Show As we see S ee it the 1 best es I 1 and surest way ot of keeping 12 public alic officials honest Is by publicity the people should bee be kept informed at all times concerning the expenditures of 0 f their public ci 11 a ants ants posting a notice on an obscure billboard fill the bill 0 shady deals graft and corruption are the products of darkness 13 it if you and I 1 do not know what our public officials are doing how they axe are spending our money who they appoint appod t to do the various jobs which may come up and what is paid for the doing of these jobs then that business which la is our business is kept in the dark 0 under such conditions graft and corruption will sooner or later creep in gross favoritism Is bound to result D there has always been a heap of rot in politics but time and time agam again it has been proven that the light of day will keep a lot of it out 0 A few notices are published annually from f rom several of our county of officers fleets which give some idea of what they are doing but the picture is far from complete what do the county commissioners do every time they meet who do they hire what bills do they pay and are they just bills the taxpayers have a right to knowl know we have a delinquent tax list alst which shows who paid their taxes and the amount thereof but are these just taxes when compared to the taxes of those who have paid 0 the finest thing which could hap pen to our citizens says a well informed utahan would be the publication li of tax valuation lists the elimination of inequalities thus exposed to the light of day would woul d produce in taxes collected a great deal more than the cost of the notice then everyone would enjoy the assurance and satisfaction of knowing that everyone paid his fair share that is good business for john citizen 0 during a depression false economists often attempt to save money without counting the costs at the other end most of their schemes are costly wasteful changes frequently ired fred proposed r 0 p 0 sif s if and ballyhooed ballyhoo ed by clever p politicians 0 li t icia w who ho want to get in on the ground floor and therefore despise mandatory put publication li of reports showing account ing of public funds 0 all legal notices have definite public value each and everyone Is ordered published because very sad very costly experience has shown that publication made mandatory by law Is the best and cheapest method of safeguarding public funds 0 your taxes are going up you have a right to know how your money Ls Is being spent what do yo you u know about how it was spent the pat past year or any other year |