The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 20, 1922, Image 6
The Tax Problem.
Up in North Carolina they are ha>
ing the same clamor for lower taxe
that we had here in South Carolir
prior to the last meeting of the state
general assembly. Under the reva
nation act passed by the North Car<
lina assembly property was asses:
ed at a figure nearer its real valu
and a rate of taxation based upc
the new valuation. About the tirr
the revaluation act became effecti\
deflation began, and with propert
1; ;ted on the tax books at its pr<
deflation value, the North Carolin
taxpayer was naturally the bear*
of a greater burden than he woul
have been forced to carry had ii
flated values continued, and even s
after much was done to adjust an
equalize the burdens. At the ne>
wi-iofjnrr nf f-Vio Mnr+Vi f!nrnlina j?<
sembly their appropriations bill cai
ried provision for a good roads builc
irg program amounting to fifty mi
li -n dollars, and an educational pr<
gram amounting to somewhere aroun
seventeen million dollars. Deflatioi
ccupled with this increased expend
tcre by the North Carolina stat
government, could step up a situr
tion that would cause a great dei
cf objection to the tax burden. An
the taxpayers are howling. But wha
lias North Carolina to show for he
public expenditure? For one thinj
good roads, and in building thes
roads at this particular time she ha
gained the advantage of better sal
of bonds, low price of material an
labor, and the financial effect ha
served to keep the state in muc
better circumstances than it woul
have been had the North Carolin
general assembly considered it advis
able to put the lid on progressive
ness, and use the knife on its af
pronations measure. And now th
North Carolina Department of Edi
cation plans to provide 43 new hig
schools in as many jjural communitiej
Commenting on trus new step i
education on the part of our sistc
state, the Greenville News regard
it as "a striking illustration of th
emphasis North Carolina is puttin
on education at the time when Sout
Carolina is cutting down hers," an
the Greenville editor doesn't off
any excuses for South Carolina
failure to provide educational facil
tie* when she says: "North Carol in
is probably in better- circumstance
than South Carolina, at least bettc
than is the lower part of this stal
where the boll weevil has rampage*
but she is now better off by 43 hig
schools. She has been hit hard b
the business depression and could hav
manufactured a ton of excess to posl
pore her educational program unt
tines get better,' if she had bee
so fallacious." North Carolina, h
says, has made "wonderful progres
in recent years?more, we believi
than any other Southern state. Agr
culturally, industriallly p.nd commei
ciaily she has come to the front. Sh
has built hundreds of miles of goo
roads and unified the countryside wit
the cities. But best of all she ha
done that which has been at the four
tiation of her material progress?sh
has waged a thorough and unrelenl
ing war on illiteracy."
The problem of education in Sout
Carolina as brought out by the Greer
villi News' comparison with the ec
uca'ional activities of the sister stat
i3 8 vital one, because, reproachfull
states the News editor, "South Care
lina has not near enough high school
in rural communities nor are the
ablv equipped and manned. The re
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port of the state supervisor of high
schools throws interesting light upon ;
>*- these deficiencies. But are any ef-1
jS forts being made to improve these
a conditions? No, instead the effici-j
, i cncy of those that exist has been
s seriously impaired." The people of
ihe state are beginning to realize the
seriousness of the action which cur5~
tailed the development of South Caroe'
lina's system of schools, and the isn
sue should be one of highest importie
cnce, and no doubt will be, in the
e minds of the voters when another
y election day rollsaroun d. On edu""
cation rests the state's future welfare,
a and we can not well afford to neglect
it, even in order to reduce the
tax levy by a few mills. The showir.g
made in South Carolina toward
reducing existing illiteracy is not
worth anything unless she makes an
^ effort to keep that illiteracy reduced,
and to keep it reduced we must have
" schools thai measure up to the best
in standard, even though it means |
increased tax burdens.?Hartsville 1
)_ Messenger.
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1> | American Legion Notes.
i
e The fine points of bravery are not
l~ unknown to Governor Harry L. Davis
l' of Ohio, but when he was asked to
pick the bravest ex-soldier in Ohio
lt to represent the Buckeye population
? 4 ? r%
1 at a nationa! assemoiage in aan r ran-;
r? cisco, Cal.. he declined the large re- j
e spons'bility. At his request the i
,s j American Legion undertook the selec-;
e' tion.
d | Poison gas which A. M. Thompson, I
s Cheyenne, Wyo., policeman, inhaled [
h in France during the war four years
d ago, had just caused him to lose
a 26 teeth, according to a report made
by the American Legion. The policeman
recovered from a long illness
> after the teeth had been removed.
e Smarting red eyes among Brookl"
lyn, N. K., school 'children caused
h several Shop owners to be hailed into
s- court. It was found that merchants
n were selling a war-time device for
!r purifying water consumed by soldiers
's as "toy bombs," which threw off
e poison fumes upon exploding.
