The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-27
To UNITE BOARDS
Governor Allen Urges COnsOIi-
datiOn of State Departments.
All Offices VIII Be Affected by
General Shakeup.
WILL FORM SEPARATE BODIES
About Thirty Offices To Be Hit
by New Program.
About a Dozen Boards viii Go
Out of Business.
WILL FORM SEPARATE BODIES

Wholesale consolidation Of boards
and departments will be urged before
the legislature by Governor Allen. AL
most every appointive department in
the state house will be directly af-
fected by the shake-up which is
planned by the governor.
Supplemental to his proposal for
separate bodies to handle Industrial
and public utilities troubles. the gov
ernor will direct shake-ups in the la
Dor. agricultural, industrial welfare,
health and irrigation departments.
Nearly thirty departments of state
government will be hit by the changes
to be urged by Governor Allen in his
legislative program.
To Discontinue Dozen Boards.
The present board of medical regis
tration and examination will be thrown
more directly under the state board of
health under the governors proposal.
At the same time some ten or a dozen
boards may go out of business. 1t is
the governors plan to recommend a
Capitalization of work in examinations
for state certificates in various
branches Of the medical profession.
Such examinations would be under the
examination and registration board.
'ihc state board Of pharmacy, en-
balm.nS board. optometry board, bar
ber board. osteopathic board. chiro-
pract &c board. dental board and the
board of examiners may be CONSOLE
dated into a state health department.
The merger would not only wipe out
many existing boards. but might pro-
vidc a revenue to the state thru fees
by the central body. The various in
dependent boards are now supported
By foes.
Consultations in Health Department.
The consultations in the health de-
par,mcnt would be in furtherance Of
the plan to throw new work into the
industrial court and to re-establish the
public utilities commission. This
change would wipe out the present
state labor department mine inspection
department. welfare commission, ir-
rication commission and factory in
sHection work.
I, is the governors plan. also, TO
consolidate the work of the state hotel
commissioner and the food inspection
bui eau. This work can be successfully
combined, the governor believes, and
one entire department wiped out.
Mc-gcs in Agricultural Department.
Mergers in auxiliary organizations of
the agricultural department will also
be asked by the governor. Details of
this plan have not been worked out.
1t is practically certain, tho, that it
Will affect the livestock sanitary de-
partment, horticultural society, ento-
moioGica commission and several
Utncr bodies.
''t1ere are now numerous boards
and departments claiming and exer-
cis.aE right to housing facilities in the
state house" said the governor.
MANY of these are not so much as
supported by direct state appropria
tiou, Many of these departments are
overla piping in their work. In the in
tereSts of economy and efficiency
many Of their departments can be
consolidation. 1t will reduce numer-
Gus expense items and centralize much
of the state work"
Contained in Message.
The governors program in detail
will be contained in his message to the
legislature. Governor Allen will draft
his message sometime this month.
Sweeping changes in the existing work
of state departments will be a domi-
nant feature Of his appeal.