Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1919 — City Government Important. [ARTICLE]

City Government Important.

City government touches the citizen in manifold ways and is of more vital importance to his interests, business and personal, than any other sphere of governmental activity with which he comes in contact. It collects more taxes from him and expends more money. Its problems are among the most complex with which public officials have to deal, and being largely of a business nature, every mistake which is made helps to raise the citizen’s taxes. If its problems are to be well solved, if the city is to be benefited by the successful achievement of other cities and profit by their failures, city officials must have access to all available information and data to be had upon these various problems and > subjects, •