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O.MAX GARDNER SPEAKS AT STATE CONVENTION Stirring Address Heard by Del elates to State Democratic Convention Thursday. Kaleigh, July 7. —The State Demo cratic Convention met here Thursday vith representatives from practical ly. county in the state. One ox 'the features of the day was an ad dress by Gov. O. Max Gardner, which follows: State Convention of North Carolina Democrats, organized, har monized, and ready for the "kick off'' 'is to me the ™ ost ins P irin S si £ ht - r v t-es have ever looked upon. For ethers some other sight and some other theatre,— but for me this sight and J -his theatre possess the power that moves and the glamour that en dures* record of the Democratic Party in North Carolina is a record that makes glad the heart of patriot ism. This record marches hand in hand with the record of the State of N T orth Carolina herself. Schools, health, roads, public welfare, are all the handiwork of the Democratic Party, and are the monument to the capacity of its leadership. "For thirty years North Carolina has been writing new chapters—bril liant chapters—in the book of prog ress. Every page in this book is proud that it bears the clear impiint of the statesmanship of the Demo ciatic Party. That marvelous story of transformation from a slow-go ing agricultural state to a common wealth throbbing with industry, with business, with commerce and with a re-awakened agriculture could not have been written except for this living, breathing, controlling, hum anizing agent for good that we are happy to call the Democratic Party— your party, my party, our party. Party Stands on Record. "Our party stands on its record and asks to be judged on that rec ord. Its candidates run on its record of achievement. It fights on that rec ord. It. defeats its opponents on ihat record. It enjoys the confidence of the people on that record., It will elect, organize and direct the work of the next General Assembly on that record. And on the first Tues day after the first Monday in Novem ber, ID3O, it will triumphantly elect, by 100,000 majority, the Honorable Jcsiah William Bailey to the United States Senate on that record. What is that record? It has been trium phantly key-noted t 0 us today by Judge Varser and is fresh in the memory of a grateful people. "Of course, this is not the time nor the place nor the occasion to g ; ve an accounting of the steward ship of my administration. I shall have ?.n opportunity to render this accounting to many of you whe'n the next General Assembly convenes. I shall not let this moment pass, how ever. without taking advantage of it to pa: before you one important as pect of this stewardship. This admin istratnn has attempted to attune it •=eli to the spirit and the temper of the times and to adapt whatever ad vance it has achieved to the demand [ c f the times. Taxes Reduced. In striving to bring this admin 'stration into harmony with the changed status of economic condi tions and with the thought of this Peiicc, the question naturally arises: Wha. have we done? What have we one - nat we can go to the people v ith :,nd ask for their support and in carrying on the unifin jshed program of the State? What tAe "; e d°ne? We have succeeded in le rarest and most difficult o ail governmental achievements. Vve have reduced taxes. The 1929 j ene Assembly reduced taxes — -, a , X S on P rc perty—taxes on land. i - :en eral Assembly gathered $6,- | >o,ooo of the State's revenue, col ecte;! largely from a comparatively ' n,aij -roup of citizens and from cor- P° r ai.. jns, and carried this vast sum Rev.- money back to the counties -fid tr.e districts of the state to do £ e v - rk and pay the debts that had been done with dollars col by the districts and counties u° n . :^e £ enera l property tax. For e - -st time in the modern history ? s State, the taxes levied by the uw ?overnme «ts on property in '- J > ere lower both in rate and in ® m ount than they were the year be °re" This $6,750,000 sent back to e c of the State represents an avera ge reduction in rate of 24 on the SIOO of valuation thru- out the entire state. In actual fact, the reduction ranges from zero in seme places to more than fifty cents in others. The true democracy of this principle was recognized in that the reduction was biggest on the places and on the people where the burden was heaviest, and where they were least able to pay. I "In order to effectuate this $6,- ! 750,000 reduction in the financial ,burden borne by the property tax, lit has been necessary, of course, to I increase the revenue raised from 'sources other than property. We take pride in the fact that during the past fiscal year ended last Monday, the i Commissioner of Revenue collected |for the general fund, under the 1929 Revenue Act, a total tax revenue of $15,344,000. In this period of in dustrial and business depression, this year's collections actually reached and slightly surpassed the original estimates made by the Budget Bu reau at the close of the last General Assembly as to the revenue collecti ble under the tax schedules. To have reached the original budget estimate, after the prolonged period of busi ness depression which developed early in the fall of 1929, indicates a faithful performance of duty by the Revenue Department and a fine spirit of cooperation by the taxpayers. State L>ebt Decreases. . "Another fact in which the Demo cratic Party justly takes pride is that we have reduced the state debt. Not only have we decreased taxes—and expect to continue to decrease them; we have also paid our debts. North Carolina is one of the states in this nation that is actually paying its debts at a time when it is hard for any individual, any corporation, any organization, any government to pay. Think of this: From January 1, 1929 I [ if era uciqmetk tkath mitdeir mdoj K K K K M I m K M jH M V /1 M