORSES for SALE or TRADE I have plenty of Mules and Horses for you io make selection to suit your requirements and invite you to call and inspect them. They are priced right for quick sale, or will trade for mules, horses or cattle. JAMIE L. SMITH Intersection Abbeville - Greenwood - McCormick Highway. Two Miles West of McCormick —' B = 3&t TIMELY WARNINGS i servo in offering the blessings of our religion (vs. 6). Aristotle ad- Lcsson for February 11th Matthew 7 Golden Text: Matthew 7:29 engaged in contacting producers, examining farms and in other necessary routine, that they have not had an opportunity to con solidate the results of the past month’s campaign”, he said. “How ever, from each of the 16 States in which farmers are signing con- year 1933 had an aggregate net in come of $2,530 or more. Widowers, widows, divorcees and married persons separated by mutual con sent are classed as single persons. The personal exemptions are $1,000 for single persons and $2,500 for married persons living together tracts v/e have reports of splendid and for heads of families, progress;* Unquestionably a great] Husband and wife living together W1,cl We, farmers can profitably majority of cotton producers will ma y make separate returns of the us< \ a J? ds taken out of corn, wheat be signed up before February 15. ’ income of each, or their income and ot ^ er crops, the Bureau of Bi- may be Included in a single joint ° og ‘ ca ‘ ? u " ey points out ln an return. If separate returns are “ Iustrate d 64-page farmers' bulle- filed, one may not report income'Prepared in its Division of Food which belongs to the other, but ” ab ‘‘ s ^“ earcb and just Published must report only the income which by the U ' Department of Agri- Leading druggists America over sell Kruschen Salts. You can al ways get it.—Adv. NEW BULLETIN DISCUSSES WELD-LIFE RESTORATION By encouraging game and other ST -tXT- Gain Of $200,000 Taxes Shown BUSINESS LICENSE PAYMENTS LEAD JANUARY INCREASE IN SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia, Feb. 2.—An increase cf more than $200,000 in collections by the State Tax Commission last month over January, 1933, was shown today in a report of W. G. Query, chairman. Total collections for the month were $1,014,096 as against $831,482 for the same month a year ago. A notable increase was shov/n in ihe business license t'nx, which lumped from $127,440 to $174,675. Query said the January yield of this tax was the largest since Sep tember, 1930. Significant also as a “business barometer” was a climb from $11,- 519 to $62,925 in soft drink tax and ^proving"* and” U forwarding the j * boost from $14,618 to $21,243 in contracts. Any necessary adjust-! ,he admissions rax. merits in the production claims of ■ Gasoline tax collections jumped > individual grower, or In county I U P alm °st $ 00,000, or from $513,- an recent totals which were out of line with. 083 to . .. the “official” production figures for j For the time m that county, would of course meanj 1 ^ 11 - 113 mcome ax ievenue txlay in mulling out the checks. | vances simi'ar counsel: “Do not let vour wisdom fall on ths public "= I highway.” v. ■ i The* third t : esV is-that of resolute■ dcsi-o (vs. '*7," 8)‘. Here is vigorotfs' : tssfimeny to the effectiveness of — l persistent ambition, of continued Our chapter contains the final prayer, of long sustained effort. It /segment of the Sermon on the I is the law of life that a dominant Mount. In it are commands that i wish will finally reach its goal, may be considered acid tests of | The next test is the familiar judgment for* the guidance of the Golden Rule (vs. 12). This is the Christian. The first is the test of charitable judgment (vs. 1). This warning lOu to judge cannot be interpreted in any absolute sense, for judg ment is a necessity. What Jesus means is well summed up by Pres ident Park, of Wheaton College: “Do not judge another harshly, unless facts drive you to it, unless you hate to do it, unless there is something in the man you like”. climax of the Sermon, that “little bundle”, as Luther says, into which all its instruction is gathered. We come now to the test of the two ways (vs. 13, 14). How many walk in the wide, well lighted bou levard of destruction, so alluring to the eye! The final test is the doing of God’s Will (vs. 21). It is not es sential that the individual disciple should be a “go-getter”, a super- actually belongs to him. If a joint return is filed, such return is treat ed as a taxable unit, and the in come disclosed is subject to both the normal tax and the surtax. Husband and wife may elect each year whether to file a joint return or separate returns. Where, however, joint or separate returns have been filed for a particular year, neither husband nor wife may after the due date of tho re turn file an amended return or returns on a different basis for that year. PERSONAL EXEMPTIONS In addi ion to the personal ex emption cf $1,000 for single per sons and $2,500 for married per sons living together and for heads of families, a taxpayer is entitled to a credit of $409 for each de pendent, defined by income tax law and regulations as a person under 18 years of age or incapab’e of self-support because mentally or physically defective. The term “mentally or physically defective” means not only cripples and those culture. Though new as a farm crop deliberately encouraged, game, it is shown, has worth-while possibilities as a source of income. This publication, says Paul G. Redington, chief of the Biological Survey, may well serve as a manual for individuals co-operating in the program being sponsored by the President’s committee for wild-life restoration, recently appointed by Secretary Wallace (Jan. 2). Enti tled “Improving the Farm Envi ronment for Wild Life”, the new farmers’ bulletin (No. 1719-F), dis cusses how the farmer may en courage desirable wild creatures on his lands, particular reference be ing made to game species. It also And remember that an unkind es- salesman. His supreme need is the timate is a boomerang, returning to plague its author. “Judge not, that YOU may not be judged.” “Criticisms”, says Prof. Hayes, “are like chickens; they always come home to roost”. The second test the Master rec ommends is a discriminating re possession of inward Christian grace. So also with the Society of Christ. Magnificent buildings, large budgets, heavy increases in mem bership will not save the church unless it demonstrates, by its prayerful walk with God, that it is actually doing the Father’s WUL the first line of which reads, "The Holy Bible,” and which con tains Four Great Treasures •••••••• !