Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1915 — ADVISERS FOR TOWNS [ARTICLE]

ADVISERS FOR TOWNS

By S. M. Jordan.

Well, Well! What have we here? Really a “town advisei!” So easy to see the mote in the “other fellow’s** eye, isn’t it? The towns have seen so clearly the need of a “farm adviser,” but have not seen that the towns are “run” as a rule a blamed signt worse than are the farms. Whan something is “rotten” on the farm every fellow can place the blame. Our “smeller” tells it on him, and we can find the offender, but when there is “something rotten” in the town, and there commonly is, we cannot find out who is to blame. Maybe no one person is to blame',- but the system of management renders it impossible to place the blame. This will not be remedied until the “system” is so arranged- that the blame for conditions may be placed, and placed quickly and s> rely. Now comus St. Joseph and hires an adviser for the town, not a town doctor, nor cabbage expert, but a man “schooled fcr b andling municipal matters. The situation for the “town adviser” is like that of the “farm adviser” —not many are “ready for the job,” but it would look like a good step in the direction of greater town efficiency, and cne town at least Is to be congratulated on seeing the “beam in its own eye!”