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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING - CO., INC. FRANK E. SCHEFSKI, Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: ji L Including postage In the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico, 2.50 per year, $1.50 for six hionths. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal . Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the postoffice at Salt Lake Act of March 3, 1879. City, Utah, under the Phone Wasatch 5409 Union, $4.50 per year. B ? h 311-12-- 13 NEW COMMISSION BEGINS I The political pot is surely boiling at the present time. Some expected a complete turnover of the city commission when the commissioners met last Monday to reorganize; many thought P. J. Moran would be made public safety man; many had Harry L. Finch slated for that job and a majority picked Burton for the safety department. As the commission now stands the two Democrats, Mayor C. Clarence Neslen and Commissioner T. T. Burton, have the two biggest ments in the- city, while the three Republicans, P. J. Moran in streets, Herman H. Green in finance and Harry L. Finch in parks, take the minor departments, which ought to prove conclusively that the Republicans are not playing politics, because with their three votes they could make any changes desired. Commissioner Burton was the first to use the axe and after his He was first day in office a number of men were given vacations. also the first to perform any official business by closing all the card games in the city and he announces that he has put in a large order for big padlocks which will be hung on the doors of the persistent law violators. That he intends to make a general cleanup in the city with a view of getting rid of the criminal element is shown in his work as well as in what he says. Many rumors are afloat on the street that Commissioner Burton proposes to have his ideal of a chief of police, and it is also said that there may be a new chief in the fire department. But these are only rumors. No one knows but the commissioner himself what he is going to do and when that time comes he Will make the announcement. Moran is looking over the bunch in the street department and he says that he will not be in a hurry to make any changes. He is making a personal inspection of the shops under his direction. There is no doubt but what he will make some changes. The other three commissioners whose departments are satisfactorily organized may continue in the same course as heretofore. The commissioners have a big year ahead of them. The Utah Taxpayers association has demanded that the general budget be not r $2,500,000, there are many improvements to be made, and many demanded by the people, and it will be no easy task to propimerly adjust matters. The city is unable to finance all the large provements demanded and the most needed can only be accepted. - . UNSAFE SAFETY ZONES. A matter of vital importance and necessary improvement for Ness Bldg. 8alt Lake City, Utah WORK ton could make no bigger hit with the public than force this big corporation to provide proper platforms on the busy downtown corners. It is the duty of our mayor to see that the safety of the pub- lie is properly provided for. Every day hundreds of people, yes, thousands, take their very lives in their hands by standing absolutely unprotected in the streets awaiting their streetcars, and it is a condition which no other city in this country tolerates today. City officials of other cities compel the street car companies to construct proper safety zones. Under, the present system during the busy hours of coming and going home of the workers and shoppers, there is a continual jam on the comers downtown. People can only get into one street car, whereas if a proper cement platform was provided two streetcars could be loaded at one time which would immediately reduce and two cars could be the streetcar congestion by at least sent away from the corner instead of one, as at present. It would also facilitate automobile traffic. While traffic is the big downtown question today, the safety of the people must also be taken into consideration and is of some concern and the streetcar company should be the first to take care of its trade as a carrier, and if it refuses to do so then the mayor of the city should see to it that it is done. In other cities traffic zones consist of a cement raised platform from 8 to 10 inches in height and are long enough so that two cars may be loaded at one and the same time. With our wide streets commodious platforms could be built. Such platforms are not only safe from the automobile but also provide the streetcar traveling public with dry places to stand and wait for their cars. As it is now, the people are compelled to stand in the dirty slush which accumulates during any storm, and is anything but a convenience. They are herded together inside of a village chained fence, where they are unsafe and where no one knows when some drink crazed driver may speed his automobile among them with fatal results. Such a condition should not be tolerated in any metropolitan city. Many complaints are coming into this office regarding the present unsafe zones on our street corners and it is time that our city commissioners remedy the present evil. We arc for the people and we are not afraid to say what we think is right. one-hal- f, . NEW OFFICE BUILDING. the safety and welfare of the traveling public is the prompt aboliWe hear of boosters, we talk of boosters and we all ought to he tion of the present unsightly and dangerous Safety Zones. In prethe meaning of the word historic times we used to erect rails and chains in the center of boosters, but few really understand booster. . . tW;, streets so that incoming farmers could conveniently tie up their and A real booster is one that does things in his community wonder why this teams, but in this modern age of soeed we often Such a booster is Ross Beason, who recently for his of middle the in fence chain community. of a idea the to still village hangs city Second South purchased the Commercial building, on the corner of the street. The street car companv should be compelled to construct prop- and Regent streets. has taken place on this corner and instead A Bur Commissioner change complete Public traffic. its Safety for er safety zones |