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THE CONCORD TIMES
PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS
Entered as seeond class mail matter at the post
-1 office at Concord, N. C., under the Act of March
\ 3, IST9. *i- / _
!J B. SHERRILL. Editor and Publisher
W. M. SHERRILL, Associate Editor
Special Representative:
FROST. LANDIS & KOHN
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WHO OWNS THIS PROPERTY.
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From what w& cW learn the chief
i point of difference between the City of
11 Concord and the Southern Railway Com
; i jftpy relates to the demand by the City
\\ that tlie, company erect Page guards on
l both .of,.the street from the bridge
| over Buffalo Creek’ to the trestle bridge
(over the Southern’s, spur track.
Before this question can be settled own-
Sership of the land adjoining the;street
must be determined, it seems us. llf
£j- the Southern owns this land then the de
ll maud js a proper one. If the Southern
1; doesn’t Own this land and the land is not
s*? on the right of way then the demand is
<■ not a proper one. ,
The distance from the trestle bridge to
£ t the creek bridge is about 500 feet,.,. The
P l Southern contends that its right of way
| i extends only 200 feet from the center of
3* | the main line, and if this contention can
i be supported by facts then the Southern
b t as we see it, has nothing to do with plac
gt ing, gnayd .rails along the street. If
I the city can pfovp that the Southern owns
f lands from the trestle bridge to the creek
Sj; bridge or that the Southern’s right of way
« extends from the trestle bridge to the
* * creek bridge, then the Southern has an
jf:: interest in the guard fails or fence. ..
gl ThevSouthern contends that the street
1 which extends over its overhead bridge
gjj $ and trestle bridge, had been accepted as a
® I street by the city -long before the two
g| bridges were built by the company. That
■. is another important—matter in connec-
1 1ion, with the dispute. If this street had
S s been . accepted prior to the building of
|f ? ihe bridges then we say the building of
“ the bridges in no way changed the fact
g ; ; that the street' was city property.
Certainly the records will show what
* part of the street from the bridges to the
ereek is on railroad property. The rec
ords will also show or should show what
promises the Southern made. If these
promises are not recorded, then the city
has no case.
MORE FOR TAXES THAN DIVI
DENDS.
The larger railroads of the nation are
paying more now in taxes than in divi
dends.
,According to an article appearing in
the current issue of Nation’s Business,
the large railways of the United States
within the last six years, have paid SBO,-
000,000 more in taxes than they had paid
in cash dividends to their stockholders.
In five of the last six years, railway taxes
have exceeded railway cash dividends by
amounts varying from about $300,000.in
1020 to $36,000,000 in 1023. In 1925 the
excess of taxes over cash dividends
amounted to about $18,000,000. Striking
changes have occurred in the past fifteen
years.
In 1911, the year in which the Inter
state Commerce Commission adopted the
present system of railway classifications,
the taxes paid by the large railways
Amounted to $98,600,000, while their div
idends were $397,100,000. Then taxes
started their upward climb and dividends
began to slip, with the result that in 1925
taxes had increased 263.3 per cent, over
the 1911 level, while, dividends were 14
per cent, below the 1911 mark.
Since 1911, in other words, the taxes
paid by the railroads has increased from
twenty-five cents in taxes fpr every dol
lar of dividends to one dollar and five
cents in taxes for every dollar in divi
dends.
NO GROUNDS FOR CHARGES.
gi. More and more the public is reading
between the lines to discover there is
was no grounds for the charges made by
Secretary Kellogg recently that the Unit
ed States was watching Mexico because
the hplshevists were setting up a govern
ment there from which they hoped later
to gain entrance to the United States.
\Y e are tired of such excuses. Now ev
ery time some nation makes a mistake
| and seeks an alibi the bolshevist is given
the credit for such mistakes in action.
Apparently heads of governments have
reached the conclusion that the word
i . frightens the public to such an extent
that any error can be concealed behind
the excuse that the “reds” did so and so.
