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2 HOS, E. WON TO ENTER RACE FOR U. S. SHMTOBSHIP Thomas E. Watson, of McDuffie county, has paid his entrance fee and will make formal announcement of his candidacy for the United States senate In the Issue of the Columbia Sentinel of August 2, ac cording to advices received by The Journal from a close friend of Mr. Watson, who is believed to enjoy his confidence. For some weeks Mr. Watson has beexi looked upon as a probable can didate and through the columns of his paper, the Columbia Sentinel, has been paying his respects to Sen ator Hoke Smith and Governor Hugh M. Dorsey, who are expected to be his opponents in the contest. “As to the Georgia senatorship,” says Mr. Watson in the latest edi tion of the Sentinel, “the situation is Similar to that which suddenly came upon us. when Senator Reed, of Missouri, retired from the presi dential primary, and left the anti league men no candidate to vote for; this was in April.” Mr. Watson declares that to re lieve the situation he put up his name and “53,000 patriots—implaca ble enemies to the traitors' leap into European entanglements and everlast ing wars—voted for me.” He remarks that a “much smaller number voted for Senator Smith, who favored the league provided he could put salt on its tail with reser vations.” “Then came Palmer, he continues, “Mitchel Parmer, Shoot ’Em or Ship ’Em Palmer; and 48,000 orang-outangs are said to have voted for this Penn sylvania Betsy-bug, who in his own state is a Republican whenever it suits him.” His Views on Dorsey Mr Watson concludes his re marks Immediately pertinent to ‘the Georgia Senatorship,” but elsewhere in the same issue of his paper he write sunder the caption. “If Dorsey Gets Into the Senate Race. The basis of his remarks thereon Is a recent Atlanta news dispatch to the Augusta Herald, suggesting that if Governor Dorsey enters the senate race “it will be for the purpose of provoking Thomas E. Watson to en ter the contest.” . .. Concerning the statement in Atlanta dispatch to the Herald that the “support of Mr. Watson was giy en to Governor Dorsey (four years ago) without solicitation., according to the governor’s friends, Mr. Wat son remarks: “The governor's friends—-suppos ing that he has any—cannot be sup* nosed to know what passed between Mr. Hugh Dorsey and Mr, Thomas E. Watson, before Mr. Dorsey curbed hi s intention to enter the senatorial race, and waited awhile to enter that for governor. • Mr. W atson was never a t Mr. Dorsey’s house; Mr. Dorsey was several times at M. Watson s house. hasn’t been so long ago that the conference was held at Hickory Hill in Mr. Watson’s home, where such men as John Hogp, Ely Cart iedge, and several others from Mc- Duffie and Lincoln counties, were nresent. and heard every word ot the conference between Mr. Dorsey and Mr. Watson. They heard the advice Mr. Watson gave to Mr. Dor sey and they know that Mr. Dorsey followed it.” . . Mr Watson remarks, further, tnar the men who he says are now try ing to distort the facts will learn with surprise that when Mr. Dorsey became a candidate he submitted his platform to the Sage of McDuffie for approval. “From the very moment he was elected,” Mr. Watson writes, *he turned his back on his platform, for got his promises, betrayed his friends, and fell into the power of Clark and Albert Howell." In this connection Mr. W atson re marks that “the other day” Governor Dorsey “appointed his partner, Al bert Howell, to represent the state in the matter of the oil inspection tax.** Concerning a statement ii. the news dispatch to tho Augusta Her «ltt that he fell-put with Governor because of treatment accord ed him, Watson, by the Macon con vention, Mr. Watson says: “Previous to that convention, it is true I had kept to myself my opin ion of the governor and his perfid ious conduct." Mr. Watson adds, however, that on August 1, 1918, he gave a luncheon at the Kimball House, in Atlanta, and that Governor Dorsey was among his invited guests, which is evidence that he had not fallen out with the governor up to that time. ’ Says Ballots Were Burned i The Sage of McDuffie discusses his race for the congressional nomina tion in the Tenth district, in which he alleges the ballots in Wilkinson county were burned in order to con summate the theft of the eelction and rob him of the nomination that he' had won fairly. He declares that during his congressional campaign “I' need not emphasize that the ingrate Dorsey failed to lift a finger in my behalf, but on the contrary packed the Macon convention with his im placable foes of mine.” Mr. Watson charges that Gov ernor Dorsey told Jim Boykin, Hill Dunaway and John Cullars, of Lln coln county, that he, Watson, “cuss- SAY “DIAMOND DYES” Don’t streak or ruin your material in a poor dye. 