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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY JANUARY 24, 1956
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By Spectator
I live in a pleasant little town which needs payrolls. How
about your community? Even great industrial centers seek
more payrolls, more industries.
Why should not our people have the comfort and con
veniences that communities in other States have?
Are we willing to accept inferiority as our portion or shall
we make a thorough survey of the “situation”?
Well, let’s explore the field.
Are we able to compete with neighboring States?
I have wondered about that. We have suitable water, steady
workers, excellent climate, a wholesome spirit among our
people, a friendly, neighborly attitude toward newcomers.
We have excellent public highways and our geographical
situation is highly favorable. And we have abundant power
available everywhere. .
What do we lack?
A citizen of Georgia finds that South Carolina has a power
tax, a tax on eectric power, that operates against us in
bidding for enterprises in competition with neighboring
States. This tax is known as the Generation Tax, a tax not
imposed by neighboring States, our competitors, but an
element of cost which must enter into negotiations for in
dustries.
I consulted some gentlemen who operate the three major
power enterprises in this State. They have indicated a will
ingness to carry all the burden they now have, including
the Generation Tax, bu they think our competitive position
would be greatly improved if the Generation Tax might
be removed from new business, that is new industries which
might be induced to come to South Carolina. This impresses
me as a very liberal attitude and I think our legislators
will act upon it at once.
As it stands, all present taxes would be continued, but
this waiving of that Generation Tax on new enterprises
might prove to be the decisive factor in attracting new
enterprises, because decisions are frequently dependent on
dollars and cents.
Certainly we need several hundred new enterprises in
South Carolina.
The following shows the financial gain to the State of
South Carolina from a new plant, if a new plant is located
here, and the generating tax waived on such plant.
Generating tax paid on new homes
associated with each new industry $2,200.00
New stores, shops, etc. in the neighborhood 2,000.00
The new plant w r ould bring in an annual payroll
of $2,100,000 on wdiich the income tax would be .. .10,000.00
Sales tax paid by the new workers 31,500.00
Sales tax on the plant building 30,000.00
The property tax on the plant 14,000.00
(40 mills county)
The property tax on the workers’ homes 10,000.00
(tow r n and county)
$99,700.00 received, plus all the tobacco tax, luxury tax,
State income tax on the plant income, sales tax on plant
supplies, gasoline tax, etc.
The foregoing computations are based on the following:
1. A plant building costing $1,000,000.
2. An employment of 500 people for the plant
3. An average w r age of $4,200 an employee
4. An average family for each worker of two children
I think all my calculations are conservative estimates,
notably the “40 mill’ County levy suggested.
It is worth trying? We can’t develop a prosperous econ
omy on agriculture alone; w r e need regular payrolls.
If the suggested plan were adopted w T hat w r ould the State
lose? Nothing, since the idea is to w T aive the tax only on enter
prises which may come, not those already here. But the
State would gain quite a lot from the new enterprises.
I don’t pretend to know all the inducements offered by
other States, but the State of Pennsylvania is publishing
this offer through The Wall Street Journal: “The Common
wealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Industrial Develop
ment Authority, announces 100 per cent financing for your
new plant”, etc. It says that 110 community spsonsored
industrial plants were constructed in Pennsylvania since
1945. This is a twenty-five year, 2per cent second mortgage
offer. We can’t match that !!!!
Nor do I suggest that we finance new enterprises, prov
iding the capital. But our letting up on the Generation Tax
on new enterprises will repay to the State far more, many
times more, than the tax which might be waived. And it
would provide jobs and markets and better living for thous
ands of our people. And that, in turn, would result advant
ageously to the whole State in all phases of our living.
> We can’t lose by waiving the tax on new industries; if
they don’t come then we waive nothing !!
“Where’s the money coming from? Higher 1957 South
Carolina Taxes?” asks the Marlboro Herald-Advocate in a
big three column first page headline. I quote that paper:
“One of the major problems facing the 1957 Legislature
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will be money—how and where to get it.
Without exception, state agencies have asked the budget
and control board for more operating funds for the 1957-58
fiscal year.
Many of these requests will be chopped down, but some
increases doubtless will be granted,
The question, then, is, “will existing revenues be suffic
ient to foot the bill, or will taxes have to be raided?”