There is absolutely no proof that the
Soviets.in .have gained any foot-
I , liofd hUMexieor 'J&sla matter of fact there
is evidence to the contrary and we have
every reason to believe the -“reds” are no
more numerous nor any more active in
Mekicb; than in the'Uniled States. >
* It is true that soviet leaders at auneet-
Hu \
ing during 1925 expressed the desire and
hope to gain strength in Mexico. That
doesn't mean that the hopes and desires
were realized. In fact, no sooner did the
desire become known than President Cal
les warned that their tactics would not
be tolerated in Mexico.
Before Secretary Kellogg offered such
a lame alibi for his Mexican policy he
should have investigated matters more
thoroughly. He should have had definite
information to give the public. The stuff
he made public shows the; attitude of the
soviets but it does not show the attitude
of the Mexicans. That’s where the trou
ble comes in. It is all right .to say the bol
shevists want to set up a government in
Mexico, but it is not all right to say the
Mexicans want the bolshevists unless
the latter can be proved.
Certainly Secretary Kellogg has not
proved this. He was just trying to fright
en the people, apparently with the hope
that if he could picture the “reds” al
ready in Mexico lie could get forgiveness
for a regrettable policy toward Mexico.
Senator Norris, Republican, sees
through the whole thing and has written
the following, based on a poem by 1 James
Whitcomb Riley:
Once there was a Bolshevik, whp would
not say his prayers —
So Kellogg sent him off to bed away up-
A
And Kellogg heard him holler and Cool
idge heard him bawl,
But when they turn’t the kivvers down, he
wasn’t there at all.
They seeked him down in Mexico, they
cussed him in the press;
They seeked him ’round and ’round an'
everywhere I guess.
But all they ever found of him was whis
kers, hair and clout—
An’ the Bolshevik will get you if sou
don’t watch out.
BIG BUSES.
“1 see where the bus operators want
the Legislature to give them authority to
increase the width of their buses to 90
inches,” said ja Salisbury man yesterday.
“The only (king left for any of us to do
is to get out of the way and stay out of
the way,” continued this same speaker.
“The bus people will ask for this in
crease in the size of the vehicle legally
permitted in the State in order that they
may squeeze in another row of seats,
which means more room inside for the
bus operators and less on the outside for
the thousands and thousands of drivers
of smaller cars. If this is true, if these
few inches will give them room for an
additional then the ntaximum is
now too great and the size ought to be
cut down rather than
bury Post.
It there are to be any changes to the
law regulating the size of the buses we
say make them smaller. It is natural
-that the bus companies want to get as
many persons in the buses as possible but
other people of the State are to be con
sidered in this matter.
The buses are none too safe on the
highways now. They certainly get their
half of the road when passing another car
and should their size be increased they
would occupy still more of the highway'.
WHY THE EX-SERVICE MAN IS >
’ “SORE.”
We are still of the opinion that former
service men will be better off if they keep
their bonus certificates intact. That is,
we mean the man holding such a certifi
cate is better off if he does not take them
to the bank for service. However, this
docs not change the opinion that the gov
ernment handed the man nothing but a
“lemon” under the present plan.
, We think the government would have
been wiser, maybe, if it had stipulated
that the certificates would have no value
until after 20 years. That would have
been the frank thing to have done for in
most instances banks won’t take the cer
tificates at present and it looks like the
holder will have to wait 20 years or the
greater part of that time to get his mon
ey- :
This niuddled situation is due mostly to
Secretary Mellon and his oft-repeated
charges that there was no money to pay
the bonuses now. That is the reason
Congress did not make them payable
at once. Yet we find the government
facing a $500,000,000 surplus at the end
of the year and many ex-service men go
ing about begging for loans on paper en
dorsed by the United States government.
‘ Labor in discussing the matt.cr, says:
i “It is not too late to remedy the injus
: tice. , Instead of begging banks to loan
[money on the certificates, Congress
. should immediately authorize the Treas
s urv to make the promised advances.”
