EDITOR: EMORY R. JOHNSON

ASSISTANT EDITOR: CLYDE L. KING

EDITOR BOOK DEPARTMENT: ROSWELL C. MCCREA

ASSOCIATE EDITORS: THOMAS CONWAY, JR., G. G. HUEBNER, S. S. HUEBNER
CARL KELSEY, J. P. LICHTENBERGER, L. S. ROWE, ELLERY C. STOWELL

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Copyright, 1913, by

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CONTENTS

PART ONE-TYPES OF COUNTY GOVERNMENT

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ELEMENTS OF THE COUNTY PROBLEM..

3

H. S. GILBERTSON, Assistant Secretary, The National Short Ballot

Organization

THE COUNTY COMMUNITY AND ITS GOVERNMENT..

14

WILLIAM L. BAILEY, Associate Professor of Political Science, Grinnell

College, Iowa

COUNTY GOVERNMENT IN NEW ENGLAND.....

26

FRANK A. UPDYKE, Department of Political Science, Dartmouth College,

Hanover, N. H.

PARISH GOVERNMENT IN LOUISIANA..

39

WILLIAM O. SCROGGS, PH.D., Department of Economics and Sociology,

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La.

COUNTY GOVERNMENT IN MISSOURI..

48

Isidor Loeb, PH.D., Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri

COUNTY AND TOWN GOVERNMENT IN ILLINOIS..

62

JOHN A. FAIRLIE, PH.D., Professor of Political Science, University of

Illinois

PART TWO-TYPICAL PROBLEMS IN COUNTY GOVERNMENT

THE COUNTY EMPLOYEE.

WINSTON PAUL, Secretary, Citizens' Federation of Hudson County,

Jersey City, N. J.

265642

81

THE COUNTY IN POLITICS..

CHESTER LLOYD JONES, PH.D., University of Wisconsin

THE MERIT SYSTEM AND THE COUNTY CIVIL SERVICE.....

ROBERT W. BELCHER, Secretary, National Civil Service Reform League,

New York City

THE CORONER'S OFFICE..

OSCAR T. SCHULTZ, M.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology, Western

Reserve University, Cleveland; Editor of "The Cleveland Medical

Journal"

THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR: HIS POWERS, TEMPTATIONS AND

LIMITATIONS...

PAGE

85

101

112

120

HOWARD S. GANS, Of the New York Bar; Formerly an Assistant District

Attorney of New York County

BOSTON'S COUNTY PROBLEMS..

134

ORREN C. HORMELL, A.M., Assistant Professor of History, Bowdoin

College, Brunswick, Me.

COUNTY ADMINISTRATION OF SCHOOL AFFAIRS IN ITS RELATION

TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT..

153

FRANK H. HARRIN, A.M., Little Rock, Ark.

CHARITY FUNCTIONS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA COUNTY... . . . .

166

ELLA F. HARRIS, A.B., Special Agent of Department of Public Health

and Charities, Philadelphia

ADMINISTRATION OF LOCAL TAXATION IN OHIO..

F. W. COKER, PH.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ohio State

University

COUNTY BUDGETS: ECONOMY AND EFFICIENCY IN EXPEN-

182

DITURES....

199

JAMES E. BOYLE, PH.D., Professor of Economics and Political Science,

University of North Dakota

STATE SUPERVISION OF COUNTY ASSESSMENT AND TAXATION.. 213

JOHN E. BRINDLEY, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa

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PART THREE-PLANS FOR THE REORGANIZATION OF COUNTY

GOVERNMENT

COUNTY HOME RULE IN CALIFORNIA: THE LOS ANGLES COUNTY

CHARTER..

LEWIS R. WORKS, Member of the Board of Freeholders that framed the

Home Rule Charter for Los Angeles County

229

THE GOVERNMENT OF ALAMEDA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA........

M. L. REQUA, President of the Tax Association of Alameda County, Cal.

CHECKS ON COUNTY GOVERNMENT IN INDIANA....

237

248

JOHN A. LAPP, Director, Indiana Bureau of Legislative Information

THE MOVEMENT FOR COUNTY REORGANIZATION IN NEW JERSEY 255

WINSTON PAUL, Secretary Citizens' Federation of Hudson County, Jersey

City, N. J.

COUNTY GOVERNMENT IN NEW YORK STATE..

OTHO GRANDFORD CARTWRIGHT, Member of the New York Staff of

Lybrand, Ross Brothers and Montgomery, Certified Public Account-

ants, New York

STATE AND COUNTY GOVERNMENT IN OREGON AND PROPOSED

CHANGES....

258

271

W. S. U'REN, Counsellor-at-Law, Oregon City, Ore.

A THEORETICALLY PERFECT COUNTY..

274

RICHARD S. CHILDS, Secretary, The National Short Ballot Organization

BOOK DEPARTMENT..

INDEX...

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