? In Korea, where Fords cost $1,h
C 12.50, former members of the A. E.
d F. have banded themselves together
!r under the leadership of M. L. Swine's
heart, treasurer of the Southern Presi
tyterian mission of the Hermit Kinga
dom, and formed a post of the Ameri:s
can Legion. About a dozen ex-fight- i
!r ers, most of them missionaries, make |
:e up the post membership.
Former Navy radio operators and
h members of the army signal corps
y have organized under the auspices of
? the American Legion in Nebraska and
t" are broadcasting market reports,
il weather forecasts and weekly musin
cal concerts to the rapidly growing
e legion of wireless telephone users.
;s The aid of Mavor Curley of Boston,
Mass., other city officials, the American
Legion and the American consul j
r" at Sidney, N. S., was required be
fore an Yank ex-service man, "strandd
ed" with his family in Nova Scotia,
h could be brought back to his Boston
s home. The Legion paid the bills the
i- man had incurred and the officials
e unwound the necessary red tape.
The superstition that all army top
sergeants are "hard boiled" took wing
h when an investigator unearthed one
i- ex-top kick in Chicago who is spendI
ing his time trying to locate jobs for j
e ex-service men as his part of the I
y American Legion's campaign to find
>- work for world war veterans,
s When two desperate criminals broke
y jail at Springfield, Tenn., and took
refuge in the woods, the chief of poms
)wM/
is packed air-tight in the
lew container?the quality
n.
is always fresh.
an s the next time. Clean
sweet.
lice called on the American Legior
after his own force had failed in its
effort to capture his former guests
The ex-service men formed a battle
line and the two fugitives were land
cd back in the calaboose.
Judge Harry S. Keldan of Detroit
Mich., opening his court for business
found that the entire jury panel hac
been snapped up by other jurists
His Honor asked the American Leg
ion to further the cause of justice
with a result that a new set of ter
talesmen, all jobless ex-service men
was impaneled.
A through canvass of the ex-service
men of Stuttgart, Ark., failed to brinj
to light a single unemployed veter
an. The unemployed committee oJ
tbe American Legion was formed t<
function so it dug up two jobs foi
men already employed which were
better than the ones they had.
Hanging in the room which Marshal
Foch of France has reserved ir
his home for the thousands of presents
he received while touring the
United States under the auspices ol
the American Legion are the keys tc
eleven of America's largest cities
All the gifts which America bestow
ed on the Marshal are in his "Amer
ican room" except the famous Mon
tana bob cat which now paces a cage
in the Paris Zoological Gardens.
Time has so thinned the ranks ol
the G. A. R. at St. Cloud, Minn., that
the few remaining members have
voted to disband and turn over to the
American Legion the responsibility ol
observing Memorial and other dayj
on which the boys of '61 have honored
their dead comrades for more
than a half a century.
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To Women of Williamsburg County
Please allow me to call your atten
tion to the fact that the various Dem
ocratic clubs are to meet on the fourth
Saturday of this month for re-organ
ization and to elect delegates to th<
county conventions, which will be helc
on the following Monday, May 1st
Since the average voter comes int(
direct contact with the managemeni
of her party only at the club meet
ings, it is urged that every womar
v, ho has attained her majority, or whe
will become twenty-one years of ag<
before the general election in Nov
ember, attend the meeting which wil
be held in her precinct on April 29th
Of course, it is taken for grantee
that each club in electing delegate;
to the county ccnvent.;on will pro
vide fo" a fair representation of worn
en, but, since time immemorial, ii
has been the custom to select mer
only, this provision may be overlook
ed unless wemen are piesent as :
reminder that they, also, are citizens
Then. tr.o. the delegation chosen
the county convention to the state
convention should be composed 01
both men and women; and a woman
os well as a man, should be selectee
to represent the county on the State
Democratic Executive Committee
The Democratic party now require.'
that the National Executive Committee
shall comprise two members, t
man and a woman, from each state
Mrs. Julian B. Salley, of Aiken, being
our representative.
