The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-06-27
IMMENSE CROWD
At INAUGURATION
Of NEW GOVERNOR
Friends From All Over the State
Take Part in the
Program.
RECOMMENDATIONS MADE
Demands Enforcement of the
Prohibition Laws-Wants a
Separate Levy for Payment of
Pensioners.
RECOMMENDATIONS MADE

ATLANTA, June 26.-The largest
throng of people who have gathered
for an inauguration in Georgia since
the Civil War overflowed the hall of
representatives at the capitol this
morning when Governor Nat E. Harris
took the oath of office and delivered
his inaugural address.
The members of the assembly and
the hundreds of interested Atlantians
made up less than half tho crowd, as
nearly 1000 Macon people came for
the special purpose of participating
in the inaugural parade a"d giving
their distinguished fellow townsman
q proper send-off.
The official military escort in the
inaugural parade was headed by the
Second Georgia Regiment, N. G. G.,
which came from Macon for the pur-
pose. The Macon people may never
succeed in their attempt to move the
capitol to Macon, but this morning
they made the old dome feel like it
was in Macon for day at least.
Following the administration of the
oath of office by Chief Justice w. Fl.
Fish, of the supreme court, Governor
Harris delivered his address.
He expressed the hope that the
European war would be a blessing in
disguise in teaching Georgians to rely
on and develop to their fullest extent
their own great natural resources.
He commended the tax equalization
law and saw in it a means by which
glaring inequalities may be remedied.
He referred to Tax Commissioner John
c. Hart as wise administrator of the
law.
He urged the legislature to be extra
cautious this year in the matter of
appropriations. He said he wanted
every legislator to feel that he was
an ex-officio member of the appropria-
alton and ways and means committee
so that the responsibility may be fully
understood by all and not be borne
by single committee.
He suggested constitutional
amendment authorizing a separate
levy and collection of taxes to pay the
pensions of the Confederate veterans
and said he would also like to see the
railway companies of the state au-
thorized to give free transportation to
the veterans to and from reunions.
With regard to the militia he urged
that the state make the necessary ap-
propriations required by the national
government to keep the state militia
in proper shape.
He called attention to the fact that
Georgia bears the painful distinction
of appearing in the group of four
states showing the largest percentage
of illiteracy in the Union. He stated
categorically that he was in favor OF
some form of compulsory education
as principal factor in the solution of
this problem.
The passage of a compulsory edu.
cation measure, he said, would justify
a revision of Georgia's entire common
- school <ystem. He paid a high tri-
butte to the teachers of the state, de-
claring they were an efficient and de-
voted class of workers.
mat georgia StOOd Splenuldly IN
3 he matter of higher and vocational
.>rducation he showed by review of
the state university, the Georgia
Tech. The agricultural colleges and
the other institutions in which the
state is directly or indirectly inter
ested.
He said he was in favor of a strict
enforcement of Georgia's prohibition
laws. Liquor selling is not allowed
in Georgia, therefore liquor selling
should cease just as gambling and
stealing and murder and other crimes
should be put down. For my part
believe the prohibition law is salu-
tary. reasonable, economic and an aid
to good government. Georgia has been
somewhat lax in the enforcement of
this law. 1t is time for investigation
and for determination. II the law
needs strengthening, see that it is
done"
Referring to the disposition OF the
state road he assumed that the legis.