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FACIS ABOUT THE
SOLDIERS^ BONUS
The bonus question and tax reduc
tion are the two live issues before
Congress. Politicians seeking re-elec
tion hate to commit themselves on
either measure at the present time.
Real statesmen have been trying to
work out these national problems and
give the people the facts. If the peo
ple know the facts, public opinion
may be relied upon to bring about a
satisfactory conclusion.
The three different measures plac
ed before Congress for a soldiers’
bonus are the Fordney, McCumber
and Mott bills. All three bills give
ex-service men the option of choosing
any one, but only one, of the follow
ing plans:
1. Adjusted service pay, cash
award. 2. Adjusted service certi
ficates, insurance. 3. Vocational
training aid. 4. Farm or home aid.
5. Land settlement aid. Cost in
volved in these bills varies as does
time in which government must pay.
The McCumber bill has made most
progress, as it has been reported on
favorably by Senate Finance Com
mittee. But from taxpayers’ stand
point and for good of country, the
Fordney bill is considered best as the
government has longer time in which
to pay.
In considering McCumber bill, the
Finance Committee believes minimum
possible cost would be $1,560,000,000
if every veteran took the cash pay
ment plan. The maximum would be
$5,273,000,000 if every veteran took
adjusted service certificates (insur
ance). Under what Finance Commit
tee believes would be real operation
of legislation, total cost would be
about $4,396,000,000 scattered over a
period of 20 years.
Comparing govermental expendi
tures for 11 months of fiscal year
1921 with whole year 1914, it is found
that" federal expenditures were $2,-
700,000,000 more than expenditures
for 1914. Proposed bonus would be
in addition to these expenditures.
For year ending June 30, 1921, ex
penditures of federal government
alone were about $50 per capita, or
$250 per annum per family, as
against $7.07 per capita in 1914.
Taking the 17-months period du
ring which we were at war it is found
that the various enlisted men re
ceived in pay during that time the
following sums: United States,
$570.00; France, $27.55; Italy, $33.06;
Russia, $7.41; Great Britain, $138.70;
New Zealand, $138.70; South Africa,
$138.70. It is understood Belgium
paid a slightly higher rate than
France; Canada paid the spie as
the United States; while Australia
paid approximately $42.00 a month,
the highese amount of any country.
Every state in the nation except
six has rrtade provision for bonuses
or assistance to ex-soldiers. These
benefits arq estimated to total over
$184,000,000. In addition, the nation
al government gave cash bonuses at
time of discharge.
Roughly, the foregoing is a sum
mary of facts involved in the bonus
question. It will be for people of
United States to decide whether in
face of such expenditures as have al
ready been made and as are being
made to maintain our government at
present time, it is wise or necessary
to enact proposed bonus legislation
for benefit of uninjured veterans, at
a cost estimated at from $1,500,000,-
000 to $5,000,000,000.
power trunk line of nine hundred
miles across the Appalachians that
links North Carolina, South Carolina,
[Alabama, Tennessee and Geoi’gia.
) A superpower system already ex
ists in the Northwest, stretching 1000
miles east and west with 5000 miles
of transmission lines and a combined
capacity of 500,000 horse power. In
, California superpower has for some
time been a reality. Every step in
i this direction means increased ad
vantages for consumers.
Public Pays For Tax Ex-empts.
“Money tied up in federal and tax-
exempt securities is increasing the
expense to industrial interprises of
i selling securities in blocks. These
enterprises must pay excessive rates
of interest to equal the 4 1-2 per cent
on tax-exempt federal bonds and in
| addition taxes which private indus
try must pay," says Franklin T. Grif
fith, President Portland Railway
Ligth & Power Co.
What Superpower Is.
The electric industry in the United
tates has had a remarkable growth
i every item of importance the past
gar. Greatly increased use of elec-
■ical power in industries and a wider
pplication of electricity in the home
the cause.
Within the last few months the
juntry has begun to hear of “Super-
ower.” It is proposed that we burn
3al in great central power stations,
t the mouth of the mine itself, thus
iving useless waste in transporta-
on, useless loss in valuable by-pro-
ucts that amount to many million
ollars annually, and useless small-
;ale conversion into power in thous-
nds of furnaces that now waste 80
er cent of the chemical energy in
aal as heat. It is. proposed also,
lat we really begin to tap our vast
’sources of water power—now less
tan ten per cent developed—hitching
lem into the great systems fed by
urning coal. It is proposed to gen-
rate power at its sources and ship
along transmission lines, at new
oltages which engineers are begin-
ing to command, to interlock the
ountry in a finely-woven copper net.
'hat is Superpower.
With electric power generated by a
•aterfall in Oregon you can light a
eading lamp today in Yuma, Ari-
ona. There is a great electric horse-
hoe in Michigan that links ten of the
jrgest cities in the state; there is a
Superpower project under way in
astern section of Ohio; there is a
Get The Facts Straight.
