BOND TAXATION
WILL CUT TAXES
Republicans Propose Amend
ment Making Bond Owners
Subject to Income Tax
Washington, Jan. 1.—Alter con
gress reconvenes, the program for
the tax reduction wni rounded out
by a move on the part of Senator
Smoot, of Utah, to get out of judi
ciary committee the resolution for
a constitutional amendment making
the owners of State, municipal and
county bonds subject to income tax
the same as owners of Liberty bonds
and all bonds of corporations as well
as mortgages on farms and buildings
This resolution passed the lower
house last session by a vote of 223
to 101, being five more than the
necessary two thirds. It was intro
duced in the last session of the Sen
ate but for lack of time did not come
to a vote. When the Senate recon
vened just before the holidays, Sen
ator Smoot reintroduced it, and his
next move within a few days will
bring it to the front as a rounding
out of the present attempt at tax
revision.
"In the winters judgment, this
amendment holds out the only prom
ise of real relief for farmers, small
business men and small home owners
in the intire pending effort at tax re
vision. Except to speed this amend
ment, there is substantially nothing
that Congress can do, or Mr. Mellon
can do, or the Fedeal government
can do in this field for the farmer
and small business man. This is a
strong assertion but it is within rea
son. The Federal government can
not lift taxes from the farmer be
cause the Federal government is not
collecting any taxes from the aver
age farmer. If Sen .vtor-sSfengus
Johnson, with a wife and four chil
dren and two hundred acres of land
is an average farmer, then he does
not have any Federal income tax on
his farm income unless the net in
come of that farm, after deducting
all expense, is $3,600. And if Mag
nus Johnson’s experience with his
two hundred acre farm is typical of
the average farmer, his net income
last year did not reach $3,600 or any
thing like it, for the average farmer
last year certainly did not make
$3,600 net.
So Mangus Johnson as a Senator
cannot reduce his own income tax
as a famer, and nothing Congress can
do can reduce it, because on the as
sumption that his farm is typical
he has not enough income from his
farm to pay any income tax on it.
Nevertheless, Mangus Johnson, if
he is an average farmer, is suffering
from taxes. Governor Charles W.
Bryan, of Nabraska, has a farm of
160 acres on which his taxes in one
recent year were $496 or over $4 an
acre. The farmer everywhere is
sufferin from taxes. Farmers
in some states are being forced into
bankruptcy by taxes. But these tax
es are not Fedeal taxes. They are lo
cal, State, county, and district tax
es collected largely to pay interest on
State, county and district bonds.
These bonds are being issued in
enormous and rapidly increasing
quantities. Something like two bil
lion dollars of them were issued in
1922. The total amount of them is
now close to twelve billion dollars.
The principal reduction for the enor
mous issue of these bonds is that
there is an immense demand for them
The demand comes from rich men and
■bankers who cater to rich men. The
reason rich men want them is that
the Federal government does not tax
the income fom them. A man with
one or two or ten or a hundred mil
lion dollars can put all his money
! EFFORTS BEING MADE
TO LIBERATE THAW
New York, Jan. 2.—Counsel for
Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stanford
White, and since 1916 confined in an
asylum in Philadelphia, are seeking
to have him adjudged legally com
petent, says a copyrighted story from
I Philadelphia appearing today in the
New York Sun.
If liberated Thaw’s counsel hope
to obtain for him restoration of his
personal fortune now estimated at
$1,000,000, according to the story.
Then he would proceed to New York
to surrender and face charges of
having beaten a boy, charges of
which counsel hope to clear him.
Thaw stands accused here of hav
ing lured Frederick Gump, Jr., son
of a Kansas City manufacturer, to
a New York hotel, and with ha\ ng
beaten his naked body savagely with
a whip after having locked the boy
in a room. The specific charges are
kidnapping and second degree as
sault. Conviction would carry a
long term in Sing Sig. The article
states that Thaw’s defense will be
that he was adjudged insane at the
time he was alleged to hove commit
ted the acts of which he is accused,
but that he is now sane. A sane
man it will be contended cannot be
held fo trial for acts of irresponsible
moments.
