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Show COUNIY DADS I HOLD MEETING I The Citizens Should Know All of V Their Official Ads Hut H How (an They? H i'KOIILEM SOLVED BY M LOCAL NEWSPAPERS H What Other States are lining, and H What I tah Should Do. So the i People May Know. H "Well, what did the county dads do B today? See that they are all in town." Who has not heard that remark? HH It is the honest curiosity of the cit aflH izen who has the interests of the county at heart. If anything is done, LM he wants to know it. flBJ The newspapers usually give the fl news of what the commissioners do H at their meetings, but they look for the "humnn interest" nnd can hardly M be expected to give in detail every- fl thing that transpires, and are liable to miss a very tmportant act, unless J "tipped off" in regard to it. H So important are the meetings of i county commissioners considered in H many states, that there are laws com- Bfl palling the commissioners to officially IB publish their proceedings just as BB written in their minute book, showing B all acts and financial transactions. B In this way there can he no mis- B understanding, and the light of offi- cial publicity is given each and every H bbbbbb! In Utah there is no such law, an.l BBl (only by u personal examination of j the minutes of the county com mis B station can any knowledge be gained J of what they are doing. This is ot B possible for the average citizen. BBl County Commissioners, who are do- BBl ing their duty, are only too anxious to let the people know what is going B on. For that reason, other states bbbbbbI have the minutes printed in an official way in order that everything shall BBS be open and above hoard. BB The expense for doing this is very BB slight, compared to the publicity given. BB Usually the proceedings are printed BBJ in one or more county newspapers, BB1 not over three m county, at a fair B BJ Utah should have such a law. and BBl fall in line with the rest of the states Bfll in the west. There is every reason BB why it should have such i law, and fl none against the law, unless the coun B ty commissioners do not wish the. H people know officially what they LLM are doing ami it is unbelievable that L such is the case. H This the fourth of a series of m L tides on the needs, ideals and the LW future of the country newspaper, and I the' service it can render the comrru- H nity. The next article will appear in M early issue of the Record. |