Again quoting from Labor we find the
; following: - j; T ’ * r
’ “All political parties were committed to
> the principle pf. ‘adjusted compensation’
l for the in tin who served im the World
) W ar, but tlie: bill finally?: pi.it through
- Congress now proves to be a good deal of
-a ‘gold brick.’
“Secretary of the Treasury Mellon is
primarily to blame. He fought eveiy
move to aid ex-service men, even going
to the extent of repeatedly misrepresent
ing the condition of the Treasury in or
der to head off bonus legislation.
“He eould always find a deficit when
Congress was discussing ‘adjusted com
pensation,’ but he could alw'avs discover
a surplus when Congress was consider
ing a scheme to reduce the taxes of bloat
ed wealth.
“It was Mellon’s plea that the Treasury
could stand a direct outlay which
led to the wretched certificate plan now
disgracing the country —and, instead of a
deficit, we have a half billion surplus.
“But, Mr. Mellon, though foremost of
sinners in this regard, does not stand
alone. * President Coolidge made the Mel
lon figures his own, and threw his influ
ence against a direct payment.”
' THE BORAH LAW.
Senator Borah oft-times been class
ed with the radicals in Congress and it is
rare that he deserves a place with the
conservatists, in his position with
regard to American interference in Nic-'
aragua he is both sane and conservative.
Senator Borah takes the position that
the United States should take some steps
to settle the difficulty there since it has
taken the trouble to intervene. That is
right. We can ? t keep our troops there
forever and apparently there is not going
to be peace under present political line
ups.
Briefly, what he has to advise the Ad
ministration is simply to give the people
of the Latin-American country a chance
to do their own voting on the government
that they want and cease trying to dic
tate to them what they have got to do in
this matter.
That is sound reasoning. Let the peo
ple of Nicaragua decide with the ballot
what they want. No the adminis
tration will be opposed to tnis for the very
reason that Diaz is not so popular and
Sacasa might be named.
As chairman of the powerful foreign
relations committee, Senator Borah ha«
more influence than the average Senator
and his utterances are deserving of much
consideration.
It is as The Winston-Salem Journal
says in its comment on the matter, de
claring that “if what Senator Borah says
is true, and there can be no doubt but’
that he speaks the truth, then the United
States has been and is occupying the
rather critical position of trying to dic
tate to the Nicaraguans with no other aim
in view than the protection of American
financial interests there. ‘We, of all the
people in the world v ought not to under
take to impose upon the people of an-;
other nation a government which they
do not want, says the Senator, and who
will take issue with him.
“Would the United States act toward
Canada in the same way she is acting to
ward Nicaragua under similar circum-’
stances? Would the United States ven-I
turc to dictate who shall be Premier in 1
Canada and which party there shall exer-.
cise power? Hardly. Why, then, not be I
as fair toward Nicaragua as towards Can- j
ada. The people of Nicaragua surely
have an inherent right to say who they
want in control of their government.”
THE HOME NOT FUNCTIONING
PROPERLY.
Judge Finley in his charge to the Gas- 1
ton County grand jury Monday eniphasiz-'
ed tlie fact that the home is the starting
point in all developments of character
and that the lack of home training is
the cause of much of the lawlessness in
the land.
“if a child win nut übey his parents and
is not made to obey them,” said the judge,
“he-will not obey his teachers at school;
if he will not obey his teachers, he will
not obey his preacher, or the sheriff or
the policeman. The next step in his ca
reer is the lockup, the chaingang or the
electric chair. I can not emphasize too
strongly the need of the right sort of
home training in our homes.”
Judge Finley in his charge was speak
ing of the alarming amount of lawless
ness and crime in the country and it is
significant that he should designate the
home as one of the agencies not doing its
i full duty toward the child. His utter
-1 ances are a challenge to parents who have
become indifferent to the proper training
of their children. There must be some
thing to such charges as Judge Finley
' made for they are being uttered in the
court, in the pulpit and from the other
> public places. •
| Sunday morning in Raleigh Rev. W. A.