M Chesterfield YES—BUT SOMETHING MORE. |"| J,, Chesterfield offers richness, aroma, satisfying pL i flavor. tf I ||f |l BETTER TASTE—that's the answer; and j i that's what smokers get in Chesterfield in full- | */%K*l est measure—the flavor and aroma of mellow ij « I i tobaccos, exactly blended and cross-blended. jj Wl^|||P^pH Better taste, and milder too! I WP ffillSp || - ! I © 1930, LxpotTT 1 Mtem Tobacco Co. II . ' U66ETT & MYERS TOBACCO CO. M THE FOREST CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1930. |to June 30, 1930, a period of eigh teen months, the state paid off in debtedness in the sum of $6,298,000.' It put into the state's sinking futid t 0 pay debts $2,013,000 additional. In all it devoted to the repayment and the amortization of debt the tremendous sum of SB, 311,000. We are doing more than paying our debts: The 1929 General Assembly placed adequate safeguards around the contracting of further debts by local governments. I regard this as one of the most conspicuous and out standing achievements of the admin istration. "We have soundly managed the state's financial program. The busi ness of the State of North Carolina is as efficiently and scientifically managed, in my opinion, as is that of the best of the strictly business corporations of similar size and com plexity. On the first day of July the State Treasurer, with the approval of the Governor and the council of state, sold $2,000,000 of bond anti cipation notes, authorized by the 1927 General Assembly, and run ning for nine months, at the unpre cedently low interest rate of 2 3-4 per cent per annum. Gentlemen, the State of North Carolina could not is sue 2 3-4 per cent notes if her finan cial house were not kept in order. Readjustment. "Not only have we reduced taxes, not only have we paid debts, not only have we soundly managed the state's finances. We have done more than this. We have adjusted our expendi ture to our income. This has been more difficult than tax reduction or the payment of debts. During the past fiscal year, we decreased the total appropriations to departments and institutions one million dollars; and we have called upon the depart jments and institutions during the ! coming fiscal year to decrease their j budgets two million dollars in order 1 10 ma ke sure that our expenditures jduiing this biennium do not exceed j 0 u.r income.. We cut all operating ap propriations except the $6,500,000 /made to the Equalizing Fund, which jwas not cut because it was a tax re duction measure and because cutting it would have necessitated the levy of additional taxes on property. This cut of three million dollars from ap propriations have necessitated the reorganization and readjustment of our institutions and departments and i has challenged the highest efficiency i cooperation and patriotism of insti tutional and administrative leader ship. It is a matter of genuine grati fication to me to tell you that the 1 administrative heads and those in I the ranks of the departments and in > stitutions have shown a remarkable (spirit of cooperation and that they ) are accommodating themselves to the situation worthy of a great peo ple and in complete justification of ! their leadership. f "Of course, we are having tu do j without some services that were help ful; but I am convinced that we are adjusting our expenditures to our in come without impairing materially the services performed and with the • determination to lose nothing per jmanently by this policy. j "I do not recite this story merely jto give emphasis to the saving of (money —important as this is, but to | show that the leadership of the Dem locratic Party means to keep faith with the taxpayer when it is entrust ed with the responsibility of the management of the financial affairs of this great state. "The supreme ambition of this ad * ministration has been to keep its | eyes lifted and its vision unclouded, that we may see the state as a whole. When history conies to appraise the contribution of this administration, jl beiieve I could wish for no finer; J thing than for him who writes the , verdict to say that the Gardner ad-. . ministration saw North Carolina \ ; steadily and saw it whole. "Let us pledge the Democratic - Party to seek the common good of i a H of our people in the harmonious j | development, of all the varied inter- i ' ests of the state. I believe in the j Democratic Party—in the greatness 1 of its past, in the vigor of its justice, 1 lin the perpetuity of its policies, and! ,in the glory of its future. I would j j preserve the party from the bitter-! i ness of factions and the wounds of' Ifiatricidal strife. At this particular! j moment ray heart swells with great jjoy t 0 see" the Democratic Party in i North Carolina once again in the | happiness of family reunion and to | Harrill & King ! t Real Estate Bought and Sold | ♦ Auction Saies a Specialty. ♦ X We buy and sell and cut the earth to suit the man. ISEE US— | If you want to sell. i If you want to buy. { * ♦ Office Phone No. 59. ♦ Res. Phones 245 and 188 Forest City, N. C. | t | see the ranks, filled with more than 1 000,000 sons and daughters, march ,ing to the polls under the flag of a , united party, welcoming the dawn |of a greater day and the election of the entire Democratic ticket—the jiicket that offers the positive guaran tee of the building of a finer state, I the cieation of a nobler common j wealth." t i i P- O. S. A. MEETS. I I ! Ellenboro, July 7.—The district > meeting of the Patriotic Sons of | America was held here Thursday. A j number of the state and district of ! ficials attended. A feature of the j meeting was an address by H. G. I Mitchell, of Statesville, state presi jdent, and Fred O. Sink, of Lexington. } Included in the district are the lodges jat Henrietta, Shelby, Ellenboro, Lawndale, Fallston and Cherryville.
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