The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1922-08-23

our county ana 1urlner reOuCllOn II
in our county levy if possible.
Your last General Assembly failet
to provide sufficient money to mattel
local money guaranteeing a sever
months term of school under the Law
that we all are familiar with. Thi
was no fault of mine for voted Civ
ing the Superintendent of Educatio,
all the money he asked for for thi
purpose. I think the next Genera
Assembly should make this def
cheney good as we had to do the de-
ficiency caused for this same pur
pose by the General Assembly il
1926.
I stand for law enforcement anc
for the maintaining Of our moral:
and the upbuilding Of our citizenry
To this end I supported our present
rural police system in time immedi.
ately following our World War. wher
ckaditions were abnormal. I do MOI
believe from the results thus far OBJ.
tained that at the close of the first
two years of operation of the rura
police in Lexington county that this
system will have cost the taxpayers
one single cent in taxation. The first
twelve months of operation Of the
rural police nearly sustains this state
ment for the first year when the sys-
tenn was new and the policemen in
experienced. But, fellow voters, il
q majority of the good law abiding
citizens of Lexington county do not
want the rural policemen regardless
Of whether it cost them anything or
not, land I believe they do not) ]
would not be.in favor Of forcing such
81 system ON them. MY honest an and g
candId oSinaon assone Of your sbre-
sentatiyes now and as a privatescitis
zen Of Lexington county, I believe the
downfall Of our rural policemen, if
they have had a downfall, is due in
some cases to the personnel of the
police force and not to the rural
police system as law enforcement
bOdy in orr county,
am opposed to your legislative
delegation having the appointive
power by law to appoint single Of
ficer in our county. If rejected. ]
propose letting you vote on your
County Road Commissioners. Let
your commissioners elected by you,
have absolute control of all county
matters now under the. control Of
your County Supervisor, thereby
doing away with the necessity of hav-
ing a County Supervisor. Have i:
written into the law that each County
Road Commissioner shall have the
chain gang in his particular district
three months in every year and while
in his district be under his complete
It would be necessary
for the Commissioners to select a
captain or an engineer to be in charge
of the chain gang but directly re-
sponsible to the County Commission
ers as a whole and to each commits
sioner in particular while in said
district. When this
is done we might hope to have such
Aiken, Newberry and Orangeburg,
our surrounding sister counties. l
believe that such system Of county
road government will save the tax
payers at least 100000 in officers
salary alone. 1 believe our present
road working law to be unsatisfac-
tory in most cases and if put back to
a pay basis favor making the road
tax one or two dollars and no more.
1 do not want to go backwards in
any Of county matters, but under
present depressed financial circum-
stances due to the farmers, inability
to produce the one big money crop
Of the South, 1 would not vote taxes
On the people Of my county for any
new project regardless of what it is
or where it might be situated, unless
same would become necessary by
reason of some unforeseen act Of
Cod.
I want the farmers Of Lexington
county to know that though 1 am a
young lawyer that I am also a far
n1er-living on the farm and doing all
in my power to improve conditions
for my fellow farmers. That l ac-