Show PORTLAND HELD AS EXAMPLE FOR SALT LAKE BY OFFICERS Civil Service Will Create Greater Efficiency Is Assertion Salt Lake pays less to Its police and fire iro departments than n any other city of ot similar size in the country Besides this working conditions existing hero according to municipal officials are arc more difficult than experienced by an any of ot tho the large larg cities of tho the countr country Civil service regulation of ot the tho police and the fire departments now exists In every large city In the United States except Salt Lake kc and for tor that r reason a. a on tho departments of ot other cities clUes have a higher efficiency rating Conditions regulating the police pollee and fire tire departments of ot Portland Ore as compared with tho the existing existing- local conditIons conditions con con- show Salt Lako far In the rear as far tar as a general working conditions and salaries paid aro are concerned Portland has for many years jears controlled controlled controlled con con- trolled Its police and fire firo departments through civil service regulations andall and anel andall all promotions vacancies leaves and pensions in the department must bo be handled through a civil service commission commission com com- mission selected for Its honesty honest Integ Integrity rity rHy and nonpartisanship Competitive examinations Ire are held helel by byI I this board as often oHen as found necessary and when hen a vacancy occurs In one of ot the departments tho the civil service board must furnish lh tho head of ot the department department depart depart- ment with the tho name of ot the tho eligible quaIl qualified tied for the thc position by competitive cj examination t System m. m In III Impartial Through this fair and Impartial system system 55 tem of selection and promotion civil service adherents say the efficiency of ot tho the Portland police pollee and fire tire department departments departments depart depart- ments ment has Increased materially Under Under Under Un Un- der tho old system of filling the positions positions as part of DC political debts men unqualified for the positions were maie made e police officers and firemen andIn andin and andIn In a n number of or cases executive officers in the departments This condition for tor many years retarded the sro growth and advancement ad of ot the thc Portland departments departments depart depart- ments monts city officials S say Today according to executive c officials officials of ot the Portland departments who do not hold civil service rights to th their lr executive offices JUices but who aro are rated to toj lower positions in the department under under under un un- der civil service sa say tho best of ot the city's s young manhood Is attracted to the thc departments because of ot the field for advancement In the thc event that the they apply themselves to their work tho the I permanency of ot tho the positions as an the positions positions positions po po- po- po aro to be held during the good behavior and observance to the rules I of ot tho the department and also on account of ot the tho old ago age pension allowed members mem bers hers of tho the department after having J I served a 1 stipulated number of ot years In Inthe Inthe the service Chance for tor Efficiency Under such Ruch working conditions members of ot the Salt Lake police and faro departments say flay the personnel of or ortho tho the local departments would reach a a. greater s andard of or efficiency y and tho the I morale moral of ot tho the men would be Increased a L hundred fold Municipal officials here realize the need of ot civil service regulations of ot the police and fire departments In Salt Lake Lako and only rece recently h Mayor or E. E A. A Bock announced that he he would present present present pre pre- sent to tho the city commission an nn ordinance nanco nance calling c. for tor tho the Inauguration of or t I Ithe the system Into the tho local police n and and d fire departments A civil service ordinance which would do for tor the present or until such time timo as state legislation could mako ita It 1 a permanent institution would be bo ac acceptable ac- ac to members of aC tho depart depart- ments Such an ordinance has hns already I been prepared and Is now no being revised rc- rc for or presentation to tho the city comI comIn commission com- com mission In the near future I I |