Show LIVESTOCK MEN AIM TO LOWER TAXES american city government has made wonderful improvement tho the justly tamed famed manager plan has been adopted ty by municipalities which are showing greater efficiency of public service but tho the county has shown very little progress what will tile tho story be ten pr twenty years from now will wo we bo be able to discard our obsolete piece of 0 machinery and use the now new can we gare up our old traditions and adopt the new ideas ot of government north carolina has baa recently provided tor for a county government advisory commission an aa official body commissioned 6 to encourage the tha adoption ot at improved methods in county government this commission has sought bought especially to secure better admInIs tra tion ot of fiscal affairs placing emphasis upon budgetary procedure the result was that some rather sweeping recommendations were made to tile the legislature in 1927 and promptly enacted into law I 1 ono act requires all counties to op on a budget basis another throws very rigid safeguards around the issuance 0 of f bonds a third strengthens the machinery nery for collecting delinquent taxes and a fourth provides an easy method of adopting the county manager form of government what aro are some of the leaks in public expenses which are plain to anyone who has made a close study pt af county government and which afford possible economies A study of at county government adl cates that there are certain iilda furda mental defects which must lie be solved 1 the present organization alj of county government la Is too decentralized with its multiplicity of elective of of flees 2 in many cases tha ifie area and laton of counties Is too small 3 county business method methods are ancient obsolete and out of date 4 counties have been forced to aasuma more functions aban they py art are able to handle present feyall able sources of revenue lack of central financial and administrative authority la is one of the most serious defects other defects a ort c fals absence of definite objectives in county government antiquated methods of collecting taxes decentralized purchasing by numerous county officials to in small lots absence of layen inventories tories and stock accounts account serious lack of budget control too many employed emp loyes for the work woric to be done the employment of persons who are unqualified tor for their work and the constant breaking 0 inexperienced perien ced help colorado attacks problem what wh a t should be done dona to moo meet this situation ion which has been foli found titi to exist in counties from virginia to ti california and from minnesota to the parish in louisiana E evidently vi dently the first thing la to balce n a careful sudy of county government go vern ment similar to those made in california Callton ua north carolina and Virg virginia lufa in order to suggest methods to modernize nIzo the he looft government structure solution lies in discarding an obsolete ob bleci or of machinery and the adopt adoption iol of new ideas ot of mode modern rn methods continued from last I 1 |