Show economizing ECONOM MING ON CM PUBLICITY I 1 press reports indicate that county officers ot of utah in their recent convention favored economies economics in the matter of publishing the dillia aslin quent tax list and the annual fill financial statements ot of counties we are inclined to concede that under conditions there la is somi m arlt to their position damaging though it may be to the newspapers ot of the state which have profited by present legal requirements in this respect I 1 the tha theory back of publishing the delinquent tax list Is that it will not only give notice to the property owner that he paid his hia taxes a tact fact most of 0 them already know but that the stigma incident to such bitch publicity would result in arost peb peoples plea paying up to keep ott off tho the delinquent list hat under normal conditions it works just juat that way end the relatively small cost of pub lis liln the list Is justified liy by the results it gets cut but ahen as in recent years fifty per er cent of the taxpayers are un to pay their taxes and an it thu names name of mr best beat citizens appear on the tha list it ceases to be a displace and the greatly increased cost or of publishing Is hardly justified we think A simplified publication eliminating lengthy description effect worthwhile economies and those charged with publication li odthe of the list might save much liy by eliminating those names and d descriptions e script ions where tile the tax las involve involved as much as the publication costs cost As AB to the annual financial statement we believe there is a better method of giving taxpayers the information they are entitled to than ty by accumulating it all an and ar P publishing is it at the end of the alar ar I 1 month font ly IY publication of the doin doings 98 of f t the county commissioners including ine I 1 in the claims allowed by the them in an and a condensed summary of it all at the ond end of cite year we believe would serve gerve a tar far better purpose resultant savings in publication costs under this method might be negligible and there probably are many people who abeld advocate eliminating all publicity inthe irk ali terest of economy but anyone at alt all familiar with conditions can cite plenty of proof that publicity ot of the right sort will save gave many times its cost to the taxpayers it Is not improbable that publish era ot of the state may cooperate with ithe the next session of the state leg leals ai lalure lalur in working out eat more bail aatos s I 1 factory publication laws |