Stanbury, pastor of one of tlie largest
L Methodist Churches in the capital £ity, is
sued a similar warning from life pulpit.
» lie was talking about the alarming in
crease in the number of divorces in the
[ state and the reasons for this laxity. “In
i an age which delights to call itself more
[ scientific and Christian .than any which
THE CONCORD TIMES
lias gone before,” this country out-dis
tances every other civilized country in the
number of divorces with the possible ex
ception of Russia, he declared.
As a remedy for this condition, Dr.
Stanbury suggested, first, that the homes
from which the young people come be im
proved. - - ~ ,
“The home is the center, and it is more
than anything else, the determining fac
tor in one’s life,” he declared. “We can
not have happy, industrious, virtuous
citizens, men and women of character
and power, unless they live in homes of
the right sort. Yetvit may seriously be
questioned whether we. take any real ac
count of this as parents.”
He pictured the home not only as a
place to receive instruction and prepara
tion for the sacred responsibilities of
home-building in the future, but as * &
place for the development of strong char
acters. • ’* ' ‘ ! j
SUGGESTIONS FROM CHIEF JUS
TICE TAFT , 1 j
Few are better cjualifiiecl to j
speak with authority on the subject <?f
crime and its cure than William Howard
Taft, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ,
of the United States. In an authorized
interview, appearing in Collier’s this
week, he gives a prescription for curing
crime, which, for brevity and complete
ness, i* probably the best solution ye]t. of
fered on the subject.
After pointing' out the various causes
which contribute to making the United
States the most lawless country on the
globe today, he makes the following defi
nite suggestions for action by the various
State Legislatures, many of which are
now in session:
State governments must assume their
duty with regard to detection and prose
cution of crimes.
State attorneys general and depart
ments of justice should be supervising
centers for the co-ordination of all police
officers.
The States should organize their own
detective services and constabularies.
County prosecuting officers should be
under control of and answerable to the
State attorney general.
Give.rural districts more police protec
tion.
Provide more policemen in the largest
cities.
Give Judges more power in the inter
pretation of evidence than they now have
in most States.
Simplify codes of procedure. Abolish
juries in minor cases, and abolish Grand
Juries in States.
Limit delays by appeal %nd limit ap
peals to one court.
Put Judges under a central control
which can assign them to districts where
Ithey are needed, and thus insure prompt
trials.
It is a fact that various 7 agencies for
law enforcement do not always work in
harmony. Oft-times this is due to jealou
sy as well as to ,_the ignorance of one
group of officials as to what another group
|is doing. The Winston-Salem Journal
agreses with this opinion, declaring “one ’
of the fundamental weaknesses of law
J enforcement in the United States is the
J almost complete lack of co-ordination and
co-operation between the various agen
cies which are clothed with tjie authority
of enforcing the law.”
The Journal thinks well of the sugges
tions offered by Chief Justice Taft. “The
plan offered above (referring to Mr.
I Taft's recommendation) will to a very
(large extent,” says The Journal, “correct
(this very obvious evil and thus eliminate
a multitude of harmful legal technicali
ties which tend to lower the morale of of
ficers of the law and furnish aid and com
fort to the notoriously guilty.
“Sooner or later 13w enforcement must
develop a technique which is able to ov
ercome the tremendous efficiency of crim
inals and crooked lawyers in defeating
the ends of justice. At present, law and
1 order are on thq defensivq, and they
will continue to maintain and perpetuate
this sorry spectacle to the great enjoy
ment of criminals until the State Legis
latures awake to the stern responsibility
of rehabilitating a wholesome respect for
law and its impersonal and impartial en
forcement.
( “The North Carolina Legislature is now
in session., Why shouldn’t North Caroli- ,
na lead the way by being the first State I
to enact into law these excellent sugges
tions of the greatest legal authority in
America?”
By having more co-operation between
the various law enforcement agencies we
could save money and at the same time
make the laws more effective. I
LEADER IN HIGHWAY EXPENDI-
U TURES. I
' :; r h “ ; I j ~ — f — y
North Carolina is : the # leadihg State in
the Nation now in highway expenditures,
figuring the expenditures on a per capi
ta basis.
