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- - ^ 5r-' r %.V ? •*' - ♦ ..••? • '•'%-. t ■ . • .A , .;« * ' *■■ ' • ••• -0 » '*i ' ' . •'-•'• >jfc ! '•'•.O •'• : *y . • - - . ‘ fit y' "'1 i THE NEWBERRY SUN RIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1961 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. 0. F. Arm field Editor and Publisher PVBUSHED EVERY FRIDAY Entered' as second-class matter December 6. 1937, at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SSaf. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., *1.50 per year in advance outside S. C., *2.00 ner year in advance. Spectator J n Expansive Mood .. Succumbs to Charms of Jimmie. ' i w , Battles No More For The Masses . . Beds Down With Edgar and Dick! Governor Byrnes takes a posi tive course. By that I mean that he i» recommending action, action in a big way at that A State bond issue of seventy five million dollars is quite an undertaking. Of course it isn’t so appalling today for we are ac customed to stupendous spending by the Federal Government. I have no doubt that the waste, actual waste, by the Federal Government Is much more than the $75,000,000 bond issue pro posed by Governor Byrnes; and the Goevrnor is ,pro8posing that a program of building to meet urgent needs. Let us hope that whatever is sue may be authorized will be serial bonds, and that a definite provision for full payment will be made; and that the bonds may be re-financed. If the State com mits itself for $76,000,000 then let us be sure that the sum of $75,000,000 will not be carried on to eternity. A bond issue of $75,000,000 will retmire the approval of the peo ple at the polls. The Constitu tion of the State is perfectly dear about that point. The decision of our Supreme Court in the Highway Bond case was the kind of legal twisting that encourages laymen to hold the law and the courts in low esteem. Let’s not play on words; here is what the Constitution says: .... ^The General Assembly is hereby for bidden to create any further debt or obligation, either by the loan of the credit of-the State, by guaranty, endorsement or else- wise, except'for the ordinary and current business of the State, without first submitting the ques tion as to the creation of such new debt....... to the qualified electors of this State at a gener al State election; and unless two-thirds of the qualified elec tors of this State, voting'on the question.' shall be in favor none shall be created or made.” I (Constitution of South Carolina Article 10, Section 11.) The Governor has an idea that the State has too many employe es. Many others think that, al so. I suggest that there should be an investigation of all our Departments, Boards and Com missions. I take special pleasure in saying that my suggestion Is not based on any suspicion of wrong-doing; my experience with the officials and employees of the State has been pleasant and always satisfactory. No public service, however, should be un supervised; but at intervals there should be a careful check. I have referred to the State Department of Education. I think the Governor, the General Assem bly and the people should know- more about certification, re-cer tification and some other mat ters, perhaps. I know nothing that is wrong, but many of us think that that Department has grown so large, and seems to have so wide a discretionary authority that it operates some what like a man who can over draw at will. If one would study the Depart ment of Education he should start with the County Superin tendents’ offices for in those of-, flees will be found the full effects of Diis re-certification. T do not wish to leave an unfair impression; thia is not a matter that reflects unfavorably on anyone; it is probably based on a loosely drawn statute. At any rate it is worth looking Into. We should not finance the building and repairing of roads and bridges by bond issues. In the beginning there was a rea son, * perhaps, but a Department with a revenue of $18,000,000 should finance its operations out of current revenues. We started with a road and bridge program of $65,000,000. What do we owe today? Many roads had to be built, many fine bridges had Jo be built; and most of the roads and bridges require frequent at tention. The Highway Depart ment is not under attack; It has suffered for years because many of its critics did not know the Cnmmlsainifr h»q acted, in general, according to Acts of the General Assembly. We started