528 EDITORIAL 
governor and his friends in the form of payment for worthless 
services. We are not sufficiently informed in the technicalities 
of law and the processes of the courts to know how legal action 
in a case of this kind can be instituted and maintained, but if 
the appointees are as obviously incompetent as information 
indicates, they are simply consuming the funds of the state to 
no purpose save their own, and we think that an effort should 
be made to procure a formal declaration by the courts whether 
this is not a virtual embezzlement, and if so, to secure the award 
of the proper punishment. If there is now no way of compel- 
ling a governor to respect the laws of a state and the purposes 
of its statutes, a way should be provided. Le :Caet 
