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Contents

P/1RT ONE— TYPES OF COUNTY CONCERNMENT

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ELEMENTS OF THE COUNTY PROBLEM 3

PART THREE— PLANS FOR THE REORGANIZATION OF COUNTY GOyERNMENT

COUNTY HOME RULE IN CALIFORNIA: THE LOS ANGLES COUNTY CHARTER 229

Lewis R. Works, Member of the Board of Freeholders that framed the Home Rule Charter for Los Angeles County

THE GOVERNMENT OF ALAMEDA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA 237

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

CHECKS ON COUNTY GOVERNMENT IN INDIANA 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.

Otho Grandford Cartwright, Member of the New York Staff of Lybrand, Ross Brothers and Montgomery, Certified Public Accountants, New York

STATE AND COUNTY GOVERNMENT IN OREGON AND PROPOSED CHANGES 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

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NOTES

Bagnell — Economic and Moral /Aspects of the Liquor Traffic (p. 279); Barnes and DE Montmorency — The Divorce Commission (p. 279); Blakey — The Sale of Liquor in the South (p. 280); Chamberlain — The IVork 0/ the Bond House (p. 280); Devine — The Family and Social fVork (p. 280); Eddy — The New Competition (p. 281) FoKD— Cooperation in New England, Urban and Rural (p. 281); Holdsworth — Report of the Economic Survey of Pittsburgh (p. 281); Kropotkin — Fields, Factories and fVorkshops (p. 282); McClellan — Smuggling in the American Colonies (p. 282); McLaughlin — IVashington and Lincoln (p. 282); Myers — Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, IVest New Jersey and Delaware, 1630-1707 (p. 283); Nelson — An Encylopedia of Industrialism (p. 283); Proceedings of the Fourth National Conference on City Planning (p. 283); Redfield — The New Industrial Day (p. 284); Rogers — The American Newspaper (p. 284); Seligman — The Social Evil (p. 284); Stanwood — A History of the Presidency from 1897 to tgog (p. 284); Thomson — Environment and Efficiency (p. 285); Upson — Sources of Municipal Revenues in Illinois (p. 285); Van Kleeck — Women in the Bookbinding Trade (p. 286); White — Successful Houses and How to Build Them (p. 286); Wolfe — Admission to American Trade Unions (p. 287); Wood — The Finances of Vermont (p. 287).

REVIEWS

Allen— A/orfffn Philanthropy (p. 288) C. Kelsey

AspiNALL— rib* British IVist Indies (p. 288) C. L. Jones

Baldwin — The Relations of Education to Citizenship (p. 289) C. L. King

Beard — American City Government (p. 290) C. L. King

Blair — The Indian Tribes of the Upper Mississippi Valley ami Region

of the Great Lakes, 2 vols (p. 291) C. Kelsey

Channing, Hart and Tvknek— Guide to Study and Reading of American

Chatterton-Hill — The Sociological Value of Christianity (p. 292) C. Kelsey

Dougherty — Power of Federal Judiciary over Legislation (p. 293) c:. L. King

Ellv/ood— 'Sociology in its Psychological Aspects (p. 294) C. Kelsey

Evans — Black and IVhite in South East Africa (p. 296) C E. Haynes

Fletcher — The Making of IVesUm Europe (p. 298) \. C. Howland

George and Stowe— Ci/i j^iii Made and Remade (p. 299) E. S. Whitin

HiNE — Modern Organisation (p. 300) A. G. White

Lewis — An Introduction to Sociology (p. 300) J . P. Lichtenberger

Macgowen — Men and Manners of Modern China; Giles — China and the

Mead — Swords and Ploughshares (p. 302) W. I. Hull

Montgomery — Auditing: Theory and Practice (p. 302; 1!. P. Moxey, Jr.

MouLTON — Waterways Versus Railways (p. 303) T. W. Van Metre

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MuNRO — The Cover nment of American Cities (p. 304) C. L. King

Poole — The Exchequer in the Twelfth Century (p. 305) W. E. Lunt

PoRTENAR — Organised Labor: Its Problems and How to Meet Them {p. 307)

A. Fleisher Railway Commissioners, The National Association of — Digest of Laws and

Journal of Proceedings (p. 308) D. S. Hanchett

Raper — Railway Transportation (p. 309) D. S. Hanchett

Rappard — Le Facteur Economique dans UAvtnement de la Dhnocratie

Moderne en Suisse (p. 310) W. E. Lingelbach

Ripley — Railroads: Rates and Regulation (p. 311) T. W. Van Metre

Tallentyre — The Life of Mirabeau (p. 312) W. E. Lingelbach

Thwing — The Family (p. 313) C. Kelsey

Van Dyke — Through South America (p. 314; W. S. Tower

ViNocRADOFF — Oxfofd Studies in Social and Legal History. Vol. III.

^ ALUS— Sociological Study of the Bible (p. 316) C. Kelsey

Walsh — Industrial Economy (p. 317) E. Jones

WoRSFOLD — The Union of South Africa (p. 3 18) C. L. Jones

This volume was suggested, and a tentative table oj contents submitted, by Mr. H. S. Gilbertson, of The National Short Ballot Organisation. Professor fohn A. Fairlie, of the University of Illinois, also rendered invaluable assistance in suggesting topics and contributors. With these suggestions as a basis, the volume was prepared and edited by Clyde Lyndon King, Ph.D., Assistant Editor.