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FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1924.
THE McDUFFlE PROGRESS, THOMSON, GA.
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fi. 8. NORRIS, Editor and Propr.
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WASHINGTON OPINION
By J. E. Jones.
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THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
The Progress intended to publish
this week the Democratic platform
as adopted at the convention last
Saturday, but owing to its length
was crowded out of this issue, as we
are trying to get off for the Fourth.
We hope to print it next week, how
ever.
TRADE AT HOME.
The merchants of our home town
are doing business on a nominal
profit.
They are here to servo you today,
tomorrow and next year.
They strive to help build and main
tain the inctitutions.
. They pay taxes, support the local
charities and bank their money at
home.
Every sale they make to you must
please, or they lose.
It pays to do business with the
people you know.
It adds to the value of your prop
erty to spend your money at home.
Let’s pull together and make our
town one of the best.
WEEVIL ON THE JOB.
That the boll weevil is right on the
job wherever he may be expected,
is evidenced by an incident told of
Mr. Hubert Kendrick, who operates
a saw mill in the upper part of the
county.
Mr. Kendrick, who has occasion
to delve, into the heart of swamps
looking for saw timber, was in the
middle of a big swamp the other day
when he discovered a lone cotton
ctalk, which had sprung up in such
an unexpected place, the seed no
doubt having been carried there by
birds or other habitues of the wilds.
Anyway, it was there, and upon closer
examination Mr. Kendrick discovered
that the inevitable boll weevil was
there too, for he found one right on
the job on this lone cotton stalk, de
termined that none should escape.
Mr. Kendrick did not, give us this
atory himself, but we presume it is
true. It goes to emphasize the fact
that to get ahead of the weevil we
have got to get up early and work
late, as the saying goes.
Washington, July 3, 1924.
TAXES AND POLITICS.
Evidently the national conventions
of the old parties have let the dear
people of this country in for a long
debate upon the inequalities and the
evasions of taxation. The tax ques
tion has replaced the protective tariff
as the paramount political issue for
the campaign. One will soon be able
to go to sleep at the radio listening
to tajc talks. The President, in sign
ing the tax revision bill, made it
plain that the matter was not settled
and he declared it to be his purpose
to move for improvement of the law
at the coming session of Congress.
The Mellon plan was butchered, and
while a reduction of income taxes
was incorporated in the bill that was
passed, the Republicans claimed that
the manner and method of the law
that went through Congress did not
meet the economic and tax situation
of the country; to which statement
the Democrats retorted that they had
made a law favoring the small tax
payers as against the rich. At the
present moment the opposing parties
are denying one another’s claims,
and the tax question will be debated
from now until the cows come home
in November. Taxation is a subject
that is ordinarily “as dry as chips,”
but every-taxpayer whose purse has
been flattened by what he believes
to have been unjust taxation is nev
ertheless forming his own views of
the methods that have been employ
ed to meet the great national debt in
curred by the war.
of gentlemen possessed o rich re
sourcefulness and acumen these in
terests covered themselves from sight
of the income-tax collector be’ ind a
barrage of “undivided profits.”
Peering from behind this barrage
they found that the total of wholly
tax-free bonds amounted to over
twelve billion dollars. “We’ll have
these bonds taxed; it will reduce our
own overhead,” they decided. And so
began the long-drawn out process of
trying to do this thing by a Federal
statute. The next stop was to de
mand a constitutional amendment.
And there the matter stands. The
last Congress failed to authorize sub
mitting such an amendment. Mean
while school district and road officials,
county supervisors and State officers,
have met the challenge that has been
hurled at them through the Congrc.ss.
There seems little likelihood of
changing the present methods with
regard to taxation of these bonds for
public improvements until the whole
country has found out clearly and
distinctly just why there should be
such a thing as a tax on sclf-local-
Think Of
JOHNSON’S
Phone 193.
government.
AHEAD OF TIME.
The Progress should get to its
readers ahead of time this week.
As the Fourth comes on Friday, it
gives us a chance to take the day off
providing we get the paper out of
the way. There may be some matter
left out on this account, but we will
try to make up for it the next time.
The Progress trusts all will .have
an enjoyable day the Fourth, and
feel thankful for the great event
that gives us occasion to celebrate
the glorious day.
WORK ON FILLING STATION
WILL BEGIN SOON.
Work of grading the site on Main
street for the new Thomson Mercan
tile Motor Co. filling station has been
completed, and work on the building
will commence in a short while. The
"equipment has been ordered and will
be installed as soon as everything is
ready.
