PAGE 4 The Warren Record Published Every Friday By The Pre a* Publishing Co. One Year For 12.00 W. BRODIE JONES Editor HOWARD F. JONES BIONALL S. JONES Associate Editors That J ustice May Ever Have A Champion; That Evil Shall Not Flourish Unchallenged. Entered at the poet office at Warronton. North Carolina, under Act of Congress of 1870. The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his mas- I ter, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household.?Mat- I thew 10:24, 25. I think that to have known one good, old man?one man, I who through the chances and I mischances of a long life, has I carried his heart in his hand, like a palm branch, waving all I discord into peace?helps our faith in God, in ourselves, and j in each other more than many sermons;?G. W. Curtis. Schools of the county are working with real spirit inl the live at home program I this week. If the theory advanced in the school room is followed by the actual prac-l tice of work on the farm, we may look for a big improvement in agricultural conditions. They must go together. CHANGE FORM OF TAXES There is a general cry in North Carolina and in the East particularly that the I State is exacting too much in taxes on real estate. There ? i I seems to be a growing teeiing in favor of a sales tax as a form of relief. Collected at its source and placed upon luxuries or high priced necessities, if we prefer, a sales tax is the fairest form of securing revenue to operate the government. As it is today land and personal property that is visible bears virtually all of the burden. When it comes to the tax books, intangibles are as bashful as a gay gazelle attending a convention of wolves. They just don't attend, that's all. We must have the revenue and the ideal manner in which to raise it is naturally a system which falls equally upon all insofar as possible. The user pays under a sales tax. The present system has burdened land too heavily, and the legislature?though - - > we do not see any necessity whatever for a special session?should give time, study and deep investigation to this paramount subject when next the solons saunter to Raleigh. BAD BEDFELLOWS Chicago is having a terrible time these days. Taxes for 1928, ordinarily collectible in April, 1929, have not yet been collected, and probably will not be for another six months. Millions have been borrowed in anticipation of taxes. And the. end is not yet. The reasons for all this are many and complicated, as is - i * j _ i?? i mvariaoiy true in a iinanciai tangle. However, there is one thing that is basic. The moment politics begins keeping company with administration, trouble begins. It's a bad combination. Business can't be successfully run on a political basis, and the service a government renders is business. It doesn't make any difference whether we're talking about Raleigh, Charlotte, I L Warrenton, North C The W> -- - Chicago, or Paris,?the same thing is true. Politics and administration have been bedfellows in Chicago. They will have to be separated before real progress can be made. MORE ABOUT LAWYERS Editor, Warren Record, Sir:? In the fifth paragraph of my article in your paper last week: your printer misquoted the price of my bale of cotton. Please reproduce that comparative statement as the - l - ? i- - 1- ? error aesiroyeu to a iaigc cAtcnti the sense of that statement. (The paragraphg to which Mr. Davis refers read as follows: "If productive labor was rewarded proportionately according to outlay compared with corporations, tobacco would be bringing $7 per pound, cotton $200" (edition last week had it instead of $2000) "per bale, peanuts $10 per bushels and millionaires would be ploughing mules."? Editors.) When I was a boy I read a story in a book, now discarded to the junk heap, and I guess that was done by the action of lawyers, precious book that it was, which told of two cats quarreling over the division of some cheese, and a monkey was called to make a fair settlement of it. He proceeded to do so by biting a little from the larger of the two pieces, and of course, being a smart monkey, bit off too much. Then he bit the other piece the same way and continued the process until the cheese was exhausted and the matter settled, to the satisfaction of the monkey. The point in the case is so often exemplified in litigation, the litigants taking the place of the cats and a lawyer that of the monkey, and it represents to a perfect degree the major political parties of this nation ( Democratic and Republican) as the two cats ever contending for supremacy, snarling and biting, scratching and fighting as only cats and politicians can, never surrendering, never satisfied, consuming and squandering the substance of the people regardless cf distressing results?with lawyers as the monkeys, egging them on, operating under the increased stress of political excitement to grip a tighter hold, and increase their advantage while none oppose. Republicans nor Democrats nor the people manages the affairs of this government, but the lawyers of both parties operating jointly. A lawyer is