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Show THE THREE SOFT SNAPS OF OGDEN. The commission form of government govern-ment in Ogden has proved a failure, as at present conducted. Thero is a mayor who receives $4,200 and two commissioners who aro paid $3,600 each a year. Tho mayor has a stenographer at city expense and one of the commissioners commission-ers is attended by an amanuensis. With these high salaries, no economies econo-mies are enforced. The salaries ot heads of departments aro boosted by a method which smacks of sharp practice, prac-tice, and from top to bottom there is looseness in city affairs. The commissioner com-missioner of public safety should devote de-vote all his time to the office. Instead In-stead of so doing, he holds down his old Job and gives the 'city a part of his labors. He should be the head of the police department, and save the city a big salary. But he falls In that particular. Our city commissioners remind one cf kid-gloved gentry. Their one ambition am-bition seems to be to draw their huge salaries and hold on to every cent they receive. Evidently they have taken a wrong view of the intent and purpose of the law creating a commission form of government. The salaries were made high in the hope that the men called in to office would be not only ornamental bric-a-brac In the city hall, but active heads of departments, directly di-rectly conducting the affairs of the city and supplanting tho many factotums fac-totums to be found under the old system. sys-tem. rtrv |