The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-05-08
TAX MACHINE
NOW At WORK
New Property Valuation Or
ganization Perfected at Colds
boro. High Assessments
MEAN LOWER TAKE S

Goldsboro, May North Caro-
lina's brand new property revalua-
tion machine, designed by Senator
Earle Humphrey, Of this city, ap-
proved by Governor Rufe Dough
ton and built po:ntly by Demo-
cratic and Rep blican legislative
mechanics, was oiled and powered
today by Governor Beckett in the
opening session o. the conference,
between the State Tax Commission,
the supei ivisors, the assessors and
few scattering chairman of boards
of commissioners il the Eastern
district
By tomorrow night when the
first of the three :rs' flutes is end
ed, the machine will be rolling as
the mills of the gc6s grind, slow
ly but exceeding small. The
first principle laid down here today
is for the assessors to miss nothing
and put it all on The books at it's
true value.
y
for the Eastern oeIt of the State
were here and fi-e of the district
supervisors Governor Beckett,
Chairman Lee, Commissioner PeH
and Maxwell and Clerk Griffin of the
State tax commits on were present,
the Governor an" the three COM
missioners speakiE at intervals
during the first days conference
From here the ceraD.ission will go
to Charlotte for g conference with
the supervisors and assessors of the
central district on I'riGay and Satur-
day. The following week an insti-
tute will be held q t Asheville for
thu Western diotr ct.
The institute 1crn today opened
with Chairman Lee extending fell
citations to the tax workers and
expressing the gratffjtation of the
Commissioners at tie intensity of
purpose made plat by the interest
in the gathering. Judge George
Pell followed Mr. Leo and discuss
ed the legal aspe t of the new act
with the appointees
The Governor 'eacning here
trifle late, arrived Just as Mr.. Max
well started to spe7 II and instead
of continuing hi own talk, the
Commissioner presented the Chief
Executive.
| There was nothing in the act to
defend and the Governor was
| quick to disabuse the minds of
the tax-men of an such notions
| 1t was an act, like the nigger's
| liquor, and wouldn't have been pass
ed if it had been any more dras-
| tie.
"The purpose Of the law he
said,' '"is to make the lax books speak
the truth and I don't want you
| gentlemen to get away from that
purpose. It's something the books
have never told, n fact, have nev-
e. pretended to tell The testimony
of Annanias and Sapphira on one
occasion was the incarnation of
| veracity compared with the tales told
in the past by the tax books.
you are called upon he contin-
ued, ''to do in peaCe times what the
exemption boards die during the
war. Your work is just as essential
to the moral up1i@t and commercial
betterment of the State af North
Carolina as was TIE work of the ex-
emption boards to- the winning of
the war
You won't have any bouuuests
thrown at you but plenty of brick
bats will be heave., in our direction
You can take fa':h, however, that
in the coming generation a crate
full public will take the stones and
buil1 a monument to your mem
ory.
"The two thing cf vital impor-
tance stressed by Governor Beckett
in taking to the institute were the
relation of psychology to business
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