St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 3, 1913

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oO oe, 3 eves | : : Nein ) } ets : VOL. 65, NO. 348. = UNDAY ST.LOUIS POST- ‘DISPATCH ing expenditures to an elected board of directors, or Councilmen, and to centralize administrative) ‘authority in a Mayor and a Board of Control cor- Gouncilman from his ward. | ponsibility for legislation is on the Council. Be ip Department of law. a 2 ment of public service: (a) division of) preparation of plans,for the future physical de- ; ee it + (b) division of parks and public grounds; {velopment and improvement of the city.” | ae ) division of engineering and construction; (d) “Y a, Department of Public Safety: ai, " inns of Finance: Gounts; ©») division of -easury; (c) division of {cent property whose value the {mprovement en- Cleveland’ Ss. Brand : -j——i~ -tam—ie ——~- eS mee Fe as | ew Charter Otf ers Suggestions for Us commissioners in charge of departmental divi- sions. Commissioners of divisions appoint, from > 4 9?) Author oT Ped Gopernment in Europe. civil service lists of eligibles, all minor employes C LEVELAND'’S new city charter, adopted by (i: the classified service. | BY FRANK PUTNAM. popular vote Tuescay, July 1, is more) Mayor and directors of derartients constitute ; nearly like the working system of the(aq Board of Control. This Board of Control’ ex- modern German cities, in important particulars, ) ercises a check upon the Council in various ways; than the charter of any ~ther large American city. ( for example, the Council can abolish any depart- it maps the beginning of the utilization of the )ment or division created by the charter, but only German city philosophy by American cities—the {with the concurrence of the Board of Control. ideal attained there, and sought here, being to : : confide the power of levying taxes and authorjz- No Salaried ‘ Advisory Boards. o 3 man example in providing for the appoint- ment of nonsalJaried advisory boards, con- sisting of citizens qualified to act, whose duty is to counsel with directors of divisions. The Mayor must be a citizen of Cleveland. Councilmen .must be citizens of Cleveland. A Councilman need not be a resident of the ward which elects him, bu:, if he be a resident of such ward when elected, he loses. his office by moving outside the ward during his term of service. This makes it possible for a ward to enlist the services of a-man of special ability, residing outside its boundaries—an idea borrowed from the British parliamentary system. The Cleveland charter pre es, in new ways responding to the German city Magistrat, and con- sisting, in Cleveland as in the German cities, of the heads of administrative departments, all ap- pointed by the Mayor. A member of the Cleve- land Charter Commission wrote to a member of he Houston city government, who passed the od news along to me here, that my report on fod and German cities, “City Government in Europe,” written for the City'of Houston, had been used as a textbook and a campaign hand- book in the Cleveland charter campaign. Simi- larly, Mr. Daniel Keifer, chairman of the Joseph Fels fund and an active participant in the cam- yelga for a new charter for Cincinnati, informs e Houston’s book reporting European city gov- riments is being used there as a campaign docu- Ment and a source of ammunition for speaker3 advocating a progressive charter. Cleveland was rogressive, anyhow; but if Houston can help nject progressivism into the shrunken civic ries of staid old Cincinnati the Houston city administration that was voted out of office for sending me to Europe will be entitled to sit up and quit grieving. 'The Cleveland charter provides for a Mayor o be elected by the city at large, and for Youncilmen each to be elected from a ward. mach ward is to contain approximately 25,- 300 inhabitants. The first “ial council will have 5 members. | Mayor and Councilmen are the only elective | Thus each citizen will have to vote for nly two candidates—one for Mayor, the other fo} functions common in a)” ‘ Etican cities. Beyond that it provides for * 4 new functions, all bor- ‘rowed from, or » ed upon, the German city system. Somer” Se functions new in American city governny’ are: 1. A der * - ent of public welfare, charged, be- sides t* «sual health office’s duties, with study- ing a. *reporting upon causes of poverty, delin- quency, crime, disease and other social problems, and with maintaining a city employment agency, * ‘help solve the out-of-work problem. . The Council, the Mayor concurring, or by -thirds majority vote without his concurrence, vote city bonds for > — Paarl inGaeI NG NLM IO ad RO EE I a a te i Pe SAE LE ee public improvements oval; except that under the referendum clause bf the charter .» per cent of the electors, petition- ing for a referendum thereon, ean, as in the case of all other acts of the Council, get the bond ‘issue before the people for approval or rejection. German City Councils vote bonds without con- | sulting the electorate, but such bond issues re- cil to provide fun /(quire to be approved --y the fiscal department of administrative ¢ +\the kingdom in which the city is situated. , On general lin s In Great Britain, city bond issues, and city expenditures generally, are closely scrutinized by the Local Government Board, an agency officers. W hat Cleveland harter Provides. T is the duty of the Coy and of the Mayor and partment to expend the Md down by ti> Council. ie is the duty tf the Mayor to submit to the ae re fo uf the utilization of the German city philosophy by | American cities—the ideal attained there, and sought here, being to confide the power of levying taxes and authoriz- ing expenditures to an elected board of directors, or coun- | cilmen, and to centralize. administrative authority in a Mayor anda board of control corresponding to the German \ city magistrat, and consisting, in Cleveland as in the German cities, of the heads of administrative departments, all cantata by the Mavor. J Oe Ne ee en ee, incil, as a basis for the annval appropriation ; of Parliament created for that purpose. Here il, @ budget setting forth in detail the needs{ in St. Louis, under a state constitutional limita- | each departme.t for the ensuing year, and to) tion, bond issues must have the approval of two- thirds of the electors.. The German method nt of expenditures in all departments for two adopted by Cleveland undoubtedly makes for years, and for the current year. greater efficiency, by attracting more competent ‘|The saver ‘and directors of departments, his}men into the service. Big men won’t take city ppointees, are entit'ed to seats in the Council.) jobs in which their hands are liable to be tied Mayor can introduce ordinances and can dis-{ behind them any time they undertake to do any- any measure before the Council. Depart-) thing worth while. ntal directors can discuss measures relating to r respective departments. Neither. Mayor nor has a vote in Council. be nit at the same time, for comparison,.a state- 7 oe 3. A city plan commission to be appointed by the Mayor “with power to contro] the design and The idea is to{ location of all works of art belonging to the city; ie them to advise Councilmen, but final re-}ihe plan, design and location of public buildings, ‘ harbors, bridges, viaducts, street fixtures and oth- | Six administrative departments and divisions{e: structures and appurtenances; the removal, re- ‘reof are created as follows: location, extension and platting of streets, parks and other public places, anc of new areas; and the This control to be exercised by the city over } of franchises. private development of new s1bdivisions is car- 18. idesteent of Public Welfare: ‘(a) division { ried farther in a provision making the director of oe af bealth; (b) division of charities and correc-) public service the platting commissioner of the ; (ec) division of recreation; (d) division of{ city, and authorizing him to require that streets and peney: {e) Ccivision of employ-) and alleys in such subdivision shall match up with the general city plan. (a) division of} Among the other provisions of the new charter > (b,. division of fire; (c, division of build-'are: Initiative, referendum and recall; the eight- ; @) division of housing: (e) division of! hour day on all city work; authorizing the city to and mearures. assess as much as 49-50ths of the cost of making (a) division of ac-) public improvements against abutting and adju- ents; (a) division o: purchases and sup-)hances, but Mmiting the amount that may be as- = sessed against any given piece of property to one- of Public Utility: one mem imatenin ale sot Bees ange ima parenred water; (b) division of Nght; (c) division (sion, from whose lists of eligibles all appoint- hee ¥ cee | : _}ments to minor posts — be made; forbidding The Mayc appoints, and can remove, directors the Council to grant exclusive franchises, and BD! (Contaned on vant 8.) # a Pome, x 4 eT at Sige eae 2 he ae "eh 4 Sat an: i ee eee ‘ ! ON SLO a ‘mai ‘ oo tna . ; — C LEVELAND follows another excellent Ger- } in some cases, for the per’, Aance of municipal in life of its writer. Indeed, with theez- ithout submitting the issues for popular ap- | LEVELAND’S new city charter marks the beginning Why People “Should Come. to. Missouri This was the eieiil form i in which Fisher submitted his ten reasons in competition for the are patch’s $100 prize and the judges say, in their:letter of award, that it ivas not only on the cogency and pithis ness with which the merits of Missouri were set forth that the award was made, but also because of The Post-Dispatch’s $100 Prize Awarded , to Him by Judges "HE winner of the $100‘ prize of- fered by, the Post-Dispatch for the “Ten Best Reasons Why People Should Come to Missourt,” is Isaag