THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1926
The Polk County News
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY
LOUIS LEd .IAN, Editor
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JOSEPH G. CANNON
A diversity of statements, incidents and eulogies has followed
the passing of "Uncle Joe' Cannon. His statesmanship will not
beas outstanding in history as his personality. Members of all
political parties regret that a figure in American lil'e so typically
"congressional" and so earnestly "political" has gone from
the scene of action, and from the hours of reminiscence that
"Uncle Joe" loved so well.
EQUALLY UNDER LAW
There is 110 finer example of equality under law than occurs
when the weak are given equal projection with the strong. It
has been charged that there is one law for the rich and another
for the poor. This is not true as to the law; but partially true
as to the enforcement. In pactise there may be one administration
of law for the strong and another measure for the weak.
.But if good government is to be maintained, this divergence between
theory and practise must be drawn to a minimum.
Our nation has rested upon the principle that there shall be
no classes before the law. Our courts have stood as a bulwark
against the encroachments of the powerful few as against the
unlortified many, and to protect the rights of the law-abiding
minority as against the overwhelming influence of a lawfpl
niftinritv. These are beautilul conceptions; and it is the func
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of citizenship 10 see mat they claim their naural birhnght
in practical reality.
Equal rights suggest equal wrongs. Eyual privileges suggest
equal obligations, whenever a people detect a wavering of
policy in any branch oi government?executive, legislative or
judicial?in municipality, state or nation, there will be a proportionate
disrespect lor law, when in truth the proposition simmers
down to men.
It is not, after all, disrespect for law that we hear so much
auout; it is desregaiu lor toe eiiorts as eiiiorcement. This does
not always come rroin me ininu to violate or lorm the criminally
inclined. Une who most respects a law may be the one to point
out the disparity between its purpose anu ils application.
Good advertising is the hfe 01 trade and the death of failure.
Many a man makes things come a^out uy just about making
them come about.
AliE YOU A SUPPORTER?
Do you "support" your Chamber of Commerce or your trade
association ?
Do you pay "dues" and let "George" do all the work?
The man who pays his taxes isn't supporting his town. He's
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paying for protection lrom lire tor street paving, ioi scnuuia,
for the dozens of otlier things that well-organized communities
provide. We deal with the corner grocer; We don't support him
We buy his potatoes and canned corn and are willing to pay for
them. v ,
So, too, with a business organization. It has something to
sell, services that can be bought nowhere else. A member who
feels that he is getting his money's worth is a good member to
have?and he can get more than his money's worth if he will attend
the meetings once a month and mingle with the fellows
who are doing things.
A chamber of commerce or trade association ought not to be
thought of as asking support, but rather as offering "for value
received" services which can be had in no other way.
A DIRECT TAX PLAN
The ease with which state and municipal loans are floated because
of exemption from the income tax, necessarily puts upon
tangible property a burden that is passed on and added to the
high cost of living In the state of Kansas a proposal is under
consideration to shift a part of this property burden to those
for whom, or in whose behalf special service is rendered.
Professor England ^of the Department of Agricultural "economics
in the Kansas State Agricultural College, who is conducting
a survey of the question, has arrived at the intersting conclusion,
inasmuch as more than $3,000,000 is raised annaully in
his State by the payment of automobile liscense fees and by the
tax on gasoline useu uy motorists, tnereuy mailing uimecesary
the issuance of additional bonds for highway purposes, that the
practicability of the method of direct taration in the form of
fees assessed upon the basis of service rendered or privilege ertended
has been satisfatorily proved.
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The plan contemplates a tax or fee as a condition of licenses
or permits, and its working out will be eagerly watched by other
states where the advancing common tax rate is becoming oppressive.
To this date the strength of Facism has rested on its appeal
to Italian nationalism. It rescued a demoralized nation and set
people to work on practical problems. Under the dictators new
rules the strengtn oi r acism will depend on military power and
martial law. It may be the beginning of the end of a metoric
career.
The best wealth is human experience?and its easily acquired.
