OCR Text |
Show '. Lefs Explore Your Mind- . T" Strictly Business Principles Aren't Desirable for City Government I By Albert Edward Wiggam, D. S. ' Answer U Question Ne. 1 1. No. Several researches have ihown that the longer people know each other and the more Intimately they are acquainted with each other! life, habits and background before marriage, the more likely they are to make a happy go of it. People who have known each other for many yean and then gradually found they love each other are the better beL- Answer te Question No. t 2. No, The reader may be sur-priaed sur-priaed at thia opinion of mine, but I believe, tint, that it t Impossible to run a city government like a b mines, and second, undesirable If we could considering Jiunan nature to be what It Is. A city council has no common point of view or even common Interests, as does a corporation board of directors. di-rectors. Different groups and regions re-gions have different needs and desires. Second, they are bound by all sorts of legal restrictions, and third, there Is no yardstick of profits and losses to measure success suc-cess or failure. If human nature were Ideal, then a business government gov-ernment would be Ideal, but, as It -Uv S'ty government, must be run as a human not a business affair, af-fair, which' means It will always be only moderately efficient. One thing, however, Is can always be honest. Answer te Question No. I 3. No. These have probably been the two most important traits In human nature that have created human progress. It Is the desire, on the one hand, to outdo rivals, to shine above our fellows that has always driven men to achievement. And, on the other hand, when we do not succeed In doing this, the desire to find some excuse to save our faces and preserve our vanity from being punctured Is just the other side of the same trait this eternal desire for approval. |