Show WILL L OEM Arm DEMAND CIVIC VIRTUE I Writer Sees Time Coming When Citizen Must rust Measure Measure- Up tip to the Right Standard Civic virtue and public spirit night perhaps go under o one e head me measuring incas meas s- s tiring the pr proportion of citizens citIzen actively ac ne- neI aei i Interested ted In the affairs of the community und the quality of their I service For Instance anyone workIng workIng work- work Ing lug In nn any store store shop school milt mill or other form of public service and l rI not doing honest work wok lacks civic virtue Just as ns- ns much as If It he were In an nn om cial dol n position We live JI and die by hy the of r our feIJo fellows whether hether elected elected elected elect elect- ed or not A man who builds dark tr Or who owns n Hr rt su such h tenements nt lacks kicks civic virtue So o does the iucker pud packer er erho ulio ho sells bad m meat ut the worker who ho toes does poor poor work or the J selfish and Ignorant who vho rob the p pub pub- h- h I 11 lie by hj stealing flowers ers In ill the parks parka We Ve nr of educational edu edu- ore are already ty proud our om ca cati t n nal facilities and we should seato see sea seeto seeto to It that the next generation can on b. b It far prouder We are but beginning u to awaken a to the need for providing fn facilities as ns a civic function We can enn keep tabs lahs on administrative tire tive efficiency as soon as os there Is com common om mon knowledge of ot what we e have a n aright right to e expect As Ai to As-to to 1 administration honesty t think dr k what n a n healthy thing I It will viii be he when we can len learn n from froin i our city hook book which town has has- the worst record and which the best hEst and aner where we stand at nt home borne Think of ot the eager enger committee on m Improvement ement sending for the tIle competent competent civic ex ex ex- and nud Timing having their t town wn records records expos exposed os l 1 to public knowledge In clear and simple terms Minimum prosperity means menns the o opposite op op- of our present s system of boasting boast boast- boastIng Ing of ot first filst citizens It means boastIng housti boast boast- Ing of or the last fast ones ones of the thie poorest We e now exult In a millionaire more mure or orless orless orless less and nna pass over without notice noUre the thema ma ss of or poor What n a town should be be- proud of Is not the t the hel height ht of It Its maximum In In wealth out but out butof of it its mInImum minimum minimum mini mInI- mum not We Ve have three millionaires million million- aires In this town tonn but hut There h Is not not a n family In this town with nn an an In Income In Income income in- in come below helow 1000 One thousand dollars dol dol- lars mis Is only 20 a week with a fortnights fortnight's fortnights fortnight's fort fort- nl nights night's ht's vacation Little enough for any any family today Charlotte Charlotte Perl Perkins Ins O Gil- Gil J. J man In the Century Magazine |