Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1922-02-22
WALHALIA, s. g.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. %, 1922.
ENDORSES COOK-lsAL LL.ENGIiIs
Articlcs-Would Like to Hear More
Generally on Tax Situation.

Raleigh. y. c., Feb. II, 1922.
Editor Keowce Courier:
If you will allow me space in your
valuable paper, ! have few COM
mcnts to make.
| enjoyed reading Mr.. Cooks let
ter OF last week and Capt. Ballen-
gers letter Of this week, and while
l cannot agree with them Oh all
points, am with them on one thing
at least, and that is that it is time
something should be done. But
what? That is the question that is
bothering us all. But with SO many
men all over the country figuring on
the matter. and with Gods help,
feel sure that some one will finally
figure out the proper solution and
the country will be saved.
Mr.. Cook thinks that taxes are too
high in some instances and too low
in others. For instance, the school
tax is too high and the road tax is
not high enough. Perhaps some Of
Mr.. Cooks neighbors think just the
opposite. Some men who have sew
eral children that they desire to have
all the advantages of the public
schools possibly think that the tax
for schools Is not high enough. And
II he hasn't an automobile and no
hopes Of possessing one any time
soon, and no heavy wagons to op-
crate, he may possibly think that the
road tax is high enough at present,
or perhaps little too high. Mr..
Cook states in his letter that there
are little girl school teachers that
are receiving $4,000 per month
when they are not really worth
more than $25.00 per month, or 81
per day. l should think that any
one who has spent years Of his or
her life in preparing to be a teacher
would be worth at least 500 per
month. AS l understand it, they
must pass very rigid examination
before they can get certificate to
teach, and as they are hardly ever
employed over nine months in the
year That would bring their aver
age salary to $500 per month, or
less than ordinary laborers receive.
So | am OF the opinion that If they
are not worth that they are not
worth anything. SO why not let them
all go and let tho world slip back
into Ignorance and slavery?
Capt. Ballenger says that it Is
time to return to pre-war salaries.
If he is talking Of government off,
cials and State officials and their sal
aries I have no more to say. as do
not pretend to know anything at all
about their salaries. | suppose / am
like the majority of other men and
women that help elect our officials.
When election day comes I go to the
polls and cast my vote as my father
before me did-according to my po-
iitical belief-without q thought as
RI Whn Ia IN ca cko nI
above, I am willing for them to fight
1T out with him or any one else. But
I do think that we have entirely too
many government positions to fill,
and believe that we could get along
as we'll or better with just half as
many. Why not reduce the force and
give the balance OF them a raise In
salary; then when we got some real
good men, keep them long enough
to enable them to work out some
good plan to help all the people
not just a few, as 1t Is now. Or, at
least 80 1t seems to me.
But If Mr.. 'Ballenger was speak,
Ing OF the working mans salary be-
Ing cut to pre-war basis, have a
kick to make, as | am working
man myself, and most Of us are, so
Tar as that Is concerned. And do
not think that the working man, as
rule, is receiving any too much at
present. In fact. think that we are
just now receiving what we should
have received in i917--that Is. most
OF us. There are. Of course, some
EXCEPTIONS
realize that the farmer has been
hard hit, and in some cases has been
forced to the wall, but it was not be-
cause the laboring man was rccciv-
ing too big a salary. When you cut
the working mans salary you cut
his purchasing power just that much
and the farmer. small merchant and
small bankers feel it just as much
as or moro than the man whose sal
AIRY has been cut. Tho difference
goes into the big mans pocket
Just where 1T has gone for all time
past, and where 1t will go in all flu
Iurc time unless the farmers and
working classes can get together and
FORM some plan for their mutual
benefit. think that the proper thing
for the farmer to do Is to organize,
get together and stick together, and
there Is no reason why they cannot
get a fair price for their products.
Join this cooperative marketing as
sociation and thus have a voice in
what they are to receive for their
products. Under the present system