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Show Gil SCORES mm foes i Minister Also Criticises Inadequacy In-adequacy of City Water Supply. T1j Rev. Klmer I. Goshen, pastor of the J'irst Conurealiunal ehureh, in an extemporaneous sermon yesterday morning at tlie firse servieo hold sineo the summer vacation, said that ' to j del'eal the !o:ii? of nations covenant meant reversion to ihe balance of power 1 principle, the application of which has been the cause of wars and trouble throughout the cen 1 uries. " 11.' furl her declared that the man who sought to undo the work of the peace conference was 'a renegade and traitor, and should be branded as such.'' Bofone Dr. Uos'uen entered upon his discussion of the strif'o in the Lnited Stales over the league of nations, he niade some pungent references to talt LaUe's mods and the coming municipal election. "I will just talk to you informally today on some thoughts su'ested by tho last summer,-' he said. "J has been the hottest, driest summer of the last twenty years and you rnixmbei' that the sprinkling restrictions were imposed in June. Periodically, from the time that Dick Morris was mayor. Salt Lake has regularly voted bonds lo get a water supply, yet you haven't got it. Vou have three little tanks up in the hills that hold about a pint cup each, but you have no water supply. You have a water commission that m putting on tho sprinkling restrictions was puerile enough to send out figures comparing tho water consumption per capita in Salt Lake with that at .Los Angeles and San Francisco, eiti.:s where it rains six months in the year. "Perhaps this fall, if we w-ork hard and begin early, wc can elect three men to the city commission who are big enough to senro the city's needs, who have backbone enough to carry out plans for civic improvement as they should be carried out. The shortage of water for the city lias been perennial, yet here almost at the very doors oi' Salt Lake are two great sites, where nature has built three walls of granite and it is only necessary to build one wall to have an unlimited and never-failing never-failing supply of the best water. "Salt Lake never will be a great city until we elect men w-ho are red-blooded red-blooded Americans, men who bow to no faction or party, men who do no. hope to gain influence and prestige through attending pink teas. Do you know what is keeping Salt Lake back! It is lack of water and too much smoke. For five months last winter we wallowed in smokfr smoke that causes nerve trouble and throat trouble and drives away men with money who otherwise would invest large sums here.'' . . Dr. Goshen also gave emphasis to his opinion that the kind of men required for the position of city commissioners could not be secured at the salary now-paid now-paid and declared that a commission of three men who were worth and received $10,000 or $15,000 each a year, could accomplish the things that must be done before the city could take its rightful place. . The speaker also briefly discussed the national spirit of unrest as manifest in the strikes, walkouts and labor troubles generallv. He referred to the strike of the cooks and waiters, the picketing in front of various restaurants restau-rants and to the disturbance in front of an East Second South street cafe last Monday. . "There was a near-riot in tront ot one restaurant Labor day,'' he said, "and we had tho pitiful spectacle of the chief of police going into the Labor temn'e and pleading with the leaders of labor to have the mob dispersed. Think of it! A chief of police pleading plead-ing with lenders to have a crowd dispersed! dis-persed! If I had been the. chief of police po-lice that crowd wcrnld have been dis persed in the name of law and order! " Further on in his address, which at freauent intervals was interrupted by applause, Dr. (Joshen discussed the remedy rem-edy that he believed ultimatelv must solve, the maior part of the difficulties between capital arid labor, holding this to lie in the genuine application of the principle of cooperation. |
