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SUBSCRIBERS TO TOErxUSTRJAt jiDITlON OF THE NEWS'RECORD ARE REQUESTED TO SEND IN THEIR MAILING USTS AT ONCE vvlvw.cw.vU:,j' J';';;.''.y : - . . ! MADISON COUNTY RECORD, ,TT4ilf '' ' n 1 . ' ' : I rr, 1 !: '. Bctabtitiwd jdM sb. idol ! ; ' ; TT TH ITATfT :--,:.Tn .TF A TT mk f Medium. I 1 r n Through which you reach the people of Madison County. Consolidated ; : Not. 2nd, 1911, Advertising Rates on Application. fVWVWWVWVWWWVWVWWWVV t VV WW VWVWWWV WWVW W A THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN MADISON COUNTY. n VOL. XVI MARSHALL, MADISON COUNTY, N, C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16th 1914. NO 42 i FRENCH BROAD NEWS , (I fC I VI P Vl7 l f VMA V Consolidated ; : 'Not. 2nd, 1911, J - , k" -' r : DIRECTORY MADISON COUNTY. Established by the legislature ses- ton 1850-51.' i Population, 20,132. County seat, Marshall. 1650 feet above sea level. New and modern court house, cost 33,000.00. r y- New and modern jail, cost $15,000. 1 New county home, cost 810,000.00. County Officer. Hon. C. B. Mashburn, Senator, 35th District, Marshall, . Hon. J, E. Rector, Representative, Hot Springs. N. C. N. B. McDevltt, Clerk Superior Court. Marshall. N , W. M. Buckner, Sheriff. Marshall, t Z. G. Sprinkle, Register of Deeds, ' Marshall. '? . C. F. Runnion, Treasurer, Marshall N.O,R.F. D. No. 4. R. L. Tweed, Surveyor, White Rook .N. O. Dr. J. H. Baird,!Coroner,IMars Hill ;, N. O. t , John Honeycutt, Janitor, Marshall, Dr. C.N. Sprinkle, County Physl- y clan, Marshall. James Haynie. Supt. county home . Marshall. Courts u Folio wot September 1st, 1013. (2) November 10th, 1913. (2) March2nd, 1914(2). June 1st, 1914 (2). Sept. 7th. 1914, 12 R, R.' Reynolds, Solicitor. Asheville N. O. 1913, Fall Term Judge Frank Carter,' Asheville. . 1914.SDrln7 Term Judge M. H. Justice, Rutherfordton, N. C Fall .Term Judge E. B. Cllne, of Hickory, N. a ( . Cattnty t Commlalonr W. C. Sprinkle, chairman. Marshall R. A. Edwards, member, Marshall, R. F. D. No. 2. Reubin'A. Tweed, mem ' toer, Big Laurel, N. C. 3. Coleman Ramsey., atty., Marshall. Highway Commlaalon F. Shelton, President, Marshall. Guy V. Roberts, Geo. W. Wild, . S. W.' Brown, JoeS. Brown, . ' A. F. Sprinkle, Big P ne. N. C. Hot Springs, " Waverly MarsHiin N.C. ' Board of Edueatton, v Jasper Ebbs, Chairman, Spring Creek, N. C John Robert Bams, mem. Mars Hill, N. C. W R. Sams, mem. Marshall. Prof. R. G. Andersj Superintendent of Schools, Marshall. . Board meets first Monday in January. April, Julyi and October each year. Schools and Gollaa. , - Mars Hill College,; Prof. R. L. Moore, President. Fall Term begins August nth, 1913, and Spring Term begins January 2nd 1914; t . Spribg Creek High School. Prof. R. G. Edwards, Principal, Spring Creek. 8 mos school , opens Aug. 1st - Madison Seminary High School, Prof. G. C. Brown, principal. 7 mos. Khool. 1 '. , Bell Institute,? Margaret E. Grif ' nth, principal, Walnut.1 N. C. Marshall Academy, Prof. S. Roland Williams, principal 8 mos. school. Opens August 31, , Notary futollo.v ; J. C. Ramsey, Marshall, Term ex ' : W. O. Connor. Mars Hill, Term expires Nov. 27th 1914. . ': D, P. Miles, Barnard, Term expires March 14th, 1914. , n , J. G. Ramsey, Marshall. Route 4. Term expires March 16th, 1914. ; , J. E. Gregory, Joe, N. C. Term ex pires January 7th, 1914. '' . , Jasper Ebbs, Spring Creek. N. - O, ,. Term expires September 24th 1914. J H Hunter, Marshall,' Route -3. Term expires April 1st 1915, j J W -Nelson, Marshall Term ex sires May 14, 1915 T B Ebbs, Hot Springs Term ex pires February 7th J915.- Craig Ramsey, Revere,. Term ex pires March 19, 1915, N. - W. Anderson, Paint Fork, Term expires May 19, 1915. , G. C. Brown, Bluff, Term expires December Sth, 1914. 1 , , W. T. Davis, Hot Springs. Term . expires January L-ad 1815. 1 roaU' " i The Taxation Amendment , ' . 4 ( (Charles Lee Rapery Professor of Economics in the Uni versity of North Carolina.) I am glad to make a statement in the News and Observer of my views upon the taxation amend ment. While I have no desire for public office, I am deeply in terested in good government, and I am always, ready to render any service within my power toward making the government of my State or locality more effective, The act of assessing property for taxation purposes and of levying rates upon it is so fundamental to the life of the State and of the tax-payer that I cannot let pass an opportunity to aid in making it more just and efficient. . I do not believe that it is any loncer necessary to argue that our present system of assessment and taxation is as good as it might be; on every hand we hear convincing