The Iola Register from Iola, Kansas • 4

pact: four THE IOLA DAILY 19,1929. TOLAV KANSAS NOW FOR A LITTLE THE SPIRIT ST. PATRICK. IOLA DAILY REGISTER shall have control of his department, and after reading the above, I cannot conceive where anyone can get a different view, notwithstanding the opinions of Mr. Hobart and Mr.

Holmes. If graft or crookedness Is discovered why not have the guilty party removed? The people should be the judge In the matter when they elect a man to the office of public utility commissioner as to his ability and fitness for office, not by a mayor and finance commissioner who admit they are not capable of handling their offices and require an assistant at $225.00 per month. Dont you think if the mayor is on the job he would be able to know if the police, firemen and other employes under his department were doing their work? Mr. Hobart states that there are no records kept of the stock. I beg leave to differ with him, as the store room was kept locked and a requisition was required by the foreman of the department who had control before supplies were issued to him, and the same party had control of the stock then as now and I believe him honest.

Mr. Hobart states that he pays more taxes than Mr. Mather and myself. This may be true, but heaven knows we all pay enough. Does that make his statement more true and correct? It will not be my policy to put men at the head of the police department who have not had ex perience as officers and in the enforcement of ordinances, so it will by my painful duty to hire five different chiefs and 22 pattolmen in three years and expect efficient service when the department is in this kind of turmoil.

In reference to the reduction of taxes that my most worthy oppon ent mentions, the only fund that he has direct access to is the general fund. It was $2,689.71 on the wrong side of the ledger on January 1, 1929 and had to borrow money from the electric fund to be reimbursed. Who knows if the tax levy will be sufficient to operate the expen.se of the city for the coming year, on budget of 1.60 he quotes. The Affairs of the city will have to be handled very differently from the last three years if it does. The expenses of every department under the Mayors control have increased the last three years.

sponsible for the enforcement of all I city ordinances and police regula- son haranging in the press, and tirmc pitv would have refused to make any 1 tions or sHiu city flrid ndV6 I trALn supervision over the fire depart I Mr. Hobart platform ment and shall have charge of pub-1 lie parks and all property of such I of Platform facts the operating a sum of some $60,000 which had accumulated from the operation of the dormitories at the State schools was transferred ta repairs and maintenance, with the result that the total appropriations were made to appear to be some $200,000 less than they actually were. As a necessary consequence of having the vast sum of $17,000,000 a year handled outside the treasurers office It follows that a large proportion of the job holders on the State pay roll are paid from funds which do not go through the general revenue fund at all and thus do not come out of the $19,000,000 which we are told comprise all the States expenses. The grain Inspection department, the hotel commissioners office, the fire marshals office, the blue sky department, the state highway commission, the state building and loan department and many other departments are maintained from revenues which do not go into the general funds and are not included In the general governmental costs as they often are considered. The whole system Is as bad as it can be, utterly intolerable from any angle of good government and honest accounting.

It should go without saying that every of the revenue that comes to the State from any source should be shown on the books of the State Treasurer, and that every cent drawn from the States treasury should also appear on the books of the Treasurer. It should go without that the books of the State should be so kept that when the legislative session is adjourned It would be possible to state to a cent just the total sum pf the appropriations. It should go without saying that anyone seeking to know the total revenue of the State should be able to find it in one office, and should not have to search the books of half a dozen departments. Governor Reed has been engaged as a private citizen in a business which assumed a knowledge of clear and accurate accounting. Here is an opportunity for "him to apply to the benefit of the State the expert knowledge he doubtless possesses.

It may be that the present laws would not permit him to make the reforms out of hand which are obviously needed. But he certainly ought to be 'HITE. HORSES ARE BLACK. WHEN COLTS, THE COAT CHANGIMC3 TO DAPPLE AND FINALLY WHITE AS THEY REACH MATURITY. 3 vT V.

