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GEORGIA’S PROGRAM
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There exists no doubt that the people
of Georgia desire the many services per
formed by their state grouped loosely to
gether under the name of the ‘Program.'
They want better highways, with thei
attendant economic advantages. They
want better schools and eolleges. They
want, the assistance program for the
aged, the dependent children, the blind
and the crippled. They want an expanded
public health service, with improved fa
cilities at Alto for the tubercular of
Georgia. They want better care for the
inmates of the eleemosynary instituions
For these services they are willing to
pay.
But they wish one hundred cents in
service for every dollar that is paid in
taxes. They realipe that, under present
conditions, overlapping services with at
tendant waste and inefficiency has made
it too costly I
Georgia has realized this for years,
even before the seven-mouth school term
free textbooks, the welfare program and
the rural post roads features of the
‘Program - became law. There have been
attempts at reorganization, but most of
them have failed because they resulted
in a mere reshuffling of duties rather
than in a pruning of non-essentials. With
the exception of the creation of the board
of regents, efforts at reorganization in
the past have failed completely to realize
important savings.
The most notable attempt at reform
in this direction came in 1931. when a
series of reorganization bills were passed
by the assembly. At that time the board
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of regents was created, superceding r
score or more of local boards of trustees
for the various colleges: this worked,
saving several hundred thousand dollart
in the past eight years !
At the same time the department o‘
law was reorganized, with estimates that
important savings would be effected
These did not develop: the cost of the
state's legal work and litigation has in
creased steadily. The purcrasing officer,
as an adjunct to the governor’s office,
was created : it functioned with such in
effectiveness that the last assembly cre
ated a new, independent authority. The
revenue department was reorganized ;
there were no results, and a second re
organization. the results of which are
not yet determinable, was made in 1938
As a capping of the climax, the budget
commission was created.
The budget commission is actually th<
governor of Georgia. The powers giver
him are extremely broad, and additions
powers have been assumed because the
governor, even when he acts in some
other capacity than as chief executiv
is not amenable to ordinary- judicial
processes. No governor of Georgia, start
ing with Hon. Richard B. Russell, Jr.,
including lion. Eugene Talmadge and
Hon. E. I). Rivers, who have served since
that time, has been able to perform th
duties of budget commissioner satisfac
torily. The duties are too exacting, re
quire too intimate a knowledge of to
many departments and offer too inuc!
opportunity for dabbling in political wa
ters. Its breakdown was attested wlv
the budget commission failed to file with
the assembly, as required by law. its re
port and recommendations when the leg
islators convened for their sixty-day
session.
These have been the more recent at
tempts at reorganization and of reform
in the interest of efficiency and econo-m;
in Georgia. They have not been success
ful. The voters and taxpayers of Georgia
want something more than a mere rc
grouping of boards and bureaus under a
new name, with additional new executives
and supervisors. They insist that the as
sembly go to the bottom of the probler
and actually eliminate duplication of ef
fort, obsolete services, unnecessary ef
forts —and effect such savings as can b
effected.
The responsibility rests upon the as
sembly Heads of departments can only
perform their duties as provided by law.
They have not the authority to reorgan
ize the affairs of the state. Eycept by
overstepping the bounds of a reasonabh
discretion as budget commissioner, the
governor has no such power. But the
assembly has the authority, and the as-
I sembly can learn the facts.
It is doubtful that the savings that
I can be effected will approach balancing
the budget. They will make little impres
| sion. indeed, in that direction, although
;by increasing efficiency they will give
| Georgians the services for which they
I are now paing and which they are not
getting in full.
But. after these savings have been es
| fected, the assembly and the state’s ex
ecutive will be in a position to present
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1939
to the people of Georgia a single, clear
cut question : “Shall we reduce our serv
ices. by eliminating the welfare payments
o the aged, to dependent children and to
the crippled and blind? Shall we reduce
the school term? Or shall we enact ref
enue measures to pay the bills?”
Under those conditions, but only under
those conditions, can Georgia vote ap
proval of tax revision and additional
revenue bills.
