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Show STRAIGHT TALK At the police department, the soft pedal Is I very -much in evidence and the activity of the R coppers in some quarters has ceased entirely while In others It has Increased. This is all in accord with the Morris plan of campaign. In be half of "Slippery Dick" who has been the real IV mayor during the present administration and who is candidate for the position for another term, the cheese of police is seeing to it that he serves his masters well, for Mr. Park, it is understood, is doing everything he can to aid In the election of the man who has really been responsible for the worst administration Salt Lake City ever had But the people are sick and tired of the way the business of the city is being conducted and there is going to be a change. Realizing this and further knowing that the police department will be the first to have a turn-over when a real mayor is elected, the boys at headquarters are 1 very busy, though some of the plain clothes men ''?v and patrolmen who realize how rotten things haVe been in police circles since Grant and his purity I squad have had charge, would welcome the change. A vote for Morris means nothing but an endorsement of the present administration of Grant and a "system" that has been a stench ever since the beginning of the commission form of government, and the present efforts of the police po-lice to surpress anything that might be detrimental detri-mental to the chances of their champion in the councils, is ample evidence of the fact that they i know which side their bread is buttered on. , Excepting one or two brief intervals, "Slippery Dick" Morris has held office so long that he has I grown rich at it, and while we do not for a min ute begrudge his good fortune, we protest against being numbered among those who are obliged to stand for such policies as he has dictated while he has been on the job, and we feel confident that that protest is shared by a great majority of voters here who have encountered the epidemic of nausea over political conditions which has been prevalent during his regime. Not the least interesting phase of the situation to date is the secret antagonism of certain wealthy and influential sycophants who put their names to his petition. Moral courage has a hard r game to play when pitted against money grub bers. The opinion written by Judge J. E. Frick whlcii -vas concurred in by Chief Justice D. N. Straup and Judge W. N. McCarty, reversing the judgment of the lower court and directing that a new trial be granted in the case of It. K. Cobb vs. E. A. Hartenstein was exaqtly what was expected ex-pected by those familiar with the case. According Accord-ing to the decision "buyer 60" and "seller 60" contracts con-tracts used on the local stock exchange between brokers, are not cloaks for usery unless there is evidence of a corrupt agreement or attempt to evade the law. The Hartenstein case is only one '', of several, the others being against Henry W. Doscher, Fred C. Dern, James A. Pollock, E. H. McBeth and George T. Badger. In reality the Hartenstein case was a test case. Among other things in the decision, the court says, "It is quite unbelievable that men enter into sham arrangements arrange-ments for the purpose of avoiding something of which they possess no knowledge." There is no one familiar with the facts in the case or with the practice of agreements buyer or seller sixty who has had an idea that Cobb could possibly win if the cases were decided on their merits. ik We wondered if anything had happened to old lady Roundy and were just about to investigate when the candidates for city officers announced on Thursday that they had received the annual questions from her. Mrs. Roundy is always re- sponsible for considerable Indoor sport during the early campaigns and it is nice to know that she is not going to disappoint us this season. The Utah Federation of Prohibition and Betterment Bet-terment leagues, met at Barrett hall on Monday to elect officers for the ensuing year. They met in a hall though a pigeon hole would have been just as adequate for there were five people present, pres-ent, count them, five. George F. Goodwin was elected president at the farcial affair though he was not present. Those at the meeting were A. N. Buchanan, John M. Whitaker, George A. Start- H up, the sugar-coated satellite from Provo, Edwin H S. Sheets, James H. Wolfo and Nephi L. Morris. H The latter took one look and beat it, however, be- H fore the conclave wished offices on a number of H absent brothers. Apparently something has gone H awry. Not even Lulu Shepard was in sight. H M The officious Frank Hewlett who was always H given the Impression that he figured the state H fair was his private property, was busier than a H bird dog again this year, especially in the manu- H H iff" facturers' building where there is a private room gr for directors and exhibitors. One of the latter nil I was entertaining a few friends informally there 'Mk on Saturday, among them a distinguished vis- f itor from New York, when the hidebound fanatic If ! broko in with a couple of plates of hot-dogs and a I? J lot of friends and proceeded to insult the others iv who had preceded him to the room. Wo believe If it was the only unpleasant happening at the fair f grounds during the entire show, but nothing ! more was to have been expected from an uncouth boor of the Hewlett variety. The sooner he is W f asked for his resignation, the greater will bo the !i number of those applying for space in the manu- facturers building, i ' In the report of the committee of inquiry of the American Association of University profes- f . sors on conditions at the University of Utah, we V believe that the summary of findings of the corns' corn-s' ! mitteo so far as they related to the dismissals at W i the University, have never been published here ; in full, though those most interested have been V , afforded an opportunity of reading them through Ml : the distribution of the pamphlets containing the Hr i report. In the summary, the committee opens I ' with the following: "Of the four charges which I' were given by the president of the University, as H i his reasons for recommending the dismissal of I professors, THREE SPECIFY NO PROPER I GROUNDS FOR SUCH ACTION AND THE ' , FOURTH IS WITHOUT BASIS IN FACT. The H other findings follow: ' ; (b) The president of the University and the chairman of the board of regents by their recent action virtually gave notice that the expression by a professor, in private conversation, of an un-favorable un-favorable opinion of their qualifications for of- H u fico would be a ground for dismissal. This ac- H' : tion, unjustified in general, the committee regards Hj I as peculiarly unsuitable in officials of a state Hill university. l (c) Tlio governing- body of the University i has publicly declared that in cases of serious friction fric-tion between officers and teachers of the Univer-II Univer-II sity, it is not concerned to know "who is right H ' and who is wrong in the disagreement," but only HE to secure harmony by eliminating from the Uni- H versity those whose services it believes to be rel- H' atively less valuable. This, in the light thrown HH upon its practical meaning by recent action of H f Uie.Jbaarilf- apppars totha committee .equivalent t to a formal announcement that considerations Hj t of equity have not been, and will not be, taken I account of by the board, in cases involving the relations of the president of the University and the faculty, (d) The board has, however, given two irreconcilable irre-concilable versions of its attitude on March 17 towards the request for a judicial investigation of the charges. The first version is that, in view of the board's adoption of the last-mentioned principle, prin-ciple, no investigation could alter the essential consideration upon which the board based its ao-tion; ao-tion; and that, in fact, the board "refused to be forced into a public or any investigation." The E other version is that an opportunity for an In- H ' vestigation was actually afforded the professors H accused, and was rejected. The committee finds H ; that though the professors accused were invited H I to appear at a meeting of the board, no properly Hl' judicial investigation into the truth of the HJS charges has ever been made either by the presl- H dent or by the board of regents. Hj l (g) The board now appears to regard either H' ' two or three of the charges as "not constituting Hj Ly prosper grounds for terminating a professor's con- H nection with the University." It has also re- H ceived through this committee the sworn state- H meftt of the professor against whom the fourth Hi i charge was made, categorically denying the H truth of the charge. The board nevertheless re- Hi fuses to withdraw this charge, to present evi- Ht dence in support of it, or to reopen the cases of MY the professors against whom these four charges wore brought. (f) The evidence shows that, under the present pres-ent administration, unverified gossip, coming from persons unwilling to assume public responsibility respon-sibility for their statements, has played an unfortunate un-fortunate part in the affairs of the University of Utah; and that Professor Knowlton was dismissed dis-missed without ever being permitted to know who were his accusers, In the case of the principal prin-cipal charge against him. (g) In its "Public Statement" issued on March 17 in explanation of the dismissals, the board denied the limits of freedom of speech in the University in such a way as to justify any member of the faculty in resigning forthwith. Who says that Christianity is not steadily advancing. ad-vancing. They are building a church close to ex-Mayor ex-Mayor Thompson's residence, where he cannot, if at home, help hearing the prayers and the hymns. Wo are informed that the ex-mayor Is spending more and more time up at his Cardiff mine, and his friend fear that by the time the church is completed the mine will need his presence every minute. |