Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1916 — Unwise City Administrations. [ARTICLE]

Unwise City Administrations.

Any city administration whose acts are prompted by petty jealousies and whose officials, either elected or appointed, refrain from performing the duties they owe the people because of those jealousies, ought to be Impeached. Honest, efficient service cannot be rendered the people when their public servants have such a narrow vision that they fail to appreciate the value of public opinion, and therefore commit those acts which prove that such narrowness of vision really exists. The public servants who accomplish public good are men of broad vision, whose first alm is real public sendee, and not self-advertising and personal glorification. Jealousy can allow murderers to escape; permit Incompetents to remain In office; create Inefficiency In official labors, and bring about a chaotic condition so apparent} to the people that they cannot fail tor see It Some cities are today suffering from just such causes.—South Tribune. ' iC ‘ ' '