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William Patton Boland, of Newberry. S. C., winner of the Southern Rail
way Corn Cup In 1925, photographed with President Coolidge and the cup
at the White Houae. c=^^r?
"SHAKE!"
We are often too much inclined to think of the farmers and
the town or city men as two different classes of society, and to
draw even a friendly line between them. But there is no difference,
or should be none. The merchant, banker or professional
man in the town is as dependent upon the farmer for his livelihood
as the farmer is for the city man's goods and services.
The less we separate these two nelessary and indispensible
elements of civilization the more both will prosper. Socially and
economically there is no place where the city's street ends and
tiie country's highway' begins. Both are. welded into an unbreakable
chain. Nature gives both the same sunshine and rain,
the same worries, the same ambitions, recreations and happiness.
The flow of commerce and the needs of industry bring
the urban and the country dweller into a realization of comradeship
in our complex endeavors at getting along.
nnmnnmitv nf Trvon. All of Us recognize our
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dependency upon, our friendship for, and our obligation of good
will toward the men, women and children who help to make our
community a center of life and activity. If our surrounding districts
were annihilated tomorrow, and aching void would result
If, on the other hand, the people in those districts were deprived
of the accomodations and center of business that Tryon affords,
they would sustain a great loss. The wounds would soon begin
to heal and rehabilitation would commence at once if possible.
We congratulate our farmer friends on the fine spirit and loyalty
they have shown to our towns people. We think we speak
with approval for our business men our social and educational
institutions here, when we extend a hearty thanks for their patronage
in business and for their wholesome contacts of brotherhood.
Any force that seeks to tear down this spirit of mutual
cooperation is destructive and should be stamped out. We are
all one in the attainment of life's blessings and equal sharers of
life's woes.
HOME ORCHARD
J_ \_/ JT JL V_^ O *N,0W" is lllu of >'ear lo Plan'
trees. Plant them in your lot, on
Life insurance companies say on- vo?r farm> on lhe roadside, and
Iv ahmit thr?A nut nf everv hundred ..V..I-VU hni-B And it is also the time
men are self-supporting at age 65. ?f Jt,ar to start a lioine orchard or
Apparently the other 97 get by sell- add to the one you may already have,
ing things to one another. The expenditure of a few dollars
right now, the careful planting and
There's a lot of dry wit over those attention given the seedlings will
wet elections. bring in results and profits in a few
years. In our wonderful climate
The way of many a transgressor is there should be more fruit of all
a hard-surface highway. kinds cultivated, especially apples
and peaches. A small home orchard
The beauty parlots are turning out on farm- giveu proper attention,
more beauties than the kitchens are which means spraying and fertilizcooks.
when the trees maoire, will
prove a valuable asset as many an
Woman was made from a rib; man ow-ner will 'es?ify
retained the backbone, but all men .
don't use It.
CLYDE L. WEST
The woman who saves her pin mon- ^?
ey will have saefty pin money when
the time comes. ^
Nab Kx-Urid Star On Check
Charge.?Headline. Probably tried
to make a forward pass of a bad Houdini
is gone, but John Barley
You can never tell what happens'
The suicide rate of Ireland is lower
than most countries. They have JBlbv
to fight too hard to live, to die, be- ^Wjgr JaMMl
The population of mankind is in- WBgg||/ f?\L \ Mk
creasing, but the common garden Jfef w /" R* JEpapj*3g>variety
with the hoe is fast becomWhy
worry about national de- Belated recognition has been ac
fenso? The politicians of the party corded by congress to Clyde L. West
in power will always defend the J " j"* IPr'vat? ^e army, whc
, . , risked his life to advance the cause o1
country against unwarranted at- ,c|enc8 dur|nQ the SDan|sh.AmerlCa.
menu. war. West, now a watchman In Wash
Ington, has been awarded a pension o1
The Russian peasants think Jo- *100 a month. In 1900 West, In Cuba
sephs Stalin s a lea radical ruler of bl"e" b*
.. _ , . . .. fected mosquitoes and submitted tc
the Communist government than was |noculatlon from yellow fever patient.
