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V , , r ' ' v ' " . . 3 " ' I ' i 1 1 . i , ' M t . V i ' , " k i o ' ' - r ' v . ' '., f 1 t ' " ..it. - '"' ' ' , " ' - . . . .. ., T . . .1 . ? -.(V' 7i'-v,i'i','.','"' THE NEWS-RECORD nnrT a WAD . MADISON COUNTY RECORD ! Established June 28, 1901. FRENCH BROAD NEWS Established May 16, 1907. Consolidated Novambor 2, 1911 I;. ' ..The PROGRESSIVE- MSjjiifj 1 i , , ' mb j-x-. v-'x--r N : i: BOTH A YEAR THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN MADISON: COUNTY M. . -C ' t i . , . ' VOL. XXI Oil'.-- f MARSHALL, N C, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1928 1825 MARSHALL'. COUNTY SHOULD ACT ROAD 20 SHOULD BE BUILT RIGHT THROUGH MARSHALL According to officials of the State Highway Commission, the worst piece of road the en tire length of Road 20 is at the lower end of Marshall. They are bottled up, so to speak, not having space between the mountain and the railway and river to get out of Marshall with a decent grade without re moving some residences, water line. etc. The State is willing to do its part, but it is not will ing to furnish the right of way. It is now up to the Town and County to furnish the State this right of way. We are glad to have the State highway pass through the business section of our town, and they are ready to begin work on the lower end in a few days. They propose to construct and pave a street from the lower end up to where the Davement begins at the printing office. The and Town should act and see that the State is not forced to put up a job at this point that the Town and Coun ty Mrpaw-jBfcw Qounty af once WW$ii)$ beini done,' this per manent improvement should be done right. The Publisher. THE PUBLISHER SURPRISED The publisher of the News Record is surprised at Mr. Ira Plemmons of Hot Springs for announcing his candidacy for the Senate;. In our issfie of November 25, 1927, the pub lisher of The News-Record said : Several articles have appeared in the columns of The News-Record in the last three or four months writ ten bv Mr. Ira Plemmons of Hot Springs, which articles are criticism ' of the various taxing agencies i the National, State, and County govern ments. He discusses the -possible elimination of certain duplicating and unnecessary offices and the substitu tion of more modern methods, and e- quipment for accomplishing the same results at less expense and a saving ' of taxes. As this publisher sees it, a discussion along this line, looking to a more economical method of running governmental , affairs, . provider tne desired results cap be obtained, is not objectionable, "but on the other hand,, is quite desirable provided the criti cism is really constructive ratner . than destructive If the purpose of the discussion is to give vent to per sonal animosities or to ride over prej udices into office or self-exploitation, the publisher of this paper doe not wish to become a partner' in it On the other hand, if the discussion is to point oat in a friendly or brother ly, way, the mistakes of present or past officers or methods, Ja order; to bring about more efficiency or tc m absolutely free from the domination of any party, faction, or fraternity. From the above it can be seen that we had been led by Mr. Plemmons to believe that he would not run for office. Now . that he has broken his word, we feel it our duty to let our readers know that we have been deceived into seem ing to support Mr. Plemmons against any other candidate who might announce. This pa per has tried to steer clear of partisan politics, especially in local affairs and it was not our purpose to give Mr. Plemmons or Mr. Anybody Eke any un fair advantage by giving him space in these columns for nearly a year. We had no ob jection to Mr. Plemmons' run ning for the Senate or for any other office. He had a perfect right to run until he said he would not. JETER P. RAMSEY ANSWERS DR. HUTCHINS LET THE PEOPLE SAY WHAT THEY WANT DONE TAXES NECESSARY Taxes is an are-old subject. The Jews were comniaininar of high taxes eighteen hundred years ago." At that time the government and those - in charge of public affairs were a class and . : apart from another from1 year to vean. and under nrW lira from irumblinsr -tax pavers. Ibesr '4 failed to levy sufficient amount , of ,'AtaxH to meet the current. exiiensesV and tne . countv' naner was nurehaaad by speculators from 10 to 80 cents on the dollar, from those who had dearly earned it,-and in a few years the tax-' payers of the county awoke to the fact that they were indebted for cur rent expenses which had 'accumulated separate and apart