Boosters For A
Greater Salisbury
FOUNDED 1332—105TH YEAR_ SALISBURY, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1936 VOL, 104 NO. 13 PRICE 2 CENTS
Rowan County Fair Begins Monday
$3,000 Prizes!
To Be Awarded
Farm Products
Various Shows and Other
Attractions Will Be
Daily Features
Auto, Horse Races Daily
Next week is Rowan County Fair
Week.
Shows, acrobatic exhibitions, au
tomobile races, horse races, revues,
novelty acts are the thrills provided
for the event by the management
of the Fair, which, by the way, is
under the same management as the
State Fair at Raleigh. Harvey Walk
er will be in charge.
Probably the outstanding feature
of the program will be the awarding
of agricultural premiums totaling
$3,000.
Agricultural exhibits of livestock,
hogs, produce and other farm pro
ducts will be placed on display for
the large and varied assortment of
prizes and ribbons.
Hundreds of entrants have been,
booked for participation in the fair ■
and it augurs well to be the most,
successful in the history of the
county.
The fair will begin Monday,
October 26 and close Saturday,
October 31.
Many thousands of citizens from
Rowan and adjoirfng counties will
participate in the festivities of the
Rowan County Fair.
Two Administration Spokesmen
Here October 30th.
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HON. JOHN DICKINSON
HON. R. L. DOUGHTON
—
John Dickinson, assistant Attorney General and former assistant Sec
retary of Commerce, will speak here on the night of October 30, it is
announced by the Rowan County Democratic executive committee.
Congressman R. L. Doughton will introduce him.
The Truth About
Taxes
Who Put Us in the Red?***
REPUBLICANS!
Although Republicans were first to have an. unbalanced budget,
President Hoover did nothing to stop the collapse of national
and personal fortune.
The depression caused business losses of some 2 5 billion between
1929 and 1933.
It cost farmers 6 1-2 billions in 3 years.
It cost over 7 billion in savings, more billions in the loss of
homes, and many more billions in the loss of earnings.
Private losses and a 6 1-2 billion public deficit in 3 long years
of Hoover far outdistanced our 13 billion deficit under Roosevelt
Recovery.
Who Pulled Us Out?'«
DEMOCRATS!
National income will be 21 billion greater in 1936 than in
1932 (estimate).
Farm cash income is up 60 per cent.
National savings at 5 3 1-2 billion have recovered more than
half their depression loss; securities on the New York Stock Ex
change have increased nearly 32 billion in value since 1933;
weekly payrolls for March, 1936, were about 21 million more
than a year ago; the index of production has climbed up 72 per
cent (July, 1932-April, 1936).
Our gross national debt of 33.8 billion is less than 12
per cent of our national resources today.
We cannot escape the cost of bringing recovery out of chaos,
but—- <
1. Taxes to pay off debts will be collected out of these RE- ]
STORED VALUES. .
2. A LESS PROPORTION of income goes in taxes. The c
General Motors report shows 5 5 per cent of income paid c
iui icucidi idAta in x. y j Lm <xs a^ainji ij pci cent in xyyi.
3. Taxes give you MORE FOR YOUR MONEY than ever
before—a vast chain of national improvements, conserva
tion of our long-wasted natural wealth, safety in invest
ments, lower mortgage rates, cheaper electricity, security
in livelihood.
COMPARE THE PAST
In 1919 our gross national d^bt was 26 1-2 billion. In 11 years it
was reduced by 10 1-2 pillion. With national income soaring to
80 billion and business flourishing. It might have been wholly
wiped out had not Republicans lowered income taxes in the
higher brackets three times and returned excess war profits to
profiteers.
COMPARE OTHER NATIONS
Our gross per capita debt is $264; England’s $847; France’s
$835 ; An English citizen (married, 2 children) begins paying
taxes on as small income as $1,500; he pays 10 times more than
an American on $5,000. Although most Americans also pay
state income taxes, sometimes equal to federal levies. English and
French tax burdens are still far heavier.
THE TAX BUGABOO
Internal revenue comes mainly from two sources—from taxes
which affect things we buy, largely luxuries, and from taxes on
income and inheritances. You pay heavier taxes now because you
buy and earn more.
