The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1919-09-04
Department of Finance Laying
Foundation for Installing
Budget System.
BECAREFULA
Modernized Standard of Book
keeping Introduced in
All Counties.

Foundations are now being laid in
the department of Finance for the
preparation of state budget which
is expected to eliminate the evil of
haphazard legislative appropriations.
The budget will be a careful, scien-
tific analysis of the financial needs of
the states several institutions and de-
partments, designed, of course, to en-
able expenditures.
Outstanding among the recent
achievements of G. e. Bowerman, FL
nance Commission, is the introduction
in all the counties of the state Of
new and modernized form of book
keeping. County officials generally
have acknowledged that this improved
system affords complete records makes
information readily available and
saves time.
Among the several regulations re-
Gently promulgated by the finance COM
mittee was rule requiring all state
money to be deposited with the state
treasurer In the past certain funds
have been deposited in semi-private ac-
counts where they have not been draw
ing interest for the state.
An active campaign has been carried
on by the department through the
banks of the state urging against the
exchange Of government bonds for
other so called securities. This partic-
ular activity has met with a splendid
response from virtually all of Idaho's
banking institutions.
Efforts have been made by the de
paftment to examine into the bonded
Indebtedness of the various counties.
In several instances it has been pos
siblc to prevent transactions approch-
ing the fraudulent in the sale Of coun-
ty bonds.
Supervision of the administration
and enforcement of laws governing
the assessment OF property and the
levy collection and apportionment of
taxes, one of the principal delegated
to the finance department probably
will not be entered upon until later IN
the year.
Marked improvement in the registra-
ton Of vital statistics and thorough
synchronizing of the work Of the three
l state asylums devoted to the care OF
; the insane are among the more i'm
| achieved
by J. X. White, commissioner of pub
/ lie welfare.
l. Dr. L. T.. Laubaugh of the bureat
e of public health service in the wei
{ fare department is rapidly bringing
Is the registration of birth and dealt
Is certificates and other essential statis
d tics to a point where Idaho probabl.
81 will he recognized by the United State
~ census bureau. The census bureau
NJ standards demand 90 per cent etlicien
IN cy.
= BY a process Of conference and cor
. tinual contact through correspondent
II and visits of inspection. the superir
y tendent of the three insane asylum
hs have been enabled to profit both b
oi their mutual mistakes and mutual PR
II fieiencies Uniform system Of report
; viii he installed in all of the institl
ans in the near future,
he Commissioner White plans to pr
sent at the next session Of the legi
~ latnre detailed reports which will hay
~ as their principal feature an accurat
'te forecast Of the probable future neeC
Oh of the three asylums. The unfortunaI
Rlackfoot situation will be remedie
e' the moment. funds are made arailabl
AZ Surveys of the three institution
iP probably win he made at some tin
/" in the near future by investigate
ne Representing the National Gomlnitt'
on Mental Hygiene. an organizatiC
lio devoted to psychopathic research whif
% already has done much creditable We
es rare work for the insane in cooper