class of citizens, who had no Dower to levy taxes but were required ton from year.toyear to the amount of a- nay them. . '-V Reprsenetatives of both or 'nMet bout $70,000.00 and the speculators applied to the legislature and the classes came to the Master seeking tel county was bonded to pay off said in entrap him in answering in favor ordbtedness; and the taxpayers were against paying taxes, and his answer; 'forced to pay off those bonds with h "Render unto Caesar the things tnat.'iereai ana cose are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's, was so just that it bat' never been questioned. '' Rnt nnv tfiAFA A1-0 nftt turn rlfljmel. one to levy taxes and the other to pafilew requiring the state to take over them, but one class who throiighithe educational system of the state their representatives levy taxes, and 'd of levying a uniform tax on ll all pay them according to what thay the property of the state to. educate The remedy now is to send stronsr men to .the General Assembly, who' are in favor of a policy of joining other small counties and passing ' a Dring auouv more eiuciviivy or w ,h- . tw . omy in government, such a discussion I think before you vote, is welcome. t i u; never before. Don't v Ladies and Geatlameai . , Having been born and reared on the (mrta I love -he-farmier class of citi zens. I love the man who works andJoff makes his living by tne sweat oi nu face. For years and years the com mon people nave been servants io the wealthy and upper classes. They have had little to do or say in law making and taxation. It has usually been left up to a few individuals who put themselves up as leaders under the cover of the most popular party in order to gain some finanical ben efit. For years the tax rate of our people has been steadily increasing until we now have a $2.05 levy, a rate entirely too heavy and burden some on the common and poor people of Madison County. Is this to con tinue? 608 farms were sold for tax es last year and I believe more will be sold this year. Somewho did nay last year's tax are owing for it, be cause they either borrowed the money from the bank or a friend to pay their tax. What is the trouble? We hnve been and are living too high for our pocketfiooka. -We are poofcr . people in Madison County and we should live as such. . I say, WE MUST CAlX A HALT or I cannot see what our people are going to do. WHAT CAN BE DONE? We can make out with as small n mount as possible. We can eliminate all unnecessary public expenditures. We can pay up what we owe and Nceep from making any more debts. Three members on the board of edu cation can do the work as well as five. "Th Wish of the People Is My With',' If I am elected I shall cause each township to have a meeting: and elect delegates to meet with the delegates from other townships in the court house, to draft such laws and repeals as they want in Madison County. Then when I go before that body at Raleiirh I can say that these are the laws the people placed in my hands to enact. This would rive tne com mon people who are to live under the law a chance to heln straiirhten out the affairs of Madison. What 1 wp.nt the best . thing for the common people,' or what the. common people want. I shall not be satisfied with any law or laws that the common people do not want' I ask the peo ple to lay aside friendship or enmity toward any of the candidates rnd vote for the. best man-.' It is time to wake up and see what is best for our people. Men " and "women, pie tee this time a are worth. So in this enlightened age no one is expected tocomplain against paying his fair and reasonable part of the taxes necessary to run the govern ment under which he lives, and to make necessary and permanent im provements, educate the children oi the country and maintain the poor and unfortunate. Taxes in Madison County, as well as other counties, are high, but we are confronted with the oendition and not a theory: We have borrowed, money, established and improved highways, built school houses and made other permanent improvements,' and owe for these useful improve-.; ments, and no one can deny but that: we are in a much bct :':r and satisfac-. tory condition than v.'e would have; been without these improvements. It is now encumbent upon the peo pie of the county to levy a sufficient tax to pay current expenses, run the, public schools, pay interest on bonds and create a sinkin fund to pay off the bonded indebtedness, as it be-3 comes due, and to do that we must put an assessed value on all of our DroDertv 'and then levy a rate oil that valuation which will raise sufflr cient funds to