Clark Says Old Age Pension Plan
Workable With Few Small Changes
The writer believes that this plan
which was referred to briefly in the
editorial columns of the Transyl
vania Times of July 12th is the best
and surest, sure-fire recovery plan
yet proposed, in addition to relieving
those of our citizens who have reach
ed the point in their lives when they
can no longer, by their own efforts,
provide for the common necessities
and comforts of life, a great many
of whom find themselves in this un
fortunate condition, through no fault
of their own, as they are among our
most worthy citizens, who have their
full share in making our country
what it is, and had laid by not only
enough for the ‘‘rainy day” but for
the “seven lean years,” but their say
ings have been swept away, as theii
securities and investments becanu
worthless, or their bank deposits were
lost.
Briefly outlined .this plan proposes
to levy a general -ales tax to pro
vide the necessary funds to pay ti
every citizen of the United Mates,
whose record is free iroin crime, and
who has reached the age oi sixty
years, a pension of $200.00 per
month, on rendition it shall all be
spent in the United States within the
month in which it is received.
No person is obligated to accept
this pension, but every one who docs
accept it must retire from gainful
labor cr profession, thus making room
for many cf those now unemployed.
The great increase in purchasing
power which the monthly release of
this large amount of money, would
create, would at once start the wheels
ot industry turning on the double
quick.
i in.*re wuuiu ut* vuipi^j
everv man and woman in the country
wh ‘care to work .a- there w.ould be
millions of those retiring, whose
places would be to till, and millions
nt re would be ne. cd 1 1 til! 'the in
ereas.- mund n-r labor in industry,
cause, by the demand for every kind
of pr< uuct ot mill or farm.
Iteie is the way i; could be worked
out. without increasing the cost of
living otv. penny till alter the first
month’s p n ion is put in circulation,
and aftei rhat, the increased cost will
he a trifle a compared with the
benefit to everybody.
Authorize the treasury department.
. <n ;,i amount ot non-mtvrc>t,
)tearing paper, fa ' it gieeu backs,
ti-asorv >totv<. fiat money, printing
money or whatever you like. tJ|
provide for tlit* payment of the first.
• lm. .. bs’ pensions, plus
amount need-. : to out the plan ml
operation, am .. ike such paper legal
tender for all purp«. es.
Let the payment i pensions begin,
say July 1st. 1SW5. and the sales tax
effective August 1st, 19-io.
Let July. August and September
,,aid .ut of the funds from the
treasury department.
riie Altgu-t sales taxes would be
collected and in hand in ample time
t pav the October pension roll._
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i After that time it would take care
j of itself, in that way.
When the bureau or commission,
created to handle it, is well organized
and “on its feet” so to speak, let the
amount advanced by the treasury de
partment be repaid from the sales tax
in small monthly installments, say 5
per cent per month, and in two years
it will be repaid, and the government
has not spent one dollar of the peo
ple’s money—has just loaned its
jredit for about two years.
The rate of this proposed salas tax
.hould be adjustable, from time to
.ime, by the President of the United
states, or a non-partisan commission
Appointed by him, and should be just
ugh enough to pay the pension roll,
be actual expenses of administra
tion and to repay the amount origin
ally advanced by the treasury depart
ment, and not one penny of it ever
used for any other purpose.
Now as to the benefits to be derived
from the adoption of this plan, IN
ADDITION to providing for those
no longer able to provide for them
selves—
One item of considerable size and
importance is the elimination of city,
county and state institutions for the
care of the indigent poor, such as!
county homes, poor farms, and so j
forth.
i ne proponent oi inis pian stresses |
[ .lie decreased cost of crime, and the
writer, while not sharing his opti
mism on this point 100 per cent for
the reason that most of our criminals
arc comparatively young men and i
v.x.nun, believes there would no doubt
be some benefit in that way as there i
would be a greater incentive to live |
a life free from crime
Whatever benefit would be derived i
from the above would, of course, be 1
shared by the county as a whole and
every part of it.
