p MAY 6, 1937 In Washington _? ? What's Going On by Robt. R. Reynolds United States Senator It is now evident that our peoph "t . are becoming tax-conscious. Thi usually Happens when citizens gen orally begin to ask Whether they an receiving: fuli return for their ta3 dofiars. It is also an indication of ? widespread feeling that huge gov ernmcntal expenditures, national state and load, cannot, in the fina analysis, make a permanent contribu tk>n to national stability. As a result, a certain amount o uncertainty exists, particularly i? business and industrial circles, tha will not be fully removed until fed eral policies are well-defined, unti federal expenditures are fixed, an< until some assurance is given tax burdened citizens with regard to tin taxes they will pay in the future. ,No better evidence of this can b found than the fact that "behind th? scenes," experts on taxation in boll the executive and legislative branch es of the government are hard pressed tc suggest new sources o revenue should federal expenditure exceed budget estimates. Here i also evidence that tax reservoir avc 'trsctl U4JJUCU ituuuai W U1C iinill Several things stand out. First that in the scramble for revenue, a) agencies of government have adopt ed the course of least resistance an< levied taxes that would bring a mini mum of protests; second, that whil rates of taxation have been steadil; increased, there has not been a corrc sponding increase in tax receipts and third, many new taxes have beei imposed which, to say the least, ar of extremely doubtful merit. About 150 years ago, a famou writer on economics laid down fou principles to which taxation shoul< conform. They are as follows: "People should be taxed as nearl; as possible in proportion to thei respective abilities, all taxes shout be defnite and not uncertain or ar bitrary; they ought to be levied a the time and in the manner whicl causes the least inconvenience to th people, and they should be so cor trived as to take out of the pocket of the people as little as possibl over what is needed by the publi treasury." Instead of following these soun methods, taxes have been too oftc levied on the principle of gettin; the most money with the leas trouble. In n ronnrt mo/lft trv Um Iiaiio ways and means committee, which i charged with initiating all revenue raising legislation, appears this pci tinent paragraph: "Large as the increase in our baxe has been, nevertheless such increas has been insufficient to meet the in crease in expenditures, therefore th majority of our governments are ir creasing their public debt. It seem proper to conclude that this situs tion must be remedied at an earl date, if the financial stability of ou government is to be preserved." Throughout the report in questioi is much comment with reference t the need of reducing federal expei ditures as a sound approach to tii tax problem. In fact, the Presider has placed the current situatio squarely before the congress an warned that expenditures beyon budget estimates must be accoinpai ied by new revenue. It is to b earnestly hoped that new taxes ca be postponed until 1938 and tax r< vision carried through on a soun and equitable basis. This hope i shared by leaders in congress. WEEK-END AUTO WRECKS TAKE AT LEAST 72 LIVE Week-end automobile accident added at least 72 deaths in a natio which already has noted a risin number of fatal accidents over th 1936 record. The national safety council in it report of the first quarter of 193 said 8,500 persons were killed in ai tomobile accidents, a 26 per cent ii crease over the like neriod of lai year. East Tennessee & Western Norl Carolina Motor Transportatioi Company. Buses leave Boone for Johnson Cit Knoxville, Chattanooga, all At bama and Western States points i 7:30 a.m.; 12:20 p.m.; and 9:05 p.r Leave Boone for Lenoir, Hickor Statesville, Salisbury, Charlott Asheville, Wilmington and a South Carolina, Georgia and Flo ida points at 8:25 a. m.; 1:10 p. m and 5:10 p. m. For fm-ther information call bus station?Phone 45. E. T. & W. N. C. TRANSPORTATIO . COMPANY you've b the trying to W-H-E-RHOUSE now TRY __ SPELL OF HAZARDS Mac Arthur WEEK IN WASHINGTON (Continued from page one.) been formulated. Washington gosi sip has it that Chairman Eccles of the Federal Reserve board is contemplating resigning unless his recommendation for more taxes to balance the budget is adopted and passed by the administration. The hope that new taxes may not be necessary is predicated upon the collection of some S500.000.000 of payroll taxes under the social securi1v ai?t A TTnifncI Stntau rirrnit " court ot appeais has declared that act unconstitutional. The attorneyl general is urging an immediate re" view of that decision by the su* preme court. If the high court up 1 holds the lower one. then a new tax law will be inevitable. i Washington, April 20?A