meet the expenses bove mentioned. v If we have a low valuation of mop erty, the rate must be higher, and if we have a high valuation on property then we can have a lower rate. It took a levy last year on one hudred dolalrs 7 cents -for General county nurnoses for one half year, 10 cents for roads, 3 cents for bridges, making a total of $2.05 on one hundred dollars valua tion of property, and in many of the school districts a special tax was lev ied to lengthen tbe term of School. There is no way to avoid the re sponsibility of levying sufficient fix es to meet the requirements as above enumerated. It cannot be done Ky a statute limiting the rate for in that ca$e the valuation would have to be raised. The laws of the state make it a crime for a county to fail to lew a sufficient amount of taxes to meet the running: expenses and obligations of the county, and if we could do s) it would be repeating: an old folly, we once indulged in. all. the children of the state and not require poor counties like ours, and others, to levy an excessive tax to maintain the schools of the counties. , This process would reduce our levy for taxes at least fifty cents on the hundred dollars. Last year with the funds raised by taxes and the sinking fund we had on hand we were able to run the current expenses and to pay otr $yz,uuu oi the bonded indebtedness, and the State of North Carolina paid back to the counter $345,100.00 which the Highway Commission had borrowed to build roads in the county, removing the obligation of the county of pay ing interest on that amount, and these matters together will materially les sen our bonded indebtedness and re duce the amountof the indebtedness "that we were compelled to pay inter est on, and our taxes next year will be reduced materially. What we now most need is not some agitator to appeal to the prej udice of the taxpayers, but some one Who has constructive ability to sug gest ways and means of reducing the taxes from year to year, and to rend er our. citizens more able to pay tax es by aiding them to adopt more im proved methods of farming and to im prove their real estate which will ul timately lessen the burden of tax payersj-f ., .. .'..,. -.. r ' I heartily endorse the policies oi Honorable John A; Hendricks, and the HENDRICKS, REPUBLICAN CONVENTION EXPLAINS IDS POSITION NATIONAL HOSPITAL DAY OBSERVED AT LAUREL " 0 S P I T A L r of 90 c'ePthodi,-he''liM..inggeated' and aefvoi, 2C.leated to-letter the condition 'of the MhooJ 85- cent to pay interest AS&Sf offVhat dSe and payable', . B.ApTJjaa. i National Hospital Day was observ ed by several communities at Laurel Hospital on May 12th. Plays and readings were rendered by the Allen stand and Revere children. Dr. Eva M. Locke gave a health talk and De yotioirals were conducted by Dr. W. EJ.Finley. . The children of White Rock gave a pageant, "Laurel Hospi tal Twenty, Years From Now." At the close Of. the program Dr. Harry Ditmore of Marshall srave a brief but interesting talk during which he told of some of the work which the Mar shall Hospital had done and of some of the ' conveniences with wnicit n ws equipped to meet emergencies. After the program guests Were shown through th hospital. The viistors list included people from Hot Springs, Marshall and CarnvJtt. DEMOCRATIC PRE CiNCT MEETING SATURDAY At two o'clock Saturday, May 26, 1928, the Democratic precinct meet ings will be held throughout the County. Don't forget the time. DR. HUTCHINS WRITES AGAIN Rev. J. A.Martin Speaks The Rev. J. A. Martin, well known Free Will Baptist minister of near Marshall preached at the Mountain,' View Free Will church in Buncombe county last Sunday morning. In the afternoon Rev. Martin conducted ser vices at the French Broad Free Will church near Alexander. Imgabput iVand iyiftg dewn w -JCmmseiin back to the County, job. , Personally I feel that I have the laboring man's burdens at heart when I ask that you, by your vote, send me down to Raleigh to represent your county. SI S. Group Meetings ine s. s. progressive cam paign with a series of Sunday School group meetings to be held in the months of June and Julv at. varinua XI P fl t i trn il . w I . . . . ' in tne ov s ana nv a me ma'is- churches in the Association. Spa the wates oi me county levied tne taxes program in last week's News-Record. LADIES 4 GENTLEMEN:-- , 'Ii Jajrt week's, paper I tried to lay before yoir.isome of my views,-e. to what ur;ounty heeds. I think the voter of Madison County will agree witH me 'that If possible something ".