Senator Nash Wants to Abolish Public Welfare Officer Posts, Jan. 22, 1921

Raleigh, Jan. 22—Legislators familiar with the work being done by the department of public welfare declare that the bill introduced by Senator Nash to abolish the department will not pass in either branch of the general assembly.

It is admitted that there is a disposition on the part of some of the members to vote to the Nash bid.

Although they will be prevented from doing so because it is not apparent how the provisions of the compulsory attendance law and the child labor law will be enforced in the event the office is abolished. |A number of counties have asked for the abolition of the county officers by the introduction of bills and it is not likely they will meet with opposition, although the Nash bill will hardly go through since it is statewide.

Governor Morrison, asked as to his opinion of the state department, said that while the office had only been in existence two years he was convinced that it should be retained. Support6ing the governor are the women through the North Carolina Legislative Council of Women. The women are urging that the department be maintained. . . . .

(From the front page of The Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 22, 1921)