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Show Chairman of 'Little Hoover Analyzes Group's Proposals appear" is false. "If this program pro-gram is to succeed, it must be considered by the Legislature and the public for three, four, or five years in order to be effective. effec-tive. "It will need books of rules, procedures, manuals, and experience experi-ence on the part of the participants," partici-pants," he said. He envisioned a considerable period of transition transi-tion and that not all the proposals pro-posals could be legislated. "A major portion of them will re- quire constitutional amendment." HE CITED the example of the Treasurer's office, which is responsible re-sponsible for "millions of dollars dol-lars worth of securities" and which is one-half of an Auditor-Treasurer Auditor-Treasurer "flip-flop," in which a "faithful party member" runs for one office one term and the other the next. This, he said, creates a situation where the new auditor may be auditing the treasurer's office books on the period when he was the treasurer. Rosenblatt said that if the proposals of the commission were enacted the people of Utah would see "unbelievable savings" and declared that these proposals pro-posals represented more than money. "We should set high standards in government and furnish the incentive and motivation moti-vation to attract truly qualified people to government." "THE COMMISSION proposals propos-als are not taking the government govern-ment from the hands of the people, as its opponents charge they never have had it," he declared. Phi Sigma Alpha presented Rosenblatt with a plaque in appreciation ap-preciation of his "distinguished public service" as a token of his appearance. By ZANE R. MISKTN Chronicle Political Editor Joseph Rosenblatt, Utah Little Hoover Commission chairman, told Phi Sigma Alpha at a dinner din-ner meeting last night that if the public does not understand the proposals of his commission, they will not succeed, "for there will be much opposition." Rosenblatt termed his work with the commission "burdensome "burden-some and frustrating" because each problem solved gave rise to others. "Our aim is coordination coordina-tion and consolidation to the greatest possible extent," he said. "Objections are numerous." HE POINTED out that although al-though opponents present a black and white alternative of fragmented, costly government or a dictatorship, the weak government gov-ernment we have now is more hazardous because "chaos moves up and down and gives us a sapping of moral fibres," and called for a government set up with checks and balances which would be "strong, manageable, and flexible. He noted that even if the Legislature accepts all the commission's proposals, implementation imple-mentation cannot be accomplished accom-plished in the near future. Calling the Little Hoover Commission's Com-mission's proposals "only an architect's sketch," he said the feeling that people can "enact laws and all problems will dis- |