Mr. H. A. Price, proprietor, informs
us that he is going to put in one of
the most up-to-date filling stations
In this section of the state. Besides
the oil tanks, situated conveniently
for cars going in either direction, and
arranged to facilitate filling, there
will be accessory rooms to the build
ing, so that no time will be lost in
supplying accessories to travelers.
Work shops will remain in the pres
ent building on Journal street, and
storage rooms are located in the rear
of the lot on Main street.
In the new filling station will be
rest rooms for both men and women,
nicely fitted up for comfort and con
venience. This is something that is
very much needed in Thomson and
will fill a long-felt want.
Property Tax and Income Tax.
Under the rules of taxation the
general property tax was the all-
important item of interest. Most of
it went for the support of the local
schools and the building of dirt roads.
The county, state and federal taxes
did not figure heavily in the tax re
ceipt. But today tho Federal incomb
tax is about half as much as the gen
eral property tax. It ( is claimed that
the corporations of the country have
escaped paying something like twen- j
ty-four billions of income aceumula- !
tions during the years 1916 to 1921,
because such income was held by cor
porations as undivided profits. And
it has also developed that about six
ty-eight per cent of all the so-called
tax-exempt securities that are out
standing are held by corporations.
This latter revelation is somewhat
astounding in view of the popular
impression that tax-exempt securities
were being purchased largely by the
very rich, who avoided worry and^
work by putting their money into 1
these fion-troublesome investments.
Another phase of the same story
seems to uncover the fact that only
six or seven per cent of the popula
tion pays any Federal income tax,
and that only two per cent of the
farmers paid any Federal income tax
in 1920. But the general property
tax gets them all, and its total con
tribution to the expenses of public
government is twice the amount of
the Federal tax. From the “looks
of things” there is a pretty well dir
ected movement in existence, aside
from partisan politics, to lift a good
deal of the “rich man’s tax burden”
and shift it onto the rounded shoul
ders of the local tax-payers who are
poor.
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Beware of imitation*. Demand
the genuine in 10c and 35c pack*
age* bearing above trade mark.
THE TWENTIETH AMENDMENT.
The twentieth amendment to the
Constitution is now in the shape of
a proposal to the States. Congress
considered twenty-three resolutions
upon the subject of child labor before
accepting one of them, and certifying
the proposal to the States. The
legislature of forty-two States meet
in 1925, and in order to pass the
amendment it will be necessary for
three-fourths of all the States to
ratify.
Presidents Wilson, Harding, and
Coolidge got back of the proposal
that is now going forward in the
shape of a constitutional amendment.
There are 1,060,858 children in the
United States between the ages of
ten and fifteen who are working—or
one in every twelve. Sixty-one per
cent of these are employed in agri
culture, forestry and animal husband
ry and 17.5 per cent in manufactur
ing and mechanical industries. The
child labor laws in the States do not
consider agriculture labor, but in non-
agricultural occupations Illinois em
ploys 31,000 children; New Jersey,
25,000; New York, 47,000; Massa
chusetts, 33,000, and Pennsylvania,
60,000. In the New England mill
cities nearly 18 per cent of the chil
dren are at work. Thus it is dis
closed that after nearly a century of
state legislation on the subject of
child labor that over a million chil
dren who should be in school arc in
the industrial snare. The constitu
tional amendment, if adopted, will
permit Congress to legislate with
reference to the employment of child
labor. At the present time this is
not possible because the United
States Supreme Court has held that
such a law until the constitution is
changed, is not valid.
What you want when
you want it.
Celebrated Sensation
Flour—None better.
Purina Feeds are best,
cost less—We handle
them exclusively.
Fancy Groceries — all
fresh and clean.
You know what you
are getting at John
son’s.
Fruits and Vegeta
bles—We always have
it if it’s to be had.
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We close Friday, July
4th — Please give us
your orders Thursday.
Prompt Delivery.
GOING OUT OF
BUSINESS
10 PER CENT REDUCTION TO JULY 15.
I am closing out my stock of Meats and
Groceries, and expect to go out of business
July 15th. Up to that date everything will
be sold at a 10 per cent reduction.
All my stock is fresh and clean, and it will
pay you to take advantage of this big reduc
tion.
I greatly appreciate the patronage ac
corded me in the past, and take this oppor
tunity of thanking my friends and custom
ers, each and every one.
City Market Co.
H. EULOND CLARY, Propr.
JOHNSON’S
Phone 193.
Civil War Taxes May
Be Returned.
THE LAPSE OF JUSTICE.
SCHOOLS AND ROADS.
