The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1914-12-24
ESTATE BOARD or ONTROL.s

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THE ESTATE OARD5 oFc0r TRoL.s
Level headed members Of the legis-
Nature will do consid erable thinking
before they vote to lisf the board
Iof control. Prince ton Onion.
True enough, and, while they will
think the board Of control has done
well, they may believe the efficiency
commission plan will do better
Don't stand in the pathway Of re-.
form, senator. t. Cloud Times. SIS
If it can be demonstrated that the
| plan proposed by the efficiency COM
mission is better, then, by allmeans,5
Ilet us have that system. but the;
lefty of ST. Paul has tried, on a small
scale to be sure, the bureaucratic
form of government, and the result
is that for the year 1915 that city
will have the largest budget in its.
history-almost 81, 100000. The cur
. ta-a. : .s ~ ~ :. = ~, 4gE4s
rent expenses of the city have been:
constantly increasing ever since the
new system went into operation
there.
But "you can't Judge system by
is results,'' seems to be the slogan
under which the moving spirits
behind the efficiency propaganda are
exerting their utmost efforts to
bring the state departments under
the commission form of government.
Believing in this slogan, it's. adj
vocates have quite logically ignored
the basis upon which the present
state departments are being operated,
and have shut their eyes to all show
ing of facts and figures going to
prove that a. system can only be
safely and fairly judged by its re-
suits. This is more significantly
true with reference to the board Of
control system than perhaps of any
other department. of administration;
hence the necessity, on the part of
the advocates of the commission
scheme: of breaking down this par
ticular department.. For if the
efficiency promoters were to recognize
the strength of the three-man plan
as developed in the board of control
as they do, in fact, recognize it in
connection with the three-man rail-
road and warehouse commission and
the three man tax. there
would be very little left for them to
recognize. Therefore, a campaign of
prejudice, innuendo and deliberate
misrepresentation has been inaugur-
ated by the bureau promoting the
efficiency scheme, growing more and
more vigorous, not to say yirulent,
as the assembling of the legislature
becomes more and more imminent. 3
And, therefore. it becomes neces-
sary for those who understand the
idea underlying the inception of the
board of control plan, who believe in
the spirit controlling all it's opera
tions, and who are familiar with it's
steadily growing place in the regard
of the people of the state and it's
steadily increasing hold on the con-
6dence of the legislature, to come
out in the open in it's behalf.
1t cannot be successfully gainsaid
that during the thirteen years Of it's
existence the board of control. as a
isystem, and with a personnel
Ichanged in part every two years
Iduring shat period, has not only
never deviated from the purpose Of
it's legislative creators and admin
strative founders, but it has SO
| firmly and consistently adhered to
this purpose that its work has been
as consistent, well-balanced and uni
form as if carried out by commits.
sion created fol life and subject to
no material, personal or political
influences. - H.
"Many men of many minds. .