TAXATION, REVENUE, EXPENSE
By D. F. MORROW, Attorney
Rutherfor dton, N. C.
Now the question of taxing is a
serious one, when we realize that the
power to tax is authorized by law
but that same law only gives the pow
er to tax sufficient to run the nec-
essary expense of the state, county
or municipality as the case may be.
When every dollar taken as tax
should be for a necessity, and if not
a necessity, then it is wrongfully
taken, and now it can be seen what
I meant in last issue when I said we
are paying too much overhead ex
penses and too much salaries, for in
many cases it is not necessary to pay
as much salaries as we are paying,
for there are others who would take
any of the jobs, like Supt. of
Schools, teacher and other positions
which might be mentioned, for less
money, and therefore the whole thing
Is wrong and in a sense illegal.
The state has no money and its
only source now for revenue is from
the taxes levied, either direct or in
direct and from this it will be seen
that the taxpayer is the stockholder
in the state, county or municipality
in which he lives, because he must
furnish the funds with which the
state, county or municipality has to
do business; that is, to run all public
enterprises or expense of the govern
ment. If these are held down to nec
essities and the money spent eco
nomically then the government will
succeed and the stockholders —the
taxpayers—reap his reward or divi
dend on his investment or stock paid
in as taxes, but if there is extrava
gance, misrule or bad management
then the people mourn and the great
structure called the state suffers.
I take it that any one with ordi
nary sense can see that there is
something wrong in our management
New Spring Styles
Wc feel so good about the
new Sell loss Bros. Clothes *^3B^
just received that we'd like
to telephone an invitation to / iVMIE SS#
every well-dressed man in if|
town to come in and see I p \Wiji
them. UL/'M
rajr J"\
New colorings, new styles, Iv j. '
new lines in the men's J 1 .V f?
clothes, in fact all the new JJ i
ideas of the designers who -
are alert to the changes in /
fashions oil o\er the world.
You Gome in Now, While We Have Plenty of Sizes
We Sell GOOD CLOTHES—and French .
Dry Clean them —
TWO WAFS TO SAVE'
J. M. Price & Son
FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROLINA
Real Estate Bulletin
Last week we advertised a fine business and farm proposition
and sold it twice the day after the paper was printed, how does
that sound for turning them over?
Here is another proposition that looks to us like any person
wanting a pension give to him would fall for a thing like this.
This is the best business and living proposition on our list.
A nice eight-room dwelling in the growing town of Cliifside.
Situated on a seven-acre lot on the main highway.
With six-stall barn and two sheds with driveway through main
building.
It also has fine orchard and pasture with a good spring and
plenty of running water.
The chicken yards and houses are built suitable for poultry
farming.
A person can raise 6ve or six bales of cotton on this place
easy.
It also has a twenty-four X forty foot store house with a thirty
to forty thousand dollar business already built up.
Any person getting hold of this property would feel like his
richest uncle had died and left his entire estate to him.
For information see us at once. Good terms to right party.
We think nothing, talk nothing, study nothing but real estate
and the service we give our customers.
Blanton & Greene
GARAGE BUILDING MOORESBORO, N.C.
(Continued from last week)
when it is known that our county is
today in debt around a million dol
lars, and the state one hundred mil
lion and more.
And yet for the last ten or fifteen
years taxes in the county have gone
up from 25 to 100 per cent.
Twenty years ago in this county
the total taxes was from $25,000 to
and this year's tax in the
county, we are told, is about $350,-
000 and has, for years been increased
SIOO,OOO and more, and yet the
county today is in debt apparently
for all that we have, including roads,
school houses, bridges and other im
provements. So it would seem that
we have come to the parting of the
ways and something must be done.
! And I must confess that Ido not
j know but one remedy, and will sug
i gest it here and now and with it will
i close this article. It is this: All the
I tradesmen and professions are organ
; ized, the lawers, the farmers ; the
mechanics, doctors, teachers, brick
j layers and in fact every craft, except
the taxpayer and the remedy is, as
! I see it, for the taxpayers to organ
ize a Taxpayer's Association and then
! they can fix salaries of every one
in the employment of the state and
; county from constable to governor,
land not only so, but say what ap
' propriations shall and shall not be
! made. And why not, for it is the
' taxpayer that supports all and why
not fix the price or salary for each
i servant of the state? So let's organ
ize and get down to business and
' something will happen.
The Courier, your county Pa*
p er, per tl CA
year
Cla&ifukl
Advertisements inserted for
lc per word each insertion.
Cash in advance.
WE BUY OR SELL—AII kinds
of real estate. We can get what
you want or sell what you need
at the right price. Sales conduct
ed. A general real estate busi
ness. See us before you buy or
sell. CYCLONE AUCTION CO.,
Forest City. 52-tf
SHOATS AT CLIFFSIDE
A car load of Shoats will arrive at
Cliffside end of this week. 40, 60 to
90 pounds; select stock. JOHN F.
ATKINSON.
ELECTRICAL WORK—We do all
kinds of electrical work. Prompt
service and reasonable prices. 'M. D.
and R. E. Harrill, Forest City. Phone
100. 19-2t
We are in position to make long
time loans on improved farm lands
at 6 per cent. Edwards % Edwards,
Rutherfordton, N. C. 20-tf
EGGS FOR SALE—White Leg
horn, SI.OO for 15; Plymouth Rock,
$1.50 for 15. Send orders to S. T.
Hamrick, Ellenboro, N. C. 19-3t
FOR SALE—Wanamaker's pedi
greed Cleveland big boll cotton seed.
Latest improved seed, No. 17. Ad
dress G. W. Rollins, R. 1, Forest City.
14-8t
FOR SALE—Hatching eggs from
purebred single comb white leghorns.
