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Show Where Your Taxes Go Pithy News Notes How Uncle Sam Spends Your Monev t UTAH By EDWARD G. LOWRY Trice. Contract has been let for the construction of ten and one-hamiles of highway between Price and Castle Gate. i4 From All Parts of "Bank and Financial etc. r."6?10! aor,"Washington Art clee to Leaduig Periodkal. .nMSytem." e wv; oi.uca ntteQ National Government', Businei Methods. rity on the Cke-Up- . ." pjj lf afl tiit Salt Lake.---Buildin- g permits in Salt Lake show increase off 16 per cent for over January, 1021. January, Is to assure Itself that its XIII. J agents, the Ogden an increase of 3 per showing administrative ?rske are services, ent q YOU AND CONGRESS performing their duties, and toproperly act lie present time It would be a In "1114 Brigham City. The Box Elder counrespect to the future er to speak of the national grant of funds; the provision of an ty commissioners will receive bids for f sys-Lent having a personnel organ through which the President complete construction of two reform accomplished The es and all. may In fact, as well as in name, dis- span, steel bridges over a canal 8 DOttlt his duties as head of the ad- about 15 to 18 miles J establishment of the civil charge northwest of Brig-hai- n and the merit system ministration ; the reorganization of City. luched but one phase of the per-- f the administrative branch of the govDelta. The town of Delta, at an enproblem, and that but partially ernment so as to eliminate the presJmce into the government ent widespread overlapping of juris- thusiastic meeting, passed resolutions nothing has been done dictions and functions and Indefensi- offering a site for the erection of a J way of erecting the government ble duplication of services, steel plant at Delta, and a committee organizaat be Is into careers that will attract tion, plant and work; and the of business men was oppointed to make ftain efficient men. Bad as con-- i "niacin; : J of the present system presentation of the offer. recasting time csl I were in this respect before the under which the personnel required tugged r I khey have Decome many times to man the governmental plant is seSaty Lake R. A. McXally, of the 'a Pent-event firm of Rand, McCally & Co., makers during and since that cured, ascompensated, promoted, a ven t correction of these evils pre- - signed to particular tasks and con- of maps on a recent visit to Salt Lake, a problem of great complexity. trolled, to the end that not only Jus- said that he,was always glad to return . . i i i. i deep? nnot be acnieveu uy a wou tice will he done to the several classes to Salt Lake. He spoke of the beaui Inform ld or half-wa- y tinkering with the of governmental employees, but that ties of the near-b- y canyons and of the that n, but a Nothing a personnel system will be established wonders in the way of scenic beauty system. ft lis. of the whole person-fster- a that will insure a maximum of eff- in Utah. "All that Utah lacks is ightful f and the establishment of iciency in the actual conduct of and then more advertising," public "Wei;, system covering all phases of affairs. Mr. McXally said, "and then, auto tour-ist-s liestion and embodying the most A study of action actually had or will come in large numbers to V.ew ad't use I jed principles of personnel for now under themselves the scenic attractions shows that way have steps itliot: ration wui meet tue ueeus ui been taken toward the which the state has to offer." accomplishment s a begm-iaituation. Fortunately of each of these fundamental reforms. been made In this direction. Salt Lake City The contention The Introduction of a a least furnishes starting point la a long step forward. budget system that educational expenditures in Utah TFi tion looking to the giving to the I don't mean Id the least to give the are increasing at a tremendous rate mment of the personnel system that all private business yearly is made in a letter now being impression It must have If government work run and that only govern-men- t sent to farm bureau organizations be even measurably well done. is perfectly business is badly managed, or throughout the state by the tax comsituation now Is that there Is efficient all the (dicine fc people are in pri- mittee of the Utah State Farm bureau, tsistent demand on the part of that a at;; Inefficient in the reporting results obtained to date In vate and employ only whole administravublic that the kidflEjl, Neither service. of those con- the form of impressions on the sugf the national government be put public exists. gestion that this annual outlay be maditions efficient and more a that basis, common have In the got terially reduced. phrase, you hatitiii resent waste of public funds, re-to Alexander hand it Hamilton to iededast for defective from organpresent ig from a Brigham City. The iistressBt devising a scheme that has stood up washout of Hie dam atdanger Vn and methods, shall