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Washington, June 23.—1t looks as if the general tax revision, which Congress leaders had hoped to postpone until the next session, may be the live issue which this session of Congress will have to deal with. The President's action in calling attention to instances of tax avoidance by certain rich men, and asking for a Congres sional investigation, has brought the subject of "loopholes" in the tax laws sharply to the fore. It has, Indeed, taken the place which Mr. Roosevelt's Supreme Court reorganization plan has oc cupied for more than three months as the main topic of in terest on Capitol Hill. While the President has not re ceded from his belief that the Supreme Court needs new blood, it is the best opinion here that his plan will not be adopted, at least at this session. It might be possible for a compromise meas ure, providing for two additional judges Instead of six to get through the Senate, though that is questionable, but the opposi tion in the House is now regarded as strong enough to block action. Noi Evasion, But Avoidance The whole point of the "tax loopholes" is that the revenues which were expected from the undistributed earnings tax, en acted last year, have failed to materialize, and the Treasury ex perts who guessed wrong about that tax are trying to find an "out" for themselves by blaming the failure of revenue upon men and corporations which have tak en advantage of holes in the in come tax laws to pay less than the Treasury thinks they ought to have paid. There is no direct y assertion that anyone has done anything r°l Before Y PRINTING From A Give Us A Chance The skip-in and skip-away salesman for outside print ing- plants promises you a 10t... and gets your order... then sends you what may be O. K. or may not be. You fall for the "low-price" talk but often get inferior stock, standardized forms, no proof and delivery when he has secured a volume job lot. We sell yeu Quality Merchandise, show you the stock, furnish proofs, make any and all changes you require, carry you on the books like friends, often "scratch your back" in a generous reciprocal manner . . . and always strive to please you from start to finish. Elk Printing Co. prices of printing are based on stand ard price lists used by good printers. We figure each job and make no "guess" prices. We know our cost and add only a fair and reasonable profit. We invite you to compare prices and quality of work. Elk Printing Co. QUALITY PRINTING Phone 96 Elkin, N. C. illegal. The unnamed individuals are not accused of tax "evasions," which is illegal, but of tax "avoid ance" by methods which may be morally deplorable but which are entirely within the law. The trou ble is with the tax laws, and the present effort will be to plug up the loopholes of which these in dividuals have taken advantage. Men whose income is so large that the payment of taxes upon it is a serious matter, can afford to hire legal experts to show them how they can avoid pay ment of taxes which the ordi nary citizen has to pay because it is not worth the cost to go the trouble of avoiding them. And one of the big problems is how to plug up loopholes through which a few rich men can crawl without inflicting hardships upon the vastly larger number of tax payers who do not try to dodge. To Make Names Public One result of the sudden inter est in tax-avoidance will be to bring out before a congressional committee the names of men who are accused of taking unfair ad vantage of weaknesses in the tax laws. Gossip around Washing ton is the Administration hopes particularly to show up a large motor manufacturer, several members of a very wealthy fam ily and the heads of three import ant chains of daily newspapers. It remains doubtful how far Congress will go in that direction, but it is a reasonable certainty that certain practices which the present tax law permits will be made illegal, and that the pres sure for a complete revision of the tax laws will become strong er. Tax avoidance alone would not account, experts say for more than $100,000,000 of the $600,000,- 000 shortage in this year's esti mates, if that much. Billion-and-a-half Relief Stands The prospect grows strongjer for the enactment at this session of a new wage-and-hours bill, which will specify in explicit terms just how many hours per sons engaged in any labor affect ing interstate commerce may work, and the minimum amount per hour which they must be paid. This would remove the main objection upon which the N. R. A. was declared unconstitutional, that of delegating too much law making authority to the Execu tive. The present belief is that the wages and hours will be fixed at "forty-forty." That is, forty hours a week at not less than forty cents an hour, or sl6 a week as the minimum wage. There is r; ; ■ THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA bound to be a stiff debate on the proposal to fix that standard, which