The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-22
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city management is like an au-
tomobile. The manufacturer can
build a fine car with zip and
finger control, but he can't reg
ulate how il will be driven. He
can't prevent il taking the
wrong fork in the road or from
being rolled over a cliff. In city
government the voters do the
driving if they will. With the
manager form which is the mo-
dern progressive vehicle Of
community life, the voters
have something TO be interested
in and have something of which
they can be proud.
And why shouldn't we take
the vote seriously? Each day
we read of more boys who re-
Gently were walking our streets
while in the flower of youth
with spring in their step, but
who have given everything that
TOTO and Hitler not destroy our
right to vote and manage our
own affairs. Let's use that vote
on the home front with vigor
which will send surge of
pride through our veins. Let's
be the masters of our fate. Let's
use that vote for which CT Joe
died in the mud and snow of
Germany; let's give the kid
who dropped in the jungles of
the Pacific a "thank you" by
going to that voting booth with
the same grim determination as
he had to say You shall not
pass"
MANY ADVANTAGES
A prominent engineer once
said of Mount Clemens that it
had the most natural advantage
es of any suburban city around
Detroit. Let's use them. Let's
investigate some of these adj
vantages. But that takes man
of experience in other city man.
ager cities. Does our river have
possibilities? Let's find out!
1t takes a trained man to in
vestigate the possibility of ac-
quainting the public with what
other cities are doing to get
qualified milk inspection. Do
we know that all the kids in
school getting that half pint of
milk day are getting good
milk? Maybe it's good, maybe
it isn't; how do we know? A
qualified health inspector would
tell us what the proper bacteria
count of pasteurized milk
should be, then he would &C.
quaint us with what we have
each day. This is vital as it af-
fects everybody.
Possibly he can show us
program of fire prevention. An
ounce of prevention is worth
a pound of cure. Let's make ev-
cry effort to prevent disastrous
fires, There is always the posi-
bility of loss of life in fire at
night.
Possibly he can show us what
other cities our size do about
complete garbage elimination
and its allied problem rats. II
you don't feed rats they don't
thrive, but our rats look well
fed.
Then maybe we can solve
that problem Of parking which
is so vital to businessmen. Well,
handled it as a commercial as
set. It means dollars in the cash
register. Why invite shoppers
and give them no street parking
time. These are abnormal times
of course, but this manager plan
sets a pattern for the next %
or 80 years. These problems
can't all be solved in day, but
let's be on our way.
Then it takes a trained man
to lay out an overall plan OF
coming for our city. Why allow
someone to repair junk cars in
the back yard of street where
there are houses worth $4,000
to $4,000.
Their dollar value Is affected.
The managers salary can be
actual dollars in the pockets Of
saved many times over in
the citizens.
Let's see il we can't win a
prize in the next few years as
one of the better governed cit
les. Let's give the kids who are
now on the school Fairgrounds
but who will be mature citizens
all too soon, a city in which
they will want to stay with
pride!
Vote March 5th for the MAN
AGER PLAN!