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Show Explains the New System H. M. Walte, Head of D.yton, O. Tell How System Worn, Indianapolis, March 4. H. m. vaite, the manager of Dayton, Ohio, q, J operates that city an a business basla of efficiency and economy, remove it entirely from municipal politics, told hero this afternoon In nn address, before the Indiana Sanitary & Water Supply association tho effect of tho new form of city government upon publiclly operated utilities. Tills was his first address since becoming head of the city. Walte discussed whether local public pub-lic utilities can be run as cheaply nnd efficiently by tho city government as by private owners. "Wo believe we have the most businesslike bus-inesslike form of government yet proposed pro-posed In this coountry. It Is tho form of organization under which our private pri-vate corporations have had such phenomenal phe-nomenal success and we can accordingly accord-ingly soo no reason why It should not be the best form of government to operate public utilities," said Watte. The city manager said that In the two party systems, one' party Is lrt powemnd entrenched, tlior walling wall-ing to be entrenched, and not above; Intrigue Wad dlsio.'tio.i of facts to gain ascenden.-y. Ho said the apparent idea of Improving Im-proving conditions was to put the attacking, at-tacking, party In power, merely reversing re-versing the situation. In the commission manager form of government, he stated, the manager represents tho president of a corporation. corpor-ation. Ho appoints his heads of, departments. de-partments. "I do not know the politics of a slnglo ono of my appointees In Dayton, Day-ton, he saldQ I Insist simply on efficiency, effi-ciency, loyalty and economy, and their salaries are such as department heads should draw." |