Show SALT ALT LAKES NEED Public opinion will approve of or the civic federations movement for a change chance in the form of municipal gov government gO emment for Salt Lake The Th present system of business management for forthe forthe or orthe the city is about the most complicated cumbersome inefficient plan that could have been devised Under its work workings ings IngI no nil one Ofle is responsible for or anything bad and everybody can claim credit creditor for or all alt that Is good gond in an administration tion There is no central authority no means of locating responsibility for or executive action If It the effort had been h made to n secure an Inefficient ss system tem tern of or city government It could not have been more successful The Arch Archangel Archangel angel Gabriel make male a success of a city administration on the Salt Lake plan and Kind Providence knows know Salt Lake has no archangels In Its employ at present Whether it Is the Galveston plan the Des Moines plan or any other charter the imperative need ned of o Salt Lake is for forn or 01 ora n a system that will enable the people to know who is to blame for tor bad man management management management and who is entitled to credit creditor for tor or good business which will make it possible for or a citizen to get action on business without spending a month or two getting some councilman to take tat it up for tor or him and see It through the maze of o committee references open and closed hearings red tape and am plum fool foolishness foolIshness that hampers rs all public affairs under the present method The new charter should provide as n does docs the Des Moines plan for tor or the em employment employment of competent men at nt ade adequate quote quate salaries who shall spend all their time In the discharge of city cit affairs The minor ought to be as assured assured of permanent employment so long longas Ion I as they the are faithful antI and competent There should be no question of o reward for or party part services by b the employment of ot men who could not hold a Job In private ate vate employ long enough to be 1 liP dis In other words the lie business of the tIle corporation of Salt Lake City should be beman managed man along the same lines as any other great eat corporations affairs There should be a general manager a board boar l lor of or directors not to exceed five in all there should be bc ample rity for the executive and the whole management should hould be conducted under conditions that will insure absolute publicity AM o 1 tint the people of alt aIt Lake ask Is Js the privilege of ot a voice olce in their own I affairs They The are supposed to choose their administration now but as a mat matter matter matter ter of ot fact tact they thie have hae little to todo todo todo do with th It ft and they the have less to say sa about bout It after the council Is elected They want ant to know who is to blame when things go wrong and they dont w know they want to be able to locate the crookedness when crookedness exists and that cannot be done exactly 1 now nos They want a central office hay hav having ha haIng hayIng ing authority to say sa yes or no rio no when urgent business Is pending and they the want ant to know who Is Js playing a holdup game if It public business or private busi business business business ness concerning the city elt is deferred from week to week without excuse except the whim of oC some city official It ought to be conceded by y this time that no system could be worse than the c o ce e In vogue It is certain the peo people people pie generally general want a change for tor or the better and It ought not to be difficult to secure cure favorable action by the legis legislature S lature If the campaign Is mapped out properly and anil CO dUl d right |