situation is developing here which, to some f | observers, seems to be tending tor j ward a parallel with the situation which existed in the Wilson and J j Hoover administrations. In the last j j two years of his second term Mr. _ | Wilson had a definitely hostile cone, j gress standing between him and his plans, and for three of AJ r. Hoover's el four years he had no influence with e the majority in congress, i For the past four years Mr. Roose volt has had congress eating out of ' his hand. It would be putting it too strongly to say that he cannot still s force congress to do what he wants s to have done, if he is willing to put on the necessary pressure. But it Is ., fair to say that resistance to Presi1 dential pressure is Increasing in both - houses of congress, and among ' members of the President's own - party. It can no longer be safely L' predicted that whatever the Presi? dent wants congress will give it to ~ him. ^ This situation is mainly of the e President's own creation. It arises from two definite circumstances, s One is the honest and sincere appall sition to his proposal for packing d J the supreme court. That opposition is increasing in strength in both y j senate and house. It has been ^ | strengthened by the demonstration furnished by the court itself, in its t decisions on the labor relations act, h that the justices are abreast of the e times and fully aware of changing i~ conditions. s The other circumstance which has e weakened the President's authority c over congress is the growing re^ sentment felt by influential senators ^ and house leaders at the readiness g! with which, as they believe, the President continues to listen to and be guided by counselors who arc e regarded on Capitol Hill as theorists s rather than practical politicians. On ' these advisers rather than the President himself, his friends in congress place the responsibility for the faile ore of tiie undistributed profits tax j. 'aw, enact id last summer, to yield e the revenue expected. Government i- income for the fiscal year is short s nearly half a billion dollars of the - estimates. That makes the national >r financial situation even more cloudy 1 and uncertain than it was before. ^ President Kecomniemlx Kconomy q The President's latest rccommendations for economy, if adopted, e would cut the expenses of governtt merit by about half of this year's iv | deficit. But unless government hor<1 rowing is to continue on a huge ll scale, recouree must he had to much broader and heavier taxes and foi n greater curtailment of spending. In any event, all hope seems to have d been lost of bringing the budget into is balance before the fiscal year 1939. Continued increase in the national debt by borrowing money for current expenditures is feared because it is regarded as the certain road tc S inflation with runaway prices for all sorts of commodities. Increased tax3 ution is feared because of its politin eal unpopularity. It is realized bj g most members of congress that the lC large accumulations of wealth cannot stand much more taxation anel 1? I keep on doing business/ but thej fear that their constituents do not realize that, and would resent anj new kind3 of taxes which appearec to put the bureien on the poor. Anc = they fear a reduction of expenditures Jj i for relief for the same political rea( son. The indications now are that th< y> relief appropriations for next yeai n' will be at the rate of two billion dollars or more. Their necessity is be a ing sharply challenged, not only bj the administration's avowed opponents but by many of its friends. Sendl ator Vandenberg of Michigan has r. revived the demand for an actua count of the number of unemployet persons, in a letter to the socretarj of labor, in which he contended thai the number of unemployed is actual N 'y under three millions, instead ol uie eigm. minion or more wmctl tin it EN TWO HOURS' W (MAT 1 SU6GEST| SPELL THE WORDS ] \ SOMETHIN6?J E and W-ea-r.! / irMHS :-j - .-?-h i WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVEB H FARM NOTES i I B.v \V. It. Collins, County Agent Prices for wool and lambs are better than they have been for several years. The Jersey City market on Monday, April 26. quoted good i and choice spring lambs at S15 to IS16 per hundred pounds. The same grades a year ago were quoted at S13 to 514. 1 Thp atroa) I- i. .