Show I n ROADS DS AND REGRETS lS I By Dy L. L A A. Hollenbeck I I The gOVe government t and the county a are e about to build a first class highway highway highway high high- way between Roose Roosevelt and D Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- chesne via Myton l The bonds are aTe authorized Issued and sold Tilts This road fund will be ab about u 26 O OO O This fIlls road starts tart front from the county countyline line at Roos Roosevelt is all right but this money must be made to I goas go goas o as far as possible without t any neglect neg lect leel to any ny part of the road as it Itis it-is is is completed completo Yo We have confidence in hl our count county commissioners all of ot them but it is better bettor not not to have l vo too much confidence in nce them nor for them to have t too o much co nil dence dente in themselves We Ve are all tarred ti ith the same stick that isto isto is isto to say human with all of oL our human human human hu hu- I man weaknesses prejudice ana and bias s. s Eternal v vigilance ilance is the price of liberty It Is also the price of ot property prop prop- property ert erty and It is no less Jess the price of ot good service One of ot Aesop's fables tables says that There is no eye like tie the masters master's eye A 4 county commIssioner commissioner commis commIs- stoner is the peoples people's servant senant Let him also be the master and know at all times Umes the details and cost and progress of this new road road Let him have the the masters masters master's eye Let Let him lookout look lookout o k kout out for graft and favoritism and all al kinds of schemes to get the peo peo- peoples people's plc pies ples s money You Yon know that this is ap appropriate for your you ou have only to look at most of the public improvements Improvements improvements improve Improve- ments to find just the things s' s that this is a warning against Let the pay ray be reasonable pay but also see that the service is given for the money Tl There ere will wm be growlers and antI grumblers grumbler but hut it Is better to o displease dis dis- displease please them than it is to neglect orto orto or orto to abuse the public A few years ag age aga Denver had a police magistrate that that attracted the attention of the whole country He was original Inde independent Jend ent unique and anti wise as Solomon The people used to congregate down clown downto to his police pollee court Monday mornings mornings mornings morn morn- ings to be be entertained by liy what he said and what he ho did He was the tho theman man JUan par excellence for the place Nobody put putt anything over over over- on him Everybody was his friend friend criminals criminals and all But Dut he bossed the job aim anit I a and there ther was no foo foolishness a around o nd I there Let it bo be so in the manage- manage mento this road The time to to tob b be vIgIlant is before and during i t the e or r tire Ure bulJ building that t.- t. road After fter th the road is built It it is merely a matter of history and that history is connected connect connect- ed with the history of the county commissioners and others connected with the the m management of of the roat road After tho Ue the road road is built the people will point to that road with approval or with with reg regrets ts' ts and that approval or 01 regrets regrets' Will sill include both the road roan al and amid d the road load management A goon r road ad with a fair price means sound judgment executive ability and the nerve to be able to ta look a man in tho the face and say No i It is better hotter to say and do you what what you yon o ought to say and do at the time th than nH it is to be sorry afterward |