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Show . i ; ! EXPANSION ADVISABLE I likely that any taxpayer would feel the "terrible" burden depicted by representatives repre-sentatives of wealth. We believe the bond issue to be the poor man's way to procure the things he needs. Once obtained his children can have the benefits of such improvements improve-ments and the rich and poor alike must help pay for them. But the influence of money predominates and the well-to-do are the first to object. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars distributed in the small towns of the Nebo district at this time would give considerable employment to families in dire circumstances. circum-stances. This, too, is regarded by economists as a time to build. Materials are cheap in comparison with what they hae been. Moreover, with state consolidation of school districts imminent, Nebo school officials would do well to make these improvements before this district lis thrown into a county unit and the opportunity op-portunity taken from them with the t-nactment of new laws. . There is too much of a tendency to withhold the expenditure of money both public and private. This is done under the vacillating guise of economy, when as a matter of fact it has the appearance appear-ance to the man in need of employment as nothing else than greed a desire to hoard. j Recent action of the Nebo district I board of education in turning clown the j proposed bond election which, if car-j car-j lied, would Rive the district $250,000 with which to make much needed im- provements, is not meeting with univer-! univer-! sal approval. In fact there are many ! who feel that exterior influences were I brought to. bear because of a fear that j , such a bond issue would create additional addi-tional tax burdens on the already tax-ridden tax-ridden citizens of the district. One of these organizations which poses as a friend of the lowly taxpayer in all matters that have to do with taxation tax-ation is the Utah Taxpayers' association. associa-tion. This group, we are told, represents the organized wealth of the state in all . matters that have to do with the expenditure ex-penditure of public moneys. No bond issue, we think, has ever had the approval ap-proval of this organization, no matter how important or praiseworthy the cause may be. So is it quite natural if the board members went to this source for advice ad-vice with respect to the bond issue they would be implored with all the eloquence at the command of these representatives of the wealthy interests inter-ests not to burden the poor . taxpayer with additional loads. We cannot share the view of those who are inclined to listen to the drab pkture 'these alarmists draw. We might well be more alarmed with the handwritings of those who are clamoring clamor-ing for a day's work in order that they might feed their families. The money, derived from the proposed bond issue would be expended here in the Nebo school district in improvements that would contribute to safeguarding the health of thousands of school children, in adding to the comfort and efficiency of these children that they mjght better ; meet the problems of life!" bpread over a long period of years some . of the money thus spent woukl be paid by those very children who would be benefited, bene-fited, and with the school district in . the healthy condition it now is, it is not Nothing, we think, is contributing mort! to the present feeling of unrest than this everiasting tendency to squeeze the very life out of the man in need. This seeming inclination to shut the poor man out of a day's work must come to an end. There is food for thought in the upheavals of Russia and other countries where anticapitalistic systems have asserted as-serted themselves. We feel that one of the solutions for our present economic depression is to be found Ln the provision pro-vision of employment by the judicious expenditure of both public and private money. |