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GOVERNOR TALMADGE
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GEORGIA HAS ;
$9.663,535.72 SURPLUS
Rivers=Arnall=Rßlalock
Plunder Bunders
Want That Money “
They Left a Debt of ;
$29,759,642.18 '
STATE ON CASH BASIS
Under the budget all departments
are on a cash basis. They must
have the cash money on hand be
fore they make any purchases. Tal
madge enforces the budget law
which keeps the State from making
new debts and helps him to pay
off old debts left by the Rivers-
Arnall regime.
I HERE'S THE |
DEBTS REDUCED BY
22 MILLION DOLLARS
IN 18 MQNTHS
AUDITOR'S REPORT
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JANUARY 12, 1937
Governor Rivers Took Office
Obligations_______All Paid—Page XIX
Cash on Hand___sll,2B9,s24.63—Page 5
JANUARY 14, 1941
Governor Talmadge Took Office
Obligations Unpaid at
Jan. 1, 1941 ____529,759,642.18—Page 513
(Current Debt)
JUNE 30, 1942
Governor Talmadge in Office
3 18 Months
Obligations for Which Cash Must
Be Provided____s7,6lß,s4s.o7—Page A*
(All in Highway Dept.)
5urp1u5__...59,663,535.72 (War Chest)
*Refers to budget summary of High
way Department, only department with
.any unpaid current obligations. All
references are to pages in the State
Auditor’s figures and may be verified
by merely looking at a copy of the
State Auditor's report for the proper
year,
Current obligations only, as bonded
debts are made by the Legislature and
to mature over a fixed period. Bond
holders would not accept it if the State
offered the cash. The Governor does
not make the bonds and can pay them
only when due.
GEORGIA IS WORTH
. DEFENDING
Why doesn’t Clark Howell publish
things in his Atlanta @onstitution
that w}ould promote the best inter
ests of Georgia? He seems proud
to ridicule and condemn his native
State, but offers nothing construc
tive.
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. State of Georgia Check Cashed in
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. Copenhagen by Ralph MecGill ,
And Ellis Arnall was running for office with the biood- "
hounds of the newspapers; Mr. Ralph McGill, he of Rosenwald
tame, who drew $1,950.00 from the Rivers Administration State
Payroll in addition to his salary from the Constitutién, and in
addition to his pay from the foundation to tour Europe and ‘
teach social equality between the Negroes and the Whites in
Georgia. He cashed a State of Georgia check for $50.00 in Copen
hagen while on that trip. He signed his own State checks while |
here, but while away Ed Rivers signed them as Governor and
Chairman of the Athletic Commission, and sent them to him
away over there in Copenhagen, Berlin, Vienna and Switzer
land (What Poet has not read of the beauties of Switzerland?).
Mr. Gladstone Williams, Washington observer for the Con
stitution, who drew $3,900.00 from the State and had his checks
eashed in Washington and Philadelphia. :
Mr. Howard Leavy (C. H. Leavy, Jr.) Brunswick News,
$8,875, and he didn’t spend a day in the State Capitol working
tar the State. 1
No wonder the Brunswick News has a running fit for the
Rivers-Arnall Crowd. 1
Koop This Ad=Quote It! Write About li=Convince Yourself Whethor It’s True or Nodl,
% Governor Eugene Talmadge % &
- Same Old Rivers=Arnall=Rßlalock Spendth'rifts'i-
Want $9.000,000.00 Surplus TALMADGE Saved!
S o S L e S e T AT e v
Debt Control Needed Now More
Than Ever
Georgia is faced with a financial crisis greater than
when Governor Talmadge took office January 14,
1941, and found the State in debt $29,759,642.18.
The Ed Rivers administration had left that debt.
Now Governor Talmadge has reduced it to the point
where only $7,648,545.07 is needed to wipe the slate
clean again and he has built up a surplus of $9,663,~
535.72 as of June 30, 1942. ¥
That surplus, built up by Governor Talmadge as a
War Chest against the day when the State, on the
Seaboard, in time of war, may need cash for dire
emergency, has attracted the attention of the same
old Rivers crowd, especially the fair-haired boys of
the race, E. D. Rivers and Ellis Arnall.
Mr. Arnall is critical of that surplus, and he and
his_associates are looking upon it with greedy eyes
- while he makes public a statement about it. He can’t
say now it isn’t there, because he admitted that when
he criticized it.
