Show WATER METERS AGAIN 4 ij ONE would imagine imaginG that common prudence would suggest to the tho city water department that it rei re- re re remain remain i main out of the limelight Whatever confidence tho the thoI public had bad in that division of the city s government was waa wasI I 4 I rudely shattered by the water famine of last winter inter Tho The people are pretty thoroughly c convinced that the officials in charge of the department know very little j about the water system and have very few v ideas about it except that they want to install water meters Every Ever I 1 discussion of water supply matters bv liv time the men in 3 control invariably returns to the topic topie of water meters every incident every blunder is seized non imon as ari an j i excuse to urge tho the installation of the tho water-measuring water devices 1 i S Mr Horns and his assistants are gust dust now forcing I i those who are found to be bo wasting water vater either Unwittingly unI unwittingly un un- I wittingly or with intent intent to install meters The Tho apI apI approach ap ap- ap- ap I i I pro preach ch of summer is IS used as an excuse for this wear weary 1 I reiteration of water a tel department policy despite the i 3 fact that the millions of gallons that HInt arc are flowing useless use t l I less down City creek crock might well be bo utilized in ill preparing preparing preparing pre pre- paring lawn and flower and vegetable gardens for the time I heated term It is singularly f a u fact that Int a water offic officials official's mind may bo be an utter blank concerning other I features in his department but he lie can still talk glibly S concerning the installation of meters Time The 1 people of Salt Lake do not want water meters meter t and umI will not have bave them and since since time the water supply is I their own their wishes would best bo ix heard If ComI Commissioner Com Corn I missioner Korits iorns and his assistants will take talce the time trou trona ble blo to test public sentiment they will eventually have I no doubt of tho the unpopularity of their water meter idea It would be a splendid i iden en to have a n public I clinic open time tIle head of a n few water department 5 cial and ond learn just wll what t cans causes s this water meter obsession It is up to this time timo an unsolved mystery ll The e Seattle courts court's decision that a suicide agree ogree- made with ones one's year old child is not b binding on i the child will win hardly be reversed It cert certainly would have surprised that Louisiana I woman who shot her husband if she had been lynched instead of or married again t It was wa-i bound to come President Wilson Wion n is planning plan plan- 5 1 ning a trip tip to the Panama canal canol I j |