The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-05-17

organizations Of the state, for there
are many private organizations in
which the spirit OF work is of a kind
that does not make for progress and
could not compete with live compe.
titiou
! am dwelling Oh this question Of
Feasibility OF carry Ms through some
plan for betterment of state service.
because ,hCs may be feeling that
anything that departs from habit act
ion s. Ould lai. 10 meet the approval OF
men who have heen engaged In state
work or orr LEG slat0rs r10 would
.ayc the iinul passing ul0n the sus'
gest.0ns made
81 believe we can so into tits mat.
ter with mi confidence Of IT'S meeting
popular approval We know OF course
that We must deal with the habit of
thcuetl O.. men who have played an
important part IN shapms our laws
and perhaps a few Of those who are
s,ul aspiring to Office, but WE have
reached a time when The drift OF pau.
Tie opinion & not IN the control OF the
lew men aspiring % pub ic ct.ice
II believe this proposition viii De
greatly acceptable TO the thousand
tines greater number az orr people
who have taken no part ia The man.
agement OF our state. but who have
played n very hard mart n scrmpins
TO set aside a certain portion o. t.e
earnings Tor the payment of taxes TO
these people most 0i whom are the
women who In the homes Fave borno
the hwrt OF the saving TO pay tie
tax, this proposition will. be most ac'
ceptablc
THE habit Il thought That carries
a small part OF cur people in 90 H.
ica groove docs not AT &, the vast
majority of our voters. Hence ire
p,ouanldty ol maxim, radical
change is greater than 10 might seem
to the few people VINO have heel en-
gagged in state work
The powerful effect Of habit .Uac
icung applies % our proposition
from two different angles Il repre-.
sonts The drag on one hand that pre-
vents progress, and on the other it
shows MS lie absolute need OF se'et.
zion of mea who have acquired the
habit OF thought and action IN highly
specialized organizations
our genera. expression for this is
experience and We universally ad.
nit that experience in swimming. IN
typewtiting, In stenograrhy, in sur.
gerry ard in all higher functioning,
is absolutely essential Our experience
IN state work Is essential III we wish
TO continue the old methods. 10 g.
right at this point where the higher
form of mentation plays It's most ina.
portant part and gives rs a strong IN.
clinauon TO continue going along the
same old way. We can read and study
and talk unit doomslay. but the rat
ional process fails TO ret MS out of the
groove of habit unless there Is some.
thing IN wha, We learn by words that
stirs us deeply aud forces us ont OF
the abit groove
we have solved half ur our prob.
lem when we admit the fact OF the
domination Of habit of thought and
action. We will see why, at the end
OF the discussion, we may ne inclined
to slip back into the old notch and
say that &c is interesting but 1t "can.
not be done AZ the same time when
we are met with the cold fact that in
the old way we win continue to dis.
cuss details without striking at fSe
root of the proposition, We viii per-.
petuate conditions of only fifty per
cent efficiency In state management.
"ln view of the absolute need OF
long actual experience In practical
management of highly successful or
CARNATIONS OF similar magnitude. our
directing forces of the state must be
selected from a field in which they
t1n be most easi'v found There mn It
De mo- restriction 90 cowV on state.