would have to apply to Ne gro labor in the South as welt as to white labor in the North; and that does not appeal strongly to the southern representatives in Congress. The "inside" story of the defeat of the attempts in Congress to reduce the appropriation for re lief from the billion and a half which the President requested is that W. P. A. Administrator Hop kins sent out word to many states and communities telling how var ious W. P. A. projects must be dropped if the appropriation were cut. Letters and telegrams of pro test began flooding Congress, and few members wanted to take the responsibility of standing for re election in 1938 with a record of having opposed the flow of Fed eral funds into their districts. The political power wielded by the Re lief Administration is one of the strongest influences in Washing ton. | BURCH Rev. A. B. Hayes of Mountain View, filled his regular appoint ment at Little Richmond Baptist church Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Porter Dodson had as their Sunday guests, Mr. and Mrs. Brady Settle and little daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Johnson and Mrs. O. M. Collins and son, all of Elkin Valley, and Malory Bray of Crutchfield. Mr. and Mrs. W. H Sneed had as their week-end guests, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Sneed and son, J. M. Jr., of Winston-Salem; Miss Katherine Davis of Taylorsville and Miss Sallie Baugess of North Wilkesboro. Miss Estelle Anthony, who has been ill for* several days, is im proving, her many friends will be glad to know. Miss Maude Anthony returned Sunday from Pleasant Hill, where she spent several days with Mr. and Mrs. Orville Alexander, the latter her sister. Joe Philson of Lee county, spent the week-end here with Roger Sprinkle. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Cocker ham and family of North Elkin were the guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Layne. Mr. and Mrs. Layne also have as their guests for several days, Mr. Layne's mother, Mrs. Jane Layne, of Pair view. Mr. and Mrs. Noah Greenwood of North Wllkesboro were the week-end guests of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Greenwood. Mr. and Mrs. Len Martin of Si loam were the week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Martin at Falrview. Allen Layne of Pulaski, Va., was the guest of friends and relatives here Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Snow and children, Dorothy and Nellie, vis ited their son, John Snow, and Mrs. Snow, of Crutchfield,. during the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Chandler had as their week-end guests, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hewitt and fam ily, Miss Esther Farmer and James Surratt, all of Pulaski, Va., and Mr. and Mrs. Webb Hayes and Miss Mildred Lawrence of North Elkin. Cozer Wall returned to his home Sunday from Hugh Chat ham Hospital, Elkin, where he re cently underwent a major oper ation. Friends of Mr. Wall will be glad to know that he continues to improve. Miss Ethel Wood of High Point, who is taking training at Burrus Memorial Hospital, is spending a two week's vacation with her mo ther, Mrs. Dora Wood. Charlie Minton, who is suffer ing from a broken leg received in an automobile accident, is im proving, his friends will be glad to know. W. E. Hayes, together with a group of B. Y. P. U. members, pre sented a play at Little Richmond Baptist church Sunday evening. It was greatly enjoyed. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Wall, ac companied by Mr. and Mrs. Fol ger Cockerham and sons, Wallace and Bobby Lee, of State Road, spent the week-end in Winston- Salem, the guests of friends and relatives. At a business meeting held at Little Richmond Baptist church Saturday evening the following officers were reelected for the coming year: Pastor, Rev. A. B. Hayes; Sunday school superinten dent, Charlie Humphries; Church clerk, Charles Corder; treasurer, U. V. Burch; choir leader, How ard Chappell, pianist, Mrs. W. H. Sneed and sexton, Charlie Whit aker. Miss Ellen Roberts of near Al enford, is spending several days here with her sister, Mrs. D. C. Cockerham. M. G. and W. H. Sneed made a business trip to Winston-Salem Monday. Most farmers in this section are through harvesting small grain. They report a good crop. N. p. Jones of Winston-Salem was here Monday visiting Mr. and Mrs. Joe Greenwood. Rev. T. S. Draughan will preach at Friendship Saturday evening and Sunday at 11 o'clock. The public is invited. MOUNTAIN PARK The annual family reunion of William F. Nixon was held at his home Sunday. One brother, one sister, all eight of his children, twenty-three out of twenty-four of his grandchildren, four great grandchildren and a host of his friends and neighbors were pres ent. Dinner was spread on a long table in the grove and a good time was enjoyed by all. Misses Emma and Betty Jane Linville have returned home from a visit in Winston-Salem. Mr. Judson Williams spent Tuesday morning in Mt. Airy and Dobson attending to business. Mrs. Annie Harris spent Satur day afternoon in Elkin. Mr. Claud Harris was a busi ness visitor in Gladesboro, Vir ginia last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Adams and family of Winston-Salem are spending part of this week visit ing relatives and friends here. Miss Thelma Cocker ham spent the week-end in Greensboro visit ing friends. