The copper era and Morenci leader., 1922-03-17
kUCHLER POINTS WAY TO
 ECONOMY

Rudolph KuchIer state land com missioner, in a phamplet which has reached this office says same per tinent things about the mounting eX- pense of state government The fol- lowing is extracted from the. pam phlet, which ought to be read by every voter:
 Beyond that groundwork for gov ernmental activities there has been appended and attached so many side structures that it may be that the real essentials have been lost sight ol to such an extent that people may now believe that successful governmental activities can be carried on only through side agencies in the form of commissions for this and boards for that particular activity and fail to consider the availability of the old time tried and tested tools of goY- ernment. the legislative, the eXecu- tive and judiciary. within the powers of which every problem connected with public affairs could be handled, even were many special departments, boards and offices abolished entire ly."
 Further on he says "No private individual will retrench, impair nor abandon any branch of his business in which he can see future success. On the other hand, every sane busi- ness man will and under present conditions must, reduce the overhead of his business to the minimum of such as will leave an efficient ma cinery for the safe development there of
 The remedy for excessive public burdens lies in adopting the sam. methods, and applying them to pub lie business. General progress can cone only when industrial efforts can be eXerted. unimpeded and unham- pered by excessive and unnecessary burdens incident to abnormal efforts towards purely public advancement The two should and must go hand in | hand"
 He suggests as one remedy: Con solidation of every public activity having for it's object the same gen eral ends, into units, with those units I under one controlling head" no mat ter what state, county or district of 1 fees might be wiped out. Abolish. abandon and eliminate all that would ! be left without real purpose" he ad- vises.
 
 1 the Implications now existing: as between city police and justice courts; | hume erous departm with very l similar duties of ascertaining the
 value availabilitr and use of the natural resources of the state; eA- l perimental stations connected with 1 the state university; agricultural farming ideas connected with the
 normal schools; two state and one l federal agency for extermination Of 1 predatory animals; appropriations for prospecting for artesian waters, with
 powers for action placed some with
 the university, some with the state ! engineer and some with the state
 land department; county road funds I under control of supervisors with | other road funds under control ol
 special road district; the state 1 school boards; county highway com 1 missions and paving commissions ! until in some cases definite action cannot be taken without the ap proval of four distinct bodies; du | plication of tax rolls for city and i town purposes: duplication of ex- | pense in collecting taxes; purchas
 ing of supplies by 473 school boards Other remedies suggested are: 4 "The power to vote bonds should
 be confined to the electors qualified
 as such, in general. with real pro ! pertv qualifications added: i Every contemplated public i'm provement should be included i1
 carefully itemized budget estimate
 witt, public fully advised: "So amend the present constitu
 tiop that public funds will no longer
 be treated as available for exDeudl
 lures until those funds exist in money
 in the public treasuries: ''The repeal by specific acts, eacf and every paragraph in the presen code of laws. which directly or b'
 possible implication, grants any pow
 CT of expenditure in terms unlimited , continuing or so much as may b' , necessary in effect
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