Show control of oj public expenditures if a property owner goes to the local store ana antl orders a pair of shoes some hardware and groceries and when the bill is made up pio tests against the total vano amount what earn can he doi do about it the merchant will probably show that the various ittris are corre correctly cily added and fairly priced tout but even then the customer may protest against the total amount and if he does k he may take any one of several courses he first will probably look over his list 0 of f goods and determine if there are any things which can be left out entirely it if there are aie any such which when discarded will result in atonal aich he can afford to pay he will undoubtedly wield the pruning knife on his list then pay his bill and go on his way well satisfied with his purchases but the i problem may not be quite as simple as this he may learn that after non essentials have been diar discarded added thel the amount of the bill is still more than he can afford and he may be forced to i reduce duce his expenditures upon actual necessities theres there js is much in common between the above illustration and the situation walh confronts the ordinary taxpayer when the budgets are being formulated but there is this essential difference if the property owner does not buy his goods goodsoe she he does not receive any and consequently does not have a bill to pay at t the store but if the property owner does nothing at all about purchasing benefits of govern ment some one else will do it tor for him and he along with other taxpayers p a y e r s w will u have h a v t to 0 pa pay y the bill in f fact a c t t the he d duly ul y e elected 1 ee t ed of officers of the various taxing units are authorized by law to provide for the costs of their particular units of government within certain statutory limitations oar before I 1 oin an attas RS VAN DUSH 1 I sat walling bv over a letter from her son fa the poor dear boyl how J frightful for himl him I 1 how dread dreadful full marooned up there with all those horrible people I 1 A bad had prevented him from taking the weekly boat to the mainland there would be no way of getting home until after lafter christmas in thi the meantime the subject of her despair was yelling the loudest of fourteen lively boys they swarmed up a steep hill dragging sleds hey sir air van dusen bet I 1 beat you this time I 1 say my ripper te Is tho the fastest on the slide I 1 bet yer a herring ill touch the goal fir first still 1 down they went again sleds skimming like birds upon the ley icy tracks feet guiding them from behind eyes fastened on the tricky turn at the bottom ransome Il ansome van dusen seventh in line by that name son and heir to an old name and vast fortune raw eai that someone was baund to have a nasty spill he was directly abreast of two youngsters there was room for two to squeak b ay y if they had bad good luck never for three van dusen had tobogganed toboggan ed in switzerland ze and ridden surf boards in hawaii and climbed a few alps in italy but it Is safe to say that he had never ever suffered a keener moment of tear fear than he experienced in this faraway village of newfoundland sliding down hill with fourteen village children va van dusen was keen but S bandy andy galt gait was keener 11 ho too saw the danger ahead somebody metody So had to be squeezed you stop the sleds now they were going too fast loot look out yelled ransome trying to take the inside near the sharp rocky turn look out yourself I 1 shrieked andy and kicked out with a foot spilling the man sideways from his sled andy himself swerved to the inside two more boys crowded close three sleds came together with a crash I 1 ransome on top without his sled that evening he sat by sandys bed and told him stories so that the boy partly forgot the pain in his broken leg it was christmas eve and ransome sold said he was never happier in his life ive never had a bettor better friend than you sandy he said youre some fine little sport dont worry things will be all right tor for you im going to keep you for a friend all my life altel I 1 too bad mother has baa to miss this she know what it Is to have a good time have an apple sandy old fellow and thus two friends were made the day before christmas in a faraway far away village of newfoundland A 1031 western union even though the taxpayers taxpayer s who pay the bill do not participate in the proceedings when the budgets budge ts are formulated how can these public offic officials know what the taxpayers wand wan and what they can afford unless the taxpayers discuss their problems frankly with their representatives in the legislature in the county commission the school board or the city commission the budget laws provide practical methods which permit the taxpayer to take an active part in determining the costs of government the entire program of expenditures for state and local government Is designed to permit every taxpayer to participate in the formulation of these expenditures this carries aheady a heavy responsibility tor for the taxpayer it means that he cannot sit idly by when the budgets are being formulated and then secure a a reduction in the public e expenditures after the time for the ie consideration of the problem has been passed it is inconsistent for a taxpayer to sleep on his rights during the time when he had an opportunity to the budgets and later protest against his tax bill so many people say that its no use to attend budget hearings that the officials pay any attention to him but just the ithe opposite is true officials hear those who complain protestant prot protest estand and demand a very small minority and never know the desires of the majority because they are not expressed he Is apt to interpret the loud voice of a single individual as an expression of the ill of the people in the next article we shall discuss the various budgets and explain how they are formulated |