Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-02-07
.LEa1sLArIvE NOTES.

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Although only two weeks of
the present session of the Legisla-
ture are left, the body is equally
in the dark with the public as to
whether the levy for State purpo-
ses will be reduced this year. Nu-
merous bills to raise revenue from
personal and intangible property
have been offered-to relieve
real property Of the major por,
tion of the tax burden, according
to the recommendation given the
bills by their proponents--but as
yet most Of these bills lack the
sanction of the senate and until
that body disposes of them there
is no telling how much revenue
they will produce and what. the
levy actually will be. III there
were no slips 'twixt the cup and
the lip, if things were what
they seem, and there was no such
thing as misrepresentation one
could afford to take the word of
those who are saying that the tax
levy of IL mills for 1921 will be
reduced to 6 mills for 1922. There
has been deal of politics played
in the Legislature, principally in
the house, this year, and most OF
il so easily diseernible that it's
disguises have failed to deceive
anyone. Here is the member who
has reached the conclusion that
he is a man of important. parts
and that he is doing the people
an injustice by not giving them
an opportunity to push him a
rung or two higher on the polit-
ical ladder. He has decided to
run for Congress or State office
next summer. In the campaign
the burthen Of his song will be
how gallantly he fought to shift
taxation from the masses to those
better able to pay it and he will
call upon some bill or bills he in
PRODUCED this year to witness his
patriotic efforts. Maybe he will
get away with it, and maybe he
won't. Sometimes the people are
not hard to fool.
Admittedly there isn't quite
so much prosperity abroad as
there was a year or two ago, but
the fact does not deter first one
and then another ,from calling
upon the Legislature to make ap-
preparations for odd purposes.
Prof. Carson of the University of
South Carolina is interested in es-
tablishing in Columbia wireless
telephone station from which he
says market reports, high grade
music, public speeches, etc., from
Northern cities will be availa-
BILE Throughout the State if sub
stations are built. Prof. Carson
is modest in his request-he only
asks the Legislature to put up
$500 bucks to help finance the
proposition. Many farmers in the
lower section of the State did not
make enough cotton last year to
stuff a quilt and not a few of
them are just now hard pressed
to find food for their families and
selves, but these same farmers are
expected to agree that wireless
station to be built in Columbia by
taxation for the amusement and
edification of few people on the
university campus is an absolute
necessity. Why not such sta
tion in every fence corners, The
people need 'em. Let's begin dig
ging the post holes tomorrow.
Representative "Gene" Buck
ingham of Aiken county will give
you his word for it that the eiec-
ton this year Of Cole l.. Blease to
the govcrnorship is one of the
things writ so large and so indel-
IDLY that all the rubber in the
end OF ever.I lead pencil between
Omaha to Osaka cannot erase
it. Mr.. Buckingham has been
busy since tle session began four
weeks ago inviting other mem
bers to get on the band wagon
before the seats are all taken"
He said day or two ago that he
was one of the drivers of the
wagon and that already there are
evidences of overcrowdiGg.
DR.. Bsrnwsll Of Charleston
county is the suthor of an amend
ment to the dog tax law which is
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