6. I recommend that the Legislature pass a law that a certain per cent of the fines assessed and collected by the several courts of the State against all persons arrested by the State Law Enforcement Department be paid into the State Treasury of Alabama, said fund to be used exclusively for the enforcement of all laws, by and under the direction and discretion of the Governor of Alabama. If the Legislature will pass such a law, it will not be necessary, in my judgment, to make an additional appropriation from the general funds of the State treasury for the Department.

7. The law at present provides that all fines assessed and collected by the several courts of the State be paid into the county treasury and the State does not receive any benefit therefrom. This, in my opinion, is not right or just.

8. In my judgment, there should be added to this Department at least twenty additional officers, this addition to take care of ten officers added to the regular force and ten motorcycle scouts in the highways.

I have taken from the report of the Chief Law Enforcement Officer the following data, to show how well and how faithfully the laws have been enforced :

The Alabama State Department of Archives and History has conducted the business delegated to it by the law with the utmost fidelity and zeal. I have watched this Department with peculiar interest from the time of its creation by the Legislature of 1901, of which body I was a member, until now, and no legislative Act in which I participated has given me more satisfaction. Beginning with a small collection of State archives which had accumulated in the dusty pigeon holes of the several executive departments of the State for three-quarters of a century, the collections have grown until they fill several offices in organized condition and a whole outside building in an unorganized state.

The historical portrait gallery now contains likenesses of all the outstanding characters who have builded this commonwealth. The museum objects of historical value, but aboriginal and otherwise, go into the thousands. The historical reference library

has no equal in the South. The natural history collection, which only awaits a proper museum space for display, is representative of the bird and mammal, mineral and soil resources of the State. The Legislative Reference Library, which unhappily is not accessible, owing to the lack of space for classification and arrangmenet, is rich in materials that should be made available for the lawmakers of Alabama. The military records are invaluable to the Confederate Pension Commission in establishing services of 122,000 Confederate soldiers from Alabama and for those historical research workers who desire authentic data. In addition to the Confederate military records in the collection, records of the soldiers of the Mexican War, the Indian Wars, Spanish-American War and World War are available.

During my administration suitable file cases, not only for military records, but for the official archives of all the State Departments, have been furnished to the Department of Archives and History, and additional clerical assistance provided, in order that the materials which are under constant requisition may be made easily accessible for research. Considerable funds have been allowed out of the Printing and Binding Fund for binding the current Alabama newspapers which become very valuable with the passing of time as the only aavilable record of the current affairs and growth and development of our people and our State. The newspaper collections of the Department now go into the thousands of bound volumes, not only of Alabama papers from the beginning of Statehood, but the outstanding newspapers of other Southern States and of the Nation. A great many of these latter volumes were given to the State by the Library of Congress some years ago and the press of Alabama has been most generous in presenting to the Department complimentary copies of their publications for permanent preservation in the State's archives.

In addition to the foregoing activities of the Department a traveling library system has been conducted, through which young people and mature students in the most remote districts of the State are enabled to secure with the cost of transportation, loan packages of reading matter and reference books. During the past four years thousands of these books have been circulated by the traveling library division of the Department. A comparison of the work of this one division of the Department reveals the astonishing fact that more is being accomplished by the Department with its manifold duties than in some of our neighbor states which have a separate Library Commission with an administrative force and field library organizers.

The Department, acting under legislative authority, has continued a policy of marking historical sites, acquiring by gift or otherwise desirable historical spots, promoting historical activi

ties in the way of local historical societies, and local and county libraries.

One of the most useful activities of the Department is its service as a bureau of information. Letters of inquiry flow to the Director's desk, not only from seekers for information in Alabama, but from every other state and many foreign countries. With the assistance of a well trained research librarian and other members of the staff, no letter of inquiry ever fails to receive a courteous, prompt and satisfactory response. I cannot too highly commend to your consideration the aspirations of this Department for your continued support and I would most respectfully urge, if it is within the possibility of the State's finances, that you make an adequate appropriation for the construction of a separate fire-proof building for the preservation of the rare collections in the custody of this Department which shall be a memorial to Alabama and Alabamians in the World War. Every state in the Union except Alabama has given an adequate expression to its appreciation of the heroic efforts of its people and of gratitude to those of our soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice in that titanic struggle. Our sister State of Tennessee has erectedfor its Department of Archives and History a magnificent two: million dollar World War Memorial Building. The city of Birmingham is to immediately erect a Jefferson County World War Memorial in the form of a quarter-million dollar stadium. The whole people of this proud State can well afford to unite in bearing the cost of one noble structure that shall house all our historical archives and objects of historical value, and I so recommend. to your honorable body.

STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRIES

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No branch of the State government has made more construct--; ive advance during my term of office than has the Department of Agriculture and Industries, as created by an act of the Legislature of 1923, known as the Agricultural Code of Alabama. Under the operation of this reorganized department, operating as it does with the advice and assistance to the Commissioner of the State Board of Agriculture, many of the fundamental needs of agriculture and related industries have been served.

The Agricultural Code provides the most complete general system of legislation pertaining to agriculture and industries and related subjects which any state has heretofore enacted. It has been favorably commented upon by experts, not only in Alabama but throughout a number of the other states, and has been held out as an example of a convenient, comprehensive and well coordinated group of laws pertaining to the subject of agriculture, which other states would do well to follow.

In the organization and functioning of the Department of Agriculture and Industries under this Code, the specialized and technical nature of the work has been recognized in all phases. In carrying out the state's policies, as anticipated in this system of laws, it was desirable to secure the services of outstanding farmers of the state with broad visions of the needs and the work to be performed, as members of the State Board of Agriculture, to advise and assist the commissioner of agriculture in administering the important duties of the department. In line with this policy, I have appointed Messrs. Glenn Foster, W. F. Garth, S. M. Dunwoody, Clifton Kirkpatrick and R. J. Goode, Jr., as members of this board, consisting also of the commissioner of agriculture as ex-officio chairman, and the director of the Alabama, Experiment Station as an ex-officio member.

Certain funds, which were necessary for the administrative and technical field work of the department and board, have been provided from the products and industries benefited and supervised through these laws. The inspection fees collected for the purposes of these services have exceeded the expenditures of the department during each year of the administration. This development and progress in agriculture and related subjects has been brought about without the expenditure of funds from the property taxes of the state treasury, and instead a surplus from the fees collected has gone into the state treasury. Thus, as opportunity for progress in the various agricultural and industrial lines affected has been made possible without creating an extra burden upon the state treasury or taking away funds needed for the progress of the state in other lines of endeavor.

Due to the broad field covered by the department and board in their work, I shall mention only a few of the services rendered:

The inspection of foods, drugs, feeds and fertilzers have increased over previous years and furnished improved and further services to the producers and users of these products in maintaining high standards of purity and composition values. Under the standards provided by the Agricultural Code and through the maintenance of these standards by the inspection services, the farmers of Alabama are receiving a commercial fertilizer with a higher percentage of plant food value than those of any other state in the Union. This inspection service has grown from year to year in such manner as to greatly decrease the adulterations of fertilizers and commercial feeds. Far reaching results have been obtained for the first time from the inspection of many foods and drugs. This same protection has been extended for the first time in the history of the agriculture of the state to farmers. against the introduction of foreign an obnoxious weed and grass

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