| Show WHAT RE PRESENTA tave MILLER IS DOING would give greater power to the state land board the salt lake tribune thus of emery county s member of the utah legislature and his legislative miller of emery coun ty is evidently a man of independent judgment and positive ideas lid has business sense and has the altogether defensible notion that the principles that are goo 1 in business would be good niso in tha administration of public busai he has therefore two import ai t propositions to submit to the present legislature the arst of these is the consolidation of the board of regents of the utah uni aversit and the board of trustees pt the state 1 college ahe idea that mr miller has in this is the pre bention of duplication the making of tl e university the general ed institution of the state in the higher branches of stud and making the agricultural college an agric college in fact we bel evo that those who would oppose the end aime 1 at are feve but is there any better way of reaching that end than b consolidating the general control of both separate boards hue h ue been tried for a loag time with a result that the tendency is un to duplication encroach ment and consequent strife with the in evitable loss of time ind waste of money this proposition is certainly worthy of the most attention of mr miller s tello v members of the legislature his other propos t on 13 to do away uth te land board altogether and turn its functions over to th and laca Rec rund commission chib 13 aa altogether new proposition it has merit and it calls at forcibly to a foot h wo think vill on its be generally con ceded viz that there is no need for both bodies one can easily do the vork of both and the functions devolving upon the t vo are of such i cl sely recited character that the propriety of merging all the duties required b hw of I 1 oth bodies into the control of one is evident fhe leg slator who can propose cicil methode of reducing the roster of officialdom and of cimpi simpi fing the public service deserves well of the state an 1 we think that beares milar de senes well of the public by reason of his efforts in anis behalf in the assertion that mr miller would do awa with the sti e land board en irel the tribune la mistaken and does our representative an unintentional in justice mr miller knows too well the value ot a arst class state land board and the great amount of needed work jet to be done by such a board the idea be has in view is the consoli lation of the two the land board and the and land Poc lamat on fund commission through the abolition of the latter body and not the state land board by far the ill important board of the two and having one set of officers perform the duties of the two concerns such du ies are along the lines jf the ime sime s pub 1 service and would harmonize acel the duties of the land baird corn missioners under present ro editions do not require but a portion of their time and should the work of both boards be confined to one set of of ficiala paid a fair compensation the state would benefit devotion of their entire time to the public service an 1 by such action th wo lid become bettor with tt e scope ind taff their vor and the state more antell gent anil e |
