| Show IOV I t a G of or l i ll h Chut hIL sonic sort of a 1 change the 1111 common IB III needed I IHl should Hl not Vail Call to tu look lodl Into a IL lion by Professor or Joseph H Beale of the Law school Ho lIo be bo 11 l in n city ell council ef 11 II ell on the thc theory that while a Il small executive bOdy Is h best belll yet tho people g n orally should at al nil all times be kept It pt post odon d o l tho of the city The commission C scheme he argues with without dY to h the out o t a largo popular body b ml is answerable seems to to me mett tt to ot the tom As R a mayor can build up a lt oven Q with the existing popular izi lIh lar 1111 boards Jo a small commission than f l l the slight ac nc actual dge of oC affairs affa s that would reach 1 aCl 5 public p 1 would v uld have havo oVen eon t mannge matters i fori Sil h p as it If j of folio w I nt oC Iho inner doings through perso acquaintance with X t tho be om commis commission sion plan removed J ct Government from tho v That tendency to 0 bo entirely mischievous chlo bus ous wo i i iel to bo be going In the tho oth other er el direction Professor Professor Beale in the th tOWI and lIs not afraid so so Only In III larger Jarg I cities s that idea would bo be Impractical His proposition is ls that hc executive x head hoad of ot th govern government ment consist t of oC a 1 fo l sitting as members of or a IL OPIO I tIo council composed comp of at ono ono member foe each 1 00 oO Inhabitants and andel elected el to represent r small compact lo 10 localities cUIl S council our lk ho il g could meet six or I eight times a IL year tho fh mayor gl and Il n l aldermen lr r I their reports rep and att n l to the ItC Ij sary appropriations Th members member of f hc the council arc to serve without I So largo a body bod made tip lip oC oe members from alt all parts parti ot of the could hardly the tho Professor Pr fell or thinks be he held together by hy any scheme of dick or ng to t approve or gloss over O IJ any n y action of oC tho executive branch that was wall to the detriment of C the th city elt On the hand tho executive board would be constantly under a IL scrutiny s iw ro and facing a It moro certain publicity for COI all Its actions than thanS Is S secured by b any au existing municipal system s A great many man schemes for the im of oC municipal government hae been Je li proposed Each has Its op opponents ns well as defenders It seems cems when whon reform is demanded demanded to study the tha various plans proposed and the best features of all allOne allOne One thing is Ii certain municipal gov government g v nt should hould be bo taken out of parti partisan sun san politics It should 1 not be le for Instance In to make the police pollee merely a wh 1 in ill a It political cal party machine The result of o that generally is an nn alliance between poli and lawbreakers for political reasons reu ous Then it should hot hot lI JQ possible to employ pub puh pubic ic work who know nothing of ot tho work they are to Inspect That kind k id of ofa ofa a farce ought to be ended for tor ever Ami n no many man abuses abuseR would ba be beco corrected co were ere the citizens ns generally generall jetter informed as till to t the thu doings city councils that represent them |