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HARDING MAKES ‘CANNED’ SPEECH Z<l ' ZiM. V> : ' Kwai JML > \ ©WAftms J WASHINGTOaN. —Warren G. Hard '' Sfew ing ’ Republican candidate for presi- - vW dent, has already gone “on record' iW? i L *olstW* ■ ’ with a campaign speech. But it is A : - JsxiW not a violation of the custom to wait A Srask s> - ||i until you are officially notified that t. TOsffife 4 hi you are the nominee. Because the \WW speech was delivered to a phono- 3 /<? graph receiving horn and duly “etch- '4' ' fjj ed” on a record - His subject was \\ S v “Americanism,” and the record will X. be used* when {he campaign gets un- der way. Strange Discoveries Throw Chicago In Cloak of Deepest Mystery CHICAGO. —Lieut. Carl Wanderer, who less than three weeks ago was being praised for his bravery in kill ing an unidentified man who, he said, had murdered Mrs. Wanderer, is today in a cell as the principal figure in what the police called “the most mysterious murder case Chi cago has had in years.” Members of the police homicide squad, who caused his arrest, said no charges were pending against Wanderer, but they had become con vinced that he knew more about the murder than he had told, and for that reason he was being held. Wanderer’s Story Early the morning of June 22, neighbors, aroused by shots in the vestibule of the Wanderer apart ment, found the lieutenant with a pistol in his hand standing over the bodies of his wife and a roughly dressed young man. The man was dead and Mrs. Wanderer was uncon scious and dying. Wanderer said that the man, whom no one has yet identified, had fol- “Black-Face” Bandits Get $20,000; Girl Foils 7 Men in Robbery Attempt CHICAGO.—Twenty thousand dol lars in bank notes of sl, $2, $5, $lO and S2O, was the loot obtained by “black face bandits.” the first of the type to appear In Chicago, when they robbed two messengers of the Com munity State bank recently. The robbers escaped in a high-pow ered touring car and the police have discovered no trace of their where abouts. The police, suspecting collusion, placed the two messengers under arrest. NEW YORK—Quick team-work by Lusitania Can Be Raised; Plan Devised by French Scientist PARIS—The liner Lusitania, whose torpedo-pierced hull now is reposing on the Atlantic ocean bed seven miles off the coast of Ireland, can be re floated and repaired without undue difficulty, in the opinion of Emile Bertin, menfber of the French acad emy of science and an expert in sal vaging sunken vessels. “A monster float made of steel and able to support a weight of 30,- 000 tons could be constructed,” he writes. “This float could be attached to the sunken hull by steel ropes hooked into the vessel’s portholes. “When the tide goes down the ropes could be drawn taut and se- ed him (Dorsey) out,” whenever he got ready. “I publicly invited him to name the time and place of any of these cussings out,” remarks Mr. Watson. ‘‘He did not reply; he dared not; he had simply lied—that’s all. “I asked him to say to the public whether these ‘cussings out’ took place before he broke my bread at the Kimball House luncheon. ‘‘He did not say; he dared not say he had simply lied. ‘‘l asked him to tell the people whether I had ‘cused him out’ after he was my right-hand guest at the luncheon August 1. “He did not reply; he could not; he had simply lied—that’s all. “But in order that I might be in the power of the Louisville and Nashville railroad lawyers—Dorsey, Brewster & Howell—he carefully packed rhe Macon convention with such sweet potatoes as Luther Ros ser, Bill Simmons, Bill. Burwell. Enoch- Callaway and H. H. Dean, and Andrew Cobb; and a bitter soap stick is Andrew.” “The Governors of Georgia” Continuing. Mr. Watson says that has “alluded to the Messrs. How ell as the governors of Georgia. So they are, and have been ever since Dorsey got it. Everybody knows that they are’ the governors of Georgia Everybody knows that the Howell in fluence prevailed upon Dorsey to virtually make a present of our state railroad to the Louisville and Nash kvil,}e, railroad for ninety-nine years. ‘‘The Howell brothers are not good financiers; they are excellent spend ers of other people’s money; they have caused Hugh Dorsey to so mud dle and exhaust the finances of the state of Georgia that one fund has to be borrowed from another, a tax for one purpose has to be spent for another; and there is a busy borrow ing from Paul to pay Peter, and from Peter to pay Paul, and the debt trav els like a squirrel within the whirled of his cage, making many revolu tions but no progress.” In conclusion. Mr. Watson remarks: “If the Howells want a senator m their extensive corporation busi ness, let them run Partner Dorsey. It won’t worry me in the least.” Discusses Senator Smith In the same ijisue of the Sentinel. Mr. Watson, replying to an inquiry from a subscriber, has the following to, say of Senator Smith: “Senator Smith was governor, and the legislature ejected him to the three-year unexpired term of Senator Steve Clay, who died in office- the governor refused to let the people vote on him. “Governor Smith continued to pre side as governor for several months, until he had distributed nearly all the pie that legitimately fell to his successor. “Then, he appointed