statements to the ef fect that this system has conspic uous defects. Many of us- have time and again seen that this sys tern has at least two notable do fects: (l)'a large amount of prop erty escapes assessment and tax ation and thereby fails to bear its doe share of the burden Of gov ernment;- (2) the inequality of the present assessment of the valua tioh of property is remarkably. great, and consequently one citi zen pays a larger amount and an other a smaller amount than he should. , v . " POLL TAX. Some of us think that the pro posal should not make, obligatory a tax on the polL We believe, that a uniform tax on the poll no onger represents .the citizens ability to pay tax the really cor rect principle of taxation or the benefits which he derives from the government to which he pays the tax. , Such a tax can only be ust when all the citizens are equal in their ability to pay taxes, and such equality most certainly no longer exists in NorHb. Caro- ina, if indeed it has ever, existed. Some of us desire, that our State shall do as many democratic States have done abolish the compulsory poll tax.-1 To those of us who have such convictions, the proposed amendment does net go far enough.' But the amendment, while it does not go as far as some o us would wish, does pro pose to improve the present con stitution so far as it deals with the poll-tax It ( abolishes the poll-tax as the standard tax' for I the : State and county purposes, and it abolishes ; its compulsory equation with, the tax on prop- erty a constitutional require ment which has .many a . time placed an obstacle in the -way of effective taxation. The amend tafcnt would also place an abso lute limit of $2.00 for all State and county- purposes,' and. the city or town may levy such : a rate on the poll, or any rate, only upon' authorization from the legis lature. The present ppll may be $2 for the ordinary State and county purposes; more" for extra ordinary purposes. It ranged in 19llfrom $1.80 in Martin county to $3.50 in pare county; the municipal poll-tax from 15 cents in Lawndale to : $4.65 in 'Ashe ville. .' .; ;: : CLASSIFICATION .ANd'seGREGA- HON. ' ' : 1 . . .a The two radical propositions as contained in the proposed amend mfint am thnsn frr t.hA rlnssifirn Linn nf uraM and rahw nrl for the segregation of the . sources of revenue for the State and its lo- ciluhifai of irovfirnment. Each is for the most part fundament- . ally radical for North Carolina. Classification of taxables wa have long had in the form of business license taxes. Our legislature has had the constitutional power to make different classes of these and to levy different rates upon them; and it has put this power into practice. Why should cur legislature not have such a power whan it, t.nvea nrnnnrtir? Whv should it not have the ri3ht to mai,0A;rn f ioono nmn0.. . , t.xt urifh Hitraronr. vafaa aa tnoll acl :, . . ... . ..... aiuerent classes or Dusiness witn . . , . , . . a for the State and its local units, the legislature has possessed only to a slight degree; it has'had the right to reserve for the use of the State certain privilege taxes. The taxes on property are now used by'all "the ' units of govern ment the State, the county, the municipality, etc. Shall the legis ature not have the right to sepa rate these sources for the differ ent units of administration? !..-:...- V SEPARATION ' Will these two proposals make our system of assessment and taxation more effective and just? The right of the legislature to make classes of the taxables and rates will, I am convinced, haveiUDder the new law have fully jus much to do toward reform in our present system of taxation. The separation of the sources of rev enue for the State and its local units is, however, in the minds of many citizens the more, interest ing of the two proposals. They believe that, if thereal estate and personal property are left to the ocality to tax, they will be as sessed with greater fairness. They think that the State treasury can procure its necessary revenue from taxes' on corporations, in heritances, : etc., and thereby leave all the real and personal property to the local government Would such a legislative power bo of great assistance in tax re form in North Carolina? I am in favor of the separation ot the sources of revenue whenever the industrial conditions of a State make it practicable, though I cannot , think of it as the most important thing in taxation re form. . . - ? ; "'v .