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WASHINGTON OPINION
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WET AND DRY PROPHETS.
"Good morning; how are you this
morning? Terribly dbjr; everythng
is burning up; crops are being ruin-
of
"Good morning; how are you this
morning? Awfully wet; crops are
being ruined; be an awful hard year."
The above Are what might be term
ed wet and dry salutations with
prophetical settings. It is| one of
the most natural things for folks to
epesk of the weather; they discuss
the weather, no doubt, when nothing
Washington, D. C., Sept. 18.
MELLON STIMULATES TAX
INTEREST.
It was announced upon the return
Secretary Mellon that he would
renew his attempts at the coming
session of Congress to secure tax
legislation more to his liking than
the present law. Secretary Mellon
will make another attack upon tax-
exempt securities and he will also
renew his opposition to the publicity
features of the law passed by the
present Congress. No matter wheth
er one agrees with Mr. Mellon or not
it must be admitted that he stimu
lates interest in the rather dry sub
ject of taxation. The National Tax
League gathering at St. Louis, arid
the Senate investigating committee
it is going to be impossible let the
next administration, no matter who
heads it, to direct the policy of legis
lation, after the fourth of next March.
It has been well observeo that inter
est in the Presidency hides a fighi
of equal importance concerning the
make-up of Congress.
rise appears handy for a mere pass
in* of tjie time. , We do it almost un- that has tax measures under scrutiny,
consciously. j have been advised in advance that
But most of us have fallen into the Mr. Mellon, as usual, wants to have
fiabit of putting on the gloomy rec- j his own way. The Senate Committee
ord if there is an excess of either has employed statisticians and law-
dry or wet. Wouldn’t it be just as
well to say something cheerful?.
After all, we cannot tell wjiat either
condition is going to bring forth in
the end. Too much rain at times will
Of course damage certain crops, but
on the other hand it is liable to en
hance other things. Very few proph
ecies pan out like conditions appear.
The psychology of the thing is
what counts in the long run. People
can be made cheerful by everybody
appearing cheerful. A gloomy at
mosphere can be Bpread during even
the most prosperous times by some
one starting a gloomy propaganda.
So let’s don’t let the wet weather
get our goat before we find out how
it is going to result. We may -have
cause to change our minds.
PERSONAL LIABILITY—WHY
NOT?
A Greenburg, La., paper reports
that in jan endeavor to burn the car
cass of a deer which they had shot
illegally, two hunters started a brush
fire in a national forest last fall which
escaped their control. It was neces
sary for the Government to call out
a large crew of men in order to ex
tinguish the fire. As it was, 2,000
acres of forest land was blackened
before the fire was put out.
The two hunters were subsequently
haled into court and ordered to pay
the United States government the
sum of $2,600, the cost of controlling
t{ie fire which had been started by
their own negligence.
yers who are engaged in gathering
definite informal|on from material l
in the Treasury Department as to 1
what'part of tfye public evades taxes, !
and they expect to find out definitely
what part of this evasion is repre-
j sented by holdings of tax(-exempt
securities. Many people have ap
parently run away with the idea that
tax-exemption and tax-evasion are
synonymous terms; but that this is !
an erroneous idea is indicated by
fucts that have been uncovered with
in the last six months tending to
show that the great bulk of tax-
evasion is perpetrated through the
means of undivided profits, and that
compared with these undivided profits
the matter of tax-exempt securities
is of very little consequence. There
is a growing conviction that there
has been a gross exaggeration of the
importance of the so-called tax-ex
emption, and some of the Senators
on the investigating committee have
already stated that they believe this
to be a fact. During the present
political upheaval and pending the
forthcoming report upon the subject
when Congress meets, there is a dis
position on the part of State and
local officials throughout the country
to reserve judgment until material
like that sought by the Senate Com
mittee is collected and made public.
INDUSTRIES MOVING WEST.
The Nation’s economic life is
changing, as is shown by the fact
that the Atlantic coagt as a produc
ing section, now rates at fifty-two
per cent; the Mississippi Valley a
forty-ope per cent; and the Pacific
coast and Mountain States at seven
per cent. The Mississippi Valley
produced only nineteen per cent of
the country’s needs in 1850. Steam
and electricity have revolutionized
the transportation facilities of the
country and in consequence there has
been a great gain in the developmeni
of factories close to the source of
raw products. While electricity has
built the large cities it has at the
same time shown the factories the
way out into thj country. It is
pointed out that whereas most of the
big magazines were printed in New
York City ten years ago that these
big printing plants are now being
located in the smaller places. The
same is true of many other indus
tries, and the desire to lessen the
cost of "overhead,” is changing pro
duction methods. The cotton indus
try has drawn manufacturing plants
to the South. The steel industry has
changed its base of operation and
this is also true regarding wood
making concerns, shoe manufacturers
and the paper mills. Hydro-electric
power is beginning to do its part in
revolutionizing the location of indus
tries, and in consequence our eco
nomic geography is changing rapidly.
