Show PUBLIC SERVANTS NOW john W davis the distinguished distinguish od lawyer who was democratic candidate for cor president iu in 1924 recently gave sin an i excellent example of the plight of the ymer taxpayer ta when it comes to fighting fieh ting the growth of bureaucracy there are at the latest estimate some C l tax federal employed emp empi loyes oyes whose salaries are fand through taxation yet vet as mr davis davia pointed out no person in to tae country has ever had an opportunity to ro voto vote for more than five of these the only national officials whee names reach a ballot are the president the vice president two senators wid mid ue lie representative and this list so fir far as practical considerations art arc cn c hernrd buld be reduced reduce cl to four n asmuth as the vice presidents name Is fougled with the presidents and he wins or loses in company with his hia chief two hundreds of thousands of civil servants who came to 10 the positions they hold bold without the expressed wish of the electorate do much to determine our destinies they are inspru mental menial in making laws in prohibiting rights in raising raisin taxes the same thing is true fo to a somewhat lesser degree in other units of government beside the federal the nation is is today stagg under a vastly expensive army of bureaucrats which it never asked for tt is of course impossible to vote for every government worked but our elected officials owe the public a serious responsibility the responsibility of sowing seeing that bureaucracy is kept to an absolute minimum they owe it to those who send them to off wo to keep government efficient and fw comical hold bold strictly to the business of governing and not to venture ant into fields that are property properly the province of the private citizen that ideal of public service followed by elective officers of all kinds would go er far toward solvin solving the tax 4 i lem a problem that is engaging every j farsighted far tar sighted and thinking mind today |