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Show THE SEARCHLIGHT Ais Excellency’s Message (Continued from preceding page) As four millions from Utah taxpayers so that he might thumb his nose at Government participation in the Welfare program. His Excellency rose to new heights in his mescage when he posed as the champion of the pensioners and the old folks. He lashed out at case workers—whose rules of procedure were largely under his administration—with the righteous vigor of a warrior who knows his opponent is precluded from answering or striking back. It would have been a bit more sporting of His Excellency to have taken on the Salt Lake dailies or the Searchlight for a few rounds. But His Ex- cellency doesn’t who in are So —on enjoy a position he vented the mixing to it with hit back. his wrath—or inarticulate opponents case prophesied in the cellency proposed of reorganization the State same to medicine. cure He Searchlight, the with His Ex- constitutional ilJs increased pleaded with doses the of Legisla- ture to let him retain the right to appropriate and allocate money, and put all essential auditing of his expenditures in the hands of his own ap- pointees. But review again the State of the situation, Auditor, pointed tional institutions State wholly unable tained program and to carry with a in a wholesome out that educa- departments forward any cash supply were coherent, as sus- tempera- mental and uncertain as a January sunbeam. The Auditor could well have added that the University of Utah of his vocabulary was His has been Excellency’s constant threat set back five years by vacillating of withholding methods reason and his funds. if LL% of what His Excellency said about the case workers is true—and 17% seems about right —those employees should make good tough marines. Maybe the Welfare Department. of Utah should be operated as a training base for the War Department. The Auditor especially urged that specifie appropriations be made by the Legislature to all departments and institutions and that the Kixecutive (Board of Examiners) be given a fund of only $250,000 to provide for emergencles. Comment among legislators backed up the views of the Auditor. The Governor let it be known that his claims of a ‘‘saving’’ for his reorganization mess were not in conflict with the report of the State Auditor, which showed greater costs of $1,112,000 to the general fund arising solely from Maw reorganization, to say nothing of even greater excess costs of the Maw type of government in other accounting. All in all the message was a wonderful outpouring of words—plenty of them. But antiMaw Democrats, Republicans, and former Maw supporters, now wiser and sadder, united in the belief that during this session wel] enunciated words will earry less weight than they did two years ago. workers. But State Auditor Reese M. Reese promptly released a supplemental report to the Legislature in which he discloses even greater costs attributable to Maw’s vagaries, than had been disclosed in his earlier report. Mr. Reese also asked the Legislature to appropriate enough money directly to his department to run the Auditor’s office without supplemental allocation from His Excellency’s operating fund. The Auditor sought to avoid beimg left in a position where Herbert B. Maw might agai threaten him with reprisals because Mr. Reese refused to provide His Ex- cellency with a tailor-made audit. | One critic pointed out that His Excellency talks too much, and may meet the fate of the verbose parrot, who couldn’t keep quiet. The parrot, one day, was left alone with a dog in his master’s house. He simply couldn’t let the dog he around in comfort. As soon as the dog dropped off into a comfortable snooze the parrot would say, ‘‘Sic ’em’’. Finally the dog became irked and pulled all the feathers out of the parrot. When the boss came home in the evening and saw the naked parrot perched disconsolately out of the dog’s reach, and feathers strewn all over the house, he said: ‘‘My goodness, what happened?’’ The parrot replied much’’. sadly, ‘‘I talked too damned |