Many legislators say a tax increase is inevitable. But
among those who insist that the state can improve its ser
vices and still avoid a tax increase are State Senator Edgar
A. Browm of Barnw T ell, chairman of the powerful Senate
Finance Committee, j
For years Mr. Brown has been chairman of the conference
and free conference committees which eventually drafts
final versions of appropriations bills.
T don’t think any new taxes are going to be forthcom
ing or are necessary in order to do something for the teach
ers and state employees in our state institutions,’ Mr. Browm
said.
‘Our revenue is substantially up this year and I believe
we can, without any additional taxes, give our teachers
and state employees a reasonable raise and take care of
our institutions.’
All that I may say will sound sadly out of date, but we
sometimes learn from the past.
If a man needs a new suit of clothes shall he forthwith
buy it? Well, shall he pay $30, or $40, or $50 or $200? The
suit for $200 might be just what he will like to have—who
would’nt? But shall he buy it? In olden times, during the
simple days of the ancients very few men paid $200 for a
suit. Today, however, a man may buy a suit, a car, a house
at any price, provided he can make the monthlyv payments.
That is the order of the day-not the over-all price but the
installments. i
Can we finance the State on such a plan? Probably not;
but how r does a prudent man finance his commitments? He
cuts the garment by the cloth, does’nt he?
Our General Assembly has been comparatively prudent,
yet progressive, and know r s that a happy, prosperous, con
dition may be seriously affected by harsh taxation.
The legislators and the Governor are confronted by the
problem of conservative financing.
Let us not impose new or additional burdens; let us, rat
her, vigorously seek new T business. As in the case of a mer
chant, we must look for new T customers, rather than to in
crease the prices.
Concerning the question of limiting speeches—the so-cal
led filibuste ■- there is a principle involved. You might not
expect to find so excellent a presentation of the case in a
great journal of finance 1 ut let me quote the editorial from
The Wall Street Journal.
“A great deal of fool
by some Senators wl
—and jealously guar
of the nonsense revo.
democracy and maj<
The basic misconc-
is ahvays the wises
sure, that that is n ,
of vengeance or ev.
emotions at one tin
sometmes it.is the 1 ..
wisdom.
A simple majority ■
takes a tw r o-thirds \
When any civil offi c
such as to convince
man is guilty or In
ess is being talked in Washington
jit to end the Senate’s historic
ight to unlimited debate. Most
bout some misconceptions about
rule.
i, w r e think, is that majority rule
j. Men of experience know, to be
ays the case. When fear, a sense
osser emotions overtake men, as
> • another color most men’s minds,
j voice that speaks with the greater
• r.n pass a bill in Congress, but it
te to override a Presidential veto,
is impeached, the evidence must be
wo-thirds of the Senator’s that the
yoes free. The Constitution may be
amended in two wayOne requires a two-thirds vote in
brain budget
1. Vers libre translates (a) from books; (b) for liberty; (c)
free verse.
2. Viridescent means (a) unglowing; (b) greenish; (c) highly
reproductive.
3. A visitor to a ranarium would be interested in (a) birds;
(b) frogs; (c) snakes.
ANSWERS
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T HE 85th Congress likely will
do little if anything in the way
of amending the Taft-Hartley
Labor Law. President Eisenhow
er, as he did in 1954 likely will
send the Congress a special mes
sage on the amendments ke de
sires in the Act, but if these
changes follow his recommenda
tions in 1954, labor opposition will
defeat them as they did then as
opening the way to worse labor
abuses than Labor clairft? the
present act contains. This Con
gress seems to be a mite more
liberal than the last Congress,
but these liberals are not strong
enough to push through any real
changes for the benefit of Labor.
Labor particularly chafes under
the provision of the act which
makes possible the restrictive
“right to work” state laws. This
provision has been used in the
South with especially adverse ef
fect on organization of labor
uniorffe throughout the South.
Whether the Taft-Hartley Act is
a “slave labor” act as some Labor
Unions claim is a moot question.
But as a matter of practical real
ism, Labor Unions have not fared
well since the Act was passed in
mid-1947 in increasing union
strength. First they lost the closed
shop. And some large business in
terests would not only like to
strengthen Section 14-b of the Act
which covers the State right-to-
work laws, but also would like to
see the union shop abolished by
direct federal law.
