Show A CARNIVAL OF DISBURSEMENTS I These Americ ns who w point with such pride to their public Improve Improvements improvements ments as an excuse for thIr city ad administration administration ministration have got the can before the horse The pu public lIc wants the ln im improvements has been w wanting them for years cars The Morris administration most of them before the Americans came in and er body Is glad to see the plans arcie out Even the people who are payin big bills for paving and sidewalks aree that Salt Lake has the stage t f Its transition where it must have he equipment or of a big city What the public criticizes in the aU all ministration In Its city affairs Is the favoritism to contractors the lack of system In handling the Inefficiency or of th the street and other municipal do de departments and the unwillingness of the American administration to 0 race face Us own financial condition Two years ears ago the overdraft In the contingent fund from which salaries and general city ty expenses are paid was about TOday It Is over Yet the city administration n latius to be In excellent condition fin lin After all this years taxes are collected and spent the contingent fund will have hae an overdraft ot of over instead ot of the surplus which mark marked d the close ot of the Morris admin adminIstration administration On July 1 unless the fg tires ures are deceptive every general fund of the cit city treasury show showed d an over six months of the year ear re remain remain main to be cared for forThe The Ihl showing is not pleasant to 10 con contemplate contemplate template yet et the city council and allol tie de department heads go on spending as blithely and cheerfully as If they had the national treasury behind t tiem em emBy By the time the carnival or of disburse disbursements ments is completed the gentle r will be confronted with the necessity sity for a special tax levy ley to up the deficiency which the are an accumulating st so merrily unless the city administration wakes up to th the situation at once and takes steps p to meet the emergency by retrenching wherever retrenchment Is possible |