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Show follow the law conscientiously and honestly, but when we are branded as "dishonest" then we might, throw a few stones at the man who lives in the gloss house. In answer to "whipping former county officials over the shoulder of the present", I certainly did not mean that for any past officers. offic-ers. The literary aspirations of the present county assessor invited invit-ed whatever criticism he might receive. re-ceive. You have served as a deputy de-puty as well as an assessor. There are several reasons why there is less attaching of personal person-al property at present to real estate est-ate than in the years previous, which the assessor states is a fact. First: a very great portion of the assessable acerage as well as town property has reverted back to the county, and it is unlawful to attach att-ach personal property to real estate es-tate appearing in the name of the county. Second: The county commissioners com-missioners have become aware of the danger of this practice and have been very much opposed to it. Third: The State Tax Commission Commis-sion has vigorously criticized this procedure after making a survey of the entire state. ' I A merchant has not scandalized any one nor does he care to do so, but if stating truths about a public pub-lic official amounts to this, then I it appears that perhaps "honesty" is not the slogan always followed by people other than merchants. Speaking of the disappearance of records which" was mentioned in both of the last issues, it can be substantiated by the following excerpts taken from the official report re-port made for Duchesne County by Wayne E. Mayhew Company, Certified Public Accountants, Og-den, Og-den, Utah for the years 1929-30 31, finished in June 1931. "In our previous report, we mentioned the fact that we were unable to make a complete audit in the assessor's office, due to the I fact that some of the deputy as-jsessors as-jsessors had not turned in their j duplicate receipts and tax collect-jions. collect-jions. We now find (June 1931) jthat all of the assessor's receipt 'books are missing, and we therefor there-for are still unable to make a satisfactory sat-isfactory audit". We ask you tax-payers who were the deputies in 1930 and who was assessor in 1931? This article by G. C. Kohl will be continued next week. I EDITOR'S NOTE j We will have to remind our contributors con-tributors that articles in this column col-umn are limited to 300 words. We will flatly refuse any more articles exceeding this length. Articles which have to be continued from week to week lose all value. AN ANSWER TO THE ASSESSOR :: F?.the benefitTof . those whoare following"-our-- controversy, : I - wish to state as a citizen, along with a great many other merchants, I am not in favor of the sales tax, believing it to be a burden on those least able to pay, but when I, as did many other merchants, absorbed the three fourths of one per cent tax and did not attempt to collect it from the public, I felt that I was doing as much as any business could do at this time, but when the 2 per cent tax was thrust upon us, it had to be handled hand-led in a different manner. The sales tax is a new idea. In handling hand-ling it, mistakes are bound to creep in. We have endeavored to |