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Show THE CITIZEN 13 I a costly, even though efficient, system of lecture courses for the people of the state who have no opportunity gtiuiuuuHUHiumuiuiuiiuuiuiiiiiimiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiu OBSERVATION PLANE s &uuniuniiBiiuiiuiiiiMMiiiiiiuniiiiuHiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiimiuiiiaiiiiui Tag, You re It Parking Ordinance Fails One of the unrecorded spectacles of the holiday weeks was the appearance in police court of society women who were charged with violating a sacred ordinance of the city. Some of them were there for the second or third time and might be described as old In point of fact, the old offenders. offenders are the city commissioners who have been giving us new automobile parking regulations every few months. Hardly is the public familiar with the wondrous plans and specifications of a parking ordinance than the commissioners invent some new folly. Then must the public learn by experience, mingled with numerous arrests, just how looney a city commission can be. The police have been playing a game of tag with the women shoppers. A woman shopper drives downtown in her auto and finds that all the parking places are occupied on both sides of the street with the machines of business and professional men. She must, perforce, station her auto back of some of these machines if she is to do any shopping. A few minutes later, she returns, red and flustered, carrying groceries and toys and discovers that she has been tagThe tag tells her to call at ged. the police station. Arrived before the gruff desk sergeant, who happens to be booking a couple of criminals, she is compelled to wait, wondering whether she is to be beheaded or will get off with a life sentence. When informed that she must pay $5 she thinks she has been fined and voices a protest. Then she is informed that the $5 is simply a bond for her appearance in police court on the following day. Up to date the judge has been lenient, probably realizing that it is the city commissioners who ought to be fined. The commissioners are even now considering a new parking ordinance. If they keep up their record of failure they probably will park the new ordinance among us for a few weeks and then try again. Par be it from us to suggest any plan. We have friends who ventured that far and who tell us that a city father simply defies anyone to enlighten him. Besides, we do not know how to that ( onstruct a parking ordinance will work, but if we are asked to tell how a parking ordinance ought not to work we will point to the ordinances which the present city fathers devised and then tossed on the scrap-heaThey have parked autos on both sides of the street, on one side only, on one side in the morning and the other in the afternoon, in the middle of the streets, in restricted areas and everywhere, almost, except on the tops of buildings. And nothing has worked. A parking ordinance just refuses to work for the present city commission. Ordinances that work well for city officials in Kansas City or Los Angeles of Skowhegan or Bird Center become utterly incorrigible in the hands of our city fathers. Refined, gentlemanly ordinances, accustomed to obey their parents, go to the dogs when adopted by our city fathers. p. The best the city fathers have done up to date is to create an angry populace yearning to eat one another in cannibalistic rage. If you get a place to park someone drives up behind you and locks you in. You wait until your patience has burned to a white-ho- t cinder and then you round up a policeman and order him to arrest that man. That man proves to be a lady laden with kiddie-cardolls, footballs, e and cream puffs. horns, And very likely she will fly into a fury and tell you take back the footballs and horns, she has just bought in your store. to attend the regular courses within the walls of colleges. These courses are calling for increasing sums each year and much of the work is duplicated. Why is it not possible to limit the general work of university extension to but one of these institutions? Logically the University of Utah would be that one. It is rumored that the agricultural college is asking $200,000 for the extension work it plans. This seems an excessive amount, but whether it is or not much of the work would duplicate the extension work of the state university. An example of duplication .may be given. Dr. Beatty, secretary of the state board of health, is called upon to circulate information throughout the state regarding the means and measures necessary to prevent .the spread of disease. Dr. Gowans, the state physician, is also required to perform much the same service at a salary of $4,000 a year. But that is not all. Each university has a department of preventive medicine which sends out professors who are remunerated for their lectures and whose expenses are paid. In a word, four separate sources of information are used when one would be sufficient. s, link-sausag- We hope that in the new ordinance the game of tag will not be confined to the policemen. Lets all play tag. If we cant have a good ordinance lets have a good time. Plan To Consolidate Education System As the new state administration steps into office it will, welcome, no doubt, any suggestions that promise to result in economy. The voters considered this one of the chief issues, and although they must have recognized the difficulties in the way of economies during an era of high prices they trusted to Republican efficiency to find methods of retrenchment. Duplication is one of the most facile means for squandering public funds. We believe that it will be wise to investigate duplication of work by the universities the University of Utah and the Agricultural college. Both universities have gone in for two extension work. Each has elaborated This is only a single division of the extension work. There are duplications in the other divisions because each university has a distinct and in- university extension department. By consolidating this work in the hands of the faculty of one university the duplication can be avoided and a great saving effected. It has been suggested also that the ends of economy would be served if one board of trustees were to manage both universities and this plan is meeting with favor. Each institution would continue to have its executive head, I but the geheral supervision and financing of the two universities would be in the hands of a single board. dependent Its Christmas tra pay for work. In other words he is supposed to work eight hours a day. He puts in sixteen hours a day, eight of which are listed as overtime. And for the eight overtime hours he gets time and a time-and-a-ha- lf half. At that rate he will receive for the month of December more than $460 instead of his usual stipend of $185. Gambling For Candy Must Go, Says He It is worthy of a few clashes of the cymbals and few squeaks of the trombone to record that the courage of that redoubtable hero, Commissioner Barnes has surged to such an altitude that he is going to put all the more of this heinous gambling for candy and cigars. Candy makes you fat and cigars make you thin. Moreover and besides, these gambling games are being established here by outsiders and can we proud and independent children of the great Salt basin can we permit the outsider to flourish on gambling when the insiders are paying so much for protection? Far be it! These pestiferous little punch board gamblers are interfering with the sweet sleep of the big gamblers and also with their profits. While the . Bernsteins and the Nathans flourish the dreadful punch board offenders must not be permitted to incriminate with candy and degrade with cigars. How much more deleterious are candy and cigars than bootleg whiskey and grape extracts! Think of letting the of our com- Vincents, the weak-wille- d munity contaminate their souls and intestines with candy and bedevil their minds and breaths with tobacco when they can imbibe the purest moonshine or split a cord of wool alcohol' How virtuous our enforcement of- ficers are getting to be! And how brave! And how easy the common people as they mope about in blinders! And They Need The Money At the county assessors office they are working hard and profitably for themselves to clear the decks for the new administration. Instead of calling in outside help the assessor is permitting his favorites to pile up time and a half for overtime. A sample case is that of the deputy who draws $185 a month. For the first fifteen days of December he drew $92.50, regular pay and about $140 ex matter what other food may ;; No he served at the table butter ;; SS must be a part' of the meal. Maid IS :: IS IS IS Butter not only satisfies the taste but gives the body "growing materials." ;; Mutual Creamery Co. 1 o Clover |