\ During 1925, the record shows, four
other States spent more for highway Work
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than did North Carolina, but on a per
capita basis this State led all the rest.
Those States spending more than North
Carolina that year were Pennsylvania,
New York, Ilinojs and Michigan, all of
which are far wealthier and more popu
lous than North Carolina. Thus we find
jtjjat from records in the University News
Letter, that in proportion to population,
wealth and area North Carolina leads
the United States in construction and
maintenance of highways.
| We should continue at the top for >ve
are getting ready now for the State Legis
lature to authorize the expenditure of an
other $30,000,000. Certainly that will
keep the State among the leaders.
We were interested to See from the
News Letter figures that the entire South
shows up splendidly in State highway ex
penditures. Os the first 24 States in high
way expenditures 11 are located in the
(South. The Southern States spent ap
proximately two hundred million dollars
on State highway construction and main
i temince in 1925. .
f There is another interesting item in
connection with the figures on highway
expenditures. That is the fact that most
jOf the money for.such work is now coming
from automobile a(nd gasoline taxes, With
the increase in income derived from the
sale of auto license and gasoline taxes
there has been a decrease in taxes on real
and personal property.
There has been a steady tendency in
this direction since 1921. In that year
the combined-income from motor vehicle
licenses and gasoline taxes amounted to
25.9 per cent., the gas tax revenue
amounting to les than one per cent. In
1925 the income produced from these
sources was 43.5 per cent, of the years
total, and the gas taxes alone amounted
to 13.5 per cent.
In the same period taxes on property
specifically for road purposes have drop
ped from 11.2 per cent, to 3.3 per cent, of
the year’s total income. Including the in
come from appropriations and miscellan
eous sources, most of which is raised by
property taxation, the 1921 per centage
was 20.7 and the 192$ percentage was
10.5/
Funds raised by the sale of bonds were,
also smaller percentage of the total in
1925 than in 1921, being 21.3 per cent, in
1925 as compared with 27.8 per cent, in
1921.
North Carolina in 1925 spent $32,588,-
514 on highways* with Pennsylvania, the
leader, spending $62,294,366, and New
York, in second place in total expendi
tures spending $49,368,770.
Among the Southern States Texas rank
ed second with expenditures 6f $19,985,-
007 and Kentucky came next with an ex
penditure of $14,916,316. Other States
spent: Tennessee $14,379,189; Virginia
$14,071,555; Oklahoma $12,937,673; South
Carolina $9,132,953; and Georgia $7-,-
902, 428. 1
It’s hard to realize, but there arc more,
automobiles than telephones in the Unit
ed States. According to figures prepared
by Edward S- Jordan, motor car manu
facturer of Cleveland, there are now 4,-
000 more motor vehicles than telephones
in America, and the excess probably will
be greater if we maintain the present rate
of buying power. The telephone, in com
parison with the automobile, is cheap and
its use has spread greatly, yet we find a
comparatively View industry, much
younger than the telephone, spreading
even more rapidly. The initial cost of
the telephone and its upkeep amount to
a sum much less than the cost and upkeep
of an automobile, but just the same there
arc more of the latter than the former.
The comparison is a striking illustration
of the popularity of the auto and the pros
perity of the people.
WISECRACKS.
.High schools arc all right but unnecessarily high
costs of education are all wrung.—Greensboro
Record.
The French have raised a warship sunk -234
years ago, but nobody has raised a howl at Gen
eva over this addition to their navy.—Danville
(Va.) Bee.
The basketball season is in our midst, and so it
is the mothball season. Some kind of ball ipl
the year.—Greensboro Record.
Old John J. Unpopularity seems to follow Uncle
Bam like bis shadow. —Nashville Banner, I
The unemployment problem for many is hoW to
keep that way.—Gadsden Star.