&2iAKi ZAXn&tH. relieve -our nresent iM9i however. It eafc't be i done ln itir nor canTTM Jdoaf fcy-WaenUl Editor, News-Record: For the last several months there have appeared in your paper articles from time to time, by Mr. Ira Plem mons, entitled "Taxes, Here and There!" It is a fact that there are taxes here and there are taxes it other places, and we all realize thet we would like to have our taxes re duced t othe lowest amount possible. It is an easy matter to remind people of how much taxes they pay and that the taxes are burdensome. ' We all realize this when we go to pay our taxes. So far as I have observed, in all of Mr. Plemmons' lengthy articles, appeling to people about high taxes, he has never offered any plan or sys tem by which to reduce the taxes. The County owes certain indebtedness and regardless who are Commission ers, or who are legislators, taxes must be levied to pay this indebtedness and the interest thereon and any County Commissioner who refuses to vote for a sufficient levy to do this is .sub ject to heavy fine and imprisonment, in fact for not complying with certain of the tax laws, the Commissioners are subject to $10,000 fine each iind , twenty years imprisonment. The Con- ' stitution provides that there Shall be at least a six months' public school for every school district l nthe county or state. Many districts have supple mented the six months term by vot ing special tax. If the Commissioners fail to levy a sufficient tax to meet this requirement the matter is submitted to the Super ior Court Judge and under the law he compels the Commissioners to levy the tax. The 15c on the $100.00 for County purposes and under a special act for Madison County, 5 1b de ducted from all tax collected to sup plement the County fund, which makes a total of 20c on the $100.00 for all County purposes, exclusive of the. special road tax of 20c on the $100.00. 140 the Special School districts the (ople pay at least $1.20 school tax in Madison uounty. ine tax levied for -1927 all, told was $2.05 on the $100.00. The County borrowed $660, 000 and loaned to the State Highway ouMU&un t;oumy.,Tne .ruttr pogmpty"'. seme time last fall 8230,000 o this amount and the State has recently allocated to Madison County, to be applied on road notes, $115,100.00 It is believed that the State will pay the balance of these notes sometime ( I realize that if I do go, it will be a I next year or possibly this fall, which sacrifice on my part. It 1 considered win neip to reuuee ine luxes in maui monev near the top, in a list of things j son County. FOR STATE SENATOR vote for any Gr.rr.m k.vA onnnidored the tax av candidate until you study him care- - . ..i' i. a vh. nSi. u:u l. tides or Mr. nemmons w te 01 one . juviji vu uu m class, while others have considered .stands: ; ' 'VV' ' : "v '"'i. ' i" in conclusion, let me say unit 1 (to not intend to have a second primary because this would cause 'unnecessary expense to our taxpayers. v.,,-,-.; The common people's" friend, them of the other class. The future vf. will doubtless reveal definitely to f-which class they belong. ' After due consideration and after having been ' assured by Mr. Plemmons that his 1 articles -are' not being .v publiahed through personal motive or animosity V - and that, he has no intention of ren ;,' ning for office and that his purpose""! . .merely to point out the mistakes of .- , our officers and toput them on guard as to a repetition of such mistakes, 1 . we. are resuming the discussion until such a time as his articles shall ap- pear. iijour judgment,, to be obiec ' I tionable. The purpose of The New. . ' Record is to serve the entire County in constructive and uplifting and - entertaining way. - The publiuer is -i JETER P. .RAMSEY,;. .NOTICED There will be Democratic- meet ing, at the several precincts of Madv so County, May 26th, 1928, at K0 P. ' M., to ' elect delegates to the County Convention and elect precinct committee ft i; ' ft N. B. McDEVlTT, Ch'nVnv -kY"-. - JOHN HV McEXROT, See. In entering the race for the State Senate, I feel that I am doing so at the demand of very many of the good citizens of this County. I cannot make any campaign, since my f ath er is a very sick man and I owe to him the duty. of being near him, and with him, to do all I can for him. t I think it is very well known what I stand for, and in the event the voters nominate me, I shall do all within my power to give the taxpay ers some relief. If my friend, Mr. Hendricks, gets a majority of the votes in this County, then he will be the nominee of the party, since it is Madison Couri ty's time to name the State Senator for this district. . . I take it that if I shall have a majority in this County