Show I I I I I M MR BOWENS BOWEN'S LETTER LETTERI M-H. M DO ESS ES'S letter to the president of the Commercial Com Corn mercial mercia Club is formally given ghen to the public from which one lUa may infer that it represents the official official cial club opinion His communication is in its con conception of what the orGanization should accomplish and its appreciation of what it has already done In the statement howe that the newspapers arc are responsible for Tor an erroneous public impression concerning concerning- the causes es that culminated in the thc clubs club's present financial condition tion its writer does docs not choose his Ills phrasing so happily We Vc doubt whether the tho public pub pub- lie lic has received ed any false falee impression if it has has' assuredly assur assur- edl edly it is not chargeable lo to the newspapers that have ha merely offered themselves as 35 the clubs club's willing medium medium med med- ium mm of getting its presentments before the people The Thc public thinks it understands tho tue situation it g gathers that tho the Commercial Club receipts an and expenditures ex ex- pen S aro are becoming strangers so far apart have ha the they grown it assumes that the thc club is studying ing a method of refinancing because it needs to do o so With that condition it sympathizes and that lle desire ire it approves The community hc lus hi no wish to theorize upon the causes that have ha brought this effect nor norto norto norto to admonish more care in the future If the tailors who have been makin making the Commercial Commercial Com Coin mercial Club coat followed a pattern whose ambition ambitions ambi ambi- lions tion exceeded the supply of cloth that error error is par par- donable The rrIe club is the chief or organization of its kind in a big country that docs does big things Caution in boosting is less a admirable mirable than an nn excess of optimism optimism ism if the club management was composed of pessimists pessi pessi- mists it would have gotten nowhere The people of Salt Lake on only desire that the club shall fin find a ready rend path from this trouble as us it has from previous ones J Few cw of them thorn have e an any advice to g- g give gc c shouting counsel from the shore to the tho unfortunate unfortunate un un- un- un fortunate who is struggling in iii tho the water only irritates irritates irritates irritates' tates tates' and confuses him The really helpful man plunges in ill and brin brings the sufferer to sa safety safely et although he may then take occasion to chide him for going so 50 near the water i |