Under the 12 years of the old
Wagner Act union membership
soared from a mere 3,728,000 in
1935 to 14,974,000 in 1946 and union
membership in non agricultural
industries rose from 13.4 per cent
to 34.9 per cent, almost triple. But
since 1947 and passage of the
Taft-Hartley Act although there
has been an increase of about
8,000,000 in the labor force, the
Unions have been able to increase
their membership only approxi
mately 2,500,000, which is very
discouraging from the Labor
viewpoint. ,
President Eisenhower is ex
pected to renew one suggestion he
made in 1954 which he has termed
“union busting”, and that is the
provisions that “economic” strik
ers, or those who strike for wage
demands, have no job protection
at the end of a strike and they
can be replaced and lose their
voting rights. The Employers can
bring in new help and vote a
union out of existence insofar as
bargaining rights are concerned.
The President would give these
strikers the right to vote in sub
sequent elections. The issue, how
ever is not considered important
enough to open up the law to the
risk of widespread and new crip
pling amendments. The Demo
cratic platform calls for a repeal
of the Taft-Hartley Act. But with
the voting strength so close in
the Congress, the prolabor Demo
cratic liberals -are not strong
enough to carry our repeal in
the face of a majority of Repub
licans and the Conservative
southern Democrats who vote with
them. They were strong enough
to get it in the platform however.
So Labor as an entity may wait
until 1958 before making a move
on Taft-Hartley repeal.
TELL US V0UR
PROBLEtTI
AND LIT US PASS IT ON TOXELP OTHERS IM SOLVIMC THEIRS
BY JOHN and JANE STRICKLAND
S ANDRA DORRINGTON, Un
dercliff Avenue, Edgewater,
New Jersey, had been married
ten years when she felt her mar
riage was about to break up. Why,
she didn’t know. Naturally she
became very unhappy, morose,
even disagreeable. Her husband
was reacting in much the same
way. But she felt that he had the
advantage: he could get away
from it all for hours every day,
which hours he stretched to in
clude most of the early evenings.
That was all right with her, for
she hated the sight of him when
he did come home.
But like many married couples
of their age, neither of them could
afford to think of a separation.
There were three children to be
reared, fed, clothed and educated,
not to mention her husband’s mo
ther who had to live with them.
(Sandra says she wants to give
credit here to one mother-in-law:
this one did all she possibly could
to make life more bearable for
all the famjly).
Since there was but one thine
to do—bear it, she made up her
mind to do just that; but she
made another decision: never to
let anyone become important
enough to her to ruin her life, or
even to make her discontented
and disagreeable.
The morning after she made
this last resolve, she got up in a
pleasant mood (although it was
forced). During the day her
pleasantness became more real.
She did everything that day with
the thought of keeping happy and
making her family happier.
This went on for many days,
then, for what at the time seemed
an unaccountable reason, her hus
band became, first affable, then
downright agreeable. That made
it easier for her to hold to her
resolve. Also, she noted that the
children were more manageable.
After a couple of months, she
says no one would have known
them for the same family
Now she is again very fond of
her husband and he definitely
shows his old-time affection for
her.
TRUCE? . . . U. S. ambassador Raymond Hare is greeted by
Egypt’s Pres. Nasser in Cairo where they conferred on Eisen
hower’s mid-east doctrine.
the House end and in the Senate and ratification by three-
fourths of the state legislatures. The other requires app
lication of two-thirds of the state legislatures for acon-
vention to consider amendments and acceptance then by
three-fourths of the state legislatures. But in none of these
Constitutional provisions is a simple majority sufficient.
Thus there is neither moral nor legal ground for the be
lief that the might of the simple majority must rule. The
fact is that there is always a limit on debate, any time en
ough Senators wish to invoke the limitation. All it takes
is a two-thirds vote.
Now it may be as Senators Morse and Humphrey and
Douglas declare, that to curb by simple majority vote the
right of Senators to talk out as long as they can stand up
will enable the Senate to get about its business more quick
ly. Even if one accepted haste as a requirment of good legis
lation, the record does not bear out the Senators’ conclusion.
