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Show THE CITIZEN HIGH PRICED EDUCATION ARE WE getting more in schools, or are we sliding backwards. A proposed bill to be presented before the legislature would provide 2) for junior colleges. This would be a big advance in expenditures and more higher priced professors and teachers. In this state over half our taxes go to schools and their upkeep. It appears an awful price and maybe it is right and proper. However, we would like to see school board financial statements published. We have been told that school boards are adverse to publishing their statements because a multitude of sins would be uncovered. Dr. C. N. Jensen has stated that statements should be published, but his views do not seem to count. The law provides for such publication, but the law is being ignored everywhere in the state, and that too by our educational system, which of all state units should be head and shoulders above all and be the first to render' statements to the public of the huge expenditures incurred for school purposes. In this county there is on record where expenses have nearly run as high as the salaries of some of the school officials and we would like to see a statement of how these expenditures have been made. It is also said that a certain architect drew a big fee for a proposed school building two years in advance of even the bond issue. If such things are carrying on, it is no wonder that it takes so much money to run our schools, and judging from reports we have received, money is most lavishly expended in all directions. We would at least like to see the school boards comply with the law and publish their reports, or if the law is not to be complied with, have the present legislature wipe it off the books. " We also hear that schools should be taken out of politics, but we find that the teachers are very much in politics themselves and in this county men have been elected who anticipate changing many laws which would place the schools out of reach of the government and in the hands of an autocratic body whose dictation would be absp-lutup-to-da- te $ e. is also proposed to change the law requir-- . ing publication of school reports. This is evident on the face of it that school boards do not want the taxpayers to know what is going on on the inside. It ALFRED E. SMITH was sure he would be elected president of the United States. He selected Franklin D. Roosevelt to run for governor of New York state and he was elected; Smith was defeated. No doubt the latter could again have been elected governor of New York, where he had been elected four times. We predicted he would be out of a job that is a political job. If Roosevelt becomes a popular governor, he may be put up by the Democrats to run for president in 1932. FLOUNDERING n'- DRYS in Congress had a splendid opportunity to show their real stand on prohibition enforcement. In public a big majority of our senators and representatives are very dry, but their actions would belie that fact. When an appropriation of some $270,000,000 was asked to enforce prohibition, most of them voted against such an amount and they appeared satisfied to allow the old cost price, plus, stand. Yet they all OLjxver that there is not sufficient money to properly enforce prohibition. This action gives, the matter the complexion of our representatives wishing the public to understand that they favor prohibition while at the same time refuse to put1'; up enough money to enforce the laws. ( Now a suggestion is made to create a new de- - S partment, entirely out of politics, which will be more expensive than ever. Prohibition has created such a graft machine in this country that enforcement of the law is utterly impossible, and every day we are getting Prohibition forces have been changed more often than any department in the federal government, yet this has been done without beneficial results, and we are sinking deeper in the mire. The outside and foreign press is poking all sorts of fun at us and cannot understand why our government continues to stand for a policy that produces more liquor than ever. Worse. EXTERMINATE BRUTES THE BRUTAL slayer of the Nelson child is still at large. The officers are wprking day and night and are following every clue they can pos-sibfind. It is to be hoped that this fiend will be run down in due time, and when found his punishment should be speedy. If the public can lay its hands on him it would not take long' to mete out justice. Our present legislature should amend the present law so as to make rape or attempted rape murder in the first degree in order that all such criminals can be speedily eliminated from our state. Such fields should never be allowed to mingle unhampered with the people. We are also in favor of making eunichs of all perverts. ly OGDEN STOCK SHOW THE OGDEN stock show is greater and better than ever and cattle and sheepmen from all parts of the country are showing the finest animals that it has been possible to produce up to the present time. Ogden is now known as the best livestock show town in the west. GOOD ROADS THERE is a strong connection between good roads and safety, according to Charles M. Hays, president of the Chicago Motor club. Poor roads increase all the dangers of motoring Good roads from broken springs to blow-out- s. impose a minimum of strain on the car, and when a new road is built, engineers with a scientific understanding of safety, see to it that it is properly marked, that curves are made gradual, hills - avoided and few railroad tracks are crossed. When almost every family owns a motor car and uses it consistently both for business and pleasure, good roads are a social, economic and safety necessity. BRITISH editors, especially those who occasionally visit the Untied States, say that our dry law is a sad joke. Over here we think it is quite a serious joke. In England a gob can take a drink without fear of being poisoned, but over here a drink may mean a hurry up call for the ambulance. Nosiree, its no joke with us. THE S. PARKER GILBERT, agent general for rep- arations, and German newspapers have gotten into an arugument over reparation payments. Germany contends that she has so far made all her payments out of borrowed moneys, and if that is the case she is deeper in the hole than ever. So far no one appears to know what is in .Gilberts reports. He tells the reporters to read the report for the low down arid when asked for 'a report he has only one and they must wait until other copies are printed. Plenty of red tape is what makes a good political job. CLARA BOW and Lon Chaney are the most popular among the screen stars of the country. PHONE PERFECTION THE outstanding development of the telephone industry in less than twenty years is gradually bringing the industry to a point of perfection when, practically every person in the world can talk, quickly and at a reasonable cost, to any other person anywhere in the world. In 1915, for the first time, a voice was carried over telephone wires from New York to San Francisco, and now the dream of transoceanic communication has come true. Service is continually being improved. Apparently the telephone industry is never still, but is searching for new worlds and new problems to conquer. IN BAD FIX ACCORDING to F. Lauriston Bullard, special correspondent of the New York Times, Massachu- setts is in a state of chaos as a result of the compulsory liability insurance law. The insurance companies suffered such severe losses during the first year of the laws activities that higher rates became imperative. The insurance commissioner was ordered to fix the future rates. As they were almost double those that had been in effect in the past, an upheaval resulted in spite of the fact that they were based on facts and statistics, and he resigned. Now the new insurance commissioner has fixed . another rate schedule that attempts to cut down the. cost of doing insurance business, but still the rates range up to 62 per cent more than in the past, according to Mr. Bullard. The necessity for increased rates is the direct result, to a great extent, of organized efforts to defraud the insurance companies. It is well known that a tremendous number of damage cases are pressed when there has been no real injury. Mr. Bullard says the Massachusetts compulsory insurance experiment is providing the nation with both essential information and incidental amusement therefrom. Certainly, the occurrences are not of the sort to encourage sentiment in other states for this form of legislation. TARIFF ANGLES QUITE recently a farmer asked us the question if we knew whether American capital was producing in foreign countries the things the farmers needed exclusively on the farm. That question we could not answer. The farmer continued: You know it looks mighty queer to me to hear so much protection talk and yet we allow foreigners to ship into this s, country plows, harrows, reapers, threshing cotton gins, cultivators, and even farm wagons, together with other farm machinery, and there is a lot of other farm stuff listed. What I am driving at is that we have Americans in the farm implement manufacturing business and they are saying nothing in regard to this foreign machinery trade. However, we are paying . top American prices for this cheap European made machinery, so it looks like somebody has an understanding. Since the war the prices have been boosted outrageously and the farmer is told he is purchasing his farm implements wtihout paying a tariff on them. Well, there is a big tax somewhere. . ma-chie- . . A LONDON doctor was carrying millions of flu germs in tubes which he had placed in his automobile. Some one stole the tubes and now the people are alarmed that there may be another epidemic. An ordinary person doing the same ' thing would soon be placed behind the bars. YEGGS defy Salt Lake police because they know jail sentences will be light and confinement in a swell hotel. |