High producing hens mated with tan
cred strain males. $1.50, $2.00 and
$3.00, for 15. Order direct from
this ad. Place orders early. Brook
dale Poultry Farm, H. C. Vickers,
Prop., R. F. D., No. 1, Forest City,
N. C. 17-4t
CALL 2202—When you in
need of Transfer Service. J. M.
Jones, Alexander. 17-4t
SEE BLANTON AND
Greene's Real Estate
Bulletin in this issue.
New Stuff. 19-tf
PIGS AND MORE PIGS—See Rus
sell Morgan at Ellis & Cobb's Store,
Spindale. 19-4t
SEEDS—AII kinds garden and
field seeds at Flack Hardware Co.
19-2
GARDEN AND FIELD SEEDS—
Large variety, right price. Flack
Hardware Co. 19-2
Get your garden and field seeds at
Flack Hardware Co. 19-2
FOR SALE—White Leghorn eggs
for setting from Ferris best egg-lay
ing strain, $2.00 for 15. Erwin's
Poultry Farm, Box 270, Forest City,
N. C. 19-tf
FOR RENT—On halves; 25 acre
farm, near Alexander Mill, good
four-room house. See Har
ris, Forest City, R-l. 19-2tp
FOR SALE—Two good typewrit
ers. One practically new. Also one
radio set. Reasonable price. Apply
to W. H. Payne, Ellenboro. 19-2t
I WHO'S YOUR ELECTRICIAN?—
j If you want first-class work at reas
onable prices, see M. D. or R. E.
Harrill, Forest City. We do all
kinds of electrical work, including
work on motors, fans, irons, or any
electrical appliance. Also wiring and
general electrical work. 19-2t
DR. FRANK R. WILKINS
Dentist
Next to P. 0., Forest City, N. C
Over Moss-Reinhardt Furn. Store
Williams & Hamrick
OFFICE SUPPLIES
Loose Leaf Systems, Filing Equip
ment, Safes, Desks, Chairs and
Rubber Stamps.
Shelby, - - North Carolina
Special Attention Given Mail Orders
45-tf
DR. C. S. McCALL
Dentist
New X-riay Lady Assistant
Office Over Farmers Bank
FOREST CITY, N. C.
Dr. RALPH R. HOWES
Dentist
New Poole Building
Telephone 156
FOREST CITY, N. C.
THE FOREST CITY COURIEJt
What Is believed to be the tomb
of a Viking queen has been unearthed
In southern Norway. The burial cham
ber was found supplied with a com
plete equipment for that future life
anticipated by northern paganism, In
cluding a furnished kitchen. beds and
looms.
Married in 1883, a mother before her
seventeenth birthday, * grandmother
fifteen years later, at the age of thirty
one, is the record of a woman living in
Carmarthenshire, Wales.
Jud Tunkins says mebbe it's better
for people not to have so much money
that they can afford to start divorce
proceedings: the first little family
quarrel.
\ Ilnm'ju 10,000
marks to a bakar on a mortgage sev
eral years ago. Recently the baker
pafd off the loan with a 7-cent cake.
SAVE 'with
SjAkF i;{TY
)o%mmekzKߣ3£a
DRUG STORE
C* 1 "
i
is the old-fashioned skin, lotion,
brought up to date.
Of heavier consistency by increased
quantity of crystal clear glycerin.
REINHARDT DRUG
CO.
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§ ANNOUNCING
ARRIVAL
NEW
SPRING | l|g
GOODS f.l|,
, i
Ladies' Dresses, Coats and Suits,
Ready-to-Wear—Millinery, Etc.
A full line of goods in every department.
Quality and price sure to please.
Mrs. Clemmie Blanton will again have charge of our Millinery
Department and invites her friends and customers to call and see
the splendid new offerings.
Don't do your Spring and Summer outfitting before you pay a
irisit to this store. Here you will find the quality and styles in most
pleasing variety, courteous treatment and prices that are right.
HAYNES' STORE No. 1
Avondal £, N. C.
Tomb of the Viking Queen.
Some Record.
"Me'nbe" He's Bight.
Cak« if TOO Marks
Slag Concrete.
Experiments made In France with
concrete made with slag have proved
It about equal to that made with
gravel.
Who Knows?
Animals are such agreeable friends
—they ask no questions. They pass
no criticisms. —George Eliot.
Manitoba a Big Province.
The province of Manitoba Is almost
(he same size as Great Britain and
Ireland.
Simple Mixture Best
For Constipation
Simple buckthorn bark, magnesium
sulph. c. p., glycerine, etc., as mixed
in Adlerika, is excellent for consti
pation. It often works in one hour
or less and never gripes. The pleas
ant and QUICK action of this effi
cient intestinal evacuant will surprise
you. Adflerika helps any case gas
on the stomach, unless due to deep
seated causes. Often removes mat
ter you never thought was in your
system. Reinhardt Drug Co.
A ~t i~r New Mode!
Price $7.00
One of the most popular models for the new season is a lustrous
Black Satin. Short Vamp, strap over instep, a dainty bow tie on
the side, with a satin covered boxwood heel.
Visit "The Shoe Store" Today.
Beautiful Special
Hosiery in a;I the Attention to
New Shades. Mail Orders
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26. 1*23
Home Seekers
Should Know
We have a sure enough val
uable home on Broadway St.,
consisting of 8 rooms, fine or
chard, good outbuildings, chick
en yard, water and lights, four
blocks from square, situated on
lot 150 ft. by 250 ft., back.
Here is a real home in Forest
City that we are going to sell
at a bargain to a quick buyer.
BLANTON & GREENE
MOORESBORO, N. C.
19-4t