Judge — August 30, 1930 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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~- Deficit Minded o ornupt and contented” was the C traditional phrase for the po- litical condition of Philadel- phia,. Lately it has been boiled down to an even more contemptuous word— “deficit-minded”—meaning that citi- ‘ns have become so meck and public ic don’t even expect the city to live within its income The logical remedy is the city man- r system, for which a camp 1s ndw been started. Since several hundred American municipali- ties have adopted this plan of expert management. The old scheme of gov- ernment by mayors, aldermen and committees of councilmen is wasteful, blundering and usually crooked. Ama- teur administration by professional politicians has cost as rs untold millions. A city manager is a well paid, full-time, thorougiily trained ex- ecutive. He is under no obligation to machine or a politi boss. judged as the president of a private business is, by the actual ef- fectiveness of his management rather than by the favors he bestows. A large firm of consulting engine states that in towns w have anagers it quotes a rate twenty per cent lower than elsewhere because the business can be with less red tape, delay and rs A few years ago, after Cincinnati ad several years of experience under ac ager, a competent observer said, “From being the worst governed city in the United es, Cincinnati has become the best governed.” Poli- icians fight bitterly against the adop- tion of the system and sometimes they suceced in getting it thrown out even ufter it has been in successful oper: tion for some time, But the vast ma- jority of places that have tried it can never be persuaded or tricked into going back to the shameful ways of the past. If Philadelphia, our third large: city, should snap out of her defic! new charter and there might be caning up Chicago mindedness city n some hope of ¢ New York. nd get 1 Sweet Decibels a lion should sneak up behind you on Sixth Avenu let out a roar just went by, you couldn't hear him, larly a Bengal tiger loud as a trolley Such are the conclu- Noise Abatement Com- mission which has been driving around the streets cavesdropping in a truck Simi n't raise his snarl as over a going rossing. sions of the equipped with sound-measuring de- vices. They actually went up to the z00 to give ‘the wild ‘animals ac to show what they could do in tition with the he civilized man. The unit for measuring sound is called, mellifluously, the decibel. A decibel is the smallest sound that the human car can detect. You will be interested to know that a riveter nee pm pe- lish contrivances of makes a noise ten billion times as loud as one decibel. One of the immediate objects of the anti-noise n is the toning down of horns. It seems that a good many of them are more strident and nerve-racking than is necessary to make a pedestrian do a ory jump. Horn manuf. turers are going to co-operate. But the won't succeed without the co-operation of that prize dolt, the man who stops at a house and instead of getting out, sits there and blows his horn to attract the attention of his friends inside. How shall we teach him to use more doorbells and fewer decibels? campai automobile satis The Heart It Is Pes are often proved right in the long run. It was they, for ex ample, who started the idea that the heart is the scat of the emotions. Matter-of-fact folk argued that this 13 couldn't be, that the heart is just a pump, that it’s the brain which for better or worse persuades us to that it’s the nerves which inspire us with f rtain gland which gives us cours nd often a sulky stomac that batters us into Now comes Dr, W. J.) “Let us not be too scornful of an memorial recognition of the emotion- na, which may h sical basis. A supreme’ relation ship originated in the shadowy day when hunger, r, love and ruled the early ancestral state, the psychic influences of this re ship have lost none of their magic. +. One might imagine that the heart is still showing the effect of an early form of control by primitive emotional centres which existed long before the intellectual organs developed.” Emo- tion places great strain on the heart, ve, particularly sternly controlled emo tion. “Phe tendency to death from heart disease is common among all x men who live lives of stress, control of emotions is neces: Psychology has bee the mental harm done sion of desire. If medicine now traces ious physical damage to the control of emotion, perhaps we must concede that the modern generation may be right in its instinctive breaking of the old restraints and in taking the poct’s advice to “follow the dictates of the heart. in which ve telling us of by the suppres No. 1 club at) Lawrence, will be strictly stag. The club will receive wives and sweet- hearts of members as guests, but only on special evenings under the stern eve of the house committee. But no women will be admitted as members. And why n Because the club strictly “forbids play for money, “and,” says. the president, “women would have a tendency to gamble for high stakes”! Femininity Notes. new bridge A Long Island, RILW, comicbooks.com