Show I PEOPLES PEOPLE'S CORNER School Says Taxes Already 1 Too High Editor The The Telegram Tire The city school board and the Utah T Taxpayers Taxpayers' association in their p published articles for and against the school bond issue have failed to state one word con- con the revenue that has been been contributed by tho the taxpayers to maintain our school schoos Is it not the right time to show the people ol of 01 Salt Lake how much tiro local school schools s system tem has cost sin siro o 1020 From 1920 to 1925 the general taxes tes collected in this county amounted to of which Salt alt I Lake ake City paid 4 or 77 71 per cent I cannot give the figures up to 1927 1127 when the as assessed assessed as- as valuations took a big In Increase increase increase in- in crease because 1927 1921 figures are not yet ret available But Just study how this money aa was was' distributed City schools State schools and high schools l Municipal pal taxes ta County taxes of which Salt Lake City ity paid I Tho total therefore for tor tho the five purposes Is as the state government and state roads received There must be bo added to the revenues reve Jevc- flues received by the city schools the sum of ot paid back to the local board of education from rom tho the state per capita tax From the above figures alone will not the average voter come to the conclusion that It Is time to economize economize economize mize and retrench The city schools should utilize the facilities fully that they now have and cut out some of the personnel now on the payroll Its It's time the public be given an economical economical economical eco eco- administration of our public system Taxpayers here are not endowed endowed endowed en en- dowed with a gold mine and they cant can't continue to carry the burden placed on their shoulders by the state and local board of education Stop look and listen Vote against the school bonds Satur Saturday lay and let the public have a fair deal Changes His Mind Mindon Mindon on on Saturday Issue Editor Tho Telegram I am opposed to Issuing bonds bonds- as a general principle I lIy In Intended Intended intended In- In tended to vote Ko Sa on the school I bond question next Saturday But when vh n I anal analysed ed the report of the I Utah Taxpayers' Taxpayers association opposing opposing opposing ing the bond Issue I was convinced that I should vote Yes next Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- to the question of ot putting out for school bonds The Tiro best arguments Ive I've found FOR the school bonds are arc contained In the taxpayers' taxpayers com committee m i t toe r report e port against them Tho The opposition re report report re- re port a admits all the points of ot the school men regarding the need for tor Increased school facilities s. s Then It suggests an obviously Impractical scheme schem for sending high school pupils pu pu pa- pils to school longer longcr hours If H the report from the office of Mr Rees is all that can can be bo said against the bond issue then heres here's one once that I Ican Ican Ican can vote rote In favor of bonds JUST A DAD Asks Who Corps of Experts' Experts Are Editor The Telegram Will Mr A. A C C. Rees flees very Yen kindly Inform the taxpayers exactly who his hi cor corps of f experts are arc who Know so much more about abou how hon ho the schools of ot Salt Lake Lale ought to operate operate operate oper oper- ate than do o the ten able and so Ie ic- ic citizens who comprise jour our board of education and all I the school chool exe If It the ones who drew up the alternative alternative al al alternative plan opposing the school bond Issue ar are experts e then Im I'm apo on and ana not just justA just just- A SHOE SALESMAN l. Attacks Plan of Utah Taxpayers Editor Tho Tim Telegram I am glad to see that Tko To Telegram ToTe Tele gram did not fall for the bunk put putout putout putout out by the Utah Taxpayers' Taxpayers association asso asso- elatIon against the school se-hool bonds I think you jou OU should be commended d for foi your very vely fair fajr editorial o of Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day night and also for giving such sucha a a. fair fall treatment in handling tim the Various various various va va- rious views on the question As you ou say its it's really for or the public lublic to decide But m may msty y I just say that I think the taxpayers would make a costly terrible mistake if it they Ignore the crying need of ot our school children for adequate building If we dont don't vote the bond bon issue it will be necessary for for- our children to be crammed Into portable portable portable port port- able buildings I wish the taxpayers taxpayers' taxpayers