>/ tJ-mrCF®EA-HT ON FAT AND LEAN CATTLE Presently, however, Joseph se cured his own release, having been able to interpret a dream for Pha- Jacob lost no time in becoming r o 0 h himself. Pharaoh had seen in considers what returns may com- ■ father of twelve sons, of whom t fits drdam seven fht cattle and pencate the farmer for altering Ills | next to the voungesu, oseph, j gQyg-n l6an cattle, and behold tho premises and policies in favor of game and other wild things. Most farmers, it says, find the mere presence cf animals and birds suf J m y&- is the second important figure at- seven lean cattle ate up the seven ter the flood. ’ fat ones. What could it mean? “It The oldest of the twelve brothers means”, said Joseph, “that v/e arc was Reuben, to whom Jacob on his going to have seven good business ficient justification for encourag- death-bed said significantly, “un-; years and seven very bad ones; ing their increase, but they need j stable as water, thou shalt not ex- j and we better get ready for the not forget that profits also are in-j cell”. He would have liked to pro- brd oucs x right aw’ayThus Joseph volved. jtect Joseph from the envious ha- made the first Babson chart, show- Ihe bulletin discusses not only'tred of the others, v/ho saw all ling that the area of financial in- fntniina <nq mm- * * ‘ . methods for increasing the food too clearly Jacob’s favoritism for precedes that of depression tn $ir 2^8 for* January 1933 | lien ^ a ^ y defective but peisons m SU ppiy f or mammals and birds him. but Reuben was too weak to and is of equal size and density. tuo rpvormp rpnnrt rarie as ^ health and the aged. j p ut| a j so outlines cover-require- j accomplish anything. The hatred, Through Joseph’s foresight and to mrm hers of the! In ° rder t0 be entitled to , the ,ments and recommends means for!of the others cast Joseph into a organizing ability the Egyptians ira- who th sharn $40 ° credit ’ the taxpayer must f ar " ; wik !_i ife protection. It tells how to deep pit. It was their first inten- stn-ed un food in the seven fat . ~ „ ^ nish the dependent his or her chief ma ^ e a f arm _g ame survey and ex- tion to kill him, but at the sug-: years and came through the lean support. The credit is based | pi ak -js various methods now being i gestion of Judah, who wanted to years with flying colors, actual financial dependency and ; py sportsmen in paying farm- save Joseph’s life, and could plan! Joconh was big in nature as well not meie legal dependency. ! grs for services and shooting oriv-* no other way, he was lifted out as in ability. He sent for his father lookout for money to meet appro priation requirements x Bailey Will Be Investigator Of example, a father whose children ile g es receive half or more of their sup port from a trust fund or other separate source is not entitled co CWA In District I thac , radit , , i Neither relationship nor resi- . | dence is a factor in the allowance Government Printing Greenwood, Feb. 3. — Granam of the $400 credit for a dependent. | Washington, D. C. Copies cf “Improving the Farm Environment for Wild Life” (Fann ers’ Bulletin No. 1719-F) can b? obtained at 5 cents each from fas Superintendent of Documents, Office, arc! sold to a passing caravan and taken to Egypt. and brethren, forgave them, got them good iobs in the public serv- A fine "evade cf human attn- ’<*0 settled them in luxury in b’fos nov r marches before us —i his adop.ed country. Thua things Potiphar, captain in the 'service of wmt swimmingly for the children Pharaoh, who took a liking to Jo- of Israel vnril Joseph died, after ?nh SPECIALS For a Limited Time Finger Wave 15c Manicure 25c } Marcel 35c Bailey has been appointed district The taxpayer and the dependent investigator for the CWA in the may be residents of different cities. counties of Abbeville, Greenwood, 1 if husband and wife both contrib- porting under similar circum- and made him an overseer; i which calamity descended. The Mrs. Potir>har. who fell in love i Pharaoh who had been so fiiendly with the bright youngster and, also died and ‘ there arose a new when out of his loyalty to her; king in Egypt which knew not ‘ . i. ^ t i 0 j Joseoh”. Envy and jealousy of _ husband, Joseph refused her ad- - . • . these smart fellows were rampant; McCormick and Anderson, with ute to the support of a dependent, • stances a dependent child un-1 K n t • 1 mcoc headquarters here, according to the $400 credit may be taken by der 18 years of age also is entitled, vances, caused him to be cast m ^° there was a universal demand that announcement by State Adminis-jthe one contributing the chief; to the personal exemption of $2,500 prison; the royal buuer, w ose, e-1^y should be evicted from the trator Malcolm J, Miller. Mr, Bai- , support, and may not be divided ,as the head of a family, plus the J^se Josepj rich jobs and fat concessions. They ley will adjust labor complaints in between them. $400 credit for a dependent. in=> a dieam, and w 0 p ^ not only were evicted but they were Under the Revenue Act of 1932 turn to S et ^ ^ t^ust down to the very bottom of both the personal exemption and success quickly banishes the mem- j ^ ladder co-operation with county admin- j a single person who supports in istrators. All complaints will be his home an aged mother is en- MRS. W. R. SHACKELFORD sent to him by the State adminis- titled not only to the $400 credit the credit for dependents are re- ory of old-time friends Located in the H. C. Walker tration and he wishes it under- for a dependent, but also to the quired to be prorated where the ( Yet did not the chief butler residence on Pine Street stood that he will not receive com-• personal exemption of $2,500 as the status of the taxpayer changed remember Joseph, but forgat plaints personally. ihead of a family. A widower sup- during the year. j him. 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