The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-01-21
men on your public health committee
he advised the Marion men.
Cue Condo Sneaks

men on your public health committee"
he advised the Marion men.
Gus Condo Speaks.
Introducing Gus Condo. Mr.. Swayne
said he sometimes wondered whether
as attorney for the Allegheny Gas
company he had not put one over"
On the city.
Condo replied: Il do not think put
one over on you. / tried to give the
city something that it wanted. found
the Richmond Commercial club the
best organized club in Indiana. found
that the old method of getting ordin-
ances by caucus with the members of
council did not go. | learned if you
wanted anything in Richmond you had
to go to the Commercial club to get
it. The details were all threshed out
in committee meetings. The club act
ed and co-operated with the admins
tration, so one meeting of the board of
works and council was all that was
necessary to pass the ordinance"
Petty jealousy among the merchants
has been eliminated by the committee
on retail merchants, according to Lee
B. Nusbaum, chairman. The commit
tee has rating of the people of the
city, which is constantly revised, con-
tains 10000 names and is closer than
Dun and Bradstreet. His advice to
business men was to affiliate with a
commercial body and cooperate.
A duplicate water main from the
pumping station to the city, and a
building code, which went into eect
January l, w. X. Bradbury pointed
to as the work of the committee on
| insurance.
Great Moral Force.
Our new mayor has promised to
give us a business administration, and
the Commercial club will make him."
said President Swayne, pledging to
assist Mayor Robbins and the new ad-
miniStration.
l. The $50 members of the Commercial
club form a great moral force in the
community, said Mayor Robbins The
activities of the club have done much
to secure constructive legislation in
the city government, he concluded.
r. A. Heavlin. attorney from Marion,
said his home town was in the throes
of revival, and the men had thought
it would be great to get wicked city
like Richmond, but he found they had
slipped one over on them and were
having tabernacle meeting here. He
suggested if Richmond wanted a novel
experience, to bring the 400 unfed
members of the State Bar Association
here for the next convention.
Interested in Research.
The Commercial club is interested
in the organization of bureau of mu-
nicipal research, to find out by means
Of experts the manner of conducting
the departments of city governm ent,
and to Ger suggestions for the i'm
provement of the departments said
William Dudley Foulke.
For some time the city has had
such an organization, he explained,
first as committee of the Commercial
with limited powers. This organiza
ton saw that a large amount of de-
lnquent taxes was paid.
Il hope he continued, I'VE have a
constitutional convention which will
provide that municipalities shall have
the power to make their own char
tiers to suit themselves. This is the
new doctrine of home rule
Forms Of Govrnment
Three alternatives were pointed out
! by the speaker the commission form,
the business form, and the manager
form Of city government.
Safe to tie to is the commission
| form, which has been tried over the
country III more tHan TOUR nunureu
cities 1t is great improvement on
the political forms. and has proved q
success with hardly an exception
He expressed the hope that the next
session of the legislature would allow
clues, if they DESIRED to adopt the
business form of government, the COM
mission form being the first step.
"Make City Better'-Slogan.
During my four years of service
have appointed five hundred men on
| committees, and only one has said he
| could not serve.
| Our slogan is, Make Richmond a
| better city in which to live We make