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 public service, and the standard form provides for the nomination and election of an executive and legislative body by the people, these officers to be given full power of appointment and of removal and to be held responsible for the quality of public service just as the elective officers of private corporations are held responsible to the stockholders for quality in private service.

The people are interested in good government just as they are interested in good engineering, good surgery, good music, etc. Good service is secured; not in the discussion and decision of questions concerning which little generally is known; but in the selection of those who do know.

The plan makes possible a calm and deliberate discussion of issues pertaining to the four types of government. It would also tend toward the development of more competent men to serve in both elective and appointive positions, and furthermore it would aid in developing specialists.

Under this plan the children in our public schools could study with understanding, not only the form of our government, but also the machinery for making it work successfully, because the plan is not only clear, concise, comprehensive and constructive, but it is so simple that any one can understand it and our youth could be fully