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WITH THE STARS
Marion Martin, a New York show
girl, who was under contract to Uni
versal, has gained her release and
gone over to Metro. Her first part
will be that of leading lady in Wal
lace Beery’s current picture, “Ser
geant Madden” . . .
Errol Flynn will probably play the
role created by Walter Hempden on
the stage in the screen version of
“Cyrano de Bergerac” with Olivia de
Havilland as the feminine lead . . .
Marie Wilson is to have a featured
role in “Rose of Washington Square.” j
A1 Jolson, Alice Faye and Tyrone
Power have already been assigned to
the cast . . .
The Frank R. Adams story, “She
Said I Do,” has been purchased for
Ginger Rogers. It is a story about a
factory girl who marries her boss . .
Production will soon begin on
“Beau Geste.” It is to be made in
England and Gary Cooper, Ray Mil
land and Brian Donlevy left last
week for the trip abroad. Veree Teas
dale has been selected for the role
which was formerly done by Alice
Joyce in silent pictures . . .
A GEORGIA* PROGRAM
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One revenue device that is certain
to be presented to the Georgia gen
eral assembly at this session as a
suggested means of financing the
state’s budget is the so-called ‘lux
ury tax.’
Except for the ad valorem tax sys
tem, no revenue measure has been
tried by so many units of govern
ment in the United States. Indeed,
there was a rapid increase in the
number of such taxes (all excise im
posts upon the sale price of units of
merchandise) until 1920, when a na
tional repugnance developed to the
innumerable petty taxes adopted as
war-time revenue measures and com
monly called ‘nuisance taxes’ by the
public.
Despite the fact that the sugges
tion that Georgia rely upon nuisance
taxation to finance the ‘Program’
comes from some leaders who may
be called responsible, there are three
valid objections to the adoption of
such revenue measures: (1) They cost
the taxpayer a total sum far above
the amount received net by the state;
(2) They will not produce the reve
nue required; (3) They impose an
unreasonably heavy tax burden upon
the petty comforts of the lower in
come groups while leaving tax-free
the genuine luxuries of the wealthy,
and thus develop into the most per
nicious of class taxes.
Evidence developed before the con
gressional committees studying meas
ures to repeal the war-time ‘nuisance
taxes’ disclosed that an estimated
minimum of 18, per cent, of the total
tax paid by consumers did not find
its way to the treasury, either be
cause of bad bookkeeping methods,
‘staggered’ tax sales or pocketing of
the tax by those collecting it, while
the cost of enforcement was about
7 per cent., in the year of greatest
return and best collection methods.
That means that of the dollar paid
by the citizen, only 75 cents goes into
the treasury, and tha if Georgia rais
ed $8,600,900 to finance the state, its
citizens would have to pay almost
$11,500,000 in taxes.
However, even the most optimistic
advocates of a ‘nuisance tax’ do not
hope that a tax on chewing gum, soft
drinks, movie admission, cosmetics
and silk hose will produce $8,600,000.
Their frank hope is that by this de
vice enough can be raised to cover
part of the needs and that ‘some cir
cumstances will arise,’ such as a
possible ultimate assumption of old
age pension payments by the federal
government—an unlikely early event-
World’s Fair to Have Largest
Amusement Area Ever Created
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The largest amusement area ever
created will be at the New York
World’s Fair where 280 acres will
be used for this purpose.
One of the amusement presenta
tions will be “Little Miracle Town”
at which 125 of Europe’s famous
midgets will appear in a show en
tirely unlike any midget show ever
seen in this country.
A great free show will be the
spectacular fire and water, color
and sound display on Fountain Lake
where the machinery of the dispiay
will be mounted on barges, and gas,
fireworks; searchlights and water
prill combine in ft creation of pbaop,
Joan Blondell will probably play
the lead opposite Bing Crosby in
“East Side of Heaven” . . .
Since Edward Everett Horton start
ed free lancing he has made three
pictures a year with a steady income
of $5,000 a week .. . .
Virginia Bruce is the only actress
who can face the cameras without
make-up . . .
Bob Burns and Gladys George, be
lieve it or not, can trace their ances
try back to William the Conqueror.
Elissa Landi is closer to royalty than
that. She is a granddaughter of the
Empress Zita of Austria and is re
lated to several distinguished Euro
pean families . . .
Although Don Ameche does not
look to be such a brawy man, when
he came to Hollywood three years
ago he had one of the hardestsets of
muscles in the city. Before coming
to Hollywood he had dug ditches and
put down sidewalks in his home town,
after which he manned a ten-pound
sledge hammer on a wrecking crew
in New York while trying to get on
the stage . . .
uality—to preclude the necessity for
any real revision. A 20 per cent, ‘nui
sance sales tax’ on the items gener
ally selected would produce, at a
maximum, not more than $3,350,000
The standard argument, however,
for a ‘luxury tax’—of which the early
New England tax on women’s hats
‘ornamented with fur, feathers, jew
els or precious metals’ was an earlj
American example—is that such a
tax prevents the ‘poor people from
wasting their money on non-essen
tials.’ Such a tax always is aimed at
the luxuries of someone else, and al
ways solemnly advocated oh the
grounds that the person taxed will
be benefitted by giving up the luxury.
The Georgia ‘nuisance tax’ meas
ure being prepared for consideration
by the assembly would tax, not the
higher priced automobiles and more
expensive items of clothing, but mo
tion picture admissions, soft drinks,
cosmetics, possibly silk hose and cer
tainly chewing gum. The same meas
ures were advocated in 1938, the sos
drinks tax being defeated on the floor
and the movie and chewing gum taxes
dying in committee afterwards.
Os the items proposed as taxable,
it will be seen that all discriminate
against groups generally inarticulate.