I 4 129. MCA SERVICE INC. Well, to say the least, it gave me a lonely feeling, that was not pleasant. We have always believed in trusting and hoping for our share of the i 4- a in Call MRS. JONES WRITES.

March 12, 1929. ritv ho cHoii oicn i are, expenses off 1 presume the Scott family is, and Public utilities have increased Justly as proud of their young avia-vision over the health department I $45 000 the past year. 1928. This tor as 15 yur old correspondent over of any such city and shall enforce fi taken from the records at thc aviator grandson we have just all orders, rules and regulations it acquired, by mamage Tuesday, necessary to the end that the I I March 5, At early candle liehtin? streets, alleys and public grounds I aheady written to long cn the daugh orthc shall be kept In sanitary condition article. Just a few things I will do.

IamUy Pasadena, California, was end the health and safety of the 1. I nave not made any promises united in marriage in l.hn rhanei nf inhabitants of the city protected, to anybody. I the pfrst MetoeSS Church of Pasa' The board of commissioners shall, 2. Will not require an assistant dena, by Merle A. Smith to by a majority vote, designate one mayor at a salary of $2,700 a year Lieut.

Frank M. S. Miller of Holly-commissioner who shall be known as I will give my personal time and wood. as Commissioner of Finance and attention to that office and not be Th hririp fc He shall have under his engaged In private business that andhL La special charge the preparation of an will require practically all my time. annual hudm.

and the rnllert.lnn I u. K1Sta avenue- Pasadena, was given 3- wffi maintain an office in the in marriage by her father, who was her only attendant. Lieutenant annual budget, and the collection of all revenues belonging to suchicity haU city, from whatever source the 1 The railroads of America handled more than 800,000,000 passengers last year with one fatality by accident for each 10,000,000 passengers. Twenty years ago there were six times as many, the decrease testifying to the efficacy of the Safety First campaigns the railroads have been carrying on. DAILY BIBLE READING XX 48 Thou Fool! Luke And one of the company said unto him.

Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or deliverer over you? And he said unto them. Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a mans life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. And he spake a parable unto them, saying. What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? And he said.

This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater: and there will I bestow all my fruit and my goods. And I shall say unto my soul. Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him. Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be which thou, hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasures for himself, and Is not rich toward God.

Constance Bennett No Longer Wife of Plant Paris, March 19. (AP) Illness of Constance Bennett, American actress and daughter of Richard Bennett, has revealed her divorce from her husband, Phillip M. Plant, in a French court recently. READ AND HEED the Register Classified Ads. Statement Mr.

Ilecox Makes Statement. After reading the statement by Mayor Hobart, Mr. Hecox changed his mind about having nothing' to say and asks the Register to pub lish the following: By way of introduction, I was born In this county in 1869. I have lived here practically all my life; have lived in Iola the past thirty years, employed with the different railroads, starting as bill clerk' and promoted 'to agent. Was postmaster 8M: years and elected city finance commissioner, serving three years.

It is quite difficult to answer Mr. Hobart on some of statements he makes in presenting his views without becoming personal. This I wish to avoid as much as possible. First, I wish it understood that! I have no personal ill-will or hatred toward onyone and only with the best of feeling. It is quite true that I differ greatly in some of the policies advocated by my oooonent.

have no doubt that Mr. Hobart made the city a good mayor the past three years. No doubt he his done the best he could considerirjg the small amount of time he devoted to the office. I do not believe that one can become efficient in handling the duties of the office of mayor and not devote more than six hours per week to the same, five hours on Tuesday and one hour on Wednesday. This is direct evidence as I was connected with the city affairs during the' first year Mr.

Hobart was mayor) 1 I suppose, or at best have reason to believe that most of the citizens of Iola understand that we are operating under the commission form of government and under that form the statutes of the state largely regulate the duties of the mayor and the different commissioners. For your information will quote the Kansas session laws of 1923 as. to the duties of the different officers: First, Mayor, Utility Commissioner Finance The Mayor shall be cx-officio. the commissioner of police, fire and health departments, and shall have under his special charge and be re CHAS. F.

