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ficicntly revenue to support the si government and to provide for different institutions and ac ti vit It lias occurred to me that s< explanation of the budget recomn dations for 1922 is appropriate connection with the subject of r< nue and taxation. The following si mary of the budget recommendati for the pr?sent year gives a com and, I think, intelligent statement the purposes of expenditure. I". For expenses of legislative partaient, $105,372. 2. For expenses of judicial partment, including the eire courts, $157,698.66. 3. For educational purposes, eluding $1,668,740 for the admii tration and aid for public schoi $961,951.67 for the five state coll es and $134,942.04 for the School : the Deaf and Blind and John de Howe Industrial school, $2,765,63 71. 4. For the six charitable and c rectional institutions and for the si port of the blind children and 1 Catawba Indians, $1,067,128.36. ' ?. For Confederate pensions, eluding the infirmary and aid for t veterans' reunion, $610,429.50. 6. For agricultural work, includi public service under Clemson collei all regulation and inspection by t department of agriculture and ? penses, cotton warehousing, gradi and. inspecting by the warehou commissioner's office, $403,317.3 7. For public health, .including e penses of tubercular sanatoriun $198,919.40. . . 8. For interest on bonded del $247,299.12. - . 9. For road construction and s pervision by the state highway d partment, $133,785.75. 10. For aid in defraying expens of county governments, includir salaries of auditors and treasurer and for county expenses of electic to be held in 1922, $41,325. 12. For maintaining the Nation! Guard, including the 23 units, $34 210. 13. For public printing, includin the 1922 code, $70,000. 14. For the administration of th executive departments, boards an commissioners, including about 3 organizations, $442,282.34. Grand total, $6,466,240.15. Explains All Items. Items one and two need no con ment from me. Item three represent the largest item and the most impoi tant business of government. Ther are those who believe that our stat appropriations are too high. I do no believe that South Carolina is spend ing too much money for the educa tion of our youth. We still have th< problem of illiteracy. There are mani boys and girls in the state withoui adequate facilities for education. Ii there be those in the general assem bly, or elsewhere, who^ would reduce the amount of money recommended for public education, let them explain to the man whose only hope for his offs?pring is such provision as may be made for their education, from the public treasury. I will insist always on adequate appropriation for public education, because here is the basis of our material prosperity as well as the future of our civilization. Sure ly, even in these times of chaos and sacrifice, we will not fail'to provide for the future. We are committed to the policy of higher education by the state. If it be possible to so organize our work as to inaugurate measures of economy and reduce the expendi tures necessary for the efficient sup port of our educational work, I will support it gladly, but I will never con sent to any measure which means a backward step in the splendid work now being done by our educational institutions. Item four. This appropriation sup ports our State hospital, our indus trial schools for delinquent boys and girls, the support of the blind and the Catawba Indians, and the state peni tentiary. The major part of the ap propriation is for the State hospital. The amount recommended for this institution is considered the mini mum, if these unfortunate people are to have any degree of comfort in what is necessarily a miserable exis tence. Before you cfecide to reduce here may I suggest that you visit the institution and see for yourselves the conditions under which the mentally diseased must live. Item five is self-explanatory. I do not believe the state is too generous in the provisions made for the Con federate soldier. If you would reduce the amount of this recommendation it means not only that in their declin ing years the men who followed Lee and Jackson will be deprived of the means of a comfortable sustenance, but they will feel the keen dagger of ingratitude from the very people who enjoy the rich legacies of the greatest army that ever marched to battle. Improved Agriculture. Item six represents'an appropria tion intended to be used directly for the improvement of our agriculture. It is the-total amount of the enl appropriations by the- state, inten? to aid that class of our citizens v are the creators of all wealth, whom every businses and indus depends. The farmer, of all men, ', suffered during the past year. 1 ravages of the boll weevil have b< such as to leave him face to face w a condition of bankruptcy, and needs now constructive leaders! and helpful direction in reorganizi his business, as he has never needec before. Item seven ought to appeal 1 every person. If you would curt the \vork of our public health serv go first to those in our state tuber? losis sanitorium who are sufferi from the dread disease, and who, I for the provisions made for them the state, must necessarily fall victims, or go to the home in whi preventable disease has plucked t fairest flower, and explain to a gri stricken mother that a great state unable to keep from her door the d ease which by intelligent treatme could be eradicated from the stal Item eight needs no comment. Ite nine can not be reduced if the hig way department under the prese act is to exist and render the servie required. Even with this appropri tion it will be necessary for certa expenses of our road work to 1 borne by the state. Item ll is a necessary appropri tion and needs no comment. ' Item 12 represents the amount ne essary to maintain our Nation Guard organizations. South Carolir accepted the provisions of the Fede al law and has organized its full qui ta of National Guard units. Tr young men who compose these o: ganizatiohs have placed themselvf subject to call in case of an erne: gency, without compensation ? fro] the state. Surely the people whos homes and liberties they stand read to protect can afford an approprii tion sufficient to maintain their oi ganizations, not to compensate thei for their time and service. Item 13 represents total amoun required for the entire executive de partment of the state government, in clinding all of its boards and depart ments, as well as the $75,000 contin gent fund and the fund for law en forcement. If you will add to this items one and two, you will have ? total of $705,353, which represent the entire cost of the state govern ment in its three departments.. Witl this amount all of the governmenta machinery may be kept in motion anc a tax levy of one and three-fourths mills is adequate to meet the neces sary expense. The cost of the organ ized government of South Carolina is not excessive. It would