Evening star., 1940-01-01
Governors Dedicate
1910 10 Balanced
Prosperity in South
Eleven Executives Issue
Identical Proclomotions
Outlining Program
h tie Associated Press.

Dy tie Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Jan. 1.-Catching up
the challenge of dawning decade,
eleven Southern governors today
dedicated the 1940s to campaign |
for balanced prosperity in the South
Already we'll out of the one-crop |
era, these State rulers are deter
mined upon striking balance that
will equalize crops with livestock,
farms with factories. and economic
gains with progress in human well
fare.
Each executive has issued an iden-
tical proclamation laying 10 founda-
ton sills on which to build decade
of progress. enthusiastically they |
planned for a 1850 worlds fair OF
the South to celebrate achievement |
Of the goal
This is the second major CAM
paign of the Southern Governors
Conference. already partially sue
cessful in its fight for parity freight
rates. The campaignerS are Cows.
E. D. Rivers of Georgia, chairman;
Prentice Cooper of Tennessee. Frank
Dixon of Alabama, Fred Cone OF
Florida, Burnet R. Maybank OF
South Carolina, Clyde R. Hoey OF |
North Carolina, Carl E. Bailey OF
Arkansas, Hugh White OF Mlssls-
sippi, w. Lee ODaniel of Texas,
Earl Long of Louisiana and Leon
c. Phillips of Oklahoma.
Program of Balance.
Citing "the great traditions OF |
our States, the abundant human
and natural resources of our region, |
the deep needs of our people. and
the high opportunities of our times,
the governors projected a plan 10
balance:
/. Money Crops, including forestry,
with food, feed and fertility crops. |
2. All crops with livestock, con-
sistent with sound land use.
3. Production progress with mar
keting and transportation oppor-
tunitv free of trade barriers.
L. Farms with factories.
S. Land. water and mineral re-
sources with population needs.
g. Work with thrift and local in
vestments.
7. Owner prosperity with worker
prosperity.
8. Increasing income with In
creasing home ownership.
8. Wealth with beauty and culture.
TO- Economic gains with advances
In moral values and human welfare.
These broad objectives will be
delved into in detail and expanded |
when the Governors Conference
convenes in Nashville, Tenn, Janu-
ary 25 for a conference on interstate |
problems.
The prosperity balance program is
no cut and dried scheme, the Gov
ernors emphasized, but one Southern
citizens are urged to join with sug-
gestions and active support.
System of Score Cards.
Agricultural agencies will be asked
to promote balanced farm prosperity
and to provide at intervals surveys
showing progress and to double
check advances with a system Of
score cards.
Business men and chambers of
commerce will be urged to provide |
markets and sound financing for di-
versifled farming and to balance
farms with new industrial and COM
mercial opportunities for the South
ern people.
A constant aim will be to increase
the income of Southern workers,
rural and urban, by more wisely
off
cation, increased skills, greater
thrift and square deal in all mat
ters.'
The conference asserted that its
program would reach into the small
communities where citizens so often !
feel that Government knows and
cares little about them"
A sort of credo was expressed,
that mo man big enough for Gov
ernment to tax is too little for Gov
ernment to encourage"
Each State in the conference will
have committeeman as key figures
in co-ordinating campaign efforts. |
All these had not been named today,
but the following were announced:
North Carolina, President Frank
P. Graham of the University of
North Carolina; South Carolina,
D. w. Watkins. extension service
director at Clemson College; for
Alabama, John Temple Graves,
2nd, representing Southern dailies
at Birmingham, and Tennessee,
Chairman H. A. Morgan of the
T. V. A. and Agriculture Commis-
sioner C. C. Flanery.
In behalf of citizens organizations
and public agencies, the program
was signed by Editor Clarence Poe
of the Progressive Farmer, Raleigh,
N. c.; Chairman Walter r. McDon-
aid of the Georgia Public Service
Commission and Dean Paul Chap
man of the University of Georgia's
College of Agriculture.
Mr.. Mcdonald emphasized that
the program would create no new
agencies but would call upon united
efforts of existing agencies, State,
public and private. to achieve the
Southern proSperity balance.