Mrs. Martha Lassiter Dead
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News has reached here of the death
of Mrs- Martha Lassiter, who for
sometime has made her home with
her son, Mr. Edgar S. Lassiter, of
near Four Oaks. Mrs. Lassiter was
about eighty years old.
j Last Friday while she was alone
in her room her clothing caught fire
and before anyone could go to her
1 aid she was badly burned about her
hice-' and body. Everything that
could be done for her relief was done,
but she grew worse until death came
Wednesday night.
The funeral services were conduct
ed by Rev. Neil Mclnnis, pastor of
Selma Presbyterian church, yesterday
afternoon at 2:30 at the home and
interment was made in the family
burying ground near Clement church.
The floral offering .was unusually
large and beautiful. Crowds of rela
tives and friends from Wilson, Ben
j son, Four Oaks and Smithfield attend
) ed the funeral.
j For several years Mrs. Lassiter had
been a consistent member of the
| Presbyterian church. She wlas a
woman of the finest Christian charac
ter and has lived an exemplary life,
j Her husband, the late Mr. Joseph
Lassiter, preceded her to the grave
1 about twenty years ago. She was
a sister of the late Mr. Seth Woodall,
a pioneer citizen of this city. She
‘ is survived by one daughter, Mrs. D.
M. Coates, of this city, and three
sons, Messrs. Edgar S., and J. H.
Lassiter, of near Four Oaks, and Rev.
A. T. Lassiter, pastor of the Presby
terian church of Benson.
The bereaved ones have a large
circle of friends who sympathize with
them in their loss.»
Accepts Position With J. D. Spiers
Mr. V. J. Underwood has accepted
a position with J. D. Spiers. He will
be in the furniture department. Mr.
Underwood has been with Tumage
& Talton for the past five years,
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in these State, county and city bonds
and thereafter need pay no income
tax whatever. It is to reach these
men and to be able to tax the in
come from these bonds and farm
mortgages, that the constitutional
amendment is prohibited.—Mark Sul
livan in News and Observer.
American People Have Gone
‘—■SS Installment Payment Mad
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Chicago, Jan. 2.—Americans have
gone installment payment mad, de
clares the January issue of the Na
tional Retail Clothier, official publi
cation of the National Associatibn of
Retail Clothiers and Furnishers, in
commenting on the tendency in the
couhtry today to buy products on
the installment plan. Statisticians
have compiled a list of 68 important
commodities being sold on time pay
ments, with the automobile and
musical instruments heading the list.
The list runs from radio sets thru’
washing machines, stocks and bonds
to buildings. A vast majority of the
wage-earners, it is declared have
mortgaged their incomes for years
to come because of the trend o£ the
country to buy luxuries and necessi
ties of life on the installment plan.
NEWS FROM THE
CITY OF SELMA
Many College Students Return
to School; Other Items
Of Interest
Selma, Jan. 2—Mr. and Mrs. J. M. I
Cameron and family spent Christmas J
with Mr. J. A. Cameron, of Swan
Station.
Mrs. Herbert Screws spent the week
end in Dudley with friends.
Mrs. W. S. Grimsley of Greensboro,
Mrs. John Rose of Fremont and Miss
Lovie Griffin of Dabney, spent the
Christmas holidays with their parents
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Griffin.
Mrs. W. H. Fields spent Friday
in Princeton with her niece, Mrs. Joe
Edwards.
Mrs. Oscar Eason spent Christmas
with her brother, Mr. Raymond Gris
wold.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Earp and daugh
ter, Miss Elizabeth Earp, visited Mr.
and Mrs. W. S. Earp of Thanksgiving
last week.
Miss Minnie Bright of Durham vis
ited Mrs. J. P. Temple during the |
holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Woodard and
children spent Christmas day with
Mrs. Woodard’s mother, Mrs. Lillian
Holland in Buie’s Creek.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Nordan, of
Portsmouth, Va., spent the week end
with Mr. and Mrs. W- A. Nordan
Mr. and Mrs. Hughes Pearce
of Wilmington have been visiting rel
atives in the city during the holidays.
Mrs. E. V. Deans has returned from
Laurinburg where she visited her sis
ter, Mrs. T. T. Covington.
Dr. and Mrs- R. P. Noble and son
and Miss Annie Noble of Raleigh,
spent the week end with Dr. and Mrs.
