Show AND COUNTY T 11 REED HEED dirac C the department of 0 political science f of 0 michigan has been g a study I 1 u it Y of rural local govern it lis tile the united rutted states and has come i conclusion that there are too many K in that they are too epen expensive she and I 1 they are out 0 of date and artie early days when ulten it was vies a days iley to go ten miles to the court a and back and alid a hardship on ebil to send them more titan than a mile to aal aol 01 ol the lie nation needed seats of 0 gov irnest ament and of education close to or in y v comi community nulLity professor reed points A nut if Is no more trouble today to g sixty miles to the court house louse than used i i fd to be to go ten miles and bees bc ies i that the answer Is going to be nd in the consolidation of 0 co counties 1 the elimination of superfluous town governments p ern ments all of 0 mallch win will tend reduce local taxation the lie moi 1110 movement ement tom ard consolidating jontry rr ro schools and hauling school chii 0 ca from rom a radius of 0 ten or fifteen miles a good centrally located graded fri chool ool Is groneng all over the country 0 little one room schoolhouse Is a suri V ni ll from rom primitive times it was mas picturesque tur esque but on the whole inefficient I 1 if reed thinks ye dont expect to s see such radical f anges in our time as prof reed thinks come eventually but we are inclined agree ilith him that taking the count lv as a whole the cost to the taxpayers jers 0 local government Is out of 0 all fo oi o i to the needs and that one way may of 0 r il icing this would be to reduce the of local governmental units and r anra ze e each one cover a larger territory |