THEY SAY
By Hl BERT DODD.
And He said, Whereunto shall we liken
.he Kingdom of God? or with what com
parison shall we compare it? It is like
a grain of mustard seed, which, when it
is sown in the earth, is less than all the
,eeds that be in the earth: but when it
.s sown, it groweth up, and becometh
greater than all herbs, and shooteth out
great branches: so that the fowls of the
air may lodge under the shadow of it.'
—Mark iv :30-32.
That Kingdoms have small beginnings
and they grow seems to be the teaching
of this saying of Jesus. The history o,
the Kingdom of God in the world veri
fies this description of it. It did not start
in a great mass movement. One man, the
Man Christ Jesus, had an idea, a vision
planted in his mind and heart. He drew
twelve men around him and patiently in
stilled into their minds and hearts tin
vision. At the end of three years, there
were still only several hundred who han
the vision of the Kingdom of God, am
the record tells about only one hundred
and twenty who were gathered together
.n the “Upper Room” on the Day ot
i’enecost. But from so small a beginning
the plant grew until it filled the Roma'
inpire within three hundred years.
William Carey, the first Protestant
missionary to enter India, labored so.
even years to secure one convert; Ros
ert Morrison did the same thing in
China: and the first Protestant mission
aries to Japan did likewise. Small be
ginnings, these. This was about the be
ginning of the Nineteenth century. In
1963, one hundred years later, the sta
tistics show more than 622.000 Protes
tant Christians in Asia, including Ja
pan, Formosa, British Borneo. Ceylon
and Cyprus. It took a century for the
plant to take firm root, but the marvel
ms growth of the last thirty-five yean
justifies the rooting season, for in 1938.
there were nearly two and a quartet
million Protestant Christians in that
continent!
This parable ought to teach us today
a valuable lesson. It ought to teach us
that the movement which will lead the
world out of its present chaotic eondi
tion probably will not be born in a great
mass-meeting. But there is a boy or girl
—yea. many boys and girls—somewhere
who will catch the vision of real Chris
tian living and service. Then that vision
will grow until it fills the whole earth !
The young people of the Methodist
church have launched what is called the
Youths’ Crusade. This is a great move
ment ; but it should be remembered that
it must needs fail as a Kingdom of God
movement, unless the vision becomes in
stilled in the individual hearts and minds
of the young people.
Oh. how we want a revival of the re
ligion of Jesus! The revival that will
sweep the world —and some of us feel we
are on the threshold of it —will not be
gin in a big and showy way, auspicious
ly, as they say; but will probably be
orn in some little prayer meeting where
the “nobodies” attend, and few of them.
The revival may start in your heart or
mine. Let everybody pray, “Let the re
vival come; and let it begin in me!”
IN MEMORY OF MRS. M. B. BAILEY
Oh. dear mother, how we miss you.
In this world no more to roam;
But we know that we'll be with you
In that bright, eternal home.
Our dear mother, she is waiting for us
all to meet her there,
Where we 11 all be together
And there'll be no more sad partings,
When we meet our mother there.
We are living for that day when we
can see our sweet, precious mama again
and set her smiling face. Although it's
sad and lonely without her. we can live
to be with mama in that sweet heaven
of rest anti then we won’t have to part
again.
Mama had been in ill health for a long
time, but she bore it with patience She
always tried to be submissive to the
Lord s will. There is a vacant place in
our home that can never be filled, but we
realize that our loss is Heaven's gain.
We know that mama is walking the
streets of glory. She will never have to
-uffer any more. She will never know
any more sorrow. She's singing the
praises of God. We know that mama is
better off than we are, but, oh, it is so
lonely without her. She was such a dear,
sweet mama. Always kind and good. She
always tried to help us bear our trou
bles. Mama loved her church and church
work. Though she hadn't liebn able to at
tend church much in two or three years,
but she enjoyed listening to the good
preaching and singing over the radio. Oh.
it don't seem sometimes like we can ever
live without her.