SCOTT Entered at the Iota Postoffice as Second Class Matter. Stephens 18 (Private Branch Exchange Connecting All Departments) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier in Jola, Gas City, JLaJIarpe and Bassett. One Vreek .11 Cents One Month ,70 Cents One Year 87.80 BY MAIL. Outside Allen County One Year 85.00 Fix Months Three Months ......81.60 In Allen County One Year $4.00 Fix Months $3.00 Three Months One Month 50c Member of National Editorial Association. Kansas Press Association.

The Kansas Dally League. Audit Bureau of Circulation. Press Congress of the World. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS The Register carries the Associated Press report by special leased wire. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication oi all news dispatches' credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper, and also the local news published herein.

All rights or republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. BAD STATE BOOKKEEPING. In the Sunday Kansas City Journal appears an article by W. G. Clugston, the Journals Topeka reporter, which should have the attention of every thoughtful citizen of Kansas, and particularly the attention of the Governor and the other State officials of Kansas.

Mr. Clugston estimates that the appropriations made by the late Legislature, including enabling acts, will require the State to raise not less than $58,600,000 during the next two years, $29,000,000 a year. These certainly are startling figures when It is recalled that no longer ago than 1900 the total revenue the State received and disbursed through the general revenue fund amounted to only $1,840,166.96. In tills connection Mr. Clugston calls attention to the fact that in 1900 there were virtually no fees or special taxes going Into the general revenue fund, whereas In 1928 the State collected such fees and special taxes to the total amount of more than And then follows this remarkable statement: Since the special tax and fee systems have become popular there has been no established rule for sending the funds collected through the offices of the auditor and treasurer.

Some of the fees and special taxes go into the general revenue fund and are included in the gen- eral appropriations but most of them do not. It certainly will be a revelation to the average unofficial citizen to discover that a huge amount of money (Mr. Clugston estimates it at around $17,000,000 a year) is collected every year from the people which is virtually unaccounted for. At least it Is not accounted for where by every rule of good administration It ought to be accounted for on the boojes of the auditor and treasurer. So far as we know there has been no suspicion, at least there has been no charge, that any part of the $17,000,000 a year thus collected and disbursed outside the offices of the auditor and treasurer has been diverted to a dishonest purpose.

But certainly if there had been deliberate intention on the part of one or more State officials to frame up a system under which graft would be easy and discovery of graft dif flcult, nothing better could have been devised than that which now prevails. Here are special fees and taxes that apparently are never paid to nor disbursed by the State Treasurer nor checked by the State Auditor, but on the other hand are paid to several different officials or their deputies and disbursed from the office in which they are received. Could there be a worse system than that? Without? assuming dishonesty on the part of anybody. Is It not inevitable that such a system should lead to extravagant expenditures? Is it not entirely likely that this system Is responsible for the startling fact that the cost of State government in Kansas had grown from less than $2,000,000 in 1900 to more than $25,000,090 in 1928, while there has been a very small increase in the population of the State? One thing it has certainly led to Is a system of bookkeeping so involved and Intricate and a practice of making legislative appropriations with so many angles that according to Mr. Clugston It is impossible to tell at the end of a legislative session just how much money has been appropriated.

In this connection Mr. Clugston calls attention to a most reprehensible practice on the part of the Legislature, and that is the practice of re-appropriating unexpended balances and of permitting departments which have obtained money for a specific purpose to transfer this money to their contingent fund. The last Legislature even went to the extent of transferring money from one fund to another. One result of these practices is to make it appear that appropriations are less than they actually are, thus deceiving the people In a very vital matter. As one illustration of the way this Is worked Mr.

