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which can be hurtled millions of miles through space
and yet be controlled minutely in its landing on a distant
planet ought to be able to devise a system of government
which can provide for our people at a local level those
essential services which are so sorely needed -- services
which are needed now but which are going to be needed to
an ever-increasing degree as our society becomes more and
more urbanized and as our population grows to an extent
difficult for us even to comprehend at the present time.
A skeptic may scoff and say these are but lofty,
high-sounding euphemisms which cannot possibly be accomp-
lished by words emblazoned on a piece of paper, no matter
how formal and fundamental the document. He may say
that in the final analysis whether a government is good
or bad, effective or ineffective, an efficient provider
of services or an inept, bureaucratic: maze depends not upon
the will of the people which brings it into existence or
upon the piece of paper which defines its scope, its power
and its organization, but upon the people who manage it.
He may say therefore that the problems of our time cannot
be solved or even substantially affected by the |