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Luffman and family of State Road, were visitors here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Dickerson of State Road, were visitors of Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Landrieth Sunday for a short while. Mrs. Folger Cockerham and small son, Bobbie, spent the week end in Winston-Salem visiting relatives. The rain that came last Friday night was very much appreciated by the farmers of this section. TOO HARD TO PLOUGH A mountain man, who rarely, if ever, visited Elkin the other day along with his son, traveling in a rattletrap car. Climbing out on the Main St. the old man ap peared fascinated by the pave ment. He scraped his feet on the hard surface and, turning to his son, remarked. "Well, I don't blame 'em for building a town here. The ground is too hard to plough, anyhow." Practice "What's the idea of poking the broom in the baby's face this morning?" "I Just wanted him to get used to kissing his grandfather." NEWS F«OM THE I Dobson, June 21.—Rev. E. M. Boyd of Kentucky, who is assist ing the Methodist pastor,- Rev. C. W. Russell in a tent meeting near Dockery's Chapel, spent the week end with the Russell family at the parsonage. Mrs. Sam Poole and son, Sam Folger, of Greensboro, returned home Sunday, after a visit to Mrs. Sallie Folger. Mrs. George Burton of Cleve land, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Tilley of Max Meadows, Va., and Miss Vera Sawyer of Westfield, spent the week-end with their sisters, Mrs. Spoon and Mrs. Se lectman, who own and reside at the home place of the late J. A. Adams. They have recently dressed up the home in a new coat of paint. Mr. Lee Thompson's new brick home on Kapp St. is almost com pleted, also Mr. Aubrey Moore's new brick bungalow on the Mt. Airy road is completed and ready .for occupancy. Mrs. Emma Hampton has just given her home a coat of white, as did Dr. Joe Folger to the Dr. Fol ger home and Mr. Russell has done much in beautifying the parsonage surroundings and the WPA project at the school build ing, all these add to the attract iveness of their street. Mrs. Maude Freeman returned Sunday from a month's visit to her daughters, Misses Rachel and Susan Freeman in New York City, and Mrs. Will Poyner in Moyock. While there she visited Manteo, Dare County, and other places of interest. Boothe Reid of . High Point is visiting his sister, Mrs. C. W. Rus sell. Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Cobb and Miss Eva Hancock spent Sunday at Lovers Leap, Va. Miss Mary Ellen Blalock of Winston-Salem is visiting Miss Eugenia Reid. Miss Mildred Monday of Mt. Airy spent the week-end with Miss Lula Betsy Folger. Mr. and Mrs. Foy Blalock of Cary, spent the week-end with 'the family of Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Coalson. Mrs. W. E. Hancock and Linda, have returned from Prosperity, S. C., where they spent sometime with Mrs. Hancock's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pugh. Miss Elizabeth Swaim of Ran dleman spent the week-end with Miss Lucile Freeman. They spent Sunday afternoon at Roaring Gap. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Folger and boys, Lon, Jr., and Jack, spent Sunday at the Reece home. Little Susan Freeman, small daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Brooks Freeman of Randleman, is spend ing a few days with Mrs. Maude Freeman. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Snow are moving into their apartment in the Stone home. BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY TO BE OBSERVED HERE A birthday celebration will be held Sunday, June 27, at the home of M. W. Evans, in West Elkin in honor of Mr. Evans' birthday an niversary. Among the guests from out-of town who will attend will be a group of children from the Meth odist Childrens' Home in Wins ton-Salem, who will give a music al program, and the family of Charles Wesley Anderson of Rural Hall, who are famous for their perfect church attendance over a period of many years. The An derson family will attend Sunday school at the local Methodist church prior to the dinner, and will relate their experiences. The public is cordially invited to the dinner and bring a basket lunch. Expert Repairing Watches, Clocks, Jewelry We Now Have Equipment to Make Any Kind of Duplicate Keys. 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How many does that make?" Bright Son: "Two and one to ca*Ty."
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