Fisher, a gjoung negro school teacher of East Lake Station, Birming- ) ham, Ala. His “Ten Reasons,’ repro- \ duced in the same form-in which he sent them in—with an interesting story of how he obtained the information enabling him to win the prize, will be found on this page. ; The award was made by the judges after reading hundreds of, letters that had been submitted in the competition which attracted wide attention and brought responses from more than 20 states. Each letter in the competition was considered by the judges wholly on its merits and without regard to the per- sonality, place of residence or station ception of the place of residence, neither the Post-Dispatch nor the judges had any information whatever on these points. Fisher’s 10 reasons, by all the. tests of excellence, were adjudged the best. The Post-Dispatch did not know he was a negro until his photograph ar- rived in the office in response to a noti- fication to him that he had been de- clared the winner of the contest. The judges will learn of his color when they read this announcement today. The prize-winning article, together with the writer’s story of how he came to make a success of what he undertakes —0of which his “Ten Reasons” article is ean example—are highly interesting and informing. They not only contain an astonishing amount of information about Missouri, but an insight into character and the secret of attainment under difficult conditions. STORY OF THE CONTEST. HE Ten Best Reasons Contest was begun April 16, with the following announce- ment: The luncheon of the Business Men’s League to reprerentatives of the Missouri Federation of Commercial Clubs for the promotion of the movement to develop Missouri’s resources was an eye-opener for St. Louis business men. Speakers from the interior of the State en- lightened them on the richness and variety of our resources, on present production and the possjbilities of successful work in devel- oping the State’s wealth. immigration, promote industry and commerce and advertise Missouri's advantages. City and country should work together; their inter- ests are common. The best territory for St. Louis is Missouri and the natural market for Missouri is St. Louis. The stimulation of in- dustrial and agricultural enterprise and the consequent increase of wealth production, mean greater prosperity for both. The first thing necessary to do is to stimu- late the interest of the people of the State in the movement and awaken their minds to its value and importarce. In order to arouse interest and direct the attention of the Missouri people to the re- sources of the State, the Pot. Dispatch of- fers a prize of $100 for the best 10 reasons why people should come to Missouri. The of- fer should bring out information of the State’s resources and supply the Publicity | | missouRi ) William Hirth of Clinton, president of the >> $ is the Right-hour 1 industri 1 aanee 2 2222222466666 rn ATE FOR ight-hour day in all industries except agricu ture. State Federation and leader of the movement, Labor LABORERS. Cour: Eg= pomnee and farms, Srom Sb pee 9ae er. ok made an eloquent comparison of Missouri's Free yt -- bureaus maintained by the State to help productive resources as compared with those find work for laborers. | of other states. He touched on the vuriety of rom B the State’s resources and of the possibility of | Culture =) THE STATE Ochoa eos 24 pace geste —_— — eeOERS the Rtate's popeiation and presant- , ¢ (9) PROVIDES eo versities, “Colleges and ‘Technological hoe ive powers by co-operation between the citiies he] of the ¥ -- —" eee o+--PROOF ------am> ee “Training and Bhestt "teem stay and counties for the purpose, | | Mind = EDUCATION. education “lel compulsory. art's ° tate te schoo! President Hill of the State University out- | instead, of the foctery r two mill Hon, do lined the activities of the agricultural college | nesourt in supplying information and aid to the farm- Welfare 5 (10> IS VERY PROOF Three Persons in Every One Hundred Are Church ers by which they are enabled to increase pro- f the "Se S>>- ” MINDFUL of the Members. duction and save loss and cost. 9 = ey One church for every 356 persons. S. M. Jordan ‘gave an interesting account of Soul fea | All the denominations are represented. his experience as the farm adviser of Pettus ee ee ee ee Pe en a aa neesseseeeedddedeedeeseseeereeseteeseeenesese > —— or. Successful tases: THE Mining | (5) STATE HAS AAA Daa apa pada d dada aaa d DDD ea D ADD DADA AA ADA ADA AD AAA AA ADD AD AAA ADAADD AA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALA AAAS What All Men Earnestiw VAST STORES or MINERAL WEALTH. ACQUISITION OF WEALTH Forest &) = cg) Stream | Products THE PURSUITS OF HAP-iINESS THE STATE OFFERS SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS to CAPITAL. a “I -_ Capital ss-cte-PROOF...