the Highway De- nartment by disregarding the Constitution; and then the Leg islators made the Department as sume about $42,000,000 of County road bonds. If we have any issue, like the proposed $75,000,000, let us be ware of Acts such as the Acts which passed County bonds to th# Highway Department, .mil lions of dollars of non-callable bonds, some at four or four-and- a-half per cent. As our great Woodrow Wilson said: “Let us not have any skullduggery about this.’' Or we might use anoth er expression whick is well known: “Let’s watch to prevent shenanigan.” As to the proposed Sales Tax: the more I think ef it the more I agree with everybody, both those for it and those against it. It is bad to think too much about both sides of any question. The proper course is to think clear ly and then to act. If you spend much time on both sides you. will paralyze your i mind and do nothing. Let’s see how it works: the poor man will .be taxed. All the orators tell us that. The poor man seems to pay the tax on cigarettes and soft drinks (and, sometimes, 1 on some not so “koft.”) And, In the language of the Street, as amended, it is a Shark of a Tax, not a whale, are not so bad; whereas sharks are vicious and tear one to pieces. (If T can, just “get by” Mr. Alex Salley with that. But he doesn't know anything about Sharks, ex cept literary and historical fig ures.) And the poor man’s wife ar*' daughters meet the Federal Sharks on cosmetics and other things, down to Baby Oil. And the poor man, wife, son and daughter, pay a tax, a series of Federal and State Tajfes on gaso line, even more ferocious than those Sharks I referred to. I have no doubt the Legislators will consider the poor man and “temper the wind to the shorn lamb,” as Shakespeare must have said. And that expresses it wejl, too, for the poor man is shorn beyond all peradventure. and needs to have the wind held down to a ,..gentle breeze or a mild zephr. Now a tax of three percent on $20 a week is only sixty cents. That may seem very small, and it is small, pitifully small, but we have some of our fellow cit izens, men and women, who have not an extra sixty cents a week. If you don’t know that you don’t know conditions. That is not a conclusive argument against the Sales Tax, though it suggests that we proceed with due “cir cumspection.” That is a good word—“circumspection”: it means looking all around, to see from every side. " The man—and woman — who will really pay the Sales Tax is not the poor man, or woman, but the man or woman who spends liberally, in the upper brackets. Some men have ad vocated a Sales Tax on the ground that many people pay al most no taxes, though they send children to school and receive all the hundred and one other public services. So far as that is con cerned, many a man will pay three dollars or five dollars a week—$156 or $260 a year—in order to cause others to pay fifty cents a week, or less. So far as the tax is concerned, we have many thousands of men and women of ample spending power who contribute almost nothing to jthe State, the schools, the counties or the towns. Our Counties and towns \ amf schools (in part) are supported by taxes on land and buildings. What measure of relief will be given to land—and home-owners T do not know. Whatever they buy will have a Sales Tax added. Several months ago I had a very pleasant- conversation ^ with Senator Jefferies, about taxes in general, and he faces the problem with courage and frankness. As I recall, he regarded some mea sure of relief for property-holders as equitable, in view of the new exactions that a Sales Tax would involve. We are fortunate to have many sound, level-headed men in the Legislature. Many of those gen tlemen know that a dollar is a dollar, whether the purchasing power be $1.02 for electric cur rent, or 82 cents for something else. And Governor Byrnes is a man of wisdom, as well as grac iousness and tact. There are so many good men in the General Assembly that I haven’t space to name all of them, from ray old friend, the Warrior from Barn well or the suave Senator from Beaufort, or the mild-mannered but able Senator from Lee! my old comrade, the Senator from Newberry; or my own Clarendon Senator. I could name many others; I have already mentioned my friend from Colleton. I think we have had some very sound men in our public life. And now my friend of many years, Sol omon Blatt. is Speaker again. By the way we have had many able Speakers, even if I do not go back