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Show I f SMOKE FROM THE WEEKLY PIPE I H I After six weeks of opposition to the appoint- I I ment by "Svjeet Caporal" Korns and "Slippery Dick" Morris, Dr. Samuel G. Paul was Thursday H , re-appointed to the position of city health com- I f missloner, the most important office in the depart B ft ment of public safety. H J The selection of Dr. Paul may be directly at- H I ' trlbuted to the firm stand Mayor Park took and his absolute refusal to submit to the bulldozing tactics of "Little Pet" Korns and the silkier, H smoother methods of one or two other city com-H com-H missioners wi h personal or political axes to H j grind. H ! In fact, Dr. Paul's re-appointment is about the H , first indication this community has had since Mr. H i Park took office that he has any desire to say H j nothing of an intention of being mayor in fact H j as well as name. We believe the Mayor-commis- H sioner's stand for Dr. Paul was taken purely be- H j cause of his knowledge that Dr. Paul has brought II the city's health department to a higher plane of HI v efficiency than it had ever known before in forty HI ) years, and because not a single criticism could be HI S made of Dr. Paul's administration of the affairs of 1 the department, and that therefore, no just cause 1 I existed for his removal. And for this we cheerful-1 cheerful-1 ' ly give Mayor Park the credit he deserves. If he H will but awaken now to the fact that one city com- missioner is trying to use him in the furtherance B,1 of several choice personal fanaticisms and that H another commissioner is trying to make him the HI j soat f a seect line of professional politics, we, H with several thousand other voters, will begin to H' entertain hopes of a decent administration of this H' city's affairs by the Mayor. H The principal opposition to Dr. Paul's reap- Hi pointment as city health physician came from H Commissioner Korns, who at first announced that Hi he was not in favor of the Doctor because the lat- H ter smoked cigarettes. As soon as he sensed the H' wave of public ridicule to which this contention H subjected him, the commissioner welched on his Hj original statement and fell back on the silly sub- Hjl torfuge that he believed when voters of this com- Hi munity elected the new commission, they also im- Hf plied their wish for a change in department heads H all through the city administration, and that there- Hj fore he (Korns) thought thai on these grounds Hj someone else should be appointed in Dr. Paul's Hl place. H Tne ren reason for Korns' hostility to Paul H was nt slow n developing. About a year or so JH j ago Korns attempted to install in his food stuff Wa commission establishment a couple of nuisances, Hj absolutely prohibited by the city ordinances. Dr. R Paul in his official capacity as city health officer, t prevented Korns from installing these contriv- , ances, and the broad-minded commissioner appar- M ently has a memory that works overtime. There has never existed very much doubt in the minds 1 of Salt Lakers that Dr. Paul's refusal to allow B Korns to install in his commission house unsani- Wm tary lavoratories was directly responsible for M Korns' opposition to the Doctor's re-nppointment, H and as an example of personal spite, Korns' B course the past six weeks is in a class by Itself. H It is our understanding that Commissioner H Morris lined up with Korns in opposition to Dr. H Paul's re-appointment. With a gentleman to whom H political skull-duggery is so fine an art and whoso H past political record is so well remembered, littlo H surprise was occasioned by thls'report. No one H expects "Slippery Dick" Morris to do anything else HH than use his official position solely as an advance- 1 ment of his political interests and intrigues, with i the welfare of the community and the fulfillment H of his oath of office as the last and least consider H atlon of any and every action that emanates from H his immediate vicinity. H We ext ad to both these commissioners our heartiest congratulations on the success of their efforts to defeat Dr. Paul's reappointment, and it is our fervent wish that they meet with a like degree of success in every other piece of personal spite work and political trickery tbrv attempt to sandbag through the city commissi. We are perfectly frank to express it as our opinion that the total abolition of the city health department here would suit Korns to a dot. And just in passing, commissioner, we should like to ask you if you did not a month or so ago express yourself as believing the fumigation of premises where smallpox and other contagious and malignant malig-nant diseases have been treated was "all foolishness" foolish-ness" and unnecessary? The weight of so much as one of your fingers on the health department of this city is the greatest great-est menace to the safeguarding of the health of this community the history of the latter has ever known. We note with more than passing interest the appointment of a committee of city commissioners, commission-ers, including Commissioner Morris, to investigate investi-gate the advisability of the city's purchasing certain cer-tain water rights in Big Cottonwood canyon, for it recalls, if memory serves us correctly, and we think it does, the very valiant and persistent efforts ef-forts made by "Slippery Dick" to induce the city to purchase these same water rights, valued by their owners at over $300,000, when he was formerly for-merly at the head of the city government of Salt Lake. The purchase of these water rights seems to be quite a hobby with "Slippery Dick ' and it will be interesting to watch developments along this line. At two o'clock Friday morning, a farmer was held up in front of a cafe on East First South street, betweeen State and Main, and robbed of about fifty dollars. While the farmer stood with his hands above his