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Show j gL LEAGUE ! IfElIi WAS A ERANDSUCCESS ,7 Dads Well Pleased With t fiat to Mt. Pleasant; Feel pj Times Repaid for At-I At-I ..jiin? Sessions Held Here. I ,.,rir cne hundred delegates, re- ,ing the municipalities of Salt I '-, 0d6". Provo, Brigham City, I .tille Hvrum, Logan, Murray, I Ma'nti Spanish Fork, Mt. I 4'nl' Price. Bountiful, Kaysville, i '7- Farming-ton, Eureka, Spring I :'!'mi Smithfield; were in at- J'j'mce at the eighteenth session ! "in State Municipal League Con- :..Jn which opened at North San- '- High School Wednesday rnorn-l rnorn-l '.' Community singing of nation- i sirt directed by W. H. Terry, ' l of the music department of .rb Sanpete High School, opened convention, and the invocation ";1 0j-ered by C. D. Strong of Kays-l Kays-l In fitting words of welcome. ' tr Robert H. Hinckley, President he League, presided duirlng the lection and cheerfully greeted jelfl'ates and welcomed them ",be "Hub City," The response s graciously made by a past pre-. pre-. v;i of the leq?ue Mayor John G. ,'Birnes of Kaysville. A mixed 9 jritei composed 0-f Professor Louis e . Petersen, W. H. Terry, Miss ,a Tjitie Clark, and Miss La Von I. --ia" sane. "Utah We Love thee". . detailed report was made by the "reury and treasurer, R. N. '' : a, City treasurer of Salt Lake. ' young urged the eontiajed sup-g sup-g :I of the municipal League and i, j.tated that each community send i : pay the expenses of a delegation the municipal League conventions. ' community enterprise and bene- W. H. Foiland, city attorney a Silt Lake, and chairman of the I, dative committee of the league ,j ;ie a report of recent city county .: state legislative measures. j luncheon recess was taken ai s ;lie o'clock and the convention I- -amned again at 1.30 p. m. it John Pixton city attorney of Mur-, Mur-, .1, speaking on "Legislation", was :t first speaker at the afternoon ' ion, Community singing was di-lt di-lt -:ed by W. H. Terry and vocal, h ao, and violin selections were f ur-e ur-e d during the afternoon by . -7je Squire, Miss Ambeir Hanford, :i Heed Clark. City auditor Alvin -idington of Salt Lake spoke on 6 Jiiget Laws of the Last Legis- I .ate", and Professor Emil Hansen if the U. A. C. at Logan gave an ex-r ex-r -M tali on City Planing and iiog; Powers and Responaibilities railed by a new law," Professor II an called attention to civic 1 my attained at Smithfield, Wells-I Wells-I '(, Murray and Springville and ( twraged the civic beautif ication grains as adding dignity to a annuity, a desire for beauty and ' -. npresslon of culture and refine- it- City engineer Joseph M. wjofOgden spoke on "Equaliz j -ion ol Special Improvement Taxes" g ii former fire chief W. H. Bywater 'Salt Lake spoke on "Fire Preven-'' Preven-'' n in Small Cities." Each address -a followed by interesting round i .lie discussions. Hiring the hours firom three till . ,f. all ladies In attendance at the wntion were guests of the club wen of Mt. Pleasant at a musical 1 weption given at the First "fsbyterian church. Those assist-t assist-t ! ith the musical program and j ;gs were Miss Matrjorie Winters, " D. Simpson, Mrs. E. F. Gar-nn, Gar-nn, Miss Helen Candland, Mrs. 1 ' s Atkln, Miss Amber Hanford, . " Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Millet. second days sessions of the , " Municipal League convention ' ." at North Sanpete high school .. "Mi morning . 'with a largely 'res attendance, new dele,gate& ' rog from Ephraim, Moroni. , . Gunnison, Fairview. Hunts- na Heber. After community M, the Invocation, was offered ' ;,!orc. c, Neslen of Salt Lake. "'sm Harden Bennlon, com- " ,1 01 Woulture, gave a very . on "Duplication of In-of In-of cities, counties, and m this was followed by a 'i v on ot Problems con's con-'s the farmers and agirieul-11 agirieul-11 agents. y Elsmore of Salt Lake - "L Elation of Social d new laws." and R. N. , sieasurer of Salt Lake, spoke i'Concp 118 of local Commerce Commer-ce p .by Municipalities De-re De-re fniv- Both addresses 'lied vomi the forenoon session in-:i;'-s Mart, i and plano selections by Manimnn ,Ne8len of Salt Lake ?H estT3nsly e'ected president :isig eVl?uncipal leaue at the 'Jl her i TV 0f the lea6Ue conven-'!ct"sen conven-'!ct"sen asU?v,dai" and Salt Lae n 1S2 convi metinS P'ace for ll tte , l?ntlon- Other cities C0"ventirn flght fc"- the "" Pork Were Smithfield, V e? officer. &ni Neplli- The L tlr3t ce president ' ees ot Smithfield, sec- A ond vice president, Mayor Lawrence l.owry of Mauri, secrata.ry and reasmro.r (re-elected) II. N. Y011115, city treasurer of Salt. Lake. The U'ternoon's program included an -address "City Manager Form of Government" Gov-ernment" by Jacob Coleman, city attorney at-torney of Provo, an address "The Public Utilities Commission, What it is, and How it Works," by Thomas E. McKay of the Utilities Couwnis-:ion, Couwnis-:ion, and an address "Rate Making tor Electric Service," by P. M. Parry of the Utah Power and Light Co. Each address was discussed at length by interested listeners. Music for 'he afternoon session was furnished by a male quartet consist ing of Louis A. Petersen, W. H. Terry, George Squire and Ernest Staker. At seven o'clock a banquet for on, hundred fifty guests was served in he high school gymnasium. A pink and white color scheme pre-.a;led pre-.a;led in the decouitions, favors and ices. Sstate Senator W. D. Cand-and Cand-and was toastmaster and responses o toasts