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Show 5j!g GOING TO THE EXPERT FOR GUIDANCE. When Frank Francis, in announcing his candidacy for the office of mayor, stated that he favored the city seeking the counsel and advice of government experts who had knowledge of paving and other forms of city improvements, an effort was made to discredit the announcement announce-ment by circulating the report that Mr. Francis wanted to pay the highest price for government experts to pass on municipal work. By a little twisting of words, the entire meaning of Mr. Francis' utterance ut-terance was changed. Any one who is in the slightest degree informed on public affairs knows the government today is eagerly laboring to assist all public institutions, including municipalities, to gain efficiency and to profit Jjjfc. by the latest scientific knowledge. Country agents are working everywhere, ev-erywhere, even entering the homes to help improve conditions at the firesides. Experts are showing whole communities how to carry on drainage. Others are laboring on sanitation. Health experts are attacking at-tacking certain forms of social disease. Now what Mr. Francis proposes is this : Instead of relying solely on his own judgment or that of city employes em-ployes of limited experience, he would, if elected mayor, call on the government to lend expert opinion as to street improvements, asphalt paving and the other extensive works now being undertaken by the ''m ritv of Osden. These experts could be obtained withouf one dollar of expense to Ogden. There are men at the Agricultural College at Logan who willingly will-ingly would aid Ogden, either through expert advice or laboratory tests, and they would assist in determining whether the plans and work iffe j-j were in any manner defective. Ogden's experience is this : In the past there has been much inferior paving in this city, and the calling in of government experts might prove a check to methods not approved by those experts- This does not imply dishonesty, or even lack of ability such as the average city of the size of Ogden commands, but it does recognize that at the fountain head of government is a great fund of information informa-tion which no city should ignore, and that there is available for the asking the services of men highly trained in public works. |