Show EDUCATION IN POLITICS it is generally true that the people who do the most criticising criticizing critic ising of politicians tic ians of the way our political parties arc conducted and the way our government is run are the ones who take the least interest in fundamental politics themselves the only way of course that politics can be made better and government improved is by educating more people in politics and inducing them to take moie interest in the great american game in a lecent magazine article no less legs a personage per anage than chief justice william H taft expressed the hope that tha t he day may soon come when the young youn g men and the young women of the he united states will take a greater interest in politics and will bo be encouraged cou raged to become real politicians in hc best sense of the word judge raft aft is aware that some of the best people in the different american communities ni muni ties have bave little if anything to U do with politics so that such matters a are re continually left to the professional politicians now the professional politicians may be pretty good fellows but they them need the support and cooperation of the real constructive people of the country when the politician fails to live up to expectations is a loud complaint from the press and the public yet the people who ought to take part in politics and fail to do so are partly to blame they have failed to exercise all their duties as citizens and disappointment is naturally the result why not have educational training in politics as well as in other branches of public effort the youth of the land kland have been taught to avoid politics they have been told t that hat there is more money and more honor in business and the other professions perhaps this is true but it remains the fact that politics remain very important to the welfare of the community the state and the nation if neglected it is not the politician alone who will be ruined ru inel business will suffer too just as it always suffers when we ve depart from the fundamental principles of american government why not a little more education in P politics politics for all of us |