The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-01-18

Governor Outlines Plans for . Con-
structive Administration = Every
Tenant Translated Into a Landown-
er In His Desire-Eyery Rural
School Should be Made a Farm
Life School-State Prison Should
be Converted Into Hospital for In
ssne-SummAry of Inaugural Ad-
dress
Gov. Thomas Walter Beckett took
the oath of office Thursday IN Raj
eigh In the presence Of nearly 19.-
900 people and delivered an eloquent
inaugural address that outlined con-
structive work for his adminis-rs-
ton A special train from louis
burg bore the Governor-elect and has
party TO Raleigh and they were met
by the legislative committee appoint
ed for the purpose Chief Justice
Walter Clark adninistFte0ed the oath
of office to Gov. Beckett and Lent
Gov. o. Max Gardner, and Associate
Justice ". A. Hoke administered the
oath to other State officers. TIE
ceremony took place in the auditor
ium. The inaugural parade was III
der the direction of Brig. Cen Law
renee w. Young with the A. and 81.
cadets and the A and II. band as
the honor guard and escort. The
inaugural committee was composed
of J. E. Pegram, chairman; Senators
Person, Scales, Holderness, Repre-
sentatives Beasley, Holding, Newell,
Roberts, Winbourne. Thursday night
there was q brilliant reception At
the Governors mansion. Retiring
Governor Craig left Raleigh Thurs
day afternoon for Asheville, where
he will resume practice Of law.
Translate Tenants to Landowners
~The first and dearest work O.
this administration will be supreme
effort 70 translate the tenants OF
the State into landlords"-This may
be said TO be the keynote CT Gov
Bickett's address. The Governor
firmly believes that # q way may
be providti whereby tenants may
become landowners and the State
may be filled with citizens who own
their own farms all other evils will
regulate themselves.
He declared that the activities OF
this administration should be direct
ed along constructive lines.
"If there be a man in North Car
DINA who desires TO drain a swamp
or terrace a hillside; If there be a
farmer who is struggling to escape
from the crop liens deadly. cluth; II
there be tenant who hungers for q
vine and fig tree he may call his
own, want all such TO know that
the Governor Of the State will count
it honor and Joy TO rise up at mid
night and lend helping hand" said
the Governor; in one fine passage.
To men in other lines Of endeavor
he also stands ready 10 lend help
ing hand.
Declaring, in the first paragraph
quoted above, that ii should be his
chief aim 10 aid the tenant class TO
become landowners, he said. Il shall
neither rest nor permit the State to
rest until every honest, industrious
and frugal man who tills the soil
has a decent chance to own il" To
this end he urges constitutional
amendment granting TO the Legis-
1ature the power to exempt from tax
alton notes and mortgages given IN
good faith for the purchase price OF
a home in an amount not exceeding
$1,000 and running not more than
30 years.
Every Rural Schooi a Farm-LiIe
School
Along with this, and to make it Of
permanent value. he would have
every rural school farm-life school
In order that best methods Of farm
ing should be taught all the peo-
pie. He would have the Ten Com
mandments Of Agriculture laid down
bv DIR. knapp framed and hung II
every school room and nen1orized
by every boy. And he would have 9
model acre cultivated in connection
with every school. And he would
have the girls trained as faithfully
in the science Of the kitche mas the
boys are in that Of the cornfield.
The Iniouitious Crop Lien
He declared that the crop lien !!
the DOL weevil Of North Carolina
1t sucks the life blood ont Of TN
people. The merchant. however, J
no more 10 blame than the farmer
He suggested avenues Of escape: 1st
ore sure way TO kill the crop liel
is to starve It TO death - TGisln1
home supplies. He declared that f n
+. were gar Of tn State instead Of Gov
ernor he would iss1e an efIct Re
claring thai after years any ma
who imported into the State any corr
or meal, wheat or flour, beef or BIZ
con.should be hanged. 2nd, the foI
nation o. credit unions should b
encouraged. the Agricultural Depar.
pent should be equipped with tD
field men whose business it shnul