Clugston cites the fact that in the oil royalty fund there was a total of $146,967.26. This money was transferred to the appropriations for the support of the State institution at Winfield. In like manner Vf 'i 1 4, 7r Sr winter comes The LITTLE STRIPED GROUND SQ.UIR.REL CURLS UP INTO A ROUND BALL ANP GOES TO SLEEP. HE BECOMES HARD AS TONE BUT WHEN PLACED IN A WARM ROOM SOON OUT AND COMES TO LIFE AGAIN 'CHCOAMj '4 good things of life. Long years ago we decided we would be permitted to live long enough to see the women of our beloved country enjoying the right of equal suffrage.

But we never expected to live to sit in our quiet home in far away California and hear over the radio the speaking at Washington on the inauguration of a president, or to see even a granddaughter start out on her wedding trip in an airplane. Wonder what iiinovations the next fifty years will bring in? We have been so sorry for our Kansas friends through all their inconvenience discomfort with severe weather. Certainly it is over before now and Kansas can be lovely at times. No, we have not moved but the city Is growing so fast the numbers had to be changed. The winter has been lovely here.

Not day except when it was raining that we could not be out without a wrap. We have had no snow. Of course, in the mountains there has been heavy snow. The few light frosts did no harm citrous men say, though they kept the smudg not going most of several nights. Here Pasadena many flowers have been in bloom all the time.

Sweet peas two feet hight showed no ill effects. CHARLOTTE P. JONES. WHEN you are in need of anything. consult the Classified Ads.

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Standard Eggs 21c U. S. Trade Eggs 18c No. 1 Hens No. 2 Hens 20c No.

1 Springers 20c No. 2 Springers 16c Stags 14c Cocks Cream Wanted BRING US YOUR HIDES Monroe and Elm iola A same may be derived, and the man-1 Will vote to restore the right Miller was unattended. The chapel agement of the finances of such I privilege to Mr. -father that I was wrell-filled by relatives and and 'in the same manner one I belongs to his department as the I friends of the contracting parties commissioner shall be designated as I requires and the people voted at I After congratulations at the church, the Commissioner of Streets and I as election. la buffet supper was served to In Public1 Utilities, who shall have I will at all times meet in mutual I vited guests, at the home of the special charge over any waterworks, counsel with the other commission- brides parents.

The groom is a son light power, heating or gas ers and use my power for the bet- of one of the pioneer families of plants, street railway, telephone or terment of the city. Pasadena. Both Mr. and Mrs. Mil- telegrapto lines, or other public util- I will not give my consent to the ler are graduates of Southwestern ity owned by such city, and shall sale of public utilities as I consider University of Los Angeles.

Both have supervision of the streets and the ownership by the city one of its were associated with and leaders of alleys and public highways of the I greatest assets. I fraternities of the school. They left city, the construction of and As I said in the beginning, I have early Wednesday morning by air-maintenance of boulevards, public I not any personal feeling or ill-will plane for Salt Lake City and other parks and driveways and the con- against the other city officials and points. After their return they will struction of and maintenance of all will try to work in harmony with go to housekeeping in Pasadena, public improvements whatsoever all. Lieutenant Miller studied aviation undertaken by such city, such as I I do not see things as Mr.

Hobart at Brooks Field, Texas, and is a sidewalks, bridges and sewers, and does in the management of city af- meteorologist. shall have charge of the engineering fairs, possibly on account of the This writer does not want to be department of said city, and to sup- water his man Friday has been called a growler, but when I open-ervise all public works, and it shall furnished by the citr sirice he has ecj my Register of March the 6th be his duty also to demand faithful had control or possibly because ancj noticed thc absence of familiar compliance from all persons, corpo- when I go to the city hall to pay my names among thc country rations or companies with any gas bill I find the gas rates in- pondents, I felt lonely 1 grant, franchise or privilege voted to creased. such person, corporation or com- I feel the voters of the city will pany by the board of commission- take care of this matter in the com ers. ing election and I will appreciate Mr. Hobart says that Mr.

Mather their vote and support. A. HECOX. claims he was elected to operate all corres-and as though somebody had made a mistake. Turned that paper twice before I could believe my eyes.

