The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-08-03

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ing below a letter from Senator
Christensen to Gov. Hardwick, of
Georgia, which explains in consid-
erable detail the work of the staff
of accountants in this state:
July 21st, 1922.
Governor T. P. Hardwick, Allan
ia, Ga.
Dear sir:-My attention has been
called to an Atlanta news story re-
porting attacks being made on your
investigating staff headed by Messrs.
Telford and Reber, Of Griffenhagen
and Associates, of Chicago. The ba-
sis for these particular attacks is
their work last year for the Joint
Legislative Committee on Consoh-
.dation and Economy appointed at the
1921 session of the general assem-
bly, Of South Carolina, of which COM
mittee I had the honor to be chair
man.
It surprises me that those making
the attack on the Griffenhagen staff
do not use the report these investiga-
tors have just made on Georgia con-
.ditions. After all, the question be-
fore your citizens ds whether facts
reported and suggestions made for
reforms in Georgia can assist your
government to greater economies
and efficiency. Results in South Car
olina, Maryland, or at Washington
.springing from the work Of this COM
pany are of interest, but they are
not conclusive as to the value of this
very recent investigation in Georgia
as to Georgia affairs.
However, an issue seems to have
been made by those opposed to your
program. These opponents charge
that the methods Of Grifenhagen and
Associates in South Carolina last year
were contemplate and their recon-
mendations ridiculous. The idea is
advanced that this charge, if main
tanned, should damn the Georgia re-
port,
II have not seen the Georgia re-
port. The newspaper clippings sent
to me contain no account of it. Geor-
gia conditions are not touched on.
It might be supposed that the real
issue is as to the value of your re-
port, not as to the value of ours.
: But since this issue as to the South
Carolina report has been raised, and
since some of the Georgia officials
and some of the South Carolina off,
cials have together made this issue,
it may play some part in the decis-
ion of your legislature.
Your citizens have heard from two
South Carolina officials who condemn
the report. The report criticised
them and they are aggrieved.
The special legislative committee
here did not adopt all the recommen-
datiens of these Investigators OF
theirs, nor accept their view Of all
alleged facts. The committee con-
densed the voluminous reports of this
staff and nodded the recommends
tions to conform to their own Judg-
ment and presented it as commit
tee report. This committee report
could not have been intelligently
written without the thorough inquiry
made by these trained men. The
five legislators associated with me
on this committee we're as we'll
equipped and able men for this task
as any who could have been select
ed. But they had neither time nor
the training needed to collect the
mass of information necessary in a
few months from our 6fty-two de-
partments and institutions scattered
all over the state.
This committee was composed of
Hon. E. T. Hughes, chairman Of the
ways and means committee Of the
house; Hon. J. E. Anderson, of the
same committee; Hon. J. +. Ham O.
lin. chairman of the judiciary COM
mittee of the house; Hon. W. Fred
Lightsey and Hon. F. A. Miller, both
of the finance committee of the SEN
ate, and myself, chairman Of the fl
nance committee. We found the
eight members of the Grifenbagen
and Associates staff, sent to US at va