The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1915-10-02
Salaries Get This Money
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salary $500; commissioner, Jacob
u Waller, Cambridge, salary $500.
and secretary, John A. Tschantre,
Baltimore, salary $1,000. William M.
LYON, Charles county, is clerk and
there is a stenographer. The salaries
of the clerk and stenographer are not
known.
State Live Stock Board
As to the State>Live Stock Sanitary
BOARD. The members of the board are
Harry ?. Skipper, of Queen Anne's
county; Charles w. Melville, of Sykes
Vile and Hart B. Noll, of Ellicott
CITY, They are paid per diem of So
for actual service. Recently-due
probably to the foot-and-mouth dis
ease-there have been two members,
at least, at the boards office on most
davs. That means that the salary
cost of the board has been in the
neighborhood of $4,000 year. 1t is
NOT known whether or not the men,
hers of the board who have to spend
the night in the city when they come
TO the office charge their expenses to
the State.
This is an important board. It's dut-
les are to protect the live stock of the
State against disease and to inspect
diaries, which means that it is charg-
ed with guarding large element of
wealth and the public health. The
State gives the board large appro-
priation. In the fiscal year ending
September 30, 1914, the board spent
S1S,519Ol.
Has $4,000 To Spend
In the current fiscal year it has APP
propriations amounting to S27,0 900. Of
that, $4,000 is for border patrol,
$4,000 for dairy inspection and $4,000
for other work. To be entirely accur-
ate, the $4,000 appropriation runs
from April 10 to the next April 10,
instead of during the regular fiscal
wear. beginning October / and ending
September 30.
The board makes report and all
that sort of thing, but no one really
knows very much about it. There are
two reasons, and they are obvious. In
the first place, three heads in an ex-
ecutive office mean no head; in the
second place, per diem employment
usually means employment only when
the per diem is more profitable than
everything else. which, in turn, means
that one never knows whether he will
find at the office the member of the
board who happens to have the infor-
nation wanted
One Responsible Man
This office should form part of
some general department in charge
of agricultural interests. To be eff
cient it should have at it shead one
man, who would devote his entire time
to 1t and be responsible for it. That,
If done, probably would lead to very
material saving IN the expenditures of
the board. Approximately how much
cannot be stated, for no one can make
comparisons as against the present
three-headed sometimes-th there and
sometimeS-not-t there department.
The State Veterinarian is Law
renee Hickman He is paid $1,000, and
most people think he has earned it in
the last few months. while the foot
and-mouth disease was prevalent. The
office should be abolished. In ordin-
AIRY times $1,000 expert means either
that the expert has little or no work
to DO or that he is not an expert.
The truth is that usually there is
not great deal for the State Veterin-
arian to do. If there were a depart
mert in charge of agricultural inter-
ests, the State Veterinarians work
probably could be absorbed with minor
additional cost