Show OTHERS VIEW EDUCATION AND TAXATION The problems in these times are many and the outstanding one right at present is for the average average average aver aver- age farmer and stockman in Duchesne Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- chesne county to be able to pay his taxes In ordinary times the farmer and rind stockman man aught to be beable beable beable able to pay except in extreme cases but under present conditions conditions condi condi- it surely becomes a problem lem hard to solve We Ve all aU want to pay our taxes and have our children well educated and we like to see the school teacher get geta a fair salary but in iu these abnormal abnormal abnormal abnor abnor- mal times when values on the things that produce the tax money money money mon mon- ey shrunk from 40 10 to 60 per cent and in some instances 80 per cent centI I believe that a school teacher is ismore ismore ismore more than lucky lusky to receive seventy seventy sev sev- enty dollars per month 20 days for beginners and then up for tor experienced teachers to about twice that amount Living expenses are are down about half or ought to be according to the price farmers get paid for what they produce The majority of taxpayers taxpayers taxpayers tax tax- payers in Duchesne county are farmers and and what are they up against Last year we had one of the worst droughts in the history of the State of of- Utah with little or no crops raised The livestock we had to sell went down in price until until until un un- til Cleveland's administration would Jook look like a peach to us now I know of a that received re- re received received re re- the magnificent price of sixteen cents per head net after I the shipping expenses were paid for lambs that weighed 63 pounds I You all know what wool beef pork eggs and butterfat are selling selling selling sell sell- ing at It is true that Uncle Sam lent us some money last fall to buy feed for livestock but borrowing money and shipping in feed here will never be a paying proposition for the farmer in the Uintah Basin Basin Basin Ba Ba- sin and as to the railroads paying paying paying pay pay- ing the major part of the taxes in some parts of the country perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps directly but indirectly I think the farmers in the Uintah Basin and for that matter all of Utah that are facing this hard winter on the top of an extremely dry year and have to buy eastern eastern eastern east east- ern corn and cottonseed cake in order to save their livestock from starvation are contributing considerably considerably considerably con con- to that tax money that the railroads pay at present Be fair to all live and let live should be our motto If we ruin the home maker in Duchesne county he will have to move and take his children with him and there willbe will willbe willbe be no need for any school I agree with one writer who said The home Is the real core I of Democracy and let us not try I to destroy y it by taxation In one of his public addresses delivered not long ago President Hoover said Life and property are less secure in United States than in any other nation in the world This does not speak well for this country in spite of all our great Institutions of learning and a nation nation na na- naI I tion Uon that spends more money on education than any other country country coun coun- try In the world The farmers' farmers I problems are real and not imaginary imaginary I ary and we have to take the medicine whether we like it or not All people that draw salaries should conditions A A DIRT FARMER |