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II —IIMI I»H ll——»»■»—lKHWWMl—l———————* ■■ ■■ With the Legislature j (By Emmet Atkins, Jr.)' Raleigh. Jan. 11—Back of the highway fund diversion fight now boiling In the legislature lies a story with which awry tax payer in North Carolina should be familiar. The outcome of that fight Is still very much In doubt. But sometime between now and March the Issue will be decided one way or the other, and on that decision rests much that Is of vital importance to the average citizen. Most people think the issue will be won according to Gov ernor Hooy's recommendations, namely, that $7,000,000 be trans ferred from the highway fund to the general fund to balance the budget for the next biennlum. This appears quite likely, but the mere sanction of such a program by the Governor isn't nearly enough to assure Its passage. Arrayed against diversion of highway funds Is one of the most magnificent lobbies ever to come to Raleigh, in addition to an odd miscellany of recruits l ncluding, of all people, the Rural Letter Carriers Association the antl-diversftmletoby has the more or less open support or sympathy of the gasoline and' oil people, the road builders, the Automo bile Clubs, the automobile driv ers and various others. It is a formidable array, and one with a great deal of capital behind Its wishes. On the other side is the most numerous and insistent lobby of all —the spenders. The spenders are unanimously for diversion— not because of greed, but rather from dispensation. The most in genious tax-finders in North Carolina have been unable to find any other plaoes to raise money. The ceiling has been reached as far as taxation is ooncerned. Even the master of all taX-rais ers, Huey Long, once remarked, according to legend, that when- mn nm nu mj ♦^~rjr| 25 24 25 26 27 28 Less trying X/fONTH in, month out, many women and giHa obtain two way benefit from Cwdui. It aids in building up the wbolc system by helping women to get more energy, from their food—and so increases resistance to the strain of funo tiotttl periodic pain. Try it? IF YOUR COWS ARE FAILING TRY OUR Milk Producer Cow Feed AND WATCH THE INCREASE! An Ideal Year-round Food, Milk Producer Cow Feed Is Especially Beneficial During the Winter Months. FOR PLANT BEDS ARMOUR AND SMHH'DOUGLASS FERTILIZERS COAL TO SUIT YOUR NEEDS POCAHONTAS for Furnace RSD GEM LtJMP for Grates and Heatrolas DANA EGG for Small Stoves Also Stoker Coal Eflrin Roller Mills Phone 20 Elkin, N. C. ever he wanted to raise more ironey, he had only to read the latest tax bill from North Caro lina to discover some hitherto untaxed article. The spending lobby is by no means limited to those on the state payroll, or to the agencies and institutions supported by the state. Even greater than these are the legislators themselves, who are much more sanguine spenders than revenue-producers. No less a statesman than Speak er Libby Ward, recently, over the radio, gravely acknowledged it to be his political philosophy not to tax anybody anymore, and yet to provide "every possible" service for the taxpayers. Behind the legislators lies, of course, the greatest lobby of spenders—the people back home. The most cynical taxpayer 1s fundamentally a spender, and it seems to be a maxim of politics that the citizen as a spender is much more voluble than the same citizen as a taxpayer. Fundamentally, the leaning of the legislature toward the princi ple of diversion arises from the utter despair at ability either to trim the budget by $7,000,000 or the ability to raise that much more money. An examination of the record shows that legislators are NOT budget-trimmers. About the only budget-cutting ever done in this town has been first by the advisory commission, 'and (rare ly) in the appropriations commit tee. The spending lobby has al ready shown such a strong hand, that anti-diversionists are talk ing compromise. One compro mise proposal would permit di version this year provided a ref erendum on the question is sub mitted at the next election. No one thinks the administration will agree to this. Other com promises Involve lesser figures than the $7,000,000 proposed. The anti-diversionist lobby, as a part of their campaign to avoid any transfer of funds, will at tempt to pare the budget appro priation bill and increase the yield of the revenue bill. So far they have indicated three items as their targets; others will doubtless be singled out later for their fire. Meantime, they pro pose to abolish the $400,000 set aside for the purchase of free textbooks during the next bien nium. The implications of such a proposal are self-evident—abol ish free textbooks to build bet ter roads—a definite step back wards for a state already near the bottom in education. They pro pose likewise to do away with in creased appropriations allotted to the parole and probation com toissions, and to the highway pa trol, both of which allotments VRVK BTJrStf flMHMiyg BJHV JWUII'M riMIJHA ~ iffil.!*' J—LLLI-JSKS are strongly favored by the gov ernor. 1 Presume for a moment that Uae anti-diversion lobby should successfully push (hrough their bill, what would be the results? The legislature would be faced with the necessity of paring the appropriations by $7,000,000 which would in turn mean the deleting of numerous state agen cies, the abolition of free text books, raising the tuition at col leges, cutting down the appro priations for state hospitals, in stitutions, for farm and soil pro grams—ln short for any number of agencies that urgently need 1 more money, not less. They would likewise have to Increase taxes 1 that have already reached the limit. The legislature would be in session till June pondering 1 such a problem. The odds are in favor of diver ' sionists winning. They have In ' fact already won their first tilt 1 by keeping the bill away from the , Roads committee, where anti-dl versionlsts wanted it to go, and sending it to the Finance com mittee in both Houses, where it stands a better chance. But whatever the outcome is, it will be the result of the hardest fought battle of the session. • • • Apropos of the move to abol ish the sales tax. Governor Hoey made the following comment this week, "We cannot now repeal the sales tax without wrecking our school system. The sales tax was adopted as an emergency mea sure in 1933, when the schools were taken over. The appropria tion for the public school system was a little over $16,000,000 for the first year. I need not point out that the emergency still ex ists when the appropriation for the schools Is now $25,000,000, and I don't believe any