Show ABUSE OF POWER By L. L A. A Hollenbeck We Ve are told that school board on Tuesday night ear n near midnight i without notice voted to move the school board offices from Duchesne to Roos Roosevelt velt The school district owns the boards board's offices at Duchesne Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- Du- Du chesne and they are good commodious commodious commodious com com- offices The school district district district dis dis- dis- dis owns no offices at Roosevelt and do not need any offices there Roos Roosevelt velt lies straddle of the county county county coun coun- ty line while Duchesne is near the center of the county and is the county seat where all official business is done and ought to be Malls Mails Radiate From Duchesne done The mails radiate from Duchesne Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- Du- Du chesne by several star routes to different points of the county while Roosevelt is not a l- general distributing point The teachers teacher's can come to Duchesne to transact business more conveniently and the supplies can be distributed from Duchesne more cheaply and conveniently than from any other point The school directors were not elected for the purpose of changing the central point of business business business busi busi- ness to a point a straddle of the county line but for to maintain I the business for the convenience of the schools and teachers and Boards Board's Action Clandestine the public This action is practically practically practically ally clandestine and without a public hearing and without notice and in the quiet sile silence ce of mid mid- night The people have a right to know of such decisive action and to know the motives of such ac ac- ac- ac tion The offices will probably be left vacant and the board will have to rent offices when they have better and more convenient nt offices at a more logical and con- con place than elsewhere and propose to pay rent elsewhere when the school district is not paying rent where fue offices have been and where they should be Besides this action in its final analysis is a case of taxation with without without out representation The voters are denied the right to vote for more more than one school director If we had a 3 right to vote for all of the five directors there there would not have been any movement to change the location of the office This is self evident Let us urge the school directors not to assume too much arbitrary power and mid to reconsider the vote they Uley have al already already already al- al ready taken talen We V-Ie have a heavy Move Io Increases Debt debt In this county and this only Increases s it it A man or politician never gets anywhere by being too arbitrary We Ve are appealing to the good judgement of the board and asking that this matter be reconsidered reconsidered recon recon- and that the public be notified Fair is fair and that Is Isas Isas isas as true of a school board as it is of anybody else Ralph Waldo Valdo Emerson says that if a man is unfair unfair unfair un un- fair that short-coming short will ill even up with him in the future It will not be humiliating for the board to be fair but if the board denies a rehearing and a chance for the public to be heard that will certainly certainly certainly be a case of unfairness that will be distressing to the public |