Arizona republican., 1910-11-30
WORLDS BEST MANAGED CITY.
Dusseldorf Owns Street Railways, Docks, Light, Water and Milk
 Supply. Etc.

l | found in a business administration.
 Its solution does not lie in merely | putting good men in office. or in | finding better political tools. says | Frederick C. Howe in the December Hampton's.
 The solution consists in making i the city a humanized entity, with | purposes and plans, with foresight
 and dreams. with humanity and gen erosity; it consists in abOlishing pow
 erty. in training the people properly. | in raising their standards of living. of happiness, of morals.
 | have often dreamed Of a city
 whose ideals rose above mere busi- ness. a city that was built like a home. that had a communal bigness 1 builders. and that served it's people
 as father might serve his children. And I have seen such cities in Ger
 many. the nation which alone recog-
 nizes the portentous significance of
 the change which has taken place in
 the distribution of population.
 Of all German cities. I think Dus- seldorf is easily the first Dusseldorf ! is a socialized city managed by busi-
 ness men who do not believe in so- cialism. IL is not an old residence city like Dresden or Munich. It is
 comparatively new city like Cleve-
 land. Milwaukee. Indianapolis or Kan
 sas City. Its population was but sixty-nine thousand people in 1871
 It is now three hundred thousand
 Dusseldorf. too. is an industrial city
 of mills. factories and workshops. It
 Is located on the lower Rhine in the
 heart of the industrial region that
 has sprung into existence since the
 Franco Prussian war It might be
 as unalluring as Pittsburg II might
 be ruled by business men in their
 own interest as are most of our
 American cities: it might be built
 without beauty and suffer from the corruption that has brought shame
 to Pittsburg. Philadelphia. san Fran cisco. Denver. Cincinnati and score more. But none of these things is true of Dusseldorf
 This industrial city is one of the best governed cities in the world IL has dreamed dreams and dared to carry them into execution. It is almost as beautiful as Washington. as full of the Joy of living as Paris. and is managed with more efficiency and more devoted pride than almost any American business corporation. The city is built for the comfort and signed as master architects might design a worlds fair to which ali mankind was invited for education, recreation and art
 But the thing that most distin- guishes Dusseldorf is this-her peo- pie and her officials seem to appre- ciate that congestion of population has made it necessary for the city to own many things and do many things. And these German citizens understand. too. that the things the city does not own must be regula- ted and controlled to prevent them harming cities or citizens.
 Dusseldorf does more things for its people than any city'I know It owns it's street railroads and the controlling interest in a system of interurban railroads: it owns it's harbors and its docks and it's sIaugh- ter houses. it's gas. eletcric light u separate banking and loan enter prises. large wine business. several restaurants and milk depots: it owns and rents suburban villas and large apartment houses; 1t is a great land speculator and city land owner: it possesses art galleries. an opera house, museums and exposition hall. and indirectly owns the leading hotel in the city It has public baths and cemeteries and pawnshops
 DusseldOrfg has made beginning at homing it's people. Ii is the own CT of suburban villas and model ten ement houses and is a stockholder in a scheme of cooperative apartment houses in which the wOrkmen are joint owners.
 The country villas rent for from s6 to s7 a month. A three or four about the same sum. The rooms in the latter are twice the size of those of the tenement house in Amer | ica. and all of them have outside air | These apartments are as clean and l as can be. The co-opera- ! tive apartments are built about | court yards which serve as play grounds and are surrounded iby | flower gardens. There is free water | and a scullery with every flat of | three rooms or more.
 In order to secure an apartment | in one of these desirable buildings. the tenant must become share | holder in the company. buying $5 | worth of stock The tenants are not | the recipients of charity. On the ! they are part owners and | cooperate in the management. They l elect a house manager. who collects | the rents and represents them before 1 the company. The tenant stock :.