_Questions for Debate._

Resolved, That for a community of 5000 inhabitants or less a village
organization is better than a city organization.




CHAPTER VI.

THE COUNTY.


Need Of.--A county organization is needed for the following reasons:

1. _To establish the lower organizations_. As we have seen, the
organizations within the county are established by county officers. But,
it may properly be asked, why not have them organized by the state
directly? There are at least three good reasons: In the first place, it
would be too burdensome to the state; that is, the state would act through
the legislature, and to organize all the individual school districts,
towns, villages, and cities, would take up too much of the time of the
legislature. In the second place, the organizing could only be done at
certain times, namely during the session of the legislature, and in the
meantime communities would have to wait. In the third place, the records
of incorporation would be inaccessible in case they were needed for
reference.