Show I A CIRCUMLOCUTION N COUNCIL I this American council a lovely posy POS Could anybody imagine a more I fragrant bunch 1 And the city i make big money if it it could trade the t whole outfit for tor a yellow pup and then I shoot the th pup pupi I Consider for a moment the proceed proceedings proceedings I ings of Monday evening I A proposal was under discussion to toI I create a park commission com which should I i look after the parks plan some systematic sye way of improving and preserving preserving preserving I ing them direct the parking of such streets as are being narrowed and I otherwise perform a pub public pU pUI I lie lic service I 1 What happened I Nothing but conversation unprofitable I able conversation the opinions of ot fea fear r ignoramuses Hobday did r C it is true show a gleam of ot intelligence when he said All the Jobs in these parks are simply grafts and you know It All of you have been approached by men who want w mt Jobs In Liberty park p rk They are all either old or lame or lazy and most of them are lazy lazy The description fits so perfectly most of the Americans In city office that Hobday need not have limited It to park but that Is Immaterial The point Is that an Important matter of public policy was talked over fruit fruitlessly fruitlessly fruitlessly lessly and finally deferred deterred because the councilmen were either too lazy or too Indifferent to the progress of public business to reach a decision When It came to releasing the Utah Fireproofing company from its sidewalk alk contract the result was reached readied in short hort order The Tiie company company Was released from any obligations under Its contract and the th citizens who Vho have paid for side sidewalks walks but have h ve not got got them will wait another year year or two before any action is secured Indeed Black flack of fragrant memory remarked most casually that the work could not be done this year anyway which is cheering g news for a good many people whose whose sidewalk money Is in the city treasurers hands and has been for nearly two years A great grf at writer once described a circumlocution cir circumlocution c office whose chief purpose was to delay public and private busi business business ness nelS The American council that celebrated institution left at the post distanced and barred from future entry If a petty Job is up for the promotion promo fon of some heelers private fortunes If Pat Moran needs a contract or a few thousands in extras the circumlocution tion council can get action in hi a hurry but if ifa It is a matter of ot real importance a matter of public policy Involving I the welfare of the city dynamite arid and crow I bars cannot move the council within less than a month And when it Jt does doe move m ve the chances are about ut a hundred to one that t at the council will wm move move In the wrong direction This certainly Is a great reform ad administration administration ministration n |