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Show m Straight Talk Hl That was a splendid resolution intioduced by H Commissioner W. II. Shearman in an effort to Hj j find out why there has been so much delay in H street improvement work. It required the city H engineer to file a report on the first and the fif- H teenth of each month on public contracts, but was, H of course, defeated by the usual three to two H vote, Mayor Morris, Mr. Park and Mr. Lawrence H voting against it. H There is something rotten to the core in this H street improvement business, and with real win- H ter only a few days off, taxpayers on Thirteenth H East, on E street and a dozen other places, are 4 facing the prospect of wading through mud all H winter, not to mention the inconvenience caused H by the impossibility of vehic'es of any descrip- H tion getting anywhere near their houses. H The Thirteenth East business is probably the H, worst in town and something should be done H( immediately tQ relieve the conditions existing HI there, but no help of any kind is to be expected H' from the majority in the commission. Their sys- HK tern is down to a fine point and no matter what HL the desire is of any other commissioner to serve H the people properly, the work is always nullified H by the other three. The only thing to do is to H sj.and it for another year when election time rolls Hj' around again. Then goodbye and goodnight to- H the political ambitions of those who have provided Hj Salt Lake City with the worst administration in Hi its history through the conniving of one, the stu- H. pidity of another and the Osterlizing of a third. flW j , It is not too early to mention the fact that H during the next season of the legislature, the gov- Ejj ernor will be called upon to appoint, among H others, certain members of the State Fair board H among whom will undoubtedly be J. "G. McDonald. H In this connection it is to be hoped that if the 'H governor has The Chocolate Soldier in mind, he M will refrain from presenting his name and if he Hl does not, it will be up to the state senate to m Hi consider Cutey Curley's name very carefully before be-fore taking action. The King of the Dippers has been on the job far too long and his arbitrary and obnoxious treatment of many people in his official offi-cial capacity, has been about the limit. We are not speaking especially of his gross insults to the newspa'per fraternity, but there are exhibitors and others who have been affronted by the chocolate peanut, and while his attitude has recently taken a change, he having treated the newspaper men most courteously during fair week following follow-ing a little article that appeared somewhere, his penitence has come too late. If the governor wishes to be assured of the protests that are being be-ing made against the reappointment of the taffy twister, it will not be necessary for him to get his ear very close to the ground between now and the time of making his new appointments. Since the accidents of Wednesday and Thurs- day, caused by the careless driving of automobiles;, automo-biles;, in one case by a boy thirteen years old and the other by a woman who was tearing down Main street with her head turned, chattering to some friends in the back of the tonneau, the demand de-mand that a strict ordinance be enforced is growing grow-ing louder every day. To allow kids to drive great powerful car& is a crime. They would noi be allowed to run a locomotive and that is on a track, and why indulgent parents put their children chil-dren at the wheel of a forty or fifty horse power car Is a mystery. One suggestion, regarding the driving of cars by women, is that they be al'owed to drive electrics only, (and Fords of course, for they would bounce back if they should hit anyone), any-one), though it might be a hardship on some who have been tried in emergencies and not found wanting if they were prohibited the use of gas cars. The question is one of how to discriminate and it is doubtful if it can be sett'ed satibfactorily. The slugging and shooting of Chef Miller of the Vienna Cafe on Thursday night, following in the wake of the slugging and threatened beating of employers and employes during the strike of the electrical workers, is another indication that some of that sinister horde who have done so much to create unfortunate conditions in Butte and California Cali-fornia cities, are operating here. Unquestionably it is their desire to bring about the same conditions here, and not a moment should be lost in sup-pressing sup-pressing them. Mr. Miller, who has lived here a long time, is a high class man, as straight as a string, has had no trouble with the men in the restaurant where he is employed, and the men themselves are old employes and state that they have no grievances, and that there has not been the slightest hint of trouble. This in itself is further proof that the thugs who attacked Miller are vandals from outside and the community cannot bo ridded of their presence too quickly. We note that Simon Bamberger in his article entitled, "Electrical Railroading in Utah," which appeared in a recent issue of the Electric Railway Rail-way Journal, is grieving because there is no public pub-lic utility commission in Utah, saying among other things after attacking the Harriman and Gould interests: "Without some guarantee from the state that their rights are going to be respected re-spected and their interests safeguarded against political deals and unlawful combinations, men hesitate to invest their capital." Oh, Simon, Simon, what's the idea? Thumbs up or thumbs- down? |