“palace, guard” exercises an undue and somewhat irresponsible influence. A study of this situation by Professor Corwin, and his recommendations as to the remedy for any existing organizational defects he found, would be a major contribution to political science.
Wisconsin legislators balked, back in 1948, at an appropriation for a Governor’s Commission on Human Rights. Wisconsin, they argued, with a population of less than three and a half million (less than one per cent nonwhite) could leave this problem to its churches, schools and private organizations. The new Director of the Commission, which up to then had existed only on paper, held that it could be made a state-oriented agency, beyond racial-religious influences, and could draw up a “preventive, constructive program for all citizens. The purse strings were, accordingly, loosened, and today it costs Wisconsin taxpayers a mere penny “to make Wisconsin a better place in which to live for representatives of all races, creeds, groups, organizations and fields of endeavor.”
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