SEASONGOOD LECTURES ON COUNTY GOVERNMENT

A discussion of county government in the United States was included by Murray Seasongood '00, former Mayor of Cincinnati, yesterday afternoon in the second of the series of Godkin Lecture. Pointing to the fact that the cost of county government in most cases far exceeds the cost of state or national government, Seasongood discussed the various reforms in county government which are being attempted in the United States.

Among the proposed reforms are the county manager plan of government; the consolidation of county and city governments; and the absorption of many county functions by the state government.

Quoting the findings of an Ohie Legislative Committee on Economy and Taxation, Mr. Seasongood declared that "County Government is antiquated and plauless. . . It violates almost every principle of business and governmental organization which experience has evolved. It is the product of a century of slow, but largely hit and miss development." His address described the straggle for reform in the government of Hamilton County, in which Cincinnati is located, and described the economies which had been effected in recent years. The next lecture will be tomorrow.