Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1933-02-23

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Unfair critics who have sought
through distortion of the facts to
discredit the White administrators s
economy accomplishments were an
swered again with cold figures when
Governor George White transmitted
his budget proposals to the ninetieth
general assembly.
Slashing approximately $11,000,-
900 from his own total of general
revenue fund expenditures for his
first term. the governor recommend,
ed that the legislature appropriate
only $46,576,526 for the general
revenue fund for the 1933-34 bien-
mum. This, impartial critics noted,
was the lowest general revenue fund
total proposed by any Ohio governor
in IA years. It was $37, 7,118, 800
less than the total general revenue
fund expenditures proposed by N.Y.
ers Y. Cooper, former governor, for
1931-32 biennium.
Even the Columbus Dispatch, bit
terly hostile toward Governor White
since he publicly explained that it's
publisher sought to punish him be-
cause he would not permit the pub
Usher to dictate appointments to
state offices, commented editorially:
Governor Whites vigorous hand
ling of the budget question brings
the state legislature face to face
with the problem of approving more
drastic cuts in appropriations than
ever before, or of imposing ad-
ditional taxes upon the people if 1t
is unwilling to go along with the
governor in his plan for economy
He is justified in going to almost
any lengths to balance the states
budget and to maintain a policy of
not spending more than the in
come
Said the governor in urging what
he described as 1.-The most drastic
curtailment in expenditures ever
undertaken in our state govern
ment:"
''The state should live within its
income; its ordinary operations
should be carried on without the
imposition of new tax burdens; the
state should follow the practice of
business and industry everywhere
with regard to capital improve
ments, that is, eliminate them en-
tirely
."The depression has brought up
on us additional obligations which
we dare not shirk If government is
to endure Chief, perhaps, among
these is the duty of providing the
means of bodily subsistence for the
thousands rendered destitute. The
plight of our schools, likewise en-
gendered by the depression, en-
phatically calls for measures differ
ent from those we have heretofore
employed. State aid to the so-called
weak school districts has grown
from small beginning until, in the
last biennium, nearly ten million
dollars were appropriated for this
purpose More, in my opinion. will
be required this time. I um recon-
mending a state educational equali-
zation fund separate from the gen
eral revenue fund"
Besides admonishine the legisla-
ture to provide for the hungry and
for teachers and pupils, the gov
ernor directed an appeal TO his
county farm and home protective
committees "to Light the way for
those troubled farm and home own
ers whom we are trying to aid He
told these committees which he ap-
pointed to work out adjustments
between borrowers and lenders in
order to prevent mortgage fore
closures:
''In this work of ours each of us
should encourage all people worried
about the mortgages on their farms
or homes to come to these commit
tees and talk things over. The peo-
pie must be shown that there is
some arm of government that is
close to them, to which they can go
for sympathetic and expert advice.
In many cases these people live in
never-ending dread of foreclosure.
You can bring peace and hope to
many of them. Of course you can't
save every farm or home in your
county from foreclosure, but you
can have every troubled person
know he got square deal. Use all
possible ingenuity in your work;
keep every piece of property pos
sible in the hands of worthy, cap
able present owners