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Show THE CITIZEN 4 i i i i f t r i i i i ! I ( ; I I I I i f : I I i I i I i f I I t ter all moneys received, and itemize all of the public s property. For some reason there appears to be a certain carelessness and lost and many items are overlooked and thousands of dollars are no one knows what becomes of them. Accountant R. R. Carey has made a special audit of the state auditors office and funds inconsistencies, as he puts it, in handling of state funds. This is not the kind of service the people are paying for. Every transaction should be recorded and every cent accounted for. The heads of all departments and those responsible for the various funds, should never be relieved from their bondsmen until a correct balance sheet of their department is rendered, and if it is not the duty of the auditor to check such statements and departments, then it should be made so and the auditor should be held responsible. The auditor of a big corporation can tell the stockholders where every dime is spent and he can give a correct account of all materials owned or disposed of. Thats what he is hired for. If the auditor is only a figure head and only keeps account of figures rendered to him by the heads of the various departments, we had better do away with the auditor. Because he is unable to render an intelligent report of the city, county or state moneys received and expended. The heads of the various departments can send in what they believe ought to be handled by the audtior and the balance is handled according to their own dictates, as has been shown in some of the recommendation for reform made by Accountant Carey. 4 I I I i MOVIE SEASON i i i i i i i is planed for this city, which is one of seven cities to indorse this popular movement and which will begin August 3, of this year. Manager Ed. S. Diamond of the Pantages Theatre says that a majority of the local show and picture houses are getting together for this greater movement. All the larger picture producing concerns of the country are backing the project, and special efforts will be made to give the people the best movie pictures it is possible to produce upon the canvas. It is not a campaign to bring the public to the theatres during a certain definite period, but it is a celebration of the opening of a greater movie season and this season will begin August 3, at which the patrons of the theatres will be given a real treat of the best efforts of filmdom. The entire motion picture industry is putting itself on parade for the celebration of the opening of Greater Movie Season. The manager of every theatre should see that long subjects, short subjects, music, theatre dress, ventilation and conduct of house employes, all combined is one that the industry will be proud of. The public is anxiously awaiting the opening of this much talked of movie season with its many' special features, and it will no doubt make as big a hit in this city as it has in other cities. A nearly 54,000,000,000 kilowatt hours, and if the of increase continues, 1925 will register a volume of to 60,000,000,000 kilowatt hours. present The outmit only WATER RATES After installing water meters quite extensively during tie year, the city water department now finds that the flat-ratret is decreasing, and it is hinted that it may become necessary t crease the tax rate. Surely the more meters installed the less flat accounts we will have, and estimates should be based upon ratio. The water department ought to be a big revenue getter fc city. In days past, those in charge of the department have to spend much more than was collected, a very poor policy in i Frank T. Griffith, president of the National Electric Light association, in an address at San Francisco said that the light and power industry in this country last year attracted some $400,000,000 new capital from the investing public and that total number of investors in light and power securities today is close to 3,000,000. The light and power industry of United States, said Mr. Griffith, will need to raise money at the rate of $2,000 every minute for the next ten years. It will require $10,000,000,000 to meet financial demands of the industry during the coming decade, and this stupendous task presents one of outstanding problems of the industry. It is most gratifying that the public is coming to volume and numbers. The expansion in our aid in the industry the last year has been tremendous. Light and power companies were called upon to increase their productible capacity ever-increasin- g cost as 1 e business. A private company could take over the waterworks sys and make big money on the present rates charged and tie could then collect a big tax on the business and investment. shows that politicians cannot enter busines for the people andi a profit. In the past twenty-fiv- e years, says Senator Fess, govern in business has built up a bureaucratic system at Wasington irksome if not dangerous. It started with a progressive move which demanded the creation of commissions, and we have be largely a commission government. Men high in public life who are loudest in their criticisms of our bureaucratic go ment, were most active in Congress in the creation of these mission. We have the same troubles at home. t th to arry ong fin ecur Itw ided irsai ewh ryp: an ( the her I ical lders find da com of t Atp ; let Elec: Greater Movie Season ELECTRIC POWER i to jrs an MINING electr A gold mine is not an everlasting propostion nor is any! us! type of mining. The owners of a mining property are amply repaid on their investment before it is exhausted, but a property must be developed or our metal supply falls off. H pression that existing mines are everlasting is a dangerous The hazards of mining are great and the rewards should be The industry cannot be compared with manufacturing or ing from a production or valuation standpoint. Legislation or taxation which tends to reduce the incentivi of n mining or its possible profits to the usual commercial rate would ruin mining, for no one would venture money on such at sto h 1 he erly The i iingw g t 1 OVERHEAD As to the possibility of reducing the overhead cost of the eral government in years to come, President Coolidge following clearcut statement: ftfi Unfortunately the federal government has strayed from its legitimate business. It has trepassed upon fields1 there should be no trespass. If we could confine our fed then penditures to the legitimate obligations and functions of far But government a material reduction would be apparent. of' important than this would be its effect upon the fabric stitutional form of government, which tends to be gradually ened and undermined by this encroachment. , White No weightier, no wiser words have come from the n in many years. The interest in the pork barrel by our entatives who try to outdo each other in securing federal their individual states has led the government a long home, has interfered with states rights and in many ways the liberties of the people through federal control and new offices which serve no good purpose other than proving jobs for the select. Much in the same way we are allowing our state o interfere in city and county affairs, in a majority of instances duplication of work unnecessary and a burden to the people r the Auto |