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Second — A state board of control secures greater accuracy in 

 accounts and facilitates the transaction of business by furnishing 

 uniform blanks and a uniform system of bookkeeping for each 

 state institution, and thus secures greater efficiency of adminis- 

 tration. 



Third — A state board of control eliminates local controversy 

 in the communities where the state institutions are located, over 

 the question of dividing the state's bounty in purchasing supplies, 

 etc., and also prevents legislative combinations for that purpose. 



Fourth — A state board of control provides better food, better 

 clothing, and better care for the inmates of all state institutions, 

 and thus preserves and extends the purposes for which the insti- 

 tutions w^ere established. 



Fifth — A state board of control secures better discipline among 

 the employees and inmates of every state institution by means of 

 the special powers conferred upon each superintendent to select 

 his own assistants and employees and to discharge them for cause. 

 It secures in this way the merit system with employees. 



Sixth — A state board of control relieves the superintendents 

 of the state institutions from the burdens of financial details, and 

 enables them to study, as never before, the real problems involved 

 in their work, and to preserve and extend the educational and 

 reformatory purposes for which the institutions were founded. 



Seventh — A board of control, constituted upon the plan of Iowa 

 and Minnesota, practically eliminates politics from the manage- 

 ment of state institutions. Civil service principles are adhered to 

 from the beginning. 



Eighth- — A state board of control is an expression of the best 

 thought of the age in centralizing large business enterprises. It 

 is in harmony with the drift of events and meets the demands of 

 the times. The state institutions have grown to such large pro- 

 portions, involving the expenditure of such large sums of money 

 and involving such intricate and complicated problems afifecting 

 the interests of all citizens, that popular judgment favors a cen- 

 tral state board of control. 



Ninth — A state board of control practically insures equitable 

 appropriations to the dififerent state institutions, and prevents the 



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