| "The fact the private enterprises operate well and econmically, does not deter them from trying to operate better and more economically. We constantly see corporations whose management represents the last word in effieciency. Yet in a short time we see them produce something still more efficient.
If business management does not stand still, but always advances, there is all the more reason why STate management should not stand still either. For while the mounting cost of private buisness falls chiefly upon the owners and consumers, the mounting cost of public business falls on everyone. It is to the interest of the few that private businesses should strive always for more efficiency and more economy. It is to the interest of all that the State Government should do that.
In working for this end, and in considering the problems involved, it is helpful to remember that buisness and Government are not the same, because government has a side, which business has not, where it is subjected to cross currents of popular forces, such as elections, changing administrations, public policies, state traditions and usages which the people want preserved.
Business often feels the reaction from these things, and prospers or suffers accordingly; but it does not have to contend with them directly, - in its own house. It does not have to reckon with these forces in building the structure of its own organization. Government does."
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"The object of Government is to meet the needs of the people. Government, in the words of the Maryland Declaration of Rights, is 'instituted solely for the good of the whole.'"
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"We want in Maryland a government, if we can get it, cheaper and better than the one we have, but we want to preserve all that is good, - and there is much that is good, - in our present institutions. The only changes we want are changes which will bring with them greater efficiency and greater economy, and which will square those State usages wna practises [sic] which experience has justified, and which, therefore, ought to endure. In a word, we want for Maryland a Maryalnd form of government."
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"The natural, logical thing now, - the sequence to what has gone before, - is to pause and view in its entirety our governmental machinery, and to re-cast the structure, coordinating the several agencies, preserving every storng feature and cutting out every weak one, so that we may have a practical, working - well-balanced whole, capable of operating better than the present one, and at less cost."
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Plan for the Reorganization of the Administrative Departments of the State Government of Maryland and for the Reduction of the Number of Elections in Maryland by the Regorganization Commission of Maryland. Adopted September 14, 1921.
Summary of report: An analysis of government administration which at the time was considered top heavy with too many boards and commissions acting independently but officially under the Governor who had no mechanism to supervise and make them accountable. |
