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Show EDITORIALS , (By CD. McNeeley) If Bingham is to have a county commissioner it is now time to begin selecting the timber. -.,-- tl l In Bingham the pay day business is more important than that of the days before holidays and the commission should make a special dispensation in this matter. ' From the information ' at hand it is understood that the county at large is willing for Bingham to name a county commissioner, commis-sioner, but the county has no intention of coming up here to look for a candidate, Bingham must do that herself. Now that the Liberty Loan campaign and the Red Cross drive are both over it is time to pull down the signs advertising ' the same. They should not be playcarded out of season. Take them down and in a few days replace them with something that will feature the sale of Thrift Stamps. After tomorrow all Bingham stores will commence closing at 6 in the evening. It is possible that an exception will be made to this rule with regard to pay days. The business on such days is' enormous and the volume can hardly be handled on the regular time. With the opening of this month a number of stores started in closing at 6:30 voluntarily because they felt that the clerks were entitled to shorter hours. This movement was headed by the Bingham Mercantile Company, which announced two weeks ahead that it would adopt the shorter hour method. Bingham is still being visited by men who represent all kinds of stock companies and they are making sales here. There is no telling how much this business amounts to annually. They come and work the town and depart, and the town treasury gets no benefit. bene-fit. It would be very appropriate to have a license tax for these salesmen. This would increase the revenue of the town, and it would also be an assurance to the prospective purchasers of stock that the man who held the license was an authorized agent of a bona fide concern. Salt Lake City places a tax of $25 on all stock salesmen and finds this a fruitful source of revenue. It would be easy for Bingham to make a little mojiey in the same way. |