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Show - AC . BEAVER PRESS Xrtrld -- r, 1 in 91 Huddle Hours-C- zech r , . mm IWWIWWW "&sstr jmm.mt'm&ilX0)&imfitm Jf?i-- J ' done about it It is now Mr. Rice's job to find out when, and where, and why concerning these floods of reports which But how government demands. about me finding out, too, I thought! I started on the job like a bird dog through the bush. It did not take long for me to realize that I had set myself to a task that is likely to occupy Mr. Rice and his staff of several hundred perhaps a year to assemble an answer. I learned a lot of things, however, and that is the reason I am writing about "official reports" at this time. Speaking generally, at first, I can say that never in all history has there existed a condition such as business men and women now face, and, of course, within the last few years farmers have had to make out reports, too. The reason for the statement that the condition is worse now is that the situation represents a growth. Year after year, generation after generation, succeeding Presidents and succeeding congresses have added to the functions of the national government. Government has gone into new fields, taken on new obligations, new commitments, increased its scope of regulation of this and that and the other. As tnese functions have increased, more and more reports have been ordered and required; more facts have been needed, and, In addition, bureaucrats have relegated to themselves additional and unanticipated powers. Now, what we have is a tangled mess, a slimy octopus whose tentacles reach Into every corner and nook and cranny of the nation. Before considering some of the horrible details (which are horrible only because they are so general in application), it seems to me we can well consider who is responsible. I mentioned above how succeeding Presidents and congresses have expanded the functions of government. Those Presidents and members of the congresses were elected by the voters. The campaigns, In nearly included every Instance, for establishment of some new agency, passage of some law to drive money changers out of the temple; to prevent grinding the little fellow, the poor, into the earth; to regulate monopolistic business; to care for the aged after their lives of useful work had been spent; to collect new taxes here and there; to assure the agricultural community a parity price for its products H thousand and one things were campaigned for or against. So the people voted and elected a President or a senator or a representative- They also elected a governor and the various officials of their state wherein a legislature operated as does congress for the country. It has not mattered, therefore, whether there has been a Democrat or Republican in the White House, except In the matter of degree to which the new laws have been enacted. The growth has gone on Just the same. Every time a politician conceived an idea to get votes, he campaigned on it and a new law resulted. With the new law came another deluge of "official reports." In a general way, therefore, the voters must accept some responsibility. But the chief responsibility must rest with members of the house and senate and the various Presidents who have served in their turn. Why? Because no one can be expected to understand fully this gigantic machine called government unless that person has had an opportunity to study the machine. The layman has not had that chance. Presidents and congresses have had the chance. har-rangui- To get down to the details; that is, to relate some of the incidents which had become The Consumerknown to the Pres-Pa- yt 'dent and which resulted in his letter to Mr. Rice, we might begin with taxes. The head of a dairy company which operates in three states reported to his stockholders lately that in one year his firm had been compelled to make and !Ue a total of 11,115 separate tax reports. That company maintained a staff for the sole purpose of handling the various reports that had to p,i to the federal government, the of the states in which the company operated and the cities where milk and dairy prtnlucti were sold. Having such a staff, the knew exactly what it cost .2;.),t)iH) a year. It should be added that the cuit of these reports necessarily became a pari of the company's overhead and the overhead ex v:n-jnn- y pense enters directly into the cost of the dairy products for which the consumer pays. It could easily result in an increase of one cent per bottle for the milk served to its customers. It takes no stretch of the Imagination to conceive what the cost is for a large corporation to handle its official reports to various agencies of the national, state and local governments if that corporation operates, say, over half of the United States. The expense runs into millions upon millions of dollars annually. Who pays? You and I, the consumers, I have not had access to all of the records required by the department of agriculture because many of them are confidential, but I believe it is safe to say that some fifty-odreports have to be made respecting every, farmer who has signed up in compliance with the crop control laws and the land conI think the servation program. farmer directly involved has from eight to ten of these reports and official documents; the county committee which Inspects and reports on him has others; the county agent has still more reports to make all still involving this one farmer but including others as well and these are followed by regional and national reports until all totals are entered here in Washington. Or, at the risk of being too personal in dealing with a national problem, I might cite my own experiences. Mine is what is called a n office. That is to say, with the aid of a secretary, I must run my own little business. But even as inconsequential as that office is, consider this situation: I must file an income tax return annually. That return must include an extra statement which covers a general outline of my meager Income and the expenses of my office. I must pay ten dollars a year for a "license" which gives me the privilege of writing" to earn my living, but I must file a report before I get that license in the District of Columbia. Twice a year, I must file a report of my gross return from my work in the District of Columbia and pay a tax on that income. Each month, I have to file a report to the District of Columbia employment board, showing how much I pay my secretary, how many hours a week she works and pay a tax which theoreti cally is saved up and paid to her in case she is unemployed. Each month, also, I am required to file a report with the United States social security board, giving the same informationand pay another unemAnd each three ployment tax. months, I am required to file another report with the social security board which seems to be a report showing that the monthly reports are correct one-ma- S ,UD nD.1 n- -i PRODUCT?" -- ra potsATT Wat... nTit FmrrV.lK0DWT3.- tJ RNISHif ! PHOTO u " 9Rr with k New ienaationai. & 2 professinal enlaSH? uruii. or en niiir mm r..mn P. O. Bo? "a PHOT0.KPACT f53l. ' ! Developed RB with 8 Quality Prints . . Extra Prints - . . . Wrap coin and film i j- - Salt rir Lake . arey I fax 745 City. Ut.k SCHRAMM-JOHNSO- N . . ...;u . millionaire a tT.,oW ' Send Itjr pur new PhotoeTatkie Bulletin. Almost 100 Dam of ne ' iui n vilj BUILDING world flight. record-breakin- g - v OFFICE 'WI8ScS-r- X AND USED NEW fa V r'f V dtski inH mch'i, lafet. kk'i .tnj p. Stste, Sill neon r... ATHLETIC i. a. . ,!cetui GREAT WESTERN ATHLETIC &)J Uniforms. 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SALT LAKE BUSlMiSS Salt UM Atlas Buildinr (BeUSyndi I FttWara iuiwj FENCES Fl FTTR IC FENC Wonderful new controllers desiined for i saletj. er effectiveness and improved electrifies ten miles of from 112 up to $21.65 postpaid. Batten power operated. Salesmen ELECTRIC fE Portland. Oregon night and to Went. ENLARGEMENT PHOTO . .1.JI-a,'l- ti Any roll P to and in. " (1IDI oeveiupra two to ail times. school, so I have not had to hire a lawyer to help me with my reports. They have been comparatively simple, generally. But that is not the case with a larger business. Lawyers, however, would be no help in the circumstance that lam now about to relate. A young lady who had served as my secretary several years-f- t my service. When I filed the last monthly report for her name and paid the tax. I attached a letter explaining that she was leaving and that there would be no further reports in her name as far as I was concerned. The letter was written In the hope that the file would be complete. This incident happened last October. In March, 1938, I received a notice from the board, advising me that I had not paid the tax on the salary of the lady in question for the month of February, 1938. Not a word about the other months from October to February. And if I didn't pay, said the notice, there were penalties, court proceedings, etc. Yes, you guessed it! I threw that notice into the waste basket. Two months later, I had the honor to be visited by an Inspector. He was courteous and gentlemanly, but firm. I must pay the tax not for February, but for December. You can let your own imagination run high, wide and handsome about the results of that vis't. Well, I merely bring out those facts because they show the need for the voters of the country to take some action on their own and quit following blindly the demngoguery of the politicians. Previously in this column I have written about several corporations which, after filinj? several thousand rei cm. have had inspectors visit tl.cm to see whether they were g with the law. Since that time, one of the business mm about whom I wne originally has te.IJ me that other ir, peelers have come to see whf'hor the first crew had com- w:'.h the law in making a zzrzr'' UTAH been my good fortune to have gained a legal education by virtue of four long of r.m CLAY It has years HOTEI mr..,.7T A THE WILSON HOTtT th heart if tW St, E. 2nd So. 8t in ' . d What'a The Use? PI Btau i X WASmNGTON. President Roosevelt addressed a letter to Chairman Stuart Rice of the Too Many central statistical board the other Report day, in which he asked In effect why there is need for so many "official reports" from individuals and corporations engaged in business. The President's letter indicated a feeling that, If there are so many reports as complaints have rUsclosed, something ought to be & HOTKI. f ilh So. nlremtnl QCTC ofc "" r I resrnlar prints VUntn Service .A Salt Uk. CIW P. O. Box t7 WNUWtCTNsj to GreK with the i -- ;. frtoLJr mm-.- b. Jill .lniroaucea . Watched by his companions, this demonstrator Injured in a skirmish with the police at Tel Aviv Palestine, holds hi. bead as he attempt, to rise. The demonstration which took place in the Jewish quarter near followed of a Jewish the Haifa, hanging youth who was sentenced to death by a military court for firing Duce Defends Italy's Wheat Crop a of school a Thales about Stirierj - a.:-i- i. niiwrwas 7 - int0,naj Antiseptic urgery by Lister In 1865. ACE PLANE BUILDER irTr " ij j j ll RATES EXCURISON 37 on Saving Round Trip SAMPLE Fares FARES: Salt Lake to Los TrAngel' $43l Bound Butte to Salt U $241 ttpJr;? I'M if) l " Round Trip Salt Lake to Yellowstone J1 I2Q Bflu"'1 Trip ."i Vacations the Deluxe Saving ct!l WAE. G I i cum-rivin- i. Un'cin Newspaper Union. Milton Hucuelot. nivteen. nf I'M. who was awarded the Brand titandinsr larf- hrslrd on top of a thrrohlne itiat lilnr, I'rrmicr Itpnilo rago, Mussolini angrily brands at the "Urrca of alt nations" tlioe w'10 have championship 0f the National Model Airplane meet In Detroit, Mich., refprcad reports cjf Itaiy'si wheat sliortagp. SprakinC at tiie little town cently, from among 700 entrants. He of Aprillia which has hern built on the rrrlaimrd l'ontine marhrs he won the Woomlncdale admitted that the crop a smaller h List year'a hut insisted, that also trophy for the best time made In the light the quality was better. cabin model. ..:V,t - Rcrtioni it r Union, Postal T!cgrph. ficci it L01 Angc let. Salt Lake, Poca.ello. Buffi. or M, f a 1- - |