Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-06-08


spread over a period fforty-three
years from next January. This is
approximately $3.50, 100000 less than
the house bill.
The senate bill estimate was pre-
pared by treasury experts on the
theory that IS per cent of the a,
558,191 veterans eligible for COM
pensation would elect the adjusted
service certificate option and 22 1-2
per cent the farm, home and land
settlement plan.
tell us it ism to the time to issue
bonds, fearing that the movement
will kill their efforts to have bonds
issued to buy the A., B. & A. In
the first place, the A, b. G. A. is
no tgoing to be scrapped; in the sec
ond place, if it were, would not be
in favor of the state buying a money
losing proposition.
"And then we will have to fight
the Efforts Of the people who do not
understand this proposition and are
going about saying it will mean high
er taxation on property. | want to
tell you right now that the biggest
men and the biggest interests behind
this movement are the biggest prop
erty owners and biggest tax payers.
They have had their attorney looks
into the proposition and advise them,
and they feel absolutely safe that it
isn't going to increase the property
taxes because it can't. And I'll tell
you why. The bill provides that the
present gasoline and tag tax be
levied by constitutional amendment
for 30 years instead of by statute as
at present, to safeguard against a
legislature some time repeating the
tax and leaving the bonds to be paid
by some other revenue. The ibill
also provides that this money shall
never be appropriated for any other
purpose than payment of interest
and principal on bonds and road
maintenance.
oyOOOJOOO.
ut is only fair to state that the
constitution must be changed so that
the credit of the state is placed be-
hind these bonds, for they couldn't
be sold otherwise. But that bill does
not provide that $75,O00,000 in
bonds MUST be issued. 1t provideb
that the MAXIMUM shall be $751;
100000, and specifically provides
that in no year shall more be sold
than the revenues for the previous
year prove can be taken care OF. Ihls
is aT-~s1SsSsalute safeguard. The only
danger to the whole plan would be
a possible slump in tag and oil rev.
enues, in which case it is the duty of
the stat etreasurer who handles and
checks up these funds, to sell only
as many bonds as can be taken care
of from the available revenue.
"There is also a lot of talk going
on about the men in the highway
department being from elsewhere
and holding down good jobs. | want
to say that we have state engineer
who ranks second in the United
States only to Wisconsin's engineer
in teh estimation of national authori-
ties, and he is Georgia man, grad
uate of Tech. And every man in the
department is Georgian. So there
is nothing to that kind of talk"
Judge Howard concluded with the
words quoted at the first part of this
article, and was heartily applaudcd,
his talk going straight to the heart
of every hearer. He was followed
by ]. H. Mills, state president of the
farmers union and a member of the
state senate.
The Legislators Duty.
Mr.. Mills cited a number of ex-
amples of the continuous fight al
ways necessary to maintaoin prog
ress. He declared it his duty, he
considered, to vote to allow this bond
proposal to go to the people in the
election, considering it entirely out
of the line of his duties to attempt
to say to the people that they should
not have the right to determine for
themselves whether or not they want
ed the bond issue.
Wyl;e Fest, well known At'antan.
head OF rhe FireStone Tire ana Rub
her coml any for the Southeast and
prominelt Rotarian, spoke briefly
and entertainingly. He told some
thing of the Boys band which the
tourists had brought along to furnish
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