Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-28 | Page 8 | Padding the Club

1 Padding the Club I IV i V THEN HEN the Salt Lake chamber of comi com com- YV VY i merce recommended that a 13 special ial board be created to have control over the city water supply it intended no criticism of ofA A- A Athe the existing department C. C F F. F Barrett member member mem mern- ber of the municipal water s supply committee i 1 of the Salt Lake chamber of commerce attempted attempted attempted at at- tempted to ma malce e. e this this clear dear in in ina a recent address before the engineering council of Utah All Allt t of which is more or or less remindful of our ret return rn from the woodshed with dad proclaiming proclaiming proclaiming pro- pro claiming I You know son this hurts me more than it does you Perhaps the explanatory remarks will soften the harshness of the original report but it will not alter conditions Mr Barrett Barrette e explained pa ned that a special board would take the d department out of politics Some twenty odd years ago V we did the same thin thing for all 1 municipal affairs creating a partisan non city commission from which the chamber no now I seeks partisan artisan escape for the water depart depart- ment t I There is more to the contention of Mr Barr Barrett tt that business organization in the water department is more or less impossible so long QS as general control is exercised by the city commission as I a whole But what is true of the water department is also true of other departments We Ve have lon long contended that city government is resolved into something I of a five five- five cornered competition for public funds If the water logic is sound then perhaps I ye we ought to have another another- board for play play- J another one for streets and so Oil on Wen the members of the city commission wouldn't vo have anything to do but draw their thir salary If the city commission has become so so competitive that business methods are arc what we need is fewer boards and less interference rather than more Perhaps the chamber of commerce is working toward a ao o managerial form of government g where the affairs of th the city will vill be conducted as one t big bu iness institution that desires and intends to to J pay its way so far as possible