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Show A GREAT PUBLIC MOVEMENT A great movement has been Inaugurated Inaug-urated by the San Francisco chamber cham-ber of commerce to educate tho people peo-ple to demand the services of n higher high-er typo of citizenship for public service. ser-vice. Politics In the past has been considered con-sidered a gamo for sharpers to prac-tlco prac-tlco at for personal gain and advant-ngo advant-ngo and tho by-product ha3 been called government administration. Men went Into politics for person-nl person-nl advantages nnd the larger Interest Inter-est of the community wns only Incidents. Inci-dents. Tho office wns considered personal property nnd to be used as such. Of course, the forms of serving tho public Interest were complied with, but only tho letter of service nnd duty to tho public vvna kept tho spirit wns broken in dealing tho cards. A great national crisis growing out of tho European war demands n higher standard of scrvlco If tho nation na-tion and tho states nre to bo inntlo to rench tho highest standards of efficiency. ef-ficiency. As tho Tresldent has commandeered comman-deered the best business and pro-esslonnl pro-esslonnl lenders of the nation In nil departments of tho government to servo ns n patriotic duty, so tho stntes nnd cities nro to rnlse higher stnnd-nrds. stnnd-nrds. I In cities, counties nnd stntc logls-. logls-. lntures a higher typo of men nnd .women are to bo asked to servo ns a .patriotic duty nnd not for persoml gain or partisan or political advan- tngc, as civic standard bearers. This Is n high idenl nnd, if erected nnd maintained, will eliminate, tho office jobber mid peddler of patronage, patron-age, and demnnd only fitness nnd. efficiency ns tho standard of public service. |