| Show MANAGERS IN FORTY CITIES new plan of municipal government has grown more rapidly than Is generally known I 1 L somewhere sometime in the ever booming and quite frequently blooming west there 3 not evolved the perfect plan for governing a city it will not be for lack of experimentation with governmental schemes A good many cities and towns scattered over the map of the united states took up with the idea of government by commission during the first decade of the new century there was a subsidence to the rush for the commission government ent scheme about five years ago 1190 then in 1913 the ohio legislature put through a bill formulating what I 1 Is now arn na me nry dry mann g the idea has been acted upon to an extent that the majority of people are arc not aware of dayton 0 was the first city of over population to tryout try out the manager scheme but there are now about 40 cities BO governed twenty urban communities employed a manager last year grand rapids being the largest city next nest to dayton trying the new scheme of government the city manager plan seems to be only a variation of the commission government idea there Is a commission generally of five behind the manager and the commission generally appoints the manager the city manager plan has been adopted even in states where there Is no statute providing for such a plan of government the idea involved Is 13 being applied in many instances without any change in the framework under und erthe the old councilman lc le and city mayor forms of government |
