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administrative or dual system. Under the supervisory sys- 

 tem such a board or agency might act as a substitute for a 

 central board with complete powers of control. 



It has been claimed that the difference between the admin- 

 istrative and supervisory boards is more theoretical than 

 real, and that may often be the case in actual practice. But 

 if we analyze the situation we will find that this results not 

 from any generally accepted idea that such a condition is the 

 best, but merely from force of circumstance. Where the 

 administrative board is the only existing central agency it 

 will, and must inevitably, take on supervisory powers, for 

 supervision by some State central agency is now recognized 

 as essential to the State's charity work. On the other hand, 

 where the supervisory board is the only State central agency 

 it will quite naturally take on more and more executive or 

 administrative functions. In neither case is this so much 

 the result of a preconceived idea as it is of mere immediate 

 expediency. In the past this has been caused by the idea 

 long prevalent that it would not be practicable to have two 

 State central boards existing, one exercising administrative, 

 the other supervisory functions. The tendency toward the 

 dual system is growing stronger today, and that old theory 

 of the antagonism of the two boards is fading slowly away. 



