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...political economists care, and of all political economists, none cares more intensely than Dr. Augustus Raymond Hatton of Cleveland. Dr. Hatton has taught poli- tical science at Western Reserve University since 1907, has served on Cleveland's city council since 1924. When he announced last week that he was leaving Cleveland, the reason was his deep interest in good city government...
...Hatton had severed his Cleveland connections, had declined the deanship of the University of Detroit, to become a faculty member at Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) and conduct there a re-search bureau, assured of $100,000 per annum for five years, for the International City Managers' Association...
This Association is composed of representatives of some 350 cities in the U. S., Canada and New Zealand which are run by city managers. Dr. Hatton, an ardent promoter of the city manager movement, conceived the idea, last year, "that city managers generally are so engrossed in their own problems that they have little time to work out solutions of new problems of administration." Dr. Hatton went to Rochester, N. Y. and told his idea to George Eastman, rich and earnest friend of better city government...
...Eastman promised money. Northwestern University promised money. Others promised more money. Now the bureau will be gin work in Evanston; Dr. Hatton at its head. The title of its magazine: Public Management. The plan: to investigate city governments, rate their efficiency, offer to improve them by sending experts from the bureau to cure specific troubles, disseminate efficiency schemes through Public Management...
...Cohen-McNamara comedy combination will make the Beery-Hatton one look to its laurels. Charmaine of France, Shanghai Mabel, and Carmen of the Philippines are amusingly sensuous. . . . . and the picture makes no bones about it either. The real credit for the excellent work in the picture should go to Raoul Walsh, the director. He has caught the idea of Stallings and Anderson to teach pacifism by examples from the horrible side of war. With this in mind his scenes centering around the "Mother's Boy" are gripping and moving. The underground dugout scene, so powerful on the stage, has increased...