R. J. Noble.
Mr. and Mrs- J. C. Whitley, of Flor
ence, S. C., and Mr. and Mrs- W. B.
Whitley and family of Vanceboro,
spent several days with Mr. and Mrs.
W. T. Woodard last week.
Messrs. Fletcher Futrell and Jos
eph Watson of Pine Level visited
friends in the city last Thursday.
Miss Mattie Ellington of Richmond
Va., has been visiting Mrs. W. H.
Call.
Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Fulghum and
family have moved into their cottage
on Pine street.
Mrs. Z. V. Fitzgerald of Raleigh
visited Mrs. Bradley Pearce last week
Miss Bertha Woodard has returned
to Archer Lodge to resume her duties
as teacher in the school there after
spending the holidays at her home
here. Miss Wiodard had as her house
guest during the holidays Miss Wil
low Way Benbow, also a teacher in
the Archer Lodge school.
Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Godwin of Char
lotte spent the holidays with Mrs.
Godwin's parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.
M. Benoy.
Miss Bessie Willets, of Wilmington
spent the holidays with Mr. and Mrs.
G. M. Willets.
Mr. R. L. Ray and brother, Mr. P.
0. Ray, of Mebane, R. L. Ray, Jr.,
F. 0. Ray and T. T. Ray spent last
week in Eastern Carolina hunting.
Miss Ruth Hinnant of Kenly spent
Christmas with Miss Martha Ward.
Mr. C. S. Griffith has returned from
his home in Wilmington where he
spent the Christmas holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Woodard, Mr.
and Mrs. J. L. Wiggs, Mr. B. H.
Woodard and Miss Bertha Woodard
spent Christmas day in Kenly with
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hodge.
Mr. R. D. Blackman spent several
days last week in Durham.
Mr. and Mrs. F. 0. Ray of Smith
field spent Christmas with Mr. and
Mrs. R. L- Ray.
Mrs. W. H. Etheridge of Kenly
spent Christmas with her daughter, i
Mrs. J. M. O’Neal.
Mr. C. G. Wiggs went to Wilson
and Rocky Mount on business last
Thursday.
Dr. S. A. Oliver of Benson, Messrs
J. D. Massey and F. G. Lowe have re
turned from a hunting trip in East- .
em Carolina.
Miss Ada Hill has returned to her
home in South Boston, Va., after
spending several months in Selma.
Mr. and Mrs. E- V. Woodard went i
to Mount Olive Sunday to attend the
funeral of Mrs. J. V- Dail.
Miss Emma Lucas Ward, who is
HAPPENINGS IN
CITY PRINCETON
Several Weddings Solemnized
During the Holidays—
Personal Mention
Princeton, Jan. 3.—Miss Roberta
Barnes, of Wayne county, is visiting
Miss Mildred Pearce.
Miss Fannie Wellons of Hookerton
and Miss Ruth Tyler from Roxboro,
were visitors in town for the week
end.
Miss Ila Odum was married to Mr
Jim Massey last Friday, December
28th.
Miss Eula Harris one of the teach
ers in the graded school, was married
to Mr. Lester Amitt last Sunda; j
night.
Miss Lillie Toler was marr- d to
Mr. Raymond Eason last Satur 1 y. j
Misses Eula and Sadie Boyett have
gone to Greensboro to ent; • school.
Miss Lillie Woodard and Mr. Thur
man Bizzell were married last Thurs
day.
Misses Gladys Worley and Louise
Edwards and Messi3 Luther Worley
and Chester Adams visited friends
in Goldsboro Saturday.
Mrs. J. A. Swicegood from Salis
bury, was the guest of her daughter,
Mrs. M. P. Young, through the holi
days.
The community league will meet
Friday night, January 4th, at 7:30,
in the Town Hall.
Miss Eula Baker is visiting rela
t;vcs in Nash county this week.
Miss Ellen Uzzle, from Wilson’s
Mills, was i visito' in town a short
while Saturday.
Mi. G P. Massey and Miss Estelle
Holt went to Smithfie’d shopping
Tuesday.
The little visitor which arrived at
Mr. ana Mrs. W. P Suggs’ last week
was a boy, instead of a girl, as report
ed
Leland Holt, the little son of Mr.
Roger Holt of Greensboro, is visiting
’•elativos here this week.