- '-, V CL'ASSlFl CAT I o"s . The greatest gain offered by the proposed amendment Xs,8 in my judgment, in the classiScation of taxables and rates. . Such a power can"Ut once be put into ap plication. The conditions as they now exist in JNortn Carolina make it entirely practicable,. and think highly desirable. ' As I have said, we have two great de fects in our present system the failure to awsess much property, and the inequality of valuation of that which is placed upon the as sessor's .books. The provision by the legislature of skilled ma chinery of assessment would do much toward the elimination of thesa defects. Thd classification of taxables and rates would also make, important reform in our present system possible. A un form rate of tax upon all kinds of property, irrespective of their use and of their tangibility to the assessor, has everywhere among advanced peoples proven a fai are. "The family cook stove, street railway car,, and a savings bank deposit, are most certainiy of unequal importance in the life of a community, and they are not W1, vlsluie- 10 'ev. ai Aa" tus" vllluo 19 uuJusl anu "democratic, as well as ineffec I i.'i. at V tive of revenue. Efficiency and justice in taxation have caused the abandonment of such a uniform rate upon all classes of property the more democratic nations have already given up such a rate Why should not North Carolina? Let me give the Minnesota ex perience. In 1911 a special tax of 30 cents "u kuo lw wua ,evl0 uou "n" Ps ana . eai otner lMn mor" xue Minnesota tax com I micciAn rrtalrao tnia irtmrnAnf realizing the difficulty of .. i ... , . . reaching this class of property for TlurDOSPS of tftYfttinn nndAr for purposes of the prevailing system, the legis laturer in 1911. passed a law im posing a flat rate of three mills on the dollar ,(30 cents on the $100) on such property. It was felt that a low uniform rate of taxation, would result, in placing a large amount, of this class .of property on the tax rolls that had heretofore escaped taxation. It was contended that the average man desired to be honest and that a low rate would permit him to make a truthful return of property of this character that i - he might own without the fear of having most of 'its income con' fiscated for taxes ' 'The results of the first yjar Jifled these conclusions. The as- i . . . . sessed value Of thisclacs of prop erty returned for taxation in 1910, under the old law, amounted to less than $14,000,000, while in 1911 the amount listed for , taxa tion under the iiew law exceeds $115,000,000, an increase of near ; ly 850 per cent in one year. In 1910 the assessed value of this class of property represented only 4.2 per cent of the bank de posits of the State, while the as sessment of 1911 amounts to 33.8 per cent of such deposits. "Notwithstanding the low rate the , total ; tax derived from this class of property in 1911 was but slightly 4ess than in 1910, 67 "or or 86 counties of the State show ing an actual increase, while 52 of the 64 cities and villages of the State having ( a population of 2,- 000 and over, made substantial gaines in revenue in 1910." May North Carolina not achieve a similar result when her legislature, passes the consti tutional right - to make a special class of moneys, credits and se curities? Married. Saturday at 11 a. m. Charles R. Hemphill df Orlando, Fla., to Miss Lalla Gentry, of Hot Springs, at the home of the bride. ' - Mr. Hemphill is a son of Dr. C. M. Hemphill, of Louisville, Ky;, and Miss "Gentry is the at tractive daughter of Mr. r John N. Gentry of our county. , Congratulatiions to the happy couple. ' !' ' ' . .-. - Money Value of Roads. oome very convincing argu ment 13 presented in a recent re port made by the United States Department of Agriculture on the value of good roads in dollars and cents. The reoort is the result of studies made by depart ment officials in Spotsylvania Co, Va., where the increase in value of agricultural wealth was sur prising. . The report says; in 1909 the county voted $100,000 to improved miles of roads. Two yer3 after the com pletion of the Tork the railroad took Away in 12 months from Fredrickburg, the county seat, 71,000 tons of agricultural and brest products hauled over the highways of that town. Before the improvement of the roads this total was only 49,000 tons an nually; in otl.ero words, the quan tity of he county's produce had risen more than 45 per cent. Still more interesting however, is the increase shown iu the quantity of dairy product. In -1909 these amounted to 114,815 pounds, in 911 to 273,021 pounds, an in crease of practically 140 per cent in two years. In the same time shipments of wheat had increas ed oy per cent, tobacco 31 per cent and lumber and other forest products 48 per cont." But'production is not all of the farmers problems. The question of economical marketing is of par amount, importance. ; The