Show tit to ah 17 5 WILL DEMAND CIVIC VIRTUE writer sees time coming when citizen must mort measure up to the R right standard civic virtue and public spirit actie perhaps pei haps go under one head mens tiring tile proportion of citi citizens zells actively interested in the affairs of the community and the ol utility of their sen I 1 ice for Inq instance tance anyone working lill in ili any store shop school mill or other form of public service and not doing honest work lacks civic virtue just as much as if lie he were in an boffl caal position we live and die by the services of our fellows whether hether elected or not A man who lie builds dirk tenements or who nho owns and rents rent such tenements lacks chic virtue so does the packer N alio sells bad meat the lie worker who does poor work nork or the selfish and ignorant who rob the pull it lie by stealing lowers flowers in the park we are already proud of our educational cat ional facilities and we should see to it that the next generation an aw lifar prouder we are but beginning to awaken to the need for providing bobial facilities as a civic function we can keep tabs on admInis administrative effle lency as soon as there Is common kno knowledge uledge of what we me lime hac a right to expect As to administration honesty think what a healthy thin till n g it t will be when we ue can learn from frim our city book which town has the worst record and which the best and where inhere we ae stand at home think of the eager committee on improvement sending for the competent civic e ex ri miner and having their town records exposed to public knowledge in clear clea r and simple terms minimum prosperity means the opposite or of our present of boest ing of first citizens it means boadt li ing of the last ones of the pooi esi we e no 0 exult in a millionaire more 01 it less and pass over without notice the mass of poor what a town should be proud of Is not tile the or of it il maximum in wealth out but of its minimum not we have three alres in this tonn ton but there Is iq not a family in this town with an lit in come below 1000 one thousand dollars Is only 20 a week with ith a f fi rt nights vacation little enough for any family today charlotte chariotte perkins gai nian man in the century magazine |