Show in Open Instead S Of Stabbing in the Back 5 r S By Ira C. C Tichenor S m has been st started in a desultory sort ort of manner h m td induce the city commission to amend the ordinance recently regulating the sale of stock stoc of corporations and ass associations association fehere is no ground for criticism in such a movement when Ic le-Jin le in l a proper spirit and in the right manner There rc is however a a more more than sufficient nt ground for criticism criticism It Ii Ih method adopted in m certain quarters as a means of starting starting- 1 a movement This Tills plan consists in abuse and vilification ped Reel upon the heads of everyone every one ii in ih any any manner connected with S suggestion of such a law the drafting of the tile same its adoption its ts enforcement The fhe denunciation of city officials and private citizens has n place in back rooms and at secret conferences while white on the thet t or in conversation with the same people who were stabbed Hogback back in the dark there have been only words of praise or most moderate of criticisms There have been suggestions that pressure be brought to tor toI I r upon pon members of the city commission to cause them to adopt red amendments F. F Judging from frank expressions of various members of S the when the the- ordinance suggested by one of of their numberS number S came me up for consideration no pressure will witt be necessary to toe e them to adopt changes when s such ch changes are shown to be rable S I JAll rAll All the commission wants according to remarks made by indi- indi members are frank open suggestions made in a spirit of ofies less ies lesS lesS' and an evident desire to construct When the commission first decided that the adoption of such ordinance was necessary the members declared that it was in the i an an experiment and that undoubtedly it would be necessary i it from time to time jl Lis E is now v admitted that changes chang s in the original draft of the nance were adopted because they were offered in what seemed b beTa a spirit of fairness and a a. a desire to perfect a necessary al regulation S S Belief has been expressed by city officials since the passage of ordinance that these suggestions were made in anything but a are re 0 assist in n improving the then proposed law and that as a aIt aIt It he ordinance contains provisions which possibly should not noten b en incorporated S Should those interests desiring a modification of the ordinance with the fairness displayed by the city officials in framing ing ing and enforcing the law and go before the commission as a ale alfand le and prove their case they would discover that sound souna I II ts would be the only pressure necessary to cure any defects 11 h may exist S |