Nothing from Mr. Arnold, Mrs. Gullett, Mr, Berkihiser, Mrs. Hardy, nor Diamond. the public utilities without interfer ence.

This I claim is absolutely correct, just as much as the mayor TO MR. HOOVER. THE SEAT OF THE TROUBLE ACCORDING 4 25 YEARS AGO Items From The Register of March 19, 1904 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 when the Legislature nex meets to submit recommendations to it which would clear up a situation which ought not to be allowec to continue a day longer than it wil take to change it. TAIL LIGHTS FOR ALL. Parsons Sun: One farmer-with a load of com and another with a load of cobs were peacefully pursuing their way on the concrete road south of Ottawa late Thursday evening.

Coming from the south was an automobile with bright headlights and from the north a big bus of the Rapid Transit line. The bus driver was blinded by the headlights the automobile and ran into the tailend of one of the wagons, throwing it onto the wagon ahead, injuring both farmers severely and. killing two mules. All of which calls to mind the fact that all vehicles on the public highway at night should wear tall, lights prominently displayed so that all who drive may see. Otherwise they should be prepared to meet even tualities.

Its dangerous to drive on 73W and other paved highways even after every reasonable precaution has been employed to prevent accident. A tail light is cheap insurance. General Electric engineers have been experimenting to see what substitutes for tail lights could be used by pedestrians who want to walk along the public highways at night. Naturally white clothes are the best protection, but for those who do not care to go thus garbed they recommend a white handkerchief carried in the hand. They say it is sure to catch and reflect the gleam from a headlight and thus be seen by the driver.

The safest thing for pedestrians on the highway, however, is to walk against the traffic. Walking on the left side of the road they will always see the approaching car and can thus avoid it. And this is a good rule by day as well as by night. The Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation has now under construction two mammoth dirigibles for the United States Navy. They will be 780 feet long, 146 feet high and be capable of irrying 100 passengers and bag-gai beside the crew of about fifty pr sons.

There one good thing About the ail: There is plenty of room in it. Now that the talkie-movie is becoming a commonplace, the next big step will be the picture-sound radio. Charles Stone, a former K. U. man who is now an engineer for General Electric, promises we may expect it within a year, and that when it comes it will give us grand opera over the radio with the view of the actors as clear to the eye as the sound of their voices will be to the ear.

For Easter Smartness The Cemetery Association met at the Methodist church and elected I the following officers: Mrs. Nettie 1 Simpson, president; Mrs. Hartman, vice president; Miss Alice My ler, secretary; Miss Lute Evans, treas-l urert On next Monday afternoon the last meeting of Current Events Club for the season will be held at the home of Mrs. H.L. Hendricks, 509 East Madison.

Roll call response, quotations, sentiments about home and childrens sayings. "American Philanthropy, Mrs. M. L. Brewster.

Vocal Solo, "If I Were a Rose, I Mrs. A. B. Roberts. Labor Saving Devices, Mrs.

I W. M. Bickford. Vocal Solo, Kiplings Recession- al Miss Eva V. Armstrong.

Current Events, led by Mrs. L. Sleeper. Mies Elsie Stratton, teacher lnl the. city schools, went to Neosho Falls to spend Sunday with rela- lives.

Th only Chill family of acrobats engaged at St. Louis Worlds Fair, appear at the Grand theatre to-1 I night. A trade was consumated today in which the Endicott boarding house on East street and the J. B. Boner property at 1015 East street were swapped.

W. A. Harris would make a good I president all right, but he cant get the nomination, said C. S. Ritter I yesterday.

"Why? Because he cant put up a bar! against Hearsts And that is undoubtedly true. COMPETENT help la easily 6- cured with Register Classified Ads, The Easter Parade shows a succession of smart, immaculately clean raiment. The time is not far off send us your frocks, suits and garments now and well return them crisp and fresh ready for wear all for a reasonable cost. MENS SUITS CLEANED AND PRESSED $1.00 PHONE 105 ABLESON CLEANERS 8.