enor mous cost of distributing the peo ple's food is a factor in the high cost of living. In addition to the substantial increas in product offerted for sale as a direct result i of good roads in Spotsylvenia Co. Va., the cost of hauling was great y reduced. In the past two years the traf f ic studies of the federal experts bow that aproximately an aver age of 65,000 tons of outgoing products were hauled over the improved roads in the county an average distance of eight miles or a total of 520,000 ton miles." Be fore the roads were improved it was estimated that the average cost of the hauling was 20 per cent a ton mile." After the im provement this fell to 12 cents a ton mile, or a saving of 8 centi. A saving of eight cents per mile on 520,000 'ton-miles,' is $41,000 a year. The counly's investment of $100,000 in other vwrds,retnrn a dividend of 40 per cent annu ally." It was shown further that in Dinwiddie county, Virginia, the peanuts, one of the staple crops of that section, are grown, 1,000 pounds was an average load for two mules; after the road was im proved 2,000 pounds could be hauled with the same team; and the time consumed in hauling ov er the improved road was less. This means that a man . and two mules could hrul twice as much produce in less time than before the roads were improved. It is customary to state the val ue of good roads to the social and moral interests of the community and no one can deny that crood roads contribute much to the com munky in this way. ; This is a striking example of the money value of good roads arid it ex plains why land values increase so rapidly when good roads are built in any community." Farm and Ranch. The. candidates are out for your vote now. What America Needs. What America needs more than railway extension, and western irrigation, and low tariff, and a bigger wheat crop, and a mer chant marine, and a new navy, is a revival of piety, the kind tooth er and father used to have piety that counted it good business to stop for daily ' family prayer be fore breakfast, right in the mid dle of harvest: that quit Jteld work a half hour early Thursday night, so as to get the chores done and go to prayer meeting; that borrowed money to pay the preacher's salary and prayed fer vently in secret for the salvation of the rfch man who looked with scorn on such unbusinesslike be havior. That's what we need now to clean this country o'f its filth of graft, and of greed, petty and big; of worship 'of . fine houses and big lands and high office and grand social functions. What is this thing we are wor shiping but a vain repetition of what decayed nations fell down and worshipped just before their ight went out? Read the his tory of Rome in decay and you ' will find luxury there that would ay a ,big dollar over our little doughnut that looks so large to us. ' Great wealtbrnever madeTnaJ?' tion substantial nor honorable. There is nothing on earth that ooks good that is so dangerous for a man or sja nation to handle as quick, as easy, big money. If you do resist its demdly influence the chances are that it will get your son. Hit takes greater and finer hero ism to dare to be poor, fn Amer ica than to charge an earthworks in Manchuria, Wall Street Jour nal. A Fresh Guy. The dapper little traveling man glanced at the menu card at a restaurant and looked up at the pretty waitress. "Nice day, lit tle one," he began. ''Yes, it is," she answered; "and so was yes terdy, and my name is Ella, and I'm a peach, and I have pretty blue eyes, and I've been 'here quite a "while, and I like the place and I don't think I'm too nice to be working in a restaurant. If I did I'd quit the. joh, and my wages are satiafetilory, and I don't know a thing abovt any dances or shows tonight, and if there is I shall not go with you, and I'm from the country, and I'm a Y. M. C. A. girl and my brother is a cook in this restau rant, and he only weighs 200 pounds, and last week he wipedr up the dining room with a fresh fifty-dollar a month traveling man who tried to make a date with, me. ' Now, what'll you have?" The dapper little traveling m an said he was not hungry; Stop those Early Bronchial Coughs They hang on all ? winter if not checked, and pave the way for seri ous throat and lung diseases. Get a bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, and take it freely. Stops coughs and colds,, heals raw inflamed throat, loosens the phlegm and ' is mildly laxxtive.V Best ' for children add grown-persons. No opiates. -Dr. I, E. Burnett, Mars Hill, N. C Mr. Jess Cole, of Spartanburg, S, C, is visiting his daughter Mrs. Wolford Tweed, - ii-
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