Show We Want to Be Shown VUE VE E THINK Gus Backman executive secretary of of 1 the Salt Lake chamber of commerce hit the nail on the head with his comments concerning the proposed move of the Ninth service command headquarters back to San Francisco He said the people of Salt Lake will ill be good soldiers soldier ab about ut the transfer If they are sure the move is made solely on military grounds and that political pressure is not responsible If military experts after careful consideration say that San Francisco is the place for the h headquarters th this s city will accept accept accept ac ac- ac- ac the verdict But we want to be very sure that the many military factors which in our view make Salt Lake the best location for the headquarters are brought to the attention of the war department and given the proper consideration Mr Backman mentioned two of these factors which were pointed out in a previous Telegram editorial He said Salt Lake offers the quickest accessibility to all parts of the command including the Pacific coast and emphasized that if the Pacific coast was too exposed after Pearl Harbor it may well be too exposed when any future crisis arises Before Salt Lake City can be expected to accept the move of the headquarters like a good soldier the war department should explain just how it is better from an an around all-around military standpoint taking into consideration the question of security to have the Ninth service command headquarters in San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran- Fran cisco rather than in S Salt lt Lake City Otherwise we will suspect that California's greater political power with her 23 members of the house of representatives to our two and her 25 electoral votes to our four is the real reason In this question were we're not only from Utah but from Missouri Missouri Mis Mis- too I |