Mr. Arnall was appointed Assistant Attorney Gen
eral on January 15, 1937, by Former Governor
Rivers.
On February 2, 1939, Attorney General M. J. Yeo
mans, a grand old Georgia wentleman, was persuaded
in his declining years to accept the position of Coun
‘ -~ COUNTIES GET THEIR MONEY I
Governor Talmadge pegged the 1-cent a gallon gas
tax at $365,000 a month. Despite revenue loss by less
gasoline sales, the counties have been paid so that they
can carry on this emergency which reaches into the
counties every time it touches the State.
sel and General Manager of the Milledgeville Hospital
Authority. After the bright picture had been painted
he was persuaded to resign from the office to which
he had been elected.
Governor Rivers on the same day appointed Ellis
Arnall Attorney General. Judge Yeomans died of a
broken heart, April 10, 1939. And it developed that
Mr. Arnall, two weeks before he was appointed At
torney General, had caused to be printed the new
stationery for his new office, with HIS name on it as
Attorney General. That shows how close the ties
were then between Rivers and Ellis Arnall, and how
fast they worked. g ‘
Mr. Arnall, as Atterney General, busied himself
with- opinions, as one on September 16, 1989, for Gov-
Must Save Money Now for War Emergencies
as Failing Revenues Face Georgia
Governor Talmadge‘carn'ed on his program of advance
ment of the State. He was paying her debts and establishing
a cash reserve for war emergency that may strike desper
~ ately any moment.
| He was improving the services of the public health depart
ments, the hospitals, institutions for the deaf, blind, insane,
~ tubercular; increasing pension rolls, aiding the University
~ System as it never was aided before, giving the counties
~ their gasoline money when reductions in gasoline sales re
duced the income. :
Common Schools are financed by Talmadge fully for the
first time with $15,506,400, teachers paid prompdy; State
Highways were alloted $12,546,800 in addition to allotment
to reduce highway debt; and highway overhead was cut 59
per cent; Public Health Departiflent was financed with $600,-
000; Alto Tuberculosis services doubled and $400,000 provid
ed for its operation; Training Schools for Boys, School for
the Deaf and Academy for the Blind on improved basis; to
Public Welfare Rolls were added 25,484 to make the total
80,272; University System of Georgia alloted $1,700,000 to
keep it on par with other years and special appropriations
of $92,250.63 to expand the Medical School at Augusta and
$108,200 for the Pre-Flight Naval School at Athens; Coun
ties paid their gas funds because Governor Talmadge pegged
the 1-cent gas tax at $365,000 a month.
Every other issue pales into insignificance beside the duty
and the necessity of winning this war. There can be no other
issue in the hearts of Georgians. That is the Talmadge Cam
paign issue. 3 ,
On the other side is the old plunderbund group, the Arnall,
Rivers, Blalock gang, and the State-paid bloodhounds of the
daily press, licking their chops at the sight of money,
money, money in the State treasury on which they would all
lay violent hands.
Now is the time when, Georgia needs the experience of
tried men. The people well know how Governor Talmadge
reduced taxes and reduced debts at the same time, a thing
almost unheard-of in government administration.
Read what the Savannah Morning News said in its issue
of July 15th:
“Certainly it comes with poor grace from a man who is
trying to unseat the Governor to condemn him for provid
ing against the uncertainties of State revenues of the
future by laying by something for a rainy day.” .
Waesler Couaty Eagle,. Alamo,Ga., Friday, August 14, 1942
Mr. Bryan Lumpkin, Athens Banner-Herald, $5,450.00, and we
are advised by good citizens of Athens that he divided it with
another newspaper man named McGill, Dan McGill, whose
specialty is eating with Negroes, and having the picture taken
of the feast,
Paul Stevenson, who wrote that wonderful book about Rivers
and his crowd, with Ed Rivers’ picture on the front cover of
it; the State paid Paul Stevenson $3,775.76 to extoll the Rivers-
Arnall Crowd, and he did such a good job of it the Journal
hired him right after Talmadge fired him and named him
Piney Woods Pete and pushed Sergeant York off the fremt
page and put Piney Woods Pete on every day to cuss Talmadge,
Piney Woods Pete drew that money from the Old Age Pension
rolls. Think how many old age pensions could be pald with
$3,775.76, which he drew.