“The International Interpriser” of
recent date says: “The stability of
government chiefly depends on em-
iployment in useful industries, and in
contentment and wellbeing of the
masses of the people. Idleness and
unemployment mean poverty, misery,
low grade morale, and breed radical
ism, immorality and crime. To deal
with unemployment by ‘doles’ still
further lowers morale, and builds up
intolerable tax burdens. To stimu
late industry and lessen unemploy
ment is the first and obvious mandate
in family, community and national
life.”
The above summary shows neces
sity for industrial development which
maintains payrolls and steady em
ployment. Certainly all political
parties can agree on this point.
In the past when the word ‘tariff”
has been mentioned in connection
with industry, it has been a red flag
to arouse the antagonism of individ
uals with varying political beliefs.
Mystery about the tariff has been en
couraged by politicians who, like the
magician or “snake doctor” of old,
hold a mysterious power over large
numbers of poeple by keeping them
in ignorance of tricks or fake prac
tices.
Those nations which have recogniz
ed necessity for protecting their in
dustries by reasonable tariffs to en
able them to cempete with foreign
products in home market,have de
veloped most rapidly in raising the
standard of living, wages and work
ing conditions for the masses. The
United States, which leads the world
in high wages and modern conven
iences for all the people, is typical
of a nation where the home worker
has been protected by, a tariff that
encouraged industrial development.
The International Farm Congress
advocates definite and permanent re
moval of tariff question from politics
and urges its consideration from
purely economic standpoint.
Since the war, England has been
harassed with great unemployment
and millions and millions of dollars
have been handed out by the govern
ment in form of doles. England is
advertised as a “free trade” country.
It is free trade in thisVay, industrial
workers and basic industries as ex
posed to competition of manufactur
ed products from countries having a
lower wage scale or a higher degree
of efficiency than in England. Hence,
English industries and English work
men must produce at a starvation
price in many instances even to ex
ist.
In 1920, out of a customs revenue
of 149,554,000 pounds sterling collec
ted by Great Britain, sugar, tea and
tobacco, three necessities of life of
English woi’kmen, paid 119,492,562
pounds. Manufactured articles which
were shipped in from other countries
and competed with the British work
men paid a very small tariff.
Great Britain uses the tariff to
raise revenue, not to protect indus
try and workmen, while in Un’ted
States our tariff has been arranged
to encourage industrial development
with resulting employment and good
wages. In “free trade” Great Brit
ain the average per capita tariff for
1920-21-22 was $13.87.In “high pro
tective tariff” United States for som:.
period the average per capita tariff
was $2.85.
Why not discuss the tariff from'
standpoint of industry and labor
rather than from the standpoint of
partisan politics? Any workman can
see that a portion of a fair day’;
wages will pay his share of tariff
levied by this country, while in Great
Britain where tariff does not protect
industries or workmen, it may take
a week’s wages of poorly paid em
ployes to pay he per capita tariff of
that nation.—The Manufacturer.
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Sunday School
’ Lesson'
(By KKV. P. B. F1TZWATER, D.D.,
Dean of the Evening School, Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago.)
(©. U’lU, Western Newspnpcr Union.)
LESSON FOR JANUARY 20
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MOSES CALLED TO DELIVER
ISRAEL
LESSON TEXT—Exod. 8:1-12.
GOLDEN T”XT—By faith Moses,
when he was come to years, refused
to be called the son of Pharaoh's
daughter; choosing rather to suffer af
fliction with the people of God, than
to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a sea
son.—Hob. 11:24, 25.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
IC—Moses, the Liberator.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP
IC—Moses and the Deliverance From
Egyptian Bondage.
After Joseph was dead, there was a
change of dynasty (Exod. 1:8). The
new king, noting the rapid Increase of
the Israelites, counseled the exercise of
prudence lest when war broke out they
join the enemy and light against the
Egyptians. One of the methods to
curtail this Increase was to enslave
the people. Falling In that, an edict
was Issued that every male child
should be drowned. While the oppres
sion of God's people was heading up,
God was providing n deliverer. Moses,
that deliverer, was first trained at his
mother’s knee, then at Pharaoh’s court
and finally under God's Immediate hand
in the desert.
I. The Lord Spoke to Moses From
the Burning Bush (Exod. 3:1-6).
It was while keeping the flock of Ills
father-in-law in the desert that the
Lord appeared to Moses in the vision
of the burning bush. This hush, en
veloped in flames, yet unconsumed,
symbolized the people of God en-
swatlied in the very fire of God, or
God dwelling in the midst of an elect
people. Moses stepped aside to be
hold this strange sight and was taught
the essential lesson of the proper ap
proach to God. The Lord did not
leave him long in suspense. He told
him he was the God of his fathers, the
Covenant God. As soon as lie knew it
was God speaking to him, lie hid ids
face.
it. Moses Commissioned as the De
liverer of His People (Exod. 3:7-10).
1. God’s Active Interest In His Peo
ple (v. 7). in the preamble of this
commission, God said to Moses, (1)
“I have seen the affliction of my peo
ple”; (2) “I have heard their cry";
(3) “I know their sorrow.”
