The Penn's Grove record., 1921-12-02

var conditions and the necessity for
letter business il public administra-
ion.
"Nithin the near future saic the
'eport at is obvioHs that there Rus:
70 a reimbursement Of administration
costs In ALI public business. In any
adjustment thai may be undertaken it
8 likely that determined efforts will
oe made to reduce the greatest item
If expenditure. e, the payroll. The
problem is a serious one, but it cannot
De solved by any arbitrary action
which may impair the effectiveness Of
the service or work an injustice on
competent and faithful employees.
THE solution. 50 far as there is a
solution, lies not in arbitrary action,
but in a reorganization Of depart
mental forces, making possible greater
efficiency and greater individual pro
1~uctiveness and the actual adoption Of
business principles in the conduct of
public affairs"
As a result of its study Of personnel
costs so far, the commission is of the
opinion that it will be eventually
agreed that the percentage Of the total
budget that may properly be devoted
to payroll purposes in the average
state. county and city should be within
the following limits: State, 33 1-3 to
40 per cent; county. 22.5 to 30 per
cent: municipal. cities having between
100000 and 100000, 40 to 30 per cent.
"These data are not presented mere
Iy for the purpose Of drawing conclu-
sions,7 said the report, but rather to
emphasize in dollars and cents the VI
tai Importance Of the employment prob
lem in the public service"
Dry Law Held FIawless
The Van Ness prohibition enforce
ment act, attacked in 1S5 cases in the
supreme court, was upheld in a deci-
sion by Supreme Court Justice Min
turn. The opinion declared that the
law in its entirety is a valid exercise OF
Legislative pc yer and must be sustain
ed. 1t expressly upheld the provision
of the act which Withholds jury trials
from alleged violators and affirmed the
sections relating to seizure and search
and placing upon the defendant the
burden Of proof in establishing that
liquor in question is not intended for
sale or does not contain an Illegal per-
centage of alcohol.
The court pointed out that seizure
and search cannot take place except on
the oath of ii complainant that he has
personal knowledge of the unlawful
sale from the place in question ana
held that this is not an unreasonable
measure of protection. The cases ar.
gued on appeal. selected as embracing
the fundamental features of all cases
so far carried to the supreme court, in
volved a charge of transporting liquor
Illegally against Emanuel e. Katz of
Atlantic City and selling and other viO-
~lations of the act against August Car
rell of Hudson county and Dominick
Sinisi.
1--WE are not at all concerned with
the wisdom and the general policy Of
this enactment, those features of legfs-
%IIation under our constitutional divi-
sions of power being left entirely to
the judgment of the legislature as the
representatives of the popular WILL"
said Justice Minturn.
Calls Principles Settled
"This conception Of the police power
of the state" he went on. referring to
the basis of the attack on the law, sis
contrary to the settled fundamental
PRINCIPLES adopted at the formative
stage of constitutional construction,
when it was held that the federal gov.
eminent possessed only such powers as
were expressly or inpIIedly conceded
by the state n that the Iatter' TO-
gether with the people, retalhed all
the powers incident TO 'VerelShJN 10
be employed as may be deemed eApeal-
emf in the public interest.
st may be assumed therefore that
when the power to ie&lsIate upon the
subject of prohlhltloh was cohcelpa ny
the state to the federal government IL
did not follow that the states by con-