head looking into the muzzles of two revolvers revol-vers while the men behind the latter went through his pockets, two policemen lunched In a cafe fifteen feet away, another copper stood at the cor ner of State and First South, a third walked his beat a quarter of a block away, and within seventy-five yards of the hold-up half a dozen officers of-ficers sat around police headquarters. The gentlemen with the guns, after ransack ing the clothes of their victim, told him to keep his hands above his head and they then sauntered east on First South, walked npst the policeman on the corner, and went on down State Btreet". At this writing they have not been apprehended. The incident Is not particularly important ex- i cept that it illustrates pretty thoroughly the ab- I solute contempt in which the professional crim- I inals, who are as thick in this town right now as I mosquitoes on a swamp, hold our police depart- I ment. The robbery was but one of half a dozen j crimes that have taken place here the last ten I days, all of which were the work of professional I hold ups and safe blowers. I It is a fact, well known among police officials I and newspaper men at present, that a good many I crooks and burglars who have not attempted to I ply their trades here in a long while, are In town, and have been seen on a dozen different occa- I sions by former members of the force and It is I our belief that this community is just about on I the eve of a series of crimes and robberies that I will exceed in daring and viclousness anything we I have experienced along the same lines the past I Ave years, for It has been a long time since tho j police force numbeied as many men utterly devoid de-void of police experience as does the present department. de-partment. Mayor Park and Chief Grant have put into operation a system whereby the police department depart-ment will cost ?25,000 more annually than It ever has in the past. There would be not the slightest objection in the world to this if there were any In dlcation that the efficiency of the department would be Improved as the result of the Increased expenditure. This city has never had enough patrolmen pa-trolmen or enough detectives to properly protect . lives and property. The proper patrolling of the residence sections of the city at night has always been a joke, and still is. Twenty-five more patrolmen patrol-men are needed right now for this work. It is just as true today as It ever was, however, that no stream can rise higher than its source, and on our part we are quite prepared to resign ourselves to the same degree of efficiency, acumen, and police po-lice judgment among the members of the force as has been evidenced to date by Police Chief Grant and his select corps of assistant executives. We note with considerable interest that "Cigarette" Korns and "Sllpery Dick" Morris and a few other political satellites with the good of the people at heart, are reported as planning a general meeting of their Mormon and Jack Mormon Mor-mon confreres, the purpose of which is to nominate nomi-nate a county and state non-partisan ticket preceding pre-ceding the coming elections. With their record as city commissioners the past six weeks and with a clear recollection of the promises made, "Sweet Caporal" and "Slippery Dick" ought to get a long way with any new ideas in the non-partisan line. We sincerely hope that their efforts to place such tickets in tho field will be successful, for wo do not know of anything that will bo so convincing to them as to show what positions they hold In the hearts of the people as to let the voters demonstrate what they think of these two precious pearls stuck In Salt Lake City's corporate corpor-ate crown In the last non-partisan purity movement. move-ment. The people at first laughed at these two petty politicians, but they have since realized That they aro a real political menace, for everyone knows that "Slippery Dick" is about evenly divided in his feelings for himself and for the commands of his church and pretty nearly everyone also feels that in his sympathies "Cameo" Korns Is just about as good a Mormon at heart as ever attended attend-ed a quorum meeting and there is nothing he has said or done while being a resident, here that does not bear that out. (1 The star chamber proceedings of the city commissioners com-missioners aro becoming more and more frequent and we do not blame the commissioners, for doubtless they "are ashamed to be heard in public. H II What little leaks out from their proceedings is H disgusting enough for the average business man I 1 and probably it will be just as well if everything t they do is done behind closed doors until the end H j of their opera bouffe. m f H ' We note that the city recorder, under instruc- H tions from the commission, is busy editing tho H ' first copy of the municipal magazine to be pub- lished by the city and wo wonder how frequently H this magazine is to go to press and what the ex-I ex-I tent of its distribution is to be. Will it be sent H to all tax payers? And if so, who will pay for H tho printing lyid publishing and mailing of it? Is H it to bo an additional burden on the already over-H over-H loaded tax payers or are advertisers going to be H asked to support it as was once suggested by I "Cameo" Korns. In either event the prospect is exceptionally pleasing, but doubtless some lucid explanation as to how it will decrease rather than increase the burden on the people will be given by one of the city's first presidency, Park, Morris v and Korns. In the indictment by the federal grand jury at Indianapolis this week of fifty-four officers and f members of labor unions for conspiracy In the 1 dynamiting of structural iron construction projects pro-jects on which non-union men were employed In various sections of the United States the past (' three years, has come, In our opinion, a crisis In