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Show THE CITIZEN peace and liberty, and a temporary suffering people must continue to live in bondage and fear of their very lives, no doubt praying every day for a savior to arrive to loosen the chains of bondage. 5 The electric light and power industry alone represents a total investment of $8,000,000,000, or more than $G8 for each man, wo- man and child in our country. Electricity is coming to mean more and more in the lives of the American people every day. Soon electric washing maJUST TAXES chines, cleaners, irons, and countless other devices will be in every home, and with this enlarged opportunity for services, the Chairman A. P. Bigelow of the Utah Taxpayers' Associa- electric light and power industry will become an even more vital tion has named A. G. Mackenzie, secretary of the Utah chapter factor than ever before. of the American Mining Congress ; M. S. Winder, Secretary of Under careful supervision of state commissions to regulate the Utah State Farm Bureau, and 0. W; Adams, vice president rates fairly, it will continue to grow, earning sufficient to keep of the Utah State National Bank, as a committee to study Utah its equipment in first class operating condition, pay reasonable taxes and the administration thereof. dividends to the millions of investors who have intrusted their The tax question has been given little or no attention in this savings to it, and offer worthy careers to ambitious men and wostate other than the yearly increase to take care of extra extra- men. vagant legislation. It appears to us that the first essential in a readjustment of HOW TO SUCCEED taxation is to agree upon a fair valuation of property and a fair assessment, thereon; then from the money derived, we may Commenting on the latest annual report of the American our been have Heretofore we placing budget accordingly. adjust & Telegraph company, a writer in the London Daily the cart before the horse; we adopt an expensive budget and Telephone out Mail points that for every hundred people in the United then levy a tax to raise the money with the subsequent result States there are more than 14 telephones, while in the United that real property values are lost track of and property tax bethere are fewer than three. comes excessive. Much of our property in the city today can be Kingdom This condition he ascribes to the fact that the British telepurchased for much less than it is assessed for, a very unis operated by the Post Office department, while healthy condition for any city to have and an obstacle to its phone system in America the service is owned and managed by private enternatural progress. Another fault we find with our tax laws is that outside cor- prise. In this country (Great Britain), the article says, The porations are prohibited from opening branch affices here because of the excessive taxation, and the law should be repealed. bureaucratically managed telephone is a luxury of the It is possible to tax all the property within our border, but it is In America, where there is a telephone to every six or seven people, practically every working man is on the wire, and so is folly to try to tax property in other states. No matter what the resources of a city or state may be, practically every farmer. In England, large houses containing invaluable art colections burn down because there is no telephone growth is impossible where there is an unjust tax. People are to call the fire brigade. People living in the epuntry have to not going to invest their money where there is a high tax rate, and because of our high taxes we have not been getting the busi- send for the doctor on foot or on horseback exactly as they did in ness we are rightfully entitled to. Payrolls are what we want in the middle ages. All over Europe the telephone is managed, or rather misthis city and we must have them if we expect to grow and get out of the village class. managed, by officialdom. In America the telephone is a private institution, and the result is that the United States, with TO BOOST MINING inhabitants, lias considerably more than twice as many telephones as all Europe with four times as many inhabitants. It is time we denationalized the various public services The mining committee of the Chamber of Commerce is working with E. S. Homes, manager of the State Fair, with a view of which can be carried on far more cheaply and far more efficiently securing the best mining display at the state fair this fall in the by private enterprise, and a beginning should be made with the history of the state. Mining exhibits have been sadly neglected telephone. in the past notwithstanding that mining is the chief industry of FIRES Utah, an industry which directly effects our every day life. The entire coliseum at the fair will be turned over to the The supreme court has just decided that carelessness with display of our mining and the exhibition ought to be a big fire need not be confined to federal forest lands in order to confeature. stitute a criminal offense under Section 53 of the United States Criminal Code. Leaving a fire near a federal forest without toMAKESHIFT tally extinguishing it even though the fire is started on private The League of Nations Council has opened its 45th session land is a criminal offense in the eyes of the court, and punishat Geneva. There is to be some discussion in naval limitation, able by fine or imprisonment if National forest timber land is enwhich may dwindle to the three power naval limitation of En- dangered. The decision is especially important to National forgland, Japan and the United States. There is also to be an ex- est protection, according to the Forest Service, for their many thousands of miles of boundary are subject to the grave danger tended discussion on international law. Even if the League does not accomplish much, it has enough of fires that originate on adjacent private lands outside and may meetings to keep it before the public continuously. So far none sweep into National forest land. of the big nations have paid any attention to it. European world powers fear to awaken the Russian Bear and the proposed united warning plan has been abandoned for INVESTING PUBLIC fear that another war will follow. Poland fears hostility and adOf the total population of the United States, an average of vises leniency. more than one in every fifty is a direct investor in the securities of electric light and power companies. Besides this vast army County Commissioner R. T. Dahlquist announces that the of more than 3,000,000 people, there are uncountable millions of Big Cottonwood road to Brighton is now open and in excellent wonder and is oik of the big d wage earners whose savings deposited in banks are condition. The canyon is a scenic in turn loaned, to industry on the security of stocks and bonds. attractions near this city for a pleasing automobile drive. ; ; well-to-d- o. 110,-000,0- . hard-earne- . 00 |