Mrs Mattie Mason and daughter,
Clyde, have returned from Richmond,
Va., where they have been fcr the
past two months.
Cl irbom and Thomas King ar
t pending the week with relatives at
Hillsboro.
Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Maurey and
Josepline and D. R. Jr., of Cherry
ville, were visitors in town Christ
mas week.
Dr. and Mrs. Chas. High-mith,
Elizabeth, Chas. and Geo. Perry
Highsmith, from Dunn, were the
guests of Rev. and Mrs. G B. Perry
Christmas Day.
Mi. J- I. Davis and Mrs. A. L.
Davis, from Burlington, and Mrs. M.
P. Al’*n, fiom Durham, spent the
week here.
Miss Rena Perry who is teaching
in Selma spent the Holidays with
her parents Rev. and Mrs. G. B.
Perry.
Misse< Annie Mae Roberts, of Sel
ma, and Rosalie Cole, of Escanba,
Mich, were th: guests of Miss Rena
Perry Monday night.
A Card Of Thanks
We, the keepers of the Johnston
County Home, wish to thank the peo
ple of Smithfield, and other places,
for the sumptuous Christmas dinner
and the beautiful supply of fruit and
confectioneries furnished the inmates
during the holidays.
May each one of you enjoy a pros
perous and happy New Year.
Mr. and Mrs. J. 0. Stephenson.
one of the teachers in the Lumberton
graded school is spending the holidyas
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. E.
Ward.
The following young people have
returned to their respective colleges
after spending the holidays here with
their parents: Messrs W. G. Debnam,
J. A. Temple and H. F. Easom, to
Carolina; Messrs C. L. Corbett. A.
A. Corbett, Elmore Earp and Cronje
Earp, to Wake Forest, Hector Deb
nam to Oak Ridge, Miss Mirian Breitz
to Salem College, Miss Elizabeth
Earp to Meredith, Miss Agnes Rose
to Durham Conservatory of Music,
Miss Martha Ward to N. C. College
for Women, Miss Rosa Weddell to
Trinity College.
WILL HOLD FARMERS’
SHORT
COURSE
Plans have been completed for the
four short courses in agriculture to
be given by the State College dur
ing the week of January 9 to 16, ac
cording to an announcement by Prof.
Z. P. Metcalf, director of Instruction
for the School of Agriculture. One
course will deal with cotton, tobacco,
and small grains; the second with
fruit and vegetable growing; the
third with farm dairying and animal
husbandry, and the fourth with poul
try raising. The college authorities
have planned to make the courses
both short and practical and make
them applicable to the rural woman
as well as to the man on the farm.
No tuition will be chrged, and the
main costs for attending the courses
will be for board, lodging and rail
road fare.
Professor Metcalf states that in ad
dition to the regular classroom work
during the day, there will be
special evening programs consisting
of addresses by Director B. W. Kil
gore, Dean of the School of Agricul
ture, whe will make the address of
welcome; Dominant Rural Social
Problems by Prof. W. A. Anderson,
Professor of Rural Sociology; Farm
ers Group Programs and Projects by
Dr. Carl C. Taylor, Professor of Ru
ral Organization; What the State of
North Carolina is Doing for Rural
Schools, by T. E. Browne, Director
of Vocational Education; The Pro
gram for Rural Health, Dr. G. M.
Cooper, Assistant Secretary, State
Board of Health, and Farm Forestry
by H. M. Curran, Forester. Agricul
tural Extension Service.
It is especially desired that farm
women shall feel free to attend this
short course as well as the men. Many
women have made requests that they
be allowed to attend because so many
of them are interested in poultry- Dr.
B. F. Kaupp is arranging the poultry
course to give special instruction to
these adult women who do come. Pro
fessor Metcalf will mail a circular
giving detailed information to any
resident of North Carolina.
MILLION DOLLAR FIRE
BURNS OIL PLANT
Chicago, Jan. 1.—Damage estimat
ed at close to one million dollars
was done by a fire at the Whiting, In
diana, plant of the Stanard Oil
Company of Indiana this afternoon.
The machine shops and boiler
works, icluding several buildings and
most of the machinery in them were
practically destroyed and 30 storage
tanks containing about 900,000 gal
lons of gasoline were threatened by
the flames.
