Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 127, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1921 — Page 6

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CITY MANAGER IDEA GROWING FAST IN OHIO Campaign on to Throw Out Commission Form of Municipal Government. CLEVELAND, Oiiio, Oct, 7.—While Cleveland, Ohio's mctropoile, is preparing to vote in November upon amendment to its charter abolishing the present “Federal plan" of city government and adopting in its stead the city manager form, two other Ohio cities, which have given more or less extended trials to the manager plan are to vote upon replacing it with something else. In Dayton a petition, signed by more than thirty thousa id voters, has been presented asking 'for submission of an amendment to the charter abolishing the city manager, under which the city has been governed for nearly eight years. Akron, which adopted the city manager form two years ago, is also to vote upon a return to its former plan of government. CALL IT WASTEFUL. Opponents of the city manager idea allege that it is wasteful, monarchal and extravagant, and that the government under the city manager fails to respond to popular sentiment, but that the manager, like some creation of a’ czar or a Hohenzollerm, decides matters affecting all without measuring popular sentiment or public desires. They denounce the plan as an experiment “patterned after Dusseldorf, Germany, -proclaimed as the acme of perfection by Dr. Garland, who went to Europe, at the expense of John H. Patterson, founder of the National Cash Register factories, to learn its workings, and who came back to Dayton and told its wonders and thus fastened the shackles of despotism so securely about us that we have not been able to shake them off." The organized attack upon the city manager ideh has a nation-wide significance. Behind the plan there is an organization known as the National Municipal League, which has headquarters in New York. Seen?tary of State Charles Evans Hughes is the president of the organization; Harold W. Dodds, secretary, and Frank A. Vanderllp, treasurer. AKRON FOLLOWS DAYTON. Dayton was the largest municipality in the United States to operate under the system until Akron adopted the plan at an , election some eighteen months ago. The first city manager in Dayton was Henry M. watte, city engineer of Cincinnati, at the time ot his selection, who took office on January 1, 1914, at a salary of SI2,SOD per year. He served in that capacity until he resigned during the war to go to France and help build railroads to transport troops to the front. He was succeeded! by J. E. Barlow, also a Cincinnati man, brought to Day-

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i ton by Waite, as director of public service. Barlow served from March. 191S, until Feb. 1, 1921, when he was succeeded ■by W. G. Barber of Joliet, 111., who was paid a salary of $12,000 annually. Barlow received $7,500. Barlow had made it reputation at .loliet as a professional "city manager" under the commission form of government and was considered an experienced “professional” city manager. His regime, however, was extremely brief, as he resigned July 16 and returned to his Illinois home. Hoping to quell the clamor for a home man, the Dayton city commission named F. O. Eiehelberger, a Dayton man, to succeed him, but the volume of complaint has constantly grown, and experienced politicians are predicting the defeat of the mnnager form at the election in November and the (substitution of some other plnn of city Government. SOCIALISTS SEEK CONTROL. The fight over the city manager idea, however, is mixed up with a red-hot campaign for control of the commission as it is now- constituted. The Socialists, who have grown in strength tremendously in Dayton, as in other urban centers, have three candidates in the field. The Muni ot,al Voters' League is also baek-

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ing a complete slate, while thr two old political organizations are behind the candidacies of pb ked. men. Immense expenditures 'of public funds, caused by the floods of 1914, which resulted in heavy loss of life and great property damage there, have accentuated the public unrest. Unemployment, caused by the business depression, and the fact that Dayton was one of the towns which enjoyed a tremendous boom under the impetus of war business, has contributed to the unrest among the NOT CONCLUSIVE. In Akron the city manager plan has not been in operation long enough to give it a fair trial, but dissatisfaction over traction problems and mounting taxes have been organized by opponents of the plan, and many signatures have been secured for the repeal of the proposition. On the other hand, in Cleveland Peter Witt, brought to Cleveland by the late Tom L. Johnson, long mayor of the city, as a traction expert, is backing an amendment to the present “Federal” plan charter, providing for the city manager plan, and an organized campaign is now under way. Here the manager group believes it

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! mission with an expert “manager" as a | panacea. One Cleveland suburb, with a I city manager, lias been operating year ' after year, even under war and post-war j conditions, with a constantly-increasing surplus, and this is depended upon ns a ' potent argument. Both of the old' political organizations are prepared to'flght

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hard against the change, but the Democratic organization, torn by dissensions within and laekiug the efficient guiding hand of Tom L. Johnson and Newton D. Baker, former mayor and later Secretary of War, does not control a large following. The same is true. In a less Viegree. with the Republican organization, which

is also rent wide by patronage and other flghts. Uity management is on trial at three points, and the eyes of cities everywhere are centered upon Ohi^,which may pronounce the doom or order the steady growth of the new idea in city government.