Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-07-03
Creation of Pardon Board
Urged BY Governor Harris
In His Farewell Message

mated to it. Its students are deprived
of the use of the finest equipment in
the south, equipment which did not cost
the state a dollar. The great power
plant is silent on the campus. Its ma
chimes are rusting daily, simply because
the state will not give the school some
$4,000 to install the machinery and to
complete the work necessary to set in
operation the plant.
The government of the United States
appreciates the school, and L hope that
this legislature will visit it, look upon
Its great departments. its wonderful
machines for tightening labor and saw
ing expense, and then conclude with
the governor that it does credit to
Georgia and deserves to be honored by
an appropriation sufficient at least to
house the machinery that has been do
mated it,"
The governor Submits for action the
matter of the Smith-Hughes vocational
education bill, passed by congress,
which makes an appropriation of SAL
600 by the government if the state will
assent to the act and appropriate a
like amount.
THE time has come to recognize the
work which our educational institu-
lions not under state control are doing
for the people throughout the state"
says the governor, writing under the
head of Taxing Educational Institu-
tionS."
NEEDED EXEMPTIONS.
1T is impossible for the state to
make any provision for endowment in
their behalf and the legislation they
ask only exempts them from the bur-
den of taxation, which exemptions the
state institutions enjoy. 1t is to be
hoped that the present legislature will
examine into the question anew and
pass the necessary legislation giving to
these institutions the exemption which
they have so long asked at hands of
the state"
The governor condemns the location
and condition of the governors man
sion and ADVISES the legislature TO
dispose of the property and secure a
better home for the governor.
Discussing the finances of the state.
the governor declares that it is impos-
sible to forecast the states income for
the year because of the war; but he
urges the Legislature to either add to
the general account other objects OF
taxation or to raise special taxes in
some sort so as to assure a revenue
sufficient to meet the states obliga-
tions and carry on it's business.
at is hardly probable" he says. that
there will be any substantial increase
in the value of taxable properties that
may be placed upon the digest owing TO
the unsettled conditions caused by the
war. There will certainly be a vast
slump if the present equalization law
is repealed, unless something better is
enacted"
The governor reviews the work of the
agricultural department referring es-
pecially to the establishment of a state
market bureau.
He recommends more money for the
state sanitarium at Milledgeville, and
touches briefly on others of the states
eleemosynary institutions.
The governor asks a small appropria-
ton for the board of health to contin'
ue treatment of victims of the opium
habit by a newly-discovered method,
and an appropriation for the manufac-
ture of TYPHOID serum.
Changes in the pension laws are sug-
| gested by the governor.
He commends the work of the board
of entomology in combating the boil
weevfl and other diseases. and recon-
mends liberal appropriation.
He asks more money for the roster
commission and the compiler of records
The governor reviews the calling out
of the national guard and his visit to
| the boys on the DOrOeT. II DenOONeS
the state" he says, "to make provision
for the care of armories and the home
equipment of these organizations while
they are away.
Speaking of the organization OF
home guards, the governor recommends
the passage of laws permitting him to
send them to any part of the state and
| that they be permitted to use the ma
tional guard armories.
He recommends that the Legislature
do whatever is necessary to assist the
federal government in advancing the
war.
The governor devotes several pages
to the prohibition question, in which he
quotes judges and solicitor generals in
all parts of the state to the effect that
the "Bone-Dry" law" has served greatly
to decrease crime. Mayor Pierpont is
the only head of city in the state who
thinks the law has been disadvantage
rather than a benefit to the city. No
report was received from Atlanta.
In conclusion the governor reviews
the work of his administration. The
three great achievements of the ad-
ministration he gives as follows: L,
prohibition: 2, school warrants; 3, the
lease of the state road by the Western
& Atlantic commission, the work OF
which he praises highly.