The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-24
WARNING AGAINST
 B|G APPROPRIATIONS
Mississippi Inclined to Be Too
 Extravagant
MONUMENT TO MOTHERS
Mothers of the Confederacy Honored By Proposed Monument at the Capitol-Lcake County High
 School Burns

Jackson, Miss, January 25-tSpecial.) J.
 George R. Hightower. president of the
 Farmers union and head of it's great
 warehouse system, and who has been giving the financial condition of the state
 careful consideration, has sounded note
 Of warning against extravagant appro-
 nriations by the legislature. He says:
 "The controversy waxing so warm just
 now concerning the legality of the sale
 of state bonds Is calculated to cause the
 sober minded citizen to pause and ask:
 Why is the state selling bonds to pay
 the running expenses of the state gov l ity?
 Almost every session of the legisla- ture for ten years has authorized the sale of bonds to pay the running ex- penses of the state government, and yet taxes have been as high as public sen-
 timent would permit a reckless state l policy to raise them.
 Bonds, bonds, bonds, the craze of the age. The whole country is plastered with I bonds, and our children will sweat drops
 of blood in some sections paying them.
 "The voters of the state while taking
 sides in the present controversy should rot let sides or factions blind them to
 the real issue.
 ''The war cry in the present campaign l should be to run the state government l within the states legitimate revenues. No candidate for the legislature should | be voted for who will not pledge himself | irrevocably to that policy
 l The committee appointed by the Con- l federate veterans and by the Daughters Of the Confederacy, viz: H. Clay Sharkey,
 Gen. John A. Webb and Judge A. G. Nor
 rell, Mrs. William Yerger of Greenville,
 Mrs. J. w. Henderson of Greenwood and Mrs.. Dunbar Rowland of Jackson, will
 meet at the ladies' parlor in the capitol
 next Wednesday, January 9, for the pur- pose of selecting the site for the monu- nent that is to be erected to the mem ory of the mothers of the Confectionery on the capitol grounds
 There has been a suggestion that the monument should be placed inside the building, in the rotunda of the capitol, but the chances are that 1t will be placed on the lawn, where there will be more room, and where it may be seen from the street by those who are driving about
  the building.
 The committee was advised today that Judge Norrell is too sick to be present at the meeting, having suffered a slight stroke of paralysis a few days since. Word has been received here of the de- struction of the Leake County Agricul- tural High school by fire a few nights since This institution was located at efx Ia | inland towns in the state, and 1t is also
 stated that the buildings will be rebuilt 1 at once The house was insured for I sl500, and that will go good ways to- ward the replacement. In the meantime 1 the superintendent of the school has made arrangements to carry on the work the churches and other buildings having been secured for the pupils to finish up the | term. | A meeting of the board of trustees of
 the State Normal college has been called for next Saturday at Hattiesburg, and | full attendance is desired, as matters of | importance are to be taken up. The board I has had civil engineer on the grounds several days securing the measurements l and the elevations so that the architects will have some data on which to base their plans and specifications. 1t is stated l that these will be the subject of dis cussion at this meeting, the board being anxious, now that all legal controversies have been settled, to get to work on the buildings. It is expected that President H. L. Whitfield of the Industrial lnsti- tute and College at Columbus Will be present and that he will then and there
 announce whether or not he accepts the presidency of this latest and greatest col iege the state has undertaken