Show It Is to Be Expected TIlE THE Los Angeles grand jury jury in filing its report report re re- re- re 1 port after a protracted investigation of the V warp and woof of politics in the southern California Cal Cal- metropolis discloses that it found a ua shocking condition of corruption in local oeal government gov gov- generally It reveals that many hundreds of thousands of dollars of public money arc are being wasted each year car in iii pett petty graft favoritism fa a and d the purchase of political preferment Enforcement agencies as well a as administrative departments have been so pol pol- poi poi- that the 10 loyal nl service of honest officials V and servants ants has been nullified the report sta states t s 's That is CX exactly the quality of public ser ser- ic to b be expected where ilic invisible ly ib e V of machine politics politics' is tolerated by citizens citizens citi citi- zens who take their c civic cic ic responsibilities light light- l ly The They go to the polls to vote Tote and glow with the pride of having performed a duty The only other serious scrimp thought the they give government govern govern- ment is when th their ir tax bills come in kindling their ire because the they are excessive The They growl as they pay ay them but again forget they arc are citizens until the tIle machine puts up its puppets puppets pup pup- pets for another election Then they go through the motions of exercising an nn electors elector's rs r's privilege on only to relapse into civic ic unconsciousness s once more Los Jos Angeles politics is perhaps no more sinful and corrupt population ratios cons d. d creel erl than in any other community where machine ma nut- chine politics works worl its it nefarious purposes behind behind be he- hind the scenes Spoils politics is spoils politics politics pol pol- whether it is in Los Angeles county or Salt Lake county Lazy citizenship is entitled to no better belter government than it gets |