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THE NEWBERRY SUN
RIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1961
1218 College Street
NEWBERRY, S. C.
0. F. Arm field
Editor and Publisher
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Entered' as second-class matter December 6. 1937,
at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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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.
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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.”
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(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
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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. Your failure to
make return calls for penalty as
prescribed by law.
PINCKNEY N. ABRAMS
Auditor Newberry County
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and is this week being observed. The attentions of our people are invited to the part
the banks play in helping a community go forward. A banking institution is the
center about which the business life revolves, and where the financial assistance is
given to push forward those projects that mean a bigger, better community.
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vidually. 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
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