himself sen ator; his title was recognized. “The holding of the governorship and the senatorship-elect at the same time was unconstittuional; but the constitution was not written by the senator, and therefore he con siders it gravely defective. “For instance, he swore to protect, defend and preserve this constitu tion, but is willing to put England. Siam and Japan on top of it, if Sen ator Lodge’s reservations are tagged on to it, as you might tag a tin can to the tail of an enormous dog.” lowed him and his wife to the ves tible as they were returning from a theater, and ordered them to hold up their hands. “My wife started to turn on the light, and he shot her. Then I shot and killed him,” Wanderer said. Was Lieutenant’s Pistol The detectives found a pistol lying beside the dead man in the vestibule. They accepted Wanderer’s state ment and the case seemed closed. But a careful tracing of the pistol supposed to have been used by the unidentified man, showed that Wan derer had become the owner of the weapon two weeks before the shoot- while he had purchased the other revolver while he was in the army. The police also held two relatives involved in the change of ownership of the revolver—John Hoffman, the lieutenant's brother-in-law, and Fred Wanderer, a cousin. Through the three men, the police are trying to get an explanation of the owner ship of the two pistols. employes foiled an attempt by seven automobile bandits to hold up the Corona, Queens county branch of the Bank of the Manhattan company re cently. More-than $50,000 In cash was left behind whenthe would-be robbers be came panic-stricken and fled as a 17-year-old stenographer called the police on the telephone. A general alarm was sent to all towns in Queens, and Corona police in a commandeered machine gave chase as thieves fled in their celt, but they escaped, v . ; cured. The rising tide then would llfht the float and with it the sunken hull from the ocean bed, “Then the float, with its lead, could be towed shoreward to a shal lower point where, as -the hull rests on the bottom, the operation of tight ening the cables at low tide'could be repeated and the vessel raised again. In this way the hull could be lifted about four meters each time and eventually brought to the sur face. “The operation would be long, deli cate and costly, but there is no doubt about its practicability.” WOMAN MAKES GOOD HER THREAT TO KILL HERSELF Carrying out a declaration made i police court early Saturday after noon that she would kill herself be fore she would follow Judge George Johnson’s suggestion that she re turn to her husband and babies, Mrs. Chrystal Elizabeth Roberts, tw’enty two years old. ended her life late Saturday afternoon by taking poison while seated on the lawn of the state capitol. She leaves two little babies, one boy, H. G., Jr., three years old, and one girl, Frances, eighteen months old. The Roberts had been married for four years, and had lived to gether until one week ago at 57 King street. Earlier in the afternoon, Mrs. Rob erts faced Judge Johnson on a charge of disorderly conduct, the case hav ing been made against her by her husband, ¥• G. -Roberts. However, the judge found the evi dence insufficient, and dismissed the case, but ordered Mrs. Roberts to return to her husband and ba bies. He turned her over to W. F. Bell, assistant probation officer, with instructions that, she be placed on probation for one year. Mrs. Roberts emphatically declared that she would never return to her home. “11l take care of my babies, Judge,” she told the recorder, “but I’ll never return. I'll kill myself first.” Probation fficec Bell pleaded with her for sometime, but being unabl* to make her agree to return home, gave her a copy of charges to re turn to his court Tuesday morning. This was shortly after three o’clock, and Mrs. Roberts evidently went from the police station to the capitol, for in just a little while a hurry call came to Grady for an ambulance to be sent to the capitol. Physicians at Grady did everything in their power to stave off death, but their efforts were of no avail and she died shortly after reaching the hospital. Mr. Roberts, who is employed in a soft drink stand at a local park, knew nothing of the death of his wife, until he was taken to the Grady hospital to identify her. The minute he saw her shoes, which were protruding from beneath tne sheet, with which she was covered, he seemed to recognize her. He was prostrated with grief. Out at the Roberts home, little H. G., Jr., sick with whooping cough and eighteen months old Frances wore in the care of an old negro mammy, in a little shanty behind the Roberts’ house. She had been en gaged, she said, by Mr. Roberts to look after the children for him. while he was away at work. They are pretty children—both blonde, and unaware of the tragedy which had entered their home, H. G., Jr., laughed and talked to the reporter who visited the home while little Frances serenely munched on her- thumb. inw on GETS m S3.M That the office of attorney general of