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Show ifPl j .!Fli ciniplified Government Irf WAS A SIMPLE government 1 5' I "of to. and by the PeP,e" hch 'our forefathers bequeathed Ttheir progeny. Its three branches legislative, administrative, and "Si: 'jjjiai-carried through aU units 5 Lm the town, through the county di H state to the federal. It was a S' ffivernment that answered aU the Loses of their time, but suc-1 suc-1 Lding generations have so added In it that what was simple is now ' 5 Complex, scarcely-understandable ,,eti nvemmental machine, in all of ..V I various units. I: Conditions change from genera- ton to generation, almost from. E; tear to year. Government changes L an effort to keep pace with m changing conditions. Government aids to, but never subtracts. New departments, new' bureaus are added, but when conditions no longer long-er require these additions they are Mver dropped. In many cases, the conditions of half a century ago, ! more or less, which at the time tell; seemed to warrant a new depart-ussj depart-ussj ment or a new bureau for some unit 6 4 of government city, township, asti: county, state or national do not H m exist. t,e The department or bureau that as added goes on and on, though stts -He need for it has long since M passed, and other expense items, ' Sr. added when it was established, continue. con-tinue. It is easy to add to our governmental govern-mental costs, but our political sys- ""', tem makes it difficult to dispense !J -with those added costs when the usefulness of the department or ""'I bureau is over, if it ever existed. ""i Each job means political patron-I patron-I age, and that is something few, if ""j any, political party leaders are Tilling to reduce. That applies to I all units of government, from that 1 & cl the town through to the national lti-1 government at Washington. 'J Two years ago congress made i a gesture looking toward the simplification of the federal ' government, and the reduction "j ol the expense. The Hoover com-I com-I mission has reported its recom- """,! mendations. It is now up to con-I con-I gress to enact those recom-I recom-I mendations into law, but to do I so means reducing congres- jn!ct' sion.il patronage, and that con- Ji gress will not do unless it is forced by a vigorous demand on ' the part of the voters. ' h: The California state chamber of commerce now is promoting the hy IE idea of a commission to do for ironic California what the Hoover com-u'rei com-u'rei mission did for the federal gov-us, gov-us, I( erment. It wants recommenda-'0U recommenda-'0U tions for the organization of the lere a state's administrative branch; it d faj ants to remove the needless de-; de-; I a partments and bureaus, and the a ocj needless employees on the state's fisbti payrolls. It wants, also, to so sim-alongj sim-alongj plify the state government; to re-ae re-ae sai move overlapping jurisdiction and ettri authority, that it will be easier for wild N its citizens to do business with the 30." state government, and with each . ihB. 1 Li. I thi It is a worthy idea, and one that laugh. ell could be promoted in prac- i iay every state, and in every i mit of government in all states. There would be a minimum num- j tier of branches in every state, county or city government. There b wuld be but few cases in which jraiis of simplification could not rrrj e found, or in which considerable il pense items could not be elimi-o,atei elimi-o,atei They would not be the J a: Moover commission findings of j, Wee billion dollars annually, but 5 0 uey could be proportionately large. .JIM Just as the management of a WTe)! 'iness does not see savings iii "id improvements because of a 3 too-close familiarity with pre-JUSf pre-JUSf t processes, so the executive tr"ich of a government will see the needed, or desirable, nses in the executive branch J f fovernment which they are iV'Mting. As in the case of the "ver commission, it needs I "-ualified outsiders work-J work-J Wllh a "elect group of in- to see possible changes. make th necessary recom-"oidatlons. recom-"oidatlons. commission is the first step. -ShTmmendations' after care- I ll third 18 the second steP- The -r feo'i.'r probably the hardest. the 6 enactment into law of sv'ecoi"mendations. No matter 'statl i leS'slative body be S1Slature' a county barl rvisors, or a city councU VM 'Went ja a constant and per- VM ,6mand on the part of the v i lh. tte enactoent into law tse recommendations. Stare ' ' WMCeIyta day' never a week, thi 0ngress is in ses-" ses-" tdU,e at some member of the ethi! S6nate does not Propose ie tax?8 new for which to spend "fl, Uterel?' mney- U they were i :l the r m S3Ving as ta sPenJ- "W W o mmendations of the 1 II Vn lmmissin would have at- |