Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson, commissioner of public welfare, remains plum “sot” with regard to approving the appointment of Fred R. Mintz of Mount Olive as Wayne County superintendent of welfare. Mrs. Johnson this morning said that she could not understand how anybody at Goldsboro got the impression that the state department of welfare had adopted a policy of confirming without question anybody named by county authorities. She warned the Wayne folks that Mr. Mintz, who had no training for welfare work, albeit he is a former newspaperman, a former member of the general assembly and an efficacious local politician, would not be acceptable.
She will not approve him, and that’s that. He can’t get his money legally, either; and if Mrs. Johnson’s stand takes to court, she is willing.
She says that her predecessor, Roland F. Donsley, left a record of having refused to approve three appointments. She has doubled that number of refusals, probably.
From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 1923. If you're interested in reading Mrs. Johnson's North Carolina Plan of Public Welfare, it is online at www.jstor.org/stable/1015177.
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