Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 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 4mpeached. 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 pubUc service, and not self-advertising and personal glorification. Jealousy can allow murderers to escape : permit Infcompetents to remain in office; create Inefficiency in official labors, and bring about a chaotic condition so apparent to the peoffte that they cannot fail to see it. Some cities are today suffering from Just such causes. —South'Bend Tribune.