When power can be brought two
hundred miles or more over electric
cables it is naturally much easier to
transport it than it is to move a whole
manufacturing plant ob a town to the
side of a stream, or to a place where
it is easy to get the steam. Besides,
see the freight it saves.
No More!
Price Reduction
SALE
Beginning Saturday, Sept. 20th,
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Lad Lassie Cloth, new
patterns, per yard ....... &UC
Yard Wide Sheeting, <■
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Oc
9-4 Unbleached Sheet- Qj
ing, 55c yd. value, at * <J<
9c
Bed Ticking, sale price -f
per yard 1
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Cretonnes, beautiful |
colors, worth 20c yd., at 1UC
Men’s Solid Leather /h*
Scout Shoes Jpl
.65
Feather Ticking, 45c «v
grade, sale price, yard Lk
9c
Ladies’ Solid Leather /h *•
Every Day Shoes Ip J
.95
Poiret Twill, $1.00 value
per yard 03C
Men’s Sport Sweaters,
$3.50 grade, sale price IpZuDU
Silk Stripe Madras, yd. * ,
wide, sale price, yard 1 <
Sc
Men’s $1.00 Work Shirts
double stitch, 2 pockets f JU
FALL FIGHTS FISHING.
IN AID OF THE BAND WAGON.
Politicians know that a lot of vot-
rs have a fondness for riding on
the band wagon, and this may account'
This is a sufficient decision and : f or the conflicting statements that
adds strength to the legal precedent have been coming from rival training
tor personal liability for fire care- 'camps of Presidential candidates dur-
laasly started. It will undoubtedly | ing the past two or three weeks,
atimulate a wholesome public respect .There appear to be some extraordi-
for forest protection, and the scope nary ground swells, and some of the
of the decision should be extended to
include fire damage caused by carc-
lessness to other classes of property.
band wagons will have to detour.
The following are the national tick
ets in the field: Republican, Demo-
Former Secretary of the Interior
Fall has successfully attacked a
Grand Jury investigation in Washing
ton. The Government prosecutors
secured the attendance of a stenog
rapher in the Grand Jury room that
was, as Fall alleged, on a “fishing
expedition” for evidence. The only
result of the Fall objection wa3 to
start a new Grand Jury investiga
tion. The special attorneys for the
Attorney General declare that they
have new facts and mattgrs in the
oil scandal that are entirely differ
ent from those that have been pre
viously uncovered.
The Biggest Bargains Ever Offer
ed in Thomson for 10 Days
At The
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WATCH THE SOUTH.
One
The practice of team-work, co-op- cratic, Independent-Progressive, Ame-
eration, concerted effort, or whatever rican Purty, Prohibition, Workers of
it may aptly be called, cannot be j America, Farmer-Labor, National
emphasized too vigorously in fire | Farmer-Labor-Prqgressive, Socialist,
prevention. At the same time, in- and Peoples. Only one of these par-
dividual responsibility and the sin- ' t i e3 has recognized the women by
BANK DEPOSITS.
Bank deposits in the United States
have increased a billion dollars during
the last four months. ‘ Federal statis- i ' n ® s
of the most rapidly develop
ing territories in the world today Is
the Southern United States. The
South has awakened from its sleep
and is building a solid industrial
structure on its important natural
resources. New factories, office build-
homes, schools and churches
tics show thnt individual thrift seems
are springing up. The uneducated
later shadow of personal liability will
do much to “stay the careless hand.”
•—The Manufacturer.
THE WAYS OF BIG MEN.
"How did a little town like Louis
ville, Ga., manage to get a big preach
er like Mr. Truett to conuf there to
naming one on its ticket—the Pro
hibition party, whose vice presidential
nominee is Miss Marie C. Behm, of
California. La Follette and Wheeler
are on the Independent-Progressive
and the Socialist tickets. There is a
Farmer-Labor and a National Farm
er-Labor-Progressive ticket, and as
hold a protracted • meeting? Why, the three principal tickets are spec-
his services are in such demand that ializing on farmers, that industry is
he cannot begin to fill his engage- well represented in the campaign,
ments in the large cities.”
Such remarks as the above have
been heard since the announcement
that Mr. Truett is to preach at Louis
ville, and it is a matter of speculation
to be supplanting swift) living to i
such an extent as to permit many of i
our citizens to lay by considerable
money in the bank. Of course this
does not mean that all people have
money in the bank, but the extra
billion does distribute itself among
many people.
