Show learn leam from other cities I 1 Is most excellent plan yew york lias fins just been told that jt it can learn many things of value front from other cities in ChIC chicago 1190 it can learn what to do 10 lo with a water front which the met metropolis polls Is accused of neglecting boston cleve land and detroit degroft nud los ios angeles anat ipg tire ore imong among the catlos which new york lh Is informed it might profitably study 11 in the list st SL louls louis la Is mentioned HS as it city that can call tench new york the file value of hospital beds doubtless the llie advice given new tolk could as aptly be hen ghen any other nty city odes lile 1 I i have haie specialties in which they excel they hae their distinctive flairs clairs influenced fluen ced ut of course by their necessities traditions and assets Is there uny any one tiling that hint every city needs any one outstanding girt t or trait of quality without which blell it is doomed to aphid long along laboriously but ghen which it can just about per form forai miracles we believe ve there mere Is tays says the cleveland plain dealer ghen off official leial courage official intel integrity and capacity and tiny any city Is pretty sure to go impressively ahead in a city so sa governed it ts Is patent that bilat political buncombe would be it 11 dead word officials of that caliber would know a good deal about what other cities had done and were doing they would of course know own city thoroughly gilly its defects of character ant and methods as well cit as its requirements and when oc casion demanded they would tell el their city its faults and how flow to cor them liem thero would be no taffy or flattery or trite old city hull hall balderdash they might incur tern tem horary unpopularity but that would not weigh at all with ith men of bucl measure can such men be found we be fete they can be certainly they are worth looking for certainly they will not be found to lo partisan organizations maintained primarily if not solely for holding office and apportioning the spoils fe tm T 0 r L m i ag L |