NO RECORDER’S COURT
FOR THREE WEEKS
Owing to the fact that Criminal
Court was in session here before
Christmas and that Christmas Day
came on Tuesday, the regular time
for Recorder’s court, and the follow
ing Tuesday being New Year’s Day,
there has been no Recorder's Court
held here during the past three weeks
Next Tuesday and Wednesday will
be given over to criminal cases which
will be tried at that time.
WOMAN’S MISSION
SOCIETY TO MEET
The Woman’s Missionary Society
of the Methodist church
will meet Monday afternoon at three
o’clock at the church in the first
business meeting of the year. All
members are urged to be present.
Misses Lucile Johnson and Ada
Flowers and Mr. V/alter Huntley
went to Goldsboro Tuesday afternoon.
SPECIAL PROGRAM
AT M. E. CHURCH
“The World’s Redeemer”, A
Christmas Cantata to be
Given by Music Dept.
The following program was pre
pared by the Music Department of
the Woman’s Club for the Christmas
service at the Centenary Methodist
church on Christmas Day, but owing
to the illness of some of those taking
part, it was postponed until next
Sunday, January 6. The program
will be rendered Sunday afternoon at
four o’clock, and the public is cor
dially invited to attend.
| 1. He Shall Reign Forever, opening
chorus.
2. ’Neath the Starry Heavens, du
et and choir.
3. Arise and Shine, choir.
4. From Lands Afar, Men’s cho
rus and choir.
5. The Gates of Heaven Unbar,
choir.
Scripture lesson and prayer, Rev.
D. H. Tuttle.
6. Bring you Good Tidings, Solo
and women’s chorus.
7- Glory to God in the Highest,
solo and choir.
8. The Song and the Star, obligato
solo and choir.
9. Christmas Memories, choir.
10. He Came to Redeem the World,
duet, quartet and choir.
11. Come, Let us Adore Him, choir
Benediction.
Sopranos—Miss Irene Myatt, Mrs.
John White Ives, Mrs. C. H. Hood.
Tenos—Rev. S. L. Morgan, Mr.
Marvin Woodall
Altos—Mrs. N. T. Holland, Miss
Luoile Johnson, Miss H-elene Ives.
Basses Mr*. P. H. ftasey, Mr. Paul
Eason.
CHURCHES URGE FIGHT
ON WAR SYSTEM
Chicago, J tr. 1.—A declaration
that the “war system” still grips the
Christendom and ail men of good will
to unite in a crusade for a Christian
International, and the United States
International, and the United States
to join the International Court of
Justice, were contained in resolutions
adopted today by the Union Ministers
meeting under the auspices of the
Chicago Church Federation. The
Federation represents fifteen de
nominations and more than 650
churches.
Every communion and every local
church is urged to name committees
on international good-will in support
of the crusade against war and
for a Christian system of interna
tional relations.
Terming the “war system” the
world’s “outstanding collective sin,”
the declaration says:
“In spite of staggering war debts,
enormous and expensive military
preparations still go on. The war
system hinders' production, blocks
industry, consumes capitals dooms
millions to hopeless poverty, crip
ples every movement for the com
mon good, threatens the destruction
of Christian civilization, and worst
of all, works spiritual havoc among
men. It constitutes a denial of the
teachings and spirit of Jesus.
“In humble penitence for past mis
takes and sincere reprentance for
our want of faith in and devotion to
the ideals of the kingdom of God,
and affirming our unfailing belief in
the peaceful method of settling all
international disputes, we declare
ourselves as unalterably opposed to
war and the entire war system, and
affirm our purposes to lead our
people in a crusade for a warless
world.”
Say kind words; if you cannot say
something kind, keep quiet.
Polk County Gives Good Example
Of What The Millennium Means
Asheville, Jan. 2.—No one in Polk
county claims that the millennial
davi .1 has come, but Sheriff G. L.
Thompson and others there say a con
dition exists in that county akin
to the millenium. The new county
home erected two years ago, is with
out a single occupant except the su
jierintendent. The county jail had
only one prisoner in it on New
Year’s day. No arrests were made
in the entire county during the
Christmas holidays, it is claimed.
This is a puzzling situation for the
Polk County Commissioners, who
have pointed with pride to the new
county jail nearing completion at
Columbus.