Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-01-18

government and to provide for its
different institutions and activities.
It has occurred to me that some
explanation of the budget recommen-
dations for 1922 is appropriate in
connection with the subject Of reve-
nue. and taxation. The following sum-
mary of the budget recommendations
for the present year gives a concise
and, I think, intelligent statement of
the purposes of expenditure.
1. For expenses of legislative de-
partment, S105,372.
2. For expenses of judicial de-
p%artment, including the circuit
courts, s157,
8. For educational purposes, in
Guiding $685. TAO for the admins
tration and aid for public schools,
S9~61,951.67 for the five state colleg-
es and $134,942.04 for the School for
the Deaf and Blind and John de La
Howe Industrial school, s2,765,63S.
IL.
a. For the six charitable and cor
rectional institutions and for the sup
port of the blind children and the
Catawba Indians, S1,O67,12S.36.
5. For Confederate pensions, in
GLIDING the infirmary and aid for the
veterans reunion, S64O,429.50.
6. For agricultural work, including
public service under Clemson college,
all regulation and inspection by the
department of agriculture and ex-
penses, cotton warehousing, grading
and inspecting by the warehouse
commissioners office, S403,317.35.
z. For public health, including ex-
penses of tubercular sanatoriums,
s19s, s1s.4O.
8. For interest on bonded debt,
$247, 299.12.
9. For road construction and SUI
pervision by the state highway de-
partment, $~133,7S5.75.
10. For aid in d%efraying expenses
of county governments, including
salaries of auditors and treasurers,
and for county expenses of election
to be held in 1922, S41,325.
IL. For maintaining the National
Guard, including the % units, S34,-
21O.
13. For public printing, including
the 1922 code, $4,000.
Ia. For the administration of the
executive departments, boards and
commissioners, including about 80
organizations, S442,282.34.
Grand total, $6,466 ,240.15.
Explains All Items.
Items one and two need no COM
ment from me. Item three represents
the largest item and the most impor-
tant business of government. There
are those who believe that our state
appropriations are too high. l do not
believe that South Carolina is spend
ing too much money for the educa-
ton of our youth. We still have the
problem of i~lliteracy. There are many
boys and girls in the state without
adequate facilities for education. If
there be those in the general assem-
bly,, or elsewhere, who would reduce
the amount of money recommended
for public education, let them explain
to the man whose only hope for his
offspring is such provision as may be
made for their education, from the
public treasury. I will insist always
on adequate appropriation for public
education, because here is the basis
of our material prosperity as we'll as
the future of our civilization. Sure
ly, even in these times of chaos and
sacrifice, we will not fail to provide
for the future. We r committed to
the policy of higher education by the
state. If it be possible to so organize
u work as to inaugurate measures
of economy and reduce the expendi-
lures necessary for the efficient sup
port of our educational work, 1 will
support it gladly, but I will con-
sent to any measure which means a
backward step in the splendid work
now being done by our educational
institutions.
Item four. This appropriation sup
ports our State hospital, our indus
trial schools for delinquent boys and
girls, the support of the blind and the
Catawba Indians, and the state peni-
Tertiary. The major part of the ap-.
preparation is for the State hospital.
The amount recommended for this