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Show Let's Keep the Election On A High Standard On next Tuesday the voters of St. George will go to the polls to vote on the vital power issue. It is a vital issue, but probably not nearly so vital as those who are backing and opposing it would have us believe. Let us remember that life will go on after the election, and while it may make a big difference in the lives of some people, the most of us will continue to live, our everyday lives. A considerable amount has been said and published which would have been much better left unsaid and unpublished. un-published. We question the advisability of comparing a municipal system and the method of handling it as "political "politi-cal management vs. business management", and we certainly1 think that the series of unsigned articles which was topped off Wednesday morning with implications embodied in the cartoon of a cow, as plain childish and beneath the dignity of the men who are sponsoring the municipal power proposal. pro-posal. There is no question regarding the need for the voters ' "Ki-vrtrtrt V,v,nrrVilw opnnQintoH with nil nf thp fpr'ts in CVJ UtLUUlC m-ijwuiiitvu the case. We have urged this from the beginning. It is the only way under which our form of government can exist. People must take an active part in our elections and to do so they should study and read every possible fact, and then use their best judgment when they go to the polls to vote. There are several days left before election and it is in these last days, under the excitement of the battle, for votes, that we are most inclined to let down the bars and start throwing mud. Let's try and keep this on as high a standard stand-ard as possible present every legitimate argument, but not make statements that, even though they are not libelous, do no good for those issuing them and certainly may do a lot of harm to the ones at which they are aimed. There has been altogether too much debate on side issues and not enough on the real facts of the case. Remember this, in voting next Tuesday, you are voting vot-ing on the issue of Ordinance No. 100, which deals entirely with whether the city is to be authorized to sell bonds to be used for the "acquisition of a municipally owned generating gen-erating plant and distributing system", and the "authorizing "authoriz-ing and providing for the issuance of $300,000 Electric light and Power Bonds of said City for the purpose of defraying de-fraying the cost of such acquisition". You are not voting on whether the Southern Utah Power Company is to have a franchise that question will be voted upon on May 29. And so we urge voters to study all of the facts, leave out personal prejudices; and then go to the polls and vote the way they think will be for the greatest good of the City of St. George. |