KUBAL GOVERNMENT 



or structural plan to improve the neigh- 

 borhood in a broad or effective way. The 

 county board of supervisors, or equivalent 

 group, for example, is not usually a body 

 that is much concerned with any large plans 

 for the development of the county as a 

 whole ; each supervisor is likely to be chiefly 

 concerned to force down the expenses in his 

 own township and to put the cost of im- 

 provements off on somebody else. This 

 spirit runs through rural government. In 

 most cases, such government is dead, as 

 compared with what it might be. 



We hear much of boss rule and of graft 

 in municipal politics, but it is probable 

 that the difficulty is as great in rural poli- 

 tics in proportion to the population, to the 

 opportunities, and to the stakes that are 

 involved. 



The whole country status should be 

 brightened up and loosened up, with new 

 life put into it. I doubt whether this can 

 come about until we evolve different pro- 

 cesses in government of rural communities. 

 We may even need new schemes of govern- 

 ment in these communities. I am not at 

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