Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-01-04
EDITORIAL.
TETON AND TssE COMMISSION

oauuSA te~Se1lEe4E tn2 &9E1R2lS-
siOn-manager fora Of govsrauea. for
this city fer two years, They have
read and inquired about i and its
accomplishments elewhere, and have
watched with Increasing interest the
experiment Of neignborins cities
which have embraced IL The num-
Der has been increasing constantly.
and, thus far, apparently always with
the same beneficial results.
Triton has just completed her first
year under the eommission-manager
form and the result, according to
word from that city, is highly salts
factory. The news service of the
South Georgia Associated Dailies
brings to the editors desk the follow
ing report from Tifton:
The city has paid off $4,000 in.
debtedness, spent Site for better
ments, and in the face of q slump in
property returns reduced the tax rate
per cent, and announces n rednc.
ton OF Is to IS per cent in water
rates for the new year. 1t starts into
1922 with every outstanding bin paid
including the salaries of EMPLOYEES
During the year near $4,000 of un-
earthed propertywas brought to book
and thirteen Insurance cempanie
which had been doing bushes in the
city without paying the liccnse. ia.
we're herded up and collected from.
The city manager announced thai
Iifton would pay as it goes for 1922
and almost took his hearers breath
when he asked that his salary for
next year be reduced $500.
"W. T. Hargrett came to Triton
last year for a salary Of $4,000, $500
less than he was receiving as general
manager of the Live Oak, Perry and
Gulf railroad, but he says it is worth
5000 a year to live in Triton.
sit is not that Triton was formerly
mismanaged or extravagantly govern
ed, that a city manager has been able
to make such good showing. The
difference lies in having one man
vested with absolute authority and
sole responsibility. If he is good
man the plan works-but much de-
,4anIe -. .A,ox,
MUCH DEPENDS ON THE MAN!
Certainly. That is true in any
business; it is true under any form
of government. The commissions
manager form Of government means
conducting city as business corp
grafton, with a board of directors as
in the case of bank hiring the man.
ager, who corresponds to the presi-
dent of the bank The commissioners
look to the manager for results,
check him up and see that he makes
good. If he doesn't they can discover
it mighty quickly and get another
man. But under our selective sys-
TEN there is no one to check the in
competent official and no way to fire
him until his term expires.
Americas is pretty big business
corporation, and with the present adj
ministration, which has been doing
admirably well under the handicap of
the old system, going out at the end
of this year, it is good time to think
about change in 1922.
Let's have another conference to
reduce navel oranges.
The bankrupt watch company has
run down SO will be wound up.
A tender feeling has tough time
President of France says the arms
parley failed. He ought to know.
Lots. of people stay away from
churchEbecause 1t doesn cost any
thing 70 go.
No groom fits the collar ads-no
bride the stocking ads.
Landlord Mistaken for Bandit Is
Shot" -~headline. Sounds plausible.
A war nurse is swearing to the
&oyernhaent that she is alive. Some
men just won't believe woman.
One down and out club is the war
club.
These trees being saved by hypo-
iefmic injections take a shot in the
iimb instead of the arm.
The devil finds work for idle
aands; don't let our idle go to the