The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-22
PRESIDENT HARDY
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to furnish any kind of report wanted
| by the legislature. If the legislature
will furnish the means l shall be glad
to have a report made showing the
items on each individual voucher dur
ing this entire period.
Now as to the vouchers for the
Farmers Institute and Extension De-
partment that you have before you
and that have been so grossly misrep-
resented, will say that all the critic
ism I have seen has been based upon
false conception of the whole mat
ter.
at was doubtless thought that Mr..
Walton, Mr.. Montgomery, Mr. Dancy,
Mr.. Savely, and Mr.. Fletcher were en-
ployees of the college out on institute
work, and that they were allowed to
include shaves, shines, shows and
drinks in their expense accounts,
whereas they were not employed at
all but students who were assisting
Mr.. Meadows with the College exhibit
at the State Fair at Jackson and with
the exhibits at other places, and we're
doing so without any expense what
ever to the state save their expenses.
expected Mr.. Meadows to make them
money allowance for their expenses,
but instead Of doing 80 he took care
of them while there and kept an item
lied statement of the things for which
he let them have money.
My attention was not called to this
form Of voucher until after Mr. Mead
ows had severed his connection with
the institution year ago last Novem-
Der, otherwise should have had him
make these boys a money allowance
for their work and have left them u
spend the money as they saw fit.
The transaction between Mr. Mead
ows and the students was a perfectly
honest one and the state got more
than value received.
Mr.. Meadows in voucher for his per-
sonal expenses included $2.95 for
laundry, shines, shaves, etc. He was
doing extra work for which he was not
employed and he considered this an
extra expense that he would not have
been called upon to bear at home in
his regular line Of duty. None of our
institute and extension workers nor
those who teach in the summer school
are paid one cent for. extra services.
This service so far as the state is con-
cerned is purely labor of love. This
is not true at the other state insti-
tutions.
"The voucher No. 35, which carries
an expenditure of $125 for hack hire
in carrying students to Starkville to
prosecute negro for selling whiskey
to student who had trapped him,
should have been charged against the
College and not against the Institute
fund.
Hack hire in town does not mean
that the hack was used merely in the
town, but might have been used to go
out in the country to hold meetings
or to inspect for boil weevil in the
boil weevil investigation. But in ev-
cry case the voucher shows who used
the hack, the time It was used and
the amount charged, and where there
is any doubt thorough investigation
can be made without any trouble
whatever
by an examination you will see
that there are $50 vouchers included
in the report, containing between sew
en- and eight thousand items. OF this
number the voucher Of only one en-
ploye Of the college contained any
laundry, shines, shaves, ETC., and only
five vouchers for students contain any
such items. ~ s
II have always urged our students
not only to avoid evil but the very APP
pearance Of evil, and have always
urged cur ofRes force 70 keep such
records = wosl1 bear IL stzisisst n
vestisation Of their bitteress enemy.