New Britain herald., 1915-10-13
aMINGToN,--A RADICAL.

svalent conditions in our neigh
 town of Pennington are as
 startling, and slovenly as the
 of selectmen make them out #then surely it is time a new
 f government was set up even SAnington must depart from the
 Is in vogue for three centuries
 xe unto itself a town manager.
 a town manager than no man.
 ht at all. For, if one must
 some of the things that were
 th at the town meeting when
 rmington people resolved to do with the present iniquitous
 If government, one is led to see
 sdom of a policy that would
 he towns welfare on 8 sound
 Is. There is no gainsaying
 It that selectmen, as selectmen
 not always men who select
 St part of their valuable time < ch to take care of any towns
 . And selectmen are not to
 med for this state of affairs. kin with, the salaries of those bm are entrusted the cares of Iovernment throughout our own bf Connecticut are not always Iunerative that a man feels jus Ito lay aside all his personal It's and devote himself solely management of his home com This is true of other towns Hl as Pennington. And, when laid old community that harks No the prehistoric days of the suddenly turns in it's tracks lakes off the dust of other days, lime that the younger element and takes notice. Conserva- Pennington has at last turned ! It has denounced the old of town government as slip |rickety, slovenly, and illegal. ing all this, it's citizens have de- Ito cast aside the old and take new,-to allow efficiency enter maladministration once held in all it's glory. And the peo- Pennington are to be con- hted upon their decision. In Is to place the affairs of the in the hands of man who devote all his time to taking if the interests of the township have made no mistake. One ut read the various reports sub
 by the selectmen to find jus on for this act. The salary of
 hundred dollars to be paid the with an additional three hundred for a bookkeep- be we'll spent. With the help led by selectmen such as those m Monday decided to turn over
 own salaries that the town ger. might be secured, there can
 doubt that Pennington, in the .un, VIII be the gainer; that its If more than one hundred thou dollars will be erased in s. due that in place of the loose meth ow in vogue will be installed tenn such as will arouse the Of every town and hamlet in 
 was a stroke of good fortune brought the condition of Farm Is affairs to the. attention of eople. V As told by one of the 1. the selectmen found when the came for the annual auditing g towns accounts that one of 70 auditors was out of town and ther was not available for the
 Asked to aid another man in ng the accounts, this selectman cred things in such a dreadful! he could not go through with ork. A professional firm of ac- ants was then set at the task, he result of an expose of loose ,ss methods being placed before ,wn folk at an adjourned town lg. The annual report of tie made by the outside accountants ed startling inaccuracies in all hes of the towns government. no wonder then that Farming as seen fit to bring about e. The neighboring communi- ill now watch with interest the ng out of the new order of }, and if this is successful, there be many radical changes insti-
 in other towns throughout the
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