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r I L H Beginning "Popular Talks on Law" this Week I I VOL. XXII. Twelfth Year SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 10, mW? ' SZ$JQ& the Copy No. 4 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: f ft Including postngo Jn tho United Stales, Canada, and Mexico, $2.00 per year. $1.25 for six months. j Subscriptions to till foreign countries within tho Postal Union, $3. BO per year. I Slnglo copies, 5 cents. Payment should be mndo by C , Money Order I or Registered Lettor, payable t . dwln's Weekly. ' Address all communications to Goodwin's 1 Weekly. Entered at the Postoffice at Bait Lake City, U. S. A., as second-class matter. P. O. Box 1253. Telephone, Wasatch 2007. 513 Felt Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Tho Goodwin's Weekly Publishing Company. J.-.U. ELDREDGE, JR., Business Manager. i , . LeROY ARMSTRONG .... Editor h. TirE CITY COMMISSION. I Wo wora told, Jn tho beginning, that the ad- ' vantage of the commission form over the old form k of city government w.is that it brought the people into closer relationship with city affairs, that the administration was distinctively closer to the tax payer. On can be pardoned for recalling that popular mse which helped to bring about the ele- atlon of the present icglme to power when it is 1 observed that the city commission tells the people i oorythlng If wants them to know. And no less. . Eery good citizen has watched through the six- teen months of tho prosent administration for a Y definite sign of Improvement, and sixteen months have been a rather fair period of timo in which tho commission might indieuto Its capacity for I bottermont af municipal conditions. So fur as any sincere observer has been ablo to dotormlno f tho commission experiment hus boon ovon more & costly without tho improvement that would have ft been adequate remuneration! for any additional i expense. One of the striking features of the pres- f ent administration is that legal advice has cost t more than during slxtoen months of any other administration, nnd tho salary expense has been f far out of proportion to the other running ex- II penses of tho city and to tho work actually ae- U complishtd. jp Ono of the prime weaknesses of tho present , administration is tho holding of secret sessions, the transaction of public business in private, thus i exhibiting a desire to cloak public affairs with a mystery and secrecy that stand as an open rebuke to tho very clover gontlomon who argued, for con sumption during campaign, only, that tho com mission form would bring civic rulo right back to I the people. Ono need no. strain one's pernicious f memory to recall that when tho present cpmmls- Jj eionors wero running for office, ono of tho things j, - , they promised was to hold open meetings in vurl- ff cus sections of tho city and talk matters over with kr '- the folks. That was a very attractive method of I; bringing the government right home to the people. And how perfectly alluring! Tho financial condition of the city affords any thing but a promising outlook. The levonue does not seem to bo sufficient to meet the drain upon tho treasury, although some misguided individ uals construed the promise of a rule of economy to mean that needless expenditure would be pruned until both ends could be ntade to meet with, per haps, .a little having of funds for use in directions where they were sorely needed. Inability to per ioral, however, has brought us back to the old imderstanding of the overdraft and its concomitant ilia. During the next few months a campaign of edu cation in municipal affairs should be conducted with a fairness and completeness that will leavo no doubt In the minds of any fair-thinking person ns to tho actual state of affairs. A clear exposition will bo a determining fnctor in tho people's verdict cf tho first experiment with the commission rule. O, a wonderful bird is the pelican His mouth can hold more than a belican ; He can stow in his beak Food enough for a week, But I'm hanged if I see how the helican. ONCE MORE: EUGENICS. No more forceful argument upon the subject of eugenics has come to our notice than that con tained in the following letter: May 1, 1013. To the Editor, Goodwin's Woekly. Sir: I desire most hoartily to endorse all that you say in tho most apposite and timely article in your last Issue, about tho protest some club women are making against the teaching of sox hygiene in the high school. My only foar iathat the irony of your nrtiole Is too refined, and "that somo of tho protostants may actually tako your article ns a commondatlon of the stand they have made. The trouble is In dealing with this phase of eugenics, that no one seems to think it is possible that he or his family can bo benefited by its practice or injured by its neglect. People seem to think that their boys and girls cannot go ostray. Dick's, Tom's and Harry's may, but their children are Immune; and it is only when ono of their children comes to her mother, broken hearted, having erred either from Ignorance or from a hnlf-knowlodgo that is worse than ig norance, thnt tho truth dawns on them and they see tho results of their criminal neglect as parents. Judging from the papers, It would seem that those good women who object so strongly to tho touching of this phase of ougenics in school, actu al Jy prefer their daughters to luarn the secrets of lifo in a Chinaman's hut, to being taught them by 0 tactful, largo-hearted woman 4n school. Those 01 either sex wh oare Initiated into this kind of knowledge in back yards and dark corners, are those who in after years people our industrial schools, homes for tho feeble-minded, and in many . cases tho insane asylums. The habits they thus loarn break down thoir will uowor, destroy their physique, nnd woakon thoir mentality. Even if they themselves escape the full penalty oi their sin against nature, the results may show in their children. We are supposed to be, at least we say we arcs' tlio foremost, the brainiest, and 'the most enlightened people on the globe, and yet tho oiu1 H wubject the knowledge of which is necessniy to H preserve our nation sou id in body and mind, and M which is also most ltal to the well-being of our M boys nnd girls, must forsooth be tabooed ns an M unholy and unclean thing not to be mentioned JA without a blush. H Hoping you will continue to hammer aw.iy at M the battlements of ignorance until nt Inst you make H a b'eu-h, and apologizing for tho length of this, jH 1 "ni M Very truly yours, H A SUBSCRIBER It Is veiy gratifying to know thnt the city boa id of education has sustained the matron at the high B school who is doing yeoman service in the matter H cf instructing the youth. Tho Salt Lake club worn- H en who protested ogninst the teaching of eugenics B in the high school may now Investigate the matter M ior their own satisfaction, since it isn't likely thnt H they investigated it prior to the filing of their pro- B test with the bonid of education. M As a suggestion to the daily papers, why H not print a new list of hungry Democrats H looking for federal jobs in Utah? iH THE PAY OF l-HREMKN. H of course, it isn't any of the public's business what kind of promise was made by tho city com- M mission to tho firemen to get them to withdraw M their blanket resignation which, if put into effect, Mould have taken every man but the chief out of H the service. It mny be that the mayor and others H promised an increase in pay, but these promise. M have been mndo from timo to timo until tho fire- M men hove grown very tired. Persons who have tried to realize on such promises, made by tho city j in tho past, have been unable to pny the grocer or M tho butcher. I Tho average pny of firemen is $2.50 per day, th ,fl wage of a common laborer. Tho firemen asked for H $2.05 with proportionate incronsos for offieoiw JH They didn't get it, so far ns tho public has been WM able to learn, but they didn't resign in a body ns 19 they threatened to do M In justice to tho firamen, and to the taxpayer H whose chief function It is to foot the bill, It would H bo well to make a thorough investigation of their H home life. Tho club omeii of the city or somo Ijfl chic body could render a groat service by investi- wM gating tho homo life of .firemen and policemen, at ;B well, to determine if they are paid sufficient' wag s H to keep their families in comfort. . H An investigation of this nature, and unique in IS chmncter, has been concluded In New York, ha- Ing covered a period of ten weeks. It was calcn- H luted to determine tho point raised here, and is of B such significance that its value cannot be over- IB estimated. IH In tho case of first and second year policemen H in New York, whose salaries are, r.efpactlvoly, $800 9 and $900 a year, tho Investigators found that in M 1 11 cases tho salaries were not nearly sufficient, M j'nd that in ninety per cent of the cases including - M iH