The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1914-01-30

|cost of this education where the num-
bier of students is small is very great.
Ia number of districts have been con-
lsolidated during the past year butt
Other small schools spring up wher-
ever there is tendency to the settle
lment of new section of the county.
I'VE will leave future recommendation ip
the matter of schools until such time
las Professor Soulen makes his report
on the survey of the matter.
Owing to the high taxes there ap-
pears to have been great deal of cri-
lticism of our new revenue law and the
working out of the same. 1t has al
ready been discussed several times in
the chamber and mention made of the
need of amendments to this law. 1t
SHOULD be remembered that the new
law went into effect last May and has
been in operation only eight months.
I'VE have not as yet seen the complete
Operation of all of it's provisions. We
have not seen enough of the working
out of this new law to start the agita-
tion for amendments and believe moth
ling should be done along this line until
lit has had fair trial and until the
people become better acquainted there
with and the officers become more fa-
miliar with it's workings. Some of its
provisions are quite radical and very
different from those to which the Of
Ulcers have been accustomed and 1t
Undoubtedly was hard for some OF
Them to adapt themselves to the meth
lods of the new law. We believe that
some of the difficulties which now ap-
,ipear large will diminish when the peo-
Iple and officers become more familiar
with it. 1t has been suggested that
1--we dispense with the tax commission
t|since the supreme court has deprived il
,lof all authority. We believe that this
Ills a step in the wrong direction and
,llhat our efforts should be directed to-
e awards obtaining a tax commission with
Authority. The principle of tax com
missions is the principle of efficiency
land should be endorsed by this body
e 1t occurred to the committee that i
tia study of the matter of taxation coult
l lbS made from scientific and non-par
y ltisan point of view, that grea
il Iamount of information could be OBJ
! ltained that would be of value to al
dlthe people of the state. A great ser
ylvice could be done by the Universit
e of Idaho if they would take up tn
/ study from an economic point OF yleN
dland compare our revenue laws wit
e the laws of other states and accumu
ellate the best thought obtainable on tn
l. matter of taxation.
y We, therefore, requested the depar,
Nixyoys Ifyyf
flake up the study of this question wit
elthe purpose heretofore stated. Pre-
~ Ifessor Robinson is now working on tn
70 Subject and it is the belief of thi
,e lcommittee that he will give us some
L thing worth while on this matter.
- You have undoubtedly noted thu
9 this committee has apparently UNLOAD
a,led very large part of the work as
4. lsigned to it upon our university. w
9 have done this with malice and afort
as Thought, believing the question assign
o,Ied to the university to be of state-wid
70 Iimportance; that is the proper funt
= ltion of state institutions of this chal
n acter to furnish such information
,althe public at large for the purpos
A. of educating them upon matters OF V
,oItal Importance to their interests. w
aIIbelieve that our state university ca
rvassist largely in the prevention OF el
,eror on the part of our county and othe
is OFFICIALS and that they can do this b
q. furnishing them with the general IL
necessary for the canduct
ntlthe office to which they may be electe
,elWe believe that at the time that a
lvlindiyidual enters upon public dutit
he should be provided with the law
governing his office and general il
e formation necessary for the propt
ne lconduct of the public business he ma
ssolbe called upon to handle. AS an /
u illustration we would call your attentio
u Ito the office of road over-seer. TT
!. IUnited States department of agricu
y 'lture, our national board of good road
and also our state board are eXpent
Wiling a great deal of money on the sui
p.,eelject of good roads,. The public pres
Ills overloaded at times with article
~ on this subject. There is world
th information available on the subje
10 of good roads, but which very large
docs not fall into the hands of IL
who have to do the bull,
1gIing of our roads If the infOrmatiC