The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 9, 1925, Page 16

U. S. Shipping Board ©” Prepares Catalogues :".' THIS SUMMER Date Set for July 27 to August 1 by Guarantors Will Continue His Elimination of "The. V ' Waste Plan BY HERBERT LITTLE HAS CLYAR IDFA ot wis WHAT HE WANTS TO DO <5 DEVELOP INTO “PNEUMONIA (—= Vote “Yes” on Referendum No. 1 FROM NORTH BEND The citizens of North Bend know the circum- stances surrounding the “Boxley Canyon Flood.” We know the families and mill operators who were wiped out. We know the justice of their cause. They have not received justice. We appeal to you to sustain the Seattle City Council on settling their claims on a 25 per cent basis. Be Fair—Vote “Yes” on Referendum No. 1 NORTH BEND COMMERCIAL CLUB By V, E. SEARING, Pres. J | i Q ‘4 out of 5 Dental statiatics prove that four out of every five over 40—as well ag thousands younger— pay Pyorrhen’s toll. Do you want to elude this dread disease? 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Porhan Company, New York Forhanys FOR THE GUM More than a tooth paste it checks Pyorrhea x 1, 1925, The Brown Dentistry ix like wine it gets better with age. ‘PeoPLE 170,000 PeoPLt have had their (DENTAL WORK) P& | TEETH CARED FOR at " yi of Dr. Edwin J, Brown, Leading Dentist, WHOLE GRAIN WHEAT DURING IT 18 COOKED READY TO EAT BETTER AND CHEAPER R Nine Years’ Service pe ea THE SEATTLE STAR GIVE ‘WAYFARER'Hoover to Try for Big D0 PENSIONED Politics Are Blamed for Cuts in Cost of Living Alaska Husky Retired After trail of t mul \ NUTBERRY TREE b POSLAM ISA CONCENTRATED Ar Pe! RADIO PROBLEM IS tn ALSO IN HIS HANDS COLLAR ANNIVERSARY AN APPEAL|:: loes Thirty years’ ex- enabled Dr. Brown to a nviable Faithful work, ind giving people the best and most for their money ts | the secret of Dr. Brown's Success, | All Dental Work is now being made jat greatly reduced Prices until May and all work ts guaranteed. Mgr. Brown Dental Offices, 106 Columbia Street. THAN SKI N HEALER t F Removal of Dr. Sen. Dill, Opposing Successor, Asks ay ; Probe of Former Charges HAS BEEN EDUCATOR FORK MANY YEARS Lopp see the “Bayer Cross” Unless you not getting by million Cold Headach Pain uralgia DO YOU WANT TO PAY MORE TAXES ry | . . a . “y For This City Manager Experiment? In évery city of any size that has tried the city manager plan there has been enoromus increase of expenditures, taxes and public debt. Here are the official figures from seven such cities that installed managers in 1923: Funded Debt 1922 (Previous Plan) Cleveland ..« $75,377,164 Grand Rapids PO Mnerrrirg et Kalasnaz00 sass. se sein 881,000 Weasel cs his cian be 8,165,942 WHA Gc s cies ace isee 4,000,000 Wistgbeemon occ. 0cc'y Cae 4 Ris 8 1,871,200 Portland, Me. ...... 3,416,658 Budget 1925 1922 1925 (City Manager) (Previous Plan) (City Manager) $124,000,000 $13,625,177 $17,000,000 Eee wie oe 4,165,827 8,607,037 2,340,474 909,856 2,606,482 12,559,000 2,044,635 3,935,000 11,309,000 750,000 1,770,681 2,668,829 935,300 2,260,320 4,901,000 2,967,357 3,948,437 These figures demand the attention of every Seattle taxpayer—and that means every resident of the city, for all help to pay the taxes. The plan proposed here is to give the city manager an absolutely free hand with the city’s money. He is-to fix the scale of wages, from his own down to the last and humblest laborer on the city’s payroll. With a board of his own selection he is to make all city contracts and awards; with his own purchasing agent he is to do all the city’s buying; with his own audi- tor he is to pass on his own accounts; and with his own legal counsel he is to find his way through all the loopholes of the law. Seattle’s proposed city manager‘ will have to play politics only with five members of the City Council. He will have to do that, or he will have to get out. The proposed amendment makes his removal subject to the pleasure of the Council clique. With this much of a frame-up in effect, the city manager is supreme. At the top of the payroll the city manager’s salary of $30,000 or more a year is to be substituted for the present mayor’s salary of $7,500. Eight new direc- tors are to be installed by the manager at salaries of $10,000 a year each. Although the elective offices of corporation counsel, comptroller and treasurer are to be abolished, the same functions are to be served by appointees of the manager at no less salaries. Other departments and bureaus will carry at least as much compensation as at present. The cost of the city manager and of his eight high-priced directors is to be superimposed on the present city payroll, an increase of not less than $102,500 a year. On the further question of salaries and costs, read the following provisions of the amendment: ' Section 6. The city manager shall be appointed (by the Council clique of five) for an indefinite time and shall be remov- able at the pleasure of the Council. Section 9, The city manager shall ap- point and remoye at will the directors of all administrative departments. Section 38. The city manager, with the assistance of the directors of departments, shall fix all salaries. Section 18. The board (city manager and two of his own appointees) shall make and award contracts and direct the making of contracts by the city purchasing agent. In addition to all this, the amendment would completely break down and nullify the merit system in city service. Section 31 makes the decision of the city manager final as to hiring and firing every em- ploye, regardless of rating or any findings of the Civil Service Commission. With such rich spoils of office at stake, innumer- able jobs at fancy salaries within the gift of the city manager, to be parceled out in a way that will keep five members of the City Council in a good humor— there was never such a set-up for a political machine in any city of America. For these obvious reasons no city the size of Se- attle has ever found satisfaction and economy in the managerial system. William R. Hopkins, city man- ager of Cleveland, Ohio, himself declares: “No large city would be justified in following Cleveland’s ex- ample. Just so long as you have men getting into the City Council through political fights, you will have city councilmen who have political debts to pay, and you can’t have anything but political manage- ment.” The very few other large cities that have tried the plan have modified it or are getting ready to abandon it because of the terrific increase of debt and taxes. ® Seattle already and justly complains of too much taxation. The City Council fixes expenditures and tax rates. Relieved of executive restraint, the Council clique of five, with its hand-picked city manager, will make the sky the limit. (THIS SPACH PAID POR BY TH CITIZENS! EDUCATIONAL COMMITTER) SAY “BAYER ASPIRIN’’ and_ INS on tablets yoy 1 Aspirin proved cribed by physicians 24 yea