taxpayers' ers' ers association would show us where that would save us any money It wouldn't It would cost costus us a great deal more in the ond ANOTHER PARENT T. Says People Will Vote Yes on Bonds Editor The Telegram The people of ot Salt Lake City Cily take pride In their school system They want their children to have educational educational advantages as good as those afforded aCCorded by other cities of this s sise e. e i That's why the people of Salt Lake will vote rote favorably Saturday on the needed much needed bond issue for new school s-chool buildings Defeat of ot the bond Issue would be a tragic setI setback setback set set- back to our school system We will vote Yes on the Important question ques ques- I tion A CITIZEN Thinks Utah Should Favor Boulder Dam Editor E The Telegram I gather from the extensive speech of ot Senator Smoot also from former arguments of ot Congressman Leatherwood Governor Dern and certain members of ot the Utah legislature legislature leg leg- i that their main objections objections objections to the pending measure to establish the Boulder dam are that engineers differ as to the possibility possibility possibility of making the dam safe that the government should not generate power that states' states rights will bo ho affected and that Utah's vested or prospective future rights In the streams will be in In- In With all deference to the opinIons opinions opinions ions of ot our said said officials whose official oaths as w well ll as patriotic desires desires are arc presumed to Impel them to Impartially go down on th these e subjects a great many of our people especially those acquainted ac ac- ac- ac with the tie topography of Boulder canyon and vicinity f feel fe-el l that Utah's opposition amounts to almost if it not quite a dog In the manger mange attitude Look at It For over 40 years ears all this vast ast volume of ot water has bias been running to waste But a as a's soon as the enterprise of CalifornIa CalifOrnia California Califor Califor- nia and the tho prescient forward looking eye of our government ent see seea a x chance for good constructive enterprises enterprises enterprises en en- all sorts of fanciful objections objections ob ob- ob- ob are raised against it The Tho talk about interfering with vested rights is untenable If the rights are really vested of course neither federal law nor private ate c cl claim Im can prevail against them As to the generating of ot power ower a recent trip made by me meto meto to o and nd from Los Angeles at at which time ime I saw the almost untold millions mil mil- long lions of acres of vacant land caused me to f feel l that any scheme schemer or r plan pIan that would snake make new enterprises enterprises en- en and industries spring up In n our southwest would be a benefaction benefaction ben ben- and would be ho In the line of pi good constructive public pol pol- ic icy Ot ct f course coune our officials know that ft it Jt was the he bounty In tho the McKinley Mc Mc- Kinley bill that gave u u- u us uthe the sugar factories s. w Why by cannot WI we be bo equally constructive In this As to engineers differing of ot COU course se tey wilt will l differ if it they rep re- resent adverse interests That however need not deter the tho builders builders build build- ers era from making the foundations of the dam so broad and so deep that they will be bo as solid and immutable immutable im im- un- un mutable as the everlasting peals peaks on either cither side Absolute safety must be tho the first requisite and if this cannot be assured no dam will will willbe be built But surely after all the lessons learned learne it is within the power of man within the power of ot the government to so build an anso and so construct that Immutability and solidity will be assured What will wm help southern California Cali Call fornia Cornia and her millions of people I will help us DA DANIEL aEL HU HUNTINGTON Opposes Burden of School Bonds a 1 Editor The Telegram The present high rate of taxes here is driving driving- Investors away from tho the city and und to Increase se the burden with an n additional million and a half dollars would be bo almost a crime Hundreds of ot people hero here who should own their homes refuse to invest because of high taxes and many who vho have homes are trying to sell for the same reason Salt Lake property has a much lower valuation than any known cIty ity of Its size yet et investors from out of at the state refuse to consider investments here because of high taxes Salt t Lake has more and I better belter schools than any city of ot Its size Inthe in inthe inthe the United States so why add more burden to property owners TAXPAYER A A |