Show move to reduce costs coats of county governments Govern menta the problem oi of county bounty government la Is spreading into nearly oil all the states that eliat have cut themselves them seles yes luto lute many county units two evils have developed demanding economic and political treatment one isa Is a growing extras gance in the government of populous and rich counties and the other Is the burdensome cost of maintaining the find and functions of small and poor counties in all cases where the lie la Is becoming acute tile the remedy und and the only remedy suggested by the economists and the politically unselfish i Is tile the me merging of the counties into fewer aud and larger units or the consolidation of certain public services and institutions with co common mm on 0 officials and communal cointa unal buildings building for example in north carolina there la is it a proposal to set up at misa eliza beth city a district jail to be used la in common by tie counties comi ties the lie county heats of the tour four other counties than being in quick an and cas easy y reach now of el Il lizabeth labeth city over new lurd hard roads the taxpayers of those aliu e counties seem agreed that it a jail with one jailer and a few guards will serve them much better and more economically that the five jails the live jailers find and five adles b of guards they now employ lit at a large cost to pach each county atlanta constitution |