ANSWERS QUESTIONS
(Continued from Pace One)
cooperate on any program that
will give promise to relieving the
present situation, which, I believe.
If not soon relieved, will bring
bankruptcy to agriculture in
North Carolilna.
Your second question, "Fores
try," is not ?o clear To me. I be
lieve forestry in a general way
needs attention, but when you
realise that timber at stumpage
today is selling for very little
more than il did in TOOO with the
cost of finished timber three to
six times as high, I see little in
this effort except to help big in
terests pile up huge profits. Again
it is a means of allowing big
land holdings to escape taxes by
not developing their lands. There
are many Cases where a small
land holder on one side of a road
is burdened with high tax values
while big holdings on the other
side of tibe same road bas exceed
ingly small values because in the
first instance the party is pro
gressive and improves his prop
erty, while in the latter the hol
ders allow their property to "go
hang." The principle is wrong.
It produces a penalty on progress
and a prize for shiftlessness.
Tour third question "Farmer
Representation" hits my idea ex
actly if given a little more lib
eral meaning. I think we are get
ting a little too highly centraliz
ed and specialized. For instance,
the legislative halls are used too
often by young lawyers as step
ping stones to higher positions
rather than immediate benefits lo
the public, which idea seems to
be working out too much in
practice. Also, farmers are being
told too much by experts, who
rely on theory, how to carry on.
not only in planting, but execu
tive and living conditions. There
seems to be a serious "shortage"
of coordination of the several de
partments. There ure entirely too
many requirements of certain
standards for certain positions. A
college education does not supply
ability. It may help develop it
when the foundation is there, but
to say one who is qualified from
the standpoint of experience and
ability cannot hold a position just
because he does not' hold certain
college degrees or certain tech
nical training is foolish and en
tirely unAmerican and unfair and
I am opposed to it. Let's have
farmer and labor representation,
not as organized membership, but
as citizens with the interest of the
State at hearth Tbis specialized
college training is denying oppor
tunity to the eighty per cent or
more who are not in position to
get the higher training.
Now as to your fourth ques
tion, "Reduce Tax Rate on Own
er Occupied Farms and Homes."
I am very much in favor of a sys
tem that will take the premium
or penalty off progress and a sys
tem that will bring about fairness
to Individuals. A law that only
allows an exemption on the val
ues of homes or farms occupied
by the owners, I do not think will
do this. In fact 1 know it will
mean higher taxes for all proper
ty. The exemption in most cases
will not be sufficient to relieve
the increased rate and later in
creased values, placed to offset
the loss occasioned by the exemp
tion.
I am with you for permanent
results. In my holiest opinion
there is at least' 75 per cent of
the property in North Carolina
off the tax lists, which places the
burden of government on the 25
per cent or less that is available.
Whenever North Carolina repeals
the exemptions on religious, edu
cational and fraternal properties,
save for that actually used as the
institution in question, and not
held as property for other pur
poses or excuses, and doing away
with tax exempt stocks, bonds,
notes, public and other property
off the tax lists, then and then
only will a fair tax be imposed
on all citizens and holders of
property. If the system is to be
changed other than above it
should provide an arbitrary tax
value for all homes of a certain
size, not value, that cannot be
Changed, and allow any or all im
provements desired, pertaining to
the home, without the possibility
of its being taxed away from tile
owner, as at' present. -
Now in keeping with your third
and fourth questions I think a
big adjustment should be made
In the educational funds of the
State in that the money should
be more equally divided. There is
am
now one Woman Lost
20 Pounds off FAT
Lout Her Prominent Hips
Uwt Her Double Chin
Lost Her Sluggishness
Gained a More Shapely Figure
ind the Increase in Physical Vigor
and Vivariousneas Which So Often
Comes With Excess Fat Keduction.
. Thousands of women are getting
fat and losing their appeal just be
caufce they do not know what to do.
Why not be smart ? do what
thousands of women have done to
get off pounds of unwanted fat.
Take a half teaspoonful of Kruachen
in a glass of hot water first thing
every morning to gently activate
liver, bowels and kidney* ? cut down
your caloric intake ? eat wisely and
Mtiafylngly? there need never be a
hungry moment!
Keep this plan up for 30 days.