be impos sible to discontinue our . educational ivork on the part of the state, close our charitable and correctional insti tutions, send the old Confederate sol lier from the infirmary to the chari ties of the various communities; abandon the work in behalf of agri culture and public health, provide for the interest on the public debt md all the departments of the state government, including the amount ?ecessary for the salaries of the corni ly auditors and treasurers, and re luce the state levy to two mills; but vho would approve of such a pro gram? Who would contemplate it for i moment? The tax payer who is now "aping a loss instead of a profit ano* md property that is now bearing an injust burden must have relief. But ;he children, who are the hope of the :uture, the unfortunate insane, and >ur delinquent boys and girls must lot be neglected. The Confederate soldier, whose record is a rich legacy ;o us all, must be the object of our constant care. If you will enact the measures which I have recommended ;he burden of taxation now resting un justly, as I have tried to show, upon the shoulders of those least able to bear it, may be transferred to those who are able to bear it without un iue hardships, and the state move on ward and upward to a greater and more glorious future. The special legislative committee, which during the past year has made extensive investigations with a view to economy and consolidation, will submit its report. I am sure the members of this committee will sub mit recommendations which, if car ried out, should enable us to reduce in some departments, expenditures necessary under our present organi zations. I believe there can be con solidations and changes which will ef fect economies, and I trust that the report of this committee, will be giv en the consideration which it merits. Burden in Counties. The tax burden is not attributable as much to the state levy as to the counties, cities and towns. In the year 1912 the average mileage in the various counties was 15.35. In 1921 26.05, or a total increase in ten years of 10.71. This increased levy has meant better service in the counties, improved highways and schools, and, therefore, greater opportunities for all of our people. The increase in the levy for state purposes do not by any means repre sent the increased cost of the state government, but on tlje contrary rep resents the increased appropriations for public education, the Confeder ate soldier and our charitable insti tutions. For instance, in 1912 the to tal appropriation for public schools was $145,00.0; in 1921 it was $1, 500,000. In 1912 the appropriation for the Confederate soldier was $270,000; in 1921 it was $640,000. The appropriation . in 1912 for the State Hospital for the Insane was $273,000; in 1921 $784,000. In 1912 the appropriation for all institutions for higher education was $253,000 and in' 1921 $820,000. It is not de fied that there has been some in crease in the actual cost of the three governmental departments, but the increase here would not have made an increased levy necessary. It has been negligible. These increased ap propriations mean that those who need the state's aid have been bene fited and have not been neglected. But the tragedy of it all is that the increase in taxes as a rule has fallen on those who have been least able to bear it. Our government, I wish to re peat, is not too expensive, but our method of raising revenues is intol erable and indefensible. I submit herewith an abstract showing aggregate tax levied on all counties for all purposes, to which I invite your careful attention. The to tal state and county taexs amount to $18,257,021.25. The constitutional three mill and special school tax in various counties amount to $6,467., 328.71. The tax for ordinary county and roads is $6,335,438.67. The total state levy for all purposes amounts to $5,429,927.13. Of this total state tax, $1,486,410.76 is returned to the various counties to supplement the school funds. It is estimated that the revenue measures recommended will yield ap proximately $3,000,00.0, and this amount, plus the present indirect sources, leaves a balance of about ?2,500,000 (or less than the amount for education), to be raised by a di rect levy on property. This will re quire a levy of not more than five mills and possibly a reduction of ap proximately seven or eight mills be low the rate for 1921. I have endeavored to present to you a true picture of the fiscal affairs >f our state government in as brief form as possible. I hold myself ready ;o cooperate with you in any effort ;o serve the state and relieve the dis: xess of our people. I am sure a way :an be found out of our present^flif iculties without injury to our educa ;ional, charitable, agricultural and jublic health work. Respectfully submitted, R. A. Cooper, Governor. WANTED: Man with car to sell ow priced GRAHAM TIRES. $130. )0 per week and commissions. GRAHAM TI?E CO., Benton Harbor, Mich. 3135 Boulevard. 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In other words, he is always starting some thing to develop the country, give employment to laborers and service to the public. Roger Babson, the famous business adviser and statistician says that Ford is experimenting with a com pound based on cotton for making tough, light automobile bodies. If car wheels can be made of paper, surely auto bodies can be made of cotton. And if anybody can work it cut, it is Henry Ford. Another far reaching benefit: Cotton prices sta bilized, and thousands of tons of ir replacible iron ore annually con served. Babson relates this incident of his visit to Ford: As they sat down to a real good dinner, Ford said to his wife. "Do you remember seventeen years ago you and I walked the streets of Detroit hunting somebody to credit us for a Christmas chicken? And last year," he said thoughtfully, : "I paid the United States government over seventy-six million dollars in . taxes." Young man, there is still hope of : succeao .' the world.-Newberry Ob- : server. 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' That when taxes charged shall not be paid by December the thirty first, 1921 the County Auditer shall pro ceed to add a penalty of one per cent, for January and if taxes are not paid on or before February the first 19*22, the County 'Auditor will proceed to add two per cent, and five per cent additional, from the first of March to the fifteenth of March, after which time all unpaid taxes will be collected .by the Sheriff. The tax levies for 1921 are as fol lows: Mills For State purposes_12 For Ordinary County_ll For Past Indebtedness _5 For Constitutional School tax_3 For Antioch _8 For Bacon School District_14 For Blocker _8 For Blocker-Limestone_4 For Colliers _)4 For Flat Rock.-8 For Oak Grove_._3 For Red Hill_8 For Edgefield _10 For Elmwood No. 8_8 For Elmwood No. 9_2 For Elmwood No. 30 ___2 For Hobler _._8 For Elmwood L. 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