person familiar with the facts will say that we are paying our school teachers too much." • • » The move to increase tuition for North Carolina students at the State's educational Institu tions appears happily dead. There ■seems to be a strong probability .that the differential of SIOO now existing between non-residents jand North Carolina students will be further increased. » • ♦ A welter of local bills flooded the floors of both Houses during the week. Committees studied them in sessions lasting three and four hours, both morning and afternoon. The bill exempting employees of the Unemployment Compensa tion Commission from taking merit examinations, which were i held Saturday, January 21, was! rushed through Friday In the nick of time. A great sigh of re-1 lief went up from 550 UCC clerks j and 110 Employment Service workers, whose jobs are insured as a result of the bill. 2500 ap plicants for future jobs with UCC took the exam Saturday anyway. The measure to retain execu tion by lethal gas rather than electrocution was reported favor ably by the committee studying it. State prison officials and others who testified before the committee were predominantly for lethal gas. The committees favorable report is equivalent to passage of the measure. The joint appropriations com mittee of both Houses heard re quests Irom representative of the North Carolina College for Ne groes for additional allotments to provide for the establishment of graduate schools for negroes. Representatives from other negro schools appeared before the com mittee to oppose tuition increases. I Requests for additional funds came also from the agriculture department, and from numerous other groups. I Other legislative accomplish ments of the week included: In quiry Into crop control vote, ap proved by House committee; hearing of anti-sales tax forces before joint finance committees; hearing of Farm Bureau demands to end duplicated facilities of State College and Department of Agriculture; protest from brew ers over proposed increase on beer taxes; new chain store tax proposed; quadrennial legislature proposed. t DENNYVILLE | R. H. Chambers and family, of Thomasville, and Raymond Chambers, of High Point, spfnt the week-end with the former's son, George Chambers, and Mrs. Chftnbers, near Ronda. Mr. and Mrs. Percy Chambers spent Monday in Elk in attending to business matters. I Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle Wooten. of Winston-Salem, spent the week end with Mrs. Woo ten's mother, Mrs Millie Walker, near Ronda. i Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Elledge had as their guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mayes, Mr. and Mrs. George Chambers and little son, And John E. Byrd, all of near Ronda. I The B.YP.U. program Sunday evening was very enjoyable. A quartet, composed of Misses Lucy comb and Martin Gray, gave aev nmrtbtorft and the Mimes Sparks also sang a duet. Singing classes, under the di rection of Mr. Nance, will begin at Dennysville Wednesday. The public is Invited. Mr. and Mrs. George Pender grass and two children, of Union Grove, were the Sunday guests of Mrs. Pendergrass' mother, Mrs. Lillie Walker. Adrian Elledge spent the week end with Ralph and Reece Cham bers at their home near Ronda. Misses Lucy and Winnie Sparks visited their grandmother, Mrs. Jane Sparks, at Cycle, Sunday. Rev. N. T. Jarvis filled his reg ular appointment at Dennysville Saturday and Sunday and brought an interesting and in spiring message at each service. Mr. and Mrs. Clay Swaim, of Ronda, were the week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Redding. "What lovely furniture!" said the visitor. "Yes," said the child, "and the man who sold It thinks so, too. He's always coming here to ask about it." I TAX COLLECTION II NOTICE I ■ January Rounds I Pay your 1938 tax and save the penalty which is effective February 1. Pay your 1937 and prior taxes and save the cost of a law suit The law com pels us to start foreclosure proceedings at an early date on all old land sales and personal property taxes. Please pay these old taxes at once and save any additional expense as we must start collection proceedings in a very short time. We want to give everyone a fair chance, so we are giving plenty of time at the several points for everyone to get out and pay his tax, and we will have the books for all of the years. THE ELKIN BOOKS WILL REMAIN IN ELKIN WITH W. J. SNOW ALL OF I THE TIKE THE BRYAN AND MARSH TOWNSHIP BOOKS WILL BE IN I ELKIN EXCEPT WHEN ON TAX ROUND OR PUBLIC DAYS IN DOBSON. I MONDAY, JANUARY 30 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2 I Bryan—Thurmond 9 a.m. to 12 noon Rock ford—Copeland school, 9 a.m. to Mountain Park 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. 2 p.m. H Siloam—All day McCormick's Store, 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Westfield—Westfield 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. TUESDAY, JANUARY 31 Cook ' s BCho ° 1 ' 1 p m - t0 4 Eldora—Union 9 aan. to 12 noon —imm Eldora school 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3 Franklin—Low Gap, all day Shoals—All day at new school house Stewart's Creek—Sid Jarrell's home, 9 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 am - *> 12 noon , v M Long HiD—Ararat 9 a.m. to 12 nooa Sparger's Store 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. 7j New Shell filling station, 12:30 p.m. to 4 pan. , Marsh—Phillips Store 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4 Crutchfield 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Pilot—All day at Swanson's store B. F. FOLGER, I Tax Collector, Surry County , • Corloettr A New York restaurant man,, who had little money for adver tising, bought the biggest fish bowl he could find, filled It with water and put it In his show window with this sign: "Filled with invisible gold-fish from the Argentine." It took seventeen policemen to hold back the crowd! Still Coughing? No matter how many medicines you have tried for your common cough, chest cold, or Bronchial Irri tation, you may get relief now with Creomulsion. Serious trouble may be brewing and you cannot afford to take a chance with any remedy less potent than Creomulsion, which goes right to the seat of the trouble and aids nature to soothe and heal the inflamed mucous membranes and to loosen and expel germ laden phlegm. Even if other remedies have failed, don't be discouraged, try Creomul sion. Your druggist is authorized to refund your money if you are not thoroughly satisfied with the bene fits obtained. 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