Show II I A Well-Governed Well City I IONE of the new commissioners of or Salt Lake who ONE returned recently from a visit to Des Moines one of the pioneer eit cities s in iii the time commission commission form of government gO has the following to say of the time Iowa c capital There i Is no gambling in the city The Ilic social c ll is reduced to a minimum of or offence e the tilo I saloons close tightly on Sunday anti ami arc not hot open un any night after 10 11 There arc are no io buck doors to saloons und and no ho attempt made b by ty saloonkeepers to 10 the lau laws It is a healthy moral go o l cil city And Ami ul tho lc residents attribute it all zill to the commission lon form oT or government O While the tIte citizens of Des Moines may feel that tile the benefits they have haye received received since they adopted the new lie lie form arc due duc entirely to that law they arc are partly artly correct and partly incorrect The commission form may enable honest and efficient officials to enforce their policies for the time well-being well of the city they may get hotter helter results than under other forms of r government go But conditions would be as disagreeable disagreeable disagreeable dis dis- agreeable under tinder the new form or any other form unless capable and well meaning men arc are chosen as commissioners and appoint as their subordinates official who arc are equally as efficient honest and well There has always been plenty of law in Salt Lake to enforce ohe obedience ien e to the liquor laws to regulate and ana min minimize mize the deleterious effects of or the time social evil 1 upon the community to prevent gambling and to make mahe Salt Lake a clean city in every way These rhese laws were not enforced and the result was Avas what t the hc people all know There will be no improvement under the new system unless the laws are arc intelli gently enforced The intent of the time new now officials is isto isto I to 0 enforce the law and the best host method for them to get results would be to resolve to get the best besl tools possible A city government always depends upon the sort of men that is administering its affairs af af- af- af fairs farrs and mind t this his is hs true with reference to subordinates as well as principals Judge Gary Oaty of the time United Unite States Stales Steel corporation corpora corpora- tion lion says that thai hi big business is necessary to the pros pros- of the nation The Tue opinion of the public on 01 ont t t I t that point will be le unanimous But prosperity o of the time nation is just as necessary to big business ant and it ii is the general belief that big business as operating at the present ent time is inimical to national welfare F Mrs Irs George II H. Creel of New York sa says s the man I she is t about to marry is the tIle second handsomest man manin manin in the time world wom Inasmuch as she never visited Salt Sal Lake pro probably bly none of us is in the running for first firs I place I |