then the nomination will come to. me. A I urge the voters to carefully consider which: that are worth while, then I probably would not ask to go. As most of you know, my past rec ord, will prove that I consider many things, in .this life as coming before the Almighty Dollar. For some time now 1 have been get ting reports as to my inability to serve you in this capacity. I haven't the time nor the inclination to answer them in these lines, but if any 01 them; have you stuck, then I will be morje thaji lad to answer them to you.'" "Otherwise, I ask you to disre gard them, and consider the source from which they have come. Aieain I ask .you for your vote on my Own ability to serve you, and I promise you that there are no person al or political strings uea 10 me. f aitniuuy yours, DR. J. H. HUTCHINS. of us represents the best interests of the tax pay-; iff "m Ma'dison County, utj ers and vote accordingly; -, fivM tvs&'mtitonefto Repubii h ; ;i iurtner Txrge every voter w go to the polls and vote''v-? . ' n me. I thank you for the condence you; may nave; HOW TAXES MAY BE REDUCED IN MADISON COUNTY. I believe in a State-wide public school system, and that every county in the state should pay the same rate of taxes and the children of all the counties should have the same public school advantages. A sstated above, in most of the school districts of Madi son County the people are paying at least $1.20 on the $100.00 school tax. In some of the large counties like Forsythe the school tax is about 25c on the $100.00 and at that they have much more school money per canita than we have in Madison County and other small counties. They have much better school houses and equipment. they have better teachers as a rule, for they have more money to pay teachers and all told thov have bet ter schools, by paying' about 25c on the $100.00 school tax, while we pay ?i.zu on tne fiuv.uu. To have a state-wide school system as herein specified would reduce the school tax to every tx-payer in Madi son County 50c or 60c on the $100.00 and would thus equalize the school tax and the expense of running the schools in the State, and while we would pay 60c or 60c less on the $100.00 tax we would have better schools and better equipment. This is my plan to reduce the taxes and help tne scnoois. STATE HIGHWA LAW SHOULD BE AMENDED Under the present system of the State Highway Law, the money is ap portioned on the basis of mileage, area and population. The result is that the large counties have had plenty of money with which to grade and hard-surface their roads. On an average it takes as much to trrade ;One mile of road in Madison County : Also, where there's a will there's a as it takes to grade four or five miles MARTIN GAHAGAN KILLED IN HARLAN, KENTUCKY A message from Orville Gahagan, of Harlan; Ky., to Christley Gahagan, well-known farmer of the Little Pine Creek section of this county, received by Policeman Cloyed L. Henderson today, stated that Martin Gahac.m, son of MrVGahagan, had been killed in Harlan. The 'message marked in care of Of ficer Henderson gave no details as to how the Vdun man met his death. Sheriff R,'lt. Ramsey forwarded the messasre to his father, who left Wed nesday .night for Kentucky to get the remains of his son. The little moths are never gay, They do. not dance or shout; What do they do when they attend Those balls we read about? hal&dozejQ, lawyers. FOR SHERIFF To the Voter Of vv Madison County ; I, hereby announce myself a CartjfttJatf! for the office of Sher subject Republican PrimarVi.Juiifi 2a df. I r ihall appreciate' the sup port of alT thtf voters; and' if e- leetei will xlischarge '.my ; 1&lhe biest of my: ability; v in the central counties of the State. Besides the present systme gives the ' large counties a great deal more mon ey in proportion than Counties like Madison get. I am in favor of amend ing the State Highway Law on a basis of mileage and the cost of grading so that Madison County and the other mountain counties and extreme east ern counties may have money enough to complete the State Highway Sys tem and that Madison County, under such an amendment would have as good system of hard-surface roads as the rich counties in the central part of the State, and this is the only way we will ever have it. PEOPLE WHO RESIDE ON PR! V " ATE ROADS SHOULD HAVE A - PART OF THEIR ROAD TIME Tl , IMPROVE THEIR OWN ROADS. "The man who lives off the highway and has got no road Into it is in a pretty bad fix. t am in favor of the eitisen who Uvea off the highway or CwttiMkvd t Page Sra r. i' 1 ..v .
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