This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... THE CITY MANAGER CHAPTER I FOREWORD Now this is nothing short of a new social age, a new era of human relationships, a new stage setting for the drama of life. Woodrow W1lson City government is experiencing a civic revolution. We have run suddenly upon a novel age where well-tried formulas are nil, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... THE CITY MANAGER CHAPTER I FOREWORD Now this is nothing short of a new social age, a new era of human relationships, a new stage setting for the drama of life. Woodrow W1lson City government is experiencing a civic revolution. We have run suddenly upon a novel age where well-tried formulas are nil, where old landmarks are transformed into strange beacon lights, and the new anchorage we all seem to be seeking is yet afar off. Revolution in municipal government is but one of our ventures into the virgin land of untried things. The seeking of the truer and the cleaner and the finer, of the less wasteful and of the more efficient, is the advertisement of our national restlessness. The failure of the old has stung our pride into a pilgrimage to find something newer, nobler, more satisfying than that which the old government could give with its incompetence, its sloth, its extravagance. This discussion has as its sole excuse the object of presenting a part of the progress of our recent political life. A word then as to the point of view. It is trite, perhaps, to say that this is the age of specialists and professional men. Nevertheless, what is here written is an exposition of that truism. It is profoundly believed that a vast part of a city's business must be run by a man experienced in municipal administration. This is not so much the dream of the visionary as it is the persuasion of practical minds facing the glaring facts of civic failures. While cities do not go into the hands of a receiver as easily as do corporations and individuals, yet the same bankrupt condition often exists without that salutary relief. Professional administrators are proposed as the remedy and the preventive. What is here written is expository of the professional...
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