< w; mm r.tv w vjuvi" ing prices on domestic wools at fully 10 certs per pound higher than I at this time last year. Prices start* ed strengthening last October, and climbed steadily upward until about ' the middle of January. Prom that j time until the middle of March the I price came down some but the past jfour to six weeks it has been steady. Our best North Carolina wools are | designated as "three-eights comb| ing." Price quotations April 24, 11937. on this wooi board now functions. Entirely" apart from matters of national importance, the bitterest i conflict now raging in Washington * is over questions of art. The - Thomas Jefferson Memorial com mission, headed by Representative 1 Thos. J. Boylaruof New York, pro poses to build a classical Greek tem pic facing the Lincoln Memorial on * the other side of the tidal basin. A 1 storm of protest is raging about Mr. I Boylan's head from two sources. One r is from those who do not want Co L see more than 700 of the Japanese - cherry trees around the basin de? stroyed. Their April blooming this s year drew more than 200,000 tour YOU'LL NEVER. \ / IE YOU CANT TEACH THE BOY BY SA BLOCK-HEAP . BECOM1N6 EXCITED, J V ? ?VJ o ?uiniug niui 11 bill night; No one ean take her place, I am sure, As she tries to make for us alright. JEAN WILCOX. Boone, N. C. COLVARD REUNION A reunion or gathering' of all the j Oolvards is to be held at. Union church on new highway No. 16. near Wilbar postoffice, Wilkes county, on Sunday, May 23. Everyone by the name of Colvard or a direct descendant of a Colvard is invited to attend. This will be an informal gathering and no special program is being planned. It will just be a get-ac- ! qualnted meeting at which definite' plans will be made for future re- j unions. Everyone is asked to bring I a basket and a picnic dinner will be enjoyed by all. We hope all Oolvards and Colvard relatives will make it a point to be present. W. E. COLVARD, Temporary President. HOWARD CLARK, Temporary Secretary. farw thatII T i iner /"ai ? . . V. . l>L %/lI P\NYrHINSji| relax SON,AND GO OVE1 1 ~~Z I!YOUR SPELLIN6 WORDSWj NOV/ SPELL V/EA5*. K x?i | * ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as administraor of the estate of M. R. Wilson, leceased. this is to notify ail persons ndebted to said estate to please ome forward and make immediate settlement. AH persons having laims against said estate will please irestnt them to the undersigned ad-! uwustraior wiuun one year irom uie late of this notice, or it will be plea ! j n bar of their right to recover. This 29th day of April, 1937. ROLF E. WILSON, | Administrator of the Estate of M. R. j Wilson, Deceased, r. E. Bingham, Atty. 4-29-Cc I NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE By virtue of the power of sale con-' ained in a certain deed of trust cxe- j :uted by the undersigned trustee by 7. D. Taylor and wife, Lou H. Tayor, on the 24th day of November, 1932, said deed of trust being rertviued in the office of the register >f deeds for Watauga County in 3ook 19. at page 116, said deed of rust having been given to secure the aim of Twenty-five Hundred Dollars $2,000.00) and interest to Dr. H. B. ?erry, and default having been made n the payment of the moneys thereiy secured as therein provided, and he said Dr. H. B. Perry having rcjuested that the said lands be sold. I will, on Monday. May 10. 1937, at 1:00 o'clock P. M., at the courtlouse door of Watauga County, sell .o the highest bidder for cash a onelalf undivided interest in the followng described real estate, to wit: First Tract: Lying and being in IVatauga Township at Valle Crucis, j Vorth Carolina, and bounded on the north by Dutch Creek, on the east md south by the lands of the heirs >f VV. H. Mast, on the west by the public road am! the Methodist church ot. For metes and bounds, see deed 1 from J. H. VonCannon and R. L. Lowe, recorded in the Register of | Deeds' office in Watauga County in | 3ook 10, at page 411, dated 12th j iay of January, 1910, containing 3-4 if an acre, more or less. Second Tract: Dying and being in IVatauga county, Watauga Townhip, three or four hundred yards from the above described lot, and bounded on the north by the lot of I J. L. Tester, on the east and south by the lands of D. F. Mast, on the ivest by the public road, containing 5-4 of an acre, more or less. For metes and bounds, see deed from D. F. Mast and wife to C. D. Taylor and If. B. Perry, recorded in Book 30, at page 373, in Register's office of Watauga county. This deed conveys only one-half interest in the two tracts above mentioned. Third Tract: Lying and being in Laurel Creek Township on the waters of Beech Creek and Laurel Creek, adjoining the lands of Minervah Presnell on the north and Prcsnell on the east and Ben Ward on the south, Mrs. Belle Mast on the west, | and others, it being a tract of land bought by C. D. Taylor and H. B. Perry from Roby James and Sam Hix and where Lewis Presnell now lives, containing 200 acres, more or less. For further description and metes and bounds, see deeds from Roby James and Sam Hix. recorded in Register's office for Watauga county in Book 32, at page 597, and Book 34, page 217. These tracts will be. sold separately. This 9th day of April, 1937. R. A. FARTHING, 4-15-4 tc THE WORLD'S will cotne to jour he THE CHRISTIAN ! 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