Reorganization in Counties and Townships
| Author | John A. Fairlie |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271622411300125 |
| Published date | 01 May 1924 |
| Date | 01 May 1924 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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REORGANIZATION
IN
COUNTIES
AND
TOWNSHIPS
mer
months.
These
forces
are
there-
fore
shifted
back
and
forth
from
one
phase
of
the
work
to
another,
and
this
consistent
interchange
between
the
field
and
the
inspection
service
im-
measurably
strengthens
both
activities.
In
fact,
all
field-men
are
first
trained
in
the
meat
inspection
service.
The
sep-
aration
of
the
meat
inspection
service
from
the
Department
of
Agriculture
would
disassociate
it
from
the
research
bureaus
that
are
constantly
perfecting
the
processes
of
inspection
and
disease
control,
and
would
materially
increase
the
cost
by
doing
away
with
the
possi-
bility
of
shifting
from
one
service
to
another
to
meet
the
peak
loads
in
each
instance.
The
enforcement
of
the
pure
food
and
drug
laws
was
established
in
the
Department
of
Agriculture
because
that
organization
possessed
the
differ-
ent
technical
scientists
necessary
to
the
determination
of
the
standards
of
purity
necessary.
If
this
service
was
transferred
to
any
other
organization
it
would
be
necessary
to
duplicate
many
laboratories
that
are
now
engaged
in
research
work
for
the
Department
of
Agriculture
as
well
as
contributing
to
the
pure
food
administration.
Whether
its
intimate
relationship
with
the
other
activities
of
the
Public
Health
Service
would
overbalance
these
considera-
tions,
would
be
a
matter
for
the
proper
authorities
to
determine.
This
and
other
minor
transfers
suggested
are
relatively
unimportant
as
compared
with
the
need
of
realizing
the
real
function
of
the
Department
of
Agri-
culture
and
establishing
an
organization
that
will
enable
it
to
provide
the
food
and
raw
materials
necessary to
the
continued
growth
and
development
of
the
nation.
When
all
is
said
and
done
it
must
be
remembered
that
really
efficient
and
economical
administration
is
the
end
to be
sought,
and
when
measured
by
this
standard
many
plausible
theo-
retical
plans
for
reorganization
fall
apart
on
examination.
Reorganization
in
Counties
and
Townships
1
By
JOHN
A.
FAIRLIE
University
of
Illinois
FOR
purposes
of
analysis,
the
prob-
F
lems
of
rural
government
in
the
United
States-and
indeed
of
govern-
ment
in
general-may
be
considered
in
several
groups:
There
are
problems
of
functions,-the
objects
or
ends
to
be
attained
or
the
work
to
be
undertaken
by
public
or
governmental
agencies.
There
are
problems
as
to
the
areas
or
districts
best
suited
for
carrying
on
the
desired
public
functions.
There
are
problems
as
to
the
organization
and
relations
of
the
governmental
machin-
ery.
And
there
are
problems
of
cit-
izenship,
connected
with
the
relations
of
citizens
and
voters
to
the
local
government
and
its
work.
These
groups
of
problems,
however,
are
not
independent
and
disconnected.
They
are
mutually
dependent
and
inter-related;
and
a
brief
examination
of
each
group
may
be
considered
as
different
cross
sections
of
the
same
subject
matter,
cut
through
different
dimensions,
and
to
be
studied
from
dif-
1
This
article
presents
the
substance
of
a
report
prepared
for
and
approved
by
the
Committee
on
Rural
Government
of
the
American
Country
Life
Association,
and
read
at
the
New
Orleans
meeting
of
that
Association.
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