The daily times., 1921-06-14
STATE BONDS CAN
Be PURCHASED BY
STATES CITIZENS
ENDORSE MRS. JOHNSON
Tax Collecting in the State is
Anything but Satisfactory
Since Only Thirty-six Coun-
ties Have So Far Settled for
Taxes Due on Third Monday
in January.
ENDORSE MRS. JOHNSON
By Max Abernethy.

bonds in denominations of $500 may
now be purchased by patriotic citi-
zens who desire to further the build
ing and road program the State
has undertaken, the Council of State
! having provided for the bonds to be
sold at its meeting yesterday
There are to be $S,372,5OO of five
percent State bonds offered for sale
by Treasurer B. r. Lacy on July Is.
They will be offered in the following
denominations: one hundred, five
hundred and one thousand dollars.
Five millions of the total amount
will be for roads and $3,312,5OO for
Improvements at the States charit-
able and educational institutions
which were authorized by the 1921
session of the General Assembly.
In deciding to offer the 500 bonds
the Council of State is seeking to find
purchasers within the confines of
North Carolina, it having been re
presented that the reason the Stare's
bonds could not be sold at home was
because the denomination was too
nigh. Patriotic folks who want to
loan their State money may now do
so by communicating with the State
Treasurer.
The Council of State also authoriz-
ed the Treasurer to negotiate loans
amounting to $659,OOO for the fol-
lowing purposes: University of North
Carolina, 100000; Greensboro Col
lege for Women, 5000; A. and T.
at Greensboro, $4,000 and $24,-
075 to pay for tractors bought by
the old State Highway Commission, a
Judgment against the State having
recently been rendered.
North Carolina may yet have al
State Commissioner of Public We'll
fare, Governor Morrison upon his re-
turn to the capital from a weeks
stay in Asheville has announced that
he has endorsed Mrs Clarence A.
Johnson, of Raleigh, for the position
Letters were written about ten
days ago, prior to the action of the
State Federation of Women's Clubs.
by the governor to each member of
the State Board of Charities and
Public Welfare. The State Fedora
tion endorsed Mrs. Johnson for the
place following the action by Gov
ernor Morrison
81 consider Mrs. Johnson eminent
ly fitted for the place. the governor
says, I'm fact she is far more quail
fed for work of hits sort than any
man the board could secure. This is
my firm conviction and in my let
ters to the Board members I told
them SO. was fitting that the Fed
Grafton of Women Clubs should take
the action it did and, although I had
already recommended Mrs. Johnson's
appointment, this would, I expect,
have caused me to do so if I had not
already done so. She is a woman of
fine fines and I am going to dol
everything 1 can to secure her elect
ion," the Governor says.
Tax collecting by the State under |
the Morrison administration is any
thing but satisfactory since only SO |
counties have so far settled with |
Treasurer B. r. Lacy for taxes that |
should have been paid into the
State treasury on the third Monday
in January.
Durham county alone has made /
progress enough in tax collecting to /
pay up and get the pace for the
larger counties of the State. A
glance at the list of counties whose
sheriffs have made settlement with
the Treasurer shows all of the big,
ger ones including Mecklenburg,
Buncombe, Gui1ford, Wake, Forsyth
and others missing. !.
eff you penalize me a thousand
dollars and put me in Jail for year !
couldn't make settlement any fast