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Show NEEDS REVAMPING 'IP Professor Outlines Efficiency for State SALT LAKE CITY "For what we spend for state gov-J ernment, we sometimes hardly deserve the representation we do get. The human race, worshipping wor-shipping kings for thousands of years, finds it difficult to respect re-spect the dignity of common men, working together." This was a statement of Dr. G. Homer Durham, chairman of the department of political science and director of the Institute In-stitute of Government at the University of Utah, in the 15th annual Frederick William Reynolds Reyn-olds lecture delivered recently in Kingsbury Hall. As suggestions for the improvement im-provement of Utah's legislative organization, Dr. Durham pro-Continued pro-Continued on Page 4 Revamping . . . (Continued from page 1) posed the idealistic unicameral state council, which, he said, would require wholesale constitutional consti-tutional revision, or a six-point program to bring the legislature legisla-ture up to date. The six points included: (1) annual rather than biennial session, (2) adequate salaries for legislators, (3) revision re-vision of the present rules of procedure by means of a special spe-cial committee or by reference to the Legislative Council, (4) reorganization and strengthening strengthen-ing of the present committee structure with more joint committees com-mittees and with smaller committees com-mittees in some instances, (5) legislative reapportionment in harmony with the 1950 census, and (6) strengthening of the Legislative Council created in 1947. Dr. Durham suggested that a few thousand dollars spent in political research might be able to save billions of dollars and much human suffering spent on war. A capacity crowd heard the annual address. |