were made by Governor George H. Dern, Mayor C. C. Neslen, he new president, Commissioner I'homas E. McKay Commissioner Harden Bennion and Mayor Barnes. The convention which was acclaimed acclaim-ed the most succes5ful in the history of the league closed with a .grand ball in Airrnory Hall given complimentary compli-mentary to the visiting officers and delegates. The following resolutions were passed by the convention. Resolution We, yomr committee offer the following fol-lowing resolutions: BE IT RESOLVED that we com-nend com-nend our president, Mayor Robert H. Hinckley and our Secretary, Mr. foung and their associates for the arrangement of the program of this the 19th, annual convention of the Municipal Lea-sue of Utah and the splendid manner in which it ,liaj been conducted. BE IT RESOLVED that we extend to the - City Officials and the good people of Mt. Pleasant our appre. 'ation for their splendid hospitality and entertainment and that we thank all those who have so abily contributed contri-buted to the success of this convention. conven-tion. BE IT RESOLVED that we thank the ladies of Alt. Pleasant for their kind attention to the visiting ladies and especially for the splendid re-leprion re-leprion given them yesterday afternoon. after-noon. WHEREAS, there was called to the attention of the league at its 1924 convention the grave economic danger dan-ger confronting our communities because be-cause of the activities of itinerant merchants, canvassers and mail order or-der house?, AND WHEREAS, a resolution was adopted by this league in its 1924 convention pledging the league to .support a campaign of education looking to the elimination of this nenace, AND WHEREAS, this matter has come up again in this convention, now therefore, BE IT RESOLVED that we renew '.his pledge and that we lend our support to the local chambers of Commerce and nil other agencies engaging en-gaging in a campaign Of educating he buying public (regarding the danger dan-ger and unfairness of supporting 'hese foreign sources of supply. Respectfully submitted, COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS . The principal part of the Governor's Gover-nor's speech was as follows: The Governor's Speech "I heard a man make the remark 'ately, "why is it that when a man is elected to some dinky political office of-fice he immediately takes ton an air ol importance, and tries to boss the people in stead of being their hired nan?" He seemed to be rather serious in his question, and apparently apparent-ly he had had dealings with some public official of that character. It so he had just cause for complaint, r don't believe there are many officers offi-cers of that kind. I hope not, be-cau:-e it is true that v,-e public offiic-als offiic-als are public servants, all of us, L'rcm governor clown to dog-catcher. Occacior.ally a man is elected to office of-fice without any effort on his own part, but generally he seeks the office, of-fice, asks the people to vote for him and promises good service if elected. To promise to give good service is to promise to be a good servant, and 11 we promise to be servants we there- iy recognize the people as our boss-' ;s, and it is our duity to serve them faithfully and well. Piublic busi-l aess is the business of all the people. We recognize the soundness of the j principle that anything that can be lone better by the people collectively han it can be done individually is a proper function of government, jovernment is, after all, nothing but .-operation. We want our children educated. We are not well qualified to teach them ourselves, and even If we were we have not the time to teach them as 'they should be taught. So we must hire educators or teachers. But it would be very expensive for .ach family to hire its own teacher, -'uthermore, it would be very inefficient, inef-ficient, because a teacher can instruct 40 or 5 0 as well as he can instruct 3 or 4 And so the people in a community com-munity decide to club tqgether to hire a teacher tot all their children, each family paying its share of the expense. This has several advantages: advan-tages: 1 It is cheaper than having a teacn-r teacn-r for each family. 2 It leaves the parents free to do their day's work, by which they make heir living and support their family 3 n gives the children the benefit of instruction from an expert, a trained specialist, Instead of from an 'Trge school, with numerous teachers, makes it possible to get a nuch highier standard of instruction tCr would be possible otherwise nd so schools are set up. and taxes are levied on the people to pay busine s And so we have a govern-business. govern-business. because co- SlonU efficient than in- JiVTa" the' matter of raods. If. .roup of families live in a comraunUjr Tocher, each one cannot have hi. io genie i- f. t piace be ?uVnotet a rint of way over his l' tu3 Ground In the second lirafecr no, afford to build wouiHe tooS--2iW H in repair. Hence there would, be very poor od .t. all. J51 the neoDle co-operat. They sec.