Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-15
Amendment Advocated.

But practically no change of
any kind is desirable, great or
small, can be brought about with
out the passage of the amendment
which we advocate.
90 The ordination of the
management of the state education
al institutions and the state lands
under one board on the theory that
these institutions and the land en-
dowment from which much Of
their income is or should be, de-
rived, should be under the same
supervising dictatorship. There is
now, except in theory. no co-ordi-
nation between that office and the
institutions whose patrimony the
office is charged, as trustee, with
administering. A supervising and
directing board, in lieu Of the COM
missioner, of the nature suggested,
would we believe, solve the ques-
ton on the lines suggested by the
platforms of both political parties
and in accordance with a strong
and insistent popular demand.
State Land Office.
There has, for d long time, been
more or less bitter discussion and
considerable reCrimination, in re-
spect to the conduct and policy or
lack of policy-of the state land
office. The office is alarmingly in
tolerant of any and all criticism, in
spite of the fact that it is charged
with the management of what is
or should be the states greatest
,1pfantia1 4.
lions acres of public lands. There
recently appeared in an Albuquer-
que paper a letter signed by THE
State Land Office Staff and ad-
dressed to the auditor of the Tax
payers association. / am reluctant
to believe that many members of
the office are responsible for it.,
for in childish inconsequence and
peevish futility it is rather pitiful.
The state is getting pretty sick of
this business and, in a serious at
tempt to set the controversy at rest
and to give the people the infor-
nation the office itself should long
ago have given them, we have, at
considerable expense. secured the
survey of the office by competent
outside examiners When their full
report is received its results will be
given to the public.
There are good many other
suggestions and recommendations
in this report which | hope you will
have an opportunity to read and
digest. Specific budgetary proce-
dure for the state, counties and
municipalities is strongly recon-
mended as Is also a return TO levy
limitations which, in one way and
another, have become more or less
a dead letter. We go into the mat
ter of delinquent taxes and exemp-
tons both of which are perplexing
and difficult to deal with and
channels OF distressing and shame
full abuse.
Scope of the Inquiry.
/ have been quite frank with
you in this statement. for l want
you, as practical men, to under
stand how very wide was the scope
of the inquiry this commission was
charged with. and to realize that nc
committee could possibly adequate
ly deal with all the problems pre-
scented in the time and with the
means at our disposal. But what
ever is done with the report
whether II is thrown in the waste
basket or acted upon in whole or
in part, I want you to remember
fthat the problems with which i,
deals (however inadequately) have
sometime got to be attacked and
properly solved by the people OF
this state and the longer they post.
pone that solution the worse it is
going to b. for them. - :,