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Show t'er tnan its component parts? No formula for an infallible government has yet been presented, pre-sented, nor should we expect it to be. Our government is simply a process of correcting mistakes usually by substituting substitut-ing new ones but this process alone keeps the government alive and gives it vitality which any fair-minded person must admit improves conditios. Of course there are some people who would never see any improvement. im-provement. But examine the legislative leg-islative program of the average aver-age state or national executive. Ten years ago it would have been considered radically socialistic. so-cialistic. 20 years ago it would have been labelled rank communism. com-munism. Yet it is none of these; it is fundamentally democratic dem-ocratic because it recogizes the right of the people to shape their own political affairs. Real progress, founded as it is on experience, ex-perience, must necessarily be slow; yet there are many too impatient to await such evolution. evolu-tion. Rome it is said fell in a day, yet it took centuries to build ; still there are people who think our democracy should be transformed into the kingdom of heaven in one or two administrations. admin-istrations. We believe we have the best form of government on earth. Knowing however that is far from perfect, but believe that experience will mean everything ev-erything to its gradual evelop-ment. Editorial : OUR GOVERNMENT Much as we wish for the millenium, it is just as well to recognize the fact that perfection perfec-tion is not of this world. This fact applies to religion, to morality, mor-ality, to social conditions to in-dustrial in-dustrial relations. Why then-should then-should it not apply to government? govern-ment? Why should we believe that the whole can be any bet- |