Edward Eggleston, in his Hoosier I
Sch olmaster. makes one of nis char- [
actcrs say: “We’re all selfish, sic-;
cold in to my toll," and i believe tiic
old Hoosier -tated it correctly.
So let us see what it would do for j
Western North Carolina—for Tran-;
sylvania county.
First—the direct benefit, other
ban those already mentioned.
Not knowing the exact population
f the county l day, nor the percent-!
age of that population which has at
-ained the age of sixty years, the
.xact figure cannot be estimated, but
approximately forty cents per day
.i.r every man, woman and child in
the county would be paid out direct
t. pensioners within the county, and
remember, they must spend every do!-j
lar of it within the month it is re
ceived. •
Don’t you think that would help |
■i me?
There would lie no excuse for a sin-1
^io idle man or woman in tl e
county who really wanted to work, j
Second—the indirect benefits.
There are ,at least, 8,000,000 peo
ple in the United States who would j
be eligible to receive this pension
I think it is quite reasonable to j
say that at ieast 2,000,000 of them j
would like to go t' a mild climate
for the winter.
Where would they go?
Some would come to Western North
Carolina,
A great many more would go to ;
California.
A great many more nun wumu
ta North Carolina anil California to- (
geiher, would go to Florida.
No doubt 1,000.000 of them would
go to Florida and spend at least an
average of three months there.
See what an amount of money
would be spent in Florida in addi
tion to the large sum which would be
pent by others .not pensioners.
Florida would be “rolling in
money’’ and a building boom would
be in full swing there before the pen
sioners began to arrive for their first
season.
Right here is where we come in on
that.
When Florida has a good winter,
North Carolina has a good summer
following it.
A building boom would be in full
swing here before the tourist pension
ers started north, getting ready for
them.
And here we come in again for the
reason that a very large number of
those tourist pensioners would pass
through Western North Carolina en
route to Florida in the autumn and
en route to their northern home in
the spring.
No doubt many of them would
spend some time here, on the jour
nev both north and south.
It is not unreasonable to look for
ward to an increase in our popula
tion, permanently, from this source,
fer who can spend a part of one ot
our glorious autumns here without
wanting to come again?
And the same may be said ox our
springs. „ ,
California, I am reliably inform
ed, with her usual foresight, is work
ing enthusiastically for the enactment
of a law along this line.
They are wide awake to the possi
bilities of the wonderful increase in
winter tourist business which would
most certainly follow its passage.
It is not my intention to discuss
j this proposition fully here but to call
I attention to some of its advantages.
I realize that many will not look
with favor on any proposition which
calls for a sales tax—but , if every
man and woman in the county wha
"arcs to work bad a good job at pay
ing wages, could you not better af
ford to pay $1.10 for what you now
pay $1.0, than you can now afford
to pay the $1.00?
I am sure I coulij.
I have a few booklets which explain
this plan more fully than I can
through this medium, which I shal'
be glad to lend to parties who arc
interested, while the supply lasts.
Yours for the old age revolving
pension.
J. M. CLARK.
Penrose, N. C. July 17th.
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COLLIER’S MAGAZINE
TELLS OF CAROLINA
MOONSHINE HABITS
NEW YORK, July 26 —Collier’s
Weekly is frankly mystified by the
North Carolina afttitude toward
liquor. It recently sent one of its re
porters, the fiery Owen P. White,
down to North Carolina to travel
around and find out what it was jdl
about. Mr. White’s report appears in
the current issue. He states the “mys
tifying” situation as follows:
“When a state elects a repeal sen
ator by a big majority, and theL
votes down repeal by 173,000, the nat
ural suspicion is that there must oe
an angle in it somewhere. In North
Carolina the angle is corn liquor, j
Some of the citizens of the state ap-j
prove corn as a beverage, but don t
like to see it decorated with expensive
federal revenue stamps. As a result
they have worked out a new device
for protecting what they regard as
a state right.”
