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Show i Recommendations of State Board 1 The state board of equalization in its biennial report to the governor sub-i sub-i mitted this week urges that all pioper-S pioper-S ty in the state be assessed at its i actual cash value. The board reeoin-j reeoin-j mends that all tax levies be corre-' corre-' spondingly reduced. This reeoinmen- dation is new in Utah, though in some j other status the plan is being adopted. Followii g is a syi. opsin of the same: ! All property should be assessed at J its actual value. J The method of the distribution of i the proceeds of the tax on public i utilities should be immediately chai:g-j chai:g-j ed. j Laws i roviiling for greater uniformity uniform-ity of assessments and requiring the 1 equalization of assessed valuations of county property by county assei.'oi.-and assei.'oi.-and county beards of cq.ialuati A re isiuti of the law regulating the tax on the net proceeds of mines. A law making the term of oliiee of county assessors elected for 191! anu i 1914 expire June eld, 191o, and nn.liing I the term of .utility assessors elected thereafter four ears instead of two. j A law giving the slate beard ol equalization supervisory power over tiiose charged with tlv- duties of making mak-ing lax leyies, excepting sta'.e tax levies. A change in the system of appro priatiuns lor the maintenance of state institutions making these appropriations appropria-tions cover the period to .March 31 instead in-stead ol only to December Ml. A law making mure clear the tax exemptions. A change in the terms of the members mem-bers of llie state board of equalization so that they will expire on September ! .'JO instead of March ill. j Some means to compel county officers of-ficers to make r ports to the state "board of equalization according to law. A Humiliating Condition lor long centuries tile world dreamed o ma t fy of the air. Learned men: had put. ed the stamp of impossibility I on i s accomplishment. For centuries success seemed most unuromi.-ing. ' The educated and the unlearned j scolfed together at the very idea . j One day a strange whirring noise ap- ' peareef. It was u r.e-, peculiar sound, ! entirely unlike any other which man had ever heard. The nations looked' on every side but found nothing to ex- j plain the mystery. Then they looked into the sky and saw for the first time i the conqueror of the air. j i And he was an American, j Scientists declared him the creator j , of one of the Seven Wonders of the! ! Modern World. j For a time the nations waited for j the great people whose nationality he bore to go on and develop this fledgling discovery. They naturally expected men who had invented telegraphs, harvesters, har-vesters, cotton gins . nd ocean cables, electric lights and phonographs, telephones tele-phones and skyscrapers, and all man- ! nerof wonderful machines to annihi-I late distance and lessen the ehudgery of the toiler, to develop and perfect' this newest machine that laughed at , gravity and called upon the wind to folio v. For a brief time only they j waited, and then set despeiately at! work to surpass us. As their study of : the problem progressed it became evi- ' dent that it was a science, ,an'd ultimate I success could be attained only through j , scientitic methods. But the highest universities were fellow students also ; I ; and could not teach what they them-. j selves had yet to learn. Special 4ob- oratories in which to experiment and i then teat toe experiment were imperative. imper-ative. And there were no laboratories. labora-tories. Then the Frencn people said among tnemseives, "we muot have such institutions," but their government, govern-ment, like our own, did nut hear the cail. Determined tnac the new art should hot languish, the Frencn people : opened their purses and a million ool- ; lars poured into the fund, wn.ch pre-viUeu pre-viUeu tne iirat opportunity lor tcieiuiiie study. And the inevitable Ksuli ; followed: France today leads the worid in aviation. Later, the flench government took' up the Work it should have assumed -earlier, and all their airmen can teat : i the r ideas to a satisfactory conclusion. ! Olher governments, includ.hg Japan, j Germany, England and Italy, have; reognicd tne importance of keeping ! abrc-at ot the times, and are spenuing j lai ge sums annually on this branch of J the service. And so we trail behind, while America, Ameri-ca, the biithplace of Wilbur W'nglit, ' bigiueiges a pittance wnich is le:-s than some backwoods cci.grej.-mian secures to dredge Muddy Creek.- 11. II. Winusur m- the January PoptiUr Mechanics M..gaz,ne. ' |