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Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinions Of One Man, —--—----And He Map Be Wrong. State Withholding Tax Too? He?U Not Wi . • . ; . :io the to any state top 0.1 our voice Withholding tax. . w,W4Sg,,,.Wj This page, last week, this week and perhaps several weeks to come will no doubt be overburdened with opinions and tacts about the tax situation in North Carolina; so it you ddh’t like to read of tax matters or it you don’t care how deeply the tax man sticks his sticky Kttte paw into your pocket Ju?t skip this page- until the General Assembly has gotten through assembling. Last week and again this week we have tried, and we hoped with some success, to point to the gross and criminal con tempt in which the present simple North Parolltip, income tax: laws are held by the biggest single segment of the state’s potential taxpayers; The farmers. As 'much as wo are appalled' at the magnificent disregard of the farmer for his fair share of the income tax burden we cannot stand it beside the obvious, continuing malfeasance on the part qf the North Carolina Department of Re venue that baa failed and continues to fail to make ANY slight effort to cor rect this wrong which it is naive enough to report for all the world to see to Its “Biennial Report of the Department of Tax Research and the State Board of Assessment”. fsni«i report was most re cently transmitted to Gov&nor lather Hodges on December 81, 1954, but ap parently Cousin Luther ain't had time to look at It If the Department of Revenue, the Governor of North Carolina, the Gentle men of the General Assembly and other assorted and important groups of offi cials feel that 8,190 income tax returns from the more than 288,000 North Caro lina individually operated farms Is fair, legal and in order then Dix Hill is un necessarily detaining a lot of (folks with far keener reasoning capacity. This paper knows, as any reasonably intelligent person with the ability to understand simple arithmetic must also know when he is confronted by the facts, that there is no legality, no morality and damned little taxpaying in this sit uation. Now the collected brains around Capitol Hill in Raleigh suggest and al most without dissent that we heap more coals on the already scorched man on the payroll by subtracting another tax frcpn his income before he, sees it and permit this major part of the North Carolina to run foot loose and tax free through the hedgrows and bypaths- of Pair Tar Heelia, still untaxed, still ig nored by the Revenue Department; then we repeat and will contihue to repeat: HELL NO, a thousand times, FnijT.f. no. 1 , * The More We Look, The Worse It Gets Last week in this space we had an litorlal In which we used figures that ugksated, at least to our satisfaction, a* a vast majority of the farmers of >nes County were not complying with le law insofar as payment of income tz was concerned. We said then, that le situation was equally bad at the ate level/and did not mean to infer iat Jones County had any comer on iat practice'Of falling and refuting to le properly and pay reasonable taxes Use Harvey Hines Jr. tor the profit his father off of indecently nbfff and over-worked labor 20 yean ago”. This writer sorely should hare pointed oat in that connection that the wage scale of that. 20-year.ago day, as paid by tbe late Harvey Hines, was better by fur than 'the average then paid in the Kin ston. vicinity. Our point which we failed, to make clear enough was that the en tire labor clhnate of that day was hi deeent. We did n«^ mean to even cas ually infer that the late Hines was a skinflint when much to the contrary he was mere liberal that the average busi nessman in that almost-forgotten time of the breadlines and soup kitchens. And although we recognise that ike correc tion seldom gets the currency of the original., error we do trust that no one vA continue to behove that we werp seeking to slander a man for whom we held the very highest personal regard. The heavy air of a perjury indictment filled the Recorder’* Courtroom Monday as three Craven County women took the stand under oath and swore to what Judge Albert Oowper decided to be a lie. Conviction on a perjury indictment iS' difficult in most situations and perhaps impossible in that particular one of Monday afternoon, where three women were steering against one man, But the the in the clearly that Judge Cowiper chose correctly In selec ting the tale he chose to believe. We feel, In that connection, that a few perjury Indictments would have an overall wholesome effect on our courts, even If convictions were not obtained in every instance. come tax return, to say that among the 288,506 farm operators of North Caro lina in 1952 there were onjy 8,190 who had a gross income of that much is too wild a claim, too hig a li*to offer even in the densest councils. This paper is NOT anti-farmer, but rather because we do believe and know that farming is the backbone of our . fair state we seek to correct this gross in equity!. The average farmer does not wish to regard himself as a sponge on his fellow citizens, hut so long as the tax collection methods are so lax and poorly enforced the farmer is going to enjoy this doubtful honor. ,v If this situation 1$ npt corrected sooner than we may expect a great breech may develop between the urban vand farm populations of the state, and no worse thing could happen to any area than to have such a division. Speaking as s farm voice, from a predominantly agricultural area, this paper wants to repeat here with all the emphasis at its command that this mat ter-should be careful and intelligent consideration by the General Assembly now in session, and by the executive de partments whose " ‘ ed in such an < m »NES JOURNAL Published Bvery-Thursday by The Lenoir County News Company. Inc. 403 Wert Vernon, Ave., Kinston, N. a,r Entered as Second Claes Mai UM8. at the Post Office it North Carolina, March t, I8». « with her ow apologies for my ignorantNegroes But, by* any name, I like potllkker. Now, of course, with potHfcker, as with everyothe# delicacy; there is potllkker and potllkker. Too mulch grease, too long boiling the vegetable, too little flavor of the meat; these are a few of the sins that may result in potllkker that the hounds won’t lap. But when the vege tables are left In the likker just the right length of time, and the ham or bacon is smoked over real hickory coals and gives off jiust enough fat to put a few golden beads on the top and when the cornbread Is nice and crumbly; then Brother, PotUkiker will, hold Its head up In any culinary company. There is same argument over which vegetable makes the best potllkker. There, one 'must choose his own. Some like the tangy flavor of turnip greens, some like the paler taste of cabbage, some prefer rutabaga to turnip. Me, I happen to be a cpllard man. Can’t get away from my raising. If a person likes any particular vegetable, he’ll love the potllkker from said vegetable If It la prepared right. . ^ Perhaps, tf we would quit calling pot 'llkker by thait hearty sounding name, and began calling it “Soup de Jour” or “Carolina Broth” or “Dixie Dew”, or
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