Georgia pays a salary of $3,000 a year instead of $5,000 a year, and will not pay more until the legisla ture passes over again its act intend ed to increase the compensation to the high figure named, was the some what startling and uneasy discovery made Saturday by state house statis cians who delved In the matter. Colonel George M. Napier, of the county of DeKalb, and Colonel George B. Davis, of the county ot Laurens, both good lawyers and es timable gentlemen, are candidates for the office of attorney general with the understanding that their salary, if elected, will be $5,000 a year. Os course, neither gentleman Is solely interested in the salary of the office, and neither was in reach or The Journal for interviewing pur poses when the distressing facts were discovered as above, but the general presumption was that both would continue in the race for the of fice despite the failure of the legis lature to carry out its purpose cf increasing the salary. Clifford Walker, now a candidate for governor, held the office of at torney general for several years at a salary of $3,000 a year. A few years ago- the legislature created the office of supervisor of county records at a salary of $1,5000 a year and provided that the duties of the same should be discharged by the attorney general. The effect of this enactment was to increase the salary nA. ttorn ® y General Walker from $3,000 to $4,500. without materially increasing his duties. In 1919 the legislature passed two companon billff introduced by the members of the house from Walton county, which is the home county of Mr. Walker. The first abolished the office ot supervisor of county records while the second increased the attor- U-^A^ enerars salary from $3,000 to sa,ooo a year. Effective Last January . B °th bills provided that they should beWme effective on January 1, 1920. That is to say, the duties and salary of the supervisor of county reccrds should cease and ex pire on that date, and the increased compensation of the attorney gener al should take effect on that date. But it was found that -there was a provision of the constitution to the effect that the salary of no offi cer should be increased during the term of office for which he was elected, and this prevented Mr. Walker from drawing the increased salary beginning January 1, 1920, inasmuch as his term ran over until the convening of the legislature in 1921. So he was knocked out. On June 1, 'last, Mr. Walker re signed to devote his attention en tirely and exclusively to his cam paign for governor. Colonel R. A. Denny, a distinguished Rome law yer and formerly a member of the senate of Georgia, was named by Governor Dorsey to serve the unex pired term. He took the office with the expectation that he would be come the beneficiary of the increased salary, inasmuch as the constitu tional provision above stated would not apply to him. But on investiga tion it seems to have developed that he was not eligible, for reasons be low stated. There is another provision of the constitution to the effect that the salary of constitutional officers — to-wit: the governor, the secretary of state, the attorney general, the comptroller general and the treasur er—shall not be changed except by a vote of two-thirds of the entire membership of the house and sen ate. Though the constitution does not specify the salary of these offi cers, it reqquires the same vote to change their salaries as it requires to amend the constitution, but it does not require a referendum. Passed by a Majority Hencp: it was necessary in chang ing the- salary of the attorney gen eral from $3,000 to $5,000 to pass the bill by a two-thirds vote of the house and the senate. And the point of this story is that the bill was not passed by a two-thirds vote, but by a mere majority. And there lies the rub. Attorney General Denny, it appears, discovered the rub on his very first pa yday after taking office for the unexpired term. He did not an nounce himself as a candidate for the ensuing full term, but left the office open to the two candidates running—Colonels Napier and Davis. These gentlemen, it appears, were proceeding merrily along their way, expecting to draw a salary of $5,000. when some statistician rudely called attention to their mistake. Not their mistake, either, but the legislature’s mistake in failing to pass the bill by a two-thirds vote of the house and senate. Now that they know it, what is to be done? This is the question asked by members of the legislature and other interested spectators. The general answer is that the legislature at the present session will probably get busy and re-enact the bill by the requisite majority so that either candidate, when elected, will draw the salary he expected to draw, and so that the state will pay a decent wage for the services of its princi pal legal adviser. AJaska-Bound Planes Reach North Dakota FARGO. N. D„ July 24.—Four army airplanes on their flight from Mineola to Alaska, arrived at 1:15 p. m. today from Fort Snelling, Minn. They left Fort Snelling at 10:45 a. m. today. 