Leon Trotzky. Which is like saying so that MaJ. Walter Reed might ex
one would rather have to step bare- perlment with a preventive for th<
foot on a tack than on a nail. dreaded fever.
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THE CHRISTMAS CLUB
(From Spartanburg Journarl)
In order tcj help Americans save
money for tile yearly shopping season,
which \yill begin shortly, the
Christmas Cliib, with headquarters
i,Qa i,een formed. Soon
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this organization wij lristribute $398,369,000
through 7,6000 banks throughout
the United States. There are 7,800,000
members wh0 will receive the
benefit of this distribution. The
average amount to be received by
each will be $51.32 as compared
with $44.4s las year, an increase of
11 per cent. /
II. F. Haw), founder and president
of the Christmas Club, has estimated
that $179,421^380 of the amount to
be given outj this year will go into
stores to i >r Christmas purchases,
$110,146,000 will be placed Id
savings accounts, $147,186,382 will go
for insurant-^ premiums and mortgage
interests, $42, 761,190 will be
load oni taxes and $18,752,648 will be
I spent for other purposes.
There is a branch of this organi
zatioii here in Spartanburg sponsored
by the Spartang Savings Bank which
has a large menibershp that is ill
creasing annually. A large amounl
wil be paid out shortly to local per
ons This will increase busineSs lft
cally as well as enable those whe
took advantage of the saving plat
to have a much happier Chritmas
season than if they had not saved.
ROBERT P. SKINNER
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Robert P. Skinner, dean of the coneular
service and consul general ?1
Paris, has been appointed American
minister to Greece.
WORLD HEROES
(Spartanburg Herald)
As the result of an international
voting contest participated in by higt
schol students of both Europe and
' America, ten famous personages
I were selected as the greatest world
! heroes. Those chosen, arranged ac
1 cording to Ihe number of votes re
cevied, werfi: Louis Pasteur, Abra
ham Lincoln, Christopher Columbus
George Washington, Lenjamin Frank
In. Wioodrow Wilson, Florence
Nightingale, Joan of Arc, Scorates
1 Johann Gutenburg, David Livistone
1 and George Stephens. After these
men were selected a contest was
held, and a prize of $100 was offer
ed to students submitting the besl
essays on each of these personages
Essays came from England, France,
I Germany, Austria, Latvia, Esthonia,
' Spain, Italy, Roumania, Bulgaria,
i Czecho slovakia, Switzerland and
i Greece ,as well as from the United
States, Canada, Mexico, Porto Rico,
Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, Hawaii,
, the Phillipines, Turkey, Ondia, Per
sia, Morocco and Tasmania.
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heels.
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There are many suggestions of;
fered as to the means of measuring
; the m^rch of civilization. Religious
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i progress of regilion. Scientists meas
ure the shape of the brain and tell
1 us that* we are ahead of the NeauI
derthal man because his forehead
slanted backward while ours are
('knobby. Engineers and commercial |
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figures offered by Menepta. Nebu
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. Personally, 1 like to call attention to
; the invention and progress of print.
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toes, and downfall of monarchy. But
, now conies the insurance niaii with a
t theory equally attractive. He says
, that the lJst word in civilization is
tlie concrete proof that men are willing
to share each other's burdens, on
a reciprocal basis.
Socialism, says the insurances
man, is wrong becaue it attempts
toforce men to share each other's
burdens. It is Christ at the head
of a government supported by policemen,
forcing the rich to disgorge
J but unable to force the lazy to work.
If men wish to share each other's
burdens the act should be voluntary
and the amount reoeived should be
in proportion to the contrbution.
Insurance offers this opportunity.
Insurance is the greatest business
in the world. It is a mark and sign
of civilization because the history of
civilization has been the story of
the elimination of chance from the
lives of men
T0 eliminate the chance of death
coused by wild animals and savages,
primitive man invented the spear.
To eliminate the chance of cold and
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