Show I S CITY GOVERNMENT ME T 1 I il J i 1 t HERE is talk of need of f some reform 0 I 11 I the le government g of o our I cities j Many 1 Ir 1 are convinced I that the time has come for the thc elimination of par par partisanship in n municipal elections and at l the placing of business l f ch affairs of cities I t It lIt is rc ld that every time a public servant is needed f J the divide into hostile camps and assail one another blacken character and into fragments and andI I I f so o intense is the excitement ent that demands mands of truth and a ld FI decency ie often forgotten If members of a family r I yere to to act ac in a similar manner m uner and quarrel and fight each of time the thc question of obtaining lined hired help in ill the house comes comesup t up Jh they y w be declared cd fit l for an insane asylum But in inthe the t l nn hOnse the thc citizens arc aie no more rational i Thoughtful and women arc beginning to I ze that elections should II 1 not be he pitched pite battles between h t een t parties for the spoils They that the citizens i ought 91 ht to come together as las members of one family with no 11 1 h other desire than to promote 1 the common interests is isa t I a gell r ei awakening all over the thc country followed by hy a de dc demand i mand for the abolition 1 pf party arty management manage and amI the thc ques question It kit J t tion n is la asked on Ol all sides is IS there her a sa substitute lt wr i rrb Ds D Moines plan which is IS the plan with thc addition of recall initiative aid ald r is by b many f d ere I satisfactory salts f a tory Others lers claim cJ that t I it las hafe not solved SO VC il the pIe problems w t h the thc greatest St difficulties k I hold loM that while a small U executive body js essential e to good d dIf If efficient go eminent the people at large must not be ex excluded c eluded from a oice in the th administration They hold that i the people must be e educated to take a greater interest in municipal affairs and that they th r should have ter con control tr l over the doings of the thc executive officers than even the commission plan off In accordance with these views they the an all c cu tive body bod consisting of a and four foul commissioners s sand and besides a council consisting of say one for If 1 every 1500 inhabitants and elected to sent all al parts of t 1 0 the city The 11 IC council 1 would t 1 meet six or eight I It times a year 1 Its would serve without pay The Thc mayor and the thc commissioner would be accountable to the council CO ilc l and the thc T f council would make the thc appropriations ns needed nc ded fl l Tins This plan has the endorsement of Professor Joseph II H Beale of the thc Harvar Law school and a great deal can be Fl said m in its favor City government must rest with wilh the thc peo people peor r The people must have not only pow power cr to elect public t t servants but to control and di charge them if they prove unsatisfactory The people must control appropriations t l and indicate tlc the policy to be c follow folIo ed Their judgment jud l fi upon questions of general interest is 15 in III the end sound 1 L even if for a time public opinion is misled When things i ti ig go wrong the thc people p can generally be relied upon to right J f l 9 1 when they are ar n It is therefore a pound Found policy i f l i that at el and a t m of g government bv y which the tJ people t f are r h given I as large rge representation 1 p as a possible p at the same a ne 1 time m e that ba the he executive ex powers 19 cr are r delegated to a few com L Jl j 4 s for fo their t l ir s voters yot rs 3 r have YC a chance to enforce their at all times i 1 nl on e every second car after t r an all J w its OJe OJ e g 0 t tI l lI I |