About u billion and a quarter dol
lars of road bonds have been issued
in the past five years. Everywhere
the new civilization is demanding
good roads. It is estimated that a
million school children {ire not prop
erly housed in school buildings, and
a great many bond issues are being
floated to meet the necessity of edu
cating the rising generation. Water
supply, sewers, public works and
public buildings of all kinds are now
provided generally by the bond issues.
Ttys is due to the fact that the tax-
burden has been piling up so high
that it has become necessary to re
sort to long-time borrowings in order
that the taxpayers may at least keep
their shirts when they come to settle
with the tax collectors.
These bond issues havp been regu
lated under State laws. The com
munities that have sold . bonds for
their roads, schools, water supply,
etc., haven’t seen any reason why
they should add an additional burden
upon their people by making them
pay a tax on these bonds. No one,
they have always reasoned, could gain
from taxing themselves additionally
because they had taxed themselves
in the first place for the common
good.
Upon this established principle the
States and the local communities
have proceeded. This might all have
gone on forever had not the war cre
ated abnormal Federal taxes. The
big property interests were the first
to feel this new pinch in Federal in
come taxes, and as might be expected
Despite the fact that there have
been a good many decisions of the
United States Supreme Court where
the decisions have been made by a
majority of one Justice, the fact re
mains that the Supreme Court has
maintained a dominant position with
the American people since Chief
Justice John Marshall triumphed over
the political forces that attempted to
destroy that Court. It is not charged
that there have been any lapses of
justice in this great Court due to the
inefficiency or the legal technique
that is involved. People have un
limited faith in their Supreme Court,
and the public is only tolerant of sug
gestions to reform because reform is
in the air, and is applied to every
thing. Even trial by jury does not
always please everybody.
POPLAR.
A poplar tree that will square
12x12x40 will produce more than 500
feet of lumber which at a very low
estimate is worth $20.00.
The tree standing in the woods or
on the land at a low estimate is
worth $5.00.
Save your poplar sapplings, let
them grow into trees.
20 poplar trees that will square
12x12 will bring you $100.00.
Save your poplar trees, also let
the Dogwood and Persimmon come
along.
Ten years from today the timber
buyers will call on you oftener than
the book agents or fruit tree men.
The woods will be full of them.
Mark my words and profit there
from.
When I was a yopng man, there
was no one to give me advice, timber
was plentiful and everyone thought
it would last always, says C. B. Har
man, Treasurer Georgia Forestry
Association.
Atlanta, Ga., July 3.—Figures made
public here show that Georgia citi
zens have an interest of more than
eleven millions of dollars in the joint j
resolution recently offered in the U.
S. Senate by Senator Keyes, Repub
lican, of New Hampshire, authoriz
ing suits against the government to
recover for direct taxes illegally col
lected from various states after the
Civil War, in 1866, 1867 and 1868.
The resolution, in which a number of
northern states \^ill join support,
goes further than the old cotton tax
controversy and involves altogether
about two hundred millions. A»re
cent decision of the U. S. Supreme
Court covering such direct taxation
encouraged introduction of the reso
lution.
The resolution, as introduced by
Senator Keyes, was prepared by Sen
ator Keyes and Former U. S. Senator
Hoke Smith, of Georgia, the latter
,of whom is representing the various
interests throughout the United
States who seek the return of these
taxes. The state of New Hampshire
recently passed legislation directing
its governor to make claim against
the federal treasury for taxes
amounting to $7,000,000 held to have
been collected unlawfully from its
citizens in 1806, 1867 and 1868.
There was collected from citizens
of Georgia during the years named,
in direct taxes, more than $11,000,000,
and under this resolution provision
would be made for the repayment to
their legal representatives of the
amount so illegally collected.
There have been a number of
efforts to obtain legislation which
would return to citizens these taxes
levied upon cotton. It now appears,
however, that the tax paid on cotton,
was not more than one fourth of the
direct taxes collected by the govern
ment in disregard of the constitution
al provision requiring direct taxes
to be apportioned among the states
according to population.
Rowland E. Stevens, a prominent
New England lawyer, represents
New Hampshire, and associated with
him is Captain Burton Smith, for
merly of Atlanta and now of New
York City, with law offices at 27
Cedar street. Captain Burton Smith
is largely responsible for the move
ment which lookp to the return of all
these taxes instead of merely the re
turn of the taxes illegally collected
on cotton. This change of proceedure
involves the interests of practically
all of the states, rather than of sim
ply the cotton-growing states.
Men! Men!
