Show n HE MAD MAlI SCRAMBLE FINDING a a. way way-to beat the law is also a racket Some men find Ind steady employment employment employ employ- ment merit at high remuneration for doing that very thing Public officials however are not expected to seek seck out loopholes jokers and flaws but butare butare butare are on the contrary expected to uphold the spirit as well as the letter of the law thus responding to the expressed will of the people The spectacle of public officials state city and county engaging In a wild scramble ble bleto to keep their relatives on the payroll is neither creditable to themselves nor indicative indicative indica indica- tive of the right sort of public service The legislature passed a law against that sort of thing The law became operative Monday fonday after alter which time tim it was as declared il illegal illegal il- il legal for any public official to continue in his department the employment of relatives The purpose of the law is plain Any I attempt to evade it must be put down as a apiece piece of cheap trickery Public officials who indulge in this sort of thing cannot expect the average citizen to hold law in high re re- re Nor can they expect to deserve respect themselves At the same time it would not be InconsIstent Inconsistent Incon Incon- for any public official who by trick and device violates the spirit of this law for forthe forthe forthe the purpose of keeping members of his family family family fam fam- ily on the public payroll to resort to other trickery in the violation of other laws |