Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1912 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

decay of neglect, losses are multiplied fold upon fold, and the cost of it is borne by the people. The total of this waste is a great percentage of the money taken by taxation for support of municipal government. This blight of waste, that tomes from the inefficiency of partisan rule, falls upon all. There is waste on all hands —waste by dishonesty, by neglect, by stupidity, by extravagance—and it takes from the people in necessaries, In ! property, in money, in health, in enj joyments and in moral quality. It iis a useless and an immoral waste due wholly to the want of common sense in the system of politics and ; the methods of choice we employ to ' select our government. The taxpayer is assessed from 25 to 50 per i cent more than the need would be if his city business were transacted with the efficiency that private business : is transacted. The Business System of Government for Indiana Cities was drawn expressly with a view to putting an end to waste in the government of cities.

The City as an Example of Business Efficiency. City government should be the best, not the worst example of business method and business efficiency. The city should furnish not a pattern merely of municipal operation, but a model of scientific system of doing work, developing economy, increasing results and making progress. This principle is vital, since the city in operation is almost purely a business establishment and means so much tor the good or ill of all persons under it and all interests within it. The city should contrive to do not as little and that little as badly as can be got along with, but all that ought to be done in the best manner of doing It. The city should plan, not for the bare needs of the day, but for its expansion—in population, in industry, in commerce, in civic greatness—a long way ahead. The city should be clean and sanitary, and sightly and wholesome to the sense, according to the laws of health and the dictates of selfrespect. Its streets and alleys should be substantially improved and the improvements maintained. Good order should prevail and the laws should be made to deal fairly by all. The city should provide, or see that there are provided, those public services that the daily necessities of the people re- - quire, and that such utilities are operated with the needs of the people and the principles of justice always in mind. The city should itself go forward and make easy the way for the procession of all interests that compose its greatness and give it its strength. The city should maintain itself at the highest practicable standard at the lowest possible cost to the people. Officials and employes should be constantly sensible of their duties to the people and always mindful that upon their shoulders lays responsibility for the welfare of all. The city should foster love of the beautiful by Itself creating beauty. It should teach cleanliness by cultivating its own decencies of condition and appearance. It should counsel honesty by its own probity. It should uphold economy by its own thrift. It should lead all progress by its own advancements. It should raise all business efficiency to higher degrees by its own examples. In short, the city should be in all ways exemplary, instead of the last word in waste and extravagance, corruption and incar pacity. In physical quality, in civic character, in social Ideals the city ought to be an inspiration to its people, and in efficiency, in progress, in profit of operation it should be a pattern to all business. It is a grave confession of civic Incapacity to plead, as many do, that free institutions and home rule in their very nature make honesty, common sense and business skill impossible conditions of government. To assert this is either to falsify our character as a people,. or to convict us of unfitness for the liberties we enjoy.

Under the Business System of Government for Indiana Cities the municipality can be made to realize those practical ideals, rule upon which may be reafeed a citizenship that wiH cherish its Mvileges and respect the obligations Itk liberties impose.

A House for You. “If you have sense, and feeling, determine what sort of house iJvlll be fit for you; determine to work for it —to get it—and to die ini It, if the Lord will. I mean, one that you can entirely enjoy and manage; but which you will not be proud of, except as you make it charming in its modesty.” —Ruskin. , Trunk Linings, Little bags of lavender in the compartments of trunks that must stand for any length of, time, sweeten wonderfully the air that is so apt to grow musty. If trunk linings are slightly scented in this way dresses and underwear are more daintily fragrant at the end of the journey than when one folds a sachet among the garments themselves. As It Is In Life. No one ever has tho choice of ths very best. Most things, humanly speaking, are simply the choice of one good thing and one not so good*