Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-05
A WHOLE lot of us these day,

WHO'D lot of US these days folks blue
~ likely to make things look deal to ourselves and
- - r. Lily are A well known Central of Georgia rail
road official whose headquarters Columbus was amen
Gus day ago and ne told this story "heh inc ' "
SLACK b dent Of the Central was Columbus this week
t in advance few hours he coming so hurried around
J cot some reports ready on business handled by the road this
section is understood railroad men that the executive
look upon 1916 peak period of railroad business the Pe1
800 or 70 the government taking them 30 collected he
figures hauled etc through October ana d
You NAV be hear but these reports showed
and continual increase through month by month with &c
tober highest up Nov and November still better or the oes
read these reports the president who had been pretty
blue I'm glad Columbus he said after had hniSheo
AMONG the guests listened to the talk OF George WnShp OF
"A Atlanta at the Rotary dinner Thursday night winch ne 'U %
= H. Trb industrial tour into the North and East John W.
Greer secretary of the Georgia Municipal league h Inc
terestng point Mr. Greer in Mr. WnshP talk was ms
e with the description of the great hydro-eectrc power
plant on the American side of Niagara Falls that this p0" ~ "
onsnrners about a cent per klowaH hour !,
That of the competition OF Ontario just across ~
iver whispered MIR. sitting beside hrm n,
The George Municipal League its campaign tor unshacKe
h cities of Georgia and putting the undeveoPed water power III
tb state to work for all the people has based ITS educational cam
pagn on what Ontario has done under laws similar TO those ]
for enactment Georgia Mr. Greer points out that hyoo
pow s uT charged for it is profit will be then that good
profit being made the Niagara Falls plant at ~ cent ana
consumer enjoying tremendously advantageous i
WHAT rate like this would mean to Amecus be judged
with the rate now beng paia mere o b f
privately generated from coal he minimum rate IN ene
bower in large quantities that at Niagara ais or
S
SION To- increase this to cents than the Niagara
Falls The for lighting ranges as high as 20 tunes hs
than the compared rate - - 90
rppAp and editorial writer on the Dublin Courier
Herald has letter Santa Claus asking thirst
mas present linotype that will SPELL puncuate and otherwise put
into type correctly he writes Probably newspaper
writer would choose gift if allowed his heart
desire IL,
line out Of an editorial made absud of what
tended point of less Importance Tor those who may
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in that and who couldn't make whatever out OF the
final in that paragraph it is reproduced here as stood IN
copy and should have appeared in type:
Whenever the people convinced that they will be unable
get goods prices time they viii begin
buy again scale and will be found that there is more
money the country than folks able now to imagine
reached here and immediate resumption OF buying appeared
be in order.
TWO hundred American cities being directed by cit,
City management nothing than the operation of ct
government by methods in private business That this mho
of longer experiment governmental fad
made evident when 200 experienced city managers held con
venion recently to exchange ideas
The fact that these getting together for tn
good Of their collective communities was IN itself gn
of the deam of the method he old political system
ghbu whoever heard of the politically chosen mayors OF Zo
cities holding convention for the OF trading ideas an
experiences1
THE manager plan municipal government has developed
of who know cities other experts know tn
human body the solar system 1t based on the ioea h IN
city government the largest business institution city
therefore deserves instead OF changeabe
agement by political organizations
Politicians have claimed that the plan demo
that cenazes authority appointed official But
democracy the auocrac political boss
that has supplaned communities The political boss tn
invisible responsible the
boss but visible boss directly responsible to the community
The city manager plan was born in Staunon' Va t"elv
and recorded that city abandoned the pa
after getting used to it.
The commssionnanager plan of government will be Amer
Gus nextim
break jail considering the labor
housing problem
They William the Conqueror couldn't own name
but everyone admits he packed awful aop terat
nitt