The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1922-08-11

10 investigate the SYSTEM of your
village 0dminisiration-n0t the per-
sonel Of any administration you
have ever had from Adam to Mon
leith. You have never had. nor will
you ever have, a village board that
followed or continues to follow your
present SYSTEM of village admins
tration and not call on you every
two years TO vote for a bond issue
to balance the losses. You can ex-
anime the report above referred to
and find many items that ought to i
cause you to THINK about your
SYSTEM of administration-not the
personel of any administration. Your
trouble trouble is that you accept
the SYSTEM without question and
then run down on Main street and
damn the personel of your village
boards with all the sins of SYSTEM. |
Damn the SYSTEM-not your vol
lage boards.
Now, what is there about theSYS-
TEN that causes all these losses to
the village? The principal thing
about it is the sliding scale" of
charges. You will hear all sorts of
noOdle-juice arguments in support
Of that scale, but if you are clear
sighted, you will notice that much
nOOdle-juicers are the ones who
stand at the end of that sliding
scale" TO receive the less than cost
service that the SYSTEM provides
at the loss of the village. You will
notice from that same report that
one of the assets of the village is
taken from the profit and Loss Ac-
count and amounts to S28,9l496
Well, if you keep up The present
sliding scale Of the SYSTEM, it'll
will not be long until the only as
set the village will have Will be that
of "PrOfi and Loss in which the
profit will be zero, and the loss in
finitely great. i1amn the SYSTEM.
Don't you see that the small users
Of water and light pay a profit to the
village of "A per cent on the cost of
prod uction that your sliding scale"
slides into losses of thousands Of dol
lars? If you don't see it and THINK
about il in the light Of intelligence
and then DO what you can to elimi-
nate it, then you ought to be locked
up in the village Jail every time you
-np caught Oh NAN street, or any
where else in the village, noodle
juicing hell and damnation against
the village boards you have had and
the one you now ave.
Receivership for the village! HUH
You have had a "Reeeivership' for
the village too long already. What
you want to do is TO get cut Of the
arms of the Receiver and change
his occupation to Chat of 3DELIY-
ERER." That "RECEIYERSHIPn is
your SYSTEM of administration
especially the distributing end of il
which is your beautiful, intricate,
uQo d Il e-juice-supported sliding
scale Damn the SYSTEM
Receivership! For the purpose Of
defeating the will of the people att
the last election by issuing Re
ceiyeris Certificates Of Indebtedness -
equivalent to another bond issue.
For the purpose of evading both the
will of the people and the law. That
is what il means nothing more
nothing less. If all the water and
light useEs in this village will play
fair enough to pay the village even
30 per cent on the water they use,
much less than "a per cent, the viii
lage could soon have a superior
equipment and pay off all its indebt-
edness. bonded and otherwise, and
be happy in regarding its past loss
es as splendid lessons of experience
with a sliding scale" that slides all
the profits paid by small users into
losses that are created by that scale.
Damn the SYSTEM. Theu you will
not be mildly suggesting that ARE
ceiver be appointed for the village"
but will be mildly suggesting thai
the present reoeivership be changed
to "sland-and-delivership" that
will forever bar any necessity for
any interference in the affairs Of
the village by the district court. This
village doesn't need any other re-
ceivership than the one appointed"
by a large majority of the votes Of
the people at tile last election. Any
institution that cannot pay the vii
lage small profit on the raw ma
terial it furnishes il in its opera
tions ought TO get out of the profit"
business and is not demanded by the
interests of this village Damn the
SYSTEM.
Your board VIII be a brave one if
ID took hee dand ACT to remedy the
diseased SYSTEM and TO keep this
village out of the hands of the court;
but it will be supported by a large
majority of the villagers if it TAKE
THE COURAGE TO DO TT. Damn
the SYSTEM but praise your board