The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1921-01-13
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS

Taxation economy in appropria-
tions and expenditures, scientific dis
tribution of the cotton crop and other
agricultural products and the placing
of the financial system of the State
on more equitable basis will be pre-
ponderating problems pressing for So
luton before the Forthcoming session
of the Seventy-fourth South Carolina
General Assembly, convening for for
ty or more days. The tax problem now
engaging the Earnest thought of the
best minds ofIthe State has been ac-
centuatd by requests for appropria-
tions by various State activities ac-
gregating ss,Ses, ,2O5.59, which, how
! ever, will notlcarry in their totality.
The budget commission will recon-
mend Approximately $7,O7O,OO0, and
this amount, more than probable, will
be further pruhed by the General AS
sembly.
At mass meeting in Dillon the
other day it Was resolved, That it is
the sense of this meeting that there
should be no increase in the tax levies
for 1921.
Louis c. Boone, of Rowesville, s.
c., civil engineer and graduate of
Clemson College, was elected county
engineer by the county board of COM
missioners of orangeburg county.
A memorial, pleading for economy
of the superlative degree, another ask
ing for craftsmanship of quality at
Columbia thatlwill tighten or at least
justly equalize the taxation burdens of
the present, and requests that South
Carolina take Actual progressive steps
in the matter jof fostering education
and building 3good roads made up
principally the program brought to
the attention 0f the Charleston dele
cation to the present years session
of the legislature as a result of the
public hearing held Saturday at the
County Courthouse, Charleston.
Marking an epoch in things of the
kind, delegation of women were
present-this time as peers and not
at mere supplements before the law
making detail from this county.
A bald eagle swooped down and at
tackled little Evelyn Click, in Tampa,
Fla, about dusk last Friday night as
she was trudging down residence
street with her little brother and a
small dog. d. g. Hooker, hearing the
children screaming, secured gun and
killed the bird (which had retreated to
a limb of a nearby tree. 1t measured
six feet FROM tip to tip. The children,
! whose Rtefit cafse here recently
from New York city, were not hurt.
A naval policy to keep the United
States one of the strongest sea pow
ersin the world would until a binding
disarmament agreement can be reach
ed was discussed at a conference be-
tween President-elect Harding and
Representative Butler, of Pennsyl-
vania, chairman of the House naval
committee. Coupled with this program,
however, would be material curtaiil-
ment of the Navy Department and
various economies in the land stations
under navy jurisdiction.
The taxpayers convention, held in
the hall of the house of representa-
:ives Tuesday night, resolved itself
into free for all discussion in which
every subject from "razor lack sows
to the president or these great United
States" The convention adjourned
a;:cr a a.opting resolutions which re
'iuest ,hat the general II, bly re-
d tA.ation and that it extend the
time cf layment of tax,s for !)2n
until March 81 and that joint COM
mittee be appointed to study the tax
system of the state to male recon-
mendations to the present legislature
|, which will correct present inequalities
Another resolution providing that 80
per cent. of automobile license fees
be used in the counties as the county
commissioners may see fit was also
adopted. Among those to address the
, meeting were Hon. G. X. Laney and
) Hon. S. j. Sellers, of Chesterfield
, County.
: After saving his way through two
sets of bars Fred Lawson, recently
: arrested in Charleston and brought to
: Florence for trial, made his escape
: from the county Jail Sunday night
} about 9 o'clock Three negro prison.
ers, one charged with murder and
the others with burglary, made their
escape at the same time.