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As matters now stand, it will take nearly $2,000,000 more than the state’s total revenue for 1920 to pay the appropriations for 1920. This being the case, Governor Dorsey can see no use in passing additional ap propriations which would not and could not be paid. His belief is that the legislature should raise more revenue before spending more money. Two revenue plans are under ad visement, as follows: 1. To amend the constitution so as to remove the maximum limit of five mills on the state tax rate, and so as to authorize the governor and comptroller to levy annually such a rate of taxation as would be neces sary to pay the appropriations pass ed up by the legislature. 2. To amend the constitution so as to authorize the legislature to im pose a tax upon incomes, inheritances and occupations, which taxes at pres ent are not authorized by constitu tion, and which would be in the na ture of a new source of revenue if they were levied. Two Plans Considered These two plans were considered last week by the special committee appointed by joint resolution of the house and senate, to investigate the state’s financial situation for the purpose of "ascertaining whether or not there existed a casual deficiency in the revenue of the state,” and if so what steps should be taken to liquidate the same. This committee is composed of Governor Dorsey, Comptroller Gen eral Wright, State Treasurer Speer, Secretary of State McLendon, Chair man Carswell of the house appropria tions committee. Chairman Allen of the senate finance committee. Chair man Arnold of the house ways and means committee, Chairman Blasin game of the senate ways and means committee. Os course the committee did not waste time ascertaining “whether or not there existed a casual deficiency.” The fact that there does exist a cas ual deficiency is well known to all. The house and senate did not create the committee for the purpose of getting light on the existence of the deficiency, but for the pprpose of getting light on methods of extri cating the state from the financial morass into which it is slowly but surely sinking. As between the two methods of solving the problem stated above, the special committee decided in favor of the income tax. A bill embodying this plan of obtaining in creased revenue is pending already in the house of representatives. It has been favorably reported by the constitutional amendments commit tee and is ripe for a third reading in the house, where the main squeeze comes in passing constitutional amendments, by reason of the larger membership of that body. Bstimaied New Revenue Chairman Carswell, of the house appropriations committee, estimates that an income tax at a moderate r^G e „ wil * bring to state treasury from $2,000,000 to $5,000,000 a yea?. This would be sufficient to liquidate the deficit and meet the growing needs of the state’s institutions, depart ments and pensioners. The last named item alone is growing at the rate of saoo,ooo a year, notwith standing estimates a few years ago, by legislators who advocated increas ed pensions, that the increasing death rate of Confederate soldiers and their widows would off-set the annual increase of pensions. There is a provision in the fed eral income tax laws allowing states .which tax incomes to havs access U the income tax returns of the fed<»l government. This would enable The taxing authorities of Georgia to get without cost a vol uminous list of individual and cor porate incomes upon which to mak» an immediate start in collecting reve nue. It is believed Chairman Cars well’s estimate of the revenue which would be produced by a moderate income tax rate is based upon in formation as to the aggregate in comes of Georgia returned for taxa tion by the federal government. It is pointed out that income tax I has this advantage from a political standpoint, that whereas an increase in the ad valorem tax rate would ap ply to all alike, and would afford the public an exact barometer upon legislative appropriations, a- tax up on incomes would apply in the main to the rich and well-to-do, who arc in the minority. Hence it is favored by the legislators in reference to an increase in the ad valorem tax. Scgrated Tax Is Urged Chairman Carswell, of the house appropriation committee, favors do ing away with an ad valorem tax for state revenue and relying solely upon an income tax. He does not be lieve it to be humanly possible for the state tax commissioners, or even for a board of commissioners, to bring about uniformity of tax assess ments thr'oughout the state. His ar gument is that land values always will be assessed according to local influence, and that personal property always will escape taxation until new methods are devised for getting it on the books, and that the state should not bother with the compli cated vexations of an ad valorem tax machinery almost entirely dependent upon local tax authorities for its operation, but should do away with scribed by