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Show Finished Business THE city commission, having put tho park meter fare behind it now dispose of another an-other bit of unfinished business the unseemly and too long-drawn-out controversy about th coo. True, tho commission Thursday seemed to be trying to resuscitate th meter crisis by cogitating cogi-tating over tha disposal of those already Installedbut In-stalledbut whether th commissioners know it or not, th issue hs passed into th limbo of tho forgotten. If they long delay the removal of th curb slot machines, the mercantile and driving driv-ing public lh a loud ton of voice will tell them to be up and doing. But about the zoo by it action In accepting a conditional quit claim deed to tho property tha institution occupies,' th city assume th responsibility of maintaining it In a manner to bring credit to th community. With this responsibility clearly fixed. Salt Lake City should not again be humiliated and ahamed for conducting a public establishment where captive cap-tive animal were allowed to go without food or water, where sightliness and sanitation were given no thought and around which endless controversy ' ragecT. The whole 'matter had reached tha point where responsible and civic-minded civic-minded member of th eonfmunity were eager to abandon th zoo unless it could be conducted properly snd this br a -city where a zoo was desired for many sound reasons, among them th education and amusement of children. . It never has done so, but now there is a call to the city commission to take the zoo seriously, - to decide whether city finance permit it to be properly managed and maintained or to do away with it even regretfully. Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hogle, original donors of the site, again do th generous and public-spirited public-spirited thing. They accept from the city $8000 to be "applied toward settling with bondholders and paying off the private debts of the zoological zoologi-cal society. |