-13°paai>| Sisk ain , m .Proof T = | Life >> Security of Life Is Assured in | >> “crowded cities the death rate is only Climate. JO. ene thousand = , the State. As regards homicide, the courts, and not “bathe Satoh . 2) > aapteeaa _ Proof — Libe ; Missouri Will Forever Preserve Missourt te vu. & YY | >> Sie |S aaee | eter eee aa eS | General Agricultural Conditions: M Twenty- ene and one-half million acres of untouch- . ; ed farm land. Brany tent Milteg toe cet ses icultural ) Abundant rainfall, yd ees 39 inches; 27 i Climate iae “ Average te temperature, July 80 de- : ua F I Improved lands = at fr from $20 to $45 per secre, Prices s L The Drainage we well-nigh "Ssage Many, stregas, een Agricultural, help drain. the. la tg ti ll = Sane cro ee Spee Agricul- .P ultry ‘ * including ‘cotton and tobacco, Fiourish = bd ’ State, and Missouri stands near the m products peg 18 Live Stock and | one Siateede egdgtth"the Sher ster Allied (3) Fruit’ s ’ Proof “of surplus, product alone, in 1911, exceeded nee : wor . r Packinghouse ae Indus- | S>—B || advantages offered by all || >> Minents alone, citnghonne Preteen. ‘ the other States are sar DR ty in the State. ot | irles . in th eye “inipments’ in 1911 was gO Sie2t. More “So Me oS : State of Corn sree is one-tenth of the world’s ual pro- Missouri Wheat ‘cree is one-twelfth that of the angual pro- duction of the United “or Oat crop the same. The Sta te ranks twelfth. Hay crop ranks e Tobacco—Missouri 7 tnae all other Rey |, and wheat states in this product. The is the largest tobacco market in the Union. states. Watermelons—One county in the State (Boots) hoise 't the nation’s record for production of th article Truck. Gardening—Missouri has largest number of family gardens of any state. Cheap Fuel—Coal as low as $1.05 from Southern Mli- nois; and 26,000 square miles of untouched coal fields, besides ample Water Power. Raw Materials, 1. é., pa oe wy — and _ "Timber in Ly greg 880 center of the sources of such supplies for all branches of manufacturing. Transportation Facilities of the Very Reit—30 of Proof the largest railroads of America serve | which is the geographical center of sana sn » Py aa in the United States; hence Missouri has Ready Access to Reliable Markets—Her railroads and navigable streams radiate in every direction. Laborers Intelligent and Contented— kind that built the American commonwealths, plus a 7 per cent foreign born population. Rank—Missouri leads all states west of the Misssis- rigs River in manufacturing. Value of products in 1911—#500,000,000 (conservative). Missouri ‘¢Red Book’’ estimate is $613,774,759. $| t Cotton—Missouri leads all othes corn and wheat | +. Lf “Ss 33. . met, 9 ‘4 Bad Zinc—80% of world’s output is produced in Missouri. ‘ Lead—The State leads all the other states. Niekel-—Missour! produces more than all the rest of Coins 000 square miles of this fuel. . Other Mimerale—Silver, cc»oper, cobalt, clay, iron, etc. ' Stores of mineral wealth yet untouched. ; ——_ Forest weeeuste- vere $25,000,000 onaualty. : Fish and Game Products — Worth $750,000 1910. Missour! holds high rank in production ef freak water fish, and supplies an abundance of game. antirenees Genero Returns From Investments. Witness the capital avontedl in — State etable interest rates. Tax rate lowest in Union. , State free from debt. Land values have — 100 per cent in ten years. Free manufacturing sit Undeveloped sariouitaral and mineral resources, me lermmens on’ Every Hand. Wages very good. Employers Over $100, 000,000 paid for labor in manufacturing alone ita ages? Every Missourten races know at least ten. AWARD OF THE PRIZE. O May 25, at the request of the General See- -—_ retary of the Missouri Confederation of Commercial Clubs, the date for the termi- { nation of the contest was extended to June 30, the Federation wishing to advertise the contest { ) far and wide. The extension brought in many more contestants, a total of several thousand | manuscripts being finally forwarded by the Post- Dispatch to Jefferson City, where the three judges )} ° These judges are: James A. Houchin, manufacturer. ) Lester S. Parker, manufacturer and banker. ‘ W. A. Dallmeyer, banker, farmer and president } of the Missourt State Fair Association. } eee State Federation of Commercial Clubs, The Post-/ selection. . bY Aine des por rimi9g eG... POMS aE AB heels EE Stately 2 a Recht ht inks detmen ttle tab tality 4 vine. : hartadAare MET ee a 2 Wye : 4 . a dé. i, _S aa De — a, ™ dian —_ — at ’ —— s — oe. ae 4 ~ “=> * Ceara a a ee ss - _— Pi on Te tain aie + Cy OR oe RS Peet HF Pei Mage pager REPRE PORE F LE! HR + res ‘ar’ wont tai * WHO PRIZE WINNER IS. SAAC Fisher, winner of the $100 prize for | “Ten Best Reasons Why People Come to Missouri,” is a negro educator, graduate of Booker Washington's Tuskegee tute, with the degree of M. A. After sp four years dt college, he was elected to the dency of the Pine Bluff branch of the Normal School, where he served for several tn hee --?- hy