Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 113, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1924 — Page 8

FIGURES SHOW CITY MANAGER PLANASUCCESS Each Year Shows Thirty or Forty More Municipalities Adopting, Note— This is the third of a series of articles on modem city government. By GAYLORD NELSON The figures of the growth of the city manager plan year after year are the best indications that this scheme of government is as successful in practice as in theory. Each year witnesses its adoption by thirty or forty municipalities. Between 9i> per cent and 95 per cent of all changes in city governments at present are toward the city manager plan. And it is growing most rapidly in these sections where it is best known. In Michigan thirty-six municipalities have this form of government. In Virginia, where the plan originated, there are seven cities with a population of 30,000 or more in 1920. Six of Jhese cities have the commission foAn of government. California in 1920 had fourteen commission manager cities; today there are thirty-two. And so runs the tale wherever it has been tried. Space forbids the presentation of reports of its specific accomplishment in varipus cities. Money Saved They recite improvements made, efficiency increased and money saved —almost without exception. And few municipalities. once adopting the commission manager plan, revert to the old unsatisfactory system of checks and balances. Has the plan been adopted and abandoned by many cities? The 1924 year book of the City Managers’ Association lists seventysix citie3 as having once tried if and abandoned it. One L he face of it that seems a heavy mortality. But investigation revealed that in Lift Off-No Pain! fpl Doesn’t hurt one bit! Drop a little “Freezone" on an aching corn, instantly that corn stops hurting, then shortly you life it right off with fingers. Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of “Freezone” for a few cents, sufficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn."or corn between the toes and the fcot calluses, without soreness or irritation. —Advertisement. I Educate Your Children To Use Soap There is nothing better than Cuticura Soap, assisted by Cuticura Ointment when required, to keep the pores active, the skin clear and free from eruptions, and the scalp in a healthy hair-griping condition. Staples Tri by li*£ Addr<n “Cvticnr* Laborfctorlr Dept S-5F 4?. Mass .” Sold every* ware. Soap 2 Be, Ointment 26 and 50e. Talcum 25c. IMT Cuticura Products Are Reliable.

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twelve cities so listed the plan had never been in operation. In other cases where the plan was tried and discarded the cities were so small, municipal affairs so simple, that there was no need for a full-time, paid city executive. And in nearly every instance where the plan was abandoned it was found that the city manager was created by ordinance and not by a charter provision. Adoption of commission manager provisions in the city charter requires submiss: an to the people. The plan must be ratified by a majority of the voters. Where it is provided for by city ordinance only, no vote of the people is necessary. And it is subject to all the modifications and nullifications probable from the changing political complexion of the ordinance xnaking body. In such cities the city manager and his job become inextricably enmeshed in politics. So the mortality of ordinance created managers Is high. A commission manager plan operating by virtue of a charter provision Is assured a degree of permanence and stability. It has tima to prove itself by its works. And it usually does. For in the sixteen y*ars since the first city manager came into office only four cities have abandoned the plan by a vote of the people. Another uestion frequently encountered in any discussion of the commission manager form of city government is the question of its applicability to large cities. Say of the size of Indianapolis. Business Is Business “Business is business,” retorts the student of the plan. The same basic rules apply whether it is the business of the Ford Motor Company, or the operation of a one-man ax-handle factory in Haughville. The functions of Government are the same in an Indiana town of 5,000 and New York City. The only distinction is in size. If the city manager prove a profitable investment in a small place, a large city should find him proportionately more profitable. But to date very few cities of considerable size have adopted the plan. It has spread most rapidly among small cities. Even the Wannest advocates of the plan readily admit that.

