Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-30

termines the expenditures OF the
State, through the appropriations Dill
which the governor has 10 power TO
veto, even if he does disapprove OF it.
The second * that the 1881 General
Assembly will be Overwhelmingly
Democratic, even. il. Grjssom should
be elected governor, 50 shat he
would have nc influence with TIE leg
islature and thus be utterly power
less to put any of his program into
effect The third is that Mr.. Girls
som has not yet specified as to just
what expenditures he would eliminate
through his economy program.
But admitting, for the sake of argu-
ment, that Grissom as governor could
both control the General Assembly
and hence curb appropriations and
expenditures, just where would he
begin to economic and reduce State
spending? How would he go about
reducing expenditures S11,0COOoO
year. which he would have to do if
he reduced the budget enough to set
along without the sales tax?
Would Mr.. Grissorl abolish his own
salary as governor and get a private
secretary who would work without
salary, and several patriotic Republi-
can stenographers who would also
work without any salary! If he should
do this, he would not reduce the bill
of the taxpayers ore cent. since the
governors office, including the gov
errors salary, the salary of his pri-
vate secretary ard of all employees
in the office, is now. paid entirely
py non-taX revenue. This means that
not one cent Ct tax money goes to
pay the governor or any one in his
office.
Or perhaps Mr.. Grissom, if he be-
came governor would advocate the
abolition of all the State departments
here, or a heavy reduction in the sal
aries paid State employees. Yet the
cost of maintaining all of the adj
illustrative departments, including
the salaries of department and divi-
sion heads and of all their employees
requires only As per cent of the total
general fund revenue, while salaries
| represent only about 25 per cent. So
| # Mr.. Grissom should get the next
| legislature to decree that all depart
| nent heads and employees in all adj
ministrative departments must work
without pay, he would succeed in re-
ducing the present budget only about
| 25 per cent and would eliminate only
about $787, 500 from a total general
fund budget of $31, 100000.
Instead of closing all the State de-
partments, hwoever, Mr.. Grissom
might decide to keep all of them as
| they now are-there would be many
more Republicans wanting jobs than
| there are Democrats now holding
them-and to close adj of the State
| educational institutions. By clos-
ing up the University of North Caro-
lima, all of the State teachers col
leges for both white and colored, he
would be able to reduce the total ex-
penditures, as based on the State
budget for the year ending June 80,
1885, by a total of 4.6 per cent. But
since about as many Republicans and
Democrats have attended the Uni
versity at Chapel HILL or the State
| College unit or some of the other
State institutions, indications are
of opposition.
Or, Mr. Grissom might start his
economy program with the public
schools, which last year received 632
per cent of all the State revenue col
lected, or a total of $2O,031 900. BY
cutting the appropriation for the pub
lie schools in half, he could save all
but $1,000000 of the amount needed
to get along without the sales Tax
He then might be able to save this