Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1940 F, SCHER-CROOKS Mr. and Mrs. L. F- Fischer of Newberry announce the marriage of their daughter, Katherine Evelyn, to Dr. Robert Moore Crooks of Clin ton. The marriage was solemnized Thursday evening, December 19, at | the home of the officiating minister, Rev. LeGrande Mayer in Clinton. Mrs. Crooks s a graduate of New berry college in the class of 1939. Since her graduation she has been instructor of music in the Joanna school, Goldville, S. C. Dr. Crooks is a graduate of New berry college in the class of 1936 and of the school of pharmacy of the University of South Carolina in the class of 1937. He is now connected with Young’s Pharmacy in Clinton. The young couple will be at home in Clinton after January 1st. ROY CLARY’S HAVE SON Mr. and Mrs. Roy H. Clary an nounce the birth of a son, William Bynum, at the Newberry county hos pital, Thursday, December 18th. Mrs. Clary was before marriage, Miss Frances Bynum of Georgetown. JOHNSTONE SCHOOL HONOR & PERFECT ATTENDANCE ROLL Third Month Honor Roll: Grade I—Jackson Norris, Dorothy Spotts. Grade 2—Peggy Minick. Grade III—Bobby Minick. Grade VII—Maude Spotts. Perfect Attendance: Grade I—Bessie Brown, Betty Mor ris, Dorothy Spotts, Patricia Willard, Olin Brown, Jackson Norris. Grade II—Peggy Minick. Grade III—Peggy Sligh, Carl Brown, Bobby Minick, Otto Morris, Julian Wicker, Talmadge Wicker, Grade IV—Reba Boozer, Billy Minick, Talmadge Turner. Grade V—Willie Mae Banks, Pat ricia Spotts, Earle Wicker. Grade VI—Kathleen Boozer. Grade VII—Maude Spotts, Josephine Turner. Grade VIII—Tommy Brown, Al bert Brown. Newberry, S. C. Dec. 2, 1940 Dear Santa, Please bring me a Red Ryder air- rifle, a bow and arrow and fruit. I love you and have been good. Your friend, Herbert Bickley. Dear Santa, I am a little girl six years old, and I am in the first grade. Santa, I have been a very good little girl and I want you to bring me the i things I am going to ask you. First, and most of all, I want a big pretty doll with an evening dress -end coat I want her to have long blond curls, The next thing I want is a rocking cradle. Along with my doll and cradle I want lots of candy, fruits and nuts. Your little friend, Joanne Halfacre. YOU HAVE ONE MOTHER—She deserves a lasting gift. A Sellers Kitchen Cabinet, A Zenith Radio, An Easy Chair. “Comfortable Terms”. J. J. LANGFORD & SON. GIVE FURNITURE on Comfortable terms. Real values in Bedroom, Dining room, and Living room suites. J. J. LANGFORD & SON. fllerry Christmas Happy Wm year i What better greeting to express my deepets ap preciation for all you have done tor me? . Aubrey Harley Spectator Representative Thomas A. Salley of Orangeburg is giving thought to the problem of the automobile ve hicle (car or truck) which does not pay taxes to the county in which its owner lives. Something should be done about this. In fact our tax methods and tax machinery may need streamlining and high-pressure meth ods in order to keep up with stream lined and high-pressure vehicles. I heard a businessman say recent ly that he would wager a hundred dollars that he could buy and sell a car between January and January every year and never pay a dollar of county and school tax. Certainly within certain time limits a man may escape his taxes. Land taxes will be sure to catch you, for there stands the land, but personal prop erty of all kinds escapes its just share of the tax burden. The gen eral theory is that no man can com plain of the fraudulent escape from just taxes on personal property be cause all of us participate ih the fraud and enjoy the fruits of it. Of course some enjoy mo. e fruit than others, but we are so keen about our part that we dare not expose our neighbors. As to automobile vehicles: Why should any man escape the property tax? Every man pays the gasoline tax; every man pays tne license tax; and the State has a record of every car or truck in the State. On the very face of it, our tax method is out of date. The method in use in all the .coun ties was suitable in the long agp when a man “returned” for taxation his land and mules and household goods. Many a small) land-owner, with fifty acres, one mule, and a few pieces of furniture, returned his property for $100, the real or actual value being not more than $600. But the Auditor and Township Board of Assessors always “got” him. And they get him today without fail. Once on the tax books, as owner of an acre of land or a building lot, you are snared and taxed forever; but many a person with much more wealth in personal property—(jew elry, cars,—) escapes entirely. They send their children to school; or if unmarried, salaried people, they en joy all the benefits of police protec tion, public health, etc., that the largest taxpayer enjoys. The question is how to collect the property tax on cars. Are we to confine the effort to cars? If a man on the farm buys a tractor in Feb ruary—what about it? If he buys a mule in March—what about it? Or, if it be a factory which installs new machinery in April? Or a merchant who buys new scales and fixtures in May? Suppose one of us news paper brethren, like Bishop Smoak of Walterboro, who is always up-to- date, buys a new press or Linotype in June? What shall we do about it? A broad study might be made of property which escapes taxation one year and property which escapes all the years. Any man owning a press will certainly include it the follow ing year; but some car-owners are going Scot-free, while the rest of us pay the policemen to protect them, and we produce the stipend which pays the