( Vod -route for . ,.,n.p the enars group; the, uu.u .1 anoint expense; and they all chip inj to keep it in repain. This again brings up the necessity of raising revenue through taxation, with the governmental machinery incidental thereto, and the highway officials besides. In the cities we have many other kinds, of public service, things that can be done more efficiently by the people collectively than individually. We cannot each hire his own policeman, police-man, so we co-operate and hire a policeman to protect all of us. We cannot each keep a separate fire department de-partment so we co-operate and have one fire department to protect all the property in the community. Then there is the matter of public health. If every individual is allowed al-lowed to use his own judgement about sanitation, polluting water supply, and things of that kind, the co'mmunity is subject to epidemics and there are liable to be deaths in my family through the ignorance or carelessness of somebody else. By co-operation the health of all the people is protected, and of course that again means the collecting and spending of money, and the people hire men and women to look after these matters for them. We need to Temember these simple fundamentals In order to keep the right perspective when we are in public office. You and I are in office of-fice to do, not our own work, but other people's work. The fflce to which you have been elected. Is not your office, it is the people's office. They have simply hired you for the time being to run it for them. Hence it is not for you to get the swelled head and try to lord it over the people who are entitled to service from you. I said a moment ago that someone had spoken of men being elected to a dinky little office. No office need be dinky, unless it is run m a dinky manner. A county clerk an auditor or treasurer can make his office honorable and respectable if he renders the right kind of service ser-vice to the people who put him in it. Good service, first of all, requires a careful and faithful performance of the legal functions of the office. Y'ou must know what tha ..law requires re-quires of you, and ou mu3i perform those duties. 'Many officers think when they have done that they are through, and that nothing more can te expected of them. But as a matter mat-ter of fact, they owe the people mors iff'-J "if""! I A' v r" Vi - -i w , ,j 1-'- ' if -' T ' f H & ' i :.Lmj GOVERNOR GEORGE H. DERN than that. In the first place, they owe them courtesy. Meet the penile pen-ile pleasantly, wait on them grac iously, act as if you were glad to ;erve them, and yc.ir office will be popuiar. Don't take the attitude if doing only what the law requires. Put yourself out to do favors to the jeople, to take extra trouble for them .md they will call you a good public eivant. I remember an old motto: "Count that day lost whose low Descending sun sees by thy hand Worthy action done." A public office:' needs that attitude nd he should say to himself, Count that day lost whose low Decsending sun see3 by thy hand no Jo act of kindness done." We hear a lot of complaining aibout the burdens of government, i believe you city officers are in a losition to do a lot of good in the direction of making the people ap ,jieciate and love their government. f people are unjustly taxed they will sooner Or later learn to hate ;he government as an oppressor. It seems to me that yea can do a lot jf good by telling the people what hey an? getliif lor their taxes. I am inclined to think that niosL' of us jet more for our taxes than for any ithC'' money e spend. A man in Salt Lake City was grumblin? ibout the taxes on his home. He said they were outrageous and tha: he was going broke because he had 0 pay $225 a year. It developed that le had two children at the University Univer-sity w hich were costing the state -210 1 piece or $432, and two more in the oublic schools, at a cost of. I. suppose, sup-pose, $75 a piece. So lie was getting get-ting nearly $600 worth of education tor his $225, to say nothing of police i.iirt fire protection, street lighting and cleaning, pwblic parks, garbage emoval. sewerage, and all the other hings that we Tet free in our town. When this was explained to him he oncluded that he did not have much :ause for compiaint, and that the govennment was actually pretty good o nun. i ueneve it wouiq ue wen or you municipal officers to famil-'arize famil-'arize yourselves with figures of his kind that apply to your own om uiuni I ies, so yea can explain 'hem to your const itunnts. By sn io'iic you can. render a real service to the whole country by allaying discontent, and cultivating affection for our American institutions of overnment. Every time the legislature meets, somebody wants to tinker with the tax laws. You officers who levy anc1. collect taxes are the ones who get i close-up vie-w of the situation, and vou ought to be the best judges of how these laws are workir,. t urge you, therefore-, to study at all tinier the operation of the laws which ou have to ad-minister, to see how well they a'te serving the needs of the community. That ought to be the test of a law, whether it fulfills ful-fills the need3 of the people. If it does not do that, find out what is the matter with it and how it could be improved. Then bring your first-and first-and knowledge and your suggestions sugges-tions to this state organization of ours, and start a discussion with officers of-ficers from other counties. In that way you ought to be able to give ound, constructive advice to the legislature, so that everybody will he able to act intelligently. Hence, although you" may be the clerk, audl-or audl-or or treasurer of only a single county, yet you may be able to do omet'liing that will help the whole stale. Nobody can ask for a higher high-er privilege than that. It is yours if you will l-.it grasp the opportunity. |