During the last two Congresses the Senate passed some bills
the enemies of the filibuster were themselves quick to fil
ibuster about, Senator Morse set a 22 hours and 26 minutes
From the South Pasadena Re
view, South Pasadena, California:
Tens of thousands of Britons have
had enough. Reports from the
“tight little isle” say that the
new economic problem thrust on
the nation by the Suez fiasco have
started the greatest wave of emi
gration in Britain’s history. Most
people want to go to Canada.
As many as 3,000 in one day have
made application to the Canadian
immigration offices in London.
Thfe Australian headquarters is
getting about one-third that num
ber daily and the New Zealand
and Rhodesia about 400 per day.
Specifically, the boost in gas pri
ces to 88 cents a gallon has made
travel by car almost prohibitive.
Added to that is the prospect that
basic income taxes may go up to
47%%. Business taxes in some
lines have become so prohibitive
that no one will risk launching
an enterprise in those lines. The
, story of most emigrants is that
opportunity has all but disap
peared in Britain. They want to
get out to the New World where
they hope to gain the rewards
denied them at home.- It is esti
mated that as many as 100,000
Britons will enter Canada in 1957.
That’s three times the number in
1955.
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From The Barnesboro Star,
Barnesboro, Pennsylvania; Words
of wisdom from a former presi
dent of the United States have
come home to roost. It is unfor-
unate that his‘ timely warning
was not heeded when they were
spoken 15 years ago, hence we
would not have the precarious
peace we knovfitoday.
The ex-president’s words of ad
vice:
The gargantuam jest of all
listory would be if we should
give aid to Stalin in the war
(against Hitler). If we do, the
result will be the spread of com
munism over Jibe world.
“I urge tl^t we stand aside
while these twi© monsters exhaust
each other. If we stand aside the
time will com© when we can, by
our own stspngth, bring lasting
peace to thdTworld.”
Former President Herbert Hoov
er spoke these words on June 29,
1941, after saying that Britain
now was safe from German in
vasion due to Hitler s diversion
attack upon Russia.
Recently he spoke at the dedi
cation of a new boys club in Chi
cago and said he has no regrets
for the stand he. took in 1949 op
posing United States involvement
in World War II.
With the downfall of Hitler,
Mussolini and the empire of Ja
pan, the United States stands now
as the onl^ bulwark against the
spread of Communism.
1
-Why is it necessary to fill oat questionnaires on private Incomes to
order to obtain pensions due to dependents of deceased veterans?
\ Because the law says that disability and death pensions are sub
ject to annual income limitations. In most cases annual income
must not exceed $1,400 for those without dependents, and $2,700
for those with dependents. . ..
How many 4-H club members took part in the International
Farm Youth Exchange with other countries this year?
A During 1956 a total of 125 young farm folks went abroad for three-
month periods to 40 countries under this program. 181 young
farmers from other countries came to this country.
;j. is ft true that Heavy Industry will seek an Increased deprecia
tion allowance for tax purposes?
\ -It is possible that this is true. United States Steel, for instance,
recently issued a statement saying: ‘The problem of heavy in
dustry where large amounts of money are required for equip
ment, lies in the need for a revision of the depreciation allow
ances under the tax laws. Need for such revision^again is rooted
in growing inflation ...” %
q Did President Elsenhower actually lose farm voles in the imm
A-A survey by the U. S. News and World Report indicates that ho
did The U. S. News actually counted farm votes, instead of
looking at totals in so-called Rural CounUes, where often farmers
are out-voted by the non-farm vote. The magazine’s survey indi
cated that the farm vote for Congress showed a greater trend
away from Republican candidates, however than from Mr. Eisen
hower. The survey in 10 midwestern agricultural Congressional
districts showed the President’s loss in 1956 as compared to 1952
ranged from 3% to 17%. Whereas the Congressional vote in tha
same districts showed a loss in the GOP vote ranging from 6%
to 31%. .
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record, and nobody tried to curb him. That the Senators
prefered not to invoke cloture was a measure of the Sen
ate’s tolerance, to be sure. But it was also a measure of the
Senate’s wisdom; for what the Senate does to silence one
Senator today it can do to silence other Senators tomorrow.”