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Show Read Thii and Weep WE most urgently recommend studious reading read-ing of the story published in the Washington Washing-ton Merry-Go-Round on this page today. As taxpayers in a coal producing state, every citizen ef Utah should demand of the delegation in congress con-gress immediate attention to the conditions reported re-ported to exist in new federal agency. So should the citizens of all other coal-producing states and, in fact, of all states. The Merry-Go-Rounders offer shocking account of political . buccaneering by peanut politicians suddenly become be-come big shots. First impulse is to place blame primarily with the patronage grabbers who recommended pork-hungry constituents for appointments they obviously were unfit to receive. Public opinion will condemn them as wholly unworthy on account ac-count of their failure to understand the first principles of public service. Possibly, in light of the Merry-Go-Round'f revelations, the law will sustain them in their reprehensible conduct in office, but morally they haven't leg to stand on. If not on actionable action-able grounds, they are guilty of misuse of public funds by every standard of morality, and decency de-cency inseparable from honorable performance as public, servants. The senate confirmed these appointments. Notwithstanding the traditions of senatorial courtesy which may have moved the senate not to inquire into the fitness of the appointees, "the greatest deliberative body in the world" must discover some way of opening the case with the object of throwing out the treasury plunderers and retaining only those who have a sense of honor and rectitude and the mental capacity for the performance of their lawfully imposed responsibilities. These revelations pertain to certain members of the bituminous coal commission ' appointed under the Guffey coal act for the public benefit . and the stabilizing of great industry. If the personnel of the commission remains unchanged, it will be to condone indefensible conduct, holding hold-ing the general welfare in contempt |