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"County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties."
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"We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance."

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