The above can justly be termed a very tall order and one that certainly threatens chaos. It places these is of departments, all highly trained men and of long experience, at the merey of six local municipal politicians who are ignorant of the technical and professional work for which these chiefs of departments sponsible. It means that a majority of these six men, even in opposition to the heads of any of these departments, can carry through any wild-cat scheme that takes their fancy, unless the Governor-General inter s—which is very doubtful. In brief, it means a sal blunder.
ty be argued that under the isting charter, the heads of these departments have had to take, and still take, their instructions from the board. That is true; but four members of the board (two Americans and two Filipinos) are men who have 1 carefully chosen by the chief ecutive for their ability and impartiality; men who have no poli. tical axes to grind and who have no constituency worrying them to put forward some pet project which may he for the benefit of a few but to the detriment of the many. Does any sane man think the same could inal fr
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