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Show EDITORIAL: Let's All Push Surprising as it seems to most of us, the Progressive party swept the field in' Tuesday's election. All seven city offices are now filled by Progressives. The Progressives Mayor Homer P. Edwards, Paul Murphy Mur-phy and Bennie Schmiett, four-year four-year councilmen; Don Johnson and Elmer "Bumps" Eldredge, two-year councilmen; George Hacking, recorder; and DeVoc Lambert, treasurer have a comprehensive platform of planks to fill within the next four years. Perhaps most of the campaign commitments can be fulfilled by a party with complete com-plete control of the City Council. Coun-cil. It is our firm belief the party will make a conscientious effort to carry through their promises made in this campaign1. All our new officers have to fear is that the people of Roosevelt will choose to backbite and slap the party in power at every turn, instead of seeing the good with the bad. Not all politics is a combination combina-tion of manipulation and corruption. cor-ruption. Nevertheless too many people believe that it is. The people of Roosevelt must stand behind their government during the next two years, and help the members of the City Council really get something accomplished. It does little good for the citizen to air his grievances griev-ances on street corners and in cafes. If he is dissatisfied with any matter and wants something some-thing done about it, the sensible thing to do is to take the issue up with the City Council. Only the Council is in -a position to take complaints under consideration. consid-eration. Already there has been too much passing-the-buck and destructive des-tructive criticism. If the people want results, they must get behind be-hind their government not against it if they ever hope to see the various problems confronting con-fronting the city ironed out. So, you guys with the chips on your shoulders, let the Council Coun-cil know what you're "a'gin." Nothing is too small to merit consideration if it offers possibilities possi-bilities of helping the city just a little bit. Democratic government govern-ment thrives on criticism, that is, constructive criticism. Why not get behind the town and help the new City Council, when it takes office, lick those problems that have escaped previous pre-vious City Councils? |