physicians for over nineteen years. Insist on an unbroken package of genuine “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin” which contains proper directions. it entirely and support the state government by an income tax. This further argument is made by the advocates of an income tax —that the value of a business or manufac turing concern cannot be accurate ly determined by the value of its in vestment in phyiscal property, but consists in its earnings. A manu facturing concern, for example, may have physical property worth $500,- 000, but have annual earnings of 8500,000. The income tax advocates argue that the correct method of taxing such a concern, and all going is upon its income instead of upon the value of its physical property. Up to the present time the ap propriations committee of the house, where all appropriation bills eman ate, has reported none of the mass of bills before it, aggregating $2.- 000,000. The committee will meet next Tuesday afternoon to get down to business. It has been waiting to see what progress could be made in the way of legislation to raise more revenue. Now that the special com mittee enumerated above has recom mended the income tax, the appro priations committee will likely put its influence unitedly behind the bill to push it through the house. Why Veto Is Likely Whatever appropriations the com mittee recommends are likely to be qualified with the proviso that rev enue legislation be passed at this session. This proviso, as a matter of course, the house and senate can disregard if they are a mind to. They dan pass as many appropriations as they see fit. but any appropriation.-- passed without additional revenue are nothing but paper. They cannot be paid. Those already passed cannot be paid in full, much less additional ones. If cue legislature, therefore, sends down to the governor an armful of appropriation bills without accom panying them with a revenue bill, the governor is quite likely to veto them all and call an extra session for the exclusive purpose of reorganizing the states finances. The red-ink items on the state treasurer’s ledger al ready are to omany for the gover no™S-cornfort ' without adding more. Thirty-three days of the legisla tive session are “over the mill,” and nothing has yet been done to im prove the state’s finances. Ninety per cent of the present session, as of nearly all sessions, has been taken up with the abolition or re-creation of county treasurers, the amendment ot acts establishing- city courts and county boards of commissioners, the amendment of city charters and sim matters - This habitual waste of legislative sessions in grind ing small grist has promted the sug gestion of numerous plans for han dling local bills in some different manner. It takes practically as much time t o pass a bill abolishing l t ' nty treasurer as to pass a bill affecting the entire state, with the exception that local bills are rarely ) f 2‘X er ' debated. But the absence 8f debate js more than offset by the JtiDliciity of this class of bills IC nf S 2 Varm Hke . flies 011 the calern dar of every session. The Kig-hway Legislation The highway program . waits on the final disposition of the Knight resolution requiring the state high way board to prorate the automobile fund among the counties according to post road mileage. .The resolu tion went to a vote in the house last Thursday afternoon and would have been passed but for a parlia mentary tangle which made it neces sary to postpone final action. The resolution is scheduled as a special order in the house next Wednesday Representative Knight, of Berrien county, the author of the resolution threatens to oppose the highway bond issue bill, which comes close behind his resolution on the calendar of the house, unless the highway board is required to prorate the automobile fund. Hte says he does not wish it prorated permanently, but only until the issuance of highway bonds, at which time the fund will be applied to the interest and amortization of the highway bonds. His contention is that the coun ties want the fund prorated in the meanwhile “as an evidence of good faith.” Other members of the leg islature contend that the “people at home” are clamoring not for a scat tering here and there of the auto mobile fund, but for prompt con struction of a state highway system. But to satisfy the supporters of the Knight resolution and push along the bond issue bill, upon which hinges the life or death of the en tire highway program, a majority of the house seems to have made up their minds to let it go through. They figure that the state highway board will make the most economi cal use of the fund that will be pos sible under the circumstances, de spite the handicap of such a distri bution, and the one redeeming fea ture of the Knight resolution, as they look at it, is that it leaves the fund in the hands of the board to expend wherever and in whatever manner they see fit, just so they pro rate it among the counties. 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