4. What are some of the local regulations regarding the poor?[2] public
health? protection from fire?

[Footnote 2: For a general account under this topic, see James and
Sanford, "Government in State and Nation," Chapter VIII. Health
regulations are discussed in the same work, pp. 70-72.]

5. Who pays for the education that young people receive in the public
schools?

6. How much has your local government done toward furnishing things that
are not merely conveniences? How do you justify expenditures for these
purposes?

7. Does the management of local government excite as much interest among
the citizens as it should?

8. In what ways are students directly interested in having efficient
local governments?




CHAPTER II.


COUNTY GOVERNMENT.

Why There Are Counties.--If the local organizations discussed in
Chapter I could attend to all the interests that citizens have in