The Atlanta Journal of Sunday, July 12, 1942, printed its
statement of policy on its front page. It said it does not permit
its men to draw state pay, never has and never will. The sub
stitute Constitution is alone in this, says the Journal.
‘What about C. E. Gregory, who was an oil Inspector for J. I
Brown, until Talmadge exposed him on the stump in 1926, and
Gregory was short $3,098.81 and was not paid until the next
year? Yet the Journal keeps him on to go all over the State
and write about this campaign like he hopes it will be.
GEORGIA NEEDS A MAN WHO REDUCES
TAXES AND DEBTS AT ONE TIME
Governor Talmadge has never raised taxes. He re
duced the State debts while reducing State taxes, reduc
ing the cost of automobile tags, and reducing the cost of
electric, gas, and telephone services.
Today Georgia is faced with the loss of twelve to fif
teen million dollars in gasoline revenue.
How would the spendthrift opposition meet it? The
answer is simple—they would raise taxes.
How will Governor Talmadge meet it? His record
tells you. Read it here.
ernor Rivers, concluding that Rivers, as Governor,
had “effective powers over the spending agencies of
state.” That opinion turned the Highway Depart
ment money completely over to the then Governor,
who had appointed Mr. Arnall Attorney General.
He was handing down opinions that gave the state
power to buy 10,000 blankets in July and August,
without bids, to waste the state’s money while school
teachers went unpaid. That opinion permitted Rivers
to dictate every purchase of the State Highway De
partment. This gave him the same power over
every other department that bought anything. Text
books for the Schools, Shoes, Clothing and Bedding
for the Prisoners, Focd, Oil, Gasoline and every
thing that the State buys and uses.
Georgia continu&er dizzy plunge into debt while
Mr. Arnall fiddled#vith his new job and couldn’t
render an opinion for anybody except the Governor,
then Mr. Rivers.
Governor Talmadge was elected in 1940 and took
office January 14, 1941, and Attorney General Arnall
was re-elected without opposition. Begging.for of
" fice, he put on red suspenders and went among the
friends of Governor Talmadge, using the subterfuge
that he was a Talmadge man.
After Governor Talmadge was elected, Attorney
~ General Arnall could render any opinion for almost
~ anybody to help them try to defeat the aims of the
~ Talmadge Administration, and he couldn’t render an
" opinion for the Governor to help Governor Talmadge
~ conserve the state’s resources and serve the people
ot Georgia.
| Governor Talmadge was busy with that debt of
- $29,759,642.18.
' Governor Talmadge has never had a chance to
W administer the affairs of Georgia in a term starting
. without debt. In his former term beginning January
State Defense Corps Is Praised by
Gen. Wood
He was setting up a State Defense Corps organization sec
ond to none in America today, and"a Civilian Defense Organ
ization entirely without politics, to protect our people in time
of war; and placing’the State once again on a firm founda
tion, to help win the war, cooperating with the National
Administration to do it.
At the Savannah meeting of the American Legion sat
Clark Howell, owner of the Atlanta Constitution, and heard
Brig. General Eric Fischer Wood»U. S. A., Fort Benning,
Georgia, June 23, 1942, say he wanted to give credit where
credit was due; and he said, with Clark Howell sitting in the
front row to hear him, that Georgia has the best Home De
fense organization in the United States and was helping first
of all the States in the Union toward a good home defense,
and that under Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia this
was done.
Clark Howell heard him and never wrote a line in his
paper commending the Governor of his State, which is ex
plainable.
But Clark Howell missed the greatest opportunity of his
life to brag on his State in news and editorials that would
resound all over the Nation, and he was so mad at Talmadge
that he wouldn’t write a single thing General Wood said
about his own State of Georgia. He has been complaining
about the kind of publicity he gives Georgia by attacking
Governor Talmadge, and there was his golden opportunity
to correct it. : :
Clark Howell had the opportunity to encourage others in
patriotic duties, but instead Clark Howell was mad because
we have a sane, conservative administration and he wants
that plunderbund crowd back in his office and his own re
porters back on the State payrolls.
k Clark Howell would rather give Talmadge bad publicity
than to give Georgia good publicity, the Georgia where he
~ was born and inherited his fortune from honest and honor
~ able forbears who would not stoop to defame their State,for
~ any price or consideration. Clark Howell would debase Geor
- giagto strike at Talmadge.
