Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1922-01-26
TAX BURDENS MUST BE
REDUCED lyESTOS Tells
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Governor Declares Tax Burden Must Be Lightened i Is
]. to Become Possible For People 70 Continue Living
Working and Raising Their Families Here - All Must
Bear Portion Of Reduction Opposes Large Road Con
tracts Under Present Conditions Federal Aid Highways
Discussed at Wednesday Meeting Other Topics Consid
II cred bv County Commissioners. szs u

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interested. Without exception I
have told these people that this is a
case where all departments. Of the
public business and all political sub
divisions, as we'll as the state itself
will have to bear Its share of the
burden. ss[ :
,"I am sure that there is no sub
division and no department of the
public business that will enjoy having
it's revenue curtailed, but when the
need is great we must all be willing
to bear the Inconvenience, and, II
need be, suffering entailed by the
cutting off of a lot of these appro-
priations, and curtailment Of expense
We should, however, be careful
so as not to cut SO seriously any one
class, department, yor political sub
division, or line of public business
as to destroy the efficiency of the
public service. The true method, I
believe is to scrutinize each one of
them with care and to make what
reductions can be made in each
without striking vital blow at any
branch of the public business. If
those interested in each, approached
the problem from this angle and
personally make the suggestions as
to where expenses might be curtail-
ed and the cost of the service. reduc-
ed, they will be much more likely
to have the reductions made with
out decreased efficiency than if the
slashing is done by those who are
unfamiliar with the work and the
needs Of these departments and sub
divisions. @;is .,,& E5SsE5s.s :,
Oppose Large Road Contracts 2fs
X ...AmoDg the people who -haye come
to me- with thremonstrances are those
Interested in theg Good Roads move4
ment. Personally, am a thorO be-
lievers in the need and the value. of
building and maintaining system
Of good roads land I would be the
last to- encourage any economies that
would seriously interfere. with the
road building program of the state
of North Dakota during, the next ten
or fifteen years. Nevertheless
have expressed the conviction that
it should be possible, for a year or,
two to look after road maintenance,
but, to enter into very few construc-
tion agreements unless the county is
in exceptionally good financial con-
ditions We may, however, perfect
our plans for the future and SO or
ganize our. forces that as soon as.
normal conditions are restored we,
can go on with renewed enthusiasm
In the, work Of giving the state the
system of good roads that we need
and desire. Il. a,
Library and School Appropriation
" The library interests have also
found it cause for worry-But the
amounts expended in this field are
so small and the service to the peo-
pie Of the state SO important that
any great curtailment here would
be q serious blunder. y The library
is a source of SO much of the duca-
ton and pleasure of large proper
tion of the people in town and coun-
try that this state ought to adopt a
County Library Law that would;
makesit possible at very small cost;
to extend this opportunity OF educa-,
tion and pleasure to all our people,
ID Representatives of the schools
have also spoken to me and called
my attention to the fact that in some
sections there has been q disp tion
to make all the curtailments on
school taxes and thereby seriously to
lnjure, and p0ssi bly, destroy, the
efficiency Of our public school sys-
tenn. II need not contend here, that
It would \ be q great mistake to do
this In q Repu bile, we need an ed
ucated citizenship, and great as the
call for economy is,siWes cannot afford
and curtail the expendi ditures
t0i;ge duGatiOA %, ,atsF F 10 lin lure this7
cause.
County Agents Imp ant
II have also had calls from those
who are nterested in the county a.
gents, and have seen enough of
The work 0f these gents to know
hat II sis q work Of great importance
ns the growth II and deYelopmentof
5tir&s &sstate. need greater iversi.
sicatipnS S0f our crops and products
and the impr Oveme ents In seed In
method o. gcult ltiyat 81, IN live & stock
md III genera inetho of farming
rosShuild II assnccesSful state and to-
the financia ind depend dence
,f Our people more cows 4 corn hogs,
md garden mus ttS be- ra aieed NJ ana 1 In
;al1igent diYersif ficati Ion prom oted,l
IND its would L be sa Ber11 QlsS bluhdersl
;6H the slashi 4 ats tthis point
md en- on leYeIopm
i6Ns inst nicely I'M der @wa
miE Eht III Ion Il seXeral sptherd
Ips seiaI intsre6tsp pleas iSli brt letI
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