Show a S f 5 I I II I II j I I S S By Uarda McCarty Word has been boon rece received ed In Salt Salt Laki City during durIng- the last week of severe floods having inundated several of oC I the towns and ami counties In the sou tn- tn t em cm ern part of oC the tho state slate Railroad tracks r were washed out houses demolished shed I fields of oC grain destroyed haystacks moved from the tho fields and carried without an any ceremony whatever to ti I prominent places in the towns towns towns-in in front of or public offices for Instance Pavements and sideways sidewalks were varnished varnished var var- with a thick layer of mUG mua peaceful citizens thrown out of bed bedin bedin bedin in panic or else ushered from their morning meal or the care of or their I war gardens by th the sound of or rushing I waters and the unexpected sight of or I several feet of water merrily carousing carouSing ing down the main streets and thoroughfares thor thor- ou of or their cities Ve We confess we e are not pleased with I this news It is unconventional lIkewise likewise likewise like like- wise unpatriotic Something should be bedone bedone belone done lone about iL When a th tiling thing nS' nS is done it sets a precedent Thero There Is no telling when the unpleasant occurrence occurrence occurrence occur occur- rence may happen n Of cour course u. u the affair is up as much muchas as can be but some of or the details have havo I leaked out and while we aro are not u utho 11 tho the habit of giving publicity to Unfortunate unI unfortunate un un- fortunate episodes like tho on in Jn I mind now still we feel it our duty t to I lr 1 nl is fn ot t ii time and d so perhaps pI he be U tho means e u of or r starting a campaign which will be to cope with such conditions in the tho future futuro and ancl prevent a similar occurrence occurrence occurrence occur occur- rence in the years ears to come como LIKE TIME AND TIDE Salt SaIL Lako Lake Cit City has never approved of floods and she never shall no matter matter matter mat mat- ter how common they ma may For thousands of oC years oars the they ha hav Vii threatened humanity with their de dr r Everybody E deplores the fact and everybody admits that It I Is wrong wron Ever since the days of oC Noah oah they have havo Intermittently visited tIlt the population of this globo globe and have had hada a lot to do rio Jn in shaping the features ann and contour of the earths earth's surface Not No content with merel merely upsetting towns townsand townsand and counties and states they thoy have haa gone bone further and aul played havoc WIth entire countries The They have cut out I canyons and dug duS' out valleys alleys ann ano gorges and leveled mountains all without consulting the inhabitants of the tho places and very often orten in direct opposition to what tho unanimous decision de decision de- de of tho the town and city councils would have haye been That's Thal's it They Tho- take no note wl whatever of the Uie wishes of the tho people In the arbitrary arbitrary arbi arbi- a way they are arc almost as as the German kaiser or the socia social so so- cia cial leader of oC the tho four hundred Yet we claim that this is a demo democracy rac Vh safe such fuch Why wo we arc are never ne as long IonS as things aro are allowed to go on Even Eyen Salt Lake may be subjected to trw humiliation of disturbances like that The They are so uncertain Yet in spite of the fact that tho they go contrary to the united opinion of or orall all good citizens what has been done about it Wo Ve venture to say noth ing big Precisely what shou shoua oe te done dono we are not not prepared to discuss Just now We Ve arc are willing to leave leavo that question to expert meteorologists t whose business it is But public opinion opinion opine ion must be brought to bear upon thin Issue in iu order to secure action Anti Anti- I flood societies should be formed in every cerr city and anti town and hamlet inthe in inthe I the tho state state- These then could ho bo brought together into a state organization organization organ organ- I and a policy adopted It might even oven become incorporated in the political pout pont ical platforms of the different parties At any rate it could be brought forcibly forcibly for for- to the attention of the stat l legislature and perhaps a state la law passed against it Unless drastic artion action ar ar- tion is taken tho the legislatures may maybe maybe maybe be too lazy and indifferent to u IJ ne roused to immediate action and the tho thing has gone so far now even in our own state state thero is no estimating how bow common it is in other sections of America and the world at large large larSe that something must be done without further delay SPIRIT OF UNREST Everyone will havo have noticed that thai floods are re most likely to occur in see seo of the country removed from froma a railroad line There are exceptions as ar in the case of oC Mount Pleasant and anti Thistle but they are merely the ex cx- exceptions which prove the rule Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps Imps it is too much to expect that a aton town ton as far removed from the main railroad lines of the state and from the center of population as Moab l should be he able to control such outbreaks outbreaks out out- breaks but hut surely the united countie counties and towns in the state could put r a astop stop to it Tho The spirit of unrest which is agitating agitating- the waters and rains Inthe in inthe intile the tile vicinity of these outbreaks is threatening the stability of all the state Salt Lake itself is not wn a flint nt rf ii five ye years years years' ag ago when l c iii the J Jordan rd river its banks and inundated several cellars and gardens in the western part of oC the city The affair is not forgotten in spite of the efforts of Salt Lake people to hush it up We have haye been informed that similar disturbances have happened happened hap hap- when the waters in Iii City Creel Creek canyon have rose hi higher her than th usual wont though little has bas been said about it in the papers It ma may be urged in extenuation or in explanation that that was was before the water was wasp p piped p q underground nd and before pro l was established nun ann before Delore women started replacing men in the bt b business world It was also before t the he days das of the income tax and striped hm hosiery ien We Ve frankly admit that it seems to toU tous tous U us disgraceful that In this called so-called t twentieth century peaceful civilians ts s should hould be turned out OU of their homes and houses and war war gardens i an and innocent women and children chil chil- d dren ren made uncomfortable and homeless homeless home home- l less ess all in a moment due to the at actions ac- ac t ions of some flood Is thero there not some som better way of relieving the crowded conditions of the tho canyons and creeks creek and reservoirs Who Vho profits proUts by this wholesale destruction of ot property The window glass makers an and the truck gardeners perhaps But can ran t their heir interests compare with the distress distress dis die tress of ot the rest of ot tho the inhabitants inhabitants' We Ve it Is 18 time that this tin nit necessary devastation be brought to toan toan toan an end The spotlight has bas at least done dono its ts duty In warning people Scarcity of ot water on the northeast bench has haN caused Commissioner C C. C Clarence head of ot the city waterworks department t to formulate a a. schedule for the using of ot water py by citizens In the northeast section I I I I |