The united American : a magazine of good citizenchip., May 01, 1926, Page 7, Image 7

May 1926
Page Seven
THE UNITED AMERICAN
1000. Today there are a university, an agricultural college and ment for the year 1899 with the year 1926. At the time
two normal schools, with a student body of nearly 8000.
mentioned, twenty-seven years ago, there were not to exceed
three hundred full-time and part-time salaried officials and
7400 Teachers in 1924
No figures are readily available to show the marked in­ employes in the entire state organization, exclusive of the
crease in the expenses of the various political subdivisions instructors in the institutions of higher learning. Their total
of the state, with the exception of expenditures for the main­ compensation did not exceed $25,000 per month, or approxi­
tenance of our public schools. Taking the year 1900, we find mately $300,000 for that year.
The payrolls for the month of February, 1926, disclose
that the average daily attendance in the public schools in the
that there are over thirty-eight hundred full and part-time
several counties was about 64,500; the number of teachers
salaried officials, subordinates and employes in the various
employed about 3750, and the total disbursements for public
state departments and activities, including the faculties of
school purposes substantially $1,600,000. For the year 1925
the institutions of higher learning, and that the aggregate
we find that the average daily attendance was about 157,500;
of the payrolls for that month was substantially $465,000.
that there were nearly 7400 teachers employed and that the
total of disbursements during the year in the conduct of the
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public schools. was substantially $20,393,000. Teachers sal­
On such basis the total state payroll for the year 1926
aries increased from an aggregate of $898,200 for the year
will be more than $5,500,000, or over ten times as many em­
1900 to $9,605,000 for the year 1924.
ployes with a payroll more than fifteen times as great as for
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the year 1899. More than one thousand of the latter em­
ployes have been the result of the development of the motor
So that one may visualize the result of the transition
vehicle within the past thirteen years, and represent that part
following the perfection of the self-propelled vehicle, a refer­
of the state organization engaged in the building and main­
ence to the outlays of the state for its penal, reformatory,
tenance of our highway system, the salaries of which aggre­
charitable, curative and educational institutions for the bi­
gate substantially $100,000 per month.
ennial period 1899-1900 reveals that during such time the
sum of $607,870 was expended for the maintenance of the
That one may have some further vision of the necessities
then existing penal, reformatory, charitable and curative in­
and requirements of a well-organized government, the fact
stitutions, and $242,039 for the institutions of higher learning
must not be overlooked that the above allusions have been
and for the state schools for the blind and deaf.
only to the particular requirements of the state itself.
There were no outlays whatever from the public treasury
Other Employes Listed
for the construction and maintenance of general state highways.
They do not include the various county officials, deputies
Comparing these figures with the expenditures for like
and employes of the thirty-six counties of the state, nor the
purposes during the biennium 1923-24, it is found that during
great number of individuals in each of the counties operating
this latter period $2,777,096 was paid for operating the several
independently of the state highway commission, who are en­
penal, ■ reformatory, charitable and curative institutions, and
gaged in the prosecution of highway work under the direct
that $5,598,412 constituted the obligation of the state for con­
control and supervision of the respective counties, nor of the
ducting its educational institutions of higher learning and in
officers, deputies and employes necessary in the maintaining
the instruction of the blind and deaf.
of the governments of the nearly two hundred cities and
Restraints Add to Cost
towns of the state, nor of the teachers, instructors and others
employed in the two thousand three hundred seventy-three
During the two years 1923 and 1924 there was disbursed
for state-wide highway activities a total of $20,238,540 in road
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ties and interest on outstanding bonds.
Nor has the care of the state’s criminals, delinquents and
dependents, the education of our children and the construc­
tion of highways been the full extent of the state’s obligations.
At the period of admission to statehood there was no par­
ticular restraint, upon the actions of the citizen or special
regulation of his habits and conduct outside of those laws
generally relating to his morals; nor was there an inclination
on the part of the state to impose restrictions upon the i
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years thereafter, from which time more or less restrictive
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one is born into the world to the time he or she is laid in the
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grave, at almost every step in life there is the exercise of |
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restriction of the conduct of the citizen.
Every Activity Scanned
It is present in the quest of business, in the pursuit of
pleasure and recreation and in the search for health. In fact,
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in practically every design to which man may turn his hand,
he is regulated, supervised, licensed, controlled, restrained and
quality furniture; just a small amount when you
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surrounded with a code of statutory ethics and rules, of which,
purchase
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if at any juncture he is able to avoid at least a technical vio­
drop
in
and
let
us
explain
this
convenience.
lation, he is, indeed, most fortunate.
To such a degree has the paternalistic arm of the state
been extended over and around the citizen that at the present
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time there exist, in addition to the large number of elective
and appointive public officials clothed with special powers and
charged with certain duties, some sixty-four state boards and
commissions under constitutional or statutory authority, with
a total membership of some three hundred and ten individ­
uals, charged with the administration of the laws of the state
imposing such regulation and control.
Three Thousand Eight Hundred on Payroll
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number of state officials and employes of the state govern-
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