Now for Mr. White s report, wnn«
starts with an apology and a tribute:
“I have no intention of offending
the people of North Carolina by mak
ing fun of their drinking habits. I
couldn’t and be honest about it, be
cause instead of being disposed to
make light of the drinking habits of
the Tarheels, what I feel inclined to
d:> in this article is to express my
admiration of their prowess.
“Never anywhere have I seen any
thing to surpass it. When I visited
the s t a t e, motoring lengthwise
across it from the Dismal Swamp
section cn the coast, where stills capa
ble of producing thousands of gallons
daily were in operation, clear oyer tOj
beautiful Asheville, the one thing *
rould never get away from was th‘4
odor of corn. It was everywhere. The
bottles were gone but the memory ol
them lingered on in every hotel room
I occupied.
“Something reminiscent of a recent j
drink was frequently to be noticed on j
the breaths of passing citizens, and
ever, as I drove along the open high |
ways, sniffing the fragrance of dog
wo d, the redbud and the wild honey
rnckle, it was seldom that I inhaled
a lungful of atmosphere that was not j
laden with the scent of something de
lightfully illegal..
“That’s the point. Its delightful il
legality give? to Carolina corn the die-,
tinative flavor that the Tarheels j
love. Moreover, it make;; it very i
cheap. Why then, so long as their
well-established system of liquor
control lapnaVd lv>th to their ap
petites and their pockets, should they
yield to the hue and cry for law and
license that recently swept the conn- j
try and put the Eighteenth Amend- ^
jnent permanently ovt of busines-. i
Had they done so they would have !
been rut of step with the spirit of ■
their forefathers who .when they
signed the Mecklenburg Declaration i
of Independence, designated as u pub-j
lie enemy any power which interfered
with any of their private liberties
“And isn’t a man’s right to make
corn liquor out of his own corn >
private liberty? Of course it is, and
in more than one instance during the
late period of national prohibition in
sanitv the Supreme Court of the
United States so declared. Still, under
the impulse of reform a majority of
the states have voted to forego that
liberty. Put the North Carolinians
couldn’t see it that way.
'On the contrary uiey siuck io
their rights, and at the mere thought
that perhaps Uncle Sam might step
in and begin to put a tax on their
booze and stick stamps on their
whisky bottles they move in droves
to the" polls and voted overwhelmingly
against him. Tnat happened last
November, the majority against re
peal being 173,000; but what about
the vote of the preceding November
when Buncombe Bob Reynolds, who
was running on a dripping wet plat
form calling for more corn for Tar
heels, who whooped it up for repeal
at every crossroads, gave Mr. Cam
Morrison, the noblest dry of them
all, the worst licking that any candi
date for the national senate ever got
in North Carolina.
“Thinking that probably that ques
tion would embarrass them, I asked
it of perhaps a dozen more or less
prominent Tarheels and in every in
stance I was disappointed. It didn t
embarrass a single man. On the con
trary, they were all amused at the
idea' that the rest of the United
States is so thick-headed that it
doesn’t appreciate what North Caro
lina’s attitude toward corn liquor
really is.
’"“In conclusion then, what can one
say, either in criticism or praise, of
North Carolina’s uttitude toward its
corn industry? Nothing. The matter
is one that comes strictly under the
head of the personal business of the
Tarheels. They are handling it ac
cording to their own notion of the
way it should be handled.
“To say that on the whole they are
heftier drinkers than the New York
ers, the Pennsylvanians, the Califor
nians or the denizens of any of the
wet sfateB. might be erroneous. To
say that they drink less certainly
would be. Probably the per capita
consumption, is about even; but even
if it is, North Carolina has this ad
vantage: it pays no tax on the liquor
it imbibes and therefore is not asking
the federal government to protect it
against any influx of booze from the
wet and wicked and yet law-abiding
states which lie to the north of it.
Perhaps, though, the time may come
soon when those wet and wicked
states will be asking Uncle Sam to
build a Chinese wall around North
Carolina to protect them.”
