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> * Page 4 Ot)e ~jpaln Pul )1 i shi?d_weekly_ by J: he I \ 1310 Assembly Street Phone ***** Entered at Columbia, S. C. 1 ter by an Act of Congress * * * * * R. S. TURN ,>***** ZACK J. * ** ? ? WILLIAM Ml KIN LEY h| * * * *? \Y. li. C.OWMA ***** SUBSCRIPTION KATES: i>?.25; Single Copy?15c . ***** > . \ NOTICUiTO ALL Sl'P.SCRl yoursubscription is stampd week. This "is r<>r the puros ~~<:T the date your subscripti Re<iuires Payment in Advai j'aper will be discontinued '< REMITTANCE: ? Check Money Orders should be nu Palmetto Leader The Palmetto Ix-ader Is i r~ent to carriers. 'dealer's, or j vceivcL ;.t the of'five of pul s ..ascriptions should he mat r. . through one of our duV < mrmmicj.tion intended iVn Vricfand should reach the t TviestUre of each week. A TIP FROM THI . Remember the children's The little red hen, as we avter who slaved, planting c< and fowl laughed at her for "When famine came along j'You did not plant the corn, ft ".all not eat the corn." It is during times like the planting corn by preparing elections. Why wait until an S'V Interested in voting? ' hear a lot of talk abo (guralocal, state and national radioing the talking are t.h ,/ fj*?rhe on election day enabl his office hardly withoi ajrf there are enough wise gBjuates conscientiously wor ?.ve a good, croj) of govern ! birds who shrug of j- buldn't (.'Xpert to eat the c t'.'.e kind ol' government of Politics and planting are fa.nee. if dark Americans j :\t j lay their part in the can expect lo eat ?vn i- t 11 very pleasant dish, to Now; is the time for relig i-eonle to the significance 01 Now is the time for civic faring their members for c ?We believe the chureh-c cur people vote-conscious. how far should minister? litically. Some clergymen in the civic conscience of their vies outside the realm of thi We'd like to point out tha nterest in politics and civi< ! ield long debates and discu ] We think ministers and c |r>w Christ's example ? nol followers into allegiance to Educating them abooat the p< tance of being wise birds a - ip&ke America a more perfe r tetto "Xeader almett-o Printing1 Company. Inc. j ^T7iInmI3TTr?arTS'oUlTf^CriTC)li1 ia* -4? 4-9439 X\ ********* ^ Post Office as Second Cla*s mat . . ' " ! ***#*##** IKK, General Manager He**#***** WESTON, Editor ' i * **ir*-* ** * WVMANVAdvertising Manager-" |c ******** * N. Religious Editor ' : , ********* , One Ye;ii4?Months? : ******* [REPS: Date of expiration o f (I on your address wrapper each e of giving you constant notice ion expires. Postal Regulations nee of All Subscriptions. Your after expiration date. . drafts and Postal or Express . ule payable to the order of The iot responsible for advance paydisjributors until the money ^i lication. Advance paynrew-ts for", le direct to the Palmetto Leader authorized agents. ? the current issue must.bo very editorial, desk not later t h a 11 I C LITTLE RED HEN j ~ tale about the little red hen? recall, was an industrious char-1 un while the less' hipped animal being such a square, 1 t r. the hen had the last ''laugh. ; I i she'told her laze friends. "You th" i\g. per ise that Negro leaders should be 1 yeil members of the race for future grc election year to get the citizen- 'e(i ! foil nit the "no good" men running 1011 governments. Most of the peo- ^ ig same persons who. will sit at. ing the "no good" politician to Inci it a struggle. 'fro1 i suci birds who carefully select can- t.he k and vote for them, we will exc, mient ahead. _____ j;cn f get-out-the-vote campaigns yea orn ? to enjoy the privileges'of 11 which we approve. ? 1 j wor not entirely the same. For in- pCM| are not wise birds ? if they mo! political scheme of the nation, qm* ot corn. but crow ? Jim Crow. WOi he sure. ;thc ions leaders to awaken o u r ,1ho [' the ballot. . j Wl'( and social groups to begin pre_ , 'j oming elections. _ dt : an play a vital role in making M tes; there are differiing opinions fV*" ? go in' educating their flock po- v it i hoir tn utinmluto ...I I followers. Others consider polL ar*r 2 church. , lar* ;??? 1 con1 ,t Christ Himself took an active jeV( : affairs. Even as a youth, He ver ssions with the publicans. prnj >ther Negro leaders should fol- my t attempting to browbeat their C any special party or person, but for* owex* of the vote and the impor- indi nd using their initiative to help es. ct democracy. tha *4 " " fHE PALMETTO LEADER ' I V J* * ? . Aim mmtmm I.. ..! .I.'.I. i, ^ ^ if IN THIS OUR E BY DR. C. A. CHICK. : More About Taxes f the Congress accepts the budget r s\...i. .!.