v the evolution of the organization of labor in this 'i country that will eventually re shape the entire H' attitude toward the public of that great body of Wt unskilled union workmen on whose ignorance and m susceptibilities labor leaders have successfully B; preyed since the first union was formed. i Under the lies and misrepresentations of the men who by trickery and unscrupulous methods M have attained to the executive offices of the M unions the rank and file of organized labor In H this country has, particularly In the last few H years, come to regard the general public as its B enemy and as totally out of sympathy with their B efforts to better their condition and raise the M, standards of their living. H Every man outside labor unions knows this to H be untrue, and that the impression was originally H created and has ever since been upheld by a H systematic blakguardlng of the public and all H non-union workmen by those labor leaders who H have realized the necessity of shifting responsl- H blllty quickly and effectively for the outrages that H , for years have been perpetrated in this country H' against the lives and property of individua7 ,nd H) firms antagonistic to organized labor. H Violence against men and property has been H the one weapon most used by labor leaders to H: intimidate men who refused to join unions and V against employers who hired non-union labor and H tho most Important work of a curtain class of i labor leaders has been to induce the rank and K file of the honest, decent, hard working members H of their unions to believe that these crimes were H not committed by union men, but by outsiders M who wanted to fasten the stigma on the unions. m This method succeeded beyond all expecta- fl tlons succeeded until union men who did not JH believe in violence, murder, property destruction B and slugging came to think that they were a per- m secuted people. M Among the men arrested Thursday under the M indictments returned by the federal grand jury at PAS Indianapolis was Frank M. Ryan, president of the H International Association of Bridge and Structural Hj Iron Workers. This is the union to which the M McNamaras bolonged and In addition to President H Ryan, practically every other high officer of the H organization is in custody, charged with some H fifty other members of the same union by the H United States government of having participated H direcMy and indirectly in the destruction by dyna- H mite of scores of bridges and buildings being erected in different parts of the country by construction con-struction firms employing nonunion structural iron workers. We do not see how any fair-minded man can read sections o the private letters that passed between Ryan, Ortle McManigal, the dynamiter, the McNamaras (both confessed dynamiters and murderers) and the other Indicted officers and members of the International Iron Workers Union, as those letters were given to the press Friday, and still hold very much doubt of the guilt of the indicted men. In all their correspondence, structures that were to be dynamited or that had been dynamite1 were referred to as 'jobs." In view of this, here is one of the most illuminative of President Ryan's letters. In June, 1910, President Ryan wrote to one of the McNamaras as follows: "Referring to Clancy's letter, wherein a re quest is made- for Ilockin to go to Los Angeles, I am of the same opinion as yourself, that there is sufficient work for Hockin back this way. It appears to me Clancy should be able to find a man In California who would be capable of doing the necessary work in and about Los Angeles. Wish you would wire him it would be Impossible i for Hockin to go there; tell him to appoint some I competent man." ' Through column after column in the dailies letters of the same tenor go on. It is difficult to believe than even the most ardent unionists will claim innocence for the men who wrote and received re-ceived them. The trials of these indicted men for conspiracy conspir-acy to blow up all construction work on which non-union men were employed, will, it Is believed, be-lieved, develop Into one of the most vicious legal battles ever fought In this country. The consolation conso-lation of the average citizen should be that the United States government is prosecuting the in- V, dictments, for In this fact lies all the hope there is of a fearless and thorough expose of the most dastardly plot ever conceived and executed by the officials and members of an international labor organization. The communication of Mr. E. B. Critchlow following fol-lowing the controversy begun by the Native Sons in their purported resolution to admit none having hav-ing anything to do with the capitol building in any capacity unless born in Utah, was a very sensible and timely statement, though a great difference of opinion seemingly exists as to the meaning of the resolution as construed by different differ-ent members of the organization. Mr. Critchlow hit the nail squarely on the head and while everyone would be glad to see the organization or-ganization highly successful along the lines laid out; in the beginning, it would be just as well to have the movement die right away if it is to be conducted along the lines of other Native Son organizations which in some localities have made themselves a menace to the good of the state and set up barriers against those who would come in. Mr. Critchlow's letter should be read by everyone ev-eryone and thoroughly digested by the local organization or-ganization of Native Sons. We do not believe it is the purpose of the majority of them to nar-rowly nar-rowly discriminate against those who live and work here or elsewhere, but who were not born in Utah; but if it is, we will be pleased to withdraw with-draw any little support in which we may aid their movement, just as freely and quickly as we gave it to them in the beginning. |