loyal to his profession nrst, ana a pouuciaiu as a necessary sideline second for investment, and they exact their toll from whoever has the cheese. As the big lawyer operates on big opportunities in the nation, lesser lawyers operate on lesser opportunities in the State and our people pay the toll, and all of it is covered up or camouflaged in a way in some form or other. I will refer briefly to one example in this State that is costing the taxpayers enormous sums of money every year. Our State lawmaker lawyers made law forbidding j State prisoners being employed in making any commodity for sale by the State, that is made or sold byj free labor in the State, thereby creating an acknowledged deficit of nearly $200,000 and possibly more for lack pf profitable employment for prisoner::. They might if law Carolina * omaQ fWho Lives In A allowed be employed in the making of any of many hundreds of articles, bought and used every day by wage earners and farmers (poor people who must sometime, somehow, meet and bear the burden of this deficit) and at a cost of half or slightly more than the present cost, and at a self-supporting basis by the State prison, thus eliminating the heavy yearly deficit, and offsetting a lawmaker lawyer legalized national robber tariff to a great extent. But instead of making some plow points that sold fifteen years ago for 50 cents a dozen and now $1.50 a dozen, or plow bolts that sold then for ten cents a aozen and now at 30 cents, and so on through the list, the prison, ers by the hundred are employed producing all the cotton, corn, peas, wheat, peanuts and potatoes, etc. that they can in competition with [kn Sat I New San IOnE Manl SHI Collar Attac Manhattans r % T 1 t 1 lNeckbana nc WARR DEPT. Warren THE WARREN RECO Shoe! ~ | ' f-jtfDMWS 7 '\z~~T* pwstww / z?]\ AHTKWT coats. / ?jfp **5^1? 1 the hard-pressed farmers of our Sate, the most noble and honorable of all occupations. Now who gets the benefit from it? Manufacturers and speculators, and lawmaker lawyers did it, most likely for rich fees or partnership profits, and they call it statecraft, but don't give or care a durn if it does hurt the fellow lower down. Another thing that increases the laboring man's burden unfairly is the exemption of tax on out-ofstate securities amounting to millions of dollars, and it works this way: Mr. Bilson, general supply man and speculator, accumulates many thousands of dollars, taking a liberal toll of all supplies coming to l*iS patrons through him, and a generous profit from their produce . going through his business, instead ox] nple nples Now display nmtmtmmt lattan RTS 1 ;hed, Colored iow . . . $1.50 (M PA >W . . . . $1.3U W, ENTON STORE ton, N. C. _ / _ _ I | " " """ ' " RD of loaning his money to his patron at lawful interest or investing it in the State so that its taxes would reriu :e the burden of taxes of those out of whose necessities it was extract 3d, it is sent over into another State and invested in stocks, bonds or securities of 6 per cent bearing value or better. That may be good business for Mr. Bilson but it treats those out of whose misfortunes he obtained it, with unfair and unjust consideration. This is a typical case of thousands of others who own money for investment in our Stat;}. They are not required by law to list those foreign bonds and secu rities for taxation, so they esca pe that much of its burden, mat ing ine rare niguer UJU lir.ucvi property. They are sending the moiey out of the State, making it scarcer, harder to get, more in demand, bonuses and services higher, and harder to get with which to pay when the time comes, and so it goes on, bleeding those who are leas t able to bear it, creating more and more litigation, material for lawyers to work upon. So I say thai, these are the farmers burdens. Short crops and low prices are contributory, though low prices are largely' regulated under the same general scheme. Lawmaker lawyers did that, not to help the man who toiled and sweated and suffered and earned it. And there is some of the same kind of business going on in our county which I intend to write abi ut later. And the cine of all depends on proper legislation which no thoughtful person can hope to secure through lawyer-politicians. 3od help the country. Some time it will find itself in the situation the great city of Chicago now is in. So much above its base with no tangible support, it must fall. And lawmaker lawyers did that too. What I have said is in the great es>, good will to everybody and I hope the laboring people will profit by it. J. S. DAVIS. Cieek, N. C. : Renew Your Subscription to The Warren Record MI ??Mli The! I Warehousemen Frid VTTnwF TTi vv e want v< Ib( I WAl I We thank you f< I us during the pai I your next crop. I May we 2 IW. B. r RHHHH North C^^FRlDAY.^ARy i,,! r^r^SI RE SI EL 1 , be very near and dear to Resolutions Passed by the them in their sorr07. Woman's Missionary ? the mat a copy ot this V arrenton BaP ^ters^-s. Sallie Jsent t0 members of each m Niiles and Mrs. Mattie J. 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