Governor Talmadge is helping Georgia and America in
" military defense and in civilian defense. Not only is Gov
ernor Talmadge acting in his official way to help America,
' but he has seen his only son, a young man with a young wife,
this son who was the Governor’s campaign manager two
, years ago, walk out of his house and put ‘1 the Uniform
. of the United States Navy to apply for service on the dan
. gerous PT boats to run down submarines on the stormy
seas. This young man’s name is Herman Talmadge. -
| And what about his son, C. E. Gregory, Jr., and the $10,062.50
he got from the Rivers-Arnall Administration? He got a lot of
that money, $3,487.50, from Ellis Arnall’'s own Department of
Law, the Attorney General's Departmerft; he got §53,050 from
the Secretary of State payroll and $3,6256 from the Revenue
Department payroll. He was on them all and at big money.
James M. Cox, the Ohio politician-publisher, has an eye on
the Arnall-Rivers treasury. He likes gravy. Look at his record
in Florida, where he owns the political-minded Miami Daily
~ News, and where the only Governors satisfactory to him are
the spending kind of his own choosing.
Taimadge Reduced Budget
$10.840,000
Governor Talmadge reduced the State bud
| get $10,840,000, yet he has carried on every
| department of State without curtailing their
; services. ‘
Rivers-Arnall Regime Left Debt
of $29,759,642.18
12, 1933, he had found a debt of $8,973,147.63. :
He paid that off and left a surplus for the Rivers
Administration of $11,289,524.23 in cash and the
state out of debt, and while Governor Rivers was ap
pointing Mr. Arnall Attorney General, and acting on
his opinions, the state ate up that surplus of more
than 11 millions of dollars, and then sank into debt
to.the tune of $29,759,642.18. Rivers, Arnall, et. al,,
raised taxes at the same time. .
Governor Talmadge then started his term follow=
ing the Rivers Administration with that huge debt.
By policies of thrift, frugality and economy, without
impairing the state’s services, Governor Talmadge
has in 18 months reducéd that debt to $7,648,545.07,
June 30, 1942, auditor’s report.
And while he was doing this, the present Attor=
ney General and would-be Governor, the Carbon Copy
of the Rivers Administration, was running for qu_-l
ernor. i
He ran for Governor in his opinions, rendered on
the State’s time and by grace of the State’s money.
He ran for Governor in company with Brack Blae
The University System of Georgia has been supported §i
on a par with other years, with $1,700,000 the State’s part {
of the operating expenses; Governor Talmadge approved
a special budget of $92,250.63 to expand the Medical
School at Augusta and another of $108,200 for the Naval §
Pre-Flight School at Athens. ¢
lock, another of the Old River’s favorites, who during,
the Rivers Administration sold $3,700,000.00 worth!
of machinery and in 1940 alone paid income tax on
$355,000 on profits he had made on the sales to the'
State of Georgia during the Rivers-Arnall Adminis
tration. 4
No wonder Mr. Blalock is boasting around the
Ansley Hotel Lobby that he and his associates are'
ready to spend half a million dollars to elect EHis
Arnall Governor and put his old appointer, Ed. Riv
ers, in as Higlevay Chairman. It was through the'
Highway Department that Mr. Blalock made his stu
pendous fortune, selling machinery to the State in,
unpreecedented quantities, at highly profitab\t; pricu.)
It would be a good financial investment for him and
the rest of the Rivers-Arnall crowd to do so—if they,
could win. i
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COMMON SCHOOLS 3
SUPPORTED .
For the first time in their history §.
common schools of Georgia are * §
completely financed with $15,506,400
and the funds paid promptly. See '
the report of Hon. J. I. Allman, As
sistant School Superintendent, and
ask any County Superintendent.
* STATE SERVICES |
MAINTAINED i
Governor Talmadgh reduced the
State budget $10,840,000, yet he has
carried on eyery department of
State without curtailing their ser
vices.
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| Herman Talmadge's message to his
friends in Georgia:
“] am on active duty with the U, 8.
Navy and regret that I cannot be with
you in the campaign as I was two years
ago. i :
“I am glad {0 know that you are carry
ing on the fight to re-elect my father.
You will have to carry on that fight for
me, because if anybody gets into a fight
with e they'll have to join the Axis. l!
full time is taken up with that right now.' |
