To the Editor of the "Nortu-Cuina Datty News."
Sin—In a late issue of your paper you deplored the lack of interest taken by Ratepayers in the election of representatives. The miserably poor attendance ab the polls on Monday and Tuesday has for the Council emphasized the state of public apathy you complain of. 2.000 votes seems all too fow for a place like Shanghai, but that only 905 were recorded seems to show that something is radically wrong:
It must be felt by anyone who is interested in the public life of our town that the old order of things is changing, we have grown out of the "village" stage of life when all the residents were personally-known to one another and_ it present it is probable that a great many of the 2,000 voters are nob. conscious that they have ever heard the names of the candidates, and to vote for a candidate whose nonic is unknown to you is not voting, it is gambling. If the clostion is to be really an election, we must not only know who we are voting for but what, and to know this it would be necessary for the candidates to tell us something of their feelings on the questions of the day and something of their views on what might be done for the development and progress of the town.
The general public needs educating badly in their civic duties as
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