Then weigh yourself and see if you
haven't lost pounds of ugly fat
Just see if this doean't prove to be
the surprise of your life and make
yon feel like shouting the good news
to other fat people. And best of all
a jar of Kruschen that will last you
for 4 weeks costs but little. If not
?tnfl?d mmn
hardly 20 per cent of the children
of (-he State that ever get oppor
tunity to attend schools of higher
education and at least 60 per cent
of these are able to pay their own
way. To my way of thinking a
larger percentage of the educa
tional funds should go to the pub
lic schdols thereby providing a
better educational opportunity for
the 80 per cent who cannot at
tend the Colleges and Universi
ties. The State a few years ago
adopted the free text books res
ponsibility. but today the rentals
and fees for supplemental re
quirements amounts to a large
per cent of the original school
book costS, which has served to
break the confidence of the pub
lic in the sincerity of t<he admin
istrations to relieve it of the costs
of these books. .
The public looks at' the State
School Commission and the State
Purchase and Contract' Commis
sion as two dead-weights on the
State's expense fund. In the first
place it doesn't seem necessary
to have the Stale Department of
Education and Mie School Com
mission both ? one or the other
should be done away with and
save the expense. In the case of
the latter it may appear that it is
saving the State half a million or
more dollars a year, but- in real
ity it is losing to the individual
units, and subdivisions, five or six
times this mucft by takiug the
business from them that would
otherwise build up their tax pay
ing ability. On this same basis I
jloubt if the State actually saves
anything on its venture.
Hoping these answers are sat
isfactory and with kindest re
, Bards. I am
Yours truly,
A. F. JOHNSON.
ItKSOI.l TIO\ IV RESPECT'
To The Mrmor] of Mr. R. H.
Davis, IjiIp Senior Warileu of
St. Paul's Kpisco|?al Church,
l.ouisburg, X. C.
I WHKKKAS. Mr. K. H. Davis.
, late of Louisburg. Franklin Coun
j ty. North Carolina, died on the
j 12th day of April, 1940. at t-he
age of eighty-three (83) vears;
AND WHKKKAS, at the time of
his deatTT the said Mr. R. H. Davis
was and had been since early
youth a member of St. Paul's
Kpiscopal Church. Kouisburg. N.
C., and was for a long number of
years Senior Warden of said
Church, and was the last of an
old and distinguished Franklin
County family, wearing well the
mantle which descended to him as
the eldest son of "Honest Joe"
Davis of the North Carolina Su
preme Court;
AND WHKKKAS. the said Mr.
R. H. Davis wan at the time of his
i death the oldest living cominni%
cant of St. Haul's Parish and had
been a faithful, regular and con
scientious participant for more
than fifty years in the alTairs of
the Church, and by his exemplary
conduct, his personal Integrity,
his deep religious conviction and
by his faithfulness in carrying out
the precepts and tenets of the
Christian way of life, he wak
honored and revered by all who
came in contact- with him;
AND WHKKKAS. it is the de
sire and wish of the Parish and
1 Mr. K. II. Davis be honored and
respected, and thai his devotion
to his Church and to the best' in
terest of his community be made
known to the public, and that the
esteem and affection in which he
was held Tiy all who knew him be
made known to his friends and
relatives:
NOW. THKKKFORK. be It re
solved by the Vestry of St. Paul's
Episcopal Church:
I FIRST: That a copy of this
resolution be transmitted to the
official publication of the Diocese
of North Carolina, to-wit. The
Carolina Churchman, with the re
quest and to the end that It may
be printed in the next published
issue thereof.
SECOND: That a copy of this
resolution be transmitted to THE
FRANKLIN TIMES, the newspa
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per published Id Louisburg, where
the said Mr. R. H. Davis resided
for the greater part of his long
life wit'h the" request and to the
end that it may be published
therein.
THIRD: That a copy of this
resolution be forwarded to Mrs.
R. L. Remhardt. of Salisbury, N.
C., who is a niece of Mr. R. H.
Davis and his nearest relative.
FOURTH: That a copy of this
resolution be spread upon the
minutes of the Vestry of St. Paul's
Episcopal Church.
This the 21st day of April 1940.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
Lonisburg, N. C.
By W. J. Shearin, Secretary
to the Vestry.
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More than 12,000 pedentrians
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year. ,
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