Show 1 T 00 Little Time for Burglars Too Much for Cheese Crackers The C city commission will resume the police probe tomorrow i 1 There h has lias s been a long tong wait ait between the first adjournment and the he of the S If resumption hearing In the meantime who will foot the bill for this ex exI expensive ex- ex xI x- x I pensive time reflect and wonder vonder if I investigation have llave had to they I ave gotten their moneys money's worth i 7 This is the situation a as we see it I A NEWSPAPER APER PRINTED LONG LISTS OP OF UNPUNISHED CRIMES AND DECLARED THAT THE TilE CHIEF OF POLICE PO PO- LICE WAS NOT COMPETENT COl AND WAS VAS NOT PROPERLY PROTECTING THE CITIZENS FROM THE THEBOLD BOLD AND CLEVER CLEVER CLEVER CLEV CLEV- ER ER CROOKS WHO WERE SWARMING VARMING INTO TIlE THE CITY THAT TET PAPER WAS THE TELEGRAM H. H The The- commissioners knew that this paper reaches s a very large majority of the homes bomes in Salt Lake and th therefore felt that some answer must be made to the charge of inefficiency for incompetency incompetency tency of the police lolice chief wt wb would ld ild natural naturally y reflect ct against the com com- 1 It was up to them to either remove Chief Grant or answer THE TELEGRAMS TELEGRAM'S criticism by giving the police chief a vote of confidence No costly investigation was necessary for that This p paper per made its evidence public It printed the names and nd addresses of persons robbed It showed an abnormal and in- in large largo number of crimes for which the police made no arrests or at least did not get the guilty men Course Simple for Them We Ve believed then and believe now that what we published was pr prima ma facie evidence of Grants Grant's unfitness for th the position of police chief leL Our facts were in cold black type Th The cit city commissioners commissioners could have Verified them in t two vo hours' hours t nieby demanding the records of the police department department pr provided vided tl the e r records cor s are kept t pi pJ to date like the chief says they are t S If Ii 1 the commissioners had disagreed with us uS' uS and had felt that the Hie chiefs chief's work satisfied them they could h have ve adopted a Xon which would have been a vote of confidence in the police chief nn l answer to THE TELEGRAMS TELEGRAM'S criticism T THAT fRAT PROCEDURE WOULD NOT HAVE COST THE TAXPAYERS TAX iA PAYERS THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS I 2 It would have been in accordance with business principles JI Men handling stockholders stockholders' money in a private enterprise would J done that m under d r i similar es s. s v v fth the rumors that were going abo about t town we we wedo do donot not be be- t t tv ie ie the taxpayers feel cheerful about paying for foran an investigation of f them a r It was morally certain that people who were ver in a position to know if any crooked work was going on with the police would ot go into an open meeting and tell what th they y knew Self Sv is the first law of nature and the crook obeys obey it strictly hy f Why They Wouldn't Tell t 1 g Every erv W witness has fa faded faced ed the chief of po police ce n not t eight feet 5 Would v a poor wretch at the time mercy of tim the police dare tell if C did know anything wrong about the police department T Of ourse 5 ourse he wo would ld not lOt The of the underworld would rather wear falsely or forget than damn himself before the head of the For this reason the commissioners must haye known I ahat hat it would do no no good to try to run down rumors passed the streets I SUMMING SUl IT ALL UP TIm TIlE PROBLEM WAS VERY SIM- SIM ELB LE TIlE THE TELEGRAM DECLARED TIlE THE CHIEF OF POLICE I WAS YAS INCOMPETENT AND PUBLISHED LISTS OF UNPUNISHED sm D CRIMES TO PROVE ITS CONTENTION THE TIlE COM COM- 1 MISSION COULD IrA HAVE VE MADE UP ITS DECISION ON THAT I VERY ERY QUICKLY S E The records at headquarters should have bave been sufficient proof roE Of the impracticability of Grant I For he had bad been wasting the peoples people's peoples people's money in the contin gent fund chasing the time elusive bottle of beer and the seductive and cracker sandwich while the burglars burglar pickpockets and 1 Confidence men were reaping a harvest harve t her hepe |