To poison or not to poison, thats the question
man fall is because he wonders for what reason
the other mau when he falls. —Albany-
[ Decatur Daily.
| You can now plan to complete those tilings that
| you resolved to do in 1926.—Tr0y Messenger.
! Fountain, we imagine, won by a spurt.—Sun
Rays, Durham Suu.
Isn't it jieculiar there are always purkingplaces
for banditsV-Talladega Home.
If everything alleged is true, it's baseball in
more than one sense.—Tampa Tribune.
If half of what we hear is true, modern liquor I
should be called “lunashine.”—Arkansas Democrat. !
( Keep on and Varc will begin to think he is t
unwelcome in Washington.—Sun Itays, Durham
- Sun.
[ Ktills are harder to locate. Maybe the officers
’find themselves lost, in a maze 0 f smells.—Arkan
V What does the ofdtuiier do with 4 the hours he
u.W frt tfiwiul making rings with the ends of his
mustache?? —Gadsden Star.
Having read both the Republican and I>cin«-
cralie pffitforuis wc feel if either of them keep up
to their promises, wonders- wfll be performed.
—New York Commercial. ( j
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Thurs day, j M J
■? . WR income
Persons whose net in.-. f
. chiefly from salaries <>r v <!rj| R9R
cess of $5,000 should ; U ;.k* ti"!- SHi'R
! turns ou Form 1040A. ’ : -^ER
: J Persons whose net in< • ■ f-R
■ profession or business. / > "'/“'•'Rig
, the sale of property _«.r re:,;.
was less than $5,009. .n,. ’ r ‘/R SMB
• larger form. 1010. The ,, f p*'R' M
quired. also, in cases wh.-iv 111
fii excess of $3,000. regur iR 11
1 salary, business, professi-.-... ,
sources. L ; m
Copies of the forms :1 ...., . | K/flB
collectors of, internal rev*- y. Rjl
a form, however, does n„ t
ofTiis obligation to tile :r-i a ,
on time —on or before Mar-h i:, '',jßß|
return is tiled on n calendar year
may be obtained at -mi,-,.. „ .• ■ 1
revenue and deputy collect.. r . Rffi
ed on request. • "ml* *|j
The return must he sw.. r y If ii
or other authorized T .. /'R
Xo charge is made for this II J
of collectors and deputy <•-./..« • lfv ' c R<|
YOUR INCOME t'\\ 11
No. g I Ili
The normal tax rate under the mjr -
1926 is 1 1-2 per cent on the first .q,,*R |
of. the personal exemption, f, ie>lit f..' r jl*ci
etc., 3 per cent on the next RuOn | ■ -
cent on the, balance. 11 q
The strrta* lattes apply to lir . t i; . II |
of SIOjOOQ, as in the revenue a** ~<lll %
maximum race, however, under tht'iS J
reduced to 20 i>er cent, which :!|ipl w ßf§
come in excess of SIOO,OOO, instead () V, |a||
of 40 per cent on net income in R /
as was provided by the lln’l ""'Rfl
The exemptions are f., r
and |3.a00 for ■married per- ‘‘..'■l
and heads of families. In
is entitle<l to ,a credit of spin f,, r
dependent upon lliin for chief 1
‘person is under 18 years of ag*o„ r
self-support because meutall\ |
ive. Such dependent- need n< .r !s.V!R*i|
the taxpayer nor a member h\ ;
term “mentally or physieallx ilrf (vr
not only cripples and those mentally
persons in ill health and the aged.
