Arizona republican., 1917-03-05
A Higher Public Service

A house bill intended to establish a civil service system for municipalities promptly voted down the first opportunity the house had to get at It perhaps merited such a fate because it did not contemplate civil service system for the coun- ties and But that not the reason that it was unfavoraby acted upon by the house. it threat ened breach of the spells system. Arizona is not vet ready any legislation that makes fitness and qualification essentials for the public service Arizona needs but the people not yet ready to deprive the politicians of the control of the And since the people have the bills to and the waste to make good perhaps the minority has legal right complain.
 A haf-hearted step taken toward the reform by the passage by the senate of the anti nepotsm bill though it is generally expected that will pass the house though such bill would remove the possibility of affiction by class of incompe tents. We would be understood meaning that public employe is incompetent because he happens to be related official who the power of ap- polntment know that relationships frequently if not generally, outweghs any lack of qualification
 There is now pending in the Wisconsin legis- lature bill designed raise the level of the public service It provides:
 The board of regents of the state university shall establish and maintain beginning with the academic year 19lsl919 training school for public service. Such school shall be professional school and shall | state of Wisconsin or of any county or municipality therein. of civic organizations.
 full professor of public administration shall be appointed for at the beginning of the academic year l91T1SlS Such professor shall be the dean of tne training school for public service Under the direction Of the president and the regents of the university dean shall appropriate cours es of study requirements for admission conditions for graduation character and supervision field training and other educational and administrative problems relating such school The department of education gr 9 Of the erSifv all in such work
 Persons who have satisfactorily completed the required Tn the training school for public shall upon graduation. receive proper university degree and diploma in public administration stating the particular character their training No person snai receive such diploma unless least one third of his total credits in such school shall work in municipal county departments or in quasi public work and unless he shall submitted thesis dealing with actual problem of municipal county service based actual service or in contact with such service and approved by the head Of the department of such municipality county or state with which such problem is principally concerned
 Any member of the faculty of the University of Wisconsin be required under rules prescribed by the board of regents give instructions in such training school The bill further provides that the school shall provide adequate supplementary training for persons in municipal service.
 few years ago. six to be exact Arizonians con- graduated themselves having established the most advanced system of government in the union. They had merely adopted constitution little radical than any other. at time when states and the whole country for that matter were running to- ward radicalism Wisconsin then known as a radical state but it's radicalism was quite different from that of Arizona and Oregon. Use was being made of the power of the people to improve their system of government and that power has steadily employed until Wisconsin is acknowledged to be the foremost of the states in methods government We I4trn ism to large extent. and that is something We have discovered that radical forces contained an admxture of dreamers and demagogues But we are where were