* FToral Oo\ci'iiment will > next fiscal year. State and local gov api.jroximat.ely ,S:>3.8 billion. Thus. t< iditures are expected to exceed SI03 ir?or almost twenty,five cents out < ss national product that must soonei taxes from somebody. This mean rth of one country's total output is s levels of our governments, loreover. government hudgot.! ires do not tell the whole story 1 bx'jroing b easing amounts of spending ! hilled Ky <*i 11 sooial sccnrit.v ;in<l hihpi- thinking; tli h trust funds are now outside^1? *ax ''l Imdjret. These are expected u>.^e''ovo t'i:i eed $14 billion for the Federal''11^ tl,e eminent alone this fisiiy]j.von^'m''' li r. ?! jly and visi x addition to the forejjoinjr. an !1~nU' taxes ximately, T.L'dTnoo c i v i lia n V *a'es kersr are on t^o payrolls of to leral, state, and loial irdvoi n-' .to its in the United States, or )n/"''den in every nine in t.he nations lm'1* k force. Ad 1 to the foreyoir.jr w.'K>n V"10-v number of state puards and: vu'es>e in the national firmed ser- For exa s t^en the foregoing figures .think t.'iev ?nie v-r:ouiu.ing. [the tax hil nr.? many who fee! that I 10 husines: exnenuitures of our. \ rious ! mains t.hal <-ttruants atrr?th o~~rnsu i; { tax-j ??ly peoph t ' high ;r tV they ou:d he. dollar we > eovor, t'n are j_any who1 senviees ah \h it i / ; r ylrrr than Is ' j?'" is for l for coam.y's present For a la future, People with such be- ing of hov ue~"that as long as such a what govet jo share of the national in-; to go alon ie is being spent?by?various of?goven ds of Government it will he | would otlr y difficult for either the gov- least flue.st rnent or our competitive eeono- Again tl to control inflation. ? T' lour Many, >ne wonders in the light of the i spend soni jgoing wy.h are many of us so , to assist t fferent to the problem of tax-> menibershi] This writer is of the opinion; problem of t part of the answer to the j and. goveri . Saturday, May 18, 1957, V N?A|R ? ' I r t ' - v < ^ _ _ ^^{Mt -X 7"! W* itea ..... tT- 1 (AY letter to the editor SR. , The proposed rider to the civil rights hill which would -permit the several jurisdictions to enact right* ecommemleil hv the to-work laws and thereby destroy spend S<l-.8 billion the provisions of union shop legisernments are spend- lation is an apt illustration of the )tal government ox- f.u.t tj1ul t^e enemies of labor are billion n the coming: essentially the enemies of colored Ol each (lollai oi Americans, r or later bceollects that almost one* 11 should cause< tht?refore ht:le befng speili_bv var- eye;?tl'aln for the reading put.he. to gather that the political bloc] which is pressing the investigat* i that many people are 'ons the Senate Select ton'* arren't tax methods into "httee on Improper Activities in. A . i . tV?o M., ?* r:.i I iU iney escape nrucn O! w,w .uuiiagemeiii r ic.u, irden. Sueh individuals is not simply trying to destroy t'r.a it their part in defray- unionization of labor but openly tsts of government^ is seeks to kill any and all libel a*. ) what they pay direct- a,ui progressive legislation, bly their personal in- This powerful bloc is supportel , property taxes, and a by a group ef syndicated .writer* taxes. What these poo- which expresses a stereo-type 1 realize is t.te vast ex-|Sympathy for big business and hich governments rely nothing but an aggrevuted conindirect taxes tWat ar-t tempt for the common man. It* tout their . knowledge vicious attacks upon organized, buy goods and sor- labor and corresponding attempts to have congress deny democratic mole, many individual* 'opportunities to colored American* escape large shares of Ule Part a,ui parcel of Un organized 1 by shifting these on- pattern to keep America half slava < But te hard fact re- an<1 half f,ee- ^ , in the final analysis, The right-to-work rider theta iihv taxes. Pitf pvnint " .u ..i i ? ? -?-?-??? > . . - - ? iuic Miouia put under a strong tpend for goods a n <1 ligVit what is actually happening out a third of .the dot-, to uolh white and colored Amenhidden taxes. 'Cans. ck of clear understand-j The gtory - ahould be extremely v t io> .ire puj ing 01 portarit. to the colored American, nmeats do, people tend plight has been chafed beb wit un si an sizes |cauge of this hidden correlation of iment?spending thev i ^r-?? economic and social progress, erwise . oppose or at. ion. John W. Nicholas lis writer urges that Secretary-Treasurer, -mny Organizations! The Washington Division e time in' "endeavoring! - International he masses of their! Brotherhood of Sleeping [> in understanding tho| ^'ar P?l't?r3 taxes, who pays them 180Q Clifton Avenue * mients expenditures. + ] Baltimore, Maryland i