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Show At the Panama-Pacific exposition 1n San Francisco Tuesday of hist week Alma W. Richards of Provo. Utah, won the distinction of beins the best all around athlete in the United States which is "some" disjunction disj-unction in this day and age and land. In fact, when you come to consider what a fuss Is maide over athletics .and athletes one way and another at he present time, Richards, it can be said, has pretty nearly reached the limit of greatness. Brawn has takpn h.'i to a pl.-ue in the eve of a grent portion of the public where brain is made secondary. In a way it's alright, al-right, commendable to the fullest decree; de-cree; In another way It Isn't. We m,ust be careful how far we go in athletics, as in other things. IH i Down in southern Utah the rabbit is proving a serious menace to the farmer farm-er and stock rainer; the festive jne'c Is making himself so numerous that a call for help to the law-makers and other men of learning of the countiy has been thought of; an appeil either eith-er to the state legistlature. the Agricultural Ag-ricultural College, or to the Unite-! States Government Department of Agriculture is about to be made tor help. That ought to settle the jact rabbit question alright, beetxise it is a well known fact that when me;? of that caliber get after jack rabbits there is going to be an awful time of It. Up here in S:mpete It's not rabbits but bears that are botherinir the cornfields and lucern and potato patches. And you can't scare bears by calling out the heavy think batteries bat-teries like you can jack rabbits, r-o we guess we're somewhat ahead of our southern neighbors on that scorn The time has come for a slow dour, in this country in the matter of taxes. tax-es. The average rate of taxation per capita has increa-sed during the. last ten years, according to the Census Bureau at Washington, D. C, from $9.22 to $13.91, about 50 per cent. In no other respect has the cost of living advanced as has taxes. It has probably been necessary, generally speaking, that the taxes of the country coun-try be increased, because there liave been tremendous demands made on public treasuries of late years, and It is safe to say that, as a rule, the expenditures ex-penditures w hich have been the cause of the high taxes have been kept within as reasonable bounds as possible. pos-sible. In places and at times there has been extravagance; and there has been expenditures unwise and wholly I uncalled for. But this is not the rule. However, as necessary aB are these expenditures, and as beneficial as have been the improvements wrought by them, there must be a halt or a slowing down soon, at least until the people who pay the taxes and who are beginning to feel the continued strain have time to recover somewhat and readjust their financial finan-cial affairs as the situation demands. We must have public improvements of all kinds, we must have efficiency, the schools must be advanced and all the usual items' of expenditure of public money must be continued; but '.'withstanding, the time for think ing about where the money for thes-things thes-things comes from is at hand. Publ! rtfncials must see to it that If ther are leakages they must be stopped there must be no extravagances, l! short, there must be no further ad vance in the amount of taxes demand ed of the people. Some way an some how the expenditim s must be kept at least from inci e.ising. and they must be decreased if there is any possible chance. |