TV A Called Experiment
Blue Ridge—Describing the Ten
nessee Authority project as a great
experiment station for the study of
political science and the relationship
of agriculture and industry, Dr. H. A.
Morgan, chairman of the TVA, de
livered an address before the South
ern Conference on Human Relations.
QUEBEC NEWS
Gene Moore has been at Enks for
some days where he has secured work
painting for some of the citizens
there.
Mr. and Mrs. John Rufty of Bre-J
vard were visiting relatives in this
community Sunday.
Bruce Reid has gone to Kar.apolisj
for work. He is staying at the home!
of his ur.cle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs.!
Marvin Upright.
Miss Pauline Moore of Rcsman h3sj
been spending the week with Mrs.
Gene Moore.
Loonie Banther gave his father a j
surprise last Sunday, celebrating his ;
birthday with a fine dinner.
Rev. Clyde McCall preached at the j
home of Way;nan Thomas last Sun-|
day afternoon.
An excellent B. Y. P. U pregram j
was carried out by the young people!
of the community at Oak Grove Bap-!
tist church Sunday evening.
Mrs. Gene Moore and children i
were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.]
C. W. Henderson Sunday.
Miss Helen Henderson returned
home Friday from Cullowhee where I
she has been attending summer school ]
at Western Carolina Teachers Col
lege.
A large number of people enjoyed
bathing Sunday afternoon in the lake
at the home of T. C- Henderson.
Among them were G. B. Galloway,
Odell Fisher, Russell Fisher, G. C.
Whitmire, Paul Mullinax, “Junior”
Whitmire, Odes Fisher, B. P. Fisher,
Charlie Whitmire, Butch Whitmire,
Oscar Henderson, James Henderson,
R. T. Fisher, L. C. Fisher, Medford
Chapman, J. B. McCall, Mede Fisher.
Willie Dunn, Oscar Owen and Harry
Miller.
Convicts Escape Via Sewer
Philadelphia— Five convicts es
caped from the eastern state peni
tentiary Saturday thy traveling four
city block* through a sewer system, i
Within two hours three of the men
were captured, of whom two were
sent to a hospital with injuries re
ceive! in their dash.
A policeman and startled street
crowds saw the men, one nude and the
others clad only in underwear, emerge*
from a manhole and run toward
nearby railroad tracks
The policeman gave the alarm that
resulted in !h. apprehension of the
three several miles away.
The men traveled a path of hoirot
and danger in their flight. Slime,
rats and utter blackness were the
chief obstacles.
Wreck Takes Life
Fletcher—One man was killed and
two other persons were injured when
the sedan in which they were riding!
from Asheville to Hendersonville, j
turned over on the highway here at *
8:30 o’clock Friday evening.
Barur II. Serusian. 33, of 511 West j
Market street. Green-boro. a native *
of Persia, who was driving the car, j
was killed instantly.
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I Demon Expect Small Lonsen
Washington—Reconciled to the loss
of some House seats, democratic
leaders nevertheless are confident the
country will return an overwhelming
Now Deal majority to the next con
gress in November elections.
Despite recent rejuvenation of the
republican national organization the
democrats claim they will increase
their Senate majority and they have
reduced their estimates of House
seats they expsct to lose.
Blue Eagle Is Restored
Washington—NR A welcomed Fri
day the end of the Harriman Milts
blue eagle row.
A compromise, an authoritative
source said, has been reached and the
blue eagle will be restored to the
hosiery factory at Hariiman, Tenn.,
withir. a few more hours. More than
900 workers, threwu out of work
when the mill dosed, are expected to
get their jobs Monday.
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All Town Taxes for the year 1933 will
be advertised, beginning the second week
in August, and property will be sold the
second week in SEPTEMBER for unpaid
taxes. Avoid payment of advertising and
sale costs by paying your town taxes now.
H. H. PATTON
Tax Collector, Town of Brevard, N. C.
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