| Show THAT THAT AUDITING COMMISSION The Herald H is pained at the attitude by some of the city councilmen with reference to the failure of the iced auditing commission to discover the discrepancy In the poll tax accounts a of ot T St Leger user Atkins thief clerk in the street department d It was only Q little l while ago go that the special auditors examined the books bo ks of the department including those ose kept by b Atkins and pronounced them all right b Councilman C Wood Woo who is not J as expert says s he has known of the shortage for four months But that la is beside the ques question question tion It is utterly unfair and amI unreasonable to expect the tho most expensive auditing commission ever employed by this city or perhaps any an otter other to waste its time on trivial things like shortages in public accounts account Discrepancies of a afew afew afew few hundreds hundred of dollars are matters entirely too trivial I l to merit the atten attention attention attention tion of these e experts expert They The have been busy with affairs of vastly more Im hn Importance Importance such as devising new in math th of keeping tile tie city accounts pre preparing preparing preparing paring ordinances covering their rec ree recommendations r e and planting planning ways tays of extending their Investigations indefinitely indefinitely In the last named lines linee they have manifested a talent Unit that is III truly re remarkable remarkable They The were vere cre empl emph yeh eb under the theory that they they sally easily finish up their work in a few months They have been at it it fur for a H year or longer and the th end is la not yet in ight Naturally Naturally Naturally ally thoy they have had no time for uncovering uncovering uncovering ering any an manipulation of or the books that may ma have Heh Ieh h going on Besides It Is doubtful If they wanted to show up anything like Jlko this for they the are ure tm em employed employed employed by a party that look with particular favor upon disclosures affecting the honesty of for whom It Is responsible Seriously though the Atkins buss bus busness ness Hess puts the special auditors Into a rather bad had hole If thy they failed to dis discover discover cover over this apparent shortage sh a short shortage shortage shortage age which was so obvious that any schoolboy should have noted it in instantly Instantly Instantly any report that they may ma mamake make will be valueless If they did discover tho the shortage and ml concealed It the tho public p will be interested in know knowIng knowIng knowing Ing why The Tae auditors must choose one ene of the two horns of ot this dilemma And now no the council will not be doing joins Us Its fl full duty dut unless it insists on onan onan onan an immediate report from f om the experts They The havo have been given an unconscionably unconscionably ably long time In which M tl t do their ther work and they have been paid an exorbitant ex exorbitant sum of or money The public pu U is entitled to the th facts and the tho council should see that it gets get them without delay dIa While the auditors are racking their brains bruIns to discover dl more mor ways flY of extending the sinecure they Uley are now enjoying some seine other city may be short In their accounts Let Letus Letus Letus us get down to brass braes tacks Lot us have hae an audit that audits |
