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Show COUNSEL TO. THS OOVEKKOB. Though not always so accounted, one of the most Important official positions today In the publiu service Is that of legal adviser or counsel to the governor. And thla Is true whether or not ths chief executive happens to be or not to be a lawyer. For though It may be aald to be Hirst of all important that the atate government govern-ment ahould be administered honestly and that we should have In Its beat sense business sd ministration, it Is scarcely lees essential that as the pilot of the ship of state we should have some one with an intimate familiarity with all of thwse constitutional and legal .channels and reefs and currents and shoals which must be successfully navigated by oar stats government. Ours is a government of written instruments, instru-ments, of legal technicalities and sublet sub-let lea. For ths direction and control of a business, even a large business, specialised spe-cialised legal knowledge may not be absolutely abso-lutely necessary, though almost all considerable con-siderable and successful buainesa enterprises enter-prises nowadays have tflelr regularly employed em-ployed counsel. But the affairs of the state or pf a large city require st almoat every steo precise knowledge of the constitutional con-stitutional and legal provisions applicable and also the judicial Interpretat Ion of such provisions. No layman can possibly pos-sibly possess such experience or such Information: In-formation: it can only eame from years of specialised study and concentration, Bench and Bar. ' |