The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1921-04-25
EXPENSES OF LAW
MAKING IS SHOWN
To Be TREMENDOUS
100000 IN 1921 SESSION
DIR. Rankin, State Health Of
ficer, Will be Reelected by
State Board of Health at Its
Meeting at Pinehurst This
Week. Rankin Regime Has
Been Unusually Popular.
(By Max Abernethy)


Raleigh, April 25.-Law making
in North Carolina continues rather
expensive, the 1921 laws written up
on the statute books totaling, in
round numbers, one hundred thou
sand dollars.
To be exact the total cost of the
1921 session of the General Assem-
bly, was $99,459.44. These are the
office today, although there may be
several minor changes which would
alter the grand total but little.
In normal times the hundred thou
sand which the Grand Old State was
called upon in 1921 to pay for it's
biennial sixty days seance of legis-
lative gatherings would not rave
been startling; today Eastern North
Carolina farmers, flat ON their fin
ancial backs, very probably view the
expenditures with more than pass
ing alarm. No particular section of
Tarheelia, however, is free of the
expenses incurred and representa-
tives of the East talked as much and
impeded the legislative machinery
with as many monkey wrenches as
their Central and hill-country breth-
rem.
Itemizing the expenditures is big
undertaking and would cost the State
more money. Approximate figures
are interesting and we'll nigh accur-
12O members of the House of Repre-
sentatives in four one dollar bills per
day for salaries. Twelve thousand
dollars represents the pay of the SO
Senators, making a total of $4,000.
The sixty thousand unaccounted
for was necessary as a means of keep
ing the legislative machinery oiled
and moving smoothly during the six
ty days of the session? Stenographers
clerks, typists, pages, printing and
divers and sundry House and Senate
incidentals lIhad their call upon the
States Treasury. Scores of minor at
taches, including janitors, ETC., are
also on the list as having rendered
service to the State.
The 1921 expenditures do not
make previous assemblies look in
significant, but the supposition that
virtually except the pay
of the legislators themselves
more than heretofore is correct How
ever economical the solons would like
to be their hands are tied since the
pay OF all employees connected with
the work of making laws is fixed by
legislative enactment; the pay of the
legislators themselves is four dollars
per day and cannot be changed un-
less the State constitution is changed.
CLawmaking, however progressive
or destructive, in North Carolina is
expensive 1t has ever been thus.
DR.. W. S. Rankin, State Health
Officer, will be reelected by the State
Board of Health at it's meeting in
Pinehurst this week. The election
will be for a term of six years.
In telling what the nine members
of the board have not announced may
be interesting. DR.. Rankin has the
endorsement Of every member of the
board, of Governor Morrison, OF
North Carolina folks generally who
are interested in the strides the
State has made towards stamping out
typhoid, malaria, tuberculosis and
kindred disease. There will be no op-
position to DR.. Rankin.
Under the Rankin regime the
State Board of Health has been
brought closer to the masses over
| the State and the department has
| become unusually popular. Free
clinics among the school children
and the campaign on typhoid, NAL
standing accomplishments of DR..
aria and tuberculosis are the out
Rankin's administration as viewed
by the layity. His reelection will
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