Arizona republican., 1921-02-08
THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, TUESDAY MORNING FEBRUARY

men in the aggregate are more honest than one men.
 one man standing out alone is less liable to commit a wrong than if he were one of a group. A bad man q member of a commission is likely to dominate the commission and com init wrongs that he would not attempt if he were compelled to assume the whole responsibility. There is apt to be always one strong, masterful man on a commission or board. You know how that is in committees formed for various purposes. Most of us during the war were on committees of one kind or another and it has been the experience of all of us that there was always some one strong man but for whom nothing would have been ac- complished. The other members of the committees were more likely to be obstructive than helpful.
 'I reached the conclusion that the rules which obtain in business might well be applied to government We had in Illinois some 125 activities. The governor had no means of knowing what was going on until 1t had gone wrong and then he had no means of fighting it. Having located the board belonged, there was difficulty in reach ing it or him until either the thing had righted itself or had go beyond repair
 Must Give Whole Time
 We grouped these activities into nine and put each group, not into the hands of a board or commission, but into the hands of an individual. a di- rector, and held him to a definite re- sponsibility who should devote all of his time to his duties. There had been many officers and especially e many members of commissions who had would not interfere with their own af- fairs. We changed that and decreed that man holding g. position under 1 the civil government code should have no other business: should give his en- tire time to the public business. There
 was less pressure then upon the ap- pointing power for positions.
 We have, it is true, commissions,
 that is, advisory commissions, com posed of men serving without compen- l sation and whom we could not secure I by the payment of a salary. I see in
 the aisle there a man from Illinois who knows of these commissions, MT. | A. c. Bartlett. He knows of the ap- pointment of Charles L. Hutchinson to one of these commissions. Now l l could not have secured MT. Hutchin- son by the payment of a salary of s2,000 or s3,000 or $10,o0o. But as a l good citizen he was willing to serve I for nothing. You will have no trouble in forming commissions of this kind and they will be composed of the best
 
 men,
 As an instance of advisory com
 missions and their usefulness he cited
 the advisory highway commission ol
 Illinois which had done excellent worF in the study of types of roads anc
 other matters in connection with high
 way construction and it's collaboration
 with the director of public works.
 No Department to Save Money
 MT. Lowden called attention to th'
 singular fact that in the American
 scheme of government, except in tn,
 states which had adopted the civil ad
 ministration code. not even in tn, federal government, is there a depart
 ment for saving. for holding down ex penditures. There are department for raising money and for spending il
 but none for conserving it. Englan, for years has had such a departmen and it continues year after year re
 gardless of the changes of government The budget systems of some of tn states and those that have been pro l posed for the federal government ar
 only so-called." the speaker said. '"The . regulate nothing and do not hold dow expenditures. They make estimate and they are put aside and forgotteT 5 But in Illinois this is the chic l function of the department of finance And for that there are men chose who do not shrink from being calle mean anu clOSe-IlSIeu ana tIlat Is VII | they are chosen. This department, 0 : the director at the head of it, is tn r budget maker and his budget stand 1 unless it is revised at the directio
 of the governor, to whom an appes Q may be taken"
 e In conclusion MT. Lowden spoke { Q representative government which d based on the true principle, recognize | by the fathers that a great people ca : not rule itself directly. It is oppose
 to the idea that we elect onlv dishor y est men to high places and that N . must then restrict and guard them. " must go back to the idea of the father e No government will execute itsel . said the speaker.
 c Vote Thanks to Visitor r MT. Lowden in closing said that I k would be pleased to answer or to u n to answer any questions concerniI
 the operation of the civil administrs
 ton code that might be asked hir .- Justice Baker asked whether there hs e not occurred some embarrassment IS the assignment of powers under Il IS code or whether it had been necessal Ie to revamp the law which had distril it uted the duties among the commi e sions and offices which had bee It abolished.
 l. MT. Lowden replied that the que ,f ton had given Illinois some apprehel le sion before the code went into effe d at the end of a fiscal year. There W. le some fear of a hitch, for there h; Tn been no change of those laws definil n the duties of the abolished offices. B r. the. hitch did not come Under Il l. new regime the government went m smoothly.
 in At the conclusion of MT. Lowder t. remarks MT. Woodward of Gila nov, ar a vote of thanks to the distinguish to guest. Dr. Sims moved to amer
 the motion with an invitation to cor D. back. T accept that invitation now le said MT. Lowden. The motion W of adopted by a standing vote and tn the suggestion of President Wilkins
 of the senate, vote of thanks w 1e given Governor Campbell for securil De the presence of former Govern at Lowden.
 n- On the dissolution of the joint SC m sion the crowd poured into the hou m chamber to greet the former govern, )u ---o---------
 ot The Iowa State Agricultural Cole i- and the, United States Department n- Agriculture have made an investig or tion of Iowa land which reveals tn
 the price of land in many sections
 Iowa is too high to justify returns. T ATnN lTr.@