; Silk hose may be regarded as a ne
j cessity, but the number of women
j voters, it is believed, dropped not less
j than 45 per cent, in 1938. Children,
I the chief users of chewing gum—es
| pecially ‘bubble gum,’ which was in
; eluded in the 1938 tax measure that
| failed—are not eligbile to vote.
Motion pictures and soft drinks, of
course, are minor comforts of the
middle classes and small luxuries to
the lower income groups, who cannot
afford the expensive club entertain
ments and elaborate collations en
joyed by those with large incomes.
Cosmetics, however, are judged b
the advocates of a ‘nuisance tax’ a
wholly unnecessary for Georgia wom
en, and there at least they have thei'
opponents stopped: for only the un
patriotic would argue that any Geor
gia girl needs lipstock or powder.
Although the suggestion of a ‘nui
sance tax’ is vulnerable to sound eco
nomic criticism, as well as open to
ridicule, it is being entertained seri
ously. For Georgia must balance its
budget and meet the fiscal problem
of its counties as well. Some of the
other suggestions for budget-balanc
ing are equally fantastic, for exam
ple:
Next Week —Economy Won’t Pro
vide Cash.
The technique of combining
color, light and movement has been
carried out in the New York
World’s Fair Pre-View on Wheels
and Southern Motorcade now tour
ing the South under the sponsor
ship of the distributors of Arcadian
Nitrate, the American Soda. The
Motorcade depicts in large-scale
diorama form, the varied buildings
of the Fair, and, by means of a 60
foot canvas background, a pano
rama of the Fair grounds. When
flooded by light and color from”the'
searchlights thrown upon it, the ■ *
show on wheels takes on a vivid
pn4 dramatic fippeeraTuse,
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: ' THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1939.
Rivers’ First Official
Act of His Second Term
Proclaims ‘Button Week’
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r n the picture above Governor Rivers is shown signing a
proclamation setting aside the week of January 23 as “Button
Week,” in Georgia, as L. Thomas (Pat,) Gillen, executive director
of the state committee for the celebration of the President’s
birthday looks on.
It was Governor Rivers' first official act of his second term
the governor turning Immediately from his inaugural message
urging completion of his program for betterment of under
privileged in Georgia to another means of humanitarianism—the
raising of money with which to fight infantile paralysis, the
dread disease which has crippled more than 600,000 over the
nation:
The governor’s proclamation, which also declares January
30, the President’s birthday, a state holiday, follows:
“WHEREAS: On September 23, 1937, the Honorable Franklin
D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, did create a National
Foundation to lead, direct and unify a national fight on infantile
paralysis: and. r
"WHEREAS: The President has agreed that his birthday.
January 30th, may be used for celebrations over the nation to
raise funds for this fight,
"NOW THEREFORE: By virtue of the authority vested in
me, 1 do announce and proclaim the week preceding January 30tli
in each year as "Button Week,” during which buttons or badges
may be sold to raise funds for the fight on infantile paralysis,
and I do announce and proclaim the day, January 30th, in each
year, a State Holiday, for the celebration of the Birthday of that
great Humanitarian, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and to allow all
citizens of the State of Georgia to participate fully in the cele
bration of the President’s Birthday and in the fight against
infantile paralysis.” r
BANDIT GETS NICKEL.
SOUTH BEND, Ind.—Walking into
a candy store, a bandit asked for and
paid 5 cents for a candy bar. Then
he demanded all the cash in the reg
ister, and got it—it was 5 cents.
how iny
about it, too\..
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I’M PROUD to be part of Georgia’s
biggest industry —its cotton textile
mills. My job means everything to
me and my family. When the mill is
running full time I get steady work
and a full pay envelope—and that
means groceries and clothes and
other living expenses.
“That’s why I’m against unwise laws
and high taxes and trouble makers.
They hurt business. They hurt me
and my family, too.
“And when the mill has to shut down
and stops paying wages and buying
cotton, we mill workers aren’t the
only ones that suffer. It hurts the
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
RICHMOND, Ind.—When her au
tomobile turned over on a highway
near here, the driver crawled out
unhurt. Lucky? Yes —so’s her name
—Mrs. Jean Luckey.
THE ANSWERS
1. In Vienna in 1882.
2. About $3,300,000,000.
3. In Bavaria.
4. The British Broadcasting trans
lated parts of the message into both
languages and put them on the air.
5. He has been for more than fifty
years.
6. On July 2., 1916, a bomb ex
ploded during a “Preparedness Day”
parade in San Francisco, killing ten
people. Mooney was accused, convict
ed and sentened to death.
7. He won hammer-throwing events
in 1908, 1912, 192 Ci and 1924.
8. About 1,350 miles.
9. A special court to secretly try
cases of treason.
10. About 15 per cent.
Isn’t it peculiar that hard times
stop few automobiles ? The owners
seem to be able to always manage to
buy gasoline.
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the sole purpose of saving money on insurance
for farmers. During each of the 45 years a sub
stantial saving has been made.
If compared to Old Line Farm Rates we save
you more than 25 per cent the first year and
more than 50 per cent each following year.
This splendid record has caused many local
farmers to have their fire insurance written in
this excellent company. See or write
Farmers Co-Operative
Insurance Association
428 Broad Street Rome, Georgia
entire community—farmers, store
keepers and everybody else. I’m glad
I’ve got a job that enables me to
take care of my family. And 60,000
cotton mill workers in Georgia will
agree with me—LET’S KEEP THE
COTTON MILLS IN GEORGIA.”
LET S KEEP the
COTTON HILLS
IN GEORGIA
It is a good idea to go to church
on Sundays. You may get enough re
ligion to last you throughout the
week.
— |
j: Attorney-at-Law j
Summerville, Georgia. j
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