I. To existing taxes from the first source, the New Deal has
added little, principally:
(1) AAA processing taxes which raised the total cost of living
less than 1 per cent while the AAA raised farm prices 62 per
cent and (2) payroll taxes starting in 1936, to meet the cost of j
Social Security. We have always footed the bill for old age, un
employment ana neglected childhood. Now, as do other civilized i
nations, we will pay in an orderly way for 100 per cent more
humane care.
II. To income and inheritance taxes the New Deal has added
little for the average taxpayer. It has strictly applied the rule of
ability to pay. In 193 5, it boosted rates of surtax on incomes over j
$50,000. In 1936, it revised the regular corporation income i
taxes, lowering the rates on incomes under $40,000, and placed
a new graduated surtax on undistributed corporation earnings so i
as to reach capitalists who formerly left business profits piled up
in corporation treasuries rather than pay rightful individaul sur
taxes on dividends.
Will Announce
Manager In
Next 2 Weeks
Complete Personnel Will
Be Taken From Civil
Service Polls
Charlotte Gets Branch
Office
The Salisbury District offices of
the social security board will be
opened around the first or middle
af Nov., according to advices re
vived from Washington this week.
Headquarters will be on the third
floor of the local post office build
ng, it is announced.
Congressman R. L. Doughton, of
ths district, was instrumental in ob
taining the offices for Salisbury.
It is planned by the Washington
Southeastern regional office, which
includes North Carolina, to open
these offices about November IS,
svith complete personnel taken from
civil service rolls.
The branch offices in North
Carolina at Asheville, Greensboro,
ind Charlotte are to be opened soon
ifter operations start at Salisbury
md Raleigh district offices. In ad
iitktfr,' it-i-s expected that other of
fices will be placed in Durham,
Vinston-Salem, and Wilmington.
Managers of the Salisbury and
Raleigh offces wll be announced
:ome time during the next two
veeks, it was thought at the social
ecurity board. All matters in re
tard to the region which includes
'Jorth Carolina, Virginia, Maryland
nd the District of Columbia are
irected by G. C. Parker, regional
lirector, who is farther ahead in
is nl™< fb an a re* Atr
ectors.
The North Carolina offices have
no relation to probable State legis
lator contrary to the genera! be
lief, but will deal solely with Title
II, of the social security act. Under
this head old-age benefits are paid
in amounts depending on past earn
ings of the individual to those 65
and over in 1942. No question of
need is involved, and no State leg
islation is required.
Title 2 of the act is often con
fused with Title 1, which provides
old age assistance. Under Title 1
of the law payments are made to
the needy aged (65 and over) by
the Federal treasury, matching State
payments up to a combined total of
$30 a month. This requires State
legislation in FJorth Carolina, as
does Title 3, which provides un
employment compensation by with
drawal from the Federal treasury of
State credits up to 90 per cent of
what the State has paid.
Under Title 2 of the act, which
is to be administered by the Salis
bury and other offices in North
Carolina, old-age benefits or an
nuities are paid beginning in 1942
to every one regardless of what the
State does. The only requirement
is that a qualified individual must
be at least 65 years of age and must
have received total wages with re
spect to employment after Decem
ber 31, 193 6, and before attaining
65 years of age, of not less than
$2,000, and have been employed in
five different calendar years after
December 31, 1936, before attain
ing the age of 6 5 years.
Salisbury Man To
Do Research
Work For RA
Another Tar Heel was added to
the Federal roll in Washington
when Claude Frederick of Salisbury
was appointed an assistant to Dr.
Carl Taylor, assistant director o£
the Resettlement administration.
Mr. Frederick is an alumnus of the
University of Virginia and will de
vote his time to specal research
work.
Had it not been for passing the bonus and outlaiving the process
ing taxes for farm relief, no rise in 1936 would have been needed.
REPLACE FEARS WITH FACTS
REELECT ROOSEVELT AND
RECOVERY
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One definite forecast ^an be
made at this time in regard to the
presidential election of November
3. That is, that the total vote forj
all presidential candidates will be
greatly in excess of the number of
ballots cast in any previous elec
tion.
Both of the major parties have
been concentrating a great deal of
their energies upon seeing to it
that every one of their prospective
voters was registered, and the re
sult so far has been a surprising
increase in the total registration.
In New York State, for example,
the registration is nearly a million
in excess of the number who voted'
in the 1932 presidential election.
