Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1917 — WILL TRAIN CITY MANAGERS [ARTICLE]

WILL TRAIN CITY MANAGERS

Kansas State University Establishes Course Which Is First of the - Kind In This Country. Kansas is preparing to establish tn its state university a four-year course in city management, the first of its kind to be established in the country. When a man, or a woman either, is graduated from this course he will have had thorough training in every department of city affairs except politics, and will go out to help run cities as a trained man goes Into a factory or business. Prof. F. W. Blackmar, who is head of the economics department and has been instructed to prepare 4he details of the course, bad this to say concerning the need for such a school: “No man can manage a business unless he has a thorough understanding of its nature. The man who manages a city ought to be as experienced as an engineer, or a teacher. Why cannot universities train men for managing cities as well as if can for other professions? That is what we propose to do. The course of study for training city managers should be about onehalf the ordinary classroom and lecture work and the rest laboratory investigation into the actual needs of municipal operation.” ‘