The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-04-18
Equalizing the Tax Burden;
Five Million a Year

turn down the bill until 1t was shown
what became Of the materials.
Then came Republican board OF
commissioners, and bills of goods
were bought by road supervisors
county officials. men working on the
roads, telephone orders were recog-
nized, and when the bills came in the
commissioners looked them over and
in general way they appeared to
be all right and were allowed and
paid. Materials were wasted and
piled up in peoples barnyards and
corrals, cement sacks worth 10 cents
each, were thrown aside and were
gathered up and taken home by any
one who wanted them and were often
turned in on private accounts to the
number Of ten, twenty or forty at a
time, and lumber dealers who at first
promised to give the county special
discounts, got SO they forgot the dis
counts till the disturbing newspaper
agitated the matter and demanded an
accounting for empty sacks, surplus
lumber and road plows and scrapers
that had disappeared.
Down in Minidoka county they
but what is the use to 60 to neigh
boring counties when we have it at
home! Here in Bingham county we
have established q new office, that
Of the secretary of the fair, and we
started him in Friday on salary Of
5000 month and he furnishes his
own car when he needs to do any
travelling In the county on fair BUSH
ness. His duties are so vague that
we venture no guess as to what is
expected of him in the next three
months aside from writing q few let
tiers and keeping in touch with plans
for fairs in other localities and seek
ing to make engagements for some
exhibitors and concessions for the
Blackfoot fair.
Herman Stufflebeam is the worst
kind of Democrat and he served
as secretary Of the fair for many
years, and he attended to all these
little details as part of his daily
duties in his own office, and most of
the years he received no salary for
the busy part Of the season as the
date Of the fair approached. 1t is
true we rode q willing horse to fin
ish, but under the present Republican
regime we cannot ind q Republican
to act as secretary Of the fair and we
engage our former Democratic
county treasurer at a higher salary
than he received as treasurer. II he
proves to be as good q fair secretary
as did this other gentleman, who
served free he will have to be a live
wire, and II he falls short of that and
accepts the $500 a month salary from
spring till fall, it will be demerit
mark for Democrats and Republic
cans.
We Recommend
We recommend that since this is
a new way Of administering the bust
ness Of the fair and the duties and
the work are an unknown quantity
and since it is a well-known fact that
it will be very difficult task to
make the fair success without too
great a financial sacrifice, 1t would
be a patriotic and business-like move
on the part of the fair secretary and
the county commissioners for him to
keep dairy and have it show his
daily tasks in behalf Of the fair, and
hand copy of it to the county clerk
once month for the commissioners
to review. Other county officers are
required to make reports to them,
and If the commissioners are train
ing themselves to executive work,
and If the secretary is anxious to
render the greatest possible service
to his county, such a plan ought to
be under way already. Then by the
time we have operated the fair for
a year we shall know pretty we'll
what there Is to do and how to hire
for the service that is actually neces-
sary