But heaven is nearer since mama is
there. Mama is a bright shining light in
the windows of heaven. And may we all
follow in her footsteps, so that when our
work is done on earth we can meet mama
in that beautiful land where we will nev
er have to say goodbye.
May God bless all our dear friends for
their kindness and sympathy to us is out
prayers.
HER HUSBAND & CHILDREN.
Col. Ayers sees need for increasing
flow of new funds into industry to sus
tain recuverj’! |
KNOW YOUR TIMBER
, (Emily Woodward.)
What can we do to stop soil erosion?
This is a question heard so frequently
now that Georgians have become con
scious of the need to save the land.
One answer to this question is PLANT
TREES.
A careful study of soil and water losses
from seven types of cover and land used
in Mississippi’s coastal plains region re
vealed a loss of oil from barren and cul
tivated lands 4,300 times greater than
from lands protected by forest or grass
cover.
In experiments in which forest litter
was applied to the surface of compact
eroded subsoil, erosion was virtually
stopped. It was also demonstrated that
annual light surface fires sharply in
crease surface run-off and erosion from
forest and grass lands.
Valuable information as to methods for
•ontrolling erosion has been obtained
from studies by the Southern Forest Ex
periment station. These studies show
that trees and other soil-bindisg plants
can be established successfully on gullied
lands, using inexpensive check dams am
other simple site-improvement measures
For successful planting of impoverished
eroded sites, the station has found: (1)
hat top-grade seedlings must be used:
(2) that southern pines can l>e estab
lished satisfactorily by planting the trees
in holes filled with topsoil, thus dispens
ing with check dams, bank reduction, and
>ther more expensive preparatory meas
tires; (3) that it is not necessary to
plow or remove heavy grass before plant
ing shortleaf or loblolly pine; (4) that
losses of broadleaf planting stock can be
prevented by heeling-in the trees in sand
instead of loam.
The control of erosion on roadbanks
constitutes a serious problem and usual
ly requires rather costly remedies. Stud
ies have shown that eroding cutbanks
can be stabilized successfully without re
lucing them to gentle gradients and
without resorting to the more costly sod
ding methods in everyday use. A special
method of preparing and planting banks
has been developed that gives greatly
superior results to those obtained from
the usual method of contour trench
planting. This study has shown: (1)
hat relatively wide spacing of small
Bermuda-grass sods or broadcast sowing
to seed of several herbaceous species can
be relied upon to provide a satisfactory
plant cover; (2) that cutbanks should be
planted in the spring rather than in the
fall, but that sloping and other prepara
tory work on the banks should be done
preferably in the fall; (3) that light top
dressing of fertile soil is a minimum re
quirement in stabilizing cutbanks, and
,4) that light applications of fertilizer
are also helpful.
During the first three months of 1939.
Great Britain and France have secured
licenses for the export of arms, ammu
nition and instruments of war to the
value of more than $24,000,000. With
the exception of $4,199, the entire
amount is for aircraft. During the same
three months Germany and Italy obtained
licenses to the value of slightly more
than SIS.(XX). Japan received no licenses
and (Ilina's totalled $244,764.
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GOLD.
The flow of gold into the United States
continued in March when $365,436,437
worth of the yellow metal came into this
country. This was the largest volume for
any month except September and October
of last year. From England came $250,-
065,107. In October, 1938. the total was
$562,381,161, of which $443,404,000 came
from England. That the British are
transferring huge sums of gold to the
United States is apparent from the fig
ures for 1938, when Great Britain sent
us $1,208,801,000.
RAWLINS, Wyo.—When tire auto
mobile driven by (’. E. Okerberg hit. an
antelope, the antelope was killed, the au
tomobile wrecked and Okerberg suffered
eight broken ribs.
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HEN ADOPTS KITTENS.
HUNTINGTON, Ind.—Leaving her
two kittens in a hen's nest while she
went to hunt mice, Farmer Leroy Beal's
cat was surprised when she found that
a sitting hen had adopted the kitten and
would not let her get near them. Peace
was restored by a farm worker, who re
stored the kittens to their mother.
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