j Hoosier Briefs mACK V. BONNER. Fairmount youth, will let cats and dogs fight it out from now on. He mterferred to save .a hard-pushed feline and the dog snapped the end of his nose. Joan Bailey, 2, Logansport, swallowed a needle. Physicians refuse to operate until It reaches a point : more accessible. Marion firemen will miss the thrill of sliding down the brass pole. Station No. 6 has been deserted after twenty years for bungalow headj quarters where the men all sleep on the first floor. ♦ Roy Shrontz, Fairmount grocer | who shot and killed a bandit who I tried to rob his store, has sold his I place. j > When Elmer Ferguson’s car got struck m soft gravel, near Svmour, his family got out to help push the car out. Genevive and Thelma, his : young daughters got in front. He j didn't see them and the car struck . them. Injuries are not s^ious. EEWIS FRINK of new Kingsland has a pie that's a hog for punishment The animal for more than a week has been walking in a circle in what A believed an endurance test. If the hog is disturbed, it will leave the circle only to return again. Mrs. Don Tobias of Wolcottville is in a serious condition from shock at the death of her 8-year-old son Willis, killed returning from his first day of school. Only two days before a child born to Mrs. Tobias died at birth. Salvation Army at Bloomington has started its annual toy hospital. Broken toys are received and re paired for Christmas presents to poor children. Ar— FTER a wild ride in a truck at South Bend In which he i___J drove two autos into a ditch, brushed a boy off a bicycle and created a traffic panic, Charles Sears, 29, faces charges of driving while intoxicated and failure to stop after an accident. Kokomo will celebrate the official opening of State Rd. No. 1 with bands, red fire, speeches and a banquet the middle of October. Vets Eat Beans Bv Timex Special GREENCASTLE, Ind„ Sept. 18.— Over forty Civil War veterans of Putnam County and surrounding counties attended a bean dinner Wednesday, the guests of the local G. A. R. post. The dinner is an annual affair.

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BEGIN HERE TODAY Robert Koran, newspaper eorreBpundent accompanies tlie Theodore Roosevelt expedition into Afriea in limit. They arrive at Mombassa. the "b-ateway of British East Africa." and then make the railroad journey t otheir first camp on the samecrowded Kapiti Plains. 2HS miles from the coast. With Colonel Roose. veil are his son. Kermit. and three scientific members of Ins staff— Major EiLar A. Hearns, Edmund Heller and J. Allen Boring. Incredible good luck comes to the rifles of Colonel Roosevelt and Kermit during the first two weeks of their sojourn. Then they spend some time at Nairobi, where they are royally received. From Nairobi the | party goes to Kijabe to start on i their first prolonged safari into the wilds of Africa—the Sotik country. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY 4 ' ,1 HE nights in camp were alI ways delightful, for we all 1 * gathered 'round a log fire after dinner and echanged experiences of life in the open and wild places. Cunninghame and Tarlton had many a thrilling tale to tell of elephant and lion hunts in the Congo and East Africa, and the three naturalists shared with us their experiences in Alaska, the Philippines, the Rocky Mountains, Mexieo and elsewhere, while Colonel Roosevelt told us many a good story of his adventures on western ranches. One of his best stories made a great Impression on me by its quaint humor. On his ranch in the West he had a splendid type of man as foreman, whose name was “Hell-Roaring” Bill Jones. It„so happened that Jones was the sheriff of the county, and Roosevelt was his deputy sheriff. Jones was quite a local ‘character.” One day Colonel Roosevelt returned to his ranch after a brief visit to New Y'ork. On his arrival he asked “Hell-Roaring” Bill Jones if anything of special note had happened while he had been absent. “War,” drawled Bill Jones, as he scratched his head thoughtfully, “I guess we’ve got a lunatic.” “A lunatic?” exclaimed Roosevelt. “Yes —and the funny thing about that lunatic,” continued Bill Jones, with the air of having made a sudden discovery, “is that he’s plum crazy.” "Tell me about him,” invited Roosevelt.

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"It h:ippenetl this wise. A man got aboard the train and shot the newsboy in the stomach; and when he started in to shoot up the train why the boys just naturally fell on that lunatic, guessing something was wrong wit hhim. They brought

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that lunatic along to me, and I was plum puzzljpd what to do with him for we’d never had a lunatic a-’fore.” “What did you do?” asked Roosevelt, much interested.

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“I Just released .all the prisoners out o’ the jail, and put the lunatic ■n there. Wal’, you know Bill Schneider, the big jailer? Wal’, Schneider used to take that there lunatic out Tor a walk most every day, and the boys used to gather tounrl and josh Schneider 4s to how much start ho could give that lunatic —and then catch v him, Wal’, according to the size of the job and the bet made, just so much start did Schneider give that lunatic.” “But what If Schneider hadn't caught the lunatic?” demanded Roosevelt. "Wal', I guess I’d Just about have whaled hell outer/ Schneider!” snapped Hell-Roaring Bill Tones. Roosevelt's stories of real life out West made him a good rival for Bret

Harte. But always the talk drifted back to the hunting habits of the wild game in Brtish East Africa At dawn on the morning of June 6, the tents of the Roosevelt expe-

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dition were struck with the exception of Colonel llooseelt's. His 4*‘n wks left pitched until The vet v last moment, so that he could enjoy reading one of his books from his famous “Pigskin Library.” At midday they were to march off to Sotik through the sixty miles of “thirst belt," as the waterless tract of the Ivedong Valley is locally called. In order to supply the necessary water for the large number of native. carriers, the personnel of the expedition, and H horses and mules, four ox way j.is had been re quisitioned from Mr. Ullyatt, the Cape Colony farmer whom Colonel Roosevelt had met at the Kijabe mission a couple of days before. These four ox wagons, each with a team of sixteen trained animals, were destined to carry 125 gallons of water in tin kegs on each wagon By this method the enormous expense of engaging a large force of addtiion.nl porters to carry sufficient water for the needs of the expedition across <}ie “thirst” country would be obviated. And, by marching day and night with hardly a stop for two and a half days, the firdt water course could blTreached witn out mishap or lack of drinking water. Owing to the beautiful moonlight at this time of the month no real difficulties would be experienced in yie night marching. The only real unpleasantness of that Journey to the edge of the Sotfk country would be the inability Yo wash, due to the scarcity of water and the discomfort of sleeping for a few hours on the bare ground In the cold nights, with nothing for cover but a great-coat. Heller and Boring rode off after breakfast in camp, so as to have time to hunt for specimens of rare mammals and big game at a renowned spot in the Kedong Valley; while Ivormit helped Cunninghame and Tarlton to supervise the arrangement of the loads that each of the 200 porters was to carry. Colonel Roosevelt read in the shade of his tent, until a hasty luncheon wfls snatched before time for departure. The water-wagons, as the ox-trans-port was named by Kermit, were the first to move off. Ullyat had blazed the trail across that waterless country, and knew well the route and dis Acuities to be surmounted. With Ullyat were three other white men; two of them were English and the other a Boer, i They drove the oxwagons, while Masai natives led each team of sixteen oxen. Punctually at mid-day, the huge safari started off from the camp, led by a native porter who bore aloft the American flag. Colonel Roosevelt, Kermit and Hearns rode at the head of the long procession of por-

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ters who carried sixty-pound loads on their heads; and their gun-bearqrs, personal servants, and the syce* (crooms) followed at their heels. As the porters passed in single file they were chanting a we ini natice refrain with a most elusive melody. 1 1 caught snatches of the words of the song, and knew that they were extolling Roosevelt and praising his courage and prowess as a hunter of lions. CHAPTER VIII Roosevelt in the I-and of l ions “Dear Foran: “All right; I return the Governor's letter. I'll gladly dine with you Friday, as you suggest; and Monday with Mr. Edwards. But if the public dinner should come on either date, could I not change the dinner of that date to Sunday? “Yours, \ T. R. I ** This letter, written In pencil from one of the camps in the Sotik, was brought In to me at the Rift Valley Hotel at Naivasha one morning while I was making arrangements there for the return of the Roosevelt expedition after a six weeks’ hunting trip to the south of the Uganda Railway. I had Sent out to Colonel Roosevelt, by a Masai runner, his home *aail—a very bulky package—and a letter I had received from his ex-

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