Taken from the Dec. 8, 1933 files of the Dolores Star
Editorial comments
The man that only tries to fool the people occasionally does better than the man who works at it all the time.
The best we can lay to claim to is that we are average people. The man who claims to be better than the average is a liar.
Folks in Dolores did not seem to get much excited over the return of legalized liquor. We did not see a man Wednesday who even looked as if he'd had a drink.
Reduction of the number of counties of the state be half would save the taxpayers of Colorado near half a million dollars annually. We hear a lot of B.S. about ways and means of cutting down expenses. Well, here's a REAL way to do it.
Consolidation of Dolores and Montezuma counties would save the people of the two bailiwicks something like $10,000 a year in salaries alone. Here's a worth while suggestion; let's see some of the boasted friends of the dear taxpayer down in Cortez get busy.
Tax collections, according to County Treasurer Claude H. Wilson, for the current year now run to about 36 per cent. The statement in a recent issue of the heart and a soul was correct as of about two months ago.
