Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-10

may have been uulvering WIN,
nstreu or Fear in the slaiirhtor' & 'Hs'r
=. all events IL was not Ia a eon,,,
mornlal state Mt the time OF iphea
inis conditlon of the animn,s t,I';
anu passions reacts ON the flesh t ,,,
~ a chemical change and sia,,uU
rs marx IN the tissues. psr,Is 'hpN
this meat Unquestlonablv NJ, sgt
sorn with It the poisons aid ih an
nallsin from whence IL came MI ulli-
minds and their actions m,,st 'uelr
iected by II. BeefstealS In tho ~. az
IL Is prepared for eating contains tn
~ !" 10 per cent fat, which sip,rit'
human body like fire in tbo ~ the
Imagine the condition OF a man Slule'
midsummer days who has ontet t-9e
quantities OF meat. He goes ant ,,,5
me sun where an outside te.nner, t ','Sp
OF w or 100 degrees beats upon bt,,,
Win an atmospheric pressure Of fieteer
pounds to the square inch 1nsiS, Nv,
the fat he has eaten Is burnine u'in
terrific rate. Add to this tho be,t
any alcohol he may have drunk nS5 ~ ~
result is verftable human volcoto nv nv
mere conditions are enough to diso,l7as
any brain. do not wonder ,Set
waves OF crime occur more freduentI,.
IN the summer when such habjts ~
customs prevail. VeyetarIais ass 'l',4
that no follower of their regime o,.o,,
committed Il violent crime Inc
tunately there are no statistics ON IN,
subject. II would be iaterestinse y
know what was the customary dit os
noted criminals. What, for exnmnio
did Harry Thaw eat and drink SSfo,ua,
killing Stanford White? i thinls Z
would be found that most murderorS -.
have been heavy flesh eaters.--Igugon+
Christian in the New York World,
Great Efficiency New Yorks annpat
Now Demanded budget is e-orrnors
In government. and the field for
scientific reform in
administration is proportionately ex.
tenslve. But there are few mlInici-
palities In the country where soma
such inquiry would not be salutArv
We We're told the other day that in on.
of our larger interior cities n erous
of accountants had put every sociaT
club in the city on Its financial legs. N
such investigations are desirable, even
in social organizations where boss no.
litics" do not intrude, how much NOR.
desirable must they be In connection
with municipal employment ana pur-
chase where tho spirit of graft has be-
come additionally intrenched. How
many, even, of our model New Eng
land villages, run under the sacres
town meeting system, know exactly
where they stand financially. In how
many of them are the audlts, and bal,
ance sheets, completed searchingly ana
scientifically? We are not so SAN
guine as to suppose that q mere scien-
tific method of bookkeeping is going 10
create. by itself, an entirely new con.
dition of things In American municipal.
tiles. There are no panaceas for the
correction of evils In human govern
ment r. there were, the So
called civil service reform''-thar'is.
the abrogation by law of the miserable
spoils system--would, wherever in
force, do the business of permanent re-
form This reform of the civil ser
vice" does, perhaps, I'LL more nearly
the functions of panacea than any
other. But neither is II panacea. II
to .ompetetive appointment we adj
cont rytration and conspicuity OF re-
sponsfbisity, and scientific and efficient
administration, we must to these three
add absolute honesty, trained int5il-
gence and devotion on the part of our
public servants; and again to these an
alert moral sense ana a standard both
OF character and of efficiency in thu
community at large. The new move
ment, the new phase of reform IN munl-
cipal administration Of which eff
cheney is the patchwork, seems to u.s.
and this is the most hopeful thing
about it--simply new evidence tbs
there is in our American communities
a growing sense of the meaning and
responsibility of citizenship an
Editorial in the Midsummer Holiday
Century.