cease ; that the reservoir cadi r. since revolutionary days. It has not in liate eft; jress is alive to this demand and Davil'g Gate valley, 12 miles east made a start toward meeting It; been fundamentally altered since his of Iti Brigham City, is stirring the city no been readjustment council the fundamental defects in the day. There has uni and the board of governors ol servIn salaries the of departmental ice, & well are Ing system known; and the Boxelder Commercial club to actwo u a That Implies I the direction efforts looking to ice for sixty years. tion. Secy. W. V. Call has been Inon faithfulness and the . certain estab-idloyalty should are take fm clearly first to structed to have the committte on pubThe responsibility Is thus part of the workers. tea cent lic safety with the city manIs to disclose to desire the congress, up My only a,X.I. to secure some action that will ager emcon-i present condition of government (rely problem that confronts safeguard Brigham City against possl. men are this Is laudable that end good leaving, securing ployment; ble floods. iyzed It will be found that the and that the present tendency, if not table, iamental reforms are: The re-- i checked, will inevitably drive out of The absence of retrenchment In edue some the service all of the efficient and cational expenditures by congress Itself of Its own " rams during 1021 did and methods of procedure; leave only the mediocre and Inco- not conform to the general policy "entire revision of the present sys- - mpetent I have said little myself, but in practically all other public adopted j for r men under which the financial needs have chosen to let the working Mr. of the state. There was e government are determined and for the government tell the story. Ev- departments ibwiad an expectation of retrenchment in 1021, In these articles jided ; the setting up of sn agency ery assertion of fact iidate comes from some responsible source and yet revenues for district schools I procedure through which the lother of public funds may be or authority within the service. I ara and high schools Increased from le ft: in 1920 to $9,103,200 in I'J.tt, iperly controlled and congress be not making a criticism or attack from pinion and increase of $530,469, and this In n that Information as a but such the outside, merely serving regarding its i the of face fact that the nssessed valunditures which it must have if it mouthpiece for your hired men. ill ation of taxable property'in the state decreased $29,495,498... Taxes f other EASY COME, EASY GO Comf purposes show a decrease all along the line in 1921. Distribution to cities and and '. lack In 1912, when Mr. Taft was You may remember that back In the towns shows a decrease of $150,270; lptad'. Isldent, and when the gross time of the first Cleveland admin'stra-tlo- n to county general fund, $55,134 ; to road )ft u. one of the problems of public fund, $302,454; to state general fund, of the government were ting, t ut of what they are discussion was: "What shall be dore 208,399. How are we to account for M W, he became exercised and con- with the surplus?" Then there was a this general and substantial retrenchidverL of administration and Corporal ment in all these other directions with ned about the higgledy-piggledmethods Tanner was made commissioner of a.i increase lor district schools and disorderly, grab-ba- g h. which your money was expended pensions. The whole country was high schools which almost overcomes ndat! I public purposes. He said then amused and lad a hearty laugh when the entire saving effected by all of itere M Is equally true now, that the he announced his policy: "God help these decreases? The total expendilisi hvities of the national government the surplus!" Them was the halcyon iture for schools in the forty districts In? ?e almost as varied as those of the days! of the state (including cities) for the in It iire business world., The Mr. Gilbert, the present undersecreoperations 1919 was $0,100,415.37; for the I the government affect the interest tary of the treasury, In an address year 1920 it was $8,506,731, or an inyear every person living within the said: crease of more than two and a quar"The estimates for the yeaf 1920 f Miction of the United States. Its dollars. Ionization embraces stations and show that over a billion dollars of ex- ter million ij :lw last Werg of work located in every city penditures were authorized by the Salt Lake. N.j7xelson, 33, of 1589 id many local subdivisions of the session of congress In addition to the South Ninth East, during his delirium, untry. amount shown In the usual compiled left his bed in a Salt Lake hospital J'Thlg vast organization has never statements of appropriations. In fact, BLd fell from the window onto the en studied In detail as one piece the practice hat reached such propor- pavement three stories below. A franI administrative mechanism. Never tions as to be almost a national hurriedly summoned assist