The increased registration is pro
portionately somewhat less heavy
in other states, but on the whole it
is a safe bet that there are around
If percent more citizens in the na
tion qualified to vote this year than
ever before.
ine extort to get out the vote
does not end, of course, with see
ing that all possible voters are reg
istered. From now until the morn
ing of election day the most vigor
ous efforts will be made to see to
it that' not only those newly regist
ered but all of the previously quali
fied voters, in states where annual
registration is not required, actual
ly go to the polls. That will not be
such a difficult task as it has been
in many previous elections. The
proverbial apathy of the American
voters seems to be a minus quanti
ty this year. Certainly not since
1916 has partisan spirit run such a
high temperature and penetrated so
deeply into the mass of voters.
EXPECT HEAVIEST VOTE
While there are no exact figures
of the total number of persons
qualified to vote in the entire na-l
tion, there are somewhere above
60,000,000 citizens who have
reached the age of 21 and who can
vote if they have been duly regist
ered.
The heaviest vote ever cast was;
in 1932 when 39,816,522 citizens
went to the polls. That the popu
lar vote will run closer , to 50,000,
000 than 40,000,000 this year is
the expectation of all of the bestj
informed political observers.
All of the political signs point |
not only to a heavy vote, but to ai
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Hoey Outlines
Aims For State
In Speech Here
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Clyde R. Hoey, Democratic can
didate for Governor, in an address
last night, said his legislative prog
ram would include free school text
books, emphasis on increased agri
cultural development, and adoption
of old age pensi< is.
A packed courthouse greeted Mr.
Hoey. The aisles and corridors were
jammed. Hundreds heard the speech
via the loud speaker route on the
lawn.
Hon. Stahle Linn, of the local
bar, introduced the speaker.
Prior to the introduction, Walter
H. Woodson, Jr., Chairman of the
Rowan County Democratic Exe
cutive Committee, presented to the
huge audience, the Democratic
nominees of Rowan County.
He praised the Democratic record
in the State and contrasted it with
the record of Kansas under Gov
ernor Landon. the Republican can
didate for President. He lauded
President Roosevelt’s record in be
half of the farmer, the laborer and
business. j
"We all know that the Roosevelt
administration has increased taxes,”;
said the Governor-nominee, "but we
also know that it has greatly in-,
creased income. The net result of,
this is that every business and every!
corporation can pay the increased,
/axes and still have more than twice
as much profit left as they were,
able to make under the Republican
administration.”
"The burden ox the assault being1
made upon President Roosevelt and
the Democratic party is that the
country has been plunged into,
debt and that it will require genera
tions to meet and discharge these
obligations.
"There is no basis for this fear
and no cause fojp alarm.
"It is true that the public debt
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NEXT GOVERNOR
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| HON. CLYDE R. (HOEY I
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has been substantially increased un
der the Roosevelt administration,
but it should be remembered that
this nation has something to show^
for its expenditures.”
To counterbalance the debt, Mr.
Hoey said, were the following:
1. "We still have a nation with
a Democratic form of government
with the Constitution unchang
ed—”
2. "We have solvent obligations!
. . . that will reduce the national,
debt /nore than $6,000,000,000.”
3. "The national income . . . in
creased from $38,000,000,000 in
the last year of Hoover’s adminis-j
tration to $60,000,000,000 this'
year.”
"No timid soul need fear finan-l
cial wreckage for the nation with a
record like that,” he added. 1
n\oy iyyeny,
Dies Oi Hurts
Roy Lyerly, 2}, sen of Mrs. Mary
L. Lyerly of Gran re Quarry, died
in local hospital, Monday morning
of injuries received Sunday after
noon when a car he was driving
overturned on the old Gold Hill
road some miles from his home.
The automobile belonged to Cra
ven Ponds, who was a passenger.
Lyerly is survived by his mother,
and two sisters, Misses Beulah and
Rose Lyerly, of the home place.
Funeral was held Tuesday at 2
p. m. at the Lutheran church in
Granite Quarry.
IN. L,. Students At
Duke Come From
78 Counties
Durham.—Letters from home re
ceived here by the 795 North Caro
linians enrolled at Duke university
bear the postmarks of 173 cities
and towns in 78 counties of the
State, it was revealed this week in a
digest of enrollment statistics for
the fall semester.
One student out of every four,
or 25.04 per cent of the 3,171 en
rolled, gives a North Carolina home
address.