| Show Politics in in City Government j Under the Commission Form IT T probably has never ne been urged in behalf of the commission sion form of government o that it ic removes es all nil politics from municipal affairs Enthusiastic proponents of the method of governing a city may have hwe permitted their hopes and d desires to elope with their judgment l iu in l dis di discussing cussing it but hut the average cit citizen who is not always asleep etch even e i if IC his e eyes es are arc shut k knows lOWS that perfect government is impossible because because be be- cause men arc are not perfect The only sensible argument ever e advanced ad fur for the lime Des Moines plan plait is that it removes cit city officers from front subservience fence to party part bosses and gives gi them t the hc opportunity ty to manage cit city affairs along business lines lines lines' without interference There is is no reason therefore to doubt the truth of lory fc-lory told tolt by the Des Moines newspaper man n who passed through Salt SnIt Lake on Saturday and said t that hat politics still dominates municipal affairs in inDes int lies Des Moines and there need aced be no cause for alarm in that con condition t As The rhe Republican Herald frequently pointed out onto before the time Novem Novem- No November em- em her bet election the character UL of OL a city a administration must depend upon the time sort of men inen chosen to manage its affairs affairs alfair and for fur that thal reason this paper supported the citizens citizens' non non-j non partisan ticket believing its candidates candi candidates can can- di better fitted to give ive the people the Hie sort ort of an nn administration they hey desire than those named by the opposition ilion party If Des Moines is controlled by y politicians its present condition is no worse than that which obtained before the time commission form was wa instituted there visitors visitor to that city arc are told by all nIl classes of citizens citizens citizens citi citi- zens that the si situation t un is vastly improved improve Pol Politics Politic it il s is not only the time technical name to indicate the lime means employed etl in gel getting tin ting a public position according ing- ing to the time be best l dictionaries extant it itis is the art and science of government The public official in an administrative capacity who knows nothing of politics politic cares nothing of it and will not nut endeavor to inform himself will be he a failure It was long loud ago ngo agreed reed that the best definition of a n statesman is that he is a lend politician n the greatest benefactors the nation has hns had have hn been politicians Thc They had to be he politicians to know the science of government government gov gov- the art of managing men in iu order to get the time best results Salt Snit Lake will have haxe little reason to complain if its incoming city a administration plays the sort soil of politics for which A it was wa chosen if it plays play's the kind of politics politics- politics lime the t he art and science science of government which appoints the thc best men to responsible city positions that gives gi the thc taxpayer a dollar in value for fUI his dollar of taxes that a gives S the maximum of or efficiency and accomplishment at the minimum of expense ex ex- pense pense That sort of politics politic will not offend an any citizen None expeels expects ex ex- peels the time new commissioners to have ha any godlike o attributes to have their heads so far above e the thc clouds douds that the muck at nt their feet receives receives re re- no attention They may mayy play all the politics the they desire if it be bc the sort of politics they were Mere chosen to play to PL 0 f J k |
