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Financing Local Governments The following is an address by Dr. John D. Robinson, Chairman of the Duplin County Board of Commissioners and President of the North Carolina Association of County Com missioners and County Accountants, which he delivered dur ing the national meeting of county officials in Chicago last week; “Representing the Association of County Commissioners and County Accountants of North Carolina, I wish to congratulate you on this or ganization for the advancement and preservation of local self-govern ment. “In the past few years, local self government has lost prestige large ly because of financial difficulties in which the local units have found themselves as a result of large bond issues and expenditures brought about by the boom years following the world war and the high pres sure salesmanship of bond compan ies and the demand for local im provement for roads and schools. “While the counties were assum ing these vast obligations, they con tinued to depend on real estate lev ies to finance /‘them,. ■ In the mean time the Fedeiai and State govern ments spread out and acquired all the extra sources of revenue for their financing, consequently, as soon as these bond issues began to fall due and the depression came on and real estate values dropped, it was not long before counties were in default on interest and principay maturities and as a result of this, most coun ties were also unable to pay the op erating expense of the local gov ernment units. This was further aggravated by the counties not be ing able to collect the levies on real estate and also the fact that they is sued new bonds to take care of cur rent expenses. “Now I wish to call your atten tion to the fact that local self-gov ernment may cost more than cen ralized government. It is worth a lot more. It is the personal contact that counts. It is kind of; like the young man who called his sweet heart on long distance and threw a kiss to her over the telephone, and she said, ‘come on up to see me’. He replied, ‘it costs too much’. She said, ‘but it would be worth a lot more’. “In order to continue to function local self government must be able to finance itself as it goes and this can be done by the application of the following schedule: “In the first place, each local un it must place a reasonable value on its taxable property and then make a reasonable levy that the people will be willing to pay, and the same must be collected. In other words, all budgets of government, whether it be national, state or county, should be budgeted on receipts rather than expenditures. “Of course, the local units of gov ernment will have to depend large ly on real estate and personal pro perty for their sources of revenue in the future as they have in the past, but there is no reason why the Fed err.! and State governments c.rnnot allocate back to the local un it-' of government some of the funds which they have collected. “As an illustration of what I mean, I call attention to the fact that North Carolina pays into the Federal Gov < nment a sum in excess of $260, 000,000 yearly and that the bulk of i.iis comes as a tax on tobacco. In !'ie meantime, the State of North Carolina collects less than $6,000, 000 and the counties of North Caro 1 aa nothing from this source, and T.hat is true relative to the tobacco tax as it effects North Carolina is a so true of many other sources of i Venue levied by the Federal and f -a* ’ governments in the other slates of this nation. •it is my contention that the to bacco farmers of North Carolina ac tually pay this entire tax because the consumer pays a reasonable price for t-a article Ije consumes, and Hie r anufacturers receive adequate pro fits. “Nov.- if the Federal Government would return to the State of North Carolina about 60 percent of the Federal tax collected from North Carolina and then the State of North Carolina allocate to the several coun ties 60 percent of the amount re ceived from the Federal Government, the finances of the state would be solved and the cost of county gov ernment to the owners of real es tate would be reduced to a minimum. “The necessity for Federal Relief would be done away with and local self-government will come into its own again. “Our salvation and future depends on our ability to finance our local units so as to be able to give effi cient government to the people at a price they are willing to pay for it.” 1 World Seri™ T and ffari Ng 11 DETROIT .. . Above are the baseball leaders :who have been master-minding the world series games and Mr. Fan No. 1. On t' o left is Charlie Grimm, manager of the Chi-ago Cubs who brought his team with a rush to vin the National league penr ant.I tight, lower, is i lickey Cochrane, manager of the Detroit Tigers, ‘wo-time Ameri can League winner. Insert, above . . .‘is'Bill Cunningham of Kansas City, Kas. who took up b'is stand at tho biere*or box office here on beplcruuer 23 . ( . tor seas No. I. WASHINGTON... Heading Wert with the intent of returning by the Panama Canal, President Roosevelt ij on hie awing acrosa the country to San Diego, CaUf., via St Louie, Boulder Dam, Los Angeles, ^position San Diego and delivering the md of his scheduled speeches, The it will board the cruiser f»T a Ashing expedition to Canal, across which be pass Northward. It is expected he will land at some southern IJ. jport on the Eastern seaboard. flan Diego, CaUf., via Omaha, Cheyenne, Bou But Lake City and Lo After viewing tite Pacific at San Diego and deli STATE ADJUSTMENT UNIT LAUNCHED THIS WEEK The work of the Resettle ment Administration’s debt ad justment unit in this state was formally launched this week with announcement of the ap pointment of W. Kerr Scott, Haw River, farmer-stockman, as regional chief in charge of the work in Kentucky, Tennes see, Virginia and North Caro lina. Mr. Scott was formerly a member of the North Carolina Debt Adjustment Commission. In his new capacity he will work in close cooperation with state directors of Rural Reset tlement and will be directly re sponsible to Homer H. B. Mask, Regional Director of Rural Re settlement. Mr. Scott, a graduate of the North Carolina -State Grange, operates a large live stock farm. He has been active for many years in agricultural affairs and is thoroughly fam iliar with rural problems. In his new work, Mr. Scott will be assisted by five region al specialists, one assigned to each state in the region, who will act in an advisory capaci ty to the state rural resettle ment directors. These special ists, with their official stations, are: C. N. Shaw, Lexington, Ky., Harry Watkins, Raleigh; C. Nelson Beck, Charlottesville, Va.; G. L. Hively, Morganton, W. Va.; Robert Sercey, Nash ville, Tenn. Under these regional special ists, district specialists have been chosen who will cooperate closely with the regional spe ists in coordinating the volun teer committees in charge of farm debt adjustment activi ties. The voluntary debt adjust ment program was initiated in 1933 by the Farm Credit Ad ministration. Through cooper ation with the governors of the various states, the services of 15,000 volunteer workers were secured. They paid their own expenses in bringing creditor and debtor together in prevent ing farm foreclosure. Through their operations, agreements were affected by which 150,000 cases of farm debts were com posed and approximately half a million persons were kept off the relief rolls. Farm debt adjustment work will be carried throughout the nation with a $2,000,000 allo cation from the works relief fund which was made by Pre sident Roosevelt on September 5, when the program was trans ferred from the Farm Credit Administration to the Reset tlement Administration. Mr. Mask in announcing Mr. Scott’s appointment, declared that it is the desire of the Re settlement Administration that the volunteer state and county debt adjustment committees “be S^iven proper supervision and aid so that the program will function with maximum coop eration and effectiveness.” “The members of these com mittees,” Mr. Mask said, “have in many cases given their time and services without remuner ation and often have paid their own expenses in an effort to Jave from foreclosure homes and property of debt'-ridden farm neighbors. We plan to maintain these committees, taking steps to strengthen them where necessary, and, through the debt adjustment supervis ory personnel, assist them in the settlement of debts of dis tressed farm people. “The voluntary farm debt adjustment project of the ru ral resettlement division is ex pected to be coordinated with all rural resettlement agencies and the fullest cooperation should prevail at al times. The farm debt adjustment program will have a very vital place in the rehabilitation work. With funds available to take care of necessary expenses, there is every reason to believe that the adjustment program will now take on Ridded impetus.” WHEN A PRETTY GIRL GROWS OLD An unusual story describing in words and pictures the in teresting history of England’s “perfect blonde beauty,” who has erased the wrinkles of time. One of many fascinating articles in the November 3 is sue of the American Weekly, the big magazine which comes regularly with the Baltimore Sunday American. Your news dealer or newsboy has your co WITH WALTER L. MAIN CIRCUS Washington ... The alter.' math of the meeting of Republican party leaden held here last week, Is that the “strong man” today in directing party affairs is Harri son E. Spangler (above), of Iowa, recent pass-roots conference chair man. Some observers are of the opinion that he may be the next of the National Bepsbliead | Prize Winning Dahlia | man --11 ji To Charles G. Bead of Lawrence, Mass., goes the jjprise fur growing the largest.dahlia b the U. S. this Tear. It measured Uli Indies and is exhibited by Miss [Joan Han ton at the annual American Dfehlia Show, h«ld hexnj j* Flaavng Yemntcs i NEW YOBK ... The flame-pago da* Of Cambodian Temples are inter preted into the above colorful fall h«t,. a new creation which takes de* signers’ breath away. ... It is of black -velvet trimmed with cut Out leaves and graced with multi COlOTOd Stationary A third American party is always being promoted, but it* never graduates.—Norfolk Vir ginian Pilot. Marriage Licenses Issued Business picked up to a new high in the Register of Deeds office during the past week when 12 couples signified their intentions to wed. Applications were evenly divided between whites and colored. White couples were: Mike Cavenaugh, Nora Horne ; Claude Hinnant, Keautle Ellis; Hughie Waters, Irene Jordon; Cyrus Futrelle, Edna • Foun tain; Hamton Dail, Beatrice Mobley; Cagie Houston, Inez Quinn. Colored couples were: Wil lie J. Williams, Thelma Pear sall; James Anderson, Irene Mott; Fithew Matthews, Mar iah Kenan; Josh Fussell, Reedy Rogers; James Coston, Malcy Stallings; Walter Bryant, Hat tie Gavin. CORRECTION Through an error the gram mar grade class of Mrs. C. M. Miller was left out of the list of classes receiving cash awards for representation at the meeting of the local Par ent-Teacher association last week. OBITUARY Rev. William G. Griffith, son of Air. and Airs. Orlando Grif fith was born in Athens Coun ty, Ohio, Alarch 31st, 1872. While yet a small boy he mov ed with his parents to Iowa where he grew to manhood. He was married to Aliss Daisy En gland of Benton, Iowa Feb. 9, 1898. Four years later he mov ed to North Dakota where he spent the remainder of his life before coming to North Caro lina. He spent the last 20 years in Evangelistic service. Four years of this time being spent in this state. He leaves to mourn his pas sing, his wife, two sons and one daughter and a host of [other relatives and departed this life £§ 1935, age 63 years, 6 days. 1 The funeral service ducted by Rev. O Calypso, assisted by Rev. Pool of Selma. The weje laid to rest in the tery at Faison where the ily now lives. i We take this way of than our friends and neighbors their kindness shown us ing the sickness and death {our beloved husband and ther, also for the many tiful flowers. Mrs. Griffith and son, Are YOU After Mfrak * Or Do Gas on Stomach andl Sour Stomach maka you Miserable? Too much food, or the I wrong kind of food, too much smoking, too much ALKA^SfcLTZER Deer, majce your body over-add. 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