The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-02-15
City Election
Approaches

The date for the annual city cleo
tion now nearly approaches, and it is
high time that plans were beginning
to be laid for such election to result
in bringing real service to the city
the service of good, active, progress
sive, enterprising, wide-awake citi-
zens, who will consent, or at least who
can be persuaded, to devote part of
their time to the good and upbuilding
of Pennington.
Surely no good citizen of this splen-
did little city would fail or refuse to
hear the call to duty of his friends and
neighbors, when he is selected as the
man best qualified to get results for
this community, in an official capacity.
When such request is made, then it
is the duty of any good citizen even
to strain point, If necessary, to heed
the call to duty.
Mr.. Citizen of Pennington, did you
ever think what is at stake in the gov
ernment of this city? To be brief:
An active, competent and progressive
administration of the affairs of this
city would mean the placing of Farm
ington in the vanguard among the
suit most advantageously, and imme-
diately, to the good of this entire
community.
A moderately fair administration
would result as at present, not only
in Pennington, but in most every
other city throughout the country. A
fair city administration is the kind
that most cities have-nothing spe-
cially good and nothing particularly
Ill about them. In other words, Just
plain, average, where, for anything
good to enter it must slip, or break in.
There are already entirely too many
of this kind of cities.
An absolutely inefficient administra-.
tlon fails completely to appeal to any
good citizen. 1t means complete fail
ure to secure anything that is really
to be desired by right-thinking COM
munity-it means community full
of dark days and black nights-a
breeding place of disease, sin and
death. The Times is pleased to say
that, in this city, there are not many
such places in Grand Old Missouri.
At the approaching municipal cleo
ton there is Collector and one Coun-
Gilman from each Of the four Wards to
elect. The Times would like to see, at
least the Councilmen to be elected,
chosen from the most wide-awake and
progressive citizens of this communi
ty. Do you ask why the Importance
of such selections2 Is there any,
thing OF greater importance to Farm
ington than the proper administration
or its bus.Is.5s ssfaiys?
Think of the eity's financial inter-
ests over which the Councilmen are
called to preside. If such interests
are not properly attended to by the
City Council, then such interests must
necessarily suffer from such neglect.
as there is no other authority that can
take such interests in hand. On the
selection of the proper Councilmen
depends the correct handling of the
municipal light and water plants, in
which the city has upwards of $780,
900 invested. This is but part of the
great work that is looked after by the
City Council. If these great indus
tries were privately owned, do you
not know that they would be under
able and competent management?
Then why do you think that, be-
cause such industries belong to the
municipality that they will run as they
should run, for the best good of ali,
without competent and thorough bus
mess men in control of them. Mr..
Citizen, it is up to you to give this
matter careful consideration. After
such consideration, then we believe
that every good citizen will vote for
the best and most reliable business
man that is offered in his Ward as a
member of the City Council.
Select the four members of the CITY
Council, who are to be chosen at the
April election, from among the most
progressive and wide-awake business
men of this city and The Times will
wager its very existence that Farm
ington will soon take the position
which naturally belongs to her--of be-
ing one of the very best little cities
in Missouri--of being in the van
guard of progress.
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