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Show )iir Taxes Go i Spends Your Money ng Your Business A.RD G. LOWRY Banks and Financial Systems." etc. Contributor eading Periodicals tind a Writer of kecognized nal Government's Business Methods. estcra Newspaper Union active for a number of years, but they . are keeping up their personnel in antici-Hi antici-Hi p.ition of work in the future. We could iem- save $3tKOOH,(hiO a year, In my judgment, by doing away with useless bureaus and ljCI'3 dupltrjuion of activities, the Some of the duplications are ridicu-j ridicu-j q Ions and absurd. For instance, the government gov-ernment seeks to protect the wild animals 5v" in the national juirks. If a brown kadiak O'dt bear has twin cubs, one brown and one in- black, as often happens, and one nhould shoot the brown cub he must make his ,lsi settlement with one department, but if )Ollt lie shoots Us full brother, the black cub, UU't- ne niust settle with another department, unt JOU were to F'1(,ot a fox 'n Alaska your settlement would be with the Department ern- Gf Agriculture, while if you trapped the t'av. same fox you must make your settlement ' w"ftb the Department of Commerce. ' The government issued last year Oillt through Its pevprnl bureaus and depnrt-iink- ments ItJ conk'ooks. The last one that T)Ut was 'si'netl Tvns published by the board j .of vocatlP! ercatlon. This Is a board tnnt organized by te congress for the purpose the of rehabill!"ihnj? crippled soldiers of the "World war. o prevent, as far as possible, . their beccrc nj? derelicts in life. ... It may be of Interest to state that while the )Ollt government has been issnlng 16 cookbooks (T(,y- and corrsu miner vast quantities of print paper In these and similar useless publl-cations. publl-cations. 1,3W country town newspapers wise have suspended In the last three months JSS." because they could not secure print paper, fitc- Mr. Ileavis :nul a jrreut many others sest imve sensed the feeling In the conn-ring conn-ring try and in congress that the time has s: ' come to put an end to all this sort nent pf thing. He gives reasons for his ?for belief: One of the reasons is that Itie people Oll.d demand that their taxation reduced. "Oatl For many years we have been collecting rintr tlie revenues of this government through I systems of indirect taxation. The reve-i reve-i nues have been collected through a pro-ivnr, pro-ivnr, tective tariff and by excise taxation on 'Call intoxicating liquors. Indirect taxation of Qry,. this kind prevents the people from reallz-i reallz-i ing fully just who is paying the expenses t'ie of the government. There was a time e f . when the expenses of the government ; re- i amounted to only 12 cents per capita per j year. Today the annual per capita ex-11 ex-11 P" I pense exceeds $40. This tremendous ex-; ex-; pense has made It necessary to resort to milt direct taxation, and the people have sud-l sud-l ; denly become painfully aware of who ; pays the expenses of the government, the j I am very certain that the elimination de- ! of duplications und overlapping in the departments de-partments will result in the savins of millions of dollars. There is no reason mtal wnv t sh0Uia not be done, itcc- There is every reason, in the presence 01 a of the strife and turmoil that prevail in W'1V this country and of the unrest occasioned Drdi- by tne high cost of the necessaries of life, !S. that the government should be put upon vitn' a sane, efficient and economical basis, ised e 27 Whoever by public clamor or other 'f means can induce congress and the here executive departments to organize the Lion; routine business of the national go'-here go'-here ernnient will have performed a great Ltiorl public service. Note that I say "or-ons; "or-ons; ganize" and not "reorganize,'' for in re" no proper sense has the federal busi-jn busi-jn ncss ever been organized. TO FIND OUT ider Biv'e taxation, any legislative measure nf.fc looking to real economy should commend Itself to the sympathetic attention of the Sv" house, and we feel that the passage of j of this resolution and the work of the com-nnd com-nnd rnHtee which will be done under Ms authority au-thority will result in the saving of mll-1 mll-1 Of bona annually. ork- 0,111 I,e Prei'icte(J wI1-h considerable tj(in assurance that nothing will come of ries t1"s Prol10POtl voyage of discovery un-or un-or less we, the shareholders in the enler-"eau enler-"eau r""se- nifnm n active, lively, sus-. sus-. ()j tallied interest in It. One thing is al- luid vvnys tluo no,1Pe f repro- tne sentatives it is representative. 3f oci we Dreathe warmly upon it, it glows, part we nre lnf''nrerent becomes cold. t 0f Tills isn't the first time that a plan has been set in motion to find out mde t:0nietl)ing about how the government's business is conducted. re- tlv, The earliest inquiry Into the ad- VO ministrativc methods of the executive itve departments was made by the Cockrell 0 Ig commission In 1SST. Six years later, ;eMt. in 1893, n Joint commission, of which l)ers Represent alive Dockery was chairman, t 0j; was appointed to examine the status tali t,ie u,ws organizing the depnrt- uls' ments. Presidi-nt Roosevelt in ' on named an interdepartmental comnrttoe. f ie last montn left on forced nday for Logan, -hero she w l j p pooitlon as health expert in the Up P c relieving Miss Dancle. f 3q deligh .rlstlansen will be remembered as le of Utah's first nurses who volun Zll services In the World War d wie not serving overseas rd I -93U n Trduous year at Fort Bayard. I ( Iew Mexico. Since 'ellBtt. Ing. . ,rmy Nurses Corps, Mrs. chrl9tln en has been In attendance at the iversuy et e.Worna rem ; Jn 3chool she graduated last month. Her many trends feel assured of her sue-ce3s sue-ce3s in her new position. m spend New Year's Pay. , Mrs Helen Tozer and Miss Orenal J spent several days In SaU LakeJ a T. City last week visiting. o o . ;j:n so tin: r-.i day tor " th'wliole is virtusiily n:i..'-i:ille. n:i..'-i:ille. enter tral" " ' "f tl,e ynfP-t n:--riii.- ni 1 npt'fl fl::it the l '.'n;ile jen -w jUt;it ti'O'r gOVl'ltlSIKHlt. hm r!;pr vcl.! u r und it ilidkuit t'i le.n-n until t'.ip z"V .cb- ernim'iit knows aNnut lrself |