2. God’s Gracious Obligation to His
People (vv. 8, 9). (1) To deliver them
out of tlie hand of the Egyptians. (2)
To bring them up out of the land. (3)
To bring them into a "good land and a
large.”
X God’s Commission to Moses (v.
10). “Come now therefore, and I will
sehd thee unto Pharaoh that thou
mayest bring forth my people, the
children of Israel, out of Egypt.” This
call seems to have been a great sur
prise to Moses. At any rate, he real
ized his unfitness to undertake such a
task.
III. Moses’ Objections Patiently
Heard and Removed (Exod. 3:11;
4:10).
1. Personal Unfitness (v. 11). lie
realized his insufficiency for this task.
Moses did not refuse to go, but pled
his difficulty before the Lord. God
answered this difficulty by assuring
him that He would be with him. The
token of Ills presence would he His
worship with the people of Israel on
this mountain.
2. The Difficulty of the People to
Understand Moses’ Relationship to
God (vv. 13, 14). Moses knew hdw un
willing they were to acknowledge him
as their deliverer 40 yeurs before.
Since God reveals Himself under a new
Paine as He assumes a new relationship
to His people, Moses inquired us to
what that new relationship would he,
and Ills corresponding name. The
Lord promptly met tills difficulty re
vealing to him a name different in
many respects from ull others previ
ously given. This new name Is, “I
Am.” This name Is from the Hebrew
word, “to be.” It Indicates (1) God’s
self-existence—the One whose very na
ture it is to be—the cause of all be
ing. (2) His self-sufficiency. He said,
"I Am That I Am.” Since God is the
unique One, He could not go outside
of Himself to explain Himself; (3)
His unchangeableness. What lie al
ways was and is, He evermore shall lie.
3. Unbelief on the Part of the Peo
ple (Exod. 4:1). This difficulty the Lord
met by supplying him with credentials
which could not he gainsaid. He was
given the power to perform supernat
ural wonders (Exod. 4:2).
4. Lack of Eloquence (Exod. 4:10).
This difficulty the Lord met by pro
viding an assistant in the person of his
brother Aaron. Moses was to be in the
place of God to Pharaoh and Aaron
was to be his prophet (Exod. 7:1, 2).
Lasting Friendship.
The friendship of Jesus is one that
lasts.—The Gospel Herald.
Perfect F*eace.
The peace- which the Savior gives
His own is peace of heart find mind
ninid dally duties. It is that “central
peace" which may subsist in the heart
of endless agitation.—Boyd.
A Good Equipment.
Have a heart that never hardens, a
temper that never tires, and a touch
that never hurts.—-Charles Dickens.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Boneville, Ga., Jan. 14th, 1924.
McDuffie County.
Unsolicited by any one whomso
ever, I hereby announce myself a
candidate for the legislature, subject
to the rules of the approaching white
primary. Respectfully,
J. P. WILSON.
TO THE WHITE VOTERS OF
McDUFFIE COUNTY.
1 hereby announce my candidacy
for the office of Sheriff of McDuffie
county, subject to the usual while
primary. If elected, I pledge my
every energy to the faithful, impar
tial and courteous discharge of every
duty which may devolve upon me as
Sheriff. I very earnestly solicit the
active support of my friends and the
public, and shall be deeply grateful
for every consideration shown me.
Respectfully,
JAS. L. LEWIS.
Be Courageous.
-- struggle. Face it.—
inonite.
TO THE VOTERS OF McDUFFIE
COUNTY.
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for the office of Ordinary of
McDuffie county, subject to the rules
f the white primary, and 1 will ap
preciate very highly the votes and
support of the ladies and gentlemen
of the county. And if I am elected
I shall attend to the office to the
very best of my ability, and will feel
like that my time will belong to the
people and the office, and will en
deavor to act accordingly.
Very respectfully,
JAS. S. JONES.
FOR TAX RECEIVER.
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for the office of Tax Receiver
of McDuffie county subject to the
white primary in April, 1924, and will
appreciate the support of all voters,
nd if elected I promise to do my
iuty and get the taxes subject to
axation. ,
Respectfully,
JAS. R. FARR.
FOR TAX RECEIVER.
I hereby announce mystelf a can
didate for the office of Tax Receiver
of McDuffie county, subject to the
primary election in April. I will
greatly appreciate the support of
the voters, and if elected, promise to
give the best service possible.
Respectfully,
MORRIS E. BURKE.
TO THE WHITE VOTERS OF
McDUFFIE COUNTY:
I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for re-election as Tax Receiv
er for McDuffie county, the election
to be held some time next year. In the
future, as in the past, 1 shall give
my very best efforts to the duties
of the ofiice at all times. Thanking
you for your past support and solic
iting a continuance of same, I am
Respectfully,
R. W .CRAWFORD.
December 7th, 1923.
FOR TAX RECEIVER.
Through the solicitation of friends,
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for the office of Tax Receiver of
McDuffie county, subject to the action
of the white primary to be held in
April. I respectfully solicit the sup
port of the voters of the- county, and
if elected promise to give my undi
vided attention to the duties of said
office. ,
Respectfully,
JOHN A. JONES.
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