In conclusion, let nr.c say tliat the
rineteenth amendment gives the vote
alike to the woman who wanted it
and the woman who thought she die
not want it. Neither has the right
to neglect it. It now becomes jusl
as much the duty of cveiy womar
in South Carolina to use her ballot
for the public welfare as it has foi
generations, been the duty of oui
men to employ the franchise for the
best interests of the state?Shall we
prove ltss mindful and worthy of the
trust than they?
Annie Gaines Williams,
Chairman South Carolina League of
Women Voters.
CHURCH SERVICES
Kingstree, S. C.
Baptist Church:?Frank C. Hawkins,
Pastor.
Sunday School?10:00 a. m.
Preaching?11:00 a. m.
Billy Sunday Quo?3:30 p. m.
F. Y. P. U.?6:30 p. m.
Evening service?7:30
Weekly Prayer service?Friday 7:30
p. m.
Presbyterian Church, J. W. Davis,
Pastor.
Sunday School?10:00 a. m.
Preaching?11:15 a. m.
Christian Endeavor?6:30 p. m.
Evening service?7:30.
Weekly Prayer sendee?Wednesday
7:30 p. m.
Methodist Church, J. P. Inabinet, Pastor.
Rev. C. C. Derrick, Presiding
Elder, Kingstree District.
Sunday School?10:00 a. m.
Preaching?11:15 a. m.
Prayer Meeting?Wednesday 8:00 p.
m.
Epworth League meets?6:50 p. m.
Evening service?7:30.
Episcopal Church, Walter Mitchell,
D. D. in Charge.
Services?Sermtn and Holy communion
third Sunday each month at
11:00 a. m.
Evening service?7:30.
? REGISTRATION NOTICE |
The office of the Supervisor of
i Registration will be open on the I si i
Monday in each month for the purpose
of registering any person who
is aualified as follows:
, Who shall have been a resident
, of the State for two years, and of
j the county one year, and of the
poll: j precinct in which the electoi
* offers to vote four months before
' the day of elction, and shall have
; paid, six months before, any poll
, tax then due and payable, and who
can both read and write any section
' to him by the Supervisors of Regis- j
tration, or who can show that he
i owns, and has naid all taxes collect!P
ble on during the present year, prop'
erty in this State assessed at three
" hundred dollars or *re.
f R. E. CI , RKSON,
> Clerk of Board.
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; Rub-My-Tism, a pain killer.
Kui/Dor \yr .
i | It is when your clothes are
f j made-to-measure by a good
; | tailor.
. | "Made to measure by a good
; | iailor." That is a "bill of parI
ticulars" which fits Royal Tailoring
to a "T."
Royal clothes are MADE-TOMEASURE?and
they are made
by good tailors?with this item
to sweeten the effect: They are
priced fairly and reasonably.
1 Think of a genuine customtailored
Suit or Overcoat, all
pure v/Gol of finest workmanship
as low as $25.
You arc privileged to be
> skeptical until you see the actual
values in the Spring line.
; City Tailoring Shop
; 11 J' V. isrYS, Manager |
j Authorized Resident Dealer j
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I In Charge of an Experienced Butcher %
| and Meat Cutter. M ^
Buy your fresh meat from our sanitary 1
I market, where the animal heat has been 1;
I forced out of the carcass by refrigeration 1]
I and the meat thereby made fit for food con- ||
1 sumption. M
| We butcher only the best cattle and I;
1 hogs, and if you buy from us you may feel |;
I assured that you are getting the best at low- I
I est prices. ||
| The Cash Meat Market I
S. F. Epps, Manager j|
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: Long Distance Night Rates! i[
For 25c Plus War Tax 5c
Between 8:30 p. m. and 4:30 a. m. on Station
to Station calls. A five minute conversation ;
: from Kingstree to all points within a radius 1 I.
| of 72 miles including the following: |
Bennettsville Darlington
Bishopville Dillon
Charleston Florence
Camden Hartsville
Columbia Marion
Sumter Summerville
The Station to Station Rate is Extremely Low ?;
to other points, particularly on calls made at night j
Call Long Distance for Information.
i Kingstree Telephone Co. !
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Bologna Sausage?
demand for this product which 3f|g
ual and can't be beaten. It is "
home product, made in a s"
entific manner from local
that the bigWestern man- ;^
:turers will not buy ||fl
from you.
this Home Industy m
fling Us Your Order. I
y Fat Cattle or Spring Lambs to |||
11 write or phone us.
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