beyond the days of chivalr ous James B. Gibson and ' come on down. v One day when I was speaking my appreciation of the gentle men in public life here. Federal, State, County and City, some one asked K ! were becoming soft and repentant,, perhaps feeling sick. No; I have always fouhd our officials very fine gentle men. Governor Byrnes is our glam orous figure; everybody is for him. But because he is so per suasive and appealing let no one confuse his suavity with lack of force. He may prove, as Senator Tillman used to say: “Suaviter modo, fortiter in re”—Easy in manner but strong in action. Letter from Collector of Intern al Revenue, Hon. W. P. Bowers: “In response to our conversa tion of some days ago, I am set ting forth below the regulations as they pertain to the law recent ly enacted by Congress which brings domestic servants under the Social Security law. I might say in passing that this law be came effective on January 1, 1961, and it is the first time that this particular group of employees has become covered under the Social Security law. If a domestic ser vant, and the regulations list maids, laundresses, house-keepers cooks, nursemaids, gardeners, furnace men, handymen, valets, footmen, grooms, chauffeurs, prac tical nurses, etc., as such,' work 24 days in a quarter and is paljl $60.00 in that quarter, there is placed upon the employer the re sponsibility to deduct from the wages of salaries of the employ ees 1-2 percent of the cash wages. The employer is to add | to that amount 1 1-2 percent of the cash wages, which makes a. total of 3 percent to be paid to the Collector of Internal Revenue. It should be carefully noted that the test as to whether an em ployee is covered under the law carries with it the necessity of both the working of 24 days And the. receipt of wages in ^the amount of $66.00. If only one of the two requirements is met then the employee does not come un der the law. It should be kept in mind too that only wages in cash are considered to make the $50.00 referred to. In other words, room and board are not counted as cash wages. If an em ployee works only one hour In a day that day must be counted as one of the 24 days. If any person is subject to the law they should write this office so that they can be placed on pur list to be mailed a return when the. quarter comes to an end.” 1951 AGRICULTURAL PROGRAM roK SOUTH CAROLINA NA Slah /loucu^fu/tai CJbrrtMrn, Ca&Mje, We heartily endorse the 15-Point Agricultural Prog\pm for South \ y 'X ' Ik < Carolina as sponsored by the Clemson College Extemion Service and State Agricultural Committee. % How do you rate in the care of your dairy and barn equi DO YOU— \ it? : Clean It regularly? Have It checked periodically? Make needed repair'd? 1 Uee It with care? Oil It ae needed? Follow manufacturer'e dlrectlone In using It? - See 0* For Quality Dairy Equipment and Supplies 'ill Sr DeLaval Salat and Sarvicat MILKERS AND MILK COOLERS Jamesway Barn Equipment'» STALLS AND STANCHIONS CLEANING POWDERS AND STERILIZERS HIGHEST MARKET PRICES PAID FOR NEWBERRY MAID BUTTER OUR SPECL NeWbery, S. C. Phone 14 s&. NOW ON DISPLAY ISTemw Silver jAnxiiwiersMury’ Poiiliac AUDITOR’S 1951 TAX ASSESSMENT NOTICE Returns of personal prop erty, new buildings and real estate transfers, poll and road tax, are to be made at the County Auditor’s Office beginning: January 1st, 1951 through February 28th, 1951 •; All able bodied male citizens between the ages of twenty-one and sixty are liable to $1.00 poll tax; all persons between the ages of twenty-one and fifty out side of incorporated towns are liable to pay commutation (road) tax of $1.00. All dogs are to be assessed at $1.00 each. All returns are to be made by School Districts. 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And they want you to know tljem better to know their interests and their services. They invite you to call* upon them at any and all tdmeVand they in vile you especially during this “Know Your Bank Better Week” to visit them and allow their personnel 4b explain the many fine services offered, in order that a closer re lationship and a better understanding may exisit between the banks and the people they serve. , i Be sure to visit your bank this week and learn to “know them better.” » - • Your Banks Are Here To Serve You /• The Commercial State Bank WHITMIRE, S. C. NEWBERRY JOANNA Prosperity Depository PROSPERITY, S. C. The i • t • .. * - . . f. !• mm* * 5 / • ; r NEWBERRY, S. C. m tm m &