Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-07-22 | Page 6 | Shadow Boxing by Commission

Shadow Boxing by Commission TIRING FIRING Captain R. R D. D McCollin hiring B BY E. E M. M Bauer Dutch as director at Hogle Gardens zoo and moving quickly to provide pro- pro yide vide shelter for the animals there the city commission commission com corn mission has simply indulged in a little shadowboxing shadow shadowboxing w boxing in a lame attempt to evade responsibility for the death through neglect of ot two deer Sun Sun- day A veterinarian certified that the deer died cf at inflammation of the stomach and intestines because they had been without water for three days in the torrid heat beating down on them in their pen peri on the cast bench We Ve hold no brief for Captain McCollin It was his immediate duty to care for the animals animals ani ani- ani- ani mals in his charge The first thought of of any humane individual is that he would have taken water to them in some manner at whatever personal per per- lional sacrifice was necessary We see no iio possibility possibility possibility pos pos- of his presenting an acceptable excuse for permitting the dumb brutes in his care to todie todie todie die an agonizing death The fact is though that Captain McCollin was the zoo boards board's hired man The zoo board is accountable to the city commission It is the business of the city commission to know how the zoo 00 board is managing affairs at the zoo That is why a city commissioner by ordinance is made madea a member of the board Because both the board and the commission were indolently ignorant of ot the scandalous and shameful conditions at the zoo 00 the discharge of Captain McCollin does not release either from official responsibilities It is hedging and nothing else Captain McCollin I has the benefit of having recommended changes at the zoo He predicted that if they were not notI I made animals there would suffer The changes were not made The animals suffered This docs does not release him from blame for Sundays Sunday's re regret regrettable re- re gret able happening but it serves to show that the city commission disregarded the warning The employment of Dutch will meet with general approval Almost every child in inthe inthe inthe the city knows him as a friend and as a humane humane humane hu hu- hu- hu mane kindly luridly and hardworking zoo man Adults by tho thousands sands will cheerfully say a good word for lor him I Captain McCollin is said to have remarked that he will remain in the city and run run for city commissioner on a platform promise to give the election is far city a decent zoo The next city off oft By the time it arrives there may be no zoo 00 Certain it is that the community will not tolerate further dilly dallying with the matter by the municipal government Its action Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day should dispose of an emergency situation but it remains for the commission to go to work on the whole project hole project to to give the city a zoo it is not hot ashamed of to give it competent supervision and management and to insure humane treatment treatment treatment treat treat- ment to the dumb creatures imprisoned there If it cant can't do this the quicker the decision to abandon it and dispose of th the animals the better better bet bet- ter satisfied will be the people of the city