Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-03-10
FOUR GREAT ELEMENTS
OF GOV. WALKERS TERM
TAX REVISION, HIGHWAYS, Ed
UCATION AND COW-HOG-
HEN PROGRAM

Four great elements, closely allied
and interdependent, have been signi-
fled in the present administration of
| the affairs of the State of Georgia,
now drawing to close, and it is only
right that should come to you and
give an accounting of my administra-
ton, declared Governor Clifford Wal
er, in opening his address before a
large crowd at the Cow-Hog-Hen ral-
ly in the high school auditorium, Tiff
ton, Monday evening. In brief the
Governor discussed the four great ele-
mants of his administration as fol-
lows:
First The antiquated and unjust
system of taxation in the state, which
placed the bulk of the burden of tax
alton upon the owners of tangible
property, while the owners of intangi-
BILE property, who were better able to
pay, escaped with only minor share
of the tax burden. Upon entering of
flee, the Governor said he found all
the institutions of the state needed
money, and he felt that tax revision
| was necessary. Therefore his first
efforts were devoted to securing an
equitable revision of the tax laws of
the state.
| Second. The unjust system of con-
structing and maintaining highways,
which has been illegally operated.
Seven per cent of the roads in the
state have been designated as state
roads and the law says that the state
must construct, pave and maintain
these roads leaving the other ninety
three per cent for the counties to
maintain, and that they must not be
required to pay any part of the cost
of constructing, paving and maintain
ing this seven percent of state roads.
The Governor said that he opposed
the counties being called upon to ex-
pend any money on these state roads
and believed that the funds for con
t structing, paving and maintaining the
state roads should come from othel
sources than ad valorem taxes.
Third. The education of the youth
: He believed that every boy and ever,
o girl in the state, no matter how far h
v lived from town or city, should hav'
;. an equal opportunity to obtain an ed
ucation. All other assets of the stat
: are infinitestimal as compared will
the boys and girls, who will be the
: leaders of the future. Governor Wal
ker said that he championed the con
solidation of schools that better ia
cilities might be afforded for teaching
the youth and the paving of roads
E that the boys and girls might be easily
transported to the schools. He felt
that the boys and girls should be able
to remain on the farms, be transport
ed to the schools and receive as good
educational advantages as those resid-
ing within the cities, and for this
reason his administration had favored
the consolidation of schools and the
paving of roads.
Fourth. The doctrine of economic
independence and freedom from the
one-crop system as embodied in the
cow-hog-hen program Of the Georgia
Association. The Governor said that
he was pleased that in the closing
days of his administration that he
might give of his time and influence
to the promotion of this fourth ele-
ment, which is closely allied with the
preceding three. He spoke enthu-
sastically of the meeting held at
Ashburn Monday morning and of the
thrilling, inspiring, encouraging ac-
counts given at the meeting of the
results achieved in Turner We are
being forced to use our brains now,
j whether we will or not, the Governor
| said. For many years we have gone
on blowing and planting as father and
grandfather planted, but God is fore
ing us to use our brains. We were
warned twenty-five years ahead of
time of the coming of the boil weevil,
but our business men failed the farm
ers in that they did not prepare to
meet the boil weevil with markets for
other crops. But, the business men
are thinking now and using their
brains and preparing to provide the
markets.
We have heard the doctrine of
olive at Home" said the Governor,
but the Georgia Association has set
higher program than merely living at
home The cow-hog-hen program is
not only a live at home program,
but it is intended to encourage the
production of a surplus to be sold and
10. ;rg to the farm many of the conven-
fences hat are now possible to relieve
| the farm housewife of the drudgery
of her work.
Governor Walker said that he felt
that from the reports he bad heard
of Tiff county that he did not need
to urge his audience to take up the
cow-hog-hen program, as he believed
Tiff had adopted it, but he urged
those present to make of themselves
evangels of the cow-hog-hen program
and to spread the good tidings into
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