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Show y JL. -- n - THE CITIZEN Total interest and junket trips $731,341.67 What have our commissioners to say about this matter? If John F. Bowman is elected Mayor of this city, he will Stick on the Job. ' WHAT IS WRONG? Commissioner Burton and Mayor C. America Neslen, did you read last Wednesdays evening Salt Lake Telegram? Did not the many crime stories strike you that there was something radically wrong with this city? People heretofore pointed to Chicago as the center of crime, but what is happening in our fair city now? Bold gunmen pick up business men in the center of our city in broad daylight and rob them, aye, and that within the very shadows of the police station. Never in the history of Salt Lake City has there been so much crime as we have had the past four years. The stool pigeon has again proved a failure and has greatly hindered some of our efficient police officers in running down criminals. The old fallacius idea that it takes a thief to catch a thief has never worked out in police departments. Is this the reason for our present big crime wave? Our traveling Mayor, whom the people are beginning to call interstate mayor and See America mayor, spends so much of his time on the. outside that he has been unable to give the proper attention to the duties of mayor as prescribed by law. As an entertainer, and a general good fellow he is much sought after and his banquet dates are legion. But, surely, the mayor must read the daily papers! Why has he not given the present crime wave some attention? If he has not the time to attend to such an important matter as protecting the property of the people, as well as their lives, would it not be proper to call out the militia to run out the gunmen and restore order in our city? We advertise this city as Zion, the City of God, but it has really become the city of the crooks and the police records show it. Surely the crime during the past six months should have been of great concern to our mayor. We have held Commissioner Burton responsible as head of the public safety department, but he appears oblivious to the fact that he is our police commissioner, and according to his political advertising in the daily papers his mind has entirely been on digging drains, building bridges and pouring oil over cobblestones, his energy and ambitions being entirely away from the job turned over to him by his fellow commissioners. It may laso be that long terms in office has created a callousness in Commissioner Burton and Mayor Neslen in that they do not fear the public wrath and believe themselves elected to office for life. In conventions they speak with horror of third and fourth termers, but here we have our mayor asking for a fourth term and Burton wants a third term. j Upon what qualifications are these two men asking Have they ever turned a finger to lower our taxes? No, they all-aroun- d re-electio- n? have not. Instead, their departments which they head spend more money than has been spent in like departments of any city our size in the country. Why are we the most expensive? Because there has been no haulter and because they like to spend money. contested as in the general election, because a candidate must qualify ,to get his name on the ballot. If the people have the interest of this city at heart they should turn out en masse in order to bring about better order in this city. They should see that responsible men and women are named to be. voted for and this cannot be done unless everybody votes. Political machines, unanimously supported by the taxpayers are working hard to keep the ins in and the outs out. Men and women on the city payrolls are canvassing the entire city and there is a great deal of talk about it. But the officeholding politicians should worry what the people think. They are after the job and they turn heaven and earth to get it. Those who are not registered cannot vote next Tuesday. However, they may register Tuesday, Nov. 1, which will qualify them to vote in the general election November 3. BEN HUR. Manager Grant Pemberton of the Pantages theatre received so many requests for the return of Ben Hur that he has secured this most famous picture for a return run of one week, starting Wednesday. This stupendous film production eclipses anything ever attempted in films, and it will be a long time before its equal will be produced again. It is a picture of great character and is praised by all world critics. In fact, after one sees this picture it makes one feel like praying at the conclusion. Its effect upon elevation of mind and character cannot be questioned, and it shows how even a slave can become a conqueror. The story of Ben Hur is known to most people the world over. It will be presented at the Pantages theatre till next Tuesday evening. WHAT PRICE MAYOR? An interesting sidelight on the race for mayor in the municipal election comes from Nathaniel Jackson, district manager for the Austin Machinery Corporation, manufacturers of trenching machines, backfiillers and gasoline shovels, who withdrew from the contest almost at the eleventh hour, when he explained to his friends who had entered his name in the race: I have discovered that anyone entering the campaign for mayor must be very busy campaigning; this proved entirely out of the question with the growing interest in what my company has to sell, and, furthermore, as I now see the situation, one engaged in business could not enter the race for mayor without neglecting his business and one who would even think of neglecting his business has no business being mayor. This terse explanation has started considerable discussion, not only in political circles, but in business spheres. It is a sad reflection on the habits of junketeers, who, after being elected try to burn up as much railroad mileage as they can traveling and whose most noticeable characteristic is their absence from their work in whatever office they may have and always at the expense of the taxpayer. The job of mayor in Salt Lake City should be a very busy one, where nothing is neglected and where no one at the end of his term should reflect, as did one of the old philosophers: So much to do; so little done. When the commission form of government was established the cry was for business administration by businessmen and in the selection of a mayor if a business man is to be chosen would he not have ot come from the busy man who would not neglect his business? In turn this means that a man on the job as an mayor would by necessity be too busy with affairs of the city to devote nor, were any large amount of time to bring about his own he conscientious, could he well afford to permit any of his employes to neglect their services to the city long enough to go out campaigning for the of their chief, except, perhaps, during the evening. Again, the average highly efficient clerk or department head needs evening recreation in order to prime him for the arduous duties of the following day for a thoroughly rested, recuperated and alert head. honest-to-goodne- re-electi- upon our commissioners re-electi- PRIMARY ELECTION. ss on, on It takes two elections to name the peoples choice for the respective offices, and two elections cost the taxpayers more than one South Carolina boosters assert that the state needs double one election. The first election, known as the primary election, will be held its present population. Here is a good chance for the Repubnext Tuesday, October 25. In every manner this election is as hotly licans to do some valuable colonizing. i $ |