LOOK! LISTEN! SEE
THE TOGGERY SHOP
SUMMER CLEARANCE SALE
$20.00 Mohair Suits $7.95
$2.00 Men’s Shirts 89c
$1.50 Men’s Union Suits 65c
$5.00 Men’s Oxfords $2.85
$15.00 Palm Beach Suits :.... $6.85
50c Men’s Hose 19c
$5.00 Men’s Straw Hats $1.45
$1.00 Wool Shirts 49c
THE TOGGERY SHOP, Augusta, Ga.
WINFIELD NEWS
By Pet.
Miss Mary Willie Sims and Mr.
Joe Tankersley, of Tignall, were vis
itors in Winfield Sunday.
OREN DEAS
Miss Frances Fortson was the
week-end guest of Mrs. E. M. Story.
Rev. and Mrs. Burnett and family
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Smith.
Furniture repairing all kinds and up
holstering, dealing in all kind of
antique furniture, brass and irons,
candlesticks, and fendeos. Old china-
ware, old clocks, old pictures and
portraits, silver and pewter ware.
Would buy anything in this line and
i pay a fair price. We sell reasonable
as possible. Bring them or write us
full discription.
Misses Helen Paachal and Ruth
Tankersley have returned home after
a pleasant visit in Lincolnton.
OREN DEAS, Propr.
Phone 3511. 309 7th St.
AUGUSTA, GA.
M|ss Ruth Fortson spent Sunday
afternoon with Miss Alma Paschal
who returned home with her to spend
the week.
WILLIAMSON’S GARAGE
Packard and Cadillac
Service Station.
Miss Esther Reese was a pleasant
visitor in Winfield Sunday.
119 Eighth St.
Augusta, Ga.
Miss Ida Pearson spent the week
end with her sister, Mrs. Hannah.
Mr. Claude Dozier is visiting rela
tives here.
Mrs. H. M. Fortson is visiting rela
tives and friends in Tignall.
Those dining with Mrs. H. D. Story
Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. E. M.
Story and son, Ray, Miss Frances
Fortson and Mr. Joe Tankersley.
Enemy of Grasshopper
An agricultural technologist of the
pureau of plant Industry has found
:hat a certain parasite, called "merml-
tlild,” is one of tlie deadliest enemies of
the grasshopper. Artificially Infested
frasshoppers containing six or eight
tnermithids die in about eight days.
Che parasites multiply with amazing
•apldity.
Miss Annie Lou Tankersley is vis
iting in Tignall.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cliatt and fam
ily spent the week-end in Augusta.
Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Dozier and
family spent the week-end in Lin-
colnton.
Miss Virginia Dozier spent Sunday
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. W.
Lane.
Mr. W. J. Baston, Jr., spent the
week-end at home.
“ROLL YOUR OWN” RADIO SET.
Farm boys have built 200,000 of the
quarter of a million radio sets noi^
in use in farm homes in the forty-
eight States. Home made sets cost
ing less than $6 are very satisfactory.
Send a 10 cent coin to Superintend
ent of Documents, Government Print
ing Office, Washington, D. C., and re
quest' Standards Circular Nos. 120
and 121 which will give full direc
tions.
HOLIDAY AT POSTOFFICE.
The postoffice will be closed all day
Friday. July 4th. There will be no
deliveries on R. F. D. Routes and
only one in the City.
J. D. BASTON, Postmaster.
NOTICE, EX-SERVICE MEN.
Application blanks with instruc
tions for adjusted Compensation may
be had by al! ex-service men at the
postoffice.
We are glad to see Mr. James
Guillebeau able to be among his
friends again.
Miss Annie Lou Tankersley spent
a few days last week with Miss
Frances Fortson while the latter was
ill.
Messrs. “Speedy” Steed and
“Sugar” Tankersley were visitors in
Cobbham and Whiteoak Sunday af
ternoon.
Weight of Whales
Different species of whales vary
greatly in size and weight. The small
er whales are known as dolphins and
porpoises. Perhaps the largest species
of whale Is the sulphur-bottomed or
blue whale. It sometimes attains 90
feet in length and 14,000 pounds In
weight.
Penn’s Words of Wisdom
Above all things endeavor to bring
children up la the love of virtue, and
that holy plain way of it which we
have lived in, that the world In no part
of it get Into my family. I had rather'
they were homely than finely bred as
to outward behavtor; yet I love sweet
ness mixed with gravity, and cheerful
ness tempered with sobriety.—William
Penn.
Coloring Candles
A colored layer of wax may be ap
plied to the outside of the candles or
the colors may be added in the form
>f a paste to the melted wax when the
handles are being qmde. The powdered
:olor may be dissolved first in a little,
ileohol, then mixed with turpentine
ind applied to the outside of the can-
lie.
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