BETTER GOVERNMENT

...Gill makes this and other points of vital importance to citizens interested in better government.—S.K...

...Hence, too, the troubles and weaknesses of municipal research bureaus whose efforts are too often measured by the handy and unjust yardstick of taxes lowered, although their work has been reflected in efficient methods of government in communities throughout the country...

...Alleviation and perhaps solution lies in comprehensive, systematic citizen education and public relations, resulting in broader public support, especially from groups which most bureaus seem to have assiduously avoided labor organizations...

...ONE of the basic causes of the lack of better public administration in-this country is the fundamental concept of many Americans that government, like sunshine and rain, is and should be free...

...Hence the denunciation of "tax-eating bureaucrats," "economy drives" to cut government payrolls, and taxpayers associations which are more interested in lower taxes than in value received...