Show YOUR YOTO TAUT PART JN IN government every once in a while somebody around here when the subject of government Is 19 brought up shrugs his shoulders as much as to fay bay why should I 1 be interested in government vern ment why indeed you are getting thieo athleo square meals a day and at extra big one every sunday noon youre making a fair living and as tar far as aa you are concerned the chief interest you have Is to make more money in order to spend more its ita a strange thing that the average american who a couple ot of generations ago was chiefly interested in preserving equal opp opportune tuu ity for or all has forgotten all about the tact fact that government and all it involves is the way by which that equal opportunity is preserved he takes his democratic govern meat for or granted the sad part about that state ot of mind however iq 19 just this that the moment demo crable government la laken tor for granted like ever everything thing else which is taken for granted it goes to pot it Is assumed under democracy that the people are the real rulers then the moment they lay down on the job what happens somebody else slips in these days its usually a political boss chos in the business lor for what he can get out ot of it well what ot of it everybody getting his these days why not the boss the trouble Is that you might as well play baseball with a pack of dynamite as ad to get tunny funny and careless about this government business when special interest takes the place ot of public interest not only is your pocketbook hit a sad blow at tax time but theres no telling where enda end A few gloomy gusses point out that public In ditter ence to public wrongs has preceded the collapse of every great nation in the history of the world after all they say as history goes we been on the map long en ough to have stopped sucking ow ou ilium t h urn be weve not hd bhough to drive the car with boti hands oft off the wheel while we dont agree that ther is any huge amount ot of public aront these days as compared with any time jn in the history of the countr since andrew jackson there is a sizeable percentage of public indu terence ference and when you consider that gov eminent touches our alyes nearly everywhere these days the ale we drive on the mall mail we re receive the railroads we use the police who protect us the hospitals that care for us when we are ill the parks in which we play the water we drink that nearly every activity of life comes in contact with the govern ment meat at one point or another ther seems seema no excuse tor for public indifference of course the real point la Is what are you going to do about it |