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Show WHY OGDEN COMMISSIONERS . HAVE PROVED A FAILURE Collier's Weekly Tells the Story How Dayton, Ohio, Commissioners Commis-sioners Give Twice the Service for the Same Taxes and Save Over a Half Million in Cash Over the Old System Why Do the Ogden Commissioners Just Reverse This Condition? Read and Let the Voter Answer Tuesday. To 3how the people of Ogden how real commission governments are conducted con-ducted and what rear commission governments gov-ernments mean to the taxpayers, we call the people's attention to the last issue of Collier's Weekly, which has just been received at the Standard office, and which has a long article on the commission government as conducted con-ducted at Dayton, O. There are five commissioners who get $100 per month. These commissioners, feeling that no one of them was competent to undertake the management of the city's affairs, appointed a general superintendent, su-perintendent, or as they call him city manager, to look after the entire citv's affairs aa outlined by the commissioners. com-missioners. The initiative referendum and recall are part of Dayton'B law, as it should be of ever' commission form of government Any one of the commissioners, or all of them, can be recalled by the people on approximately approxi-mately thirty days' notice. Any law these Dayton commissioners pass can be forced to be submitted to the people peo-ple or can be recalled. The city com-mission com-mission of Dayton, instead of continuing continu-ing tho old municipal form of government govern-ment plans, proceeded to cut off surplus sur-plus salaried employes by the wagon load. Everything was placed upon a business basis, the same as big factories fac-tories run their business. Competency and ability are the first considera-tionB, considera-tionB, and, without raising the taxes of Dayton one cent, this commission government paid off $50,0(H) of the floating debt of the city, reduced the bonded indebtedness of the city $71,-000 $71,-000 and bought $407,324 worth of new property. ... ... How does this compare with the work of the present Ogden City com-mlsBlonerB? com-mlsBlonerB? Did our commissioners Tut out the heads of the departments and make themselves the heads Iso indeed. They kept the old office of heads of departments, filled them with new men and actually raised the salaries Instead of dismissing the Kads entirely of various depaxtoentB Snd making themselves the .heads they continued the old system, but increased the salaries. How many employes have been dispensed wUh in the city government in Ogden i None Yet in Dayton the consolidate consolida-te t duties and the cutting : out . Rtirolus and unneceBBary help nas JerSSted the city of Dayton to forge to the front as one of the best regu lated city governments tb V? not 5tntps Not only were the taxes noi S'sed. but the XV We" S was not Increased. Colliers een mvs the income was approximatel the same as under previous admlnls-tratlonj admlnls-tratlonj and the Standard now asks Shv tho present city commissioner commission-er of Osden have failed to do as C L th T Dayton commissioners ,Wel aL Here is the answer. The have done? Here is LU ,-ooallpd Dayton commissioners can be recaiiea hv the people on thirty days notice. The Ogden commissioners are en-Snctaed en-Snctaed for four years, the mayor for two years with no one a right to recall them. Therefore, the three ORden commissioners having en-Xh en-Xh themselves like three, kings, three tyrants, who pay no attention o what the people ask or demand, set fhPmselves above everyone, and in BteaT of earning the big salaries they receive, they allow the city to be conducted the same as in the past, nniv with bigger salaries. Here is what Collier's Weekly says on the Dayton commission, which we ask the people to read: "On practically the same income n 1914 the city of Dayton spent nearl a quarter of a million dollars for services not given under the old sS tern in 1913. , "In some of tho departments double dou-ble the service has been givep l the city under the new plan for mucii less money than the old government pxnended As an example, in lJi-i Sager Walte spent S35 300 for the removal of ashes ha&l was an added expenditure .aVqio ; had no sen-ice of that kind in 191-in 191-in 1914 Davton paid over 523.000 for Sreet pacing repairs out of her repi-s repi-s lar income. The old method was to s Issuo bonds for the rebuilding of 3 The new government added $1000 per month to the Street-Cleaning De-ptrtment; De-ptrtment; put on seven additional policewomen and policemen to look , alter juvenile delinquents; spent $20. 000 to establish a municipal court, , e & tablished a P"0"1,??? in the baved the first year $33,000 in the Purchase price of supplies without sacrificing quality It "tahlished a Welfare Department, doubled the number num-ber of parks and public P10?? laid out a bathing beach for 40,000 persons: established a Perpetual aud-it: aud-it: built several miles of 6evve"' much new paving; spent large bun I for restoring flood damage; doublea the cost of the health department I and despite the enormous expend lures made necessary by these added I feature of government paid fO.OOO B on a deficit of $125,000 Inherited from She old system. This they have done I on practically the same income, sr the old government received The have accomplished this remarkable result re-sult bv increasing the purchasing power pow-er of "the city's dollars. "And the big thing is not in the fact that within the first eighteen Souths of the new system Dayton decreased her debt $71,04o and increased in-creased her assets $407,324 without Increasing her taxation; t in l in J the fact that she has in addition to these financial advances doubled her public service, without increasing her budget over that in vogue under the old system. She has done this by doubling dou-bling the purchasing power of dollars expended by the city government "The city gets the benefit of high-class high-class business judgment at a nominal nomi-nal salary of $1200 for each com-I com-I missloner, except the one who re-I re-I ceives tho largest vote. By virtue ot 1 this he is called the mayor and has I the ornamental duties of that formal I title and an addition of $300 to his I salary." |