the foundations been laid for a scandal, and It was vigorously de- tic nurse and her tance patient was packed bac-iorough consideration of the relations nounced In the President's last annual his pneumonia rapidly where to H bed, its parts. No ( comprehensive ef-- t messajre. than suffering some him. Other left hag been made to list its mnlil-friofirst principle "It has become the scratchesrfrom the fall he and Inbruises activities or to group them of strategy on the part of people and was released recovered, w&s Iri such a way as to various quite for appropriations present a clear terested matter from the hospital in a weeks time. V hire of what the government Is special purposes to frame the the of use the Never authorize n has a complete descrlp-so as to figSheriff Angus Fillmore Richfield. been given of the In Indefinite or indirectly, funds agencies through public arrested Charles Sevier of county exthese activities are performed. terms, or by authorization for wanted at Salt "Chick" Weatherbee, i'deh no time has the perbeen penditure of unexpended balances, attempt with the Fa us murconnection in Lake for other to study nil of these activities haps appropriated originally ten miles soutn at case, Monroe, der to authorizations fd agencies with a view to the purposes, or by is now of each activity to the divert government receipts before they of this city, and Weatherbee adin the held awaiting are county jail, Efforts Seney best fitted for its ever reach the treasury. performance. sheriff. Lake Salt the do from vices the avd.'dance which words of duplication of made to find general pnt and work, to the integration of not speak In terms of appropriations Salt Lake. The state road commisadministrative agencies of the and cannot be readily calculated. lias awarded the contract for the sion fvernment. so far as may be "The last session of the present of the Zion National Park highadpaving authorized facticable, into a unified organization congress, for example, from Nephl to the Utah county way the mst effective balances and economical ditional expenditures out of unit prices, which place tlie estireat tine, from and of of prior appropriations public business." I'spntch over $500 000.-00- 0 mated cost of the road at $4S2,413.68. extraordinary nnrt iniWpnihl ceipts to the amount of for the A trifle more than 74 per cent of this $400,000,000 over 'nation, which exists tminc Including fniiv ses. cost will be paid by the federal govern"d The pressent completely as It did when Mr. shipping board. " portrayed It Reven venr nco. sion of congress by similar procedure ment. The remainder will be paid bya aiie about nuita Juab county out of the proceeds of -t i -j takes credit for refusing appropriaI rough cur tolerance and slackness. tions foF the shipping board, but, at bond issue voted on e months ago. to authorize I For years and years the government the same time, purposes In amounts of receipts BDd grew Salt Lflke City. The Utah Associathe expenditure ac-nd eert'ied Its i Iivim198 $200,000,-00- 0 as as high reach 0n Santa Claus money. Its tion of the Blind supplied music for that may Indefinite appropriation the came as easily as recent meeting of the Ladles Litera By money in $050-00about guaranty letter. railroad the For years and years the for f ary :lub. 000 was In effect appropriated j'l'onal Income was greater than the of the stateIn merchants carry Ogden. Local there' was a without appearing any t,lTes- - Ever7 goods, ments of approprratloris. large displays of Utah canned in an endeavor to promote Utah indusIT government was precisely in the You see how it goes. of the Rockefellers and the try. A Peculiar View. "" the ttlMchllK Its Wi"B Ideas. Salt Lake City Six new prisoner! WHS not how Howell He hm? some queer t State prison last week. Thret, he Aleves that the entei-ePowell-Y- es. live on. but how to spend si fw. 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Oor nln meen"There hain't nuth'In special In the lster Just ca's him plain "deevll." fie paper today," replied an acquaintdoesna care a doin for him. Boston ance who had been interrogated by Transcript. Tobe Sagg of the Fiddle Creek neighborhood. "Except that It sayg 4,000,-00- 0 It' Isn't safe to bet on anythlng-especlal- ly folks will starve to death in a sure thing. , Roo8hy this winter If they don't get help." "Well, they ort to starve If they hain't got no better sense than to stick right ' there In Rooshy when times Is that was the disgusted answer. "When , things gets to such a pass with me that it looks like something has got to be did I hook up the hosses to the wagon, pour a gourdful of water on the fire, call the dogs and take the family over to Okla-hom- y to visit my wife's kin." Kansas City Star. CORNS Lift Off with Fingers SAXOl'HONE T A TOUT .ucce.sfullv by mail. Entirely new, complete method. Guarantee you to play or no ray. Write for particular V. O. 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