teachers to instruct their children. When a man applies for a license (October) the county tax books are open, and property taxes are due and payable. He could not object to pay ing his property *ax on his vehicle while paying for his license. Both are due at the same time, so no reasonable objection could be made to the payment of both to the High way Department, There would be no practical objections. The Tax Commission assesses all cars ac cording to “make and model”, so that the collection would merely in volve a little extra work for the We are hoping that each of you enjoy the Merriest Christmas ever. Your consideration of this firm in the past has been of tremendous importance and it is with gratitude for your patronage that we extend our most cordial good wishes for the Yuletide Season. T. C. CHALMERS Desoto and Plymouth This Christmas and Every Christmas We look forward to sending you our sin cere good wishes for a happy Holiday. It is a pleasure to us be cause it gives us an opportunity to thank you for all you have done for this firm. Your have been liberal in your patronage, your friendship and good will—the com bination of which spells progress for any organization. You have been good to us—may Santa be just as good to you. Vfaw ysuVL ! / Bowers Insurance Agency INSURANCE BVILDINQ ' Public Square Phone 4 1117 Boyce Street Highway Department. Suppose a man lives in a town? He would owe property taxes to the town as well as to the county. The burden of paying school, county and town taxes, while paying a license fee, might suggest the necessity for allowing semi-annual, or even quar terly payments. Business adjusts itself to conditions by allowing small installments, so why shouldn’t the government modernize itself and let citizens pay as they are themselves paid? Many a man can pay—and will pay—a dollar a week who never had fifty dollars at one time in his life. The only objection to the in stallment payments of taxes is the volume of tedious clerical work in volved. But all about us are insur ance agents, automobile finance con cerns, furniture house and others who collect in driblets and get rich at it. Only in government are we so hide bound as to be immovable. How would the money be distri buted? Well, if the State has a property tax, that part should be paid to the State Treasurer. There would be no sense in sending that part to a County Treasurer. The part which belongs to a county should be sent to the County Treas urer for allocation to the school fund and other county funds, as would be done by the Treasurer if he had col lected the money himself. The town property taxes might be sent to the Treasurer. The Highway Department could do this without charge to the counties and towns. Every man is required to pay a tax on gasoline and to buy a license, so why talk about the “poor man” when it comes to paying property taxes on his car or truck? A scholarly citizen of high posi tion has written a letter raising sev eral questions about the relative cost of Church and State colleges. I be lieve it will be conceded that Wof ford, Furman, Erskine and Newberry Colleges and the Presbyterian col lege of South Carolina do as good work as is done by any State insti tution. In that statement I certain ly do not exaggerate their value, nor over-state the social contribu tion they make to the State. Those institutions thrive on plain living and high thinking, perhaps, but vhey are respected as institutions of real merit, doing solid and valuable work. The State institutions may offer more courses, but that suggests the inquiry “Are the additional courses worth the cost”? All institutions are sailing on a sea of doubt as to the educative value of the courses offered. Any subject, broadly studied, may be educative, may fire the ima- gination and stimulate the acquisi tive impulses; so if education, as we call academic work, is for educative value we might do as well with few er courses. If; on the other hand, the educational motive is instruction, a gleaning of facts, an introduction to many subjects, so that one may choose like one n a great restaur ant, there is no limit to the number of courses which might be offered, except the ability of our people to pay the bill. My correspondent calls my atten tion to the advertising done by some State institutions and he protests against it. He cites Winthrop and Clem son specially and quotes an ad of one as saying “The cost is very small!” Then, says my friend, “Yes, because huge appropriations from the state make it possible” etc. “Why’, he continues, “should a State institution deliberately advertise for students at the expense of tho state?” As we know, every student at Winthrop costs the State more than $100 a year over any and all (Continued on back page) May the joys of the Christ mas Season go with you throughout the coming year, and may your share of happiness be bright- ened by the acknowledg ment of our appreciation of your past favors. We gather our share of happiness by giving our service to this commu nity and our cordial and heartfelt wishes for your prosperity and good health. Maxwell Bros & Quinn CANDLES OF • THE YULETIDE May your Christmas can dles burn brightly with hap piness, and may your every wish come true. We cannot bring back the past but we can take a great deal of pleasure in remind- * ing ourselves of the fine things that have been ours to enjoy because of your thoughtfulness and consid eration. And with these splendid remembrances we look forward to the future with enthusiasm and antici pation. SEASON'S GREETINGS NEEL’S DAIRY