IS IT FAIR?
THE FIGHT FOR CONGRESS.
There are thirty-three Senators to
be elected this year. Seventeen Re
publican seats are
until you learn more of the character- The entire membership of the House
latics of the man. 1 0 f Representatives will be chosen on |
Great men are in ^deep sympathy .November 4. Because of the interest I
with the common people, and we that centers in the Presidential elec- I
take it Mr. Truett longs to get back tion very little attention is being I
to the kind of people from which he given to the completion of the new i
'sprang—just plain country’ folks. Congress. And yet neither Coolidge I
He was reared as a poor mountain
If any securities were to be tax-
free, it should be those of productive
industry. What the world needs is
more and more investors to put their
money into producing industry—fac- -
jonroversy. 'tories, railroads, public utilities, any- ern f° res * s are a ^ so being utilized to
negro, “the poor white and the tra
ditional Southerner are all passing
from the scene. Industry and com-
! merce is becoming part and parcel of
| the life of a country that was agri-
cultural entirely and not even pro
gressively so.
The South is progressing so amaz
ingly because effective use is being
made of existent natural resources.
Such power developments as those of
the Mississippi River Power Com
pany, the Alabama Power Company,
Muscle Shoals, and the Duke develop
ments have been made centers for
pulsating industry. The rich South-
jnor Davis can possibly hope, in esae
lad and naturally he had to adapt 0 f the election of either, to carry out
himself to the splendors of the big ^ the policies of his party unless there
city churches. We see him very ; s an absolute elimination of the so-
ofton breaking away from the cities j ca u e d Progressives, who now hold the
and going to the less pretentious balance of power in both legislative
towns where no doubt he gets more bodies of Congress. And in case the
real enjoyment out of his work than Independent-Progressive ticket should
he does laboring among the more be elected it is not likely that it will
wealthy class. Such is the bent of
really great men—for nearly all
great men—for nearly
great men come up from the ranks.
thing that will make payrolls and
support homes. A dollar spent for
a local packing plant or mill is worth ,
several times as much as the average j
dollar spent for civic luxury. It
should be encouraged to get into life
and justify its own right to live.
We should have highways and the
other improvements that make com
munity living worth while. But
under present laws income from mon
ey invested in city, county, state aqd
federal securities is exempted from
taxation, thus actually inviting and
encouraging the investor to buy such
, TT securities rather than eipbark in in-
even have a plurality in either House , , . ... ..
r„„,i dustry which permanently employs
labor. The tax-exemption plan
better advantage.. A big kraft paper
industry is being built up. Evidence
of the new order of things is seen in
the fact that in two such important
commodities as textiles and wrapping
1 paper ■ the South is seizing the lead
in production in the United States
Canadians will watch with interest
the South’s progress. In providing
economical power for industry the
States below the Mason-Dixon line
will be competitors of Canada. In
pulp and paper too, they will be in
competition with us. More Import
ant though is the fact that this in
dustrial re-birth of the South empha
sizes again the prosperity that can be
built up on sound and thorough de-
The South Is Coming
Back Into Her Own
From every section of the South
comes most encouraging reports of
better business conditions and there
is more real justification for optim
ism than there has been in several
years.
With more prosperous times
comes the need for better and more
complete banking service. The
THOMSON CITY BANK is equip
ped to Rive the service you need,
and we will thoroughly appreciate
the opportunity of handling your
business.
Thomson City Bank.
Thomson, Georgia.
CARD OF THANKS.
I want to thank the good citizens
of McDuffie county for their support.
Only indifference defeated us.
Respectfully,
JOE DeMEDICIS.
of Congress.
There has been a good deal of spec- f^amentrily'^ngT^but'‘if Tis to i velopment of natural resources,
ulation about the possibility of the J 1
choice of the President being thrown
into the House of Representatives,
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Let The
Pirating.
Progress Do Your Job
because of the fact that a President
and a Vice President elected in the
regular way must have a majority
of the votes of the Electoral College.
A plurality will not suffice. Even
though there is a manner prescribed
for establishing a representative of
a political party in the White House,
there can be no changing of the re
sults by which a Congress is chosen.
With three belligerent party organiz
ations dividing the power of Congress
be continued it should include securi
ties of industries tk&t need lower
taxes and encouragement in order to
operate and maintain payrolls.
Present tax-exemption is a heavy
burden on all business, which must
pay double taxes in order that favor
ed tax-fi-ee securities escape.—The
Manufacturer.
Canada has learned this lesson,
but needs to be reminded of its bless
ings once in a while.—Canadian Fi
nancial Post.
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ASPHALT.
"”.10 cuar.tity ar.d value of asphalt
and related bitumens is increasing,
according to the Geological Survey.
Ok.
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