St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1919-09-06

MIR. MERKL'S LETTER.

The average public services free receives
such salary practically honorary No matter
will subjected to criticism ne is
sive cussed in private and IN
public his duty II ne is easy
nothing, he will probably be eussed anynow COMM
BUT NO MATTER MAN HE IS, HE WILL SOME
the opportunity for criticism Will not De
The police jury member in somewhat the same
oson He being of service to his
parish determination to do his duty Among those VINO
personally he may enjoy the OF 0elns hone
Trustworthy him be suspicious that he is
CRATER the appropriation bill for
supplies labor or snythng considered ny ~ W
beyond the opinion nat
the whole thing S and unnecessary.
IN FACT, CRITICISM FREQUENTLY WITHOUT ANY JUS
LITIGATION OR INVESTIGATION THINK This Is
MY OPINION" SHOULD PRECEDED BY THE MOST
THOROUGH RESEARCH
1t is desirable that the public doing,
simply order that opportunity
rendering assistance not be passed over and In ORDER na Wn
valuable, and believe would
criticism made through the
press criticism based fact or that creates
a wrong impression 0 fact, is unjustifabe
evidence of being hastily considered In the
the editorial in The Farmer when ne says
AS in your editorial Of August 80 the main
9a no[ trust fs thor Sp ph as WITH their money
said
the principal of defeat &ad was d the
buon hS Toud n be GD ed
could be guaranteed by each
funds Is ;
school officials
the There not member of the
the entire confidence of the people, 1t was
simply question would be enough
development of the larger schools to use an amount
money that would eavc smaller balance for the
district controlled its
,.
Again. parish could afford the building
well build the roads II Ola
by contract and not single
Some of them took the
and at least
that reimbursement made for
the
In considering realized that proficiency
experience with soil and other local conditions
builders make mistakes If the work and the
Of
will found that We nave some cause
congratulation.
point cattle dipping ST. Tam
manv large parish and there were some sevenfve
not of proportion to
parishes recent investigation in
another parish showed this to be Dipping may
Merk admits lit is good thing and should be
finish We do believe there purpoy any dis
police jury The question is of ezedency is
head of cattle drive further
dipping than tho who has five hundred because desirable to
the law with the least possible and loss
>4Gy~
other hand, do not maintain that mistakes were made
nothing We do not believe
deliberately and purpy made in order to favor few
citizen knows OF case where the parish mas en charged or "oA
his place the matter before the police
subsanaed feel satisfactory action
would be taken.
vatnuidng and
performed time Of high
COST Individuals corporations
before The
in St. Tamony parish mostly owned by
saved the farmer from large part OF
benedaries when the job
peted hardships and all together
thankful for
correspondence
the when there
stated facts with full certainty of
with the object OF some existent evil Tor the pubic
and without malice. .
We believe there is general feeling people pretty
taxed Waste parish funds would be nexcusaeand improbable
insufficient do things that ought
to be done.
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