A taxpayer, though /unmarried, rh. R |
in his home one, or more relatives f,vf..R |
exercises fainjly control, iis the head I
control, is the head of a family nnti fRJ
the same exemption alhUved a marriwM J
Also he may claim S4OO for each
example, n widower who sunpomii Rl
an aged mother and daughter 17 .mR
entitletl to an exemption of s:!.."•<to 1
a family, plus a credit **f S4OO for nR I
ent, a total of $4,300. The S4OO cre*iit.^Rl
does not apply to the wife or
taxpayer, though one may be "totally i
upon the other. I I
YOUR INCOME TAX I
No. 4 |.|
Anomalous- as it may seem, a
married and. yet single for the ; urp<>*R
income-tax law. To be allowed ar
$3,500, a married couple must, iiavc "iR
gether,” in the eyes of the law. forth*.qß
able year. However, iu the absence *.f
residence together, the question of
and wife are living together »le|mnh
character of the sei>arati<»n. If,
husband is away on business, or if.
essary reason a temporary
full exemption is allowed. The
vl-ife at a sanilSarium. or her
because of ill-health does not change
and the full exemption is allowed th*'
But when- the husband deliberately ;i, : R
uously makes his home at one place andiß
at another, they are classed as single
each is allowed an exemption of si.•‘ion
In the absence of continuous
together, whether a person with deiwsß
latives is the head of a family, and the*
titled to an exemption of s3,i*oo. also depa
the character of the separation. , If a &
away on business, or a child or other <f,
away at whool or on a visit, the cotiinmk
ing maintained, the exemption applies. 1:
ent is oblige<l to maintain his dei>en<lerM
in a boarding house, while he lives e/d
exemption may still apply. But if l>enc;a
dependent needlessly and continuously iw
the status of the head of a family does
irrespective of the support given.
NO STATE PROPERTY TAX Mil
STATE REVI AEATION
Winston-Snlebn Journal.
Whatever the- Legislature does -or d*e
with Judge Francis D. Winston's bill 0
support and control of North Cardinii
schools, there is one thing th** Legidat*
not do.
If ever the State decides to g" hack' ■
perty tax, before it can even think of tab
a step, the legislature wiH have to pc*
a complete revaluation of real property a
Carolina.
Under the present system of county c
vatuations, it is im]>ossihle for the Suit*
a property tax for State purposes, vie f
gross uAid intolerable injustice to most /
of the Coiniu«»nwealth.
If the State fixes the rate. ti»e Mut*
the values. That is the only fair' met led f?
the State will ever again b** able to l*'' s '
real and personal property.
As a matter of fact, the State •*
abondou the property tax a few yrijirs ’*■
cause it was im]N>ssiblc tin* Stab' f*
projierty tax. the bu/deu of which «»ul‘l*
equally by all the pe*qde.
So long as the counties have | -ow i t o* 1
some couuties will have low value' air
The State rate uhist be uniform, j ft i' 4
therefore, that under a uniform St.d** ‘ ,l
of proiierty for taxation, the i*eo]»(c *■/ s " 3?
ties will jmy a great deal more 1 itji"
Treasury in proportion to their ®
«>f pther counties will pay
That’s why a State proiierty tv * *> uut *
without State valuation of propeity.
MIS t NDERST AN DIN 6?
Kinston Free Press.
Former Speaker of the House K r /
Uharlotte, charges a Charlotte m , '"i ,:, f r '
with violating his contideuce in gi i - I 1: t
cation to a statemeut regarding th« ci?! 1 -
school law. He does not name the --'/'v
but the Free Press is incline*! t<* tin "
there was any premature publieati'U -
view's, it was due to a luisundcr/- (
a deliberate violation of confidence-• I-'
pai»er reporters, a general nil* - ;l ' /
(•on keep secrets aud wh»* do so. 6Vrr '
| the cuse, they would very soon d*"">
; deuce of their friomls and remove i
sources of their newspaper itiform (
respecting news|iu|>er |*eoi»h* wotid '‘i>
“turn their thumbs” down ou an
presen tafive who would violate a <•”.
up to the nowMpajiemuvu-\ylio»L Air. * , ; ; ' rr “
whoever lieTtfay-be, to say*.something.
Tlic old assertion that all girl
different is erroneous. If they did a lc " e ‘]
would he wearing cotton stockings. —i ••/ '
The nearest thing t«j fruud that ib'.' J
prove ou Cobb is that he was lbe --" :|,r
stealer ou earth.—Gadsden Tunes.