Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1920 — TOWN RUN ON BUSINESS LINES [ARTICLE]

TOWN RUN ON BUSINESS LINES

Municipal Departments of Lakewood, Work Through Mayor’s Office——Makes for Co-Operation. From his military training in the Spanish-American war and his business training since, Mayor Louis E. Hill of Lakewood has adopted methods which he believes are novel, in municipal affairs. The idea, the mayor says, is to keep him in direct touch with all municipal problems and works and to bring about greater co-operation between heads of departments in a business administration. Army correspondence procedure governs all communications between heads of departments. A letter between departments goes first through the hands of the mayor, who forwards it to its destination. It is answered by indorsement on the original letter and returned, again through the mayor’s office, to the writer. Every Tuesday morning at ten o’clock the mayor holds a conference with all department heads, at which every phase of each department’s work Is discussed. —Cleveland Plain Dealer.