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...voting a new city charter, entrusting municipal affairs to a nine-man council which elected one of its number mayor and chose a city manager. Only the dreamiest idealists expect an aroused citizenry to burn with reforming zeal all year round. But, as successive city campaigns have shown, Cincinnati's voters are not very excited about their reform government even on election day. Last November the City Charter Committee (reform) Administration again excited the admiration of less fortunate U. S. communities by floating $2,000,000 worth of long-term loans at an interest rate lower than that...
Charterites to the nine-man council. Four Republicans were elected. This gave Cincinnati's balance of power to a lone Independent, a dismissed Congregational minister who is now one of Father Coughlin's biggest Protestant apostles, an old-time Pacifist and Single Taxer named Herbert Seeley Bigelow...
Born in Elkhart, Ind. 66 years ago, Herbert Bigelow went to Cincinnati in 1896 as pastor of the Vine Street Church...
...theatre company, with the result that the old Vine Street Church is now a burlesque house. This deal resulted in Preacher Bigelow's being ousted from the Congregational ministry. But seldom did a season pass that Herbert Bigelow did not make some sort of spectacular news for Cincinnati papers. In 1912 he was president of the Ohio Constitutional Convention, sponsoring initiative, referendum, municipal home rule. In 1917, while speaking across the Ohio River in Kentucky, he was brutally beaten by sheeted men who said they had horse whipped him "in the name of Belgium's women and children...
Last week Councilman Bigelow produced a deadlock by refusing to vote either with the four Charterites or with the four Republicans for a mayor, ostensibly because he wanted Cincinnati to get its power from TVA. In vain did the city manager explain that TVA would not be ready to deliver power for five years, that the city already had contracts with private power companies which the electorate had apparently considered satisfactory. To this Councilman Bigelow replied: "It's not a struggle over rates in Cincinnati, but an important section in the great fight of President Roosevelt...