It looks like Chairman Page has cut the graft out of the grafting in some of the contracts he has made in connection with the State road building. It is to be hoped so at least.
What is disgusting to the average citizen is the fact that so much of our public money is wasted before it ever reaches the purpose for which it was intended.
As an illustration of what goes with public funds before it gets where it was intended—look at the public schools of the different counties in North Carolina—where in some counties they are now spending from $10 to $15 for so-called supervision to $1 spent some years ago—and the same persons are receiving the money. We heard of one county not more than a thousand miles from here where the superintendent used to received about $30 per month and now the same individual is receiving about 10 times as much as in days of yore.
Is it any wonder that taxpayers are beginning to hold meetings in counties like Mecklenburg and are crying aloud on account of the burdens that are being placed upon them to meet the extravagance in the affairs of the government.
Some day the tax payers will wake up—and woe be unto the men who have caused the waking.
--Catawba News-Enterprise
From the Catawba News-Enterprise, as reprinted on the front page of The Davie Record, Mocksville, N.C., March 8, 1922
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