The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-06-09
EFFIC len CHART
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SHOWS CHANGES
Committee in Carrying on its Work
Endeavors Only to Correct Man
agement Of State Where Needed.
rs BUREAUS AND BOARDS SHOWN

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Without Increasing Departments
As Is Now the Case.
st. Paul, June st Special to The
Pioneer. On the efficiency commits
sion's chart about seventy-fve bu-
reaus, boards, and SO on, are shown
and the chart also shows what be-
comes of them under the commits
sion plan. There are maybe twenty
five hundred things provided for in
the law that does not show on the
chart. Each bureau and every officer
have a number of duties prescribed
from time to time by the legislature.
In some cases all the things that the
bureau does have been gathered UP
in a single law In great! many
cases individual duties have been as
signed to some officer or bureau in
the course of some other law. A
search of the statutes shows about
twenty-five hundred of these refer
ences. Where any change is made
the commissions chart shows it. The
general purpose of each department
and each bureau is shown on the
chart Outside of the changes indi-
Gated everything is to stand as it. IS
now @
The health department has several
divisions and a number of duties
Nothing is said about those on the
chart.
The bureau of labor does num-
Der of things that are not specified
on the chart The chart refers only
to changes in the administrative or
ganization. !.
The bills which the commission
will submit to carry out its plan will
run along similar lines. They will
be administrative bills. They will
provide for organizing the depart
ments, for putting certain bureaus
in the departments, and to some ex-
tent for assigning duties to the de-
partments, to the bureaus and to the
bureau chiefs. But the bill will dis
tinctly provide that where no change
is proposed, the work shall be car
ried Oh as it is now. The commits
sion from the very beginning decided
not to go into other questions. Not
to increase in any way the states
functions nor reduce them in any
way. To have begun on that would
have opened an endless field and the
commission thought they were tax
! ing on job enough for volunteer
body when they undertook to study
administrative organization. They
were quite willing to let George do
the rest. &.x|#&s a..
There are number of very inter-
esting questions about what the state
is. doing whether it is worth while
doing at all. But the efficiency COM
mission looks upon this as an entire
ly different proposition. The effic.
iency commissions plan is SO ar.
ranged that when the state takes on
additional duties, as it probably will
they can be handled with the least
| possible addition to the machinery
If the state undertakes to control in.
surance rates, or to inquire into the
conduct of public utilities, or tc
regulate workmen's compensation
differently from the present method
or to inspect seeds, or to control wa.
ter power sites, any of these dutie.
can be assigned to one of the depart
ments provided for in this plan. J.
it calls for an executive role, the ad
EDITION Of a single role, probably !:
subordinate will take care of it. L
it calls for action by a semi-judicia
body, one of the proposed boards cal
take care of 1t.
If the public likes this plan /
won't he. necessary to create a new
1 board or an independent bureau ey
/ cry time the state puts on something
lnew. That is, if this plan is adopte,
! there is economy not only In tn
present arrangement but for futnr
! developments.
4--1v1, .
! in the church basement Thursday at
ternoon. Student Erickson will b
| present. Lunch will be served.
4 Spain exported 100000 pound
iof paper for cigarets last year.
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