Show businesslike government city of england that Is eun on a simple yet very effective system the government of manchester is a business its liabilities are about ats assets are about and the deficiency about 9 represents the amount which the ratepayers have to con tribute each year writes samuel mer win in success magazine the fig urea indicate that it is a big bus ness the management of this big business is absolutely in the hands ot the city council acting through its committees As I 1 have said the tern Is simple and the responsibility cannot be evaded as it can be in a muddled up complicated system like that of new toik or chicago or new arh the people know what has to be done and they know who has to do it but even at that big figures are confusing to the average mind and then too it Is well to submit the figures which a city bouncil oun cil ab lashes to an i so because th people of manchester propose know what Is done with 1 money they have in their ice two men whose business it is to investigate and publish at regular in every tendency of the coun ell toward carelessness or gance never for a moment are the councillors permitted to forget whose money it is that they are managing with such fluent ease these two men are known as elec alve auditors they are elected dl erectly by the people and the more merciless their attacks on the coun ell the better they please the people they are free from the slightest obal gatlon to the council they have ac cess to all facts and figures for the people 0 manchester find it difficult to understand why their government managed by their personal re presenta alves with their money should not work wholly in the light these re ports are published weekly in tl manchester city news |