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Show rlA nf , Vote For Honest Government? Put Your X Under the Rooster , Entered as second class matter, July 18, 1922, at the postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879 $1.50 A YEAR SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1924 VOL. 3, NO. 30 A MABEYS FAIRY STORIES OF SAVING PURE MYTHS -- I -- - - - County Officials Vote For Christianson For Commissioner Pile Up Deficits STATES EAR FROM STATUS GOVERNOR PAINTS TOTAL OVERDRAFT IN COUNTY FUNDS IN REPUBLICAN DEPARTMENTS AMOUNTS TO MORE THAN $150,000 UP TO MIDDLE OF OCTOBER, AUDITORS FIGURES SHOW. DEBT INCREASED BY BONDED G. O. P. EXECUTIVE MILLION AND QUARTER AND TEMPORARY LOAN INCREASED $335,000. WHERE Republican County Commissioners E. L. Burgon and W. H. Stenacker have piled up overdrafts in county finances up to Octolberj 15 totaling in excess of $150,630. This profligate piling up of deficits in public funds, for the taxpayer to pay by increased taxation, is shown by the figures of the county auditors office. The road department, under Commissioner Burgon has over expended its entire allowance for the year by $57,900. In other words, there is a deficit of this amount in the road funds already and two months more to go. In our last issue we showed how the road commissioner had over expended his allowance more than $32,000' but since that time the road department payrolls for the first half ofi October has come in, bringing the total overdraft up to the $57,000 mark. Mr. Stenacker and Dr. Straup have already entirely exhausted the appropriation for the county hospital and there is two months yet to go. The average expenditure per month at the hospital is in excess of $11,000. Where is the other $22,000 coming from to keep the hospital running' until the first of the year? Out of the taxpayers pockets. The county auditors records show that the only departments in the county that have run within their expense allowance are those under the direction of Democrats, those under Commissioner Samuel J. Lindsay and Sheriff Benjamin R. Harries. The sheriffs office was given an appropriation of $130,000 for the year. It has already taken in almost $100,000 in revenue &nd will ifrke in at least the amount of. the appropriation by the end of the year. Thus the net cost of running the sheriffs office for the year will be about $30,000. This is a record that can be shown by no other department in Salt Lake county. The question that confronts the voter is this : Do you want Republican extravagance, Republican inefficiency, overdrafts and deficits with consequent higher taxation, or, do you want Democratic economy, efficiency and relief from added tax burden. Compare the records of Republican and Democratic administration county affairs. ...Here are the figures: Total Expenditures Purchasing Agents Department. 1923 Republican Administration (Under Mr. Stenacker) $7,350.09 1920 Democratic Administration 4,106.01 INCREASE Hospital Commissioner. 1923 Republican Administration (Under Mr. Stenacker and Dr. Straup) 1920 Democratic Administration ....$3,244.08 INCREASE Hospital Department. $21,698.42 1923 Republican Administration (Under Mr. Stenacker and Dr. Straup) INCREASE 1923 Republican Administration (Under Burgon) 1920 Democratic Administration money? May be Mr. Mabey has spent it for traveling expenses. At any rate r tion. The facts and figures which explode Mr. Maheysc political bunk about his saving, are contained in the folldtving letter, written in response to a request from the editor of The Democrat for state records on this matter: $47,656.02 25,957.60 Oct. 29, 1924. The Utah Democrat, 818 East 21st South, Salt Lake City, Utah. Total Expenditures. Dear Sir: stop on street corners to extol his virtues. - Yet I had some correspondence with him several years ago about buying a house he was handling for an estate and when the deal was closed he charged me for every stamp he had used on letters he wrote me. I Insist that a man who watches pennies that closely cant be such a lovely character as his neighbors suppose. Kansas City Star. i Printed Marble Paper A machine has been Invented which will print marble paper, heretofore made only by hand and at considerable expense. Replying to yours of October 29th. as requesting certain Information of this office, records shown by the you are advised as follows, answering the questions in the order presented: 1. The bonded debt of the State of Utah, Jan. 1, 1917 Road Super- visors Salaries. $25,304.75 17,324.19 Franklyn Christianson eight-poun- d that Is noble. Strong men - The temporary loan which the state owed October 28, 1924 borrowed money to meet running expenses of the administration, if you please, was $735,000 or an increase of $335,000 over that during the Mabey regime, of the preceding Democratic regime. 0 Mr. Mabey has redeemed only $250,-00worth of state bonds in his four reyears as compared with $450,000 adminstradeemed by the Democratic INCREASE $12,631.16 And in Many Ways IPs Wise The Above Figures "Were Taken From the Provision of Nature . Annual Auditors County Report of 1923. Listen while the bride Introduces If you want economy and efficiency vote for Franklyn Chrisman. her This," she says, Is my tiansen for four year term commissioner and H. B. Avert for two In husband. her tone Is a vast pride. year commissioner. Is tone the It employed by the man There will be no "pop bottle episodes if these men are elected! who an bass and caught county commissioners. the man whose walls are adorned with antlers spreading six feet. .It Church Owns Race Track means that she has traveled a long Penurious Philanthropist bol of all MP gance. t ern city is looked upon as a great philanthropist and his name Is a sym- the state auditors records dont show any saving so boastfully prated about by the chief executive in his campaign speeches over the state. What the auditor's records actually show la that under the administration of Governor Mabey the"' bonded Indebtedness of the state has been increased Just $1,250,000 In the four yvaf - period - of Repnbl lean extrava y Salaries Perhaps there Is only one church In the w'orld which owns a race course. Half a mile from Esher church In the English county of Surrey, Is the race course. The church has owned most of this land for nearly three hundred years, and It derives a big revenue from the race meetings. and weary way and at last has arrived. It means that after long travail she has captured a knight, a hero, a god, a male who Is flawless In all ways and can do no wrong. But the months pass, as months will, and she observes him In his pajamas without a shave and with rumpled hair. She discovers that his knees knock. She discovers that he First Real Pantomime wont walk under a ladder. She disIn December, 1723, the first real covers he cusses unbeautlfully that pantomime was produced In London, a when rear tire explodes. She disat the Drury Lane theater, as part covers he that pouts and that he of the Christmas celebrations of that his In many ways thinks mother name of this epochal piece year. The to her. Doctor Faustus. superior was Harlequin Things happen that way. And now hear her when she Introduces her True Riches husband.' 'This, she says, Is Bill." In this world. It Is not what we Her tone Is the one she would use take up, but what we give up, that If confessing that the milk was sour, makes us rich. Beecher. that the children had the measles, San-dow- n GS If Governor Mabey has saved the state something like $400,009 a year aince he has been in office, as ho claims, what has become of the INCREASE ....... $7,980.56 that all her decent frocks were at HUMAN AFFECTIONS Repairing Road Equipment home, that the mole on her left cheek Ills house stood on the high bank of 1923 Republican Administration (Under Mr. Burgon).... $25,865.21 WILL NOT STAY PUT9 was Inherited. the river, but his farm lay In the bot1920 Democratic Administration mind lie Bill .doesn't especially. tom lands. 13,234.16 A widely known banker In an East- THOSE-8AV-IN- MR, MABEY $30,093.20 Road Department ARE $73,333.26 43,240.06 1920 Democratic Administration FIINGES has learned the philosophy that comes to the rescue of all husbands. He knows he never can hope to be a credit to his wife, but the fellers" still think him all right. He Is good old Bill," who pays when his time comes. And his wife Isnt to blame. Everybody Is that way. Little Babs new doll becomes a bore in a week. She wishes to dissect it and remove the The hat sawdust from Its tummy. In the Mabel adores shop window tortures her soul each time she puts It on a week later. Mary has It bobbed and within a fortnight weeps Into her pillow for her long tresses. The clipping you tossed Into the waste basket a week ago would be almost Invaluable now. The bit of furniture that was to brighten your living room resembles something the cat dragged In. . Our affections wont stay put. If they would all of us would die of broken hearts when the people and the treasures we cherish are taken from us. What a blessing It Is to forget I Baltimore Evening Sun. One spring the river overflowed, and the farm was covered with water to a depth of several feet. His nephew went down to call on the old gentleman and found him standing on the bank looking out across the waters that covered his ruined crops. Approaching his uncle, he said, Well, Uncle Mort, that looks rather bad. dont Itr But as the old man turned to his nephew there was the customary twinkle In his eyes. Well," he said, maybe It Is bad for my crops, but anyhow It will drown those pesky gophers 1" Youth's Companion. Squaring the Circle The Immortal Socrates was noted for his quiet humor. It was his nightly custom to foregather with geometricians about a convivial bowl, drawing Inspiration from the vintage of Bacchus. Following the end of the tenth round he would rise for It Is written that he always could rise and address the symposium. I move," he would say, "that this circle go home and square Itself." And so seriously did the multitude Another Practical Optimist him that the squaring of the take of the Practical anecdote OpThe timist, which appeared recently In the circle grew to be considered ImposCompanion, reminds a reader of an- sible ; yea, even unto this day. Life. other optimist, an old Western farmer. Ye 2. Puritan Pessimist Ye worlde Is fulle of woe. Ye pathway of manne from "ye cradle to ye grave Is lined with brambles. Laughter is ever wette with tears. An unscrupulous viper lurketh In ye glasses of sparkling wine, or, anyhow, it used to did Sb eer prohibition came uponne us. You fancy you cannot live without a certain female, and a little later, behold, you cannot live with her. You snlffe ye fragrance of ye dewy rose and a gadsnapper stlngeth you on ye nose. And thus it goeth, and thus, I wot. It will continue to go until ye end of time. Such being the case, there Is nothing for us to do but hump our backs like an olde sheep In a hailstorm, pull down our hattes and thank providence for what It hasnt done to us. Kansas City Star. More Play in Small Towns More toys are sold In cities of 23,-0- 00 or less population than larger places and a greater number of games and puzzles are used west of the Mississippi than east of it In Not a Common Occurrence Awkward Friend (who has been permitted to hold the baby, with disastrous results) "Terrible I Terrible! 1 can't Imagine how It happened. RealX hardly ever drop ly, I assure you, I a baby." Pearson's Weekly. 3. 4. 5. $2,860,000.00 was .... The bonded debt of the State of Utah, January 1, 1921, was 8,410.000.00 1924, Is 9,660,000.00 The bonded debt of the State of Utah October 29, The temporary olan the State of Utah owed Jan. 400,000.00 1st, 1917, was The temporary loan the State of Utah owed Jan. ' 1st, 1921, was 6. 7. 8. 400,000.00 The temporary loan the State of Utah owes OcySS.OOO.OO1 tober 29, 1924, Is rebonds of The amount deemed by the Democrats from 1917 to 1920, in450,000.00 clusive, was re The amount of bonds deemed by the Republicans 1921 to 1924, in- 250,000.00 clusive is 9. The next Increase in the' bonded debt of 1921-192- 4 over the bonded debt of 1,250,000.00 is Is desired the abve the Trusting 1917-192- 0, Information, I am. Very truly yours, MARK TUTTLE, State Auditor By WALTER A. DAY, Chief Deputy. , s |
