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Show RICHMOND DEPARTMENT! I News From the Lively Town up North, I - - J H - Mr. S. W. Hendricks was ln Logan Lo-gan Inst Monday, November 17, Mrs. Fred Hope gave birth to n baby on Saturday. Mother and babe aro doing well. ' , The trees are being removed from the north, sldo of Center street and It gives Uio town a metropolitan aspect. as-pect. Several new students entered high school during the first two days of this week and tho enrollment Is creeping towards) tho seventy mark. A. H. Thompson's now home Is rapidly nenrlng completion. When It Is finished, Mr. and Mrs. Thompson will have one of Uio most up to dato homes in our fair city. Four now Remington typewriters were added to tho equipment of Uio Commercial department ot tho high school recently. The carpentry1 work Is also going at full blast now. Tho high school faculty attended a meeting of tho Cache County High School teachers and the Cache County Coun-ty Board of Education In Logan last Saturday. Several matters of Importance Im-portance pertaining to our high school were discussed. A little spider camo to tho home of Mr. and Mrs. Jesso Webb on November No-vember 12. It was a bouncing boy and Jesse has causo to feel proud of It. All concerned aro doing nicely. "Dora Thorno" was played to n good sized audl(nco In tho opera house Saturday night. Tho play was abovo the averago and wns appreciated by practically every person present. m Richmond, Nov. 19. On Friday November 14, the Republican payty of Richmond gavo a freo dancing party to tho citizens of Richmond nnd the surrounding towns. A largo crowd attended at-tended tho party and everybody expressed ex-pressed themselves' ns having a godd tlmo. Every person present laid all political grievances aside and enjoyed enjoy-ed a pleasant evening of dancing. On Wednesday, November 2C, tho Richmond High school basketball team will open their season in Preston Pres-ton wlUi a game with tho Oneida Stake Academy. A week or two lntor a return gamo will bo played on Uio local floor. Several now men aro showing up well, nnd Indications point to a successful season. Tripp, tho star center, of last "year, recently entered en-tered school again nnd Is rapidly rounding Into his old form. Ho has been ono of tho strongest point winners win-ners for the team and with him in his old position nt center, tho lineup Is practically complete Coach Plant has not glvon out his lineup for tho opening game yet and devo'opments are being watched with Interest. A feature ot tho management of our opera houso that Is too bo especially commended is Uio fact that tho manager man-ager of Uio opera house insists on the theatro companies commencing their plays on time at 8: IS p. m. sharp. This Is much better for boUi tho actors and the show going public as It saves much delay and tho performance per-formance Is over ln time for the tho-atro tho-atro going public to get home before It gets too lato. Thl,s is certainly a movement in tho right direction and will bo appreciated by all. Alt thoso who aro not in their seats before Uio performance commence aro not seated seat-ed until after tho first act Is over. This saves much unnecessary confusion confu-sion during tho play and makes things moro pleasing ln general. It Is very annoying to tho person who goes to tho show on tlmo to havo to stand up or movo In order for persons who nro lato to get seated during tho performance per-formance Tho porsons on tho samo row are annoyed nnd all persons in H seats behind nre annoyed so that , M ticnlly thirty persons may bo inCon H venlenced in order for two persons Vi to get seated during tho performance PJ Tho new arrangement will not work 'HM a hardship on any person but wilt be H .much better when th0 custom Eeu 'thoroughly established. This Is th 'H manner in which all play houses la 'H the larger cities aro managed wita M I great buccoss and will ho just as sue- BB cessful in Richmond. It now re! mains for the public to show tiier i appreciation of this new move f0r their benefit and como to tho shows on tlmo to bo seated before the cur- B tain raises. H HIGH TAXES M By Phlnanclal Phil H All good citizens co not object ser- iously to paying taxes and in this H country 90 per cent of tho voters are .H good citizens, but a mnjorlty of them H object to high taxes. How shall e H Judgo whoUier or not taxes aro high. H Shall it be wholly upon our ability H to pay our selfish Interest, our pub- H lie Interests or our official Interests. H Who Bhould do the Judging, Uio men H who pay the tax, or the men who re- H colvo it? Who does d0 tho Judging, H the men who receive it. Why because H our civil government gives them this H right. Aro they honest In Uielr Judg- H ment? Yes. Can they be mistaken H In their Judgment? Yes. Why, be- H cause, being human, they a"o apt to H base their Judgment upon their ofll- H clal interest, for they aro on tho re- H celvlng end of tho tax. Tho mc)i who H pay tbo taxes thinks Uiem very high H The men who recolvo tho tax say tho H taxes In Utah nro very moderate For H the public good, and state, county and H city progress wo should know who is H right. If tho receivers of Uio taxes H aro right, there should bo no kick it H tho payers of the taxes a'o right, Uie H tax payors should call a halt. The re- K colvers of tho tax say, tho progress of BH tho country demands every cent ot Bfl tho taxes. We cankiot possibly get BV along on less and maintain our dly-j uJ nlty along wlUi other states. Now we IB figure a stato Is Just like an IndUId- H ual. An Individual's prosperity do- H pends not so much on supplying h's B needs. As it does upon getting val- H uo received for every dollar ho earns H and spends., L'et any man constantly 1 call for money to supply his needs and H disregard the val no ho is getting for H every dollar spent It won't be long H until ho finds It utterly impossible to H get enough money to supply his H wants, and first thing ho knows he H is faco to facp. with disgrace nnd B dishonor. So it is with a county or 1 a state It seems to bo an easy mat- m ter for officialdom to say wo need m moro monoy, but It seems to be a Hj very hard matter for them to get m valuo received for tho money they M spend. To n man that hns had thirty H years cxporlenco In getting a few hard 1 earned dollars, and In getting value B received for tho hard earned dollars B ho has spent, tho wasto ln public m moneys ln mearly every department of M our government seems to him to be B simply abominable Thlsi man says B taxes are high, altogether too high. B Ho says when Uio civil government m of our city, county and stato takes M from 20 to 25 per cent or Uio net H earnings of the peoplo of Uio stato H to pay expenses, Its too much. He B owns a good irrigated farm. His tax B on this farm Is 22 per cent of his H net Income and the farm is unencum- H borod. He owns a good business and Bfl the taxes on that business aro Just Bfl 24.2 per cent of the net incomo of IB that business. Tho payor ot this tax Bfl says this per cent Is altogoUior too high. Now will Uio receivers of this tax kindly show him ho is wrong H Instead of tho public burdon being 22 H per cent of tho net Incomo of tho peo- pie, it Bhould bo less than 10 per cent. What Is tho matter? Shall tho tax payors of tho tax answor, or shall wo leave that to tho receivers of ltT |