The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-01-03
TAX REFORM

ShtA c&N aga W. Jot--|
preparation bill from around two MIL
lion dollars to more than SIX million
in very short time. Now comes de-
mand for reduction.
Well, there can De reduction in ma
ny places and if we do not go to the
extreme and cripple the progress that
means much for the state and its peo-
pie il will be we'll We should re-
member our cnotracts and our coEga-
tions when we come to slashing the
appropriations and go at the business
with some degree of saneness and
reason.
There are certain things in the gov
ernment of the state that are fixed
and we cannot run the governme1v
without them.
Take your common schools for ~
stance. The legislature has SET
the standard and has fixed
the salaries, and contracts. have been
made this year on the faith That the
legislature would provide for the car
1ying cut Of the acts thai have been
passed, and in order to do this there
will have to be an appropriation CT
money sufficient to do it. The ssy-
ium Will have to be taken care Of ard
the interest On the state deot VIII
have to be paid. Then there are yo:-:c
state institutions os higher learning.
They will have to be ma!ntalAe@.
There may De opportunity to sus2er
the building program at these ms
tutions as suggested by the commit
tee on tax reform and no douot
should be and could be without det---
n,ent to the efficiency of the instita-
tons. The common schools Will have
to close down without the aid that
The state has promised in the various
acts and upon the fa<.h that the state
would provide for these schools. cor
tracts have been made with the teae,:-
ers in accordance with the law.
If the legislature in its wisdom
should desire to cut down the scale Ct
salaries notice to that effect should
be given so that contracts could h
made in accordance with the new
schedule of salaries.
We notice that the citizens Of ST.
luda county have passed resolutions
to cut the state appropriations to
s3,50O.000. Saluda county receives
more of state aid for its schools than
the total amount paid by the county
in its special tax and the three mills
constitutional tax combined and then
we understood last year that some Of
the teachers had to wait for their pay.
If state aid is taken off how VII
Saluda run its schools at all? AMI
if the appropriation is cut as re-
ouested or suggested by the people
of this county it means that the state
aid for the schools will suffer very
materially.
It is a pro3lem, or rather We
should say, it is a condition Which
confronts the people, ard it IS time
in which no man should lose his head
and do anything that will retard tn"
development and progress of the
stete. Z. is time when it takes
courage and manhood to meet tie L.
sues. No good can come from whln-
ing and no true nsn will give -. It
s a time when he metal .E2t IS II
Us is being put 70 the te~t. Aayoocy
can 60 alorg when he goiN Goad
aid the tide is runnic il the sane
direction that he is going. 1t takes
the right sort Of tou.age 20 row
against the current.
This is too great country ard the
people are descended from tco sturdy
stock TO cry calf rope in times CT t.i-
al AID hardship. What we need IS
for every one 70 90 to work sad then
work some more. Wcrk is the bez.
paracea fer Ill; the ike of which We
are now imagining that we are SUI
ering, that we know. And .shen sc::e
more work. And don't have yo1:
s:gh:s TOO high as to the kind of wor6
or the price you are to get. Then there
must De economy. We mast shake
off sc.ne CT those eXtravagan5 hao-
is we cors, acted while the concrao :
i.y was good al easy. Read up ard
to the front and tai over the CASH
board i the kind cf seek we n,l--
prove we are made of and many Of the
lis we are talkicr about VII vanish.
Tax reform, yes, let il come, but don {
awirg the pendulum toe far. And
don't ex2ec. a li;.le tax regulation or
toy raTo,r77 70 prCVe a D2N&cea tCr ii.