Show 1 t ron FOR A BI BETTER rEn CITY It Is a a. a pleasure to to know that the bills proposed k r for c changing the form of or Salt Lakes Lake's city government are arc looked on with favor ol by Ly members of or the legislature kt Those bills making absolute change In In tho thu method of or iJ S managing manag-Ing municipal affairs should be enacted Into law arid and that without without- an hours hour's dela delay c j S 1 1 Is a pretty goo good 1 Illustration of or the present j Systems stems incapacity hi in the tho decision made b by members S J. J of oC the of-the the city council Thursday night to employ a numer number num nurn- S. S her ber er o of bookkeeping experts to go o over the books of or the theIl city Il ity at a n. large extraordinary expense and suggest est a n good wa way to keep the records and tell the 55 just Uit what the elt city has done llone In the tho past past past-by by way o of earning an and spending S If ir tho the city officials elected because of oC a belief belleC in 4 5 their efficiency were as gOO good as the they represented themselves themselves them then L selves there would be bo no need of this extra service and antl andS S this n added outlay of oC mone money The present city claim to be the best that can be provided 1 by the tho old 4 m method o of city government g They confess themselves Sc Incapable for or the performance o of their duties They The constantly have havo to hire expert service The rho present ent S engagement will cost the city from eight to ten thousand dollars dollar oll That will have h to be added to the five thousand dollars paid laId b by the council a n. few months ago o for sugS suggestions suggestions sug sug- S as to the best heH manner of or keeping tho books bools- an outlay that seems to have b been en utterly wasted since the Thurs Thursday ay night resolution provides for another service ser ser- S vice vico along precisely the same lines An And It has been but a n little while since Mr E Edmunds munds o ga his services T to the tlC city party for tor a n thousand dollars dollar and antI told them 1 at the end o of a a. months month's tooling fooling just what hat they should haye have known about their standing without tite the aid of oC ex- ex S pelts perls j Salt Lake should not find It necessary to pay elected Er for tor their services and then hire extra services to find out what the elected l havo o been doing S The thing Is Indefensible 1 If it tho the men elected were elO fit It ItS S for or the places they have o secured the they would know where thI th y are arc hit But the they do not 10 S A city can be he governed on busin business sq principles or 01 it can cm be e managed n cd by hy tho tn I slipshod tn methods i. i lI tl of the he apostle t S S. S S y t r I of or graft The laU latter r f is tho present method It Is th the s system no matter what patty lt Is In power fhe Tn mc oily may ho bo taken out of the tho Ilo possibility of or such a ba bad bael fate by employing fewer men at higher salaries an and 1 running the city business just as ng a private to business s I Is run S O ON nUSI BUSINESS ESS PRINCIPLES That is what Is assured with